The Distance – With Honor – Split – Review March 16, 2005 Gorgeous packaging. With Honor and The Distance are both completely passable hardcore.
Pale Divine – Eternity Revealed – Review March 16, 2005 Decent stoner rock. Good riffs, kinda don’t remember much after the song is done, but I’m spoiled. Good opening band for killer bands, perhaps.
With Honor – The Distance – Split – Review March 16, 2005 With Honor and The Distance are both completely passable hardcore, with previous releases on Bridge Nine and Stillborn, who steadily release passable hardcore.
Penance – Spiritual Natural – Review June 28, 2004 A clean, clear vocal attack ala Sabbath, Iron Man, Pentagram, The Obsessed, Trouble, and the heavy rock attack those folks created.
Murder Weapon – Nervous Wreck – Review November 12, 2003 Virginia hardcore act Murder Weapon let loose an array of ’80s NYHC numbers that’ll surely rally the moshpit elite.
Circle of Dead Children – Human Harvest – Review October 1, 2003 More putrid, merciless grind/sludge from one of the underground’s most articulate, humble, clear-headed, well-reasoned, and resolute bands.
Penance – Alpha and Omega – Review June 28, 2002 All told, reassuring and wise doom metal that sounds like it’s created by 55-year-old contemporaries of the masters.
Sinister – Creative Killings – Review March 1, 2002 Here they are again, playing easily dismissable, run-of-the-mill death metal with a new vocalist (a girl). Should you care?
Drained – Suspension of Disbelief – Review June 1, 1999 Maybe it’s that Drained do such a good job at sounding so typically hardcore that even a heavy music fan like me can’t tell the difference.