Tag: California hardcore

  • Cancer Bats – Searching For Zero LP

    Cancer Bats – Searching For Zero LP

    Leave it to Cancer Bats to challenge metal convention by scaling back the production values which are normally strapped to metal albums (“bombastic” is an understatement) and just let the raw aggression and technical talent which is present in every damned microtone of each song be the things which make the album’s stylistic ambition undeniable…

  • Virulence – If This Isn’t a Dream… 1985-1989

    A pretty cool find from a band on the cusp of the post-hardcore movement—especially considering the direction its members went afterwards. I guess they didn’t start smoking reefer till they moved away from their parents…