Friday, October 3, 2025

G.A.Z.E - S/t, 12" - OUT NOW!

 

Orders: BIGCARTEL
Streaming: BANDCAMP

G.A.Z.E - S/T, 12"
350 total press (100 on blue vinyl w/ woven patch, postcard and obi strip). Comes in a standard 3mm spine sleeve and with a printed inner bag. Sticker included with all vinyls.

G.A.Z.E had me convinced with their debut EP 'Living the life' from 2022 but got me completely hooked after seeing them live three nights in a row. They succeed in balancing rawness and melody while maintaining the intensity. There are many layers to this album, and the band as a whole, without it falling flat. G.A.Z.E created their own sound, self-described 'Super Dimensional Hard Core', unconcerned with trends and external influences. Greater Astral Zone Experience bursting out!

"This is like PAINTBOX and TURBONEGRO meets GISM and ZOUO. Psychotic metal punk!!! Ungodly and totally scorching!!!"
- Jason Ryan (Maximum Rocknroll #457)

Monday, September 1, 2025

Contrast Attitude - Discharge Your Noise, 12" - OUT NOW!

Orders: BIGCARTEL
Streaming: BANDCAMP

CONTRAST ATTITUDE - DISCHARGE YOUR NOISE, 12"
350 total press (100 yellow vinyl w/ woven patch, extra alternate foldover sleeve, obi strip, fold-up poster and sticker). Comes in a standard 3mm spine sleeve and with a printed inner bag. Artwork by Rainy (Discharge). Sticker and poster included with all vinyls. US version on Desolate Records. CD version on WHY Records (Japan).

"Mie City, Japan’s CONTRAST ATTITUDE is back with their first full-length LP since 2009. While many legacy hardcore punk bands seem content with finding their sound and then following their own formula on each sequential record, CONTRAST ATTITUDE continues to evolve their extreme Japanese raw punk style, pushing it forward to places that other bands cannot or will not. Rather than play it safe, and just make another d-beat raw punk record, they ask themselves, where could this music go next? “Discharge Your Noise” is exactly that."
- Patrick (Destruct)

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Languid - Shove their system..., 12" - OUT NOW!


Orders: BIGCARTEL
Streaming: BANDCAMP

LANGUID - SHOVE THEIR SYSTEM UP THEIR ASS, 12"
The unstoppable Canadian d-beat warmachine releasing their fourth album, destroying everything in its path. You know what it's all about by now.
Pressing: 350 copies (100 transparent red w/ woven patch, obi, fold-up poster and sticker)

"Halfway into this current, horrific decade, we’ve reached a once far future that is arguably bleaker than many had ever hoped.
With the ever more present, fucked up societal systems in place that wage war on the existential progress of the masses while worshiping at the altar of imperialism, ideas of resistance and anger are as vital as ever. With “Shove Their System Up Their Ass”, Languid returns with their fourth 12” record, reminding listeners that this isn’t some tired old slogan but at its heart, an alarm to be present and angry. While some choose to ignore bands by their 4th record, Languid present what is possibly their strongest and most necessary material yet in their ever reliable Discharge by way of Dischange/Meanwhile style. We all know the formula well by this point, but here the songs are stripped down even further. There is nothing extra; no reverb, no wasted space, no nonsense. The intensity is cranked, with the guitar driving the always bulldozing, yet hypnotic, riffs. Here we have the best output yet from these Canadian raw hardcore lifers. “Reject the shit, no ruling class, shove the system up their ass!”"
- Patrick, Destruct