Coming off their popular first local release in 1998, a split album with future Pluto Records’ band My Spacecoaster, Society’s Finest was ready the following year to release the Private Conflicts and Suicides EP. Pluto’s second release in partnership with Fury One Sixty One Records, Private Conflicts and Suicides was recorded at Poyter’s Palace in […]
Beginning in 2001, San Antonio’s With All Sincerity would soon become a refreshing force on an already tired and repetitive hardcore scene. Balancing new-school hardcore with the likes of old-school death metal and melodic thrash, the band stood out among their peers, and also became a favorite among many musicians themselves. After self-releasing two demos, […]
Their sound stems from early punk rock n roll driven by modern hardcore influences. Their live show is pure energy and mayhem. Please Mr. Gravedigger is not just a band, they are a rock and roll movement. Guitarist Richie Lauridsen and vocalist Tommy Garcia began piecing the band together in 2002, when Tommy, who along […]
Life in Pictures formed in early 2000, out of the local punk rock scene in tiny Prescott, Arizona. The tight knit community and the DIY ethics of punk, fused with their love of heavy music, has enabled Life In Pictures to become a passionate and hardworking metal act. The band has done numerous tours of […]
The Deadly began in 2001 when members of some of Philadelphia’s most impressive bands happened to discuss the need for something new in the city of brotherly love. With experience as members of legendary hardcore band Turmoil, they decided to fulfill this need with a new take on danger rock. Thus, The Deadly was born. […]
Since forming in early 2001, San Diego, CA’s As I Lay Dying has come to embody the idea of how important hard work is for a young band trying to cut their teeth in today’s underground music world. The band signed with Pluto Records after only their first demo, and then hit the studio to […]
Formed in the summer of 2006,Philadelphia’s SPARK IS A DIAMOND mix punk and hardcore, heavy dance beats, and alternating female/male vocals, resulting in a style somewhere between Refused and Death From Above 1979. Featuring vocalist Alison Bellavance, guitarist/vocalist Matt Boylan, and drummer Joe Crawford, the trio have previously released an EP with Emerald Moon Records. […]
The Orangeburg Massacre is an explosion of metal-drenched emotion and epic heaviness, evoking a flourish of mayhem influenced by the likes of Botch, Curl Up and Die, and Refused. Forming in 2004, The Orangeburg Massacre self-released two EPs and toured half the country numerous times before signing with Pluto Records. In that time, The Orangeburg […]
Originally hailing from Newark, Delaware as My America Is Watching Tigers Die, the band burst onto the hardcore scene with Narratives on Emerald Moon Records in 2006 following it up with the even heavier and sludgier Stone Age on Pluto Records in 2008. Following the departure of vocalist David Rushman, the remaining members decided to […]
The word “dawn” can be defined as; to begin to appear or develop; to emerge. This seems appropriate in the case of Imperial’s new full length We Sail At Dawn. Following up the release of last year’s debut EP, This Grave Is My Poem, the band is prepared to deliver the onslaught of finely tuned […]