This EP is an absolutely captivating salvo in what looks to be a grand peregrination of American Hardcore’s pits and perils. What started as a two person meat and potatoes 80s USHC project has blossomed into something more expansive in structure, melody and form. They’re not so much reinventing the wheel as following a tradition of other bands that successfully expanded their own sound while still being in the hardcore framework like Poison Idea did with Feel The Darkness and how SSD did with Get It Away creating a unique personality and a firm vision of their future.

No Idols’ engaging lyrics are inspired by a general anxiety and anger about the hellish social-scape we’re living in today. With people’s spirit and pride being broken by a system that never cared about them to begin with, No Idols has found themselves becoming stronger in the process of protecting their people, their family, their crew etc. While the world is destroying itself, and people stray further away from their moral compass, their path and morality stays the same, and their urge to fight has only grown stronger.  

350 black packed into a 12pt reverse board glued pocket sleeve with lyric insert included. Recorded by Trish Quigley and Caleb Holt. Mastered by Will Killingsworth. Art by Atiba Jefferson, August Beetschen and Brock Stephens.

FFO: Career Suicide, The Abused, Poison Idea, Fucked Up, 86 Mentality