A compilation of California-based hard core bands. Hard core, emo, punk, heavy metal. I would dub this heavy metal except that the guitars are most on the post-punk side, and the vocals are on the verge of art-punk and emo. To my best knowledge and sensibility, this is good hard core. Think mph, orges, ROR and company will probably fall in love with this shit!
For you with post-punk, indie rock likes, play tracks 7, 11, 8 (all good).
For you with hard core tendencies, tracks 5, 1, 2 are the best.
1. Punk-derived hard core. Chord-based guitar work and punk-like vocal/guitar structure.
2. Hard core vocals. Flirts with Green Day-ish vocal melodies; some post-punk guitar riff-based melody in there as well.
3. Boooaaaahhhh... Angry. Nice guitar groove half way through the track.
4. I need a Tylenol. This gives me a headache. Too much loudness and chaos mixed together.
5. Nice poetic intro leads into hard core emo vox, bass/drum line are totally heavy. Tempo slows down to complete silence. Build back up.
Stale riffs on guitars (something between classic post-punk and 80s heavy metal). Nice ethereal and peaceful acoustic coda.
6. Something between tracks 3 and 4.
*7. Oh Yeah... this is very much influenced by DC post punk... mid tempo... delicious post-punk guitar work!
8. Alternates between slow melodic solo guitar lines and solid rhythmic groove. Pop vocals and style. Main stream pop-leaning indie rock. Very creative. Nice sound effects, noise and guitar groove toward the end of the tune.
9. Green Day-ish pop vocals. No good.
10. More of the same vocals. Next track, please.
11. A mixture of nice punk backing
vocal melodies and DC hard core - emo punk lead vocals. Chord-based guitar work.