The Witzard

So, we recently told you about Jonah Falco & Mike Haliechuk from F*CKED UP 's other band, Jade Hairpins ... well, now Jonah & Mike are back with yet ANOTHER other band, MASTERPIECE MACHINE . Not entirely unlike Jade Hairpins , it appears as though MASTERPIECE MACHINE was birther from F*CKED UP album sessions; although, this time, in addition to Jonah Falco & Mike Haliechuk , they've recruited a third member for MASTERPIECE MACHINE , Riley Gale from POWER TRIP . "Jonah & I were in the studio for two years writing the last F*CKED UP album, [ Dose Your Dreams ] and ended up with tons of music that didn't fit on the album. We had these two specific songs that sounded huge and aggressive, so we wanted to carve them off into their own project," Mike Haliechuk recently told REVOLVER . In stark contrast to both F*CKED UP & POWER TRIP , MASTERPIECE MACHINE —at least, from their debut single, "Rotting Fruit"—MASTERPIECE MACHINE appear t...

"10 years after their first release, Trapped Under Ice brings you Heatwave. This phat LP is short, fast, and Hardcore; the way Straight Ahead intended, but played more like Fury of Five and Breakdown at a backyard party. For Punks who've considered throwing a spin-kick in jean shorts. Rhythmically, Heatwave is like a trailer park Sepultura. Check it out if you f**k with what TUI has been doing for the last decade. The same, but different" is how Baltimore Hardcore Punks Trapped Under Ice describe their latest record, Heatwave within a Pop Wig Records pre-order. Heatwave consists of 11 rapid-fire tracks that collectively clock in at right around 14 minutes-worth of frantic, blistering well-executed Punk. It's been six years since Trapped Under Ice's last album, Big Kiss Goodnight (2011) and since then, its members have splintered off to form like-minded progressive Punk/Hardcore bands Angel Du$t , Turnstile, Diamond Youth, Down to Nothing, WARFARE, and Sai Nam, ...