New cassettes from The III, Hektiks, and Venom Snipers in stock now from Roachleg Records

Our friends at Roachleg just released three new cassettes, all of which are in stock and shipping now. Remember, Sorry State is Roachleg’s official distributor and shipping partner, so if you order from the Roachleg website Sorry State will handle the shipping, and if you have a shop or distro you can also get in touch with us for wholesale orders for Roachleg titles. Of course all three tapes are also available to order on the Sorry State site too.

It looks like only the III cassette has a fleshed-out description at the moment, but if you’re wondering: Hektiks play raw noisy hardcore with some Kyushu vibes, Venom Snipers play snotty KBD-influenced punk with wild, Tapeworm-level production, and the III is a solo project by Will from Poison Ruin / the Damage / a ton of other bands, and it’s the kind of moody, noisy stuff punks make when they edge into genres like shoegaze and indie. Read Jonah Falco’s much more fleshed-out description of the III below. And if you’d rather hear for yourself, all three releases are also streaming on Roachleg’s Bandcamp.

Admittedly, it’s hard to pin down. What do you say about a guitar record in the age of limitless creative reach. Where time seems to not matter in terms of how you let your songs speak to people but also in how to place music in time. Is the NOW just coincidental? Is Now (tm) just when it happens to be made, or is the NOW when we know that as a critical mass we all knew how we wanted to best express ourselves. Hard to say what’s instantaneous about The III and what’s classic but somewhere in all the questions lie this tickling mist of hanging chords and slow emotions that let you drift as well as they let you propel yourself at the stage to burn that last bit of your high frequency hearing you’ve been holding on to. Guitars and inward reaching melancholy worth of Greg Sage’s legacy with touches of the optimistic 90s guitar player who could just buy a JCM 800 or an Ampeg v4 for nothing cause they felt like learning guitar by starting a band. Wipers, Motorhead, Goo Goo Dolls, Screaming Trees, Hot Snakes, Bikini Kill (Come one Will you know the song I mean), and maybe even a Champagne Supernova, at this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within a Philly warehouse show.

-Jonah Falco