New Filipino hardcore records!

Still Ill releases new Veils and Pilipinas Hardcore EPs

by rick olivares

Sunday, November 10 saw hardworking underground hardcore label Still Ill release two new offerings. Feted that evening at Mow’s in Teacher’s Village, Quezon City was hardcore band Veils who launched their second extended play single, Wellwisher’s Tongue. 

Bands like Sandy Good, Hex, Value Lasts, Killratio, No One Wins, Surrogate Prey, Repetition, and Collect opened the party for Veils. 

Also available was the seven-inch test pressing of Pilipinas Hardcore II. 

Wellwisher’s Tongue, the 33^rd offering from Still Ill, follows Veils’ late 2016 self-titled debut, and renews their brutal assault of metallic hardcore against the ills of Philippine society. The new EP features six tracks with the lead off songs, “Havl,” “Swarm,” and “Embrace” of which fans were given a sneak preview in a cassette release last April.

Also included in the new EP is a cover of American punk band Circle jerks’ “Beat Me Senseless.”

Veils’ debut EP prophesied the national turmoil today. Wellwisher’s Tongue isn’t simply a “I told you so” but more of like an angry diatribe into where we are today.

Although a test press – with its regular release a few months away -- the much-awaited Pilipinas Hardcore II follows the successful Pilipinas Hardcore compilation from March of 2018. The sequel features bands like Realidad, Repetition, Collect, Alas, and Indifference.

The first Pilipinas Hardcore compilation featured bands such as Veils, Barred, Badmouth, and XFortressX. Barred’s first full-length record, Bloodstained Existence is also on the way and should be on sale for local fans in a month or so.

Check out Still Ill’s Facebook and Bandcamp pages for information on how to get physical and digital copies of their brand of pummeling hardcore.