Text by John Donovan Malley  Jack “Choke” Kelly (vocalist) and the rest of Slapshot pounded their way through over a dozen songs in Seattle recently. Kelly was joined by Corey Koniz (drums) Ryan Packer (bass) and Dom (guitarist). The Seattle stop was part of a West Coast swing to celebrate

Photos: Donovan Malley HAUNTED HORSES is a band that we’ve been loving for a while! They’re about to go on tour with another awesome Seattle band, Fucked & Bound, to celebrate their record Dead Meat coming out on vinyl 2/13/2020 (pre-order here) as well as the repress of their 7″

What up world – on Feb. 14th a sick ass Hardcore record from CHOICE TO MAKE hits the streets via the on point Flatspot Records, and it’s called Vicious Existence. I love the swagger that this band puts into their tunes because they have a killer fucking groove. More important

Though Travølta’s new release In Tinnitus We Crust will have any die-hard fan of d-beat, crust, fastcore, grindcore, and powerviolence drumming their steering wheel into oncoming traffic, this release shows them as worthy bearers of the mincecore torch, originally lit by their Belgian forebears, Agathocles. The production is no-nonsense. Raw.

Have you heard of this sick fucking band named WASTED STRUGGLE? If you haven’t, today you will because we’re streaming their insanely awesome record in full below! This vicious, caustic offering is called Agenda of Fear and comes out on Jan. 17th via Sludgelord Records and Tortured Tree Productions. What

As a teacher of multiple grade-levels, I see young people enter and pass through various developmental stages. When kids are young, they all dance, they all sing, they all draw. At some point, though, they start making comparisons, and with those comparisons comes self-doubt. Suddenly, they don’t dance, they can’t