Photos: Eduardo Cruz (except where noted) One of the things I get to do in my job is go to fests. I go to a lot of fests. Usually at least 8 to 10 in a year. Punk fests, death fests, doom fests you name it. This August, I found

Swedish anarcho-black metal punks TRESPASSER have recently unleashed their incinerating debut album Чому не вийшло? AKA Why Didn’t It Happen?, a firestorm of anarcho-punk and black metal annihilation that sounds the alarm of the apocalypse, bringing back to mind the glory days of bands like Iskra, while also packing in

Text and Photos from Charles Nickles aka @kidswinging After you’ve found yourself peaking on some seriously speedy gel tabs at dawn, getting a handjob from an eight-eyed, Double-D’ed beast of a bad idea who keeps calling you “faggot” for going limp in her murderous grasp while your mother putters about the

Hot Damn – FRECUENCIA DE MUERTE (aka FDeM) is the shit and I am beyond stoked that this band exists! Their soon to be released LP Death Frequency comes out on Sept. 27th via ARMAGEDDON Records. This record is straight killer without an ounce of filler, literally every song is a

HIVE’s Most Vicious Animal album has the brute strength of the Incredible Hulk and Monster Truck Riffs that never fucking let up! This is one of the most important records to be released this year!!! Every fucking song on this record is a raging banger! I don’t even care if

Sadly, most punk releases have become predictable copies of other predictable punk records. As much as I love d-beats and adults with charged hair using a chorus pedal, sometimes it just gets boring. Now, before you get triggered let me also say that I have no interest in attacking you