Back in 2006 a Hardcore band broke out of San Francisco with an album entitled “Killafornia” via Trustkill Records fronted by Carl Schwartz with numerous references and samples from the 1982 first chapter of the Rambo franchise. That band is First Blood. Something like 26 musicians have performed in the band since they started out
Orange County’s finest Bleeding Through traveled the Globe in support of their album “Declaration” and one of the furthest places they reached would have been Saint-Petersburg, Russia. 16th December 2008 saw them at Orlandina Club and this hour long ripper of a set is a career spanning one with everything from “Revenge I Seek” to
This pro-shot full set from Miami, Florida’s Poison The Well at West Babylon American Legion Hall in West Babylon New York on 30th December 2001 is based around material from the bands 1999 record “The Opposite of December“, a landmark and cornerstone release in the history of Metalcore. Our favourite cut? It should go without
From last years incarnation of Brutal Assault Festival here are four tracks culled from the set of none other than Walls Of Jericho. “A Little Piece Of Me“, “Playing Soldier Again“, “Feeding Frenzy” and “The American Dream” are all absolute rippers and with the band showing no sign of letting up, we’re glad to be
First coming to our attention back in 2004 with “All Hail The Dead“, Detroit Michigan Hardcore act Walls of Jericho struck us like a torpedo hitting a cruise liner. At the time, Trustkill Records had become a label who, if an album had good cover art and a band a solid name, the label’s logo
The subject of today’s head to head is “Come Undone” by Duran Duran. The highly influential New Wave band formed in 1978 and enjoyed huge success throughout the 80s. They’ve been covered multiple times including most notably by Deftones and count among their fans KoRn vocalist Jonathan Davis. The track itself was the second single
A while back when discussing the success of Stay Sick Recordings and what we’d do if we won the lottery, Gecko came up with an idea. That idea was to create a record label of our own and then go to bands who have now gone their separate ways and cash inject them back into
“Our Lady Of Annihilation” by Brooklyn New York Metallic Hardcore crew Most Precious Blood from 2003 that took everyone by surprise. They had formed a couple of years earlier from the ashes of another band called Indecision and were based around the axe wielding duo of Rachel Rosen and Justin Brannan. The bands second album
New Jersey Melodic Hardcore and perhaps one of the founders of the Metalcore sound crew Nora are actually best known for being the band of Good Fight Music label owner Carl Severson. Originally starting his own label Ferret Music having gone to high school with Trustkill owner and president Josh Grabelle, Severson sold up to
Throwing back 15 years to September 2004 and the golden age of Metalcore, Buffalo New York quinet It Dies Today put out their debut full length with the then label of the moment Trustkill Records. The album ended up being the first of 3 high quality affairs before the band went on a pair of
