Touche Amore truly have come a long way over the years. Constantly touring and working as hard as any other band in the scene today, they've earned their place at the forefront of the melodic/emotive hardcore scene. This release has a lot of fan favorites on it that many have grown to love. It is very easy to bond with Touche Amore's music, for it comes straight from the heart. Something that is lacking in a good majority of modern music. This is unfortunate in considering it truly is essential in order to be characterized as that of human. Raw, passionate, and honest: this is what these dudes are all about.

Loma Prieta are here to prove, once and for all, that the original screamo/skramz sound of the nineties is not dead. In fact, this release not only pays homage to those days of punk rock but also modernizes that sound in pushing the envelope to create their own unique personal interpretation of the genre and thus making a name for themselves. Whatever you do, do not sleep on this band. Trust me.

The Saddest Landscape returns from their brief silence in making heartfelt, passionate, and honest music. "You Will Not Survive" picks up where they left off, in bringing the listener into the minds and the hearts of the band as they express their inner anguish and attempt to aurally relieve their depression through these seven tracks.

The Afternoon Gentlemen are easily one of the better powerviolence/grindcore bands to come out in recent time. They're four dudes from Leeds, England who like to bring the start/stop blasts and sludgy breakdowns to the underground, all the while showcasing their love for drinking, humor, and punk rock. Definitely a necessary release for anyone's collection that enjoys extreme music.

consisting of members from two of my favorite bands at the moment, Admiral Angry and Black Sheep Wall, Noriega come together to write thirty minutes of inspired, passionate, and cathartic sludgecore that is not for the weak at heart. this EP will crush in your stomach and leave you breathless, begging for more. i highly recommend this band if you are the slightest bit into music that compels the darker side of the human psyche.

this album is really, really fast. Corn On Macabre exemplify thirteen songs in under 12 minutes on this disc with a spazzy display of skramz meets powerviolence with a touch of punk rock urgency. if you are familiar with any of the aforementioned genres and consider yourself a fan, this is definitely a staple band for you to check out.

this record is so amazing. extremely passionate low-key indie rock littered with emotion and a sense of overwhelming melancholy. perfect for those lonely nights nestling up with a whiskey bottle and thinking of better times. no, but seriously, this is an amazing record. pick it up if you're into anything remotely cathartic and indie rock based.

Rotten Sound is easily one of the most definitive bands in the grindcore genre. up there with such greats as Napalm Death, Nasum, and Pig Destroyer, this band unleashes this very impressive and mind-numbingly intense record. not for the faint of heart.

Vulgar Pigeons is one of those death/grind bands that just did not get nearly enough credit, which they rightfully deserved. although they were extremely under the radar, they pushed out some of the most compelling extreme music for their genre in recent time. very short record but it will still leave you breathless.

i decided to pick up this release after buying The Ghost Inside's debut full-length. that album, although doing a familiar formulaic style of metal/hardcore, was extremely well-written/produced and very catchy. with that said, i had to pick up their debut under this moniker. it's good but nowhere near the potential in which they would soon approach (though the opening track is, too, on their later album.) yet again, a good release but only for the true fan.