Founded on beliefs that are in short supply within the current underground music scene, Bane has established themselves as one of the most influential and relevant bands in hardcore today. Since their inception, they’ve remained one of the scene’s hardest working bands releasing the full lengths, It All Comes Down To This and 2001’s critically acclaimed Give Blood, an album that breathed life into the then-stagnant hardcore scene. Returning with their first album in three years, Bane offer up The Note - an album that embodies the spirit, the community, and the love of traditional hardcore that Bane has become synonymous with. In stark contrast with many of its contemporaries The Note is not laden with trends but with powerful, energetic and passionate performances that serve as a wake up call for modern day hardcore.

Produced and recorded by Brian McTernan (Hot Water Music, Thrice, Cave In) The Note is a ten-track, super charged, much needed shot of hardcore. Fans of Bane will recognize the high-octane vocals of Aaron Bedard, which are complemented by a frenzy of raucous riffs furious enough to ignite circle pits. This is an album of anthems that’ll inspire hardcore kids to rise above, to crawl over each other’s heads, reaching, grabbing and clawing to share the mic with Bedard, to sing lyrics like “These are the only crowded rooms / I don’t feel alone in” (from ‘My Therapy’) and to feel connected to the band and to this scene. About The Note, bassist Pete Chilton says, “We wanted to be true to what Bane has always been. We didn’t want The Note to sound like anything in particular, other than Bane. We didn’t sit down and think, ‘Oh, we want this song to sound like Gorilla Biscuits or Youth Of Today, or where hardcore separated from punk.’ We write songs that we like. It’s what we think hardcore is.”

After all these years, Bane still identify with the concept of a unified hardcore scene, and the power of three surging chords. The Note can help resurrect the golden days of sweaty, hardcore matinees, with lyrics that meant something, and shows that were the highlight of a working class kid’s week. Bane have stayed true to a singular sound, ignoring trends, and continuing to make the same music they started out making over a decade ago. But consistency did not give way to same-ness or predictability. In a genre that’s full of soundalikes and copycats, Bane are the standouts, playing raw, surging hardcore not unlike forefathers Judge and Burn. The proverbial ‘they’ say that you have to evolve in order to prosper, and Bane evolves and prospers without ever changing their focus or aesthetic goal. All you need is one listen to The Note for proof of that.