Street Voice review Tear It Down

It’s certainly taken a while to read this (Tear It Down: How crossover bridged metal and hardcore punk) as there’s over 600 pages dedicated to bands, labels, magazines from all over the globe talking about how crossover bridged metal and hardcore punk!

Alexandros Anesiadis certainly has done his homework and I swear the level of writing and research is on par with what Ian Glasper has done with his books. You get to listen to the bands themselves ranging from Agnostic Front to DRI to Discharge to the Crumbsuckers to Cryptic Slaughter to the Electro Hippies and much more.

It’d be easier to tell you who’s not in the book! It’s not just the well-known bands who are featured either. There’s bands who’ve been over looked in the past such as Legions Of Parasites, Sacrilege B.C. and Lethal Aggression. There’s more than 180 interviews from bands from the 80’s to the 2000’s to the current day and they’re cool in their own ways. On top of that there’s flyers and bands / live photos.

Anyone in to the crossover scene will get a lot from this bible. A brilliant read that needs to be picked up! 10/10. Hope Lye – Street Voice.

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