IT'S NOW
Resistir Y Existir

6-song 7"

Infierno Y Prision
Resistir[Listen or Download by rightclicking]
Es Ahora
La Solucion
Con Los Ojos En La Espalda
Mundo En Caos
Existir

Pressing info:
120 copies on black vinyl
200 copies on blue vinyl
200 copies on white vinyl

release-date: September 6th, 2011


It's Now is a straight edge hardcore band from Monterrey, Mexico. Already around since 2004, this 7” is their first international release, making them the second Latin American band on Commitment. It's Now is inspired both by political Spanish language bands like Los Crudos and by the late 1980s west coast straight edge sound (Insted, Chain Of Strength). On this 7”, that is more like a mini-album with 16 minutes of music, It’s Now rage through 7 songs of varied, aggressive and political hardcore. Comes on three different colours of vinyl: black, blue and white.

REVIEWS

MASS MOVEMENT, UK
With a production from the early eighties and a sound from the last part of that decade, this is truely an old school hardcore record, and the simple, black and white, but very effective cover makes it one cool piece of vinyl you can’t afford to miss. The guys from Monterrey, Mexico deliver pissed off political hardcore in Spanish, with some resemblance to American straight edge hardcore, just prior to the metal invasion which flooded the scene. It might be because of the Spanish sung lyrics, but it also had to think back to the ‘90s Argentinian hardcore bands like Minoria Activa and Differentes Actitudes Juveniles. In the end this just rocks all over the place, regardless of influences, geography and music history.

MAXIMUM ROCK 'N' ROLL, USA.
Straightedge hardcore from Monterey, Mexico that sounds like it draws from the early Champion / Mouthpiece / Chain Of Strength line of youth crew, in terms of semi-melodic and drawn out riffs, through this 7" is considerably less produced than any of those. I also like that this record is neither too formulaic to where you can predict the mosh breakdowns nor trying to be epic with the songs they're writing, and that the drummer struggles with the speed of his fills is also an unintentional nice touch in my book. Simple but effective wins the race.



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