Haymaker St

Haymaker St

Throwdown have been the Orange County, California hardcore scene€s flagship band since 1997, grabbing the torch lit by the seminal OC punk bands of the €˜80s and early €˜90s and carrying it to heretofore uncharted heights. Over the years they€ve shared members with Eighteen Visions, Death By Stereo and Bleeding Through, emerging first as a pile-up inciting joke band (yeah, yeah what€s in a name?) but quickly developing into one of the most potent and vital bands in the worldwide hardcore landscape. <P> What€s allowed Throwdown to persist and endure is the urgency of their music and a fiercely loyal dedication to their relationships with their friends, their fans and each other. They called one record "You Don€t Have To Be Blood To Be Family" and they meant it. This is their lives, this is their blood, and this is, truly, their family. <P> "Haymaker" will undoubtedly become the next pre-game soundtrack to the live-setting. A Throwdown show is a sweaty display of solidarity between brothers and sisters, united through their diversity and a celebration of independent thought free from mainstream constraints. The band smiles and laughs as the pent up frustrations from the daily grind, the 9-to-5, the dark and confusing times in which we live, are unleashed in cathartic release. Throwdown is a bludgeoning force to be sure, but one put to good use. Get the record, learn the words, head out to the show and get yourself... "In The Family."