Twas The Night Before Christmas all cuddled with your spouse. Not a speaker was blasting throughout the whole house. No Stryper, or Vengeance, or Rex Carroll & The Bleed! Well we’re gonna fix that with this special release from, THE LEAD! Can you believe it has been 30 years since the release of one of the most classic Christian punk rock albums ever! Florida punk legends The Lead are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their most iconic album ‘Burn This Record’ with a very s

Say what you want about fans of heavy music, but they are loyal forever. If a pop star takes a leave of absence from recording music for a couple decades and then returns, will they still have an audience? Probably not. Here today, gone tomorrow. If a metal band, a hardcore band, or a punk act do the same, you better believe fans will be pulling concert shirts out of their closets and cheering for their heroes as if not a day has passed. So there was a lot of excitement among

The Blamed Album #7 IndieGoGo Campaign (for physical merch) https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-blamed-full-length-album-number-7#/ Hardcore Punk band, The Blamed, are back with their 7th album. As a follow up to last fall's surprise ep release, the band is seeking to raise enough funds to cover manufacturing of physical media such as Vinyl and CDs. Check out their really cool campaign via IndieGoGo right here. The band are releasing a new ep exclusive to this campaign fea

Past members of The Crucified and Headnoise and Six Feet Deep are excited to bring you some good music for good times The Blamed 7th Record. We started in the 90s on Tooth and Nail records and we got together over the past few years to try and put together an old school record. We finished recording the record in Feb and now we are trying to raise $3000 to pay for Manufacturing. The vinyl production will cost around $2000 and the CD manufacturing will cost around $1000. We ap

The Past Behind came at a pivotal time in the history of metal music. In the mid 80's pop metal was on the rise, and thanks to MTV, would soon peak in popularity, but there was a small and growing segment of the headbanging population that craved harder and faster tuneage. Christian bands like One Bad Pig, and later Lust Control would take up the punk ethos, but it took The Lead to marry the hard, chaotic attitude of punk with the blindingly fast riffage of speed metal, and c

The LEAD - The Past Behind + 30 Roxx Records in conjunction with The Lead are very proud to be celebrating the 30th anniversary of the classic seminal Christian punk album ‘The Past Behind’ 1988 was a pivotal year for Christian music. The first major wave of metal and punk bands became established, with major label releases from Believer and Vengeance and with the Crucified making their debut at Cornerstone Festival. In the nascent Christian underground music scene, 1988 w

If you're thinking you might have seen any of these four cats on a wanted poster in your local post office, you might be right. Geez! They looked more attractive when they were wearing the ski masks. The third one from the left, with the shifty eyes and the wussy soul patch, happens to be our boss at Heaven's Metal magazine. Shhhh- if you don't tell anyone, I won't either! Well the bossman's hoping to see his name in wax. These miscreants have a band called Lust Control. They

Raven Faith Records is pleased to announce the signing of Reliance to the label. Hailing from the streets of Prescott, AZ. Reliance is a 3-piece punk band that offers their own uplifting, fast, melodic brand of 90's punk. Showcasing a tried-and-true rhythm section, melodic vocals, tasty riffage and razor-sharp leads. Their EP “Crashing Down” has six high energy songs that will not disappoint the little punk rocker living inside of you. 1. Reborn 2. No Matter What 3.

The time is high, the wait is nigh... Resurrected Vinyl reports that the pressing plant has confirmed that the 12" vinyl AGAIN EPs will be pressed by the end of the month. Micheal Jeske (aka Resurrected Vinyl), upon receipt, will stuff the disks into the bagged-handmade-signed-numbered sleeves we spent all spring putting together. Then to you whom preordered. (You preorderers know that we uploaded the vinyl masters into our Bandcamp as a private release, and we supplied you a

Living In Victory releases its “Freeman” EP, a passionate and raucous four song eruption of old school punk and hardcore, over catchy grooves and searing guitar hooks. Building on the momentum from their acclaimed “Be The Change” full length debut, Los Angeles based Living In Victory (formerly known as LIV.) continues to address social issues of today’s youth, and life as an outsiders united through the hardcore scene. Hard-charging, emotional and urgent, Freeman stomps thr