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We open with some legal chat before busting open more shred than the law allows with the biblically tormented thoughts and feelings of Atlanta's own ahead-of-the-curve fret-nicians - DAWN OF ORION.

This week we are hard on the arts, hard on creativity, hard on passion, hard on booze, and just hard on. Join us in unpacking the physically inconvenient record by Goleta's own droid-hungry experimentalists EX-IGNOTA.

We're hardcore dead center in the middle of spring which is a time of new things which is why we decide to go on a quest for very stale old things. After accepting this new quest, we take just a few minutes to honor this grail piece sent to us by our friend Charles from Spiritkiller - The bleak and hopeless pre-Bane metal shard-storm of Worcester's own BARRIT.

In lieu of information or enrichment of any kind, we bring you some real Hat Chat. Afterwards, please dig the much requested GROUNDWORK (CT).

We might kid around about picking obscure records with limited appeal from time to time but we finally did it. So little info exists that even some of the people involved barely remember. We were worried the content would be thin so we brought in podcast heavy hitter JONAH BAYER to help us with the browser-history risking research on Canton, Ohio's own BIPOLAR.

We got a little merch chat, a little morbid chat, a little gatekeeping chat, then a dark descent down the memory lanes populated by an orphaned genre of pop culture driven drop-D rock modeled this week by Boston's HONKEYBALL.

Here we are like 7 or 8 years into unhinged mask-off timeline and guess what... it is STILL COOL AND OKAY to post that one Rage lyric. Whenever they act up and there are no repercussions, you know I have to do it to 'em. Anyway here's the INSIDE OUT episode.

We are now operating almost exclusively in a red hot danger room where we discuss the lives and motivations of people we know directly. How long can we pull some low-rent This Is Your Life schtick before we finally go too far and a keyboard player we didn't notice in the credits decides the show is over? As a matter of fact, we didn't identify a single keyboardist on today's record from Cleveland's MAD MINDS so this might be the one.

In pursuit of the unvarnished truth, we stumble upon a mysterious sliding door universe where book lovers move about in plain sight yet unknown to the world around them - living, loving, and possibly linusing. Along that dust road, we tune the broken radio to some pure country classics and do our best to piece together the dark history of Albany Hardcore's most difficult-to-purchase band, POLICE LINE.

I know, from the cover art you might be thinking we dug up some obscure old Pantera. Something actually befitting the current thrust of the show. Something potentially intriguing or thought provoking. You'd be wrong. The worst part of all of this is that I forgot to talk about what a stupid name Pantera is.

This is probably about as obscure as we are allowed to get This record isn't even on discogs. EVERYTHING is on discogs. Join us on an impossibly deep dive into a corner of the Albany scene that gets almost zero recognition or coverage... the long forgotten goofball boogerpunk of Albia's number one sons BAD CASE OF THE GOUT.

This week we are giving it everything we got... Going hard as hell on the music choice, tricking a guest star with the bait and switch, dropping a brand new Patreon exclusive concept - no one in history has ever worked this hard. Liam O'Donnell of Cinepunx podcast joins us to discuss all the eggs in the 90s Krishnacore pop crossover basket aka BABY GOPAL.

This episode we discuss unsettling folk music, unsettling old man fests, and unsettlingly bland dudes online before unsettling ourselves by analyzing a beloved band that all of you definitely know better than us.

This episode we talk about all the coolest corporations like Ticketmaster and Nike and how great it's all going before getting into one of the most low-rent but high impact splits of all time... Pittsburgh's tech-lords CREATION IS CRUCIFIXION vs Phoenix misery metal masters UNRUH.

So it's come to this... we have a special announcement that feels like putting on an enormous clown nose. A clown nose big enough to fit a Godzilla. A Godzilla which may or may not have, at one point or another, fought a fellow kaiju named MONSTER X, which is also the name of some guys we know.

This week we discuss some NORMY hardcore news like some ordinary hardcore podcast and it feels so good we might just keep doing that from now on. It's so easy to just tell you about hardcore internet. I'm not sure why you usually come here, but from now on it's to hear about hardcore internet only 3 days old. We also talk about Haymaker.

This week Mike slam dunks a Letterboxd goal and Scot discusses a completely ordinary situation that thousands of people experience routinely as though he is the first man on the moon. Eventually we talk about SWING KIDS, a record that marks the birth of jazz and I mean real jazz not that toot toot horn pervert bullshit.

Today we confront mortality in its many forms - the life or death choices of a horrific body puzzle in rollercoaster form; the sheer weight of being trapped in a body that spends 80 years dying unless it gets pasted by Rambo; the forbidden landscape of trash bags and tires under the spicy mustard sky of TRAGEDY.

This week is ALL REVIEWS: Two capsule reviews of our Secret Santa gifts - records by Boston noise weirdos Spore and Hudson Valley's Apocalypse stompers All Out War. Then we embark on a journey deep into the tangled roots of Long Island hardcore where we screw up ROYALLY in examination of CLOCKWISE. Bonus Taco Bell scene report for old headz.

This week we get a little too close for comfort talking about everything related to the show Webster except Webster then opening our Secret Santa gifts before wading into the weird smelling waters of the Hudson Valley to mosh in our big comfortable running shoes to the rock hard throb of DROWNING ROOM.