DODSFERD
Cursing Your Will to Live
(Moribund)

THE WARRIORS
Genuine Sense of Outrage
(Victory)

CRUSHING THE
GRINDCORE
TRADEMARK
3-Way Split
(BlastAsFuk)

BLUT AUS NORD
Odinist
(Candlelight)

CREATURE FEATURE
The Greatest Show Unearthed
(Sumerian)

FACE THE PANIC
The Reclamation 

(Reaper)

PHASED
Medeications

(Elektrohasch)

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What is it with Buffalo man? Is there a hardcore music school? If so, does anyone fail and therefore gets banned from releasing records? Maybe I am setting my expectations too high. Those Engineer and Achilles’ records set the bar at such levels now I am expecting every other band and their mothers to insert such levels of forward thinking experimentalisms and post-whathaveyou’s into their music. Not here though. Face The Panic belong to the straight forward kind of hardcore band. Call them purists if you will, their music lacks no punch and seems poised to preserve all those values that made the scene grander than the musical code that spawned it.

But from the out of hardcore camp the only thing Face The Panic ventures into is a guitar solo here and there.  The band’s MySpace page lists their genres as hardcore, punk and thrash. MMhhh, I have my doubts as to how fully onto those genres this band is really in. Thrash? Yeah, because of the solos and the few seconds of Bay Area universality we can find in “El Diablo Blanco”. Punk? Yeah, because punk can mean so many things and to a degree when we are talking about hardcore we are talking about punk. And hardcore? This is almost purely it. Undistilled hardcore with a salacious flirtations with guitars out of chunk mode. The Reclamation won’t disappoint hardcore fans. If so, maybe you’ve growned out of it or like yours truly, expect flirtations with or crafty work from outside the genre speakers.

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