Stab You In The Head - Killin' Toys

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Genre: Hardcore

FFO: Pulling Teeth, COA, Integrity, Sound clips

Stab You is a hardcore band from CT. They are a 3 piece band consisting of a vocalist, a guitarist, and a drummer. There are some thrashy parts on this album that give them a metallic sound, but for the most part they have an old school hardcore sound with lots of sound clips in all of their songs.

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Killin' Toys

Audience Of One - I Remember When This All Meant Something

Genre: Screamo/Indie/Emo

FFO: Boys Night Out, Circa Survive

Audience Of One was Anthony Green (Circa Survive, Saosin)'s band from when he was in high school, and it's actually pretty good. The first song on the album, Show Your Teeth, is easily my favorite song of theirs.

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Dagwood - Demo

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Genre: Pop-Punk/Punk

FFO: Osker, Seaweed

Dagwood is a new band from Connecticut. They have a 90's pop-punk vibe about them. this is definitely worth checking out!

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One4One - Trust Is Lost EP

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Genre: Hardcore

FFO: Sum Of All Fears, Shutdown

One4One was a hardcore band from New Jersey that was active throughout the 90's. They played lots of shows with Hatebreed, Indecision, 25 Ta Life, and tons of other great 90's acts.

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Trust Is Lost

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Kiss It Goodbye - Be Afraid(Demo)

Genre: Hardcore

FFO: Groundwork, Rorschach, Cast Iron Hike

Kiss It Goodbye was a hardcore band from Seattle Washington that was active from 1997-1998. They released a few records on Rev. This is worth checking out.

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Be Afraid

Hamartia - To Play The Part

Genre: Metal/Hardcore/Metalcore

FFO: Piecemeal, Harvest

To Play The Part is one of my favorite albums to come out of Connecticut. There are so many good songs on this. I really recommend checking this out if you haven't heard this yet. Members of Hamartia went on to start, or join, With Honor, Bury Your Dead, Blood Has Been Shed and Between The Buried and Me.

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To Play The Part

Handsome - Live @ Hultsfred Festival, Sweden

Genre: Post-Hardcore/Metal

FFO: Quicksand, Shift, Cave In, Helmet

Live set from Sweden featuring songs off of their full length, and a couple songs that were unreleased.

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Live @ Hultsfred Festival, Sweden

Cold World - I-i-i-i-i-i-it's A Demo

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Genre: Hardcore

FFO: Trapped Under Ice, Backtrack, War Hungry

I don't know too much about this. I do know that it's Nick Woj, the drummer for Cold World, on vocals, and that this is from the Dedicated recording sessions.

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It's A Demo

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Children Of The Night - Misfits Covers

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Genre: Surf Rock/Punk

FFO: Energy, The Beach Boys, Misfits

Children of the Night is Tank from Energy's side project. It sounds like The Beach Boys covering Misfits songs.

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Misfits Covers

Wrench In The Works - Prodigal Transmissions

Genre: Metal/Hardcore

FFO: Deadguy, Converge, Blood Has Been Shed, All Else Failed

This was Wrench's first release full length that was released on Redscroll Records in 2005. There are so many great, technical and heavy parts on this album. The drums on this are just as fast and frantic as they are on their subsequent releases. A few of the songs of of this album were re-recorded and released on The Lost Art Of Heaping Coal, their first release with Facedown Records. If you like WITW, you should check this album out and see the origins of their unique sound.

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Prodigal Transmissions

Handsome - Handsome

Genre: Post-Hardcore/Metal

FFO: Quicksand, Shift, Cave In, Helmet

Handsome was a band from New York that was active from 2006 until 2008. They were a supergroup of sorts, consisting of members of Quicksand, Helmet, Cro-Mags and Murphy's Law. This was their only release. There are tons of riffs that sound like they could be in Helmet songs, but there's a balance between the metal riffs and the more melodic vocals, and it creates a really unique and great sound. This is one of my favorite albums to come out in the 90's. If you like Quicksand, you'll appreciate this band.

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Handsome