Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Belgium's hardcore practitioners Rise and Fall have just released a tasty 2-song teaser on wax via Deathwish. Featuring new song "Deceiver," which is taken from their highly anticipated new album, "Faith", is due out in early 2012 and was recorded at God City Studios with renowned engineer Kurt Ballou (Converge, Disfear, Trap Them) at his God City Studios. The B-Side of this 7"EP features "Sinking In Sin", Rise And Fall's tribute to Belgian Hardcore legends, Congress, and the H8000 Scene as a whole.
Picture by James Seibert ...
Thursday, October 13th, 2011
Formed in 2005, Loma Prieta have been a mainstay of the Bay Area hardcore community for more than half a decade. In that time they have released four 12 inch records and two 7 inch records mostly on their own label, Discos Huelga. They have also toured the U.S., Japan, Canada, and Mexico numerous times, all while members play in several other hardcore bands (Punch, Beau Navire, Us, and Haunted Bodies).
While Loma Prieta’s sound is difficult to describe, it ...
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
2011 has been a whirlwind year for Touche Amore. The band released their Deathwish Inc debut, Parting The Sea Between Brightness and Me, to immense critical acclaim earlier this summer and the AV Club called it "One of the most grippingly direct hardcore albums in recent memory". Following its release, Touche Amore went on to tour the US numerous times over, play festivals like FYF, SXSW, Chaos in Tejas, Hevy Fest (UK), hit ...
Monday, August 15th, 2011
We are very pleased to offer Blow The Scene readers around the world an interview with Ghent, Belgium's Oathbreaker, whose debut LP, Mælstrøm, has fans of metallic punk and d-beat salivating over their intricately crafted, 13-song ripper. Deathwish is calling Mælstrøm "one of the best debut albums we've ever heard," and after spinning the record a few times, our assessment is right on par. Oathbreaker guitarist Lennart, and drummer Ivo, give BTS readers the skinny on the writing and recording processes behind Mælstrøm, equipment picks, favorite bands, insight on LP artwork, life in Ghent Belgium, and much more in this in-depth interview. Enjoy!
Joshua BTS: Greetings! Thank ...
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
The Deathwish Live Series is a series of FREE live recordings of Deathwish affiliated artists. These recordings are from a variety of sources: Radio shows, official and non-official live recordings, bootlegs, and more.
Deathwish is giving these recordings away as a thank you to the listeners who continue to support independent music. If you dig what you hear, please support these artists by seeing them live and by purchasing their releases and apparel in the DW Estore @ www.deathwishinc.com.
On January 15th, 2011, Deafheaven played a stunning set on a loading dock turned venue called "The Blacktop" in Bell Gardens, California. Also on the show was Low Places, Joyce ...
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Deathwish announce the debut 7"EP from Living Eyes.
A release date and Pre-ordering information will be announced shortly.
Four losers make good after multiple stints in the septic tank that is modern U.S. punk/hardcore. Members of Ceremony, Look Back and Laugh, Punch, Talk is Poison, Skin Like Iron, Loma Prieta, Rely, Dead and Gone, California Love, etc. Nods to early North American primitive hardcore and UK punk stone carvings. Oakland.
Check them out at Sound And Fury Festival, Saturday July 23rd in Santa Barbara, CA.
LIVING EYES "Starve For Agony"
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
On Thursday, June 16th, our faithful photographer James had the pleasure of seeing Deafheaven, Gholas, Lonesummer and Höllenlärm perform under the El at Kung Fu Necktie on the border of Fishtown in Philly.
Deafheaven is generating a lot of attention amongst aggressive music enthusiasts and put on an intense show full of emotion and ambiance. Hailing from San Francisco, Deafheaven combine compelling elements of several niches of extreme music that range from black metal to post-rock. With a corpus of influences that range from Godspeed You! Black Emperor to Leviathan, the band is quickly garnering ...
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Belgium's Rise and Fall have just completed recording a new full-length at God City Studios with infamous producer Kurt Ballou (Disfear, Trap Them, Converge). This forthcoming album will follow the 2009 release of the highly regarded, Our Circle is Vicious LP on Deathwishinc. The band is currently on a brief US tour, and BTS will be there this Friday in Philly for another rad, all-inclusive, picture gallery. Stay tuned.
And if you missed it, we recently ran a full-feature interview with Rise and Fall.
More info at ...
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Trap Them "Seance Prime: The Complete Recordings" now available in the Deathwish Estore!
Seance Prime: The Complete Recordings 12"LP combines all of their pre Seizures In Barren Praise material (the Seance Prime CDEP and material from their split 7"EP with Extreme Noise Terror) into one brutal 12"LP release. All of the material has been remastered by guitarist Brian Izzi and the release also features reworked packaging from designer Ryan Patterson (Coliseum, etc.)
The "Seance Prime" sessions were recorded by longtime Trap Them engineer Kurt Ballou (Converge) at his now infamous ...
Friday, April 15th, 2011
Touche Amore Parting The Sea... CD, LP, Deluxe LP, and Digital will be available June 7th, 2011 on Deathwish. Enjoy the first release from the forthcoming album courtesy of Deathwishinc!
Touche Amore "Tilde" by deathwishinc
And if you missed it, we caught up with vocalist Jeremy Bolm for an exclusive Touche Amore interview a few moons back.
Dates have been announced for the Touche Amore, La Dispute, Death Is Not Glamorous Euro Summer tour.
07/21: Berlin, Germany @ Lovelite w/ La Dispute, Death Is Not Glamorous
07/22: Rockycany, Czech Republic ...
Monday, April 11th, 2011
With over 15 years active, Sweden's d-beat practitioners Victims, is one of the most important punk bands in the world. Having maintained a prolific outpouring of material for well over a decade, the long-time three piece, recently added a second guitarist before recording their latest full-length, A Dissident, which drops tomorrow (4/12/11), via Tankcrimes, DeathwishInc, and La Familia Records. A Dissident hits in all the right spots, with tracks that range from punk-rock, gang-vocal-ridden anthems, to aggressive, d-beat masterpieces, and glimpses of old-school metal with blazing solos. It's only April, and we already have a definite contender for "Album of The Year." Blow The Scene Editor, ...
Thursday, April 7th, 2011
We know you're here for the pics, so I'll keep this brief.
Saturday, April 2, 2011, James and I zipped over to The Barbery, located at 951 Frankford Ave., Philadelphia, PA to catch Nails, All Pigs Must Die, Wormrot (who got added to the bill last minute as the Philly Parking Authority jacked their van), New Lows, and Deathbeds.
I dig this spot. One of the few smaller venues in the city that does ...
Friday, January 28th, 2011
Touche Amore will enter the studio in February to record their new album, Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me.
"Parting The Sea…" will be recorded by acclaimed engineer Ed Rose at his Black Lodge Recording Studio in Eudora, Kansas. Ed is known for his acclaimed recordings of The Appleseed Cast, The Get Up Kids, The Casket Lottery, Small Brown Bike, Coalesce, and many more.
On recording with Ed Rose, vocalist Jeremy Bolm said, "We are very excited to get to work with Ed Rose, he has an unmatched ability to drive out some of the cleanest but heaviest sounding records. He was first on our list of people to work with and ...
Thursday, December 30th, 2010
1. Trap Them – Filth Rations
2. Valient Thorr – Stranger
3. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
4. United Nations – Never Mind The Bombings, Here’s Your Six Figures
5. Kaki King – Junior
6. The Dead Weather – Sea of Cowards
7. Cephalic Carnage – Misled By Certainty
8. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part II (Return of the Ankh)
9. Les Savy Fav - Root for Ruin
10. Galactic – Ya-Ka-May
Trap Them – Filth Rations E.P. (Southern Lord Recordings) – Bulletproof release. Four of the most well executed songs in extreme music in 2010. If you think there was a better overall song offering elements of Swedish death metal ...
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
Killing the Dream broke onto the scene in 2004 with their blazing Self-titled E.P., which quickly garnered the attention of New England’s DeathwishInc, where the band would quickly find a welcoming home. In 2005, Killing The Dream laid down their breakthrough album In Place, Apart with God City Studios‘ mastermind Kurt Ballou (Converge, Trap Them, Disfear). The 12-song L.P. would go on to be hailed by critics and fans from around the globe as AP named In Place, Apart “Hardcore Album of Year” in 2005. KTD’s 2008 full-length follow-up, Fractures, once again saw the band reach new sonic levels of maturity and intensity as they continued to help define the melodic hardcore genre with ...
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
Lucky Me
Killing The Dream
DeathwishInc
Avail Nov 23, 2010
FFO: Comeback Kid, Bane, Cave In
California's Killing The Dream are releasing their latest recorded effort today, a 7-song L.P. entitled Lucky Me via longtime label DeathwishInc.
Killing the Dream broke onto the scene in 2004 with their blazing Self-titled E.P., which quickly garnered the attention of New England's DeathwishInc, where the band would quickly find a welcoming home. In 2005, Killing The Dream laid down their breakthrough album In Place, Apart with God City Studios' mastermind Kurt Ballou (Converge, Trap Them, Disfear). The 12-song L.P. would go on to be hailed by critics and fans from ...
Friday, November 19th, 2010
Just in from DeathWishInc!
Touche Amore sign to DeathwishInc and prepare for 2011 release.
Touche Amore are a thought provoking, passionate hardcore/punk band from Los Angeles, California.
From the first strikes of their angular yet melodic chords, it's apparent that Touche Amore have awoken something long since forgotten in the hardcore/punk genre. Within each song they build an awe inspiring musical tension while impassioned vocalist Jeremy Bolm's shouts resonate, ripe with intellectual introspection. This collective outpouring of traditional hardcore anger and emotional hardcore openness ultimately coalesces into something beautiful, vulnerable, and refreshingly real.
Shortly after their formation in late 2007, Touche Amore released their demo 7"EP on the No Sleep label. After touring ...
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
One of our all-time favorites, Belgium’s Rise and Fall, recently announced tour plans with Nails and Harms Way to kick off in Essen, Germany on Nov 19 as the GREY HEAVENS 2010 EUROPE TOUR. Rise and Fall continue to support their 2009 release on Deathwishinc, Our Circle is Vicious, which is the band’s third full-length release since their inception in 2002. Combining elements of modern d-beat, metal, punk, and hardcore, Rise and Fall continually blur the lines of genre and niche. The band’s sound draws influence from mainstays Tragedy and Converge, coupled with driving drums beats mixed with dense guitar work that often ...
Belgium's hardcore practitioners Rise and Fall have just released a tasty 2-song teaser on wax via Deathwish. Featuring new song "Deceiver," which is taken from their highly anticipated new album, "Faith", is due out in early 2012 and was recorded at God City Studios with renowned engineer Kurt Ballou (Converge, Disfear, Trap Them) at his God City Studios. The B-Side of this 7"EP features "Sinking In Sin", Rise And Fall's tribute to Belgian Hardcore legends, Congress, and the H8000 Scene as a whole.
Picture by James Seibert ...
On Thursday, June 16th, our faithful photographer James had the pleasure of seeing Deafheaven, Gholas, Lonesummer and Höllenlärm perform under the El at 
Touche Amore will enter the studio in February to record their new album, Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me.
"Parting The Sea…" will be recorded by acclaimed engineer Ed Rose at his Black Lodge Recording Studio in Eudora, Kansas. Ed is known for his acclaimed recordings of The Appleseed Cast, The Get Up Kids, The Casket Lottery, Small Brown Bike, Coalesce, and many more.
On recording with Ed Rose, vocalist Jeremy Bolm said, "We are very excited to get to work with Ed Rose, he has an unmatched ability to drive out some of the cleanest but heaviest sounding records. He was first on our list of people to work with and ... 
1. Trap Them – Filth Rations
2. Valient Thorr – Stranger
3. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
4. United Nations – Never Mind The Bombings, Here’s Your Six Figures
5. Kaki King – Junior
6. The Dead Weather – Sea of Cowards
7. Cephalic Carnage – Misled By Certainty
8. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part II (Return of the Ankh)
9. Les Savy Fav - Root for Ruin
10. Galactic – Ya-Ka-May
Trap Them – Filth Rations E.P. (
Killing the Dream broke onto the scene in 2004 with their blazing Self-titled E.P., which quickly garnered the attention of New England’s DeathwishInc, where the band would quickly find a welcoming home. In 2005, Killing The Dream laid down their breakthrough album In Place, Apart with God City Studios‘ mastermind Kurt Ballou (Converge, Trap Them, Disfear). The 12-song L.P. would go on to be hailed by critics and fans from around the globe as AP named In Place, Apart “Hardcore Album of Year” in 2005. KTD’s 2008 full-length follow-up, Fractures, once again saw the band reach new sonic levels of maturity and intensity as they continued to help define the melodic hardcore genre with ... 
Lucky Me
Killing The Dream
DeathwishInc
Avail Nov 23, 2010
FFO: Comeback Kid, Bane, Cave In
California's Killing The Dream are releasing their latest recorded effort today, a 7-song L.P. entitled Lucky Me via longtime label DeathwishInc.
Killing the Dream broke onto the scene in 2004 with their blazing Self-titled E.P., which quickly garnered the attention of New England's DeathwishInc, where the band would quickly find a welcoming home. In 2005, Killing The Dream laid down their breakthrough album In Place, Apart with God City Studios' mastermind Kurt Ballou (Converge, Trap Them, Disfear). The 12-song L.P. would go on to be hailed by critics and fans from ... 
Just in from DeathWishInc!
Touche Amore sign to DeathwishInc and prepare for 2011 release.
Touche Amore are a thought provoking, passionate hardcore/punk band from Los Angeles, California.
From the first strikes of their angular yet melodic chords, it's apparent that Touche Amore have awoken something long since forgotten in the hardcore/punk genre. Within each song they build an awe inspiring musical tension while impassioned vocalist Jeremy Bolm's shouts resonate, ripe with intellectual introspection. This collective outpouring of traditional hardcore anger and emotional hardcore openness ultimately coalesces into something beautiful, vulnerable, and refreshingly real.
Shortly after their formation in late 2007, Touche Amore released their demo 7"EP on the No Sleep label. After touring ... 
One of our all-time favorites, Belgium’s Rise and Fall, recently announced tour plans with Nails and Harms Way to kick off in Essen, Germany on Nov 19 as the GREY HEAVENS 2010 EUROPE TOUR. Rise and Fall continue to support their 2009 release on Deathwishinc, Our Circle is Vicious, which is the band’s third full-length release since their inception in 2002. Combining elements of modern d-beat, metal, punk, and hardcore, Rise and Fall continually blur the lines of genre and niche. The band’s sound draws influence from mainstays Tragedy and Converge, coupled with driving drums beats mixed with dense guitar work that often ...