Happy Holidays from Pirates Press! As we look ahead to New Year’s Day 2020, we wanted to take one final look back at 2019! 2019 has been such an amazing year for all of us at PIRATES PRESS & our in-house label, PIRATES PRESS RECORDS…
Throughout December, we are continuing to look back on the epic year that was 2019 here at PIRATES PRESS & our in-house label, PIRATES PRESS RECORDS! We celebrated our 15th anniversary in a big way this past October with the totally…
The all-star East Bay rock & roll 3-piece known as CHARGER came roaring to life in 2018, and hit the ground running at full speed, releasing their ripping debut EP on PIRATES PRESS RECORDS in May. These veterans of such bands as RANCID…
‘A Sanity Deranged’ is a pinnacle to this point of the disparate sounds that shape the cohesive discordance of NIGHTFELL. Slicing ice cold texture cuts like obsidian glass amidst the monumental death crush and grim wallow of doomed…
Extreme sound nihilists PIG DESTROYER deliver savage grindcore that is both intentionally confrontational, and thoroughly pummeling. “38 Counts of Battery” is still an intense register of the band’s work as ever. Fully remastered…
Formed in California in 2010 out of the blog The Ripple Effect, RIPPLE MUSIC rose to prominence as one of the world’s leading purveyors of stoner rock, doom, retro metal and heavy psych. Working with everyone from luminaries like…
Kicking off this week’s RECORD OF THE WEEK blog is the debut from the Bay Area’s most exciting, and most talked about new band – CHARGER! These veteran musical heavyweights (including Matt Freeman from RANCID!) got together to just…
Originally released in 2001, this self-titled critically acclaimed album from LARS FREDERIKSEN & THE BASTARDS is hailed as a true ‘classic’ by swarms of Rancid fans worldwide. Long out of print, it has become a very difficult record…