Jeff Foxworthy voice: If you think The Acacia Strain are too progressive and noodley, you just might like NO HOLDS BARRED. If you think Emmure would be sweet if they weren’t so emo, there’s a good chance you’ll be into NO HOLDS BARRED. And if you ever shook your head in disappointment about how old Liferuiner was too intellectual… well, you’ll love NO HOLDS BARRED!
As you can see from their logo they are from New Jersey, are ignorant as fuck, and sound sort of like Fury of Five if they tuned to A, had guttural vocals, and were somehow even more aggressive and angry. In other words, something close to the perfect hardcore band! We’ve posted about these guys before, but no fucks given: I’ve been listening to them a ton lately and I will post these songs every day if that’s what it takes for them to get some love!
Not sure why this song is called “Stay In Your Lane,” but I drove on the Garden State Parkway every day and definitely yelled that phrase many times. Also, dat fucking pinch harmonic breakdown at 2:05!!!
If you can look at a band’s promo photos and tell yourself “Someone in this picture probably has probably worn a Fubu tracksuit in the last 90 days,” you know they are worth listening to!
Sick Fury Of Five-style harmonics in this riff, and how can you possibly go wrong with a title like “Control and Dominate”?!
Couldn’t find a studio version of this song, but it’s just as well. Note the singer’s non-ironic “Come at me bro” shirt, and what might be the single most awesomely fucking ignorant line I’ve ever heard in a hardcore song: “You’re just a coward motherfucker / You fuckin faggot cocksucker.”
Hit these guys up on Facebook and tell them SYWH sent you! Also, their EP is on Spotify so don’t sleep on it.
Are you fucking moshing or are YOU FUCKING MOSHING???? Will tr00 hardcore kids discover this band and get on the fucking program?? Is this the ultimate in brutal, ignorant hardcore???
Nothing beats good old fashioned ignocore but this band stimulates donkey scrotum.
I’m new to this hardcore thing, but this sounds exactly like death metal. What’s with people playing death metal and calling it hardcore.
file under “questions people have been asking since the mid 80s”
Their hair doesn’t look metal.
Looking forward to Emmure’s new album, no fux. They’re completely ridiculous, whether it’s a good thing is up to the listener. Usually it’s both within the same song though.
This band needs better production tbh. Sounds shiiiiit.
I was listening to some tracks yesterday and I realized that there is no melody whatsoever in any of their songs. Everything is played like a percussion instrument, except for the skronchy pinch parts. I think I should make a compelling argument that they are actually a post-noise band.
+1
MY GOD i”m moshin”! God bless u srgnt D
Oh man just the article name on my twitter feed made me LOL. This band is perfect. If it is not the defining band of a generation, I will eat my coworker’s sperry loafers.
Hahaha “can I borrow your Lugz?”
Also, how awkward is it that Lugz sponsors Lyoto Machida?
most baffling choice ever! i totally understood why they signed Houston Alexander (dat BBC), but Machida made my scratch my head- especially because at the time, he was considered super boring
azn pride worldwide, azns love frontin at being black ppl!
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DAT Waking the Cadaver shirt
I was very disappointed when I realized they’re not named Walking The Cadaver.
You know it’s funny… I am actually not moshing.
disregard garbage production values, acquire Joey Sturgis.
“If you can look at a band’s promo photos and tell yourself “Someone in this picture probably has probably worn a Fubu tracksuit in the last 90 days,” you know they are worth listening to!”
Lost it like I haven’t done in weeks. A+++
seconded! though not an easy explanation when someone asks what in the world is so funny.
The production reminds me of the demos we made using a 4-track in the 90′s. But I am really digging this!
apparently i am the only one who thinks this sounds really good :(
I guess that came off as sarcastic, but I really do like them.
Y’know, maybe it’s just ’cause I’m a fool from a small town in Canada, but I keep feeling this kinda hardcore is just moments away from becoming the next big thing hipsters latch onto.
If that ever happens, I will have to decide whether I am super stoked or ready to suicide myself. Either way, if that day ever comes consider my mind = bottled
Hipster here. This has not yet caught on with my peer group but I am trying, goddammit.
I have a theory that this will never happen. My hypothesis is that hipsters have an aversion to downtuning that is insurmountable. This is why black metal is trendy to like, but death metal never will be, why tr00 hardcore is cool to like but beatdown never will be, and why 90s bands like deftones and at the drive in are cool to like but nu metal never will be.
Wait, Deftones isn’t downtuned (or even nu-metal)? mind=shattered (notsrs)
reminds me of wtc…srsly
The dude in the back holding the can of Olde English looks like a fat Phil Anselmo.
I think this is awesome! There are so many bands that sound worse than this (MDK for instance is signed and sounds like ass compared to this), so I don’t really even get production bitching. I fucking love the basslines, whoever said it’s like 4 percussion instruments was def onto something. No Holds Barred is post-melody beatdown.
A band with a guy wearing an EliteFTS shirt in the photo cannot be bad!
I was going to mosh but dat ’97 nu metal voice ruined it
their name has got to be an mma reference
son, i am disappoint for you confusing the natural harmonics @ 2:05 for pinch harmonics. crucial point.
The music sounds nothing like the description of the music, what gives?
Emmure is totally artsy. Just not on purpose.
i actually agree with this 100% non-ironically. true outsider art (srs)