Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Overdog of the Past: The Berzerker - Demo's 1998 (Unreleased CD-R)

Monday, July 28, 2025

Summer of Doomcore 2025


Doomcore Techno Resistance - a plentitude of new projects

It's no secret at all that we, over here at The Hardcore Overdogs, love the Doomcore Techno genre.

And we desire to push this sound further ahead - beyond borders, beyond barriers, beyond limitations.

So here is a list of new Doomcore projects that are closely or farther away related to us. And that try to pull the lever up to 11 in one way or another.


Haunted Rave Music - The Doomcore Techno guidebook

Here it is. The first e-book solely dedicated to our beloved. Has all the facts and details - about the obscure origins of the genre, its artists and label, its bleak-but-euphoric mindset... and plenty of other stuff.




Walking through the Doomed Forest of Hamburg

Multi-media art-house project.
"Found footage" style horror that depicts, well, a doomed walk through one of Hamburgs darker forests
 



The Doomcore Files

1st release in an upcoming series of compilations made up of tracks by talented new producers and veteran doom dogs.




Definition of Doomcore

The hardest and most industrial tracks from the Doomcore Records vault (or crypt?) joined in one release.




DJ Ai - Into The Labyrinth

A Doomcore EP done in collaboration with Artificial Intelligence! The (dark) future is here.



More projects are bound to be unveiled very soon!

So are you ready for the big bad Doomcore hammer?

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Movie Compendium for Hardcore Heads (Video Feature)


A collaboration between HCBX and The Hardcore Overdogs
- with a lot of additional help by GabberGirl and Nikaj

Hardcore ain't just a type of music, it's a scene, a culture, a movement.
With little quirks and shared behavior; hardcore minds often think alike.
Part of this "cultural heritage" is a like for certain movies; not just for the fans, but also visibly amongst producers - as they often sampled these.

My take on this is that some movies just *are* hardcore.
Violent, vulgar, vicious, but a smiley face, too.

And just as these movies breached barriers of how much fury and nihilism is acceptable on the screen, so did hardcore music do on the audio level.

Of course you ain't a square if you are a gabber who doesn't like horror or scifi flicks - these are mere suggestions!

But no more words - dim the lights, close the blinds, pop open a can of coke - it's time for a movie night!

Movie Compendium for Hardcore Heads (and a few examples of tracks that sampled them)

Transcript of the video:

Pulp Fiction
-Neophyte - Execute
-DJ Skinhead - DJ Skinhead (Mutha Fucka Remix)
-Diplomat - The Screamer
-DJ Freak - What's Your Thoughts

Lawnmower Man
-Neophyte - In Your Head
-Strychnine - Utopia
-Mescalinum United - Light Bringer

Full Metal Jacket
-E-De-Cologne - They'll Never Get Me
-Nasenbluten - Cocksucker
-DOA - Unleash The Brutality
-Traffik - Bloodbath

True Romance
-Infarct - The Anti-Christ
-Delta 9 - The Hate Tank

Natural Born Killers
-Ec8or - Pick The Best One
-DOA - Total Annihilation
-DJ Freak and The Porridge Gun - Natural Born Killa

Goodfellas
-Gangsta Trax - Goodfellas
-Hyperact - My Best Friend (Dirty Mix)
-DOA - Brooklyn Mob
-Human Terror - Gankzta Gabba

Hellraiser
-Leviathan - We'll Tear Your Soul Apart
-High Energy - The Box

Exorcist 3
-Delta 9 - Gemini
-Delta 9 - No More Regrets

Taxi Driver
-DOA - Wanna Be A Gangster
-Syndicate - Badman

Let us know if we've missed any important entry in this list or tell us your own favorite movie in the comments below

Sunday, July 20, 2025

The first "found footage" Dark Techno horror movie: Walking in the Doomed Forest of Hamburg


It's time to remove the veil and introduce another project by The Hardcore Overdogs.

Walking in the Doomed Forest of Hamburg
("found footage" Dark Techno horror movie)

Part 1 - Entering the Doomed Forest

Hamburg has elements of a megalopolis, but also elements of green, untouched nature.
The Itinerant Audio project took me to one of those patches within the city limits of Hamburg. An idyllic forest, peaceful, calm, ideal for long walks, cycling...
It also connects to a medium-sized lake that's sweet for swimming in the summer, and a few fields.

Yet if you look beyond its beautiful trees, leaves, flowers, this place is maybe not so untouched and silent at all.

There is a lot of activity tied to this place, some euphoric, but also some very disturbing stuff.

At one time, hikers stumbled upon a bunch of discarded plastic bags. It turned out they contained human remains.

A well known explicit movie actress posted an invitation on the internet for a "fan ****" on an open place next to the forest; quite a lot of people volunteered.

The lake is also surrounded by a nude beach, which is designated as an LGBTQIA+ "cruising" area, and a very popular one at that.

Underground raves and parties are held within the forest area; especially related to psytrance.

So there is *indeed* a lot of stuff going on at that location.

Now to our own little project:

It's a short movie illustrating a walk through this very forest; with some edits and twists and some surreal peculiarities.
All of this is underscored by Doomcore, Dark Ambient and Slowcore Techno sounds.

Trying to portray some of the strange sensations of this special spot.

Part 2 - Escape from the Haunted Forest

Last year we walked into one of Hamburg's haunted forests, old, with quite the history.

And then?

Then... we were stuck... for months... for years... maybe for millennia.. in this doomed location... or even at worse places... but maybe... maybe we were happy?

Either way. It's time to get back. Into the real world. Into real life. With real pleasures and real pain.
Enough with facades and illusion.
This is reality!

And therefore... it is high time... to escape the doomed forest of Hamburg.

Will we ever make it?

We will see...

To be continued.

Credits

The following tracks were used as audio supplements to the visuals:

Prologue: Low Entropy - Creeping Doom

Part 1: Cosmic Anarchists - Drifting In A Timeless Void
Part 2: Αναρχία Αραχνοειδείς - The Bite Of The Spider (Chapter 5)
Part 3: Hamburg Penumbral Orchestra - The Sun
Part 4: Time Kanzler Green - Slowly Visiting Another Planet
Part 5: Metalove - Ich Will Sehen (Maia)
Part 6: 1 Million Slowcore Members - Thy Will Be Done

Intermission: Low Entropy - The Slowest Love

Part 7. 1 Million Slowcore Members - This is History
Part 8. Low Entropy - Open Your Mind To Hardcore
Part 9. Cosmic Anarchists - Slowcore Piledriver Experience
Part 10. Time Kanzler Green - Substellar Slowcore
Part 11. Low Entropy - Midnight
Part 12. Low Entropy - There Is No Future
Part 13. Metalove - Industrielle Maschinen (Alcyone)

The first "found footage" Dark Techno horror movie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EOsPRnXbNc

You can read more about the background of the movie, its ideas, and the production process here:
https://lowentropyproducer.blogspot.com/2025/07/walking-in-doomed-forest-of-hamburg.html

#scary #dark #doomcore #techno #Hamburg #found #footage #short #movie

Saturday, July 19, 2025

All eyes on Nasenbluten - The Original Nosebleed Techno Act


Can't believe we did not do a feature on Nasenbluten yet - definitely one of the "five pillars of faith" in the Hardcore Techno canon.

"Nosebleed Techno" was one of the early names for what is now ubiquitously known as "Gabber", and word of mouth is that this term inspired Nasenbluten to take on this alias ("Nasenbluten" being the German word for nosebleed).

So we get an Australian act taking on the German translation of an English name to upset the applecart in the Dutch gabber scene. What could possibly go wrong?

Nothing! Because they burned their legacy into stone and went all the way up to the hardcore pantheon.


Now let's try to define their sound a bit.

Nasenbluten is a notorious Amiga-Core act. Other producers used an Amiga in the early to mid 90s, too, like Hardsequencer or ec8or. But they morphed the limited capabilities of the Amigas to technical mastery.
Nasenbluten on the other hand never were ashamed of the inherent lo-fi sound of this Commodore machine.
You get tinny hihats, vocals that sound like they were ripped from cassette tapes (and they likely are), and Nyquist sounds all the way. The basses hit home like thunderclaps, though!

Yet despite having the appearance of being lo-fi, low brow and proud, they are actually more varied, experimental and clever than most of their peers.
It's not just speedcore-terror-gabba. They did breakbeat tracks, early breakcore, weird ambient-spoken word, techno stuff, comedy skits... their range of material is stunning!


Nasenbluten were always huge, huge fans of PCP. Not only did they take a lot of samples from there (like Kotzaak in "Show us your ****, 303 Nation in "Machete"), I assume it was also a major source of inspiration.
So there are usually a lot of melodies, "rave" stabs, melancholic ambiences, and more in their tracks. At a time when most harder gabber producers just went "gabba drum+shouting+metal riff = go booom booom boom".

That is the mixture and legacy of Nasenbluten.
Honor them by a night of all-out-raving, either at a club or at a home.
but don't complain when you end up with actual nosebleed!


11 tracks to check:

1. Machete



2. Intellectual Killer



3. Lurid



4. Blows T' The Nose



5. No Sex



6. C**t Face



7. Concrete Compressor



8. Treadmill



9. Check The Sound



10. Lassie Feeling



11. Markt Frisch Terror


Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Extreme Techno Barbarians from Scotland: Looking back at Storm Records


We already showcased a "pantheon of terror" in past texts - the labels responsible for the rise of bloodthirsty Hardcore Techno noise in the 90s - and beyond.
Labels like Kotzaak, Napalm, Industrial Strength... but also "smaller ones" such as Surgeon 16 or "666" from Milwaukee...
Another one to add to this list is Storm Records from Scotland... only 7 releases, but this lesser number was the more influential.
Especially the DJ Freak releases set the mark in impure and nocturnal noise emissions at high frequency.
And then you got Nasenbluten, DJ Tron... and the rest of the gruesome gang.

How to best end this text? With a lovely poem, of course!

Fate whispers to the warrior, 'You can not withstand the storm.'
The warrior whispers back, 'I am the storm.'


11 Storm Records picks worth checking out:

1. DJ Freak - On The Edge



2. Redline - Machine Head



3. Nasenbluten - Intellectual Killer



4. Jackhammer - Machine Age



5. Unknown Source - Fear Of The Unknown



6. DJ Tron - Massacre



7. DJ Freak - Hypnotized



8. DJ Tron - I Believe In Pain



9. Redline - Fucking Guitars



10. DJ Producer - Urban Decay



11. DJ Freak - Requiem To The Hardcore


Friday, July 11, 2025

Hardcore Rant: Let's get back to the days of lo-fi Gabber and Techno

There is something that's been bugging me recently. No, to be correct, it has been bugging me since years already.
This is that amongst Hardcore Techno and Gabber producers, there is this creepy craving for... good production values. high fidelity. expensive "plugins" or expensive real gear. extreme engineering expertise.
fuck all that. please, just fuck it and forget it.

It's very strange behavior for a genre that used to be as lofi as hardcore. check some of the underground or even mainstream gabber "hits" of the 90s. a lot of them have zero production glitter. overly compressed, noizy, undecipherable, sounds like it's coming out of a blown speaker...
but that's exactly what made the music banging. what made the bass roll. trash, anger, fury, rage, energy...

doing a hardcore track in a classy, high level production way is like going to a street fight in an expensive suit and a top hat.

we want it rough and we want it raw, and we want it dirty! this is hardcore after all. keep your cleanliness and clean sounds at home, please. you don't need to take a shower tonight.

let's take a look at the 90s again. there were some well-known acidcore producers who *live-produced* their tracks. not just live recorded. live produced.
that means if they had a track on a vinyl, and it ran for 5 minutes, they spent an actual 5 minutes on production. and then, bang! finished, off to the pressing plant. (maybe +/- a minute).
you might say "hey i guess that guy spent a lot of preparation for these tracks. maybe hours, maybe days. the final recording was the only thing that went so fast."
no, I saw some of them playing live. zero preparation. just straight ahead to the sound.

there were well-known "amiga hardcore" labels who supposedly recorded their tracks to cassette tape. Not DAT. the type of low fidelity tapes you had in a Sony Walkman. and they cut their vinyls out of there.

there was also a behemoth label that defined the whole hardcore scene... and supposedly did the same thing for some of their releases.

and word of mouth says that the The Hague acid, electro, "core" scene had similar mojo... and yeah, check a certain record on drop bass network - let's say the title is about "bosoms and commerce" - and tell me if you can find any production value, or any "care-for-not-overly-compressing-the-sound" on that one.

these were tracks that are still loved, get played at parties worldwide, and people rush their bums to them. without any complaints about "bad mastering" or "wrong EQ settings".

so. let's just drop that "production value" crap. stop the talks about music theory, sound engineering, mastering tracks... just say "fuck you" to that.

Hardcore Techno is supposed to be rough, nasty, and fun! You can take your 'professionally mastered' tracks and stick them up your ass.

Amen.

Further lofi Trax:

  1. Taciturne - Boys Don't Cry (Revisited) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDxpJGu9wBY
  2. Amiga Shock Force - Fühlst Du Dich Wohl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXUd6MIrcXE
  3. E-de Cologne - Dance Now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq8yctrrkoY
  4. Amiga Trax - Terrorists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L12b1ZTFXUE
  5. Hardsequencer - Feel So Good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTo-2kE0hsA
  6. Ech Heftag! - Uit Je Dakkie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmqZuane0y8
  7. Underground Nation Of Rotterdam - 666 (Damian's Edit) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npeg6fFHYoA
  8. Dj Dano - Oooooh Shit (Shit'e' Brooklyn Mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sba8eyFh0M
  9. GTI - Mistick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLqjc-o2XOo
  10. Neophyte - Communicate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvVOLObNf10
  11. Nasenbluten - Machete https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KauJdx464Q8

Do you know more lofi tracks? let me know?

Note: This text was not written by AI

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

New The Hardcore Overdogs Anthem (Part III)


The Hardcore Techno Overdogs Pack, assemble!
Because you just got a brand new anthem.

Style of the track: Hardcore, Gabber, Techno, Doom, Speedcore, and Experimental.

Woof!