Tag Archive: Tragedy

Signifying Nothing Episode Four

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To What End?-Concealed Below The Surface

To What End? Concealed Below The Surface LP Crimes Against Humanity Records First off-Great name! You immediately grab my attention by naming your band after a Neurosis song. These guys play excellent hardcore inspired by Tragedy, His Hero Is Gone, etc. This is heavy and “epic” sounding with being corny. The male-female vocals work very well for this band, and this style in general. If you like Tragedy you need to check this band out. Members of this band have also been in the excellent Wolfbrigade.

The Holy Mountain-Entrails

The Holy Mountain Entrails LP No Idea Records I have heard a lot of hype for this band lately. Some people say they sound like Tragedy, others say they are pretty cheesy. While the influence of bands like Tragedy is apparent, Entrails really fails to catch my interest. The attempt at what Tragedy is doing is apparent: this is crusty sounding hardcore but it is so catchy and poppy that any rage it has is totally deflated. There are even segway tracks like Tragedy has. Entrails is too poppy and instead of reminding me of bands like Born Against or…
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Mind Eraser

Mind Eraser are my favorite hardcore band right now. I was very impressed by their demo and then totally blown away by the Cave LP. I did this interview last week with Chris Corry. *** Was releasing the demo online a conscious choice the band made? In the age of $5 demo tapes and CDR demos that can hold 80 minutes of music but only have three songs on them, it was quite refreshing to see the Mind Eraser stuff online for everyone with a net connection to be able to check out. Nah it wasn’t really any kind of…
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