Hard as Nails: getting hammered by the harshest band in America

They’re the ‘audio equivalent of shoving your face into a blast furnace’ and are the latest purveyors of powerviolence. Don’t forget your ear plugsMost hardcore punk can sound like nothing more than a sonic blur with very little to differentiate one song from the next. But deep within the crevices of the genre are bands who stayed true to a loud-fast-rules ethos – established by bands like Cro-Mags and Black Flag – while still being harbingers of what the...

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