BARCODE - Showdown

BARCODE
Showdown
Nuclear Blast Records – 2005
8/10




If you are not a devotee of straight-up, fist-pumping old school hardcore anthems that hit you like a gunshot to the skull, then you can stop reading this right here. But, if you find yourself to be inclined to rip into a skanking frenzy when you hear ‘the real thing”, then this is your opportunity to discover one of the brashest, boldest HxC bands currently making a massive impression on the scene today.

With tough traditional anthems like “End The War”, “Rise To Dignity” and the muscular, hard hitting title track, “Showdown”, Barcode have set themselves up for major success in the hardcore scene. These five bashers have no trouble ripping up the idea that old school hardcore is no more as they launch into a social diatribe such as “Fanatics” or a throwback cut like “Drinkslinger” that recalls the spirit felt in the music of hardcore legends Murphy’s Law in a major way.

As the group pounds through the torrid “In The Pit”, you can envision the insane walls of death that this band must generate in a concert setting. One of this year’s brightest hardcore records, the sixteen tracks which grace “Showdown” provide nothing less than elbow throwing, head cracking sonic thunder at it’s finest.

Top it all of with one of the coolest, most creative album covers in recent memory and you have a beast that is just dying to be unleashed in your favorite moshing location. Make way for the roughhouse attack of Barcode.

by: xkingofallcorex