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Brian Izzi of Trap Them // The Heavy Blog Is Heavy Interview

August 30, 2016

Brian Izzi is the guitarist of the legendary hardcore outfit Trap Them, who through the years have decimated fans with such great releases as 2011's Darker Handcraft and 2014's Blissfucker. Their latest album C... Read More...

Sarabante – Poisonous Legacy

Jake Tiernan

June 22, 2016

Reviews

Hardcore and punk increasingly become difficult genres to write about. There is a certain complacency within these genres that above all out, no matter how generic the record may be, passion can carry it to the... Read More...

Paranoid – Satyagraha

Jake Tiernan

June 17, 2016

Reviews

As once famously stated by Kurt Cobain, then later used to "famously" open Pg.99's Document #8 lp, punk rock should be "playing what you want, as sloppy as you want, as long as it's good and has passion." Of co... Read More...

PREMEIRE: Stream the new split from Autarch/Soothsayer!

Jake Tiernan

May 17, 2016

Premieres

Neo crust is a fickle genre, often difficult to pin down in the grand scheme of extreme music. On one hand, it is short and aggressive with more melodic tendencies, calling to mind such acts as Tragedy and His ... Read More...

Starter Kit: Neo Crust

Jake Tiernan

November 20, 2015

Features, Starter Kit

" the style that His Hero Is Gone started with their 1998 magnum opus, Monuments to Thieves, somewhat the boundary between crust and black metal, whether they like it or not." -Fenriz of Darkthrone Fenriz may... Read More...

Hey! Listen to Sovereign!

Jake Tiernan

September 28, 2015

Listen To This!

If there was ever an audible form of the emotion anger, Sovereign might just be it. Hailing from Lansdale, Pennsylvania, Sovereign supplies blistering, crusty, metallic hardcore in the vain of bands such as Cur... Read More...

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Brian Izzi of Trap Them // The Heavy Blog Is Heavy Interview

Sarabante – Poisonous Legacy

Paranoid – Satyagraha

PREMEIRE: Stream the new split from Autarch/Soothsayer!

Starter Kit: Neo Crust

Hey! Listen to Sovereign!

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