PUNK

Artist: The Thermals Label: Saddle Creek Records

Composer: The Baboon Show Label: Kidnap (Cargo Records)

Artist: Berliner Weisse Label: ROUGH TRADE DISTRIBUTION

Record Label: Sub Pop Style: Alternative Rock

Artist: BLOOD CEREMONY Label: Rise Above Limited

Artist: Bob Mould Label: Merge Records

Artist: Knockout Kid Label: Bullet Tooth

CALIFORNIAN PUNK ROCK VETERANS AND SWITZERLANDS MOUNTAIN HELL PREACHER DOING A TRIBUT TO JOSH HADEN'S GOSPEL CLASSIC 'SPIRITUAL'! THIS IS A VINYL SPLIT SINGLE TOGETHER WITH SEAN WHEELER & ZANDER SCHLOSS ON 1ST SIDE. 2 CALIFORNIAN PUNK ROCK VETERANS WHO HAD A WILD MUSICAL PAST ( TROW RAG, CIRCLE JERKS, WIERDOS, JOE STRUMMER) AND EVEN BRIGHTER FUTURE AS THEY TOURING TOGETHER AS A ANTI-FOLK DUO. ON THE DARK FLIP SIDE THERE IS YOUR VERY OWN REVEREND BEAT-MAN HEAD HONCHO OF VOODOO RHYTHM RECORDS AND SWITZERLANDS MASTER OF DESASTER DOING A ULTRA FRENETIC BLUES PUNK VERSION FROM JOSH HADEN'S MASTERPIECE 'SPIRITUAL' WHO GOT FAMOUS BY JOHNNY CASH THIS IS ANTI FOLK AND GOSPEL PUNK AS ITS BEST Record Label: Voodoo Rhythm Style: PunkRock

Expect a diverse and enthralling album with the right dose of crushing riffs, breakdowns, fast parts, some punkrock tunes and lyrics spitting anger and frustration, guaranteeing numerous singalongs, stage dives and relentless mosh pits. Ten brand new brutal, intense and hard-hitting songs from these London based hardcore legends plus two bonus tracks which were recently released on 7" vinyl only. Record Label: GSR Style: Punk/Hardcore

The Heritage was the first Protector album with no original member involved. Drummer Michael Hasse had left the band due to health reasons and was replaced by Marco Pape, who had earned his spurs playing in Steelhunter and Shooting Gallery. Protector’s fourth full-length album was recorded in 1993 at the TNT Studio in Gelsenkirchen, a town in the famous Ruhr-Area. It was released in the same year by Witten-based label C&C. Olly Wiebel, who had taken over both vocal and guitar duties already on the previous release, remembers that the recordings went well and smoothly. Matze Grün had already helped out during the recordings for “A Shedding of Skin” and had now joined the Protector ranks as an official member, and new drummer Marco proved to be a great choice both with regard to his drumming skills and his general work ethics. Compared to what they did on “A Shedding of Skin”, Protector had now made some adjustments to both the songwriting and the sound they were aiming for: Soundwise, the three-piece had decided to go for a purer and harder sound (to this end, Protector were supported by Tim Buktu of Massacra-fame) and the songs were meant to be faster and more furious than before. They totally met these goals, and “The Heritage” got the reactions it deserved: Protector had become even heavier, faster and more brutal than before, and both fans and press liked it a lot. Pondering what effect the album had on the band’s career, Olly Wiebel hopes that the impression “The Heritage” made on the metal scene had been both a good and a lasting one. He surely is right there, even though in 1993, Thrash Metal was heading for difficult times, while Death Metal was on the rise. That in turn provided rather good conditions for Protector, as they had traditionally been playing on the verge of both genres and are still regarded as an important instigator for Teutonic Death Metal. Also, the introduction of Olly Wiebel as the Protector vocalist had already tipped the scale a bit more to the Death Metal side of things. “The Heritage” now even amplified that inclination, also adding an experimental/progressive touch and even further developed musicianship shown off in a decent, not all-too-technical way. A reviewer on Metal Archives even called it “the most well written death metal album that I have personally ever listened to.“ If that isn’t something! And that guy may be right. Protector had matured and were totally in control of what they were doing, not only focusing on being as fast, heavy and savage as possible, but always paying attention to the purposeful use of effects, and, most important, to the composition as a whole. Protector played skillfully with the innovations the Nineties threw at them: Just listen to “Convicts on the Streets” which even treads the forbidden paths of groove metal… German “Rockhard” celebrated this ruthless piece of Thrash/Death as the album which should finally reinforce Protector’s status as an integral part of the German metal elite – but things never turn out the way you expect. After the release of “The Heritage” – perhaps due to a feeling of exhaustion – Olly, Matze and Marco decided on go on a one-year break; this break eventually turned into a two year hiatus, after which only drummer Marco found the motivation to carry on with Protector. Consequently, he gathered a new line-up and tried to keep the band rolling, but things somehow had lost their momentum: Protector released another four-track demo in 2000, but there was no new album coming from the new line-up. “The Heritage” would soon prove to be a self-fulfilling prophecy: It was the last proper album to come out before Protector vanished from the scene for a good ten years, until they had their comeback with “Reanimated Homunculus, out on High Roller in 2013. For the re-release, “The Heritage” has been remastered by Patrick W. Engel at Temple of Disharmony, and it will come with a bunch of previously unreleased pictures from the past Record Label: High Roller Records Style: Metal

Record Label: Pristine Music Production Style: Indie Rock

"Shoo" is the debut album from Lionlimb, the project of songwriter Stewart Bronaugh and drummer Joshua Jaeger. The record is a collection of songs Bronaugh wrote between 2012 and 2015 while living in Chicago, San Francisco, and Nashville. After returning from an Australian tour playing guitar and drums in Angel Olsen's band, Lionlimb began recording "Shoo" in 2015 with Robin Eaton. Bronaugh and Jaeger started by tracking live drums and piano, and then for weeks Bronaugh filled up reel after reel, layering compulsively over their recordings. In the spring, Bronaugh and Eaton began the task of peeling away the layers. The resulting sessions proved to be a departure from the duo's previous recordings with a shift toward jazz, rock and soul with the addition of saxophone and Fender rhodes. The album's influences can be traced back to Miles Davis' "On the Corner", Jack London, Schumann, Elliott Smith, and Jackson Pollock. Record Label: Bayonet Style: Alternative Rock

Expect a diverse and enthralling album with the right dose of crushing riffs, breakdowns, fast parts, some punkrock tunes and lyrics spitting anger and frustration, guaranteeing numerous singalongs, stage dives and relentless mosh pits. Ten brand new brutal, intense and hard-hitting songs from these London based hardcore legends plus two bonus tracks which were recently released on 7" vinyl only. Record Label: GSR Style: Punk/Hardcore

ALL OF A SUDDEN was originally released on CD by LOST & FOUND RECORDS, the label that seemed to release all European powerhouses in the 90’s! But just like ALL OF A SUDDEN, all of RIGHT DIRECTION’s other full-length albums were only released on CD Record Label: Strength Records Style: Punk / Hardcore

Artist: Tsunami Bomb Label: Kung Fu Records

Artist: Badass Commander Label: Prc Music

Artist: UK Subs Label: Captain Oi!

Artist: UK Subs Label: Captain Oi

Artist: So Pitted Label: Sub Pop Records

Actor: Kelly Ogden; Actor: Luis Cabezas; Actor: Rikki Watson; Actor: River Ogden Cabezas; Actor: Quito Dollyrot Label: Arrested Youth Records