, subversive, high-concept projects that toy with perceptions of cultism and violence as much as they act upon them. or basically any hardcore band that cares a lot about merch drops. the band knew to end on a possibility—that the ’90s could have turned out much differently than they ...
Evolving with each ensuing record, the band reached a shift in 1993 on ‘Chaos A.D.,’ discharging hardcore-styled riffs with an unrelenting sense of groove. Lyrically, it was all political rage, which set up the groundbreaking ‘Roots’ album in 1996. To explore their heritage even further...
CM: You know what’s amazing, though—and really, you started off with sharing at the top of it, and we’re able to come together and help one another, meet one another, support one another, cry in front of one another, man or woman. And it’s okay, y’know? That’s—I’m s...
Still, the genre has managed to keep rearing its head – first in the mid-2000s, as trance revitalised the happy hardcore sound, and more recently through its impact on the global EDM movement. Twenty-five years since the advent of happy hardcore, we spoke to the people who have been th...