New releases made in Italy, Ragecage, Chains, Something Higher Compilation

2015 begins with good news for Hardcore, especially for the "made in Italy". Chains (Bologna) is working on a new album, 12 songs for the LP called "Crawling Stronger". On bandcamp you can already listen to one of these tracks.



Another great news, 2 members of Upward with other friends started a new band called Ragecage. Their first release, Sick Songs Demo will be printed on tape by Assurd Records for Italy and Rat Trax Records for the US.



During January will also be released by Youth Crew Records and Beyond This World Records a compilation CD called "Something Higher". Every band is somehow related with Krishnacore, and the Italian rappresentatives are Safe, Traces of You and Fumbles in Life (with an old cover of Shelter).
To end this long post, both Upward and Set Me Free are working on new songs, brace yourselves!

---

Il 2015 inizia con qualche qualche buona notizia per quanto riguarda le uscite musicali, ed in particolare sul fronte made in Italy. I Chains di Bologna stanno infatti preparando un nuovo album, 12 tracce che andranno a finire su un LP intitolato "Crawling Stronger". Sul loro bandcamp è già disponibile all'ascolto una traccia. https://chainsxcrew.bandcamp.com/
Altra grande novità è la nascita di una nuova band, i Ragecage con due membri degli Upward. Il loro EP, Sick Songs Demo uscirà in cassetta per Assurd Records (Overdrive Banzai, Upward, Hobos, Angler e altri) in Italia e Rat Trax Records per gli US. https://thisistheragecage.bandcamp.com/
A gennaio verrà anche fatta uscire da Youth Crew Records e Beyond This World Records una compilation CD intitolata "Something Higher". Tutte le band hanno in comune l'essere in qualche modo legate al movimento Hare Krishna / Krishnacore, e i rappresentanti italiani saranno Safe, Traces of You e Fumbles in Life (con una vecchia cover degli Shelter).
Per concludere sia Set Me Free che Upward stanno lavorando a nuovi pezzi, quindi preparatevi!

FIL last show pics

Fumbles In Life last show on 27th April with Set Me Free, Critical Point and Pressure from Portugal. One of the best moments since I've been involved into the scene and in a band.

Youth Crew Records Sampler

Apposta per il blog ho preparato una raccolta con le ultime uscite Youth Crew Records. Scaricando questo sampler sarà possibile ascoltare 3 brani per ogni band: Fumbles In Life, Snowfall, Maze, Inner Reason e Set Me Free! Godetevelo e se vi sono piaciti i pezzi compratevi gli album!

                                        DOWNLOAD HERE

---

Only for this blog I uploaded a sampler with all the Youth Crew Records last releases. Downloading it you'll listen 3 songs for each band: Fumbles In Life, Snowfall, Maze, Inner Reason and Set Me Free! Enjoy it and if you like this songs buy all the albums!

Youth Crew Records

Youth Crew Records! L'etichetta sotto cui è uscito il nostro primo EP Only One Flag. Attiva dal 1998 ha contribuito a tenere viva la scena youth crew e old school in Italia producendo un sacco di band che meritano davvero.
Ecco la presentazione ufficiale scritta da Dario FIL/YCR:

The reason we got together was because we were at a show with all these metal bands called "new school", a whole bunch of bands you really wouldn't want to see, we don't even know why we were there... It was 1996. We said that hardcore sucks now! After two years (July '98) we decided to start a record label and have fun.
"Youth Crew" Records it's really positive. We saw that a lot of kids in the scene liked what we were doing and a lot of kids were into the same type of music we are into, which is the late 80's hardcore style. A lot of kids who got into hardcore in the late '90's, they got into hearing metal. They never even sampled hardcore.
We just try to produce the style of hardcore that young kids weren't hearing anymore. We're glad that kids are getting into it. It's not only "old school", it's just the hardcore we enjoy to produce.

YCR 001 - Half My Time - "No More Lies" 7"
YCR 002 - We'll Face - "What Can I Gain?" MCD
YCR 003 - Youth Crew - The Magazine
YCR 004 - Thoughts to Share - "Through The Yesterdays" CD
YCR 005 - Half My Time - "On Reflection" CD
YCR 006 - No More Fear - "Walkin On" CD
YCR 007 - Steam - "70 Times" 7"
YCR 008 - Fumbles In Life - "The Gift of Forever" MCD
YCR 009 - Fumbles In Life - "Communication Wins" CD
YCR 010 - Fumbles In Life - "A New Way To Play" CD
YCR 011 - Safe - "Not Alone" CD
YCR 012 - V/A "Our Roots Our Pride" (Growing Concern, Think Twice, Open Season, Maze, Creepshow, Reality) CD
YCR 013 - Fumbles In Life - "Everyday You Can Improve" MCD
YCR 014 - The Snowfall - "Weight Less" CD
YCR 015 - Maze - "Maze" CD
YCR 016 - V/A "Youth Crew 2010" (Alert, Pressure, Fumbles In Life, State Of Affairs, Forever Young, Reveal The Truth, Half The Battle, Rearranged, Staid, Outlast) 7"
YCR 017 - Inner X Reason - "Something To Prove" CD
YCR 018 - Set Me Free - "Only One Flag" CD
COMING SOON...
YCR 019 - V/A "Knowledge of The Self - Tribute To Shelter" CD

Big show tomorrow!

Grande concerto domani coi nostri amici Fumbles In Life che faranno il loro last show dopo praticamente 10 anni di attività! So già che ci saranno un bel po' di sorprese, quindi penso ci divertiremo. Con noi e loro suoneranno anche due band portoghesi che personalmente amo molto: Pressure e Critical Point, due gruppi sxe youth crew da Faro che spaccano veramente tanto e che sono in tour in tutta Europa per promuovere i loro nuovi dischi. Ascoltateveli per bene, e se abitate dalle nostre parti non mancate, dato che concerti così in Italia capitano una volta ogni due anni. Speriamo di divertirci indipendentemente da quanta gente ci sarà, voglio restare ottimista.

---

Big show tomorrow with our friends Fumbles In Life for their last show after about 10 years of activity! There will be lot of surprises so I'm sure we'll have some fun. With us and them there will be also two bands from Portugal that I really like: Pressure and Critical Point, two sxe youth crew bands from Faro that kick ass! They're doing an Euro tour to promote their new EPs. Take a listen, I think we're too lucky to share the stage with them!