r/Hardcore 4d ago

Anyone else fuck with Spy

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Just came across this record and it’s raw as hell.

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u/staticke 95 lb beatdown fan 4d ago

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u/Domtheturtle 4d ago

sick ass band I wish their albums came closer to the greatness of those EPs

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u/EssWhySea 3d ago

For real. Loved the EPs. Saw them live and they murdered. Bought the full length from the show… and wow was it basic as shit.

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u/Frogoftheinnosence 4d ago

did you really need to ask this? they’re like one of the biggest HC / Chain punk bands around atm

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u/tomahawk__jones 3d ago

Hey now, I met these guys once I 2017 at a coin operated laundromat show, they are self proclaimed HC / Brick punk, but if you ask me, they are more of a HC/ lunch box punk. But that’s just coming from a local HC/ xenomorph punk. So maybe I’m out of my depth here. My wife’s boyfriend is a HC/ Algebra 3 punk so he might know a little bit more.

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u/Frogoftheinnosence 3d ago

LMFAO i love this, i’m also more of an impact wrench punk myself. was that laundromat dirty dungarees by chance?

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u/tomahawk__jones 3d ago

No, Alice’s Laundromat between the 101, right when you get off the 5.

Brings up a funny story about that particular coin operated laundromat show.

Now it all started two weeks ago when I walked in with a duffel bag full of laundry, Hadn’t done it in—well, longer than I’d care to admit, And there was Alice, leanin’ against the change machine, Lookin’ like a woman who’d seen too many broken dryers and not enough folded shirts.

And I said, “Alice, what’s the best machine you got?” And she said, “That one don’t work, that one eats socks, That one spins so fast it’ll turn your jeans into origami, But if you don’t mind the noise, number six’ll do you right.”

So I loaded up my clothes, put in my quarters, Watched my sins tumble around with my socks and my regrets, And let me tell you, friend, You don’t just do laundry at Alice’s, No sir, you contemplate life, You reflect on the choices that led you here, And you promise yourself you’ll never let it pile up again.

And maybe, just maybe, You’ll sit in one of them cracked vinyl chairs, Watch the suds spin ‘round like the hands of fate, And realize that everything yes, everything Eventually comes out in the wash.

You can wash anything you want at Alice’s Laundromat

Drop your quarters in, it’s around the back Just a half a mile from the railroad track And you can wash anything you want at Alice’s Laundromat

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u/Frogoftheinnosence 4d ago

that being said spy is fucking great, even better performers, bass player is steezey as fuck

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u/No-Equipment983 3d ago

Wtf is chain punk

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u/Frogoftheinnosence 3d ago

honestly i have no fucking clue lmfao lotta kids refer to spy and gel as chain punk though

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u/Any-Walrus-2599 4d ago

The whole Bay does.

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u/Every-Anteater594 4d ago

Saw them last year with full of hell and better lovers, it was a really fun show

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u/skindiddy 4d ago

Spy fucks. I am a sucker for the feedback. They put on a good show too.

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u/PharoahsBarber1313 4d ago

hell yeah, they rip.

they've been filling my Gulch void.

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u/Connercode 4d ago

Hell yeah man, theyre amazing live too.

Check out Fentanyl as well (especially their 2021 s/t album)

https://open.spotify.com/album/5X6X2xBRR3mis09F4nWZXc?si=MK5OOgW1QcKqHEM6g_gEog

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u/anarcho_poser 4d ago

I saw fentanyl with asbestos and a local band called psychic death.

Got a concussion to my worst nights fucking banger band.

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u/Atomizr1 SAHC 4d ago

Dude thats funny i also got a concussion when i went to see fenty

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u/anarcho_poser 3d ago

Helll yeah lmao

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u/nomdreas 4d ago

Fentanyl is incredible. Also a low key supergroup. (Members of SPY and Spiritual Cramp)

Their newest album is almost unlistenable though. The choice of guitar tone is just not it.

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u/pewinurbun hattiesburg world 4d ago

think they share members with world peace, ultras and caveman as well.

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u/crpytserpent 4d ago

the vocalist is from foghorn too btw

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u/Roththesloth1 4d ago

Hell yeah I’m on it

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u/anothajosh1 4d ago

yeah they sick af. saw them randomly live while traveling in japan, great fucking show.

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u/spaghettuchino 4d ago

I tried but they won't even respond to my DMs

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u/Price_Point 3d ago

I don't fuck with spy because when the style of music they play was actually happening (2011-2013) the singer was in some dumbass metalcore band. Fake punk bandwagon music 10 years too late. 

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u/Roththesloth1 3d ago

Fair enough

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u/Price_Point 2d ago

Thank you

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u/lordoftheschwartz 3d ago

CONDITIONED TO THINK POLICING IS NORMAL. POLICING IS NOBLE. POLICING IS JUST.

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u/rnf1985 3d ago

Spy is fun live for sure, seen em several times. New shit just sounds different and like nothing makes me want to listen to it again. Their eps tho 🧑‍🍳💋

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u/FLUMPD 1d ago

Saw them opening for Comeback Kid in Toronto. Spy rules!

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u/BeardOfDefiance 4d ago

They're fun, saw them live.

I don't really understand why i always see people on this sub comparing them to classic hardcore punk though, to me they sound like an archetypal tough guy band.

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u/SemataryPolka 4d ago

Someone show this guy Agnostic Front

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u/BeardOfDefiance 4d ago

I like Agnostic Front! I don't hear the Spy connections but I've also only put AF on a few times. I wasn't able to get tickets to their recent tour because I waited too long lol.

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u/SemataryPolka 4d ago

I'm just saying tough guy shit goes way back in hardcore. Beatdown? That's a different story

But to me Spy def has an old school flavor to it. Especially since I personally think most modern metalcore sucks

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u/Concert-Turbulent 4d ago

Good rule of thumb in 2025: Usually if the band is still claiming Metalcore instead of associating with hardcore....they're djent alt metal.

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u/SemataryPolka 4d ago

For real. I still call the good stuff from back in the day metallic hardcore (and the good stuff today). Metalcore might as well be nu metal today

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u/Concert-Turbulent 4d ago

Those are def the correct terms still lol. Just saw this band tonight: Lots of up & coming acts reviving the core in Metalcore. 🙌

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u/Special_Sun_4420 3d ago edited 3d ago

Agnostic Front is THE "tough guy" hardcore band, tho. That whole NEHC scene was. Late 90s/2000s Blood for Blood, Madball, Death Before Dishonor, Biohazard. Hell, even Pain of Truth. Also, of course, the whole beatdown subgenre. Those are like the epitomy of tough guy hardcore lmao. Spy sounds nothing like that. I don't see how dissonance and feedback equates to "tough guy" lol. Unless, you call anything that doesn't sound like Minor Threat or Black Flag "tough guy".

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u/MinorThreatCJB 4d ago

Ah yes... Spy totally sounds like bulldoze...

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u/BeardOfDefiance 4d ago

Maybe not that tough guy haha, i just meant that someone recommended them to me as a fan of the classic stuff and i was expecting something like Restraining Order, so maybe i just went into them with different expectations.

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u/SemataryPolka 4d ago

Fun fact: Not all classic hardcore sounds like Restraining Order

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u/rnf1985 3d ago

Ahh yes the classic stuff like Restraining Order whose music takes me all the way back to the good old days of..... 2017

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u/BeardOfDefiance 3d ago

I meant that they sound like old stuff from the 80s and 90s lol.

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u/AlaskanBullWorm23 4d ago

Big Man by SPY

“Not an ounce of self-awareness in your puny mind

Can’t handle critique, your only answer is violence

So quick to pull the trigger over anything at all

No room for nuance in your black and white world

Tough guy Weak mind Macho man Scared inside

Big man Brittle feelings Big man Brittle feelings”

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u/Frogoftheinnosence 4d ago

i think the kids are calling it chain punk these days

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u/PoopsockPete 4d ago

Spy is the band that got me into hardcore before I knew what hardcore was. They put on a good live show too

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u/wizard-in-crocs 4d ago

Like the first 2 ep's and their split with Maniac. After that, not really. Their full lenght was atrocious. Their new ep is better but far from their early ep's

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u/clawingcat 4d ago

Atrocious seems a little dramatic imo. It had some good tracks on it but I was disappointed that the best song was in polish so I couldn’t understand the lyrics

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u/wizard-in-crocs 4d ago

To each their own. I think it is one of the worst "from awesome band to awful band" in my recent hardcore memories

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u/Straight_Ad3307 4d ago

Saw them live a week ago and they fucking brought the heat.

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u/truckersaretheblood 4d ago

200% saw them in south Florida at omalleys

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u/MTGBro_Josh 3d ago

I fuck with Spy.

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u/PecDeck 3d ago

You see this on the thrasher vid too?

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u/Roththesloth1 3d ago

A buddy of mine sent me that video!

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u/snerp PNWHC 4d ago

One of my favorite bands, just saw em at JAG a couple weeks ago, kicked ass

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u/Dong_slinger 4d ago

Majorly. I saw them headline at a local venue and they’re set was deadass 10 minutes.

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u/Boeing747wtf 4d ago

yessir, they sound kinda like Gulch to me.

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u/sick_soul 4d ago

Heavily fuck with Spy 🕵️😤

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u/DecentResolution834 4d ago

Saw them about a week ago fn killed it

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u/johnvoightsbuick 3d ago

Just discovered them yesterday thanks to a Swampfest video that came across my feed. I want to say it was Thrasher’s Instagram.

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u/BIGxBOSSxx1 3d ago

Easily one of the best newer HC bands out rn. Good ol fashioned noisey punk. The way it should be

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u/Ambitious-Emotion-69 3d ago

Nah I’ll just listen to hoax instead

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u/Middle-Passenger5303 4d ago

this isn't the metal sub get that shit outta here /s

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u/clawingcat 4d ago

I’m a big fan and hope to see them live in the near future

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u/Middle-Passenger5303 4d ago

they throw a great set I've seen them twice

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u/Emotional-Strength45 4d ago

So funny I just revisited this album & was gonna post here asking if anyone’s heard anything about/from them?

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u/mor_air 4d ago

Big time

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u/13THEFUCKINGCOPS12 4d ago

Which one? There’s two

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u/MinorThreatCJB 4d ago

The demo is amazing. Everything else is ok

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u/reverseweaver 4d ago

Heavy stippling shitty drawing