Tag: melodic hardcore

  • The Flatliners – New Ruin LP

    The Flatliners – New Ruin LP

    The Flatliners New Ruin LP (Dine Alone/Fat Wreck Chords) In the twenty-year duration of The Flatliners’ career to date, it’s actually pretty remarkable to observe the turns that the band’s music has taken. After beginning with some respectable (if not terribly memorable) ska-core in 2005 and then taking a couple of years to develop (see…

  • Gob – Apt. 13

    Gob – Apt. 13

    As of this writing, it has been seven years since Gob‘s last album of new material came out. That’s a pretty long time to go with no new material for any band who likes to be seen as an enduring, creative entity but, for a pop-punk band like Gob, an absence so long might as…

  • Rise Against – The Black Market

    Rise Against – The Black Market

    After illustrating that they were more than capable of moving forward beyond their melodic hardcore foundations with Appeal To Reason and Endgame, The Black Market proves that Rise Against still has some more ground that they’d like to break and a few boundaries they still want to push. Such creative testing is always a dicey…

  • Cancer Bats – Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones

    With a swinging and universally mean attack, Cancer Bats set fire to much of their own past as well as a significant number of the bands that would pretend to be their peers as they find the best possible middle ground between old school hardcore (like Black Flag) and Seventies/Eighties-era metal (think Judas Priest), and…