Violent Way News Today

Toronto-based More Reality Hardcore Weekend has announced its lineup for this year. Diztort, S.H.I.T., Friction, Mil-Spec, Exhibition, Firewalker, Wild Side, Béton Armé, Buggin, Violent Way, Grand Scheme, Fastmusic, Faze. Collateral, Real World, Beyond The Pale, Narcan, All 4 All, Street Hassle, B...

Right now, we’re in the midst of a full-fledged revival of classic oi and street-punk sounds. Bands like the Chisel, Violent Way, Mess, and Syndrome 81 all have radically different takes on that genre, but all of them are doing fun, exciting things with the gang-bellow sound. Montreal’s Béton Armé — French for “Reinforced Concrete” — have been part of that world since they released their 2018 demo, and their last record was a 2021 split with Violent Way. Now...

Scott Vogel, longtime frontman for the LA hardcore institution Terror, has a new band on the side. Vogel is a Buffalo native, and he went back home to form the band Bad Blood with a bunch of members of the Buffalo scene: All three members of the oi stompers Violent Way, as well as Exhibition’s Greg Vinal. Together, these guys make fast, brutal, straight-ahead old-school hardcore.

Bad Blood, the band made up of Scott Vogel of Terror, Eric Ellman of They Live, Greg Vinal of Exhibition, and Mason Hutchins and Nick Terlecky of Violent Way, have released a new song. It is called “716 Bust / Bad Blood” and is off their upcoming debut EP The Bad Kind Decides which will be out...

Hardcore lifer talks Todd Jones-produced 'Pain Into Power' and looks back on career