Southern Lord Recordings, in association with The Power of the Riff, have announced four installments of their live series.  The installments will kick off with the August 13, 2011 second official The Power of the Riff Fest in Los Angeles, CA.  Currently confirmed bands include Pentagram, Winter, Pelican, Trap Them, Masakari, Alpinist, Acephalix and All [...]

Masakari‘s debut album will be out on June 8th, 2010 via Southern Lord Records. Cleveland’s Masakari unleash a devastating blend of d-beat crust and anxious hardcore descendant to His Hero Is Gone and From Ashes Rise, as well as more punk/crust founders G.I.S.M. and Discharge, and adopt these classic styles to their own point-blank, by-the-throat [...]