POSITIVE POWER: SHELTER AGAINST RACISM

The global legend of the New York hardcore music scene, Shelter, will perform at the Alternatywna Zdunska Wola festival in Poland, organized in partnership with the ‘Music Against Racism’ campaign of the ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association.

News from the ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association

1 June 2026

Shelter are pioneers of the krishnacore genre and draw their inspiration from Indian philosophy and culture, particularly the Hare Krishna spiritual tradition, based on respect for all living beings. The band combines these themes with the message of the straight edge movement, promoting a drug-free lifestyle. The band’s frontman, Ray Cappo, aka Raghunath Das, is a renowned teacher of meditation and mindfulness.

‘How is it possible that, having been so affected by previous conflicts, we are all once again on the brink of war? Ukraine, Gaza – it’s happening right on our doorstep’. –Anja Huwe

The alternative music festival is held in Zdunska Wola, a city in central Poland. Its programme fits perfectly with the message of the ‘Music Against Racism’ campaign, as it combines urban culture with musical phenomena that straddle various genres and diverse sounds. The opening concert will take place on 14 June 2026, with the remaining events – concerts, meetings, talks and exhibitions – scheduled on 18-19 June. The festival will feature an inspirational lineup of guests from several countries.

Anja Huwe, the former lead singer of Hamburg’s Xmal Deutschland – one of the most influential bands of the German post-punk and gothic rock scene – will also be performing in Zdunska Wola. On her 2024 solo album ‘Codes’, Huwe addressed the theme of war. In an interview with the SztukMix portal, she said, ‘How is it possible that, having been so affected by previous conflicts, we are all once again on the brink of war? Ukraine, Gaza – it’s happening right on our doorstep’.

Other festival highlights include leading New York hardcore band Madball, formed in 1988, and the renowned Dutch dark wave group Clan of Xymox. The line-up will also feature Lockdown, a band of teenagers from Poznan who have taken the Polish punk scene by storm, among other notable acts.

Shelter ‘Zduńska Wola’ 2026

The ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association is an independent organisation founded in 1996 which runs the campaigns ‘Music Against Racism’ and ‘Music Against War’, combats hate speech and hate crime, and supports initiatives promoting peace and intercultural dialogue.

The ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association encourages musicians, promoters and fans of all musical genres to use the ‘Music Against Racism’ and ‘Music Against War’ symbols. They can be placed on posters, flyers, album covers, and in music videos, or shared on social media.

Email contact: info [at] neveragainassociation.org

Youth of Today / Paris / 1989

“Brings back memories of when we organized the first Youth of Today show in France, at Saint-Charles, the art school where I used to hang out back in 1989. Youth of Today was Ray Cappo’s first band, before he later went on to front Shelter.

The show was co-produced by our association, Elastic Crew Enterprize, and Mickey Maouss of Folies Mélodies (RIP). It took place in a classroom, with the drawing tables used as a makeshift stage. And I nearly got kicked out of art school over that joyful evening.” –Laurent Courau La Spirale.org // Mutation Magazine

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We are looking for online volunteers to contribute to the anti-racist initiatives conducted by the ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association from all over the world – please join us wherever you are, we welcome all backgrounds and cultures.

More information:

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A Monster You’d Want to Meet: TONY SLIPPAZ

TONY SLIPPAZ AKA SLIPPAZ DADON / 2025 RESURRECTION

“I’ve witnessed almost everything one can witness from the good to bad; my story has stories within them, that are genuine and that’s what makes me different, tells my story through my eyes, my way!” –SLIPPAZ

April 2026 / İstanbul – New York

First of all, I want to thank you for the interest you’ve shown in my amateur webzine. It’s really cool to hear from you—it’s like facing your fears! As an MC who’s battled alongside and shared the stage with key figures in the New York hardcore scene for so long, I was honestly disappointed to find almost no written material about you online.

I do all of my work myself, I’m kinda anti social and don’t jump on to others connections, so I slip right through just doing what I do!

Is there no longer as much value placed on music writing or intellectual depth as there used to be?

I def think there is, I’ve seen some good write ups recently, just maybe lack of interviewing the underdog cause everyone chasing a name to attach to!

Or is it that kids passionate about underground publishing—those who really put their minds to this work—are gradually becoming powerless under the hegemony of bigger platforms like YouTube or social media?

I believe social media has shaped the way people support or work, everyone rather use a cheat code and go for what viral instead of making something viral.

What do you want to say?

I wanna say I appreciate you taking your time to interview me and anyone who hasn’t heard me check it out may not be your cup of tea but it’s something you can enjoy, refreshing!

Slippaz, Rivet Joseph & Danny Diablo / NY 2026

Tony Slippaz ‘2 Sides’ directed by Whiz Kid Jerm / Produced by Carnage The God in collaboration with John Solinas

New Compilation Project from Danny Diablo

» SUPREME FORCE SYNDICATE

REEL WOLF X DANNY DIABLO

Slippaz, Danny Diablo & William Trag Yage (2026) Albany, N.Y.

“When I went through my federal charges a lot of people left my side – a lot – Diablo never did; its why I go so much love for him!” –SLIPPAZ

Some serious MCs lament that hip-hop culture is becoming increasingly degenerate and simplistic—do you agree?

I believe the whole world has become simplistic, so there hip hop follows…

From your perspective, considering the music you make and your life experiences, what have you witnessed in your personal history?

I’ve witnessed almost everything one can witness from the good to bad, my story has stories within them, that are genuine and that’s what makes me different, tells my story through my eyes my way !

How would you summarize the phases that hip-hop, rap, or hardcore music has gone through, based on your own observations and experiences?

I believe it’s growing as all of humanity – 100 years ago none of this existed – music started with no hold and I feel slowly grew to be molded !

“Some still break the mold but you gotta find them.” –SLIPPAZ

Danny Diablo, Jaysin the Sin God, Tony Slippaz and Friends…

Tony Slippaz & Young Dex ‘Won’t Get Found’ 2026

Supreme Force Syndicate

NO ESCAPE !!

“The game is def more for the listeners, without them we don’t exist – ask the under dog – so much Welton not searched but so much work being done off of love for creativity !!! That I love most about music – I hate people who waste time or talent.“ –SLIPPAZ

Given your close ties to old-school legends like Danny Diablo, I imagine you’re been part of the scene since the ’90s.

I actually was a street guy and a bit younger then most of them. I didn’t really be introduced to the scene till I met Danny Diablo and we met on a street level but been doing music ever since – when I went through my federal charges alot of people left my side – a lot – Diablo never did; its why I go so much love for him!

Instead of focusing on an album release, artists are choosing to release singles at regular intervals. How would you interpret this shift, considering both the positive and negative impacts of the internet and digital services on music?

I actually signed up for BMI a long time before I started releasing music and I remember they use to email letter on how to be a better artist and one was always drop single and not albums cause if you ever go to show your number your albums says don’t look like they flopped – grow with single and when they demand give then the hole thing.

There are also critics who, taking both artists and listeners into account, argue that this system is exploitative.

The game is def more for the listeners, without them we don’t exist – ask the under dog – so much Welton not searched but so much work being done off of love for creativity !!! That I love most about music – I hate people who waste time or talent.

Special guest is E Train Records recording artist, TONY SLIPPAZ talking about his newest release, The Button Man”

TONY SLIPPAZ !!

“Music always related to me of the street stuggle. Thug life was really an agenda pushed by the government, but it’s a life of many perceptions to different people.” –SLIPPAZ

I’m a 90s baby a product of the 80s crack era – my mother was a junky and my father a piece of shit so that music always related to me of the street stuggle.

Tony Slippaz ‘Relax Your Mind’ Directed by Whiz Kid Jerm, 2022

“I believe being a gangster is stupid, someone who doesn’t think consciously, no thought of consequences or others lives – sometimes it a faze, sometimes it how some people grow.” –SLIPPAZ

How and to what extent is being masculine and tough important for you in life and art?

Protection of my loved ones – I have a child – younger brothers and sisters – also a masculine man should protect those weaker than them!

» SLIPPAZ DADON

» The Adventures Of Tony Slippaz & Sammy Sweatpantsem

The Button Man

BEWARE MY FRIENDZ

BEWARE !!

The Anatomy of an EP: SKARHEAD / INTEGRITY

“Dwid okey verdiğinde, bu albümün piyasayı alt üst edeceğini anlamıştım! Müzikal, lirikal, sanatsal -her açıdan- resmen bomba gibiydi! Albümün çıkmasını ve birlikte konserler vermeyi sabırsızlıkla bekliyorum.” –Danny Diablo

Teklifsiz EP: SKARHEAD / INTEGRITY

Doksanlarda, biri çıkıp da bana Skarhead ve Integrity’nin split bir ep yayınlanacağını söyleseydi, şüphesiz onu odadan kovardım. Burada tatsız ayrıntılara girmeyeceğim, fakat o zamanlar Skarhead’den Danny “Ezec” ile Integrity’den Dwid Hellion’un dostluklarının zedelendiği ortadaydı. Bu yüzden, iki grubun güçlerini birleştirerek 12 inçlik bir plak çıkaracakları ve iki solist arasındaki husumeti geride bırakacakları yakın zamanda açıklandığında ne kadar şaşırdığımı takdir edersiniz. –Carlos Ramirez / NO ECHO

Ezec şöyle devam etti: “Dwid’le geçen sene internette konuşmaya başladık, biraz geyik yaptık, sonra hayat ve müzik hakkında konuşmaya devam ettik. Sonra da [Static Era Records’un sahibi] Jay Reason’a ulaşarak, onun plak şirketinden bir split vinil albüm çıkarmak için onunla iletişime geçtim!”

“Dwid okey verdiğinde, bu albümün piyasayı alt üst edeceğini anladım, müzikal, lirikal, sanatsal -her açıdan- bomba gibiydi !! Albümün çıkmasını ve birlikte konserler vermeyi sabırsızlıkla bekliyorum.”

Dwid, sohbetimiz sırasında yeni split EP’nin ortaya çıkışını daha diplomatik bir şekilde açıkladı. “Danny ve ben birbirimize mesajlaşıyorduk ve bu konuşmalardan bir split albüm yapma fikri ortaya çıktı,” dedi. “Kaydedilen tüm şarkılar, sağlam ve tutkulu temalara sahip güçlü şarkılar oldu.”

“Die by the Gun” by Danny Diablo, Psywarfare & Tony Slippaz (2025)

INTEGRITY, Toronto

“I generally do not pay attention to public opinion; I have always acted on my own personal interests.” –Dwid

Albümdeki diğer işbirliklerinde ise Dwid, Skarhead’in “Till’ Death We Part” parçasında yer alırken, “Die by the Gun” parçası ise onun Psywarfare projesi tarafından üstlenildi; ve Dwid, “Hombre ve ben, Danny ve Tony Slippaz’ın rap yapması için birkaç çılgın beat hazırladık.” diyerek ekliyor.

“Devil Down”da ise Integrity, klasik kayıtlarındaki havayı estiriyor. Bu, kayıtlarda kimlerin çaldığını öğrendiğinizde pek şaşırmayacaksınız. “Gitarda Aaron Melnick, ve bu da grubun 90’lar havasını yakalamasına kesinlikle yardımcı oluyor.”

“Die by the Gun” hakkında konuşurken, No Echo’nun dikkatli okurları bu parçanın ilk versiyonunu hatırlayacaklardır. “Bu şarkıyı Danny Diablo ile birlikte yapmıştık ve 2005 yılında büyük ses getirmişti. Ben de parçayı alıp tersine çevirdim,” diye gülerek cevap verdi, şarkının yeni yorumunu sorduğumda.

Aaron Melnick, Integrity ile birlikte Middlesex County College, NJ’de sahne alıyor, 1994⁣. (Fotoğraf: Justin Moulder)

Skarhead @ Ieperfest 2008 (Fotoğraf: Michelle Olaya)

“E-Train Records sanatçılarından Tony Slippaz’ı da parçaya dahil ettim ve sonuç harika oldu; gelecek yıl Static Era Records’tan Danny Diablo x Psywarfare EP’sini yayınlamayı planlıyoruz. Hayat sanattır!” –Danny Diablo

Ezec, split albümdeki daha geleneksel bir sound’a sahip olan Skarhead parçası “Till’ Death We Part”ta kendisine eşlik eden müzisyenlerden bahsetti. “Bulldoze’dan Zack (Thorne) ve Crown of Thornz’dan Dimi (Douvas) ile zaten her zaman birlikte çalışırız. Zack gitar ve bas çaldı, Dimi ise davulları çaldı. Ben olmadan stüdyoya girip Jersey’de Jay Bayway ile kayıt yaptılar!

“Sonra Brooklyn’deki Lord Jewish’in stüdyosuna gidip vokalleri kaydettim. Onların yaptıklarını dinledim ve vokaller için müziği kesip yapıştırmam gerekti. Sonra Big Rob ve Lord Jewish’in bana eşlik etmesini sağladım. Big Rob gitar soloyu üstlendi. Dwid ise yurtdışındaki stüdyosundan vokalleri kaydetti!”

“Die by the Gun” ile ilgili olarak ise Ezec şöyle diyor: “E-Train Records sanatçılarından Tony Slippaz’ı da parçaya dahil ettim ve sonuç harika oldu; gelecek yıl Static Era Records’tan Danny Diablo x Psywarfare EP’sini yayınlamayı planlıyoruz. Hayat sanattır!”

Integrity @ Great American Hardcore Fest, Revere, MA, 2009. (Fotoğraf: Reid Haithcock)

Skarhead x Integrity’nin split-ep haberi duyurulduğunda birçok kişi şaşırdığı için, vokaliste bu tür haberleri ne kadar yakından takip ettiğini sordum ve cevabı klasik Dwid tarzındaydı: “Başkalarının görüşlerine genelde pek aldırmam; daha çok kişisel çıkarları doğrultusunda hareket eden biriyim.”

Kaynak: NO ECHO / Carlos Ramirez, 10.31.2025

The Skarhead x Integrity split is available on vinyl via Static Era Records

Skarhead / Integrity split albümü, Static Era Records tarafından vinil formatında satışa sunulmuştur.

» staticerarecords.com

New York Hardcore Documentary 1999

“Sert, acımasız ama dürüst.” –Skratch Magazine

N.Y.H.C. Frank Pavich tarafından yönetilen, 1990’ların ortalarındaki New York hardcore sahnesini konu alan esaslı bir belgesel yapımdır. Çekimleri 1995’in ortalarında tamamlanan belgesel ilk olarak 1999’da Pavich tarafından VHS olarak yayımlandı.

Belgesel Aralık 2007’de HALO 8 Entertainment tarafından dağıtım için satın alındı ve 25 Mart 2008’de iki disklik özel edisyonuyla yeniden yayınlandı. İkinci diskte orijinal belgeselden on yıl sonra çekilen “Where Are They Now?” röportajları, Vision of Disorder, Madball, 25 ta Life, 108, No Redeeming Social Value, District 9 ve daha fazlasının tüm şarkılarının canlı performanslarının yanı sıra Lou Koller (Sick of It All) ve Toby Morse (H2O) ile yapılan yeni röportajlar da dahil olmak üzere daha önce yayınlanmamış birçok görüntü de yer alıyor.

Lord Ezec aka Danny Diablo had since moved to LA, where he is interview at his house right on Pico Union (also the stompin grounds of the notorious Psycho Realm).

“A fantastic gem.” –Slap Skateboard Magazine

N.Y.H.C. is the first feature-length documentary to explore the New York Harcore music scene. Drawings its roots from punk rock, hardcore evolved into a dedicated, self-contained movement, unconcerned with success in the mainstream. The documentary follows seven bands in the summer of 1995, ranging from Bronx inner-city youth to Long Island suburbanites to Hare Krishna devotees. N.Y.H.C. is a surprisingly in-depth and non-exploitive look into a vital and often neglected music community.

N.Y.H.C. 1995 Documentary

Directed by Frank Pavich, hardcore documentary N.Y.H.C. is slated for release by Halo-8 Entertainment as a two-disc DVD on March 29. The vanguard film, which chronicles hardcore punk subculture, was originally distributed as an underground VHS tape in 1999.

The film traces seven bands, originating from different parts of New York, during the summer of 1995. Featured on the original video are interviews with key hardcore musicians Jimmy Gestapo (Murphy’s Law), John Joseph (Cro-Mags), Lord Ezec (Crown of Thornz, Danny Diablo), Roger Miret (Agnostic Front), Rick ta Life (25 ta Life), Vic DiCara & Rasaraja das (108), and Freddy Madball (Madball).

Interrview with Puerto Rican Myke of District 9 / Skarhead.

New material, shot by Pavich for the second disc, includes a Where Are They Now? featurette, a retrospective look at old concert venues, and previously unreleased live performances by VOD, 108, Madball, 25 ta Life, and Crown of Thornz.

Recent releases on alternative indie distributor Halo-8 Entertainment include Your Mommy Kills Animals, Threat, and Punk Rock Holocaust 2.

Category: N.Y.H.C.