Earth Crisis News

Hart Seely of Syracuse.com recently conducted an interview with Karl Buechner , lead singer for seminal straight edge band EARTH CRISIS .

This year, the Straight Edge movement, the global youth counterculture with deep roots in Syracuse, turns 28.

Tony Brummel, the iTunes/Ne-Yo-despising Victory Records proprietor and bete noir of DIY hardcore since time immemorial, appears to have crossed yet another line.

A number of hardcore musicians have teamed up for Bringin' It Back . The show is set for August 16th at the Chain Reaction in Anaheim and will have these musicians covering hardcore classics from the 80s and 90s including songs by Minor Threat , Gorilla Biscuits , Quicksand , Earth Crisis and Snapcase .

Cesena, Italy's AWAKEN DEMONS has inked a deal with Trustkill Records . The band's new album, "The Mirror" , will be released on CD and vinyl on August 25.

'The Black and Blue Bowl' is also known as the 'Superbowl [sic] of Hardcore,' which really is a more appropriate name-this is a perfect catch-all show for casual and, well, hardcore hardcore fans alike.

Propagandhi is scheduled to perform on Sunday, May 24. Propagandhi Ho-hum. Another week, another militant vegan band comes to town.

Earache Records has announce the signing of U.K. hardcore act YOUR DEMISE to a North American licensing deal.

For Bybee as much as for Thompson, reality must be mitigated, banished or defeated.

Released: Apr 20, 2009 Genre: Hardcore Label: Century Media Number Of Tracks: 11 Straight edge, vegan warriors Earth Crisis return with core members and a new album while retaining their signature sound and values.

"To Ashes" , the new video from the reunited hardcore legends EARTH CRISIS , can be viewed below.

Straight-Edge Hardcore Band Says Animals Have the Right to Live in Peace; Brand-New Album To the Death Goes Up for Grabs at peta2.com May 5, 2009 Contact: Pulin Modi 757-622-7382 Straight-Edge Hardcore Band Says Animals Have the Right to Live in Peace; Brand-New Album To the Death Goes Up for Grabs at peta2.com Syracuse, N.Y . -- As their ...

EARTH CRISIS guitarist Scott Crouse was recently interviewed by Justin M. Norton of About.com . Crouse discussed the band's comeback; the upcoming album, "To The Death" and how EARTH CRISIS plans to keep its shows physically intense.

The 1990s straightedge movement combined the good-willed, if not a bit pie-in-the-sky, desire to get kids to live a drug-free, vegan lifestyle with the often abrasive sounds of hardcore rock.