Gorilla X Monsoon - Self Titled EP

Gorilla X Monsoon last month released their Self Titled EP on Xerox Records. I know I have a bias with the band being made up of friends of mine, but this EP honestly rips! It's a great mix of late 80's early 90's hardcore that bounces between slow ragers and short thrashers. "Nothing More" makes me think of Inside Out and "Believe" makes me think of Chain of Strength and Youth of Today. But unlike many others that try to capture this era of hardcore, this EP doesn't lack sincerity or originality to me. One thing that I find pretty interesting and sweet is the mix of jazz drums alongside typical hardcore drums. Definitely something I've never heard in youth crew before. "Fist Through a Wall" has a rad guest vocal part with Andreya from Ripped to Shreds, and the album   concludes on a youth crew version of "Exlion Tamer" by Wire.
Redding Hardcore Lives!

"I was searching down darkened halls.
Insides black like the dead of night.
Blinded by light that I desperately seeked.
Trying to find something right for me.
It's times like these I wanna be set free.
I want to believe.
I'm taking shelter at the lotus feet.
It's my time to believe and I'm never looking back. "

Joshua Emery - Vocals
Tommy Ghiorso - Guitar
Kiefer Peterson - Bass
Khari Cowell - Drums

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Ripped to Shreds - Demo (2012)

Ripped to Shreds was a short lived thrashcore band that formed in the spring of 2012 and lasted until the late summer. Ethan Campos and I were living together that spring, and he suggested one afternoon while we were at Los Gordos to form a thrashcore band. Now there are two things I'm a total sucker for, one being short/fast songs and the other being thrown together projects. So it wasn't hard for Ethan to convince me to form the band with him ha. It was rad how fast we were able to throw together the band and demo. We wrote the whole demo in two days, and recorded it a month later ourselves in Josh Eermy's garage (aka Emery's Dungeon). And despite being a thrown together band and only playing a handful of local shows, there was a lot of different people who told us how much they loved our band. I'm still completely blown away by how many of them were from outside of Redding. A number of them we're from, Sothern/Central CA, Canada, the East Coast, South America, Europe, and even Australia. Pretty weird for a band that never toured or promoted its self very much. Definitely one of my favorite projects I've been a part of. Wish we could have done more, but it was rad while it lasted.

Ripped to Shreds
Andreya Boehm - vocals
Tommy Ghiorso - bass
Miles Claibourn - guitar
Ethan Campos - guitar
Josh Emery - drums


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