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Defector is out now 👁️‍🗨️‼️ Check it out on your streaming of choice. Cassettes are available on @kyfrecords . We’re stoked to be teaming up with this amazing label that not only releases sick bands but supports great and meaningful causes that increase representation in the scene. Pre-order a copy on their website & we’ll have tapes at our upcoming shows @breakfreefest 6/15 & Rhizome 6/21 Immense thanks to @caleb.wysiwyg for producing the tapes and killing it with the layout. Cover art is by the great @my_fetalbrain We’re honored to have worked with @vivastudiova who recorded and mixed the EP and @dead_air_studios on mastering. Big shout out to Z @fickmmoley who jumped in last minute to record drums and did a fierce job 🦾 And of course, would like to thank @sammie.martn & Caleb for joining us on the new live lineup, they absolutely rock and we’re excited to keep on doing so! There are tanks on our streets and guns pointed at our heads. Decades of misinformation have brought us to this. Amid this upheaval and fight for our basic rights we bring you these 4 tracks against the surveillance state, the systems of control that seek to divide us, and the willful destruction of our planet. This record is a document of two years of hard work, years filled with loss and change and the constant sometimes crushing weight of persevering in a world that wants you broke, dead, or locked away from anything that brings beauty and joy. Myself, Doug, and Won thank you for hanging in there with us

**REIGN OF TERROR '26 COMP SHOW** The 2026 cassette edition of the comp is dropping on 3/27 and we will be celebrating at Emilios in Sterling, VA! Get your tickets in our bio and the comp will be available online or at the show! Spread the word! #vahardcore #dchardcore

March 14th show at @the_p.i.t._ @psyopdc @nonresidents @lollirotband @trash_dykes Doors 6, show 7 $10-20 sliding scale suggested donation Come dance

It’s February, the August of winter. We’ve been through some crazy extremes but we’re nowhere near out of the woods yet. These months bite down hard, but always remember that you can always train yourself to bite back ✊ Poke out of your hibernation for a night of punk and hardcore from the mid-atlantic’s finest at @bogusgallery ! SATURDAY FEBRUARY 28th 7pm | 18+ | $10-15 @raskolphl - Mysterious hardcore punk from Philly, but with how much they play in Charm City they might as well claim it as their own. @psyopdc - DC’s strongest warriors in the battle against the surveillance state and systems that divide us. It’s fast. Death by Despair - Torchbearers of Baltimore d-beat, full of nods to their predecessors and fresh riffs to make it make sense in today’s day & age. @xmemoriestoburnx - As a collective of straight edge siblings forging a path for the modern punk, they balance rage and collective action in a way that reminds us that the FUTURE. IS. TRANS. big love to @craigslist_roommate on the flyer!

Ah the fresh hell that is 2026. Last year was filled with the highlights of releasing our third EP through KYF Records, playing new cities and supporting diy festivals and benefit shows. We’re so thankful to everyone who’s been a part of this journey We’ll be starting the new year off with a bang TOMORROW at a new venue @theartemisdc on 14th St with an all star lineup from Florida: Zero Mob (demo out on @designated.moshers ), @wattshatesyou , @st.clovistogetherforever and the debut of @trepanatedc (a few of us are in this band 👀) Thanks @mind.sculptor.productions for having us! Doors are now at 7 and show at 8 Here’s to a new year of rocking and life among the ruins. Photo by @danny.fish.god.apocalypse

THIS SATURDAY for our last show of the year we have the honor of playing day 1 of the first Artists Against Apartheid fest at @transmission.dc 🇵🇸 This 2-day multi-disciplinary festival from @bmoreartistsagainstapartheid @_nomu.nomu_ @gazathrift & @a7a.dmv will bring together artists, musicians, poets, DJs and more from Baltimore and DC for a weekend of solidarity with Palestine. We go on at 7:45, rocking with friends @grudgebmore @muscle_is_king plus @jupiefullyloaded @mowderoyal @safratadesse , followed by psychedelic cumbia from @chichamorada_ & go-go kings @tobbandandshow All proceeds go to a selected group of mutual aid organizations that support Gaza There will be a Day market with tons of great vendors and a special panel discussion before the shows 🌈✨ 📆 ALL WEEKEND 11/15–11/16 ⏰ Daytime market, nighttime sets 📍@transmission.dc 1353 H St. NE Tix in bio, $25 per day or $40 weekend pass Market is all ages, shows are 18+ Photo slide 1 @tcfriedl Photo slide 5 the great @adam.ziegenhals from a few years ago

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Hey 😶‍🌫️ hope everyone’s been scraping together an existence under fascism ok, we have a packed slate of shows that we’re either playing or booking this weekend and early next week 👀 This Saturday! Hopping on last minute with the boyz in @vvastoid @consumerculturemusic & @d0npard0 at old stomping grounds @pieshopdc This Sunday! @null.slash.void Presents: M.D.C. , Mortal Ground, Rabid City, & Saafewaay at Pie Shop Monday! Commitment (members of Soul Glo & Backslider) coming to @haydees2000 with friends Pilau & Pearl Tuesday at Haydee’s! Pittsburgh thrashers Razorblade with Detroit hardcore for the freaks & queers Cemetery Girl, supported by Anesthesiac and Invasive If you’re facing any financial difficulty due to the governments ratfuckery of jobs and benefits (or for any other reason), but would still like attend any of these merriments, please reach out we’re happy to comp tickets. Your being there, supporting the bands, and community is more important now more than ever! Photo @leeda.live Flyers 2-3 @caleb.wysiwyg Commitment flyer @frankydestroy

Greetings from occupied DC It’s strange to say “we have shows this weekend and you should come out” but well we have shows this weekend that will (probably) be our last ones for the year. We’re taking some time to take care of ourselves and the things life throws our way, and hopefully do the whole writing new songs stuff idk. Come mosh and vent away these dire times if you feel safe and up to it Tomorrow we’re at @songbyrddc for @domesticterrordc 10th anniversary rager with friends @walktheplankdc @muscle_is_king @tripperbmore @mortalground . Tix in bio for that. We’ll miss you Slutbomb Sunday we’re in Baltimore for a dbeat & metalpunk ripper with JAIL from Detroit, Protozoan from Savannah, and the very sick Cataclysmic. DM for address. Flyer by @v_is_for_violence Fuck the militarization, fuck Ice. Whether you’re in the DMV or not now is the time to stand for your community. This bullshit is coming to a city near you Video from our friends @bodyfarmohpa

**SHOW UPDATE** Slutbomb had to drop unfortunately so we called in some MUSCLE from Baltimore to jump on the bill! This line up is staked with a sick mix of hardcore and punk bands! Spread the word and come dance THIS SATURDAY at Songbyrd! Do it! @walktheplankdc @muscle_is_king @psyopdc @mortalground @tripperbmore @songbyrddc #dcmusicevents #dcshows #dcconcerts #dchardcore #dcpunk #dcpunkrock

Our summer tour is a wrap! We went coast to coast (if the Niagara River counts as a coast 🙃), played some sick shows with a ton of great bands, and met up with old friends and made some new ones along the way. Every city we visited was rad and we’re so grateful we got the opportunity to do this! Deepest thanks to all who helped book a show, rocked with us on the bills, and let us crash. I’m always amazed and thankful for finding great people doing diy stuff throughout the country Special shoutouts to @goldsoundsbar @summon.m3 @nishad_ @d6bcrowbar @crowbararcade @blindtyrant_315 @cantexplainwhatyousaw @fleshpress @safescenenj @nopunktimepromo @bodyfarmohpa @sagnewshreds for all their help 🫡 Photo slide 4 @carlgunhouse Photo slide 6 @j.ryderphotos

Tour starts this Wednesday ⚠️ All the flyers are out are after some change ups, come say what’s up if you’re anywhere near these cities. We’re so excited for this! 7/30 @goldsoundsbar w/ @thetarrys @cashbribe BADGE 7/31 Cinco de Mayo w/ @getdusted_ @duelnj @eyesoffear @heathensgang 8/1 @crowbararcade w/ @pearlworld.official (also on tour!) @secondsuitorny Terpine & somebody secret 🤫 8/2 The Wastelands w @hirs666 @blindtyrant_315 @overgrowth_716 @k.holeofficial @officialmuddle 8/3 @wildairbeer w/ @bodyfarmohpa @minoritythreat (also on tour!!), @squelch.band @chinchecknj . Thanks @nopunktimepromo & @safescenenj Flyer by @ghostbongo Photo by @megmatpic