Tag Archives: hardcore

Back in 2014, I was having a blast at Bloodstock as I always do, a 3-day hangover usually started by a night of serious liver abuse in Brewdog Birmingham the day before hand, and reliably topped up during the festival. The weekend would never work out well though if it wasn’t thanks to the regular cups of tea over at ...

If you looked up integrity in the dictionary, you wouldn’t see a picture of Sick of it All because dictionaries don’t have pictures, but if they did there’s a pretty good chance they’d make it in. Thirty years into their career these New York City punks have never once sold out or even dipped a toe over the line. Their ...

The typical nightmare of the London rush hour, British weather bringing torrents of rain and flooding, and then the break down of two tube trains on route to the O2 all tried their hardest to dampen the excitement of a unique night with one of thrash metals finest. Testament were in the capital and rather than just a night of ...

If you managed to catch the mighty Beartooth unleash their hardcore assault on the moshpits of Download Festival’s main stage this year, you won’t want to miss their just-announced UK Dates in December. The Metal Hammer Golden Gods nominees (Best Breakthrough category) will be giving fans a taste of latest album, Agressive, available now on Red Bull Records. Support comes from Boston ...

Hatebreed are back! And what a return we have here. Fresh of this years Impericon Festival that saw the band headline 9 dates across multiple countries including London, The Concrete Confessional is Hatebreed’s seventh studio album which is sure to please fans old or new, in fact one of the best things about this release is that you don’t already ...

Peterborough, a place with little going for it. Yes we have some great pubs, and a train station that can get us out and to better places easy enough, but when it comes to live venues for music of our tastes there is almost nothing. Perhaps once or twice a year we might be lucky to get a heavy gig ...

RAMzine are thrilled to confirm that Pittsburgh’s finest hardcore punks CODE ORANGE will be heading to our shores this November. Following their storming Download Festival set this past June and a load of European festivals, the band will return as special guests for hardcore supremos BANE. This upcoming performance will be all the more significant given the fact that this ...

17 years on from the genre defining and cult classic debut album ‘Get Some’, Cali hardcore punk metal maestros SNOT finally hit our shores back in February this year. Having already toured the US in the late 90’s with titans such as Deftones, Machine Head and Incubus, the quintet were well on their way to achieving equally huge levels of ...

With their latest album, ‘Cult For the Haggard Youth’, set to drop on the 21st of July, it is an exciting time in camp Dead Harts.  Its 11 blistering tracks are sure to garner it a lot of attention and the Sheffield based hardcore merchants look set to expand on their already growing reputation.  We got the opportunity to speak ...

New York hardcore group Agnostic Front are coming to the UK later this year. The lads have announced a short run of dates including shows at this year’s Rebellion Festival and City Invasion in London. Check out the dates below! August 10 – Blackpool – Winter Garderns (Rebellion Festival) 11 – Dundee – Non Zeros 13 – Buckley – Tivoli ...