This Is Hell

This Is Hell are a five-piece hardcore band from Long Island, New York that began in 2004. Since then, they've released five full-length albums, on top of a slew of other releases and some extensive touring. They've made a name for themselves with their distinct blend of crossover thrash and melodic hardcore elements, with chugging guitars that snap between thick and heavy to open and fully-realized. Topped by vocalist Travis Reilly's distinct delivery, the band has managed to make some of hardcore's most passionate music in the past two decades or so. If you're new to this band, there is a fair amount of material to sink your teeth into, though I think their debut full-length Sundowning is probably their best material and most effective entry point. Black Mass is also fantastic, but their first-album is their most reverred for good reason. To make a comparison to similar bands of this era, it's like Modern Life Is War's Witness or Verse's Aggression. I mean that in the sense that all these bands were incredibly consistent with fantastic material, but one album usually sticks out as the benchmark for the rest of their career, or even for hardcore in its era. And without a doubt, Sundowning deserves to be heralded as a benchmark of its era. Enjoy.

Demo (2004)

1. Wreck Your Life

2. Heaven Sent, Hellbound

3. Double Grave

4. Dearest Midge

This Is Hell (2005)

1. Dead Salutes

2. Heaven Sent, Hellbound

3. Diamond Lanterns

4. Moving Targets

5. Ad Infinitum

6. When Death Closes Your Eyes

Sundowning (2006)

1. Retrospect

2. Prelude (Again)

3. Here Comes The Rains

4. Permanence

5. 4.8.05

6. The Polygraph Cheaters

7. Deliver Me

8. The Absentee Ballot

9. Broken Teeth

10. 8.27.05

11. Procession Commence

12. Nobody Leaves Without Singing The Blues

13. Epilogue

This Is Hell/Cancer Bats (2007)

1. This Is Hell - Another Facade

2. This Is Hell - Shillelagh (Cancer Bats cover)

3. Cancer Bats - Let It Pour

4. Cancer Bats - Diamond Lanterns (This Is Hell cover)

Cripplers (2007)

1. Infected

2. Do Something

3. Fight For Your Right

4. Another Facade

5. Double Grave

6. I Hope You Die Soon

Misfortunes (2008)

1. Reckless

2. Infected

3. Disciples

4. In Shambles

5. Realization; Remorse

6. Without Closure

7. Remnants

8. Resuscitate

9. Fearless Vampires

10. You Are The Antithesis

11. End Of An Era

12. Memoirs

13. Last Days Campaign

This Is Hell/Nightmare Of You (2008)

1. This Is Hell - Built Upon Grief

2. This Is Hell - Cement Shoes

3. Nightmare Of You - You Don't Have To Tell Me I Was Terrible Man 

4. Nighmare Of You - Dopesick Couples

Warbirds (2009)

1. The Search

2. Warbirds

3. Worship Syndrome

4. Crazy But Not Insane (Warzone cover)

5. Never Tear Us Apart (INXS cover)

Weight Of The World (2010)

1. No One Leaves Unscathed

2. The Night The Line Was Crossed

3. Out Come The Bastards

4. Bloodlines

5. Eagle Of Justice

6. Death Of World Class

7. The Search

8. Forever Discontent

9. Shadows

10. Destroyer

11. Worship Syndrome

12. Fall And Rise

13. Snake Eyes

Rat Race (2010)

1. Rat Race

Black Mass (2011)

1. Acid Rain

2. Black History

3. Salt The Earth

4. Black Mass

5. The Wars: Pt. I

6. Mi Nombre

7. The Last Outlaw

8. Demons

9. The Reckoning

10. The Wars: Pt. II

The Enforcer (2013)

1. The Enforcer

2. Walking Abominations

3. Flag Of The Serpent

4. Whiplash

Bastards Still Remain (2016)

1. Bastards Still Remain

2. Excuses Pile Up

3. Space Mountain

4. You Think I Don't Know

5. In The Name Of...

6. Anarchy On Atlantic

7. Among Us All

8. Never Will It Stop

9. Absolute Power Corrupts

10. This Is Hell

11. Retaliate

12. No Martyr

Compilation/Cover Songs

Show You No Mercy (Cro-Mags cover) [2008]

Troy's Bucket (Kid Dynamite cover) [2009]

Rise (Pantera cover) [2009]

Dawn Patrol (Megadeth cover) [2011]

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