Agnostic Front

Advantages Punk roots still hold their own.
Disadvantages Lacks any kind of originality or self-worth.

...The most recent album from New York hardcore punks Agnostic Front continues to mix angry punk rock with shouty hardcore, and as but one of a seemingly endless number of similar-sounding albums having been released every year for the last couple of decades, it brings nothing new to the scene apart from some new material of Agnostic Front sounding like themselves. The whole album is based on fast, riff-heavy songs with multiple, moshable 'breakdowns' as a substitution for musical diversity, backed by relentless double bass drums in a clicking frenzy that again permits the drummer to avoid having to put any thought into what he's doing. But of course, this is still punk first and foremost; a genre that has no delusions of Rimsky-Korsakov. All the same, I found 'Warriors' to be a largely disappointing, or at best entirely bland experience... Read review

Advantages Great for Alternative Music, Huge Venue, Cheap Drinks
Disadvantages Sore Ear Drums, Flying Peircings

...-old truckers (but don’t get in their way either). Overall this club is really worth while place to visit. It also features many live bands such as Agnostic Front, Terrorvision and The Vandals. It has a great atmosphere and the drinks are cheap too, about £1.50 for a bottle of Newcastle brown. It has good facilities including a huge cloakroom for all the Leather Jackets. The other thing I like is no dress code as I don’t like to have to get dressed up too much and I hate wearing Loafers. Anyway the more wacky you look the more normal you are. If you’re ever in Sheffield check this club out but bring a set of earplugs. Good Club, Great night.... Read review

Advantages Uplifting, full of fun, vocally excellent, instrumentally striking.
Disadvantages The 5 minute spoken outro is incredibly unnecessary.

...'Nothing to Prove' is the long awaited fifth studio album from the American hardcore punk band that is H2O. There was a seven year gap between the release of fourth album 'Go' and this 2008 Bridge Nine released record that is 'Nothing to Prove'; the name of the album makes the bands opinion very clear that they have nothing to prove to anyone here, the band has been together since 1995 now and has over the years more than proved its worth as an excellent hardcore punk band. The album consists of 10 tracks and this therefore provides for 29 minutes of music. A number of excellent guest vocalists feature here such as Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba, Gorilla Biscuits main man Anthony Civarelli, and Agnostic Front's vocalist Roger Miret also amongst others; it's great to hear the guest contributions here and always the bands music has much... Read review