Each Breath Haunted

Not every hardcore kid in 2005 is wearing thrift-store Alf t-shirts and pouting his way through hackneyed radio choruses. Consider THE BANNER, a collective so toxic and wrong, they could only be from New Jersey. Their hardcore is of the old-school, east-coast, punk-derived variety, and it encompasses influence from all over the map. One minute they sound like a tar-caked SAMHAIN, the next, they're flailing through a black metal sludge crust, or cranking a traditional metallic hardcore raveup ...