Search For Purpose is a brand new US straight edge band you’ll probably be hearing more and more about in the future. For us it started with two demo releases we found on their Bandcamp ...

October 7th was a grey and rainy day. And what a great way to ruin the typical Saturday party night with monumental dark music brought to Sofia by a pack of Russian friends on tour. ...

After recording some new Eva Ras stuff on a newly updated Garageband (which has amazing effects and stuff btw) and I am pretty happy that I did. Then, I went on thinking about other random ...

The northern winds of brutal hell d-beat mangel brought us 偏執症者(Paranoid) to unleash a devastating vortex of Disclose-inspired Japanese punk chaos and hellraising Scandinavian-styled black metal! Celebrating five years since the release of their seminal ...

October 7th was a grey and rainy day. And what a great way to ruin the typical Saturday party night with monumental dark music brought to Sofia by a pack of Russian friends on tour. ...

I somehow missed the fact that this book actually existed. So when Nikolay from Ugly and Proud Records brought me one as gift from Fluff Fest I started reading it right away. I’ve seen Bane ...

We can all agree Nemesis Records and “Big” Frank Harrison have left a huge mark on the worldwide hardcore scene. Even though Nemesis lived quite a short life, they managed to put out iconic releases ...

I started booking shows with my friends (or I should say “crew”) back in the beginning of the 2000’s. The name which we used was (and still is) Positive Youth (Pozitivna Omladina) as we were ...

The northern winds of brutal hell d-beat mangel brought us 偏執症者(Paranoid) to unleash a devastating vortex of Disclose-inspired Japanese punk chaos and hellraising Scandinavian-styled black metal! Celebrating five years since the release of their seminal ...

Sometimes a song or a melody just bursts into your head and you can’t forget it. It’s just what happened to me with Modern Love’s “Hold Meg” when the band revealed three of the songs ...

This year your favorite summer hardcore punk festival Fluff Fest in Czech Republic has its own ambient and drone stage. So far bands and projects playing music in these abstract and obscure genres, which on ...

Adrestia is a crust metal force coming from Sweden that takes politics seriously. Live, these guys engulf the audience in the flames of an ongoing struggle for direct democracy and autonomy happening in Rojava, while ...

After recording some new Eva Ras stuff on a newly updated Garageband (which has amazing effects and stuff btw) and I am pretty happy that I did. Then, I went on thinking about other random ...

Powerviolence is fun. It’s always very youthful and most of the time people in these bands don’t take themselves too seriously. There’s silly jokes in the lyrics, song names, and album covers. They are bored, ...

This demo is just effing brilliant! It’s a one-man ultramilitant vegan straight edge project coming from the UK and no, that’s not called Statement. Lifegrab from Cardiff, Wales, goes for an uncompromising attitude with a ...

In 2015, Cause released their first EP, “A la deriva”, which presented them to the world. Claustrophobic feelings and melodic guitars with fast beats were what this group of four young boys from Santiago, Chile ...

Alexander Lyubomudrov was the man behind Self-Titled Demo Records, a small DIY label from Moscow that, together with Old Skool Kids (OSK Records) and Insomnia Zine, really helped me to find out about some truly great ...

In an interview from 1993* that at the time had been scarcely published, Active Minds band members Set and Bobs together with their friend Steve, said a few things which may still strike the right chord today. Here’s ...

Feeling heartbroken after hearing the terrible news that Erik Petersen, the lead singer of Mischief Brew, has passed away at the age of 38, I’m continuing to bring back memories about his punk rock legacy. ...

A personal account from a member of the anarchopunk collective Dekadencia Humana. Everything written here comes from searching and personal experience. Not from periodical research from other people, but from my growing up to today together ...