Counterblast - Karma Crusher Promo

Call me late to the party, but I just discovered this band a few weeks back and I am hooked. Imagine if you will, you took a time machine back to the mid/late 90's and Hardcore was a smorgashboard of diffrent ideas and sounds, that's where you could find Counterblast.

Hailing from the great state of Texas, Counterblast brings back that Krishna inspired Hardcore we all know and loved back in the day, but with an obvious new breathe in mordern day sound.

Not much needs to be said about Counterblast except that where some bands work towards an end goal and have a progress to become a better band, Counterblast already has it and will (at least I hope) continue to grace us with more music soon. I hope they are release new stuff and become more active in 2016!

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Neutral Territory - 2016 Demo

So here it is! When your friend tells you about a project months in advance and says it's gonna sound like all the bands you wish you could of played in, you're bound to be stoked. And yes i was.

This rag tag team of Melodic Hardcore Punker's are made up of members from such bands like Test Of Time, The Stereo State, and The Carrier just to name a few. The best possible way to describe Neutral Territory is to say they sound like that Punk band on Epitaph Records or Fat Wreck Chords that still had that Hardcore element. You'd expect them to be on Jade Tree and see their live set on a random VHS Video Compilation.

This truly brings on great feelings when listening to it. It reminds me of how i used to feel when i was a kid figuring out what Hardcore/Punk was. Like when everything you bought on Fat was punk rock and then you find GR's Operation Phoenix and it blows you away because it hits hard and then let's off to only hit hard again. I feel that's what NT are going to do with their whole career.

Neutral Territory Bandcamp

Reason To Believe

Plain and simple, this post goes out to Jon Bunch who passed away today. Now, by no means am I the biggest fan of Jon's whole music career but I defiantly loved a lot of songs he sang for.

When I first heard of Sense Field, It was around the time I really started to get into Post Punk/Emo/Screamo type of stuff but SF never became huge in my life like other bands. But then I heard of Jon's band before, Reason To Believe. And when I first heard the LP I was beyond stoked. For anyone who knows me, I love Melodic Hardcore/Punk stuff and RTB played exactly what i'd want a band to sound like.

Today when I first heard of the news I was taken back. Even a bit more weird, I was actually listening to SF last night while on the computer, my first time really sitting down listening to them in a few years. But I'm not one to jump on the bandwagon and post about "----" celebrity passing away. But this hits way closer to home. And as the day went on, the more I realized how much Jon actually meant to me. He was someone who I would always wanted to be. Not only the fact that he had a beautiful voice, but some of his lyrics really stuck in me. I even enjoyed his time in FSF. This is me paying homage to a man that had in impact in the Hardcore/Punk community that most might not feel today.

I may not get on this Blog as much as I would want, but I think this deserves a post. Jon deserves to be recognized. Rest in peace Jon, you will be missed.

Reason To Believe