There are two different versions of this album, with one featuring half time drumming. There are also guest vocals from Dinosaur Jr, The Tragically Hip and Alexisonfire frontmen. None of these measures however really seem to add to the album's appeal. Backing up the brilliant "David Comes To Life" was always going to be hard to do. Any high point will always serve as a comparitive. On their latest effort, the band has continued to move futher and further away from their inital explosive hardcore sound and a band I once found really unique and appealing have started to blend their songs together into one long blur that falls a bit flat. I kind of feel like Fucked Up need to stop releasing, every single song they write and concentrate a little on collating the better songs into less spariodic releases.
HIGHLIGHTS
THE ACCUSED Interview With Singer Blaine Cook
MILITARIE GUN Announce New LP: God Save The Gun
SECRET WORLD Announce New EP: Tomorrow Is A Mystery To Me
NO APOLOGIES Return With New LP: Life
New Pat Flynn (Fiddlehead/Have Heart) fronted band: HOW MUCH ART
GRIDIRON heading to Australia in 2026 for COMEBACK KID Tour
NEWS
Convulse Records Announce New LP For DESTINY BOND
Convulse Records has announced the upcoming release of a new LP for Destiny Bond titled "The Love" o...
BY A THREAD Release New Track From "Mirrored Life" ...
Vancouver’s late-’90s post-hardcore band By A Thread return with LP Mirrored Life out September 12th...
SPACED Join Pure Noise And Announce 'No Escape' EP
SPACED have joined the Pure Noise Records roster and announced the No Escape EP due out October 17th...
OUSTED Release Video Off Debut EP "How Do You Cope?"...
Baltimore hardcore band Ousted announce How Do You Cope? EP out September 19th on Ashtray Monument R...
PULLEY And FIRE SALE Join Forces For 'Split Personality' 7"...
Pulley and Fire Sale join forces for new split 7” Split Personality out now via Negative Progre...
SHAI HULUD Demo With Daimian Moyal Released On Vinyl
Stick It To The Core Records out of Belguim has announced the vinyl pressing of the Shai Hulud demo ...
TOURS
THE GIFTHORSE "Give My Body To This Town"...
After a few years on hiatus and a couple of new bands forming out of the ashes of the initial breaku...
OUTRIGHT "Avalanche" Reason and Rage
What felt like a long time coming, has definitely been so damn well worth the wait. Melbourne's Outr...
THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM "Get Hurt" Island Records
The Gaslight Anthem return with their fifth full length album, having released last album "H...
NEW BLOOD
Introducing REND From Adelaide
REND are a new band out of Adelaide who dropped an awesome two track EP last year off the back of a ...
Introducing DEFIANT GROUND From The Gold Coast
DEFIANT GROUND are a new band out of the Gold Coast who have just released their demo through Set Th...
Introducing BULLY SQUAD From Sydney
BULLY SQUAD are a new band out of Sydney who dropped an impressive demo this year through New Ethic ...
INTERVIEWS
THE ACCUSED A.D. Interview With Singer Blaine Cook...
The Accüsed A.D. finally visit Australia in 2025, Rod Hunt chats to singer Blaine Cook ahead of the ...
SECRET WORLD Interview With Guitarist Josh Campiao
We catch up with Josh Campiao from Sydney band SECRET WORLD to talk about their debut 7inch "Guilt I...
2024 The Year In Review
Welcome to our annual end of year wrap up, as we celebrate and dissect 2024, the year that was.
LOOKING BACK
Revisiting BAD BRAINS 1994 Australian Tour w/ THE...
The "Rise" tour of 1994 was the one and only visit the BAD BRAINS would make to Australia with THE M...
Looking Back On HENRY ROLLINS and the HARD...
In this latest feature of Looking Back we investigate how the classic release of "Let There Be Rock"...
Revisiting NIRVANA's 1992 Australian Tour
Nirvana's 1992 tour of Australia is etched into the history books as a feat of legend for many reaso...
COLLECTORS
Inside REGAN CADD's Record Collection
Regan Cadd is from Melbourne and really likes youth crew hardcore, especially the glory days of R...
Inside MATT FOOTY HORVATH'S Record Collection
Matt "Footy" Horvath has been an avid collector for a very long time and owns some very. very, ra...
Inside RYAN WILLMOTT's Record Collection
Take a peek into the record collection of Ryan Willmott, filled with Mindsnare, Radio Birdm...
CRUCIAL FIVE
Graham Nixon on TRIAL AND ERROR RECORDS
Resist Records kingpin, Graham Nixon breaks down his top five favourite releases from the Trial an...
Nigel Melder on RESIST RECORDS
Trial and Error Records mastermind, Nigel Melder breaks down his top five favourite releases from ...
Nick Horsnell on REVELATION RECORDS
Miles Away frontman, Nick Horsnell delivers his top five releases from the Revealtion Records cata...
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