The Witzard

ILL COMMUNICATION (CREDIT: Matt Welch) ILL COMMUNICATION started as a few friends from the Oxnard & Tehachapi, California Hardcore scenes who had talked about making music together for over 15 years. After playing and touring North America & Europe in bands, such as THE WARRIORS, Diehard Youth, NO MOTIV, Retaliate, and Gravemaker, they named the band, wrote some music, and started playing out. Soon after, they recorded two EP's that where released online, as well as a one-sided 12-inch on Another City Records. All their release have been and will be written, recorded, and engineered by a core group of friends. Musically, pulling from classic Hardcore bands, such as Beyond, Turning Point and Inside Out, as well as well as mix of other music styles. Lyrically, addressing a variety of topics covering the state of the world to chillin' out with friends. With the aim to give back to a scene that has given them so much, ILL COMMUNICATION joined the Safe Inside Record...

Rejection Pact (CREDIT: Jake Villanueva) Rejection Pact is one of our personal favorite Hardcore Punk bands, who is based out of Boise, Idaho. They formed in the fall of 2017 and their current line-up features Devin Boudreax, Ralph Mugot, Charlie Ritch, Nate Spann & Hunter Wahl. Drawing influence from the mid-late 2000's West Coast Hardcore stylings of Rilvary Records, as well as the classic Bridge Nine roaster, Rejection Pact self-released a demo tape in early 2018 and linked up with Safe Inside Records to release their debut 10-song 7-inch, Threats of The World, in April of 2019. They played locally, as well as toured the West Coast & Western Canada, behind said 7-inch and played with a wide variety of bands, including Drug Church, Regional Justice Center, Mortality Rate, Magnitude, Envision, Trench, BERTHOLD CITY, Keep Flying, Lower Species, etc. Rejection Pact plays a blend of straight-forward Hardcore & Melodic Punk that keeps the songs short and sweet, rar...

ILL COMMUNICATION (CREDIT: Matt Welch) ILL COMMUNICATION started as a few friends from the Oxnard & Tehachapi Hardcore scenes who had talked about making music together for over 15 years. After playing and touring across North America & Europe in bands such as THE WARRIORS, Diehard Youth, NO MOTIV, Retaliate, and Gravemaker, they named the band (after the Beastie Boys,) wrote some music, and started playing out. Soon after, they recorded two EP's that where released online, as well as a one-sided 12-inch on Another City Records. All their releases have been and will be written, recorded, and engineered by a core group of friends. Musically pulling from classic Hardcore bands such as Beyond, Turning Point, and Inside Out, as well as well as mix of other musical styles. Rhythms & Rhymes for the End Times by ILL COMMUNICATION Lyrically addressing a variety of topics from the state of the world to chillin' out with friends; ILL COMMUNICATION has been known to gi...