Brainwave / Soul Void - Horrifying New Form (2022)

 

2020 split from Brainwave and Tāmaki Death Metal/Hardcore band Soul Void. Last thing put out by now defunct label Elimination Records.

https://eliminationrecords.bandcamp.com/album/horrifying-new-form

Brainwave - The Decline (2020)

First release from Pōneke Hardcore/Metalcore band Brainwave. They have just been touring NZ recently with new Pōneke band Lucre and will have a new ep out that we will post here soon!

https://eliminationrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-decline

Displeasure - Vortex of Shit (2022)

 

Displeasures first album. Anarcho-punk/Anarchosynth/Hardcore Punk. 

Free on bandcamp:
https://unsanitarynapkin.bandcamp.com/album/vortex-of-shit

"Displeasure is the digital subsidiary of Unsanitary Napkin. Vortex of Shit deals with the swirling mess of scaremongering bullshit rearing its increasingly ugly head in political discourse in Aotearoa. In the year 2022, things have reached the point where disgruntled science-denying farmers are teaming up with perverse public toilet-obsessed transphobes, raging anti-vaxxxers and evangelical megachurch despots in a horrific whirlpool of shit ideas manipulated by white supremacists and alt-right trolls - with all of their delusional social media outrage pumped by cynical algorithms to swell the profits of hypercapitalist billionaires and their colonial space-fantasies. Vortex of Shit highlights the absurdity of this dystopian trajectory, and stresses the urgency of solidarity in dismantling the extractive capitalist core driving the whole enterprise. Vortex of Shit was recorded and mixed by Vanya Vitali at Slimebag in Te Horo.

“The world you are being handed is one in turmoil, with an uncertain future. Truth be told – this trajectory of peril has been set for some time now, but never before were we able to access proof of that peril, expose it, and speak out to it, as we have been now, and it is taking a lot of work – much of which you too will have to bear. I wish it wasn’t so, I wish we could have taken care of so much more, but nevertheless I take heart that we have progressed enough to make the extreme right very, very anxious – and it’s important to understand that the global rise of the right, with all their hate and violence, is a direct reaction to social rights progress over many generations now – resulting in you, and the powerhouse you are […] focus on the sites of accountable power, and continue to articulate, with all your beautiful, passionate, eloquent, powerful voices, what true justice looks, sounds, and feels like. Remind those sites of accountable power that it is their responsibility to deal with the violent and hateful extremities of their own colonial political ideologies.” - Tina Ngata, ‘A Note for Our Rangatahi Resistance’ "

Starving Millions - VII (2023)

Latest release from Hardcore Punk/Post Hardcore band Starving Millions from Wellington. These guyd have been going for 10+ years and have a wealth of releases to listen to via their bandcamp!

https://starvingmillions.bandcamp.com/album/vii

Starving Millions - VI (2018)

Unposted Starving Millions album from 2018!

Free on bandcamp:
https://starvingmillions.bandcamp.com/album/vi

Easy Off / Dogcock - Split 7" (2022)

Split from two of the best Kirikiriroa bands in recent times. Brutal grind from now defunct Dogcock and Crust/D-beat from Easy Off.

https://easyoff.bandcamp.com/album/easy-off-dog-cock-split

Fog - A Black Cloud That Swallowed The Dove (2023)

First release from new Pōneke punk band FOG. Featuring members from a million bands in the capitol! Anarcho influenced Punk!

Free on bandcamp:
https://areweinthecloudsnow.bandcamp.com/album/a-black-cloud-that-swallowed-the-dove

 

Mandate - S/t Cassette (2023)

Ōtepoti band Mandates self titled cassette release from 2023. Furious fast hardcore punk featuring members of Long Distance Runner, Cuck and Electric Mayhem.

Free on bandcamp:
https://mandatenz.bandcamp.com/album/mandate-4

Dolebludger - Demonstration Tape (2023)

Tape release from Pōneke band Dolebludger. Mix of crusty Sludge/Doom in the vein of Eyehategod and Dystopia. Filthy as fuck!

Free on bandcamp:
https://razoredraw.bandcamp.com/album/demonstration-tape

Pissbaby - Rest in Piss (2023)

First release from Pōneke Hardcore Punk/Metalcore crew Pissbaby. Featuring members of Deathtrippa and Severed Beliefs.

Free on bandcamp:
https://razoredraw.bandcamp.com/album/rest-in-piss

Putrid Future - Nightmare Reality (2023)

Latest cassette release from Putrid Future. With a nod to Disclose's seminal album Nightmare or Reality, Putrid Future smashes out some mean as blown out D-beat!

Free on bandcamp:
https://razoredraw.bandcamp.com/album/nightmare-reality
 

Putrid Future / Szklo - Split 7" (2023)

Split between Wellington's Putrid Future and Australian band Szklo. Blown out Rawpunk/D-beat at its finest!

Free on bandcamp:
https://razoredraw.bandcamp.com/album/putrid-future-szk-o
 

Putrid Future - Rehearsal 2021 (2021)

Early rehearsal demo from Wellington's Raw punk/D-beat band Putrid Future. 

Free on bandcamp:
https://razoredraw.bandcamp.com/album/rehearsal-2021-cs

No Brainers - Bullshit World EP (2023)

Latest release from your favourite Tāmaki Hardcore punks No Brainers! RIP the Vault!

Free on bandcamp:
https://nobrainers.bandcamp.com/album/bullshit-world-ep

No Brainers - Acid Melt 7" (2022)

'Six tracks of hectic Hott Chips Hardcore from five retail refugees now left to forge a life of petty crime, corporate admin and punk 45s to survive this apocalyptic nightmare. This EP takes you through the dystopian horror of life in Aotearoa's 'most liveable city', from the only Tāmaki Makaurau band qualified to tell you to wake up to The Real Deal. Based on a true story.'

https://nobrainers.bandcamp.com/album/acid-melt
 

Cuck - S/t (2022)

First full length from Ōtepoti band Cuck. Fast Hardcore/Power Violence/Scramz from members of Swallows Nest, Machina Rex and Yung Nat$. 

https://dhdc.bandcamp.com/album/cuck

 
 

Distant Fear - A Reminder of Death 7' (2021)

Tāmaki Makaurau Crust/Death Metal band Distant Fears 7" release from 2021. Featuring members of Witchrist, Shallow Grave, and Vigil.

https://distantfear.bandcamp.com/album/a-reminder-of-death 

Radium - WITNESS FOR YOURSELF, THE HEALING PROPERTIES OF RADIUM (2022)

 

Ōtautahi/Christchurch Hardcore punk band Radiums 2022 ep. Featuring members of Zhukov, Arm and Hammer, Nervous Jerk and Blamethrower.

Free on bandcamp
https://radiumhc.bandcamp.com/album/witness-for-yourself-the-healing-properties-of-radium

High Risk Maneuver - The High Life (2011)

High Risk Maneuver were a Hamilton based Grind band who broke up around 10 years ago. They had a short demo that made it to bandcamp but they never released this album online. So here it is! Featuring members of Dogcock, Aborted Christians, Scavenger, Rogernomix and a million others.

Mediafire

The Second Death - Demo (2024)

Demo from newly formed Auckland D-beat/Hardcore band The Second Death. Featuring members of Pulvinar, Graves and Bridge Burner.

Free on bandcamp:
https://theseconddeath.bandcamp.com/album/demo

SORRY SYMPHONIES HAS BEEN SO SLACK! We have lots to cover that we missed out on over the last couple years of absence!
 

Pulvinar - Excessive Suffering (2022)

 Second and last ep from now defunct duo Pulvinar. RIP Pulvinar!

Free on bandcamp:

https://pulvinar.bandcamp.com/album/excessive-suffering

Skitkrimes - Skitzedout (2023)

Second tape by Skitkrimes now featuring a full lineup!

Free on bandcamp:
https://razoredraw.bandcamp.com/album/skitzedout

https://limblessmusic.bandcamp.com/album/skitzedout

Skitkrimes - Noise Speed Agression (2022)

First tape by two piece Raw Punk/D-beat from Wellington featuring the folks behind Limbless Music and Razored Raw.

Free on bandcamp
https://razoredraw.bandcamp.com/album/noise-speed-aggression

Bordger/Extinct Exist - Split 7" (2022)

 

Wellington D-beat band Bordger teamed up with Aussie's Extinct Exist for an excellent split just before both bands called it quits!

Download the Bordger Side here:
https://bordger.bandcamp.com/album/bordger-extinct-exist-split

Knifed - Razored Raw Session (2022)

 Now defunct Tāmaki grind band Knifed recorded by Razored Raw.  RIP KNFIED

https://razoredraw.bandcamp.com/album/razored-raw-session

Manic Aggression - Manic Aggression Demo (2022)

Hardcore Punk project from the folks behind Hairy Palm and Razored Raw!

Free on bandcamp
https://hairypalm.bandcamp.com/album/manic-aggression-demo-cs

Hairy Palm Vol 4 - Miseryguts (2023)

 

"AOTEAROA COMP TAPE FEATURING THE LIKES OF RADIUM, DISTANT FEAR, SPITEFUL URINATOR, DAHTM AND AS MANY OTHER NZ PSYCHOS AS I COULD CRAM PAST THE LEADER TAPE; NINE BANDS, NINE TRACKS SHOWCASING THE UNDERBELLY OF THIS WHALE CARCASS I’VE CALLED HOME FOR SO LONG" 

 

Compilation put out by Hairy Palm early 2023!

 

https://hairypalm.bandcamp.com/album/hairy-palm-vol-4-misery-guts 

Knifed - S/t (2022)

 

10 tracks in nearly 11 minutes of violent meditation on the anxieties of geographic isolation.

https://hairypalm.bandcamp.com/album/knifed

 Hairy Palm Tapes in conspiracy with Wrought Material released November 26, 2022

Knifed - Sampler Cassette (2022)

 

Very new Auckland Grind band Knifed's first demo! Featuring members of XCONTORTX, Sick Old Man, Arsehuffer and Disguy. Fuck yes bros! Evil stuff!

Released through Hairy Palm

https://hairypalm.bandcamp.com/album/knifed-sampler-cs

Disguy - The 'Who Brought' EP (2022)

 

Snuck out a lil EP for ya before Wastefest this weekend! Admin's new project featuring members of Sick Old Man, Gutrot and Knifed. Crusty D-beat. Fuck Datguy.

 Free!

https://disfuckingguy.bandcamp.com

Wolves/Gravel Pit - Split (2022)

 

Just released split between Tāmaki band Wolves and Wellington's Gravel Pit. Wolves are a new 'old' school Hardcore band featuring members of Evil Priest, Promise of Bloodshed, The Burial, 8 Foot Sativa, City of Souls and Bleeders. This is their first release. Gravel Pit are a Thrashy hardcore punk band from the Capital. Great new split!!

https://gravel-pit-nz.bandcamp.com/album/gravel-pit-wolves-split

https://wolves5.bandcamp.com/album/wolves-gravel-pit-split 

Putrid Future - Distopia Demo (2020)

Raw Punk/Noisey Crust from Wellington featuring Dan of Bowel Rupture and Matai from Razored Raw records. Mean as bedroom shit fuck yea!

https://razoredraw.bandcamp.com/album/distopia-2020-demo

Protest Music Vol 1 - Compilation (2020)

A Compilation put out in 2020 to raise money for various Black Lives Matter affiliated groups during the period of intense resistance to the racist colonial American state. Not sure who put this out? Great release! Solidarity!

https://protestmusicnz.bandcamp.com/album/protest-music-vol-1

'BLM. NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE. ACAB. '

'MUSIC BY
Soul Void
Zone Killer
Marrowspawn
Glassblower
Coffinmaker
Pulvinar
BULK BOGAN
Pill Murray
Skitz Hydro
Flesh of the Womb // Bodyache
AZURE
P Wits
Thousand Limbs
Mistchaser
Scrap
Thousand Knives
BioniCal'

Deb5000 - Debutante (2021)

 

First release from Tāmaki punks Deb5000. Amazing photography and a love of Keanu Reeves, what more do ya need?

https://deb5000.bandcamp.com/album/debutante

Marrowspawn - Live at Valhalla 30/4/21 (2021)

 Wellington's Grindy Hardcore band Marrowspawn, released this live demo in 2021. Hopefully they do some recording soon as! Free on bandcamp.

https://marrowspawn.bandcamp.com/releases

Pvnisher - Discography (2021)

 All the Pvnisher releases together! Free on bandcamp. 

https://razoredraw.bandcamp.com/album/discography-cs

Indiscriminate Violent Ugly: Demo (2020)

Disgusting D-Beat Raw Punk from Wellington. Featuring members from half the Wellington scene. Goes hard! Free free free!

https://razoredraw.bandcamp.com/album/violent-ugly-demo-2020

Glassblower - Younger The Old Money (2021)

 Grindy beatdown Hardcore from Wellys. Released on Elimination records.

https://eliminationrecords.bandcamp.com/album/younger-than-old-money

Vomit Storm - S/t (2019)

2019 album from now defunct 'Rungus Thrash' band Vomit Storm. Epic band, awesome gigs chur! This has just been release through Limbless on limited edition vinyl so check it out!

https://vomitstorm.bandcamp.com/album/vomit-storm

Forest Trotter - S/T (2020)

 

EP from Tāmaki's bedroom blackmetallers Forest Trotter. Released on Limbless. Trott along brethen!

https://limblessmusic.bandcamp.com/album/forest-trotter

Cootie Cuties - Sexy Grrrls in Your Area (2020)

 We missed posting the first Cootie Cuties EP here so here it is! Pop Punk from Tāmaki featuring members of Slug Hugger, Future Theft and Jang. For freeeeee on bandcamp.

https://cootiecuties.bandcamp.com/album/sexy-grrrls-in-your-area

XCONTORTX - Demo (2021)

 

New Tamaki powerviolence band XCONTORTX's first release. Featuring members of Bulk Bogan and Pulvinar. Fucking good stuff! Release through Limbless Music.

https://xcontortx.bandcamp.com/

 

 

Severed Beliefs - Phrases of Empty Repentance (2021)

Metalcore from the capital, released by Elimination Records featuring some of the Elimination folks themselves. Cheap as on bandcamp!

https://eliminationrecords.bandcamp.com/album/phrases-of-empty-repentance

Hedge Fund Trader - S/t (2020)

 

The last Hedge Fund Trader release, compiling several old EP's and some later recordings that were never released prior to the bands permanent hiatus (?). Post-hardcore/powerviolence vibes as always. Free on bandcamp.

 

https://hedgefundtrader.bandcamp.com/album/hedge-fund-trader-2 

Bordger - War of Extinction (2020)

 

Another excellent Crusty D-beat band coming out of the capital. This album goes fucking hard!
Free download on bandcamp. Also watch out for the upcoming split with Aussie band Extinct Exist.

Also it's been 10 year since this blog started and all the mediafire links still work! Hopefully this is still a good spot/archive for Punk and Hardcore from Aotearoa! After we get through posting all the most recent releases etc, will try and upload some old punk and hardcore that we never got round to doing.

https://limblessmusic.bandcamp.com/album/war-of-extinction

Spiteful Urinator / Scavenger - Split EP (2021)

 

Most recent Spiteful release with Melbourne's Scavenger (featuring old mate Ben Clancy from all the best Hamtown bands). There are still 7"s left, so get in there!

https://spitefulurinator.bandcamp.com/album/spiteful-urinator-scavenger-split-ep

Spiteful Urinator - Warning Ignored (2021)

 

Kirikiriroa's stalwarts crusties Spiteful Urinator have been cranking out multiple releases a year, each as crushing as the next. This one is no different, check it out on bandcamp.

https://spitefulurinator.bandcamp.com/album/warning-ignored

Bulk Bogan - Spinebuster (2021)

Tāmaki powerviolence duo Bulk Bogan's release from the end of 2021. We got a big backlog of stuff to post on the blog, so expect more over the coming little while!

https://bulkxbogan.bandcamp.com/album/spinebuster