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(review) Going Postal NYHC – Going Postal (WTF Records)

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Good people at WTF Records just cannot stop releasing tons of great music. This time, Going Postal, band from NYC with their new opus of raw street smart hardcore. This e.p.is nineties influenced hardcore with lots more street punk influences but also has its momentary excursions into metal waters. I especially love Drowning In It, reminding me a lot of Warzone, one of my favorite bands from New York. This is simple, no bullshit, no holds barred undisputed hardcore with tendency to make you mosh, hug sweaty kid in the pit next to you and make your body flow with hardcore energy from your forehead to your toes. FTW is also one of personal favorites, being short but sweet punkrock influenced hardcore that we miss sometimes so much in today´s scene. This is pure old school hardcore with shadows of old bands like Killing Time, AF, Youth Of Today, Warzone and similar looking upon and smiling. Great release!

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Not On Tour announce “Outtakes” 7 Inch for September 3

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Artist: Not On Tour

Release: Outtakes

Release Date: 3.9.2021

Label: SBÄM Records

Distribution: SBÄM Records/Broken Silence

Press coordination: Jo! PR (Europe), Melanie Kaye PR (USA/CAN)

7-Inch vinyl/digital

Tel Aviv. It’s been two years now since Not On Tour’s spectacular skate punk album “Growing Pains” hit the market. The fast and short songs by the Israel punk band have brought Not On Tour onto the big stages of the world including support slots for bands like NOFX or The Interrupters. Now, in 2021 SBÄM Records collected some B-sides from “Growing Pains” to give the band’s fans one of the most obligatory collectibles this year: the 7-Inch record “Outtakes”. The 7 Inch record in red and yellow colour variants can be pre-ordered already.

About Not On Tour:

Not On Tour was formed in 2008 as a joke, a band project to play during the summer and entertain all the left-behind punks in Tel Aviv, who were also “not on tour” and stranded. Too bad the set turned out great, the shows to be fun and the band too excited to ever break up. Here they are today, 10 years later with a tour history that is quite the opposite of what was once intended.

The four friends have been touring all over the globe since 2014, Japan with Strung Out and A Wilhelm Scream, Russia with Satanic Surfers and Useless ID, Europe with Descendents, Propagandhi, Lagwagon, Feine Sahne Fischfilet, Pennywise, Face To Face, Good Riddance, Pears, No Trigger, Chixx Diggit and Masked Intruder. Festivals like Groezrock (BE), Punkrock Holiday (SLO), Xtreme Fest (F), Brakrock (BE), Gasteiz Calling (ESP) and more have been played multiple times. They became road warriors quickly, and made sure to bring the party to where they could.

Not On Tour’s music is pure melodic punk rock energy, keeping the crowds dancing wherever they go. Armed with an in-your-face mentality, the band is throwing intense shows with songs rarely passing the 90 seconds mark. Not On Tour delivers a positive, raw punk rock sound with lyrics about the challenges of life, mental health, politics, love, fun but also day-to-day struggle, paired with catchy tunes and impressive female front vocals, ranging between anger and soul. Their obvious hardcore influences push the melodies forward, while voluminous backing harmonies do the rounding off and turn songs into punk rock anthems.

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(review) Grand Collapse – Empty Plinths

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Grand Collapse are by far one of the most interesting bands to come out of the UK hardcore scene nowadays. This is their third album and it will melt your face off. These guys play a mixture of old school UK school of hardcore with Ripcord coming to mind delivering thrash hardcore punk attacks with blistering all out war speed and anger, but also besides speed and d beat there are raw guitars, angry screaming vocals and gang backing sing along parts with some street core and moshing parts brought into the song structures for good measure. Lyrics are political and personal, dealing with clergy, animal rights, police state and similar merry themes that are actual today in our world. This is the kind of bands that are so relevant in the scene today, because punk hardcore became somehow safe and not a threat anymore and not a scream of anger and rebellion, but only party. Fortunately for us, bands like Grand Collapse are still carrying the torch.

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