Sick Of It All is one of the groundbreaking hardcore bands of their time. This EP was their first release and marks the beginning of what has become a long career for this legendary New York outfit. Ten of the earliest Sick Of It All tracks that show the origin of their signature hardcore sound.Track…
Kuluttava Kone, the 2020 cassette from Sirkka, has been in constant rotation at Sorry State since it came out, and when the opportunity arose to release Sirkka’s debut record, we couldn’t say yes fast enough. While Sirkka began as a two-person recording project based in New York, on Viivyttely they’ve expanded to a four-piece lineup,…
Skingraft was a band from Rochester, New York who made jarring, technical, rhythmically irregular death metal. Three teenagers who spent the frigid, snowblind, upstate winters mastering arcane scales and double-bass patterns, their elaborate, dynamic songs pair howls and blast beats with brooding, minor-key melodies and deviant rhythms. Picture the bludgeon of Entombed’s ‘Left Hand Path,’…
Back in the late 70 s, a small Louisiana town would quietly become home to The Band That Souled The World . The Soul Patrol hailed from the northwestern Louisiana town of Many (pronounced man-ny), just across the Toledo Bend Reservoir from Texas. Junior high pals Buckshot Coxe (vocals, guitar) and Kenny Weaver (vocals, bass,…
Roach Leg Records takes the 2020 demo from this Dublin, Ireland project and puts it on vinyl. I’m thankful for Roach Leg’s service, because I didn’t hear about this the first time around, and there’s even a Sorry State connection since Eddie from the Number Ones is in the band. Special Branch’s songs are built…
Two powerhouses from opposite coasts have teamed up to bring you four new songs of fast, blistering hardcore. 7 includes digital download. This is the yellow vinyl version, exclusive to Rev and limited to 200 copies. Track Listing: 1. Spy – Clobbered2. Spy – One Eight Hunred3. Maniac – Last Rites4. Maniac – Rapture
Ann Arbor Michigan s the State, are one of the rawest and most powerful hardcore bands of the early 80 s. Sadly overlooked, the State has had a cult following among collectors and hardcore maniacs in the midwest since the glory days of the early 80s. After a dodgey European bootleg of this 7 the…
EXPECTED IN STOCK OCT 23,2020. BLUE VINYL WHILE SUPPLIES LAST “Impeach The President”, originally released in 1973 by The Honey Drippers as a protest song advocating for the impeachment of Richard Nixon became more famous for its drum breaks than the song itself… sampled in over 700 songs (according to Whosampled.com). Fast forward to 2020…
Reissue of this classic piece of Norwegian hardcore punk, originally released by X-port Plater in 1984. Featuring Gunnar Nuven on vocals, later of Kafka Prosess, So Much Hate and more.
February 21st saw the digital release of Taqbir’s first outing. Released via bandcamp and YouTube this enigmatic recording turned many heads and got many people speculating about this absolute rager of Moroccan origin. Four months later the physical version of this recording sees the light. Simply put, it was just too good to be a…
“Fill De La Merda” is the debut of TÀRREGA 91’. Hailing from Tàrrega, a small town in Lleida, the band celebrates the antisocial riots that nearly burnt down the Town Hall in 1991 and ended with the arrest of 86 youths.Four tracks of radical punk that fill the void between Demo era HHH, MG15 Derecho…
Four high school friends from a small town in NJ, just across the river from NYC discover punk. Instead of playing lunkheaded polka beat hardcore, they mix at least 50% satire on the hardcore punk movement of the era with some truly great D.I.Y. Punk HC. Nine blasts of spastic speed punk hardcore clocking in…