Tag: Downpresser

Bootleg: Downpresser in Ojai California!

Courtesy of 197 Media, a pro-shot full set from a Metallic Hardcore crew we have often spoken highly of has surfaced in internet land. That band would be Downpresser, who were performing cuts from their 2019 record “The Long Goodbye” at the Ojai Womens Center in Ojai California on 5th January 2024. It doesn’t get

Bootleg: Downpresser in Los Angeles California!

For reasons best left out of the psychologists chair, whenever “The Long Goodbye” from Santa Barbara California Metallic Hardcore crew Downpresser is mentioned, “The Long Kiss Goodnight” with Geena Davis and Samuel L.. Jackson floats into the cerebral cortex, even though neither has anything to do with the other. Anyway. Courtesy of 197 Media here’s a

Bootleg: Downpresser in Oxnard California!

Not to be confused with the Shane Black movie starring Geena Davis from 1996 “The Long Goodbye” just so happens to be a criminally underrated album from Downpresser as this pro-shot full set from The Performing Arts Centre in Oxnard California on 31st March proves. A classic Metallic Hardcore offering released four years ago via

Bootleg: Downpresser in Los Angeles!

Courtesy of 197 Media, here’s a pro-shot full set from Metallic Hardcore specialists Downpresser at the Echoplex in Los Angeles California on 11th December. The set was part of the For The Children charity show with the bands 2019 album “The Long Goodbye” reaching it’s second anniversary shortly thereafter. That was some six years in

Review: “Free from the Fridge” by Head In A Jar

Uncompromising speed, a triple vocal attack and a thematic focus on the bizarre? That would be Sydney Australian Crossover Thrash Metallers Head In A Jar. Drummer Marcus Alvarez is the only member of the band not leading his throat to the bands work with bassist Adrian Suljanovic and guitarist duo Nick Coady and Gordy Whyte

Review: “The Great Dying” EP by Nadir

Everyone has heard of Backend Thrash but what does Blackened Hardcore sound like? Read on, check out this EP and you’ll find out. Hailing from Oslo Norway Nadir, comprised of current and former members of Jagged Vision and Ocean Dweller are a quartet with their collective roots in the radioactive soil of Black Metal. Not wanting to rest

Bootleg: Downpresser in Philadelphia!

Keeping things strictly Metallic Hardcore, here’s 21 minutes of Long Island New York’s Downpresser at the Franklin Music Hall in Philadelphia Pennsylvania on 27th July 2019. They started 2020 the right way, dropping a new album by the name of “The Long Goodbye” via Closed Casket Activities, the label home of both Vein and The

Bootleg: Constrict at Chain Reaction!

A Metallic Hardcore group comprised of members from Vamachara, Forced Order, God’s Hate, Disgrace, Downpresser, Momentum, Forced Order and Twitching Tongues going by the name Constrict will be dropping their Sophomore EP “No Eden” via Flatspot Records on 20th March. If you like your 90s Hardcore with Black Metal anti-religious death-fascination lyrical content then look

Review: “No Eden” EP by Constrict

The term “super-group” is thrown around a lot to describe bands comprised of musicians that you know and love when it comes to Metal. Formed in 2017 in Los Angeles California, a Metallic Hardcore group comprised of members from Vamachara, Forced Order, God’s Hate, Disgrace, Downpresser, Momentum, Forced Order,Twitching Tongues (among others) going by the

Bootleg: Downpresser in Los Angeles!

Pro-Shot by 197 Media at 1720 in Los Angeles California on 18th January, here’s a full set from Downpresser! Their sophomore album “The Long Goodbye” is out now via Closed Casket Activities (Vein, The Acacia Strain) and if you want to know what we think of it, check out our review! Santa Barbara Hardcore!