Oi!  We are gonna do this little tour out to the east coast with our buddies sexface from Montreal.  See you there.  RAT ATTACK!!!

Here’s a special one.  I was on tour with these guys pretty much exactly 20 years ago to the day.  Time flys when you’re having fun I guess.  Will be great to share the “stage” again after so many years.  90’s hardcore diehards take note, no age limit!

SUNDAY MAY 3RD 9pm SMILING BUDDHA hcpunk gig

WARSICK (moncton NB hard crusters)

HASSLER (TO local drunks cover skynard)

WIRED SHUT (TO newish HC attack)

CROTCHMUTT (TO punk locals)

Apologies to our friends and colleagues in Montreal.  We have to cancel this show on friday so we can play the show that no one wants to play.  Condolences to everyone who knew VASSIL, especially his family.  This has been a tough week for all of us who lost this lovely guy.  I read somewhere about how VASSIL is another lost unsung rock n roll hero or something like that.  It sucks how we are surrounded by all these super talented great people who are life long hardcore punk warriors and we take them for granted.  Its people like VASSIL who make punk and hardcore a special scene that people on the outside can’t understand.  VASSIL had a great spirit, a true enthusiasm for music and he celebrated others sucesses as well as his own.  He was a true individual in a sea of clones.  I’m sad to see him go.

Thanks to our buddy JEFF LEE for the awesome new shirt design. 

Hey everybody, thanks to the gang at brewdown brodown productions for setting up this weekend of shows for we are doing with our buddies ASILE from Ottawa.  Excited to see friends and hang out at this CRUCIFEST.  CHEERS!

APRIL 10th MTL @ death house w/ ASILE, NOIA, ROCK DESPOT

https://www.facebook.com/events/1423594621276445/

APRIL 11th OTTAWA @ Dominion w/ SEXFACE, ASILE, DETHFOX and more

https://www.facebook.com/events/407962626040379/

Here are some show posters that never made it up here until now.  Cheers. 

Thanks to everybody for the reviews.  Keep em coming!  Special thanks to Martin Crudos for the top ten shout out this month.  Cheers everybody!

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-MRR March 2015

Finally there first LP just in time for the European tour starting the 12th september. This band features members of Brutal Knights, Toxic Holocaust, Career Suicide, Bad Skin and for sure Uranus and Chokehold to mention some more old bands Jon was in, ha ha. This one sounds way better than the 7″s to me. Like the missing link between Totalitär and Poison Idea and the very first bands Deranged Records put out. 16 songs in 21 minutes, but still has lots of variety. Short banger and less than 2 minute long ballads you will all love. A rager!

-XsentientX.com

Hassler is a ripping hardcore band from Toronto. These guys construct thrashy, meaty and barbaric hardcore punk with an incredible overall sound. Throaty howls are shouted over thick, hard-hitting drums, distortion-coated punk riffs and muddled bass lines. These guys are just plain mean and will hopefully continue to release more quality jams as good as their current discography already is. Snag everything below and be amazed. Dig!

-Cutnpasteyoface.blogspot,ca

Deranged Records have done it again by signing another sick fucking band called HASSLER. These rippers hail from Toronto and bring the freaking pain on their soon to be released album Fed, Worked and Watered. All 16 songs are underground raging anthems that will make you want to punch your haters in the grill just for looking at you funny. HASSLER crank out that kind of d-beat-infused thrash that makes me feel 15 again. Do yourself a favor – press play below and find a cop to punch in the eye…I’m just saying that HASSLER’s riffs will have you on some hyped shit!

-CVLTNation,com

Iz Toronta, grada koji je porodio jedne Career Suicide, Brutal Knights i Kremlin, dolaze nam četiri nadrkana momka što istesaše zanat u mnogobrojnim bendovima unatrag desetak godina poput već spomenutih Brutal Knights i Career Suicide, te Chokehold, Union of Uranus, Toxic Holocaust i Reprobates. Hassler sviraju bijesni, a kakav drugi, hardcore punk zasnovan na vrijednostima skandinavskog i američkog hardcorea osamdesetih, a nakon dva izbačena singla za Schizophrenic i Beach Impediment records u Europu dolaze promovirati novi LP “Fed Worked And Watered” koji priziva duhove dobre stare Poison Idea-e i švedskih Totalitär.

-ziher.hr (croatia)

HASSLER is a ripping hardcore band from Toronto. These guys construct thrashy, meaty and barbaric hardcore punk with an incredible overall sound. Throaty howls are shouted over thick, hard-hitting drums, distortion-coated punk riffs and muddled bass lines. Bandmembers from BRUTAL KNIGHTS, SCHOOL JERKS, CARRER SUICIDE etc.! Sounds like old Deranged releases, highly recommend for music nerd who likes POISON IDEA, NO PROBLEM or P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S. , Killer release!

-Ptrashrecords.com

Allez, on insiste et on reste dans le même créneau, après tout en décembre le Hardcore ça réchauffe. Effectuons une légère translation géographique pour nous rapprocher du nord du continent américain, dans l’Ontario, Canada, pour aller rendre visite à nos cousins de Toronto.
Qui a dit que les canadiens étaient tous calmes et gentils ? Certainement pas les membres de HASSLER en tout cas. Quoique, ce sont peut être des garçons charmants !
Mais à l’écoute de leur LP Fed Worked And Watered, j’ai beaucoup de mal à croire qu’il puissent être calmes !
En se rapprochant du nord du continent, on se rapproche aussi des racines du Hardcore. Chez HASSLET, il est fortement teinté de Punk, et recèle quelques allusions plus ou moins directes aux cadors du style.

Soyons clair, Al, Erik, Jay et Jon ne font pas de cadeau. Leur Punkcore est direct, sans fioritures, et garde cette essence Rock N’Roll qu’on trouvait chez les pionniers. Avec un seul et unique morceau passant la barre des deux minutes, vous savez à quoi vous attendre.
Prédominance de morceaux rapides, riffs gorgés d’énergie Punk jusqu’a la corde de mi aigu, rythmique oscillant au gré des titres entre une épilepsie digne de la danse de St Guy (“Mouth Shut”, ça a le mérite d’être clair…), et une modération dynamisée par un duo guitare/basse explosif (“Never Gonna Stop”, attention, hymne en puissance digne de MOTORHEAD !), Fed Worked And Watered ne fait pas dans la tendresse et le revendique. Mais avec à la barre des membres de TOXIC HOLOCAUST, BRUTAL KNIGHTS, REPROBATES et BAD SKIN, à quoi pouvions nous nous attendre ? Rien d’autre il est vrai.

Allez, jouons un peu. Sans connaître le skeud en question, je vous file des pistes. Pensez à un DISCHARGE moins Metal et plus énervé. Voire, et même encore plus pertinent, un Anti Nowhere League vraiment pas content (les vocaux ici sont vraiment très proches de ceux de Nick “Animal” Culmer), qui aurait un peu abusé du Speed. Là, c’est bon, vous commencez à comprendre ?

Alors oui bien sur, ça joue vite, très vite même (“Identity Theft”, presque Crust dans l’esprit, “Snowbound”, même constat, “Night Rider”, vraiment vif et méchant), mais ça freine parfois, même sur des durées raisonnables (“Security”, résolument Punk rock jusqu’au bout du médiator), et à ça adapte la vitesse de croisière pour ne pas dépasser les bornes (“Affluenza”, “Waste”, “Victim”, et bien d’autres).
Le seul point commun qui relie l’ensemble est cette belle énergie jamais remise en cause, même lorsque HASSLER se la joue sombre et lent (“Creeper”, qui mérite vraiment bien son nom avant de finir dans un bain de sang). Les guitares semblent déborder des enceintes, la rythmique fait trembler les meubles, tandis que le chant vous harangue même à travers les HP du casque… Impressionnant !

Débordant d’une belle vitalité, HASSLER confirme tout le bien que l’on pensait d’eux après écoute de leurs deux premiers simples (Hassler etAmorality, sortis respectivement en 2012 et 2013), et nous jette un album dans lequel rien n’est à jeter, sans dévier d’une ligne de conduite initiale.

Fed Worked And Watered, ou comment faire perdurer l’esprit des 80’s sans paraître passéiste, et jouer le Hardcore des années 2000 avec une belle assise Punk Rock des 70’s. Qui osera encore dire après ça que les Canadiens sont juste là pour être calmes et polis ?

Metal-impact.com (france)

After a banger of a beginning on the great Beach Impediment label, the debut long-player from Hassler shows up courtesy of Deranged Records. If you’re worried that anything has changed, then don’t be… this still sounds like something that Beach Impediment would put out. It’s total bulldozer-style hardcore with gnarly vocals that sound kind of like a mix of Choke from Negative FX / Last Rights and Mark from Wasted Time / Mercy Killings. The playing is mega-tight and the production is thick and explosive. This reminds me a lot of the tougher bands to come out of the 80s USHC resurgence of a few years ago… Wasted Time, Cardiac Arrest, and Omegas in particular. If you’re into tough, straightforward hardcore along the lines of the aforementioned bands or newer stuff like Firing Squad and Violent Reaction then this should definitely spend some time on your turntable.

-SorryStateRecords.com

HAPPY NEW YEAR.  Thanks to Jimmy Vapid for inviting us to explore the nether regions of the gta.  See you there.