SHAI HULUD interview

by marcs77

Pompano Beach, Florida's SHAI HULUD toured Europe by large last Spring joining Canada's skate-punkers Propagandhi on the UK/European leg of their Failed States tour 2013. This tour came definitely as a really good juicy chance for Shai Hulud to take the new record “Reach Beyond The Sun” on the European stages (they've got lot of full-house shows according to the people involved on this tour).
GOTANERVE-ZINE got the chance to seat down with guitarist Matt Fox -the only founder member still in the band since 1995- before the Milan show and have like an hour chat about their latest effort, the tour they were currently into, people misunderstanding some misanthropic, hatred and negative themes in their lyrics and T-Shirts arts, Chad Gilbert being back to collaborate with the band as singer and producer, today hardcore music, the movie they took inspiration from to name their band and some interesting down to earth stories about the band and who Matt is up and off stage. There's really lotta stuff really worth reading here so I'm not gonna keep this opening longer.

“Worse Than Yesterday, Better Than Tomorrow” brand new album by DECREW out now

Two years after “I Survived 20 Years Of Decrew”, a compilation of 26 unreleased tracks available on free
download which celebrates the band’s 20th birthday, Decrew proudly announce their brand new fast-beating album, out on September 27th on Ammonia Records.
Recorded at Trai Studio and mastered by experienced Maurizio Giannotti, (guess these 2 names won’t sound new to most of our readers!), “Worse than yesterday, better than Tomorrow” is the 7th album by Decrew, 5-piece HC band around since 1991 and still on stage after several line-up changes, which contributed to enrich their sound and strengthen their blasting live-impact.
The new release will have the party it deserves on October 4th at Bloom, Mezzago, where Decrew will share the stage with La Crisi, Italian HC veterans, and Filth in my Garage, posthardcore five-piece from Milan neighborhoods. A quiet night-out. Can’t wait to have our ears smashed...don’t you?

Stream and download here for free the entire album

NO SLEEP records Fall 2013 free digital sampler

The good boys at NO SLEEP records are sharing their horror-theme-artwork-wrapped Fall sampler 2013
in digital format which can be now downloaded for free at their bandcamp page.
The sampler features 27 tracks from the bands they have put out releases for like Departures, The Sweller, Long Lost, La Dispute, Braid, The Wonder Years to name but a few.



Stream the full sampler and download it here 

RED FANG new album coming out on Oct.21st 2013 (worldwide release)

"Whales and Leeches" is the title of the new full-length record from Portland, OR's heavy rockers RED FANG
which is scheduled for a US release on Oct. 15th 2013, to be followed by the Germany's one on Oct. 18th and a Oct. 21st UK/worldwide through Relapse records.

The quartet had already circulating two new songs off the 11-track record; "Blood Like Cream" and "No Hope".
The band worked with producer Chris Funk (Decemberists) and mixer Vance Powell (White Stripes, Raconteurs, Kings of Leon). This same team worked on the group’s last album Murder the Mountains (April 2011), which sold over 50,000 albums under the radar and allowed the band to tour with sold-out shows and attract rabid fans for over two years.

Watch a clip of the track "Blood Like Cream" here

BIOHAZARD Fall Euro tour 2013

Brooklyn, NY's hardcore hip-hop vets BIOHAZARD are gonna pay a visit to Europe this Fall after thedates they scattered through the Summer period. 

The tour kicks off on Oct. the 11th in Lünen, Germany to finish in Moscow on Nov. the 8th and the foursome orphaned of bass player and singer Evan Seinfeld will be touring again on "Reborn In Defiance" (the last album recorded by Seinfeld before parting ways with his mates), released last year via Nuclear Blast.

Since the tour announcement some dates have been added and some others have been cancelled so check out Biohazard official facebook page for the latest updates/changes, if any.

The list of dates posted on the page and printed on the tour flyer

Reunited GAMEFACE to release a new single on Nov. the 5th 2013 and a full-length early 2014

At some point in 2012 So-Cal emocore-punk GAMEFACE started messing around, playing a few gigs and day by day laying the conditions to riunite as a band and release a demo titled "Four To Go Demos" in October.
In 2013, exactly 20 years since their first real recording, the full-length album "Good" (released in March 1993) the guys annouce to have signed with Equal Vision records to put out a 7" featuring two tracks on November the 5th 2013 and a new full-length effort (the sixth), now in the works, early 2014.

Read on the official full press and watch a short clip featuring the band talking about this reunion.

MINUS TREE put their project on an indefinite hiatus-mode

Bari, Italy screamo post-HC MINUS TREE just announced that it came the difficult time to call a long
hiatus. The guys state that the last 3 years have seen so many line-up changes that ended up with affecting the chemistry once existing in the band making it imppossible to go ahead with same spirit, creativity and motivations they had since day one.

The fourpiece formed around 2010 and released a demo, two EPs, a split with History of the Hawk and "Change" dated 2012 and released also in Indonesia.

They were working on some new stuff and wanna share one song they recently recorded which will possibly be released in vinyl though the chances are little as the band states.

Listen to the track here (you can also download it for free)

10 Years of PARKWAY DRIVE Book Preview / Vans "Off The Wall" Music Night

The Byron Bay, Australia metalmoshers PARKWAY DRIVE celebrates the 10 years landmark with the release of a retrospective book which documentates the decade that saw an unknown hardcore band from a small Australian town working their asses off to become, 4 albums and 1000+ shows later, one of the bands to be really excited about among the throngs of other sound-like acts chocking the scene these days. Read on the liner notes to the video preview and watch the 34 secs clip here.

Now reviewed: BOY SETS FIRE, SHAI HULUD, HOT WATER MUSIC, THE USED, RISE AGAINST, THE BOUNCING SOULS and SNUFF

With this review entry we welcome our new team member from Italy who nicknamed himself K.Reid -he will write the reviews in Italian language. A couple of reviews are in English as well so have a good read...

Con questo reviews post accogliamo nel nostro team K.Reid che scriverà i suoi pezzi in italiano. Buona lettura...

BOY SETS FIRE While A Nation Sleeps (CD)

by K.Reid

Ci sono molti gruppi, che mescolano generi come: Post-Hardcore, Emo, Alternative Rock. Quasi tutti lavorano sulla stessa linea…Beh i BOY SETS FIRE riescono sempre ad uscire dagli schemi, ed usando questi generi, riescono ad essere un gruppo molto particolare.
Il quintetto di Newark attivo dal 94’, dopo sette anni di digiuno, sforna l’album “While A Nation Sleeps”. Il disco con sonorità più sul metal, evidenzia il cambiamento di stile che la band ha sempre modificato nel corso degli anni, distaccandosi (mai abbandonandolo del tutto) sempre più dall’ HC e Post-HC e avvicinandosi sempre di più all’ Emo e all’ Alternative Rock.

A DAY TO REMEMBER set an 8th October release date for the long waited new record

There's definitely much anticipation for the release of the brand new full-length record by Ocala, Florida's
metal-poppunk-corers A DAY TO REMEMBER.
At some point in 2012 the news stating "Common Courtesy" being chosen as the title of their new album popped out on the net making fans and press alike assume ADTR were gonna follow this announcement with a release of the album in the very near future.
Finally, and perhaps unexpectedly, last December 2012 the five-piece started spreading around the digital channels a new song titled "Violence (Enough is enough)" to be included in the new effort and seen performed live as opening track of band's setlist over this year.
Alas for the most part of 2013 no fresh news came from A Day To Remember camp and many speculated about one of the reasons behind this delay being the fact that in 2011 the guys filed a lawsuit against their label -in interviews singer Jeremy McKinnon did he stated that his band totally self-funded the recording process as a way not to be influenced by pressures a record deal would probably put on them.
But last August something finally started to move again on the promotional front with the band releasing "Common Courtesy (The Series) Episode 1 -"Black Crow" (the first of a 3-webepisode series which documents the recording process for the album) revealing that "Common Courtesy" will be available on October the 8th 2013 but it's still to be revealed who will be releasing the record -somebody murmurs the band itself.

Waiting for the latest details about the release of "Common Courtesy" you can listen here to "Violence"

HAVENSIDE signs with Innerstrength Records

HAVENSIDE as signed with Innerstrength Records to release their anticipated upcoming full length.
Havenside have previously released two full lengths “Nemesis” 2012 and “Recognition” 2010 (West Coast World Wide) to extremely positive reviews. Havenside play heavy gritty hardcore for fans of The Ghost Inside, Lionheart, and Obey The Brave.
Their yet to be titled full length was recorded at Mayhemness Studios and will be mixed and mastered at Castle Ultimate (All Shall Perish, Suffocation). It will be released early 2014 on vinyl, CD, and digitally.

Innerstrength comments “Having been a fan of their last two albums we couldn’t be more pleased about working with Havenside on their new album”.

STATE FAULTS releasing an LP in November

Just spreading this news item from No Sleep records...

Santa Rosa, CA's State Faults (formerly Brother Bear) might live a bit north from their Cali neighbors Touche Amore and Calculator, but like those bands, they're helping to carry the torch for a modern screamo scene indebted to the sounds of bands like Pg.99 and Envy.
They match revved up punk with raw screams and post-rock atmosphere on "Wildfires," the second track to be released from, Resonate/Desperate, the band's sophomore record under their current name. That track makes its premiere in this post, and you can check it out below. The album's first single is the equally excellent "Meteor," which you can hear over at AltPress or at No Sleep soundcloud.

Resonate/Desperate is due out on November 12.

You can stream "Wildfires" here https://soundcloud.com/nosleeprecords/state-faults-wildfires

"Live After Sudden Death" the live album by CARLOS DUNGA available now

Big news man! We are trilled to announce that the Italian, thrash hardcore punk quartet CARLOS DUNGA
recently released their very first live record.
The album, entitled "Live After Sudden Death", features 15 tracks taken off the band's wide production and packed set-list and comes wrapped into an Iron Maiden's moking rip off of famed "Live After Death" cover artwork.
The 15 songs include a cover of S'Inkazza" by 90's Italian dance-pop-boy-band 883 and a crazy medley titled "Can I play With Metalness?" that fits riffs by the likes of Anthrax, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Motörhead, Metallica, Slayer and obviously Iron Maiden into 3:50 minutes.

THE CHARM THE FURY tease new album "A Shade Of My Former Self"

Amsterdam based metal band The Charm The Fury will release their new album, "A Shade of My Former Self", worldwide on September 16th on Listenable records and in North America on September 17th via Pavement Entertainment.

In anticipation, the five-piece fronted by Caroline has released a teaser stream for fans to sample tracks from the forthcoming record.

Listen to the teaser for "A Shade of My Former Self" now at http://youtu.be/teKDA1T500Y

BITTER TASTE OF LIFE just released "No Justice" 7" EP

Sweden's BITTER TASTE OF LIFE follows up the 7" split EP with 45.Stainless (FIN), released last year,
with a new self-released 7" 5-track EP entitled "No Justice".
The quintet formed in 2008 and was originally based in Norrköping though the guys state now to be scattered all around the Scandinavian country.

Like it happened with the ealier releases the new record is graced by a cover-artwork that's got much of 80's crust-grind-HC-punk feel to it.

Listen here to the all the 5 tracks (the 7" it's up for "name your price" download)

SEPULTURA has a new album out in October via Nuclear Blast, video trailer #1 off the making of the album documentary

Brazilian metallers are back with a brand new full-length effort (the 13th in their close to 3O years career) on

Oct. 25th in Europe and on Oct. 29th in North America via Nuclear Blast records.
The follow-up to 2011's Kairos is entitled "The Mediator Between Head And Hands Must Be The Heart" and has seen the guys holing themselves up for forty days in studio in Venice, California with famed producer Ross Robinson, the man handling this duty back in the mid 90's when the four-some was recording the critically acclaimed and seminal "Roots" (released on Roadrunner in 1996 and that happen to be the last record featuring the two Cavalera brothers in the line-up).

Sepultura just posted a video trailer-part #1 (supposedly there will be a part #2) taken off the making of the album documentary they shot to show the fans the creation process behind their latest born and to celebrate the reunion with Ross.

Watch the video here