Earplugs exist for a reason. if you're regularly going to shows and you're too stupid to spend 15$ to protect your hearing, you deserve whatever happens tbh.
This discourse is idiotic, loud bands should be loud.
Merauder in Knoxville, Tennessee last night.
Easily my favorite show I've ever booked. More big bands come give Knoxville a chance, I promise it'll be sick.
Clip filmed by ET
Balmora, Adrienne, xdeliverancex, withpaperwings, Since My Beloved, Contention, Your Spirit Dies, Faced Out, Azshara, Uponbrokenapologies, View From The Soyuz, A Mourning Star, the list goes on and on
@bigbaze2012
HC is a safe place for those who are mistreated by society. Well, straight white guys who aren’t communists are pretty mistreated by society rn and we like HC. Deal with it.
This is sick and if you're clowning on it your scene probably can't bring out 350+ people (mostly high schoolers) for an all locals show. Greenville South Carolina Hardcore rules. Hardcore is for the youth.
the room looks like this btw. gonna be a movie.
Whitechapel, Emmure, Rifles at Recess, Rose Funeral, all sorts of legendary bands played this spot back in the day. Shows got banned here 10+ years ago and we've convinced em to let us start again. No drugs or alcohol.
1 year since I made the best decision of my life. I didn't claim edge until last summer, but 1 year ago today was when I decided I didn't ever want to waste another second of my life in an altered state of mind.
so-called "punks" are really put here posting anti-gun takes during one of the worst periods of state violence in our history. Who do you think a disarmed populace helps? certainly not the oppressed.
Taking Back Sunday, Thursday, Brand New, Dashboard Confessional, Senses Fail all made better music than MCR by a wide margin. Divorced from the nostalgia mcr doesn't hold up imo
one of the best metalcore records of all time is 20 years old today.
In a world where bands only care about writing cool breakdowns, this band believed in things and that's dope.
Knoxville Hardcore Fest 2024.
I love my city, I love my friends, and I love Hardcore.
See you there. Tickets on sale now; link below. Single day tickets + under 18 discount info coming soon as well.
Bringing Merauder to Knoxville in Feburary for one of their two southeast dates this winter/spring.
So incredibly stoked on everything East Tennessee has going on in 2024.
did you get a H*spital B*acelet record in the mail despite getting a refund? here are some ideas of what to do with it!
Turn it into a bowl and use it as a catchall!
paint over it and hang it up as art!
sell it and buy a Khaki Cuffs repress!
us it to scrape ice off your car!
MIDWEST FRIENDS 💖‼️
come find out if i’m the worst band you’ve ever seen live lol
11.5.22 - Rock Island, IL - Rozz-Tox at 8 PM 🎲
with
@_tenci_
cuties 🍒🏆🏆🔮
🎟
Fuck the state of Tennessee and fuck republicans.
if you support the shit these fucks are doing, don't come to my shows or we're gonna have some parking lot fun one on one. Transphobes can get some curbside dentistry.
Whole epk van just jokingly said "what band is that" because we passed a van and trailer on the interstate. Then realized that we just passed Bodybox's van lmfao
I am driving to the first day of my first "real" music industry job. Thinking about alot and about how validated i feel to finally be making money in music after losing my ass running a label and breaking even tour managing. life fucking rocks.
Promoter friends in the south:
A cancelled person from the knoxville scene (p*do) has started two new bands and is supposedly trying to book out.
Watch out for Second Degree Murder and Spirit Cleanse. He went down my following list on IG and followed a bunch of ppl.
DIY show tonight in a town of 35,000 in the middle of nowhere east Tennessee has 60 paid and counting.
Proud of my team. East Tennessee Hardcore on top.
If your band is trying to play knoxville or east tennessee next year hit me up. Currently booking January - March.
Mostly booking Hardcore/Metalcore but Emo and Deathcore (if it isn't the lame kind) does well here too.
@graduatinglife
Legitimately 90% of shoegaze and doom bands would be WAYYYYY less enjoyable live if you couldnt FEEL the music moving the air in the room.
Not to mention HC + Metal. And even straight up emo bands.
Stage volume is important, loud bands should play loud.
Official count for the year: 56 shows booked in 5 cities across East Tennessee. 3600+ attendees for the year.
2023 was only the beginning. Putting East Tennessee back on the map for hardcore is my life's mission.
Reminder that if your band is trying to come through me and the East Tennessee HC team can set it up.
We book in 2 seperate scenes too (Knoxville and Johnson City) so if you need two dates, or if one works best for your route we can help
DIY shows all the way to 600 cap
Knoxville Hardcore Fest 2024 lineup announce at noon on Saturday.
3 days, 3 venues, 42 bands. Some Knoxville favorites, some hype bands that have never played here before, and some underappreciated up and coming bands.
For East Tennessee Hardcore. 423 x 865
goth girl with a lisp told me on a date her favorite artist was Bow Wow, I said "oh cool, I like 00's R&B"
It JUST hit me that her look of confusion was because she said Bauhaus. I am so goddamn autistic lmfao
Working on KHC Fest 2024.
Goals for it include
Vendors/sponsorships from major/mid major HC labels (DAZE, TCS, 4Ephyra, ETC)
500-750 attendees across 2 days
1-2 big knoxville reunions on the lineup
6-10 dope out of region touring bands
all the dope southeast regional gems
First
@EveryPromiseKpt
track since 2022 is out now, exclusively at
Our song is about the people using our faith to push a genocide.
Pray for Palestine. Pray that the perpetrators of this genocide pay for their crimes in this life and the next.
let me tour mange your band!! I'm a good driver, will sleep anywhere, will threaten promoters that try not to pay u, and mosh really hard for your band! trying to get back on the road some this winter and next spring!
2 days.
Tickets are absolutely flying these last few days, weekend passes are 60% sold out, and single days are all running low too.
Ticket link below.
Knoxville Hardcore Fest 2025
Saturday June 28th and Sunday June 29th with a preshow on Friday June 27th.
Going to bring it back bigger than this year; less bands but more stacked.
Thank you all for a crazy weekend.
I've never been more stoked on how a merch design has turned out than this.
Shoutout Independent Printing out of Cinci for getting these to us quick, and shoutout Noah Lockhart for the design work.
holy shit
@amourningstar
is the first band I've seen in a minute that both makes me get chills from the emotion and also want to beat people.
insane band.
Day 2 of tour started really bad, we had to drop our original show because we got fucked by our van rental company but we ended up playing a last minute set at a really dope vfw gig in a city in our hometown area that hasn't had a diy hardcore show in a decade +
last Knoxville show of the year tonight and its one of our honorary locals celebrating their new album.
Knoxville on top, Southeast Hardcore on top,
@nocurexxx
supremacy.
Roll up early, stay late, support the bands and let's end 2023 right.
My band is finally real. These are show-exclusive unless we're homies, in which case I'll break the rules and ship you one. FFO: Living Sacrifice, Zao, Arkangel
Tapes of our demo will be available at the show next Thursday. 5$. we'll have CD's too. These songs will most likely never get a non-physical release and won't be re-recorded so come be a day one and buy one.
Knoxville Hardcore Fest 2023 full lineup just dropped.
Come see 40 bands for 50$. This WILL sell out so grab a ticket (below in the comments)
Excited to add
@gfx3c
, Mouthbreather,
@soulkeepercult
,
@theqguillotined
, Raptured, and many other sick bands!
shirt blank tier list because I'm bored and can't sleep
S tier
La Apparel 6.5oz, Comfort Colors Heavyweight
A tier
Hanes Beefy, Gildan Hammer, Kirkland Signature
B tier
Gildan Ultra, Gildan Heavy
C tier
Allstyle
F tier
Bella + Canvas ( just dont don't.)