Usually year end lists leave off these sorts of things
(maybe not splits but this was a dry year for them, maybe it has been for a
while). Below I have compiled some of my favorites, several really stuck out
but they are all worth checking out.
Top split 7”
Reginal Justice Center / Wound Man (Atomic Action Records)
Not a big year for splits or at least ones that hit my
radar. I pulled this out from EPs or anything else really because it is two of
my favorite current bands crushing out seven songs on one 7” record. If you
haven’t checked it out do so straightaway.
Top Singles
Anxious – Promo 2019 (Triple-B Records)
Denzel Curry – I Against I (PH Recordings)
Fake Eyes – Promo 2019 (New Morality Zine)
Members of Magnitude playing some of the best post-hardcore
I have ever heard. Their demo last year blew me away and this promo has me so
excited for what is next.
Fiddlehead – Get My Mind Right (Run For Cover Records)
Gel - HC For the Freaks / Promo Tape (Self Released)
Mil-Spec – Just Our Imagination (Self Released)
Soul Blind – Promo 2019 (New Morality Zine)
I have most likely listened to this thing fifty times
already.
Sunstroke – Fall Risk (New Morality Zine)
Vantage Point – Promo 2019 (Triple B Records)
War By Other Means - The Damage/What It Once Was (The Big
Idea Fanzine)
Top Demos
Affront – A Demonstration of An (Self Released)
Band is made up of ex and current members of real deal
hardcore bands from Chicago. I was lucky enough to snag the tape in Chicago
when I went to see Method of Doubt in October.
Buggin Out – Demo 2019 (Personal Favorites)
Don’t Trust A Soul – Demo ’19 (Self Released)
End On End – Demo (Dog Years Records/New Morality Zine)
Love & Trust – Demo 2019 (Trip Machine Labs)
This is something I find myself coming back to over and over
again already. A band I am really trying to keep my eye on.
Renegade – Demo 2019 (Nuclear Family Records)
Sunami – Demonstration (Viewpoint Records)
Demo of the year, if you don’t agree “your a bitch”.
Victimized Youth – Demo 2019 (Self Released)
