Tag: Cro-Mags

NEWS: Terror bringing Total Retaliation back in November!

Los Angeles California Hardcore veterans Terror have announced they’ll be coming back to Europe in November. They’ll be joined by the John Joseph fronted incarnation that is Cro-Mags “JM”, Paris Street Punks Lion’s Law and Pennsylvania Metallic Hardcore crew Jesus Piece with a pair of UK dates in the offering that will spend a fair amount of

NEWS: Connard share “Puto Cabron”!

Remember that Dr Frankinstein movie? Well if Integrity and Cro-Mags had a car crash and the body parts were put together to form an evil monster that villagers wanted to stab with pitch forks and set a light, then brutal French Mexican Hardcore crew Connard would be that monster! New EP “Somos Pocos Pero Locos”

NEWS: Cro-Mags “Best Wishes” 30th Anniversary Tour!

29th September will be the one and only chance that you’ll have to see the highly influential Cro-Mags upon our shores in 2019! Arguably the foundering fathers of the Metallic Hardcore sound will be on a 30th Anniversary Tour of “Best Wishes” that will run across Europe and stop in London at Camden’s London Underworld!

Spotlight: New Machine Head Album?

Kerrang! Magazine are asking what 9 things we want from the upcoming new Slipknot album in a recently released article here which makes for interesting reading. Coupled with the news that Robb Flynn has announced Machine Head as being “working on new heaviness” this week, it kind of got us thinking… What would we hope

Review: “Surface Noise” by Judiciary

Hailing from Lubbock Texas are Judiciary, a West Texas Hardcore quinet signed to Closed Casket Activities, the home of among others, Vein. They’ve been sharing stages with Risk It, Sanction and Year of the Knife to name but a few over the past year, so that should be a hint as to what you’re about to

Bootleg: Cro-Mags in California!

Pro-Shot in High Definition from Iron Serbian, here’s a full set from Hardcore legends Cro-Mags at Blue Lamp in Sacramento California on 17th November. One of a few acts believed to have created the crossover sound, Cro-Mags are sighted as an influence by the likes of Machine Head, Shadows Fall and of course, Hatebreed.

The Artwork That Should Not Be #5: Megadeth Vs Cro-Mags!

Today we’re going to look at an artwork rip-off that’s as blatant as they come. Cro-Mags iconic hardcore punk album “The Age of Quarrel” is a highly influential masterpiece that practically invented the Crossover Thrash sound and is arguably one of the albums that eventually caused the upsurge in Metallic Hardcore bands. To talk of the

Bootleg: Cro-Mags at Outbreak Festival!

Courtesy of David Tan, here’s a Pro-Shot full set from the legendary Cro-Mags! Filmed at Canal Mills in Leeds in June at Outbreak Festival, it’s a fine, fine piece of Multi Cam HD work! The Hardcore legends “The Age of Quarrel” has to be one of the most influential albums around and has been sighted

Vs. Tuesday: Two Bands! One Song! Who Wins? Fight! “Hard Times” Edition

Continuing the Cro-Mags theme (blame Lamb Of God) we’re going to go with one of the 5 or 6 most covered Cro-Mags songs around. The crossover thrash legends practically invented metallic hardcore and their debut “The Age Of Quarrel” is seen by many as one of the cornerstones of the current scene. In the red corner we have Machine Head joined by Biohazard‘s Bobby Hambel at The

Playlist: A Tribute to Cro-Mags!

Among the first to fuse hardcore punk with thrash metal, New York City’s Cro-Mags are considered to be one of the most influential crossover thrash bands of their time. Their seminal pair of albums in 1986’s “Age Of Quarrel” and 1989’s “Best Wishes” spawned a generation of metallic hardcore bands, including the likes of Biohazard