The split has been a staple of hardcore/punk for as long as I can remember. A showcase for bands to get their music to new listeners and make some new fans. Unfortunately it seems as though to become more of a rarity nowadays.
Enter two bands: Wish and Tear Drop.
These are two quintets with some things in common: Both formed and made their first recordings during the COVID lockdowns in 2020 and both play a crushing brand of unrelenting metallic hardcore.
Hailing from San Antonio, Texas, Tear Drop released their Circle of Pain demo in 2020. Featuring ex-members of Texas hardcore heavyweights, Bitter End, the group continued to stay busy and teamed up with Jay Reason's Static Era Records to release their Did You Wanna Love Me to Death EP later that year.
WISH from Tallahasse, Florida includes musicians from Malice at the Palace and Diamondback and they released their first EP, When I Saw Hell, in 2020. Then, in 2021, they hooked up with Strife guitarist Andrew Kline's WAR Records label to release their follow-up EP, Adapt or Die.
Now in 2022, WAR Records and Static Era Records have teamed up to give us the Tear Drop x WISH split as a showcase for two songs from each band that are crushing thrash infused statements of sheer and utter mayhem.
Enter two bands: Wish and Tear Drop.
These are two quintets with some things in common: Both formed and made their first recordings during the COVID lockdowns in 2020 and both play a crushing brand of unrelenting metallic hardcore.
Hailing from San Antonio, Texas, Tear Drop released their Circle of Pain demo in 2020. Featuring ex-members of Texas hardcore heavyweights, Bitter End, the group continued to stay busy and teamed up with Jay Reason's Static Era Records to release their Did You Wanna Love Me to Death EP later that year.
WISH from Tallahasse, Florida includes musicians from Malice at the Palace and Diamondback and they released their first EP, When I Saw Hell, in 2020. Then, in 2021, they hooked up with Strife guitarist Andrew Kline's WAR Records label to release their follow-up EP, Adapt or Die.
Now in 2022, WAR Records and Static Era Records have teamed up to give us the Tear Drop x WISH split as a showcase for two songs from each band that are crushing thrash infused statements of sheer and utter mayhem.