PAIN OF TRUTH • Life’s Question • Vomit Forth • Life Cycles • Substance
PAIN OF TRUTH “Not Through Blood” Record release tour with Life’s Question & Vomit Forth stopping in HOUSTON.
PAIN OF TRUTH • KING NINE • Life’s Question • Vomit Forth • Hold My Own
PAIN OF TRUTH “Not Through Blood” Record release tour with KING NINE (Dallas only), Life’s Question, Vomit Forth & Hold My Own (Dallas only)
HARMS WAY w/ fleshwater • Ingrown • Jivebomb
Dallas stop for HARMS WAY “Common Suffering Record Release Tour” with special guests fleshwater, Ingrown & Jivebomb at The Studio At The Factory on Fri. Nov. 3rd, 2023
TORENA • Bare Minimum • Shock Treatment • Lie
Oxnard, CA’s TORENA bringing Bare Minimum & rounded off with Houston locals: Shock Treatment, Lie & more?
Bodybox • Snuffed on Site • Corpse Pile • Ritual Abuse
Body Box, Snuffed on Sight & Corpse Pile
END IT • Hold My Own • Prevention • Statement of Pride • Ozone
END IT from Baltimore, MD, via Flatspot Records, alongside Hold My Own, Prevention, Statement of Pride & Ozone.
SPEED (AUS) • Life’s Question • Concrete Elite • U.N.I.T. • Mexican Coke
Formed in 2019, Sydney’s SPEED is an injection of vital energy into the hardcore scenes of both Australia and the world at large with a clear-cut mission: To positively grow the hardcore scene by challenging cultural norms, embracing diversity, and promoting compassion across political and racial lines. The majority of SPEED’s members are of South-East Asian descent; drawing strength from their diverse cultural perspectives. Their ‘Gang Called Speed’ EP debuted at #5 on the ARIA charts – an unprecedented placement for a Australian hardcore release – also earning international and local praise from The Fader, Rolling Stone, NME and Complex. The band were later nominated for ‘Unearthed Artist of the Year’ at the prestigious triple j Awards, also earning nominations for ‘Record of the Year’ and ‘Best Video’ at the FBi Radio’s SMAC Awards. SPEED’s national tour to support the EP – supported by global skate brand Vans – sold out completely in one day. Their ferocious and high-intensity live show has already established SPEED as an essential live act, with footage of the band’s show at Sound & Fury festival in Los Angeles going viral with over 35 million views, earning coverage on tastemaker pages like No Jumper, GRM Daily and Worldstar Hip-Hop. Also working closely with local streetwear brands and musical crews from the worlds of hip-hop and electronica, SPEED embodies the messages of inclusivity and cultural unity that are as foundational to hardcore as the music ever was.
SPEED (AUS) • Life’s Question• OZONE • Barricade • Mexican Coke
Formed in 2019, Sydney’s SPEED is an injection of vital energy into the hardcore scenes of both Australia and the world at large with a clear-cut mission: To positively grow the hardcore scene by challenging cultural norms, embracing diversity, and promoting compassion across political and racial lines. The majority of SPEED’s members are of South-East Asian descent; drawing strength from their diverse cultural perspectives. Their ‘Gang Called Speed’ EP debuted at #5 on the ARIA charts – an unprecedented placement for a Australian hardcore release – also earning international and local praise from The Fader, Rolling Stone, NME and Complex. The band were later nominated for ‘Unearthed Artist of the Year’ at the prestigious triple j Awards, also earning nominations for ‘Record of the Year’ and ‘Best Video’ at the FBi Radio’s SMAC Awards. SPEED’s national tour to support the EP – supported by global skate brand Vans – sold out completely in one day. Their ferocious and high-intensity live show has already established SPEED as an essential live act, with footage of the band’s show at Sound & Fury festival in Los Angeles going viral with over 35 million views, earning coverage on tastemaker pages like No Jumper, GRM Daily and Worldstar Hip-Hop. Also working closely with local streetwear brands and musical crews from the worlds of hip-hop and electronica, SPEED embodies the messages of inclusivity and cultural unity that are as foundational to hardcore as the music ever was.
THE BODY • Troller • Dead Times
The Body is a prolific musical force whose creativity is matched only by the astonishing weight of their sound. Duo Lee Buford and Chip King have established their own musical language that reimagines how rhythm, dynamics, and sonics can shape or dismantle song structure. Over the course of two decades, the duo has consistently challenged assumptions and defied categorization, redefining what it means to be a heavy band. On their new album, The Body are again pushing limits and testing the boundaries of the studio to explore the extremes and microtonality of distortion to find its maximal impact. I’ve Seen All I Need To See is The Body at their most incisively bleak, a towering monolith of noise. I’ve Seen All I Need To See marks both a return and departure for The Body. In contrast to the electronic-centric instrumentation and production-heavy arrangements of previous albums and Buford’s work in Sightless Pit, this album is focused on their core live sound: Buford’s booming, resolute drums paired with King’s obliterated guitar and howl. Following albums with extensive guest performances and acclaimed collaborations with Thou, Uniform, Full of Hell, and more, I’ve Seen All I Need To See is almost entirely the core duo. Guests vocalist/pianist Chrissy Wolpert and vocalist Ben Eberle are used very sparingly. Course, bristling distortion contorts every instrument, with samples of spoken word, cymbals, toms and King’s already noxious tone emerging from layers of feedback. The myriad of tonal interplays, captured in detail, has a movement all its own. The Body, together with engineer Seth Manchester of Machines With Magnets, capture the complexities of distorted sound in stunning detail. The clarity and the cacophony exceed anything they’ve created before, morphing desolate, festering soundscapes into an exhilarating sonic universe.
YEAR OF THE KNIFE • Ballista • Shock Treatment • Cable
As YEAR OF THE KNIFE took the stage at revered festivals like Hellfest, Outbreak Fest, and Jera on Air in summer 2022, tens of thousands of eager fans caught the Delaware straight-edge hardcore / metal band’s unrelentingly live show. Vocalist, Madison Watkins commanded YOTK’s cathartic, chaotic blend of hardcore and metal with ease – and now, the brand-new EP Dust To Dust is set to usher in a razor-sharp musical evolution from their 2020 Internal Incarceration LP, hailed by outlets like Metal Injection (“jaw-shattering”) and Kerrang (the year’s “deepest-cutting American hardcore debut.”) The three-song Dust To Dust, produced and engineered by, Taylor Young, (Nails, God’s Hate, Twitching Tongues) clocking in at a blistering seven minutes, finds Year of the Knife continuing to push their sound forward, tapping into new corners of the heavy music landscape while not losing an ounce of the ferocity that’s endeared them to a legion of underground listeners. “Being straight edge is something that has always connected and driven the band, and that is still heavily present,” Watkins explains. “Building from that thematic foundation, my lyrics are through the lens of my own experiences and demons. We wanted to combine our sound with these new influences to make our most pissed-off songs yet.”