Shirley Steinberg was the first to play in the show. These guys are from Malolos, Bulacan and started in 2008. It was my first time watching them live and thanks to The Real Strength for providing the band's demo download link last year. The band has a unique brand mixture of technical hardcore, from mellow to melodic breakdowns and vocals that lead to forceful overdriven endings. The music soars and goes in exemplary directions, I must say. Unfortunately, during the show they have announced that Lakefest was one of their final shows this April. Catch their last performance on April 16, 2011 in Kalye Art Gallery (Please check the link for details on this one).
I'd like to share some musical energy with the world.
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Lakefest CD Sampler Vol. 3 Out Now!
Thanks Jade of Walk Me Home for sending me the link.
Terror Live in Manila
For more info check lacosanuestro.blogspot.com and diypinoyhcpunk.com.
Visit Terror on Myspace and check this out.
Royal Rumble 2011-1-29
With performances by Tame the Tikbalang, Isvarah, Bystorm, Nuclear Punishment, Disabuse, Off the Chain, Spyk Dodge Kyle, Empty, Piledriver, Knuckle Under, Towards the End, D.M.E and The Crimson Cartel this Saturday at 7pm. Center for Arts, Timog Q.C.
Brace yourselves for a full force moshin'!
Bloodshed Remains Livein Batangas
Austria's hardcore band Bloodshed Remains South East Asia tour will be in Manila on Feb 2, Laguna on Feb 4, Cebu on Feb 5 and on Feb 3 in Batangas together with my town's pride Survival of the Fittest, Failure, Lockfist, Rigmarole, Strength From Within, Judgment, 043Bloodline and 12tons.
Strength From Within
...I'm back. I realized that I've been behind, and haven't posted something interesting for the past months. Musically, that is.
Years ago, It's easy interacting with the bands and artists. When Facebook, Youtube and Twitter took over, I found it hard to connect with these people. MySpace linked to Twitter and other social networking sites, it's kind of hard to follow, sometimes, I got tired of playing the game.
But I've been missing the music thing, so here's a comeback recording clip of my town's hardcore band Strength From Within. Looking forward to their fresh and new sounds coming up soon.
Strength From Within - Not Enough
Including SFW's performance back in 2002, Thanks to Crapsalad.
Years ago, It's easy interacting with the bands and artists. When Facebook, Youtube and Twitter took over, I found it hard to connect with these people. MySpace linked to Twitter and other social networking sites, it's kind of hard to follow, sometimes, I got tired of playing the game.
But I've been missing the music thing, so here's a comeback recording clip of my town's hardcore band Strength From Within. Looking forward to their fresh and new sounds coming up soon.
Strength From Within - Not Enough
Including SFW's performance back in 2002, Thanks to Crapsalad.
Awakened Hope 2010
Baguio City Hardcore's first year anniversary show on November 20, 2010 in Akira Bar Assumption Road, Baguio City
Honestly? I've never been to any Baguio City HC show ever, but I bet this show is going to be a fucking rad! Tight line up. Awesome people.
Honestly? I've never been to any Baguio City HC show ever, but I bet this show is going to be a fucking rad! Tight line up. Awesome people.
BISON 2010
Despite the fact that I've been listening to more mellow, indie-ish lately, I took a shine to this release. I got the demo material for more than a week now, I didn't pay much attention at first but what surprises me is the amount of energy and power that BISON imposes on their music. They are another solid style hardcore from Baguio City and Tarlac, Philippines featuring 2 of the ex-members of Defiant and Limitbreak. The group members are JL, Miki, Jian, Jon and Balong. The digital released demo is a 3 track heavy, thick sound and powerful vocals of JL and Miki. I didn't expect too much from the raw recording but it turns out to be damn pretty good. The songs "Draw the Line", "Strong Hold" and "Bison Headstomp" are good sounding start for the band. My favorite is the rockin' "Bison Headstomp".
They are currently recording for their split release with No Turning Back and Last Hope. This is Asia vs Europe split to be released sometime this year.
You can download the demo for free HERE.
ARAH KIRI Philippines Tour
ARAH KIRI from Malaysia will be in the Philippines! Check them out on June 30 in Center for Arts, Timog. July 3 in Pagbilao, Quezon and July 4 in Tambayan Bar.
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State of Calamity
Van sent me their music months ago, but I actually opened it up just now. I'm getting pile of spam mails lately. Anyway, the band State of Calamity hails from Cavite and formed in late 2004. This is Cavite street punks that we're talking about here, and as expected the band offers socio-political full energetic pack of songs and lyric-wise will give awareness to the kids. The group members are Jon (vocals) from The Badtrips, Paul (bass), Kers (guitars) and Van (drums). Their self titled album that was released in 2009 consists of 9-tracks that captures all the speed, energy and intensity of diy street punks. This is free download guys. Enjoy!
State of Calamity - State of Calamity (2009)
1. Endless Struggle
2. Politicians
3. For the Racist
4. Break the Barrier
5. State of Calamity
6. Brothers Under the Skin
7. Sick of Authority
8. Society
9. Third World Country
Download
Visit the band's website and check the upcoming shows in Myspace.
Dilapidated Buko Pie
Dilapidated Buko Pie is pushing their creative side with their sounds impressive and inviting. Bongbong Ranes (Los Baños, Laguna) learned about Sunny Day Happy Tune of Josh Alaban (San Pablo, Laguna) in early 2009 and later became partners in creating a music project. They even named the band from their hometown's delicacy "Buko" (Coconut) pie. This is a unique project because they are using Guitar Pro, FL Studio and Audacity software application to produce hardcore, punk and grindcore riffs. They include some different beats from jazzy blues, techno, death metal, Arabian tunes and many more to make the tunes highly energetic.
In preparation of its 1 year as D.B.P, they are getting ready to play live some time in 2010. They already have Darrell Puge as their guitarist and they are currently looking for bassist and drummer to fill in.
D.B.P worked on 3 albums, a 4way split and currently working on Cancer II. So to give you an idea of what the band sounds like, I include one of the albums link for free download. I will include one of their song in upcoming compilation, so watch out for it.
The albums that they have released are:
DILAPIDATED BUKO PIE (A Contemporary Life In A Contemporary Country Which Is Under The Rule Of A Contemporary Corrupted Government With Its Contemporary Politics And Contemporary Politicians ), Beatroot, TOTAL PWNAGE 4 way split (Dilapidated Buko Pie, Sunny Day Happy Tunes, xBrokenxTokenx, Tambora Noisexcore Project) from Drillface Records and Cancer.
D.B.P. - Cancer (click image below to download)
You may visit their website HERE.
In preparation of its 1 year as D.B.P, they are getting ready to play live some time in 2010. They already have Darrell Puge as their guitarist and they are currently looking for bassist and drummer to fill in.
D.B.P worked on 3 albums, a 4way split and currently working on Cancer II. So to give you an idea of what the band sounds like, I include one of the albums link for free download. I will include one of their song in upcoming compilation, so watch out for it.
The albums that they have released are:
DILAPIDATED BUKO PIE (A Contemporary Life In A Contemporary Country Which Is Under The Rule Of A Contemporary Corrupted Government With Its Contemporary Politics And Contemporary Politicians ), Beatroot, TOTAL PWNAGE 4 way split (Dilapidated Buko Pie, Sunny Day Happy Tunes, xBrokenxTokenx, Tambora Noisexcore Project) from Drillface Records and Cancer.
D.B.P. - Cancer (click image below to download)
You may visit their website HERE.Fourteen Hours - Sore (Live)
Lately, I've been digging the songs from Fourteen Hours and found their live performance in Siege Tour 2008 in You Tube. The band formed in 2003 and has been inactive for a while now. They haven't called it quits though. They used to be one of the great bands from Lipa City, Batangas hardcore/punk scene and It'd be awesome to hear something from them again one day. The band consists of Nigel (vocals), Ferdz (lead guitars), Jap (guitars), Randy (bass) and Jomark (drums). Ian was the original vocalist of the band and decided to leave for good. Their music influences are Grade, Boy Sets Fire and Hopesfall.
The Age of Kali: A Festival of Holy Noise
by Urdaneta City Nama Hatta Crew / N4S Kolektiv/ Food For Life UC
This will be on June 12, 2010. G-Top Bar, Nancayasan, Urdaneta City.
Great line up!
Crapsalad to Wordpress
Crapsalad's website is a collection of diy hardcore punk videos in the Philippines.
It started long before Overtune Project was established. Crapsalad provides information to upcoming gigs, and collection of old and new video gigs. Awesome!
Crapsalad moved to Wordpress, check it out HERE. In case you still want to see the old site visit crapsalad.net23.net
The Vampirates Manila Leg on June 4 2010
The Vampirates is influenced by bands such as Cancer Bats, Come Back Kid and Pennywise. In order to gain national and international exposure the band continued to tour. This is part of their South East Asia tour, they will be in Manila on the 4th of June in Ten02 Bar. KuKuk's Nest on June 5th in Cebu, Philippines. Badminton Court in Malaybalay City on the 6th.Manila Leg:
Show starts at 7:00 PM.
Gate fees: P150.00 with free beer.
7:00 - 7:20 Hampas Lupa
7:20 - 7:40 Talk Sick
7:40 - 8:00 Past The Fence
8:00 - 8:20 Staid
8:20 - 8:40 Antrophine
8:40 - 9:00 Ground Zero
9:00 - 9:20 Off The Chain
9:20 - 9:40 Isvarah
9:40 - 10:00 West
10:00 - 10:20 Demolition of False Progression
10:20 - 10:40 Tame the Tikbalang
10:40 - 11:00 The Vampirates
Be there!
Seven Lakes Hardcore FREE Gig!
Great line up from San Pablo City, Laguna on May 29, 2010 at Lil' Pipo Bar. Chilidogs' EP "New Breed" will also be launched. It's a free gig guys, don't miss it and on top of that the bands lined up are very much worth your time.
Forgiveness Denied Reunion Show
Another show that we don't want to miss. Forgiveness Denied Reunion Show will be on May 23, 2010 in Ten02 Bar, QC. Awesome line up with Prayer of Endurance, Nuclear Punishment, Staid, Richard Collier, Play, Rush IxDx, Isvarah, Demolition of False Progression, Sauna, Bystorm, Towards the End, Noise Conspiracy Project and Legarda.Forgiveness Denied is a hardcore band hails from Batangas City, Philippines and started in early 2001. They've been gone for a while for some reasons, but I'm so damn glad they are back for a show.
Towards the End
Mel: First and foremost, good day to all the readers, this was my first time to be interviewed in a zine so don’t bother my silly answers lol. Well the the band before was named Fastest Kill ( it’s a cockfighting term), my father used to own a farm, then popped up my mind to name the band Fastest Kill haha it was crazy.. That first show we’d played was in San Pablo, we are totally nameless!! Then we decided to changed it up to Towards the End after our original drummer left and make a serious time with the band. We have a hard time picking up band names, Call to Arms, Hands on Stance to name a few, Peter suggested to us we named towards the end, i think its in a positive way naman, then we all agreed. I don’t know what does it suppose to mean but it sounds good. haha.. then we just get used to it.
OS: When and How did you guys start playing music?
Mel: Well, we were total strangers absolutely. Allan Dayco from Youth for a Cause Collective who is an active scenester in San Pablo has this idea of putting up a new active hardcore band in our area, since the San Pablo scene is lackin on active hc bands, then that’s where all started. Introduced us to one another. Started playing hardcore in shows the last thing I know we were releasing some materials lol, .. We’ve played also a couple of good shows, and made a lot of friends. But the other members were no-newbie in the scene. Our first drummer Odeng used to play drums in Fall Face First/Ludra, Peter then was a guitarist in Lipa’s Hardcore-outfit Strength from Within, As well as Carl(Condemned, Revolver), Emak also played bass in San Pablo’s short-lived hardcore outfit Waterpump, the second drummer, Friedrich/Sinangag, who is a sessionist drummer of San pablo’s Pathogen. He also got this Death metal band, Children of Badeth, that fuckin prick was always intoxicated while in the set hahaha I was just kidding.
OS: Can u tell us your music influences before you started a hardcore band?
Mel: We are all into hardcore ever since the band was formed. Except for Sinagag who was into metal stuff, but eventually, he was able to relate. We were always pushing him to listen hardcore, I guess that thing worked out. Peter, Mel as well as Carl, was into some hardcore/metal stuff like Hoods, Death Threat, Strength for a Reason, Point of No Return, Merauder etc. Emak was into old school straight edge hc bands bands like Warzone, Floorpunch, Black Flag, Better than a Thousand, to name a few.
OS: If you want to describe the band with just a few words to someone who has never heard about it, what would you say?
Mel: I think Guns Up! From Boston, they got some fucking talents!! Sad thing this guys just broke up.
OS: How long have u guys been playing in local UG shows?
Mel: We started rehearsing last November 2006,then a month ago was our debut show, Ung nagtour ung Myproof sa San Pablo, hehe we are a little bit fucked up that night, but the show was ok. Months later, our original drummer left and did his own thing(he was a sick drummer!!). The band was in silence in months. We were all busy that time I was still studying, all members had their work haha, Peter runs this Honeybee and furniture business, Emak was working in Manila, Carl was about to enter the medical school. After all the busy scheds, we still managed to put up the band together and decided to scout for a new drummer and take the band seriously, we decided to change the name to Towards the End and fortunately, we were able to play some couple of good shows with fellow Laguna hc bands like Mihara, Ground Zero, Piledriver, Eight Ounce. Isvarah, Magnum, Tame the Tikbalang, Bystorm etc from Manila. And also with some foreign acts like War All the time, Myproof, Magnicide, Magrudergrind and tonight with Driven Fear. Fortunately, this all thing worked out after all financial, some personal and schedule conflicts.
OS: Could you list top 5 in your playlist today (local/international)?
Mel: - Black Friday 29 – “The Escape”- Tame the Tikbalang – “Forever Shall Be”- Allegiance – “Overlooked”- Guns Up – “Outlive”- Strength for as Reason – “Shove and Prove”
OS: What are the feelings and reaction is your band and your lyrics supposed to suggest?
Mel: The lyrics were positively written, as simple as staying true to your friends and family,some personal matters, getting up their asses and start to make a difference in life and everything that has to do in improving one’s self??haha
OS: how do u guys work on your songs?
Mel: We tried to sound like some old school stuff but the ideas of members just got mixed up, Peter and Emak were always in charge in doing the riffs. We tried to put some beatdowns and some new school style, well I guess it all worked out. Mel and Emak were in charge in lyrics.
OS: Its great knowing Towards the End are active in local shows, any last words?
Mel: Thanks for the interview Sheng!! It a pleasure for having us here. To all hardcore enthusiast out there, just take it easy and have some fun!! Mosh it up, its a good exercise!! Thanks to all the bands we've played with!! BTW, Peter sends his regards, haha he completely lost your number lol. Watch out for our year-delayed EP release, this year......AGAIN! hehe.
OS: Youre welcome man, keep it up guys!
Myspace Link: Towards the End
Genre: Hardcore
Location: San Pablo Laguna
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