It All Comes Down To This

Scowl has been one of the more interesting and better current bands. I really liked their debut LP, but I think Psychotic Dance Routine is ...

Closed another gap in my 2000s collection. The first two Verse LPs are as good as it gets when it comes to mid-2000s melodic hardcore. Actua...

I‘m aware that I have blogged mainly about hardcore and punk, but of course there are other genres that I‘m into as well. I’ve been listenin...

Touché Amoré is one of those bands whose name always kind of turned me off from giving them a chance. It wasn‘t until I listened to one of m...

Is melodic hardcore making a comeback? Maybe. Hopefully. In recent years there have been more and more bands playing hardcore in the vein of...

I feel like hardcore kids often have a hard time embracing fun, at least when it comes to their taste in music. Everything has to be serious...

When we drove to a show a couple of months ago, two friends and I went on a 90s deep dive. This was a lot of fun because we‘re all different...

This is one of those ‘Damn, this makes me feel really old’ posts. Have Heart’s landmark LP The Things We Carry was released 17 years ago. I...

Another puzzle piece of what apparently has become my Youth Of Today collection. It’s funny how that happens sometimes. This is the 1997 rep...

Recently, I was lucky enough to hang out with two good friends, both of whom live far away from me. As the evening grew older, of course we ...

Similar to deciding to collect different cover versions of Youth Of Today records I made the same decision for Bad Brains releases. Attitude...

I always tell myself that luckily I don‘t play the repress game. However, I use the phrase “I‘m really glad I don‘t play the repress game, b...

Generally there are two ways people got into hardcore: either through metal or through punk. And if you got into hardcore through punk in Ge...

Okay, so technically this is a 2022 release. BUT I received my pre-order copy only in January 2023. Plus this record deserves to be talked a...

During the hiatus of my blog I decided to pick up more records that are not hardcore/punk related. I want to broaden my musical horizon and ...