Listen and discover!
A lot of our music is stuff you’ve probably never heard of. Here is a chance to check out some new jams before committing to buying a record, CD or tape! Click on a band below to start exploring!
Race for Titles is the self-titled debut album by Omaha, Nebraska’s Race for Titles. It was originally released in 2002 on The Redemption Recording Company. This is the best midwest emo album you have yet to hear.
Tears Of Averal was an experimental grindcore/deathcore/emoviolence band from New Hampshire. The band had a unique, well meshed sound that incorporated the heavy breakdowns of the myspace metal/deathcore scenes with the impossibly high shrieked vocals of emoviolence bands like Jeromes Dream and Of Death.
Abandoned Houses, Stolen Guitars, and Adolescence; Songs for the Jaded Youth is a collection of the 2001 Demo, 2002 Tour Demo, and the WUNH Live recording.
Originally released in 2007 on CD from Rock Vegas Records, We’ll Always Have The Memories is an iconic melodic hardcore record to those in the know. Blending influences from bands like The Hope Conspiracy, Killing The Dream, The Carrier and other contemporaries, In Remembrance brings crushing breakdowns and emotionally charged sing a longs.
In 2001, Bury Your Dead began as a side project of the band Hamartia featuring drummer Mark Castillo and guitarist Brendan "Slim" MacDonald. With the metalcore sound of Hamartia growing tiresome to both of them, they started writing less technical songs in their free time. They recruited Steve Kent to play bass, second guitarist Jesse Viens, and Joe Krewko as vocalist and began playing shows in Massachusetts and Connecticut under the name Bury Your Dead.
Resurrecting 4 releases from 2001-2002 comes the:enclitic - surgery for those who can’t admit to their disease. The album is a collection of “the 7””, the demo, self titled and the split with between two thieves, totaling 22 tracks of pure emotional violence and chaos.
A new addition to the CTHC scene comes Sinking In. Influenced by Comeback Kid, With Honor and The Acacia Strain, Sinking In brings you their first self titled 5 song EP. Their mix of heavy beatdown breakdowns, fast up tempo punk beats, and a dollop of metal all mixed together brings what all metal and hardcore music lovers enjoy. If you haven’t heard them yet, get ready to have a new favorite band.
Inland Years and SOTR started talking about ideas for an ambitious box release back in October of 2023 that would involve moving parts. The idea that the listener would need to open the locked package to discover the enjoyment of the music is what inspired this beautiful release. It marks the first album which was written and recorded to be released with Sands of Time Recordings. For fans of Iron and Wine, Get Up Kids (On a Wire era), and Eagle vs. Shark, comes a vibrant, lofi masterpiece for you to relax to while drinking your coffee.
Originally released in 2002 from Bimingham, AL’s metalcore heavyweights The Judas Cradle.
Japan’s metalcore outfit Sailing Before The Wind returns to SOTR with their EP Immemorial. Available for the first time in the US or on tape anywhere.
For the first time ever, all three EPs from the Merrimack Valley’s metalcore powerhouse Shot Down Sun are together in one place. Fans of banging your head are in luck, because this tape is going to do it for you. Your neck is going to look like a thumb when you are done listening.
And Then There Were None during their run as a powerhouse of breakdowns and metalcore released two EPs and two unreleased demo tracks. Those in addition to 2 re-recorded tracks and a brand new track from 2018 are all put together into Aeternum Vale, a complete discography of brutality.
What Feeds the Fire were an American hardcore band from Providence, Rhode Island that started out in 1998. Members of What Feeds the Fire went on to play in Verse, The First Step, Violent Sons, Not a Chance, Never, Bone Splitter, Soul Control and more.