About FIVECORE records


About Fivecore Records
This Label started out in Denver to and promote aggressive music nationally. We  feature a specific selection of some of our areas best underground bands. styles include punk, thrash, hard rock, metal and whatever else we feel fits what we're trying to do. Key word here is aggressive and you could say we are not fans of the main-stream.

Recently Fivecore has set our sites on working with national acts. We have just signed our first band from outside the Denver area (Seattle WA) and will continue to pursue our mission to bring you the best underground bands around.

Fivecore is comprised of humble individuals that all share a common desire. We all want the world to have access to what we feel is good heartfelt heavy music without the corporate stigma and stains. All of our artist produce their own music without outside interference.

As we develop our methods and label style we will be actively pursuing new acts to represent. At this time our efforts are restricted to the bands currently involved.

Please take some time to learn more about our bands and visit the downloads section to have a listen. This site is still under construction so more features and music will be added soon. 

This page was last updated: 1/19/2009
New For 2009
FRONTSIDE FIVE
Lyin' Bitch will sodomize your sense of humor. Can't Cum Within 100FT of your Love is the LBRO's second release and it is packed with aggressive true punk rock energy. Yes, it's raunchy and vile at times but so is life. Tracks include step into my backhand, no rules, secrete sessions, and cant take it to the grave along with 14 other tracks that will get you in the mood to skate, drink or mud wrestle.


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NEUTRALBOY BITCHES! 
Lyin Bitch and the Restraining Orders
Prescription's "Epoxy Lips Now"
Available on Fivecore Records!!
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PRESCRIPTION  
Visit Fivecore Records Affiliated Studio MotaLand Productions. Most of our releases are tracked by MotaLand. So if you are a band and need a quality recording at affordable rates this is an ideal studio to check out. Specializing in aggressive music since 1997. www.MotaLand.com



New Bands:
Fivecore Records has a great deal going on this year, with the addition of four new bands we will be busy helping you learn all about them. New to the roster is Neutralboy, Prescription, King Rat and The Swanks all featuring their brand of aggressive punk rock.

Keep an eye out for  Pitch Invasion new in "09"

Podcast Punk Rock Radio:
Already available on I-Tunes and our own direct link is our new Fivecore radio show. The show of course will feature all of our bands along with friends unaffiliated with the label. Just because we don't pimp their stuff doesn't mean you shouldn't hear it. We support our scene! Listen
Additionally we will have our bands in the studio doing interviews or just hanging out helping us pick the play-list. The first show is hosted by Bart McCrorey of Frontside Five and Adam Mullins of Tard. You can easily subscribe to the monthly show by simply clicking the subscribe button on the shows main page. As long as you have I-tunes on your system your computer will do the rest.

Video Podcast
Ok this is pretty sweet. We have produced a video-cast that features the bands performing live in the studio. The sessions have been filmed and are available for streaming or download. The best thing about this set up is that there is studio quality audio.  You can check them out right here
New to Fivecore Records
“I remember a time when music had soul, music had a conscience and music had balls…man.” – Bill Hicks

There is no whining in this band. There are no victims in this band. There is no sheepish shrugging when the time comes to take responsibility for choices and actions. Rather than make excuses and sob at life’s misfortunes, King Rat hurls back with tunes that hit hard and fast into the target’s face. The band is fueled by authentic punk rock do-it-yourself rebellion. They have developed an outspoken identity of self-reliance and literary blue collar grit.
This is a band influenced by the old school: singing from the gut, thinking with the heart, and gnashing with the teeth. They chew through the modern mire of sonic litter and offer a soundtrack for people who are engaged in facing and beating the shit out of their demons. King Rat does not rely on the opinions of television and newspapers to sway their decisions. They have fought through loss and created their own identity that forbids them from fleeing to suburbia to wait for death.
King Rat started out by adhering to the original notion of punk independence. Musical trends come and go. Punk rock was once a vehicle for voicing personal or political outrage and social defiance. It has digressed into an umbrella sheltering a horde of spoiled boy bands whining with tattoos and guitars. These imposters promote collective misery under the guise of being rebels. King Rat has never, nor will ever bastardize the purity of their roots by acting like children when the battle requires them to fight like men. They are going to do it their way: loud, proud and one hundred percent for real.
King Rat is no stranger to the scene, having self-produced five studio albums and toured the U.S. many times. The latest effort, entitled DUCT TAPE AND DREAMS, is now available to the industry. Of the hundreds of gigs they’ve played, the most notable have been with Bad Brains, X, Pennywise, Mike Ness, The Adicts, Alkaline Trio, U.S. Bombs, Supersuckers, H2O, Bad Religion, ALL, U.K. Subs and the Lunachicks…to name a few.
The Swanks vs The World
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Whoever said rock is dead spoke too soon. Since 1999 The Swanks have been showing doubters how it's done, blasting out full-scale musical assaults of hook-laden guitar rock. With vocals growling like a pissed-off tigress, the band rails about hit men, Harleys and the joys of alcohol and explosives. Naysayers, take note.
Vocalist/guitarist Shanda Kolberg (a bitter veteran of both the band Period and the state of Iowa) sought her fortune in Denver, where she formed The Swanks with Shay Moss and Rex Burdick. Bassist Moss (see "punk" in the dictionary) had been part of local faves Ted Bundy Band and Fox Force Five, while lead Les-Paulist Burdick had relocated from Hawaii and played in the group IDK.
After booting their original drummer, The Swanks recruited Phillip Atencio of the ferocious hardcore band Los Terribles. The Swanks released their first, self-titled album in March 2000, followed by a live album, a pair of critically acclaimed compilations (Undead in Denver I and II), 2003's Keep America Rollin', and their latest effort, The Swanks -vs- The World.
The Swanks have kept a relentless schedule of live shows, including several tours of the western U.S. The band has also been tapped to open for national acts including Betty Blowtorch, Supagroup, the 440's, Wesley Willis, House of Large Sizes, Fabulous Disaster, Roller, Polyplush Cats, and The Beautys.

Epoxy Lips Now!, the title of the third full-length by Denver's Prescription, ranks right up there with the best of the worst. Fittingly, the album is a blast of classic, laugh-injected hardcore that seems to beg the adjective "sophomoric." Drawing, aptly enough, from old SNFU and early NOFX -- not to mention the crossover metal of DRI and SOD --
Epoxy manages to sneak some complex arrangements and fairly astute social commentary in under the prank-punk radar. For every song like "Pancakes Boobies Beer," there's another like "Perfect Mistake" that takes on corporate genetic engineering and the potential horrors of human immortality. Brains, brattiness, spoofs and smirks?

Epoxy Lips Now!
By Jason Heller

Mile High Low Life                   Denver Compilation

The  Mile High Low Life Compilation
is jam packed with some of  Denver's best punk and rock n roll acts. The comp. features 14 bands and is a great way to get to know the Denver underground scene.

Bands are:
Frontside Five, Forth Yeer Freshman, Reno Divorce, Truckasaurus, Get 3 Coffins Ready, King Rat, The Swanks, Dead Ringer, Valiomierda, Home Made Tank, Lyin' Bitch and the Restraining Orders, The Palsies, Red Stinger, Pitch Invasion and Tard.

Release show will be at 3 kings on Feb. 7th 2009 in Denver Colorado

Frontside Five Hits the Road for the month of April supporting their fourth release that may be named Resurrection Cemetery. The band is releasing this record without their beloved lead vocalist Brandon Stoltz as he has moved on to pursue other endeavors. Guitarist Shane Henry and Bart McCrorey will be picking up the vocal slack on this one. The band has been touring and playing the denver scene with this line up for  over a year now.

Frontside Five signs with DC Jam Records
The Indy  label is teaming up with Frontside Five to release  the bands new record and send them out for a Spring skate rock tour. The DC-Jam Skate Rock Tour 09' featuring appearances by skate bands JFA, McRad, Frontside Five & Minus-One will kick off on March 27th in Denver. For more specific information regarding dates, bands and locations, please click here to see Frontside Five's schedule.


Jake (in the van) Japanese Talks about Frontside Five's "08" Summer tour in Thrasher Magazine's music section
"EVERYBODY DIES!... EVERYBODY DIES!... EVERBODY DIES!...EVERRYYBBOODDYY...DIES....EVVVRREEEBBBOOODDDYYY.. DIES" a punk rock chorus sing/shouts, while a distorted, one-chorded intro degenerates in tempo, fading into oblivion.

"Neutralboy Lives!!" the voices answer back with emphasis.

Then bass-mistress Mandy Reed rips in with a rising tide-like bass line, conducting swiftly into the signature straight-ahead punk rock of the Bremerton band Neutralboy, kicking into its newest album, the morbidly-themonic Everybody Dies... (released in January 2008).

True to the title, and true to its grit, the album's a coarsely grim experience all the way from the front cover: the band stoic in black and white, standing on a mound of dead people as smoke billows into the sky in the background, rising above old broken-down gas pumps.On the backside, next to the song list, a battleship lurks in a channel of blood flowing under Bremerton's iconic Manette bridge. The city, replaced with more dead people.

Then the music hits.

It almost feels like that biting-cold winter chill that gets beneath the skin and into the core of the toes. It can leave you feeling punched in the face yet stronger at the same time.

The tunes are abrasively melodic punk rock, spinning threads of poetically blunt true-to-life-type lyrics. The songs on the album make up the second edition of a three-part story being told in lyric by Neutralboy songsmith Mike Frottage. It sounds to me like a story of survival in a nefarious place, like Bremerton.

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JFA,
Government Issue,
The Big Boys,
The Swingin' Utters,
Underdog,
McRad,
Pezz,
Naked Lady Wrestlers,
Fishbone,
Trusty,
Psycho,
The Dwarves,
Frontside Five,
Minus-One,



Painted Willie,
The Copyrights,
Narcoleptic Youth,
Butt Trumpet,
The Heard,
Venomous,
The American Werewolves,
300 Pounds,
Off With Their Heads!, Disastroid,
The Rudy Schwartz Project, Neutralboy,
Wednesday Night Heroes, Whatever Dude!,
The Suspects dc,
Plan 9

DC-Jam Skate Rock Vol. 1
to be released on a two set CD  in February, 2009.

The present roster includes: