Violent Treatment

🧱 NEW VIOLENT TREATMENT 🧱 We return to the podcast to catch up on some recent gigs and then pick our favorite hc releases of 2025 thus far. Combust, Grand Scheme, Bulls Shitt, Age of Apocalypse, and much more. 🟢shorturl.at/3N8Uj 🍎shorturl.at/DJoss

🧱 NEW VIOLENT TREATMENT 🧱 Vlad of Delayed Gratification Records joins us to talk his label's past, present, and future. Then, we weigh one Mental project against another. 🟢shorturl.at/qN5D4 🍎shorturl.at/CtvBP

Issue 2 of our zine now for sale violenttreatment.bigcartel.com/product/violen…

got to talk to my friends hugo and eli about tumblr lyric edit post hardcore. check it out !!!!

🧱 NEW VIOLENT TREATMENT 🧱 Writer/Endless Scroll cohost @mirandareinert joins us to discuss "the wave" of post-hardcore from the early 2010s: La Dispute, Touche Amore, Title Fight, Defeater, etc. and their relation to hc. 🟢shorturl.at/6s5PR 🍎shorturl.at/NOk6F

🧱 NEW VIOLENT TREATMENT 🧱 We're reviewing new ones from Jivebomb, Ingrown, and D-Bloc/Bad Beat, and then going back in time to Dischord's 1989 'State of the Union' comp. 🟢shorturl.at/Q8Vkv 🍎shorturl.at/8wXSY

🧱 NEW VIOLENT TREATMENT 🧱 Michael of new Pittsburgh hc band Madman joins us to discuss five late-career albums from classic hardcore bands. Quality varies greatly. 🟢shorturl.at/3gjRy 🍎shorturl.at/f0qmD

🧱 NEW VIOLENT TREATMENT 🧱 It's just the two of this week as we review new music from Combust, Identity Shock, Final Resting Place, The Massacred, and Disguised. Then, we look back at Converge's 'Caring and Killing' comp. 🟢shorturl.at/xsTka 🍎shorturl.at/lLDa8

Who won?

Here are our teams. Vote for which one won below:

🧱 NEW VIOLENT TREATMENT 🧱 With United Blood returning and early 2010s hardcore coming back, we had Jack Cooper (What It Takes) and Vince Guglielmi (The Daily Snob) join us to draft five-band teams from the UB 2010 lineup. 🟢shorturl.at/MYaev 🍎shorturl.at/B93ph

🧱 NEW VIOLENT TREATMENT 🧱 Scott from the Mundane Moshers fanzine (@mosh_mayhem) joins us to discuss the state of zines in hardcore, and then fire off some hot-ish takes about where things are at in the genre. 🟢shorturl.at/44TGX 🍎shorturl.at/NE6rC

🧱 NEW VIOLENT TREATMENT 🧱 We're back recapping FYA, speculating about where hardcore will go in 2025, and reviewing new drops from Godskin Peeler, Crush Your Soul, Demonstrate, and Coreuption Records. 🟢shorturl.at/99D4P 🍎shorturl.at/BLTCb

Violent Treatment in the Chicago Reader 🧱 chicagoreader.com/music/gossip-w…

I did this interview under the G.O.O.N. banner but it’s mostly about me. 💅

one of my favorite holiday traditions: talked about my 10 favorite hardcore albums of the year with @violentreatment!

Issue 1 of our zine is up for sale rn. 24 pages of hardcore. violenttreatment.bigcartel.com/product/violen…

Shoutout Tom. Read his list here: stereogum.com/2290298/the-10…

🧱 NEW VIOLENT TREATMENT 🧱 It's list time. We count down our respective 10 favorite hardcore releases of 2024, and we're joined by Brooklyn Vegan editor @llllbfgllll to do it. 🟢shorturl.at/aWCdF 🍎shorturl.at/IGs5l

Which team won?

🧱 NEW VIOLENT TREATMENT 🧱 We drafted 2004 hardcore releases with Nick Birtles (If It Rains, The Next Level) and Dan Schultz (Worn, Fatal Wound). Listen through the episode and then vote for your fave team in the below poll. 🔗Episode links in the replies