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The Cry of Nature is out now. Thank you: @newagerecords @taylorxyoung @thepitrecordingstudio @audiosiege @xonourkneesx @wretched_visuals @alexvxmorales @xbencex_reaction_zine Vegan Straight Edge

ZSOLESZNEK LÁBA KÉLT! Zsolesz barátunkra rájár a rúd az elmúlt években, ennek és a magyar egészségügy hathatós közreműködésének eredményeképp egyik napról a másikra márciusban levágták a jobb lábát. Ez nem fogja kedvét szegni, hogy amikor tud, elnézzen a kedvenc helyedre lehurrogni a kedvenc zenekarodat, vagy épp írni róluk valami hosszút a fanzinjében, de tudjuk, hogy nem lesz egyszerűbb innentől kezdve a hétköznapi élet. Ezért úgy gondoltuk, hogy mi is visszaadunk neki valamit abból, amit a magyar DIY pánkért tett, és három helyszínen támogatói fesztivált szervezünk a javára. Napjaink aktív és fasza zenekarai mellett több régi banda áll össze újra csak erre az alkalomra június 12-13-án Veszprémben, a Teremben. Ha nem tudnál elnézni a koncertre, vagy ezen felül szeretnéd Zsoleszt támogatni azt is megírjuk hamarosan hogyan tudsz neki segíteni. Június 12. Péntek Derkovbois Haramia Mass//Reaction Tetem Gear Június 13. Szombat Nesze Liberal Youth Escalate Rivers Run Dry Catastrophy Jegyelővétel április 20-tól!

Escalate’s “The Cry of Nature” is built around the same ideas the band have been pushing from the start: animal liberation, resistance to speciesism, and anger at a world that treats living beings as things to be used up. Laszlo Meszaros says the EP comes from “the hopeless rage” that builds when you spend years seeing people fully understand the violence around them and still accept it as normal. He ties slaughterhouses, war, and “technological arrogance” into the same pattern, where “everything that breathes exists to be conquered, dissected, consumed, or erased.” That’s the core of this track too. See the full feature now on IDIOTEQ.com. #escalate #metalcore #hardcore #newagerecords

@escalatexvx is a vegan, straight-edge hardcore band from Veszprém, Hungary. Formed in 2020 as the first fully vegan, straight-edge band in their country, they use hardcore as a weapon to confront speciesism, oppression, and complacency. After releasing their debut full-length, Consequences, on New Age Records, ESCALATE took their message to the streets, touring extensively across Europe and playing shows throughout most of the continent. Every show reinforcestheir commitment to veganism, straight edge, and uncompromising D.I.Y. ethics. Rooted in the tradition of militant, ’90s XVX hardcore and delivered with a modern, aggressive sound, ESCALATE’s music is direct, confrontational, and unapologetic. Their upcoming five-song EP, The Cry of Nature, pushes thatmessage further: louder, heavier, and more focused than ever. PREORDER the limited Cloudy Clear And Green Split With Black Splatter 12" and the limited Glow In The Dark WIth Black Swirl 12" NOW at coretexrecords.com Please note that the cover, print, or vinyl color may differ from the final product. 📷 @timbirkbeckphotos

New @escalatexvx 12” EP “The Cry of Nature” is up along with a batch of amazing new designs 👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽 NewAgeRecords.com #veganstraightedge #straightedge #hxc

No Echo just dropped the first single from the new @escalatexvx EP Get to NoEcho.net and hear “Vegan Warpath” there first.

Mark your calendars! Time X Heist returns to Budapest for the 3rd time. Escalate record release show. Supernova and Sharp Tongues for the first time in Hungary. New local band, Defied. Whatever is your reason to be there, it's a good reason. DM for direstions. #reactionbooking #todefycollective #bphc

6/6 VEGAN WARPATH UNTIL THE END First single from The Cry of Nature EP drops tomorrow, you can find the pre-save link in the bio. And if you swipe left, you can see a jersey that is now available for pre-order until the end of March, and we'll ship them in May. Only available through us, so hit us up, if you're interested.

5/6 When cruelty becomes the law, vengeance stops being a threat and starts reflecting back the horrors that were normalized. The war you unleashed on the defenseless will not stay silent forever, every buried body writes an indictment that time cannot erase. The suffering you inflicted, has teeth now, and it bites back with the fury of lives that were never allowed mercy.

4/6 Man turned the sky into a funeral veil, forcing life to choke quietly so comfort could remain clean. From cage to mass grave, suffering is engineered, hidden, until blood becomes the only language left that cannot be ignored. If fate was chosen through indifference, then redemption can only come through sacrifice, giving everything so something innocent may finally live.

3/6 1080 is Leviathan’s hand in the forest, a quiet poison dropped from above to correct a world that refuses to behave like a machine. It turns living systems into management problems, replacing relationship and humility with control, calculation, and collateral death. Nature is not sick and waiting for our cure, our need to dominate it is the real toxin, and it spreads wherever we mistake power for care.

2/6 History is the story Leviathan tells to make its domination feel inevitable; his-story marches forward on the bones of erased peoples and stolen worlds. Against it stands the human refusal to be controlled, the memory of life before empires, when communities made meaning without masters. To remember that is already an act of rebellion, because Leviathan survives only as long as we forget that it was built, and can be unbuilt.