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Richmond juggernauts BRACEWAR return with their first recorded material in 10 years. 3 songs of gut punching, in your face, hardcore. If you’ve been waiting for new material, this record surely does not disappoint.

Tracklisting:
1. Introduction
2. Hidden
3. The Prophecy

PRESSING INFORMATION

Clear w/Red, Bronze, Bone Splatter (out of 300)

The debut LP from London UK thrashers BIG CHEESE!!! 

Track List:
1. Penine Scrubs
2. Mad At The World
3. IFMB
4. Heartbreak Ball
5. Tired Children In D Minor
6. Punishment Park
7. Write-Off
8. Tower To The Sun
9. Identity

PRESSING INFORMATION

Black (out of 500)

Track List:

1. Fever Dream
2. Future
3. Ornate Mask
4. Unconditional Surrender
5. The Thrill Is Gone

Bad Beat is Detroit’s newest hardcore band offering a unique brand fast, pissed, and snotty hardcore, the likes of which the world has never seen. The band’s upcoming record, titled LP 2024, offers hardcore punk with even fewer frills than it’s overly simplified title suggests, clocking in 16 tracks in just over 13 minutes. LP 2024 will be Bad Beat’s first full release following a 2 song promo and 6 song Demo that were both released in 2023.

Not Like You starts with a bang, as the thundering bass foreshadows the riffs to come, only to have it hit like a freight train, despite all warnings. The song features Hold My Own’s Greg Falchetto, who’s gruff delivery closes the song out in a brutal stomp, bringing any listener into a moshing haze.

Big Mouth On You kicks things off with an expertly crafted drum fill that sends the song into warp speed ripping chainsaw guitars, before breaking it down for the moshers with singer James Lawson’s snarling delivery of poetic lines like “You think that your shit don’t stink. Big mouth on you- all I have to say is Fuck you” harkening back to the works of Emmerson, Whitman, and even Morisette.

Track List:

1. Through Your Eyes

2. Out of Place

3. Sick Joke

4. Game: Bad Beat

5. Dead & Gone

6. Bad Beat Stomp (Intro)

7. Not Like You

8. Blood

9. Bad Beat Dub

10. Punisher

11. Punished

12. Weight of the World

13. R. Hardcore

14. What the Fuck? Are You Fucking Kidding Me?

15. Big Mouth On You

16. Numbskull

Pressing Info:

Black Ice w/White Splatter (out of 110) 

Hardcore delivered in 15 minutes or less! 14 tracks of real deal HC music.

Track List:

1. My Revenge
2. Bad Beat Stomp, Too 
3. Make Sense 
4. Wearing Thin 
5. Guilty 
6. Bad Beatdown 
7. Jazz Beat 
8. Wasted Time 
9. Regular Brain 
10. Entitled 
11. Empty Brain 
12. I.D.W.I.D.A.I.D.N.Y 
13. Lost 
14. Never Had It

Debut LP from Boston's ANTAGONIZE features 8 tracks clocking in at a total of 14 minutes. These LP's come housed in a heavy duty gatefold jacket.

Track List:
1. Nowhere To Hide
2. Transona Six
3. El Toro
4. Workhorse
5. Both Hands Tight
6. Hope Dies Last
7. Land of Dreams
8. Dust To Dust

PRESSING INFORMATION

Red (out of 500)

Pressed on Red / White Marble. 17 new and exclusive tracks from some of HC's best. Like the first 2, these will come with a badass 12x12" 20 page full colour insert booklet with pages designed by each band, and heavy 150g vinyl.

Track List:
Side A:
INDEPENDENCE- Blue Moon
CRIMINAL INSTINCT- Yet to Come
RAINDANCE- No Wolves
CAUGHT IN A CROWD- Waged War
FURY- Damage is Done
BARGE- Weapon of War
SHIT FOR BRAINS- Shit For Brains
SUBURBAN SCUM- Six Feet Under
TURNSTILE- Lost All Feeling

Side B:
CLEAR- You Be You
DEMOLITION- Above the Law
UNIFIED RIGHT- Joke After Joke
SELF DEFENSE FAMILY- Spirit Operator
CONSOLATION PRIZE- Moleskin
DISAPPROVAL- Wildflower Stomp
FREEDOM- Cut You Down
MAMMOTH GRINDER- Cosmic Crypt

Pressing Information

Red / White Marble (out of 763)

39 tracks, 38 bands, 100% HC. The 5th instalment of the America's Hardcore Compilation series. Housed in a 400gsm embossed gatefold jacket, includes a 40 page 12x12" insert booklet featuring exclusive artwork for all of the bands. Cover & Gatefold layout by Kyle Niland, mastered by Arthur Rizk.


Track list:

Side A:
Ammunation - Truth & Facts
Never Ending Game - Dreamin Red...
Inclination - Fruition
Firewalker - Forever
Dead Last - Pawn in the Game
Regional Justice Center - Life's Work
Profile - Set the Tone
BIB - The Healing Room
Division of Mind - 8: 7
Fuming Mouth - They Take What They Please

Side B:
Be All End All - Kiss It Goodbye
Be All End All - Supremacy
Magnitude - Light At The End
Result of Choice - Greenwashed
Final Gasp - Botched Ritual
Dead Heat - The Hard Reset
Memory Screen - Days of Heaven
Rule Them All - C.O.
Pummel - The One
Terror - Pain is Forever

Side C:
Life's Question - World Keeps Turning
Maniac - Forward Onto Annihilation
Combust - Pull the Hammer
Anxious - The Long Spring
Eyes of the Lord - Kind or Cruel
CA Coyotes - Assembly Line
Vantage Point - Swear
The Fight - We Will Never Learn
Open City - Wolf
Wound Man - Pull

Side D:
Worn - Systematic Seed
Mindforce - Reign of Terror
No Right - Exempt
Almighty Watching - The Absolute
No Pressure - Bed of Nails
Restraining Order - Keep on Runnin'
Sunami - I Don't Care
The Answer - Since Birth
Citizen - Let Me Out

PRESSING INFORMATION

Black & Gold Swirl / Black & Silver Swirl (out of 700)

"America's Hardcore" compilation returns for round four with 17 new and exclusive tracks from hardcore/punk/metal's best bands. Each band also designed and submitted their own pages for a 20-page, 12" x 12" insert booklet included with each record.

Track list:
1. BIG CONTEST – The Leap
2. BROTHER – Colony
3. PRAISE – Return to Life
4. FREE AT LAST – Killing Stare
5. THE MIDNIGHT SONS – Pale Dahlia Flowers
6. LINE OF SIGHT – Obstruction
7. GAG – Taki Boombah
8. KRIMEWATCH – You Lose!
9. TRAPPED UNDER ICE – KNOX
10. GLORY – The Time Is Now
11. MIL-SPEC – Time After Time
12. HARDWARE – Enough Is Enough
13. FREE – Darkness of Greed
14. PRIMAL RITE – Threat Level
15. TRUE LOVE – The Other Way
16. WORLD BE FREE – Touchy
17. PURE DISGUST – Agents of the Machine

PRESSING INFORMATION

Purple / White Swirl (out of 500)

Tracklist
1. Color You
2. Leap Years
3. Blur My Memory
4. The Gate
5. Your Hazel Tree
6. Orange Leaf
7. Esruc
8. Slow to Let Go
9. Topanga
10. Giant’s Despair
11. So Far From Me

One Step Closer has always believed that hardcore is limitless. On All You Embrace, the band puts that theory into practice. Every release from the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania band has seen them exploring the sonic overlaps of hardcore, emo, and ‘90s alternative rock without an iota of self-consciousness, or pretension, creeping into the mix. “We know what we want to do with the band,” says vocalist Ryan Savitski. “We’re just naturally writing what feels right to us.” What feels right is All You Embrace, a collection of 11 songs that show One Step Closer reaching for something deeply honest and, as always, authentic.

With founding members Savitski and guitarist Ross Thompson at the helm of One Step Closer, alongside newest addition Colman O’Brien, the three were able to fearlessly guide One Step Closer in new directions. “There was never a conversation about us trying to sound more emo or sound more hardcore, it was just us doing what we were feeling and fully committing to that,” says Thompson. With All You Embrace, that commitment is palpable. It’s why you can hear every element of One Step Closer throughout the record, as they expound upon every idea until each one has achieved its full potential. The result is a record that’s bigger, catchier, and moodier than anything they’ve done before, while still feeling exactly like One Step Closer.

“I wanted to showcase One Step Closer in its fullest state,” says Savitski. “Every single part of the band, I wanted it to be there. I wanted us to be 100% ourselves and be as authentic to our band as we could possibly be.” For fans of From Me To You, there are songs like “Blur My Memory,” which show the passionate melodic hardcore the band built its name on is still part of the program. But it’s immediately followed by “The Gate,” a song that taps into the expansive reaches the band hinted at on This Place You Know and put on full display with the powerful follow-up EP, Songs For The Willow.

Recorded with Jon Markson, who also played bass on the album, along with Connor McAuliffe on drums, All You Embrace finds One Step Closer refreshed and ready to try anything and everything. “No idea was shot down,” says Thompson, “We weren’t really thinking about if people were going to think we were lame for having a piano track on the record or for Ryan singing more. We tried everything to make it sound as good as we possibly could.”

In addition to the masterful ears of Markson, the band did two separate writing sessions with Knocked Loose’s Isaac Hale and Citizen’s Mat Kerekes. Across three songs each, Hale and Kerekes helped One Step Closer embrace their sonic evolution, giving the band full permission to commit to their distinct vision. “This was the first time we’d ever done something like this,” says Savitski. These collaborative environments, working with songwriters they’d long respected, allowed One Step Closer to take bigger swings and approach the album with a newfound clarity. “They helped push us and give us the courage to take some of these creative leaps,” says Thomspon.

The leaps made in the music reflect the lyrical themes that Savitski dug into throughout All You Embrace. “I don’t feel like a kid anymore, he says. “There’s been so much change since the last record—losing members, losing relationships, losing friends, touring a lot, seeing your friends and family less—and this record captures all the changes in our lives since then.” But for all that loss, One Step Closer found ways to regroup and rebuild. With the addition of O’Brien on guitar prior to Songs for the Willow, Savitski and Thompson found themselves a new creative partner. At every step of the process, O’Brien didn’t just fill a void, he became an indispensable part of One Step Closer’s backbone.

“We’ve lost things, but we’ve given and we’ve gained things, and it’s capturing all of those emotions into a set of songs. With change, you have to either embrace it or deal with it, but all the change for us was for the right reasons.” That cumulative feeling of loss, growth, and hard-earned perspective is what makes songs like “Leap Years” so moving. It allows Savitski to dig into the feelings of people entering and exiting his life, in the same way he taps in and out of worlds while on tour.

By the record’s end, the one-two punch of “Giant’s Despair” and “So Far From Me” fills the album with a bittersweet feeling of one journey ending just as another is about to begin. In each chorus of “So Far From Me” when Savitski sings, “But when it swallows me whole tonight / I’ll just keep on running / Back again see you soon / And the next time to say goodbye / Goodbye,” his words carry even more weight. You’ve seen exactly where he’s been and what lies ahead, all in one album.

Taken in full, All You Embrace is the sound of One Step Closer honoring their past while building a future that looks more open, more creative, and more expansive. It’s a place where records like Start Today, Diary, and Floral Green are all in conversation with one another. “We’ve honed in on a central vibe and aesthetic that really speaks to all of us,” says Thompson. “It encapsulates exactly who we’ve become.” When asked who that is, Thomspon answers swiftly and decisively, “We’re One Step Closer, a straight edge band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.” Sometimes the answers you’re searching for are right in front of you all along.