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To coincide with the 20th Anniversary of their classic debut album Begins Here, The Butterfly Effect have remastered the album and present it here in vinyl format on a double LP 150gm Clear Vinyl in a gorgeous gatefold presentation with new artwork. The 2003 release reached number 23 on the Australian ARIA Album Charts and was the band's first entry to the top 100, but not their last. Begins Here stands as a landmark Australian album and is now yours to listen to in the best way ever. 

Track Listing:

1. Intro
2. Perception Twin (feat. Flynn Gower)
3. Consequence
4. One Second of Insanity
5. Crave
6. Beautiful Mine
7. Filling Silence Intro
8. Filling Silence
9. Always
10. Without Wings
11. Overwhelmed
12. A.D
13. Outro

Leveler: 10th Anniversary Edition, pressed onto Electric Blue vinyl and limited to just 150 copies.

This is Leveler like you've never heard it before! We fully re-recorded the entire album from scratch, changing song tunings, writing new guitar solos, and adding guest performances from Matt Heafy of Trivium, Misha Mansoor of Periphery, and Ryan Kirby of Fit For A King. The album was produced and mixed by Carson Slovak and Grant McFarland, and mastered for vinyl by Will Putney.

Track listing:

1. Empire
2. Internal Cannon (feat. Matthew K Heafy)
3. Divisions
4. Cutting the Ties
5. Pangaea (feat. Misha "Bulb" Mansoor)
6. Carpe Diem
7. 40 Nights
8. Salt & Light
9. Poor Millionaire (feat. Ryan Kirby)
10. 1/16/2011
11. Boys of Fall
12. Leveler

LP comes with a digital download card. Digital download of the album features a brand new track titled "X.”

GELD make their Relapse Records debut with their third full length, Currency // Castration! The Australian band distills a despairingly hellish vision of the world into a thundering crack to the temple through an unsparing fusion of hardcore’s bleakest violence with metal’s ruthless strength-through-conviction. GELD's abrasive take on the genre is distorted through a lense of fuzzed out psych soundscapes; vocals truly sound like unhinged barks, while guitars, bass, and drums crash against one another frenetically, each track burning brighter and brighter.

Every moment of Currency // Castration is urgent. Tracks such as “Chained to a Gate” edge and scratch at a relief that is ultimately denied, toying with the nightmarish promise of a breakdown that never comes. Elsewhere, "Cut You Down" pulses with frantically itching riffs that stream forth. "Fog of War" snaps and snarls; while "Secret Prison" evinces the honed physique of Japanese hardcore fed through the broken brain of someone on a years-long Rrröööaaarrr-era Voivod spin-out.

Despite the band's innovative approach to the genre, GELD makes no pretensions at being “interesting” for interesting’s sake - As vocalist Al Smith puts it, “One of the most boring things people can do is try to dress up what someone else has already contributed to a genre and make it ‘clever’… We’re more interested in finding our own position” With Currency // Castration, GELD offers no promise of a higher purpose or resolve. Rather, they lean into dissociation, finding truth and meaning in the transcendental joy of simply escaping, surviving, existing.

Metallic gold/silver with red, blood red and oxblood splatter vinyl, limited to 300 copies (Imprint Merch exclusive).

Track Listing:

1. Currency
2. Chained to a Gate
3. Cut You Down
4. Clock Keeps Crawling
5. Fog of War
6. The Fix Is In
7. Across A Broad Plain
8. Hanging From a Rope
9. Gas of Corruption
10. Success
11. Secret Prison
12. Castration

CURSED 180gm BLACK VINYL 

"CURSED" is Paleface Swiss's third full-length album, a 30 minute ride of Switzerland's finest metal music. Including an evolved sound with new compositions and lyrics, it's more personal than ever.

Tracklist: 

1. un pobre niño murió

2. Hatred

3. …and with hope you’ll be damned

4. Don’t you ever stop

5. Enough?

6. Youth Decay

7. My Blood On Your Hands

8. Love Burns

9. River Of Sorrows

 

Screenprinted Design Front, Sleeve & Back. 

Printed on Ramo Kangaroo Pocket Hoodie (TP215H)

320 gsm
35% cotton 65% poly

Fits True To Size, please purchase in your normal size. 

Model is 190cm tall wearing size L. 

With a mission in mind, SPEED are setting out to put Australian hardcore on the map. The band's new EP, "GANG CALLED SPEED", will be out June 24th Last Ride Records (AUS) and Flatspot Records (USA). Recorded with Elliott Gallart at Chameleon Studios, the six songs on the EP are centered around recognizing who you are in this world, taking ownership of that identity and not letting anyone tell you otherwise. Lead single “NOT THAT NICE” captures the band’s no hold barred approach, highlighted by a blunt vocal delivery and intricate guitar work. The video for the song, filmed and edited by Jack Rudder, serves as a continuation of last year’s massive single “WE SEE U” representing the vibrant world of the Sydney hardcore scene. Each record also contains an etched b-side, featuring a band photo by Jonathan Tumbel.

Second pressing:

Red vinyl (/500)
White vinyl (/500)

Track listing:

1. NOT THAT NICE
2. ANOTHER TOY
3. MOVE
4. BIG BITE
5. EVERY MAN FOR THEMSELF
6. KNOW YOUR FOE

Here, Hear is an ongoing creative series born in 2007 as a way to deepen understanding of themes and ideas present in proper album releases through added musical and lyrical context for listeners interested in small peeks behind the song writing curtain. 

Changing forms, approaches, and mediums periodically throughout it’s history, the current iteration of the project exists as creative writing prompts introduced and followed by one individual member before being passed along to the others one by one for contribution in a sort of musical game of telephone. The end results are songs written and recorded layer by layer, member by member, all around a central suggestion or restriction, discussed at length on Patreon and via recorded podcast conversations dissecting the experience.

The most recent entry, titled “16,” began with a prompt from bass player Adam Vass called “This Song Will Self-Destruct” where contributing members were challenged to “break” something periodically as the composition progressed. The final product is what you hear: five musicians who took five different approaches to self-destruction, for a host of different reasons, and a song that slowly degrades as it heads toward its end, though it remains fully listenable despite the nature of the prompt.

In partnership with Here, Hear, the last few years have seen the introduction of a new writing exercise called MEANTIME, which flip La Dispute’s standard music-first approach to songcraft in favor of entries constructed by individual instrumentalists around spoken vocal recordings. Born from a desire to remain creatively engaged while apart during COVID shutdown, MEANTIME songs are poems before songs, words written and recorded that come to life sonically only when passed from vocalist Jordan Dreyer to one of the band’s musicians for structure, texture, and mood.

Track Listing:

1. Thirteen
2. Fourteen
3. Fifteen
4. Sixteen
5. Kinross
6. The Crash
7. Light And Shadows
8. Reformation

"Singles Collection 2022" CD, remaining from the Lil Ugly Mane 2023 Australian tour.

Track Listing:

1. Replica Fireplace
2. Low Tide At The Drying Out Facility
3. Blue Sand
4. Pink & Rose
5. Easy Prey
6. Split Ends
7. Redacted Fog
8. Unassisted

"Singles Collection 2022" Cassette Tape, remaining from the Lil Ugly Mane 2023 Australian tour.

Track Listing:

1. Replica Fireplace
2. Low Tide At The Drying Out Facility
3. Blue Sand
4. Pink & Rose
5. Easy Prey
6. Split Ends
7. Redacted Fog
8. Unassisted

LINYHC!!!
PAIN OF TRUTH FROM THE NORTHEAST USA... LONG AWAITED DEBUT LP "NOT THROUGH BLOOD" COMING SEPTEMBER 8TH 2023... 11 TRACKS OF PURE HARD HITTING HC FFO HATEBREED, TERROR AND MADBALL... THE RECORD FEATURES PLENTY OF GUEST FEATURES INCLUDING STEVE (200 STAB WOUNDS), FREDDY (MADBALL), JUSTICE (TRAPPED UNDER ICE) AND MORE!...

RECORDED AND MIXED BY ANDY AT BRICKTOP DURING WINTER 2023 AND MASTERED BY BILL AT AZIMUTH

RECORDS COME HOUSED IN A GATEFOLD LP JACKET WITH A 12X24 INSERT...

FIRST PRESSING:
PURPLE/CLOUD SPINNER W/ SILVER SPLATTER /300
BLUE/WHITE SMASH /300
BLOOD AND GUTS SPLATTER /500
YELLOW SMOKE /1000

2ND PRESSING:

BLUE SWIRL /500

BLACK PEARL /1500

Track listing:

1. Lifeless On The Ground
2. In Your Heart
3. Actin' Up
4. You And Me
5. This Falls On You
6. Too Late
7. Pickin' At Scraps
8. Out Of Our Hands
9. Same Old Story
10. Under My Skin
11. Not Through Blood

Red & Black Marble w/ Pink Splatter
Variant out of 1150 (Flatspot / Evil Greed / Devil Dog / Imprint Merch Exclusive)

The plan was to start a band that was all longtime friends. The idea was to embrace the scene they grew up in. 

The conspirators are as follows: Matty Matheson (singer), who grew up in the Niagara hardcore scene (with his late 90's band, Hanging Hearts), and who has gone on to become a chef and restaurateur. Wade MacNeil (guitarist), an active member of Alexisonfire and Doom’s Children. The Romano brothers, Daniel(guitarist) and Ian(drummer), rock’n’roll veterans from Daniel Romano’ Outfit and Tommy Major (bassist) of Young Guv -Tommy and the Commies - Daniel Romano’s Outfit 

“It  was during the pandemic and we were all back home,” says Matheson. The conversations began - to make something heavy, noisy and touched on the classic 80’s hardcore we all love so much. Everyone showed up with a bunch of riffs, scraps of lyrics, talked influences and principles, bounced ideas back and forth, then got chinese food. “We wrote 10 songs in one day,” says Matheson, “and the next day we recorded them.”

What resulted is the band Pig Pen. And, from this flash of inspiration, the group’s debut full length, Mental Madness, will be released  on Flatspot Records June 27th. It’s tough and it’s harsh, the music is dark and noisy, and it’s got depth. There’s an ease to the energy too that spiritually aligns it with those rare fully realized hardcore demos from the classic era — one of those golden, hallowed megaphone announcements that show up now and then in the scene from a band with good ideas, who seemingly came out of nowhere, but who knew what they were from the jump, and who just did it.  

Due to the band members’ extracurriculars, Pig Pen is starting off as a contained explosion and a distilled expression, which is what the music itself is about. The subject matter on
Mental Madness sticks to themes that Matheson describes as “mental health shit”: topics like isolation, loneliness, and “letting your mind destroy you.” A representative sample: “Teach me to hate myself, teach me not to care,” bellows Matheson in “Mental Mentality,” the band’s first single—“I’m sick, I’m sick, I’m sick,” during the bridge. These are words that might ring an alarm bell, but sound perfectly at home in a hardcore song, but are they ever just hardcore lyrics? 

”You can be having a beautiful day, surrounded by friends,” Matheson explains, “and your brain can continuously ruin it. No matter how good or bad your life is, you can still hate yourself. I've got to ask myself why am I feeling the ways I'm feeling?” In other words, the record is about experiencing life, feeling all the feelings in the sunshine and the dark corners.

If that’s what the songs are about, the band is about something different: Just being a band. “Our love of each other is what makes it”, says Matheson. “Joyousness,” concurs Dan Romano. Friends having fun. It comes across on the record as an expression of happiness. Is that a dichotomy? Not exactly. “There’s a sense of community in that hardcore scene we came up in,” says Romano, “and those early enlightenments, they stay with you.”  And though everyone in the band has branched out since those days, “hardcore is always the same in some ways,” Matheson says, “this is a scene of of giving, of sharing, of going the fuck off. That’s it, really.” That’s Pig Pen. 

Pig Pen ‘Mental Madness’

Produced by Pig Pen
Engineered by Ian Romano 
Mixed by Arthur Rizk
Mastered by Alan Douches