Cruel Hand

Killer Lyrics: Like a dog beat one too many times / You start to bite back / Sink your teeth in the hands of the weak / Vengeance you seek Maine hardcore band Cruel Hand released 'Lock & Key,' their third full-length, on the long-running, Boston-based label Bridge Nine Records. Th...

Cruel Hand's 'Lock and Key' isn't coming out via Bridge 9 Records until July 27, but Noisecreep is beyond stoked to exclusively premiere 'Broken Glass,' which is more of a blast than it is a song -- but it certainly gets the point across with its fast and furious energy...

The Black 'n' Blue Bowl -- formerly the Superbowl of Hardcore -- is being exhumed and will play out at New York City's Webster Hall on May 15. This marks the return of the Bowl to the place where it all began back in 1988. The lineup fuses the old with the new, the classic with the current, the past and the future, including not-to-be missed sets from Cro-Mags, Madball, H2O, Skarhead, Trapped Unde

The 2010 New England Metal and Hardcore Festival enters its 12th year this spring, returning to Worcester, Mass. Taking place at The Palladium, the event will be held April 23 and April 24 -- a special kickoff party, sponsored by Atticus, will also take place on April 22...

Survival. That's what 'Life & Times' -- the latest from New York hardcore heroes Maximum Penalty and the band's first album in seven years -- is all about. Like the album, which dropped Oct. 5, the video for its title track conveys a similar feel. He...