Written by Lex Celera After three years, five-piece metallic hardcore Cebu band Sift have put their debut EP. Sift is composed of members from various other hardcore bands, mostly under their shared imprint Hostile Youth Records. The six-track project entitled ‘What Lies Within’ includes two tracks from their 2023 demo listed at the end. ‘What […]
Tag: Punk
TRACK REVIEW: Past Forward – Hell
Written by Nikolai Dineros Identifying Laguna-based hardcore punk from its heavily populated pack of contemporaries is like sensing a food’s quality from afar with just the olfactory. Following up on the band’s electrifying, long-awaited ‘Streetwise’ EP, ‘Hell’ checks every box of the Laguna hardcore handbook. Drawing from the deep roots of the region’s hardcore punk […]