Keep your eye on these guys: they’re the real deal. With fast, angry tracks that clock in at under 30 seconds, the band has secured spots opening for bands like Every Time I Die, Stray From the Path, and Anti-Flag.
This Denver-based hardcore band shot out of a cannon with their 2015 EP, Pack Mentality, and followed it up with the more refined – but just as forceful – 2017 EP, Worse Off. It’s unclear whether the band is still together ( their Facebook page hasn’t been updated in close to a year and a half), but thankfully we’ll always have these two recorded gems.Īnyone who disagrees with me on this one can meet me in the parking lot.īlack Flag playing Rise Above and American Waste in 1983 Instead, I have to give it to young bucks Inrage, whose 20 EPs are two of beatdown hardcore’s most underrated releases. Had Econochrist not moved from Little Rock to Oakland so early in their career (only to become such an integral part of the Bay Area punk scene), they’d have this state on lock. Required Listening: Blatant Localism (1981) That their first show was opening for Black Flag is symbolic in more ways than one. Their 1981 EP, Blatant Localism, infused atonal vocals, fast, aggressive guitar riffs, and skate themes (“Surf punks, we're not / Skateboard, we do!”) that would inspire ‘80s SoCal skate culture, even though the band hailed from Phoenix, Arizona. The band’s glorious mess of an album, Alaska Sucks, features obvious flubs, a noticeably out-of-tune bass guitar on songs like Gay with Jesus, and beyond ridiculous lyrics (as found in Careless Butthole Whisper: “I thought it was love when we touched / Yeah, who could blame us? / But it felt like love when she was / licking my anus”).įormed in 1981 and still kickin’ today, JFA were one of the world’s first skate punk bands. Not to be outdone by Alabama, Alaska is home to the fewest hardcore bands of any U.S. Admittedly, there aren’t a ton of great hardcore bands to have come from Alabama, but Dismal Dream deserves the honor with their super-tight playing and aggressive crossover sound. Though a fairly new band (seemingly from the ashes of the short lived Suffer Life), Dismal Dream’s 6-song EP from 2016 is enough to clinch them the win.
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