he latest strain from incurable Hydra Head neck-snappers and deadly-sound viral carriers CAVE IN, delivers another debilitating blow to your already weakened rock immune system. An eight-track mutation from the band's previous attacks, that, though not quite as aggressive, is every bit as infectious. Packaged in a fancy, multi-panel digipak sleeve.

The Rebel Sound of Shit and Failure is a 19-song posthumous release of all BORN AGAINST's remaining and out-of-print obscure 7", 8", and compilation tracks with extensive liner notes and lyrics. Culled from various line-ups of the band, The Rebel Sound includes material ranging from the early years of heavily LIFE'S BLOOD-style New York hardcore sludginess, to the band's final release marked with experimentation, from the classic "Bit Part in a Bad Movie" to the Jeffersons' theme song! Remastered from the Vermiform version with slight changes.

Most bands are too afraid to step up to the bat. They are scared that life is going to throw them different kinds of curve balls. But for more than fifteen years, Trans Am has fearlessly stepped up, taken their swings and thrown a few curve balls of their own. Trans Am a-la 2010 is a band of veterans unafraid to contradict themselves, confident in their identity even as confounding as that identity has been for their fans over the years. Thing represents a further attempt by the band to further remove themselves not just from various indie-rock labels, but music itself. One of Thing's requirements was that each track contain a completely non-musical element, preferably something with a sonic signature that was not even necessarily a sound.

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Adolescents's iconic 1981 debut album, a/k/a "The Blue Album," Frontier Records is issuing an extremely limited run of the record with silver packaging. Retail sales of the colored vinyl LP will be limited to 1000 and CDs will be limited to 1250. Once these are sold out, they will be gone forever!

Throughout their six-year career, this Japanese quartet has ascended consistently in both popularity and critical acclaim. But still elusive is the successful translation of their powerful and violently beautiful live performances to their recordings, until now. Once again recorded by Steve Albini, the album extends the cinematic drama of 2003's "Walking Cloud And Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered And The Sun Shined" while surpassing the sinister heaviness of 2002's lauded "One Step More And You Die". If "Walking Cloud" was a nuclear winter, then "You Are There" is the post-war rebirth. This band isn't heavy like Black Sabbath. They're heavy like Beethoven.

Metal trimmings, minimal jazz primers, and cryptic riffs that hit out of nowhere with the pummeling impact of a comet. Their music weaves up an intense and cinematic albeit soothing clobbering that cannot be pigeonholed. Their lumbering layers of chiseled post rock and feathery psychedelic infusions have both revved and enticed listeners into mental orgasms the world over. They've shared stages with Tool, Dalek, Daughters, and Pelican.

Their first full-length in over four years continues to perfect their singular brand of dreamlike, hot-buttered pop music that sounds delicately handcrafted, yet effortless. Sheets of glowing guitar tones skip along propulsive percussion underscored by gently funky, introspective bass lines, all adorned by breathlessly delivered lines of lyrical poetry.

Released on 21/09/09 The underground hardcore scene of the mid-late Eighties was UK punk rock's last significant creative gasp. Emerging from the wreckage of the anarcho punk scene spawned by the likes of Crass and Conflict, it took its influences from the studs 'n' leather punk bands of the early Eighties such as Discharge and GBH, and also the nascent American hardcore movement and the emerging metal/punk crossover scene. Filter all of this through some through fiercely DIY aesthetics and you had a potent movement that spawned such seminal acts as Napalm Death, ENT, The Stupids and Heresy. With the backing of John Peel and an unwavering work ethic, these bands, and the labels that launched them (including Earache and Peaceville - both now widely regarded as having some of the finest metal rosters in the world), pushed musical boundaries into new and previously unexplored avenues of extremity, helping to shape the alternative music scene we know and love today.

The perfect blend of angsty punk rock, Eastern European leanings and free improv. Tight rhythms, roaring guitars, smartly political vocals and and the late TOM CORA’s amazing cello work. Essential.

Karate's '95 eponymous debut as a three piece is more than a vital footnote. See how the seeds of their majesty germinate on classic tracks Gasoline and Bad Tattoo.

Comilation witha bunch of Misfits' classics such as: "Where eagles dare", "I turned into a martian", "She", "Skulls", "Teenagers from Mars"...

Where both bands are known for their love of metal and post-hardcore next to experiment and a spheric approach, they not only show these skills here, but on top they reach an impressively high level of purity, roominess and emotion. Putting two bands together with such different home-bases as Los Angeles and Glasgow in a small town near Amsterdam was a challenge we couldn?t resist. In December 2004 the idea grew concrete that long-time Konkurrent-friends Aereogramme would share the studio with Isis to record a Fishtank. RECOMMENDED!

Just in time for their 10-year anniversary, Mono return with their fifth studio album. Written and arranged with a hopeful, romantic narrative in mind, the songs string together like chapters in an epic love story. The music is naturally majestic, with Mono's trademark wall of noise crashing beautifully against the largest chamber orchestra the band has ever enlisted. The instrumentation is vast, incorporating strings, flutes, organ, piano, glockenspiel, and tympani into their standard face-melting set up.

"Skuffed up my huffy", the band`s fifth full-length(twelve tracks at a total of about 27 minutes), there are actual songs. japanther´s trademark hooks, sing-along choruses and misfity/ramonesy/ronettesy infectiousness has finally crystallized on an album. with the current vogue for shoegaze-inspired noise walls thrust out by No Age and Deerhunter, perhaps this duo can gatecrash theparty ''

Contains exclusive new recordings by both bands from New York! Two experimental drones by Oneida. And four tracks by Pterodactyl, going into more psychedelic fields than on their previous releases. Download-coupon included with this record as well.

Delorean are a Barcelona indie rock band who play Mediterranean dance music and have become one of Spain's most popular underground bands. Taking cues from their native Balearic beat, Madchester house, techno, R&B, Delorean carve out a sunny sweet spot between the stage and the dance floor. Their new album, Subiza - named after the bucolic Basque town in which it was recorded - is Delorean’s defining work to date. Fusing relentless hands-in-the-air club rhythms with the shimmering melodies they've long toyed with, it drips with decades of dancefloor history while retaining Delorean’s own adventurous voice.

Toronto's Fucked Up present their first full-length in the band's four year existence after countless singles and EPs, many of which are out of print and fetching large sums on ebay. "Hidden World" continues Fucked Up's departure from the fast, sloppy early '80s styled hardcore they began with, and their adventure into a more dangerous territory of punk, combining melodies with expansive structures and adding thought-provoking and sometimes controversial imagery to their mix. DOUBLE VINYL VERSION!!!

Hate people comparing bands to other as they are always lying and exaggerating, but even if TOUNDRA are slowing down sometimes, they are kicking ass like a perfect new formed band outta the ashes of KYUSS and RUSSIAN CIRCLES and this without rocking the same boring riffs for hours and hours.

Raging pissed-off political moshcore. Lyrics speaking out against sexism, vivisection, etc. More of a political statement than a band. This is where it all started.

For seven years Yaphet Kotto has been unleashing a torrent of melodic power fashioned from a dual guitar attack, hammering drumming, and a passionate duel vocal approach. We Bury Our Dead Alive is Yaphet Kotto’s third full length LP, and these ten songs are once again inspired, emotionally charged, melodic and hard hitting. Unlike many bands, time has not mellowed Yaphet Kotto. Their new material is tighter, heavier, and harder than ever before.

Ampere continues their emo-violent attack with 7 new tracks bursting with rage and harsh beauty. Sinaloa’s 5 tracks are more traditional emotive hardcore without the rage and violence. They have a definite Moss Icon feel to their sound. Melodic and passionate. Both formats come packaged in full color covers with a full color insert as well as a booklet. Ampere features ex-members of Orchid, Bucket Full Of Teeth, Laceration, Stop The Clock, Wolves and The Last Forty Seconds while Sinaloa features ex-members of Ettile Vyre and Ache. Both bands are from Massachusetts.

D-beat defenders Disfear strike back with its long-awaited new full-length Live The Storm. Live The Storm delivers a new-found ferocity and intensity captured by engineer Kurt Ballou (Converge, Coliseum, Doomriders, Animosity).

This amazing Northern California emotive hardcore band has once again crafted a full length of powerfully intense and melodic songs to charm your body into a gyrating flurry of motion. The two guitar, duel vocal sound is relentless and pulsating with energy and emotion. A total of ten tracks packaged in a beautiful gatefold jacket with a design reminiscent of their last 12" record.

End of the Line was an amazing hardcore band from San Diego. Three members were in Heroin, one member was in Antioch Arrow, and one member was in John Henry West. Their sound was very San Diego and could be described as a much more aggressive version of Heroin.

Turbo charged HC from Spain. Think of a collision of Infest and Nice View. 10 track follow up to their amazing debut CD on B-Core.

4 outtakes from 1982 and 1983. "maldito pais" is an unreleased track and the rest never made it on vinyl till now!

Vinyl LP reissue of this 1986 album from Italy's answer to Black Flag. Many would classify Raw Power as "crossover" Hardcore because they employ heavy riffing and wanky solos in many of the songs, but their ferocity defied any generic label. Whether or not they were named for the Stooges album, Raw Power had as much to do with the ultra-high-energy of the Detroit Rock sound as they did with contemporary early '80s Hardcore Heavy Metal. The After Your Brain LP was released at a time when U.S. Hardcore was beginning to lose its direction.

This release contains 4 paint-stripping blasts recorded in the studio by Paul Mahern of Zero Boys fame during their 1985 U.S. tour. This edition includes their classic song "Fuck Authority" as a special bonus, so you get 5 songs total! Cover artwork by Jim Blanchard. Includes lyric sheet!

This CD has been remastered and now includes a bonus DVD with the hour-long 1998 "Big Ass" Tour documentary, plus extras that include live at the Olympic Auditorium in 1984, live in Phoenix 1986 (when they opened for Slayer/Venom), live and in the studio Italy 1983-85, and live in 2000 in Nogales, Mexico and Gilman Street. Over an 2 hours of RAW POWER footage you wont want to miss!

This new LP, titled "We Must Do More Than Just Music", features twenty-two brand new protest tracks from Seein' Red. Recorded in 2005. These 22 songs are fast, angry political hardcore songs as only Seein' Red does them. Seein' Red has been together for many, many years. They have played all over the world. They have released dozens and dozens of records. And they are a very well known and respected hardcore band. Angry, political, and pissed off... Seein' Red offers a wall of hardcore noise. Powerful music with a powerful message.

Finally seeing the light of day are these eleven tracks that were originally recorded in 1983 as a demo preceding a planned LP that never happened. Some of these songs appear on the infamous Koro 7" but many are unreleased, giving a more lengthy look at this early 80s thrashing hardcore band from Tennessee. Along with the lyrics on the insert you also get a very thorough interview with the band from 2006.

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 band, Havoc and Grand Theft Audio have teamed up to give this lost classic a proper re issue. Recorded in 1983 by the State with production assistance from Ron Asheton of the Stooges, this is totally icindiery raw, pissed off early 80's hardcore punk. The anger and raw energy on this disk capture the frustration and angst of growing up punk in Reagan's America. Musically it's a raw hardcore assault on the lines of Discharge, Negative Approach, Necros or the Fix.

Combining the eleven tracks from the Chaos Is Me LP with the ten tracks from the Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! 10", this Orchid CD will be a definite crowd pleaser. The CD is packaged in fittingly chaotic hand stamped red opaque jewel cases, and it comes with CD sized versions of the original booklets from the LP and 10". Twenty-one Orchid tracks that highlight the band's blend of emotive chaos, vicious attack, combustible energy, and arty-heartfelt pretense all together in a handmade case! Let the party begin!

The original press of this 7" is one of the rarest Oi! records ever! Rare as hen's teeth! This holy grail of italian Oi! music contains 5 early Cracker by Bologna's own Nabat.

First album for Barcelona's ZA. “Macumba o Muerte” are 9 songs influenced by free-jazz, noise, drones, analog electronic...Recorded by Santi García and mastered by Bob Weston (Shellac).

Find out everything you want to know about leading acts such as Ebba Grön, KSMB, Attentat, Anti Cimex, Mob 47, Asta Kask and Strebers. But also about every other band that ever released a record during the first ten years of Swedish punk music! In this book you will find all the facts: line-ups, hometowns, biographies and complete, fully illustrated discographies with all sleeves depicted in full colour. The discographies detail variations in vinyl pressings and covers, coloured vinyl existence and just about everything else of interest for any serious collector of Swedish punk records. Finally you get to see the full output from legendary bands such as Vicious Visions, Shas, Absurd, Kriminella Gitarrer, 57 KEZ, Kessler Jugend, Bad Boo Band and other similar acts.

34 punk-smashers out of the early days from this legendary Finnish HC-outfit! Recorded BEFORE the 1st album "Valtion vankina" in a much more punky sound! The great CD on PROPAGANDA RECORDS for the first time on vinyl!

This LP includes their 22 song demo. COmes with a nice booklet with lyrics, pics and liner notes.

New album for these Barcelona D-beat masters. 15 new songs to blow up your mind!

Featuring both BEST LPs by this legendary band from Texas, originally released in 1983 resp. 1984 - ABSOLUTE CLASSICS - for the first time since many years officially available again on vinyl, as a DOUBLE-LP packed in a colorful GATEFOLD-SLEEVE, including a foldout-poster with lyrics and photos, plus linernotes. Fuck yeah, this is GREAT!!!!!! RESTOCK!!!

UK punk from the old school. Originally released in 1977 on the NEMS label

Iron and Wine return with one of the most anticipated releases of 2004. "Our Endless Numbered Days" is the second full-length album from Iron and Wine (essentially Sam Beam), and it was recorded both at Sam's Miami home and in Chicago's Engine Studios with Brian Deck (Red Red Meat, Modest Mouse, Ugly Casanova.). On it, Sam is aided and abetted by his regular touring and recording conspirators: his sister Sarah Beam, Patrick McKinney, Jeff McGriff, EJ Holowicki, and Jonathan Bradley.

For the past few years, Municipal Waste has been leading the charge in the thrash revival. Legions of bands have hopped on the bandwagon, but with their fourth album Massive Aggressive, they show no signs of giving up the reins.

Bootleg with Subpop singles cover rip off.

3 song 7" of this punk duo from Broklyn, for the Swedish label, Deleted Art.

The Creek Drank the Cradle is filled with hushed, restrained vocals, affecting lyrics from a naturalist's perspective, exploring relationships and the hope born from them, all of which come across as though whispered to you personally, accompanied by guitar, banjo, slide guitar… Taken as a whole, The Creek Drank the Cradle, Iron and Wine's debut CD, is an ode to an older South; a part of America that is defined by "traditional values," pastoral imagery and arcane manners.

The band's sound is a minefield of contrasting textures and styles; the comparisons that come up often include Miles Davis, Squarepusher, Tortoise, Talk Talk, and Kid 606. The 10-piece group's members span their domestic music scene, and they have performed with, and/or been part of, virtually every notable contemporary Norwegian band.

5 songs recorded in Sam Beam’s bedroom from the same sessions that gave us 2002’s The Creek Drank the Cradle. The Sea and the Rhythm includes “Jesus the Mexican Boy,” which has been a big audience favorite at recent Iron and Wine shows. Sam and his co-conspirators will be recording the new Iron and Wine full-length this summer at Chicago’s Engine Studios with Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Holopaw, Red Red Meat), scheduled for release in early 2004.

All Hands On The Bad One returns to ubilant, playful "the rock" that reveals just how much fun this band has just being together and making music. Produced by John Goodmanson, and engineered by Larry Crane at the low-key Jackpot Studios in Portland.

This is one of the most anticipated albums of 2010. James Mercer of the Shins and Danger Mouse

2nd pressing as a LIMITED edition of 320 handnumbered copies on orange-marble colored vinyl! Features the 14 tracks by this incredible duo, recorded for a puppet-show theatre! Totally crazed-out, smash-it-all-up Noise-Punk, that sounds at times like the RAMONES gone wild! It’s as blasting as it is funnily entertaining!

The anticipated sixth album from the always hot-rocking SLEATER-KINNEY. While continuing to deliver their usual anthemic rockers, the band has also stretched out a bit adding new wave, pop and soul sounds to the mix, as well as expanded instrumentation that includes strings, horns, and keyboards. Initial pressing features a limited two-song bonus CD, so jump on 'em while you can.

One and only demo from Tyrant before they changed their name to Saint Vitus.

Kill Rock Stars is proud to re-issue Roman Candle, Elliott Smith's first solo album, originally released on Portland's Cavity Search Records in 1994. Roman Candle is now remastered for the re-release by Roger Seibel (SAE) and Larry Crane, editor of Tape Op Magazine and archivist for Elliott's family.

This is the classic album from 1982. Virtually everyone agrees that this group made up of four Washington, D.C.-bred African American jazzbos single-handedly invented hardcore. They radically quickened punk's tempos, added virtuoso instrumentation, and topped it all off with the mystic squeals of shaman-like frontman Paul "H.R." Hudson. This release gives voice to the band's scathing sociopolitical judgment as well as its ability to simply put the hammer down and rock.