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Parris Mayhew, Cro-Mags: "The only New York hardcore band that ever really blew me away was the Crumbsuckers."

The song swells and pulsates and melts in the manner of what Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay do onboard the Pink Line.

Check out early entries from ten years back by Austere and Woods of Desolation, plus current offerings by the mournful and majestic Aquilus, Somnium Vox, Thrall, and more.

Their self-released eight-song 1983 7-inch EP is classic ripping hardcore punk, faster and more metallic than most NYHC bands at that time. 

Welcome, cable TV, VCR, and drive-in cinema fanatics, to a boombox-blasting, battery-sapping countdown of teen comedy soundtrack cuts assembled by Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, author...

We look at the development and diversions explored in metal's lost years by Kreator, Rob Halford, Dio, Saxon, Iron Maiden, Napalm Death, Testament, Death, and more.