262. July 2025 (Dave Byrd / Striking Distance)

We're back and talking hardcore. It's a beefy episode this week:

1. Best hardcore punk releases from the first half of 2025 

2. Hardest 1990s demo - sweet 16 and quarter finals 

3. Interview: Dave Byrd (Striking Distance)

Zack has a new band. Listen to it here:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3qzWK0YGECEphQt9pGnFF4?si=9IjaGLC3T_aDIvky6hEIzQ

https://music.apple.com/ca/album/demo-ep/1823370186

rebirthrecordsphl.bandcamp.com/album/subversive-intent-demo

Buy the demo:

https://rebirthrecords.bigcartel.com/product/subversive-intent

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Intro song: Subversive Intent

Outro song: Cheap Heat

Chapters

• 2:59 Best hardcore releases of 2025 so far
• 6:37 Alienator
• 11:55 Beton Arme
• 14:22 Bulls Shitt
• 17:29 Grand Scheme
• 20:31 G*U*N*N*
• 23:24 Inmates
• 27:01 Nisemono
• 28:45 Steröid
• 31:47 Cheap Heat
• 33:39 Electric Chair / Physique
• 36:45 Puffer
• 39:08 Tramadol
• 40:03 The Massacred
• 41:37 Ultimate Disaster
• 44:47 With Hate
• 46:36 Wits End / Dead On Your Feet
• 49:46 Hardest '90s Demo Sweet 16
• 50:35 25 Ta Life vs. 100 Demons
• 53:00 All Out War vs. Death Threat
• 55:34 Blood For Blood vs. Bulldoze
• 57:31 Buried Alive vs. Clubber Lang
• 1:00:07 Cold as Life vs. Merauder
• 1:02:00 Krutch vs. DMIZE
• 1:03:14 Dying Breed vs. E. Town Concrete
• 1:05:30 Fury of V vs. Hatebreed
• 1:06:58 Hardest '90s Demo Quarterfinals
• 1:13:05 Interview: Dave Byrd (Striking Distance)
• 2:22:40 Final Thoughts