Break out the bottle it's time to thrash some Shit City Nowhere Blues! One of our favorite bands from Canada submitted this gnarly track for our 1312 Comp and it totally fucking shreds. Hard Charger hails from the Canadian province of New Brunswick. These crazy fuckers have been raising hell since '06 so if you've not heard of 'em before you got tons of new music to check out. Straight up this is is the killer blend of crust, thrash, and punk! It is the perfect soundtrack for hitting the skatepark or blasting down the highway!
"Crust n' roll. As in shoewrecking-gas-pedal-mashing, fuck you finger waving, right reckless and nihilistic rock n roll."
Rumbling in from Canada’s East Coast, Hard Charger is a vicious 3-piece that brandishes the sonic constitution of a punk rock jackhammer. Ploughing through long nights and heavy mileage, they’ve been breaking intercontinental asphalt for well over a decade, bludgeoning blood-thirsty audiences across Canada, the US, Mexico, and Europe since 2006, with no signs of slowing down.
Their most recent release Vol. 4: Take The Guff & Suffer was released May 3, 2019 (via D7i Records [CA], Doomsday Machine [CA], Emergency Records [CZ], and Wasted Time [ROW]). “Growing up in a small town and feeling like you’re stuck, stuck in the grind, getting the life sucked out of you”, Vol. 4 is an album for the working class, dragging listeners through fever dreams of dirty dive bars, $2.50 beers, and poor life decisions. With a hefty catalogue consisting of 4 full-lengths and several EPs, Hard Charger locks in with the staunchest axe-slingers of modern day rock, punk & metal.
What started in 2006 dedicating leisure hours to noise, has grown into one of the best-respected touring acts on the East Coast. Hard Charger’s current lineup - Tom (drums/vox), Dave (guitar/vox) and Shawn (bass/vox) - devote themselves to making their self-described brand of “...crust n’ roll. Like, shoe-wrecking, gas pedal-mashing, f*ck you-finger-waving, right reckless and nihilistic rock n roll.”
With appearances at heavy-hitting festivals - Obscene Extreme (CZ),Distort Vancouver, Maryland Death Fest, & Radioactive Earslaughter (Montreal) - and sharing the stage with the likes of Voivod,Poison Idea Weedeater,Discharge and more, Hard Charger is no stranger to the big stage. Yet among their many career successes, you’ll still find them hanging in gritty basements, hammering out house shows and hellfests alike. In fact, when they’re not hustling out on the road, Hard Charger’s members are integral parts of their home scene in Fredericton, NB, Canada - putting on some of the city’s heaviest shows in their basement, fittingly called the Maniac Mansion. https://www.instagram.com/hardcharger506/
“Easily the gruffest, most venomous band Canada has had since Kittens, Fredericton’s Hard Charger dispel any myth that the Great White North can’t blast with the best of them. Gutsy and confrontational without seeming bone-headed, there’s a sinister aura about Hard Charger.” - Exclaim! https://www.facebook.com/hardchargermusic
In their years of trials and trampling, Hard Charger has proven to be one of the hardest working, hard-hitting bands on the East Coast. With Vol. 4 in their arsenal and big plans for non-stop touring into the horizon, 2019 promises to be a big year for this well-deserving crew. A pummelling pedagogue for the proletariat, they are the speed beast and we’re screaming in the stands https://hardcharger.bigcartel.com/
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