Putting the politics back into hardcore front and center, Portland’s Fatal State have been making tough-as-shit, fast hardcore for several years now all while supporting their scene sending solidarity to the wider network of punks and activists kicking into gear to put their foot down against all the aggravating bullshit

Will Butler, the man behind To Live A Lie Records, has a special ear. TLAL’s release history is populated with essential hardcore, fastcore, grindcore, and powerviolence releases. Butler’s seal-of-approval is not to be ignored. These three debut LPs by some of the hardest working bands around are no exceptions. Joy

For the past fifteen years, To Live A Lie has been one of the most influential labels focusing on grindcore, fastcore, and powerviolence. Based out of Raleigh, North Carolina, the independent label—run mostly single-handedly by Will Butler of the excellent bands Oxidant and Tired of Everything—boasts a Discogs page that

Unholy fuck – what do we have here? We have what might be the sickest hardcore split of 2019!!! Florida’s Moment of Truth and Japan’s Kruelty have joined forces for this mammoth BEATDOWN experience entitled “The Beginning to the End.” Over the course of this split both bands show why

OHYDA straight up fucking RULES and if you didn’t know that, now you KNOW! Their new album Koszmar comes on Nov. 1st via always bringing the ruckus LA VIDA ES UN MUS DISCOS. What I love about this band’s music is how urgent it is, but at the same time

It’s an honor to let you know that Michael Thorn has a new issue of Razorblades and Aspirin photo zine up for sale. In this day and age of online media, we need to stop and give props to the foundation that got us here. Fanzines are the cornerstone of