25 ta Life has been around since 93'  Their sound is pure hardcore with a "metal" edge to it. If you live anywhere near NY, and you're into Hardcore, you HAVE seen 25 ta Life play at one time or another. 25 ta Life seems to play shows almost every day and it's because of them that many other smaller bands get recognition. The band defines what the hardcore scene is really about, UNITY. At each show, Rick has a huge table filled with 25 ta Life merchandise as well as tapes, demos, and CD's from other bands. Pile-on's and sing alongs are a trade mark event at all 25 ta Life shows. If you have the chance to see them, and you haven't yet, make sure you check these mutha fuckas out! -hardcorewebsite.net
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In the beginning stages most of the members were currently playing in other bands, so the idea of putting Heartfelt Discord together was primarily thought of as a side project. But since most of the band listened to all different styles of hardcore, the urge to form a band that could express that with no limitations was just too great. Heartfelt Discord got together and began to write songs which they felt best represented themselves while remaining free from being labeled into a specific genre of music. Shortly after the writing process began, natale asked matt, who played guitar in his current nj metalcore band(a life less perfect) to join up with them. After matt’s arrival Heartfelt Discord’s sound really began coming together, and things just started flowing. Since the members current projects weren’t working out for one reason or another, Heartfelt Discord quickly changed from a side project to the only band that really mattered. In late June Heartfelt Discord recorded their upcoming ep titled "Something From Within" and plans to keep moving forward, taking their love for music as far as they can.

The band called it quits in June of 2005.
In January of 2000 FES released a 2 song CD simply titled "Demo 2000". In June of 2000, a self titled 7 song studio CD was released on Scorpion Records. Both CD’s received great reviews in print and web press. Both are also receiving airplay on US college radio and other stations throughout the world. Through some hard networking and a word of mouth buzz, to date, we have landed ourselves on Fifteen compilation CD’s, Two extreme skiing videos and a Video fanzine that featured North Jersey bands. All of which are for sale worldwide. We had a song featured on a television commercial for the WWF  5 FES songs were included in the regular rotation at the 2000 winter X-Games.  We've played live on a local cable TV show, and have done live on air interviews on numerous college radio.  Our songs "What Now", "All Talk" and “Friend” have reached #1 on MP3.com and garageband.com's punk/hardcore charts.  In 2002 after selling out of 2 pressings of the first CD, we decided to redo the artwork and re-release it with a new audio track and a mpeg video on the CD. The re-release finally found FES's CD in most records stores in NJ and other states such as, Arizona, Utah and Texas. 2003 also brought a deal to distro the CD in Russia. We’ve been touring the east coast from Mass to Florida since 2000. Just started invading Canada in 2004  We completed a full national tour of 11,000 miles in 31 days in the summer of 2003  We won a lot on the 2003 Warped Tour through Ernie Ball and played to a sold out crowd.  2004 we played HellFest @ RexPlex in NJ!
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Stop this fall was a punk band that ended up being a hardcore band. When the project came together, it aimed to play a melodic brand of heavier punk rock, but the influences of the members cranked out melodic hardcore punk. The band itself was aimed at maintaining an ideal and a message that spoke to those parts of the counter-culture that were aware of the responsibility that comes with being aware. and to dispel the ambiguity that such statements usually carry, we were leftists, pretty much socialists, and damn proud of it too. This meant that the band would, fatefully, have very few mosh parts or songs about killing ex-girlfriends...with mosh parts. The line-up for the three year existence of the band was pretty stable, with the exception of the time honored, Spinal Tap-ish tradition of drummer replacement, with the bulk of the early recordings in the hands of a Cuban madman and the remainder in the hands of a Nicaraguan Cutie. The band very much became the life of the people in it, changing them for good and exposing them to many of the realities of being a scene black sheep. Stop this fall walked the line between hardcore and the more separate DIY scene with pride, and ,some would even say, poise. Although too message driven for one side of the hardcore spectrum, and too "hardcore" sounding for the other , more political side, Stop this fall stuck to it's guns and refused to give in to either proclivity in order to gain popularity. Releasing a first demo in 2002 packed with songs that would be re and in some cases rerecorded, a lot of what the band was about was laid down in a friend's living room in a single night. Except for the vocals, recorded in a closet a few days later. This recording held the definitive STF track "John Mayor is a tool", a little ditty about refusing to be imposed upon and taking action that was the perennial show closer. Stop this fall then became a local..well, not favorite, but presence for sure. Playing tons of shows around Miami (with a notable run at local venue, The alley)and developing a mutually satisfying relationship with the town of Naples, Fl. A second demo followed: the "twiggy" demo, or "Photoshot" demo as it came to be known. Featuring a few new tracks, most notably the oddly structured Photoshot dead, an attack on a fashion industry that terrorizes women with images of supposed beauty and unachievable standards of plasticity. The song would become most memorable to the band members at a show with the moshtacular On broken wings, where the many build ups to no break downs led to many a disappointed kid in camo shorts. The second demo was followed by an E.P titled "Scream til you're free" that marked the 3rd recording of John Mayor is a tool and the first appearance of another signature track "Hijos de los desaparecidos". The song title came from a poem written by the bassist, about the generation that came after the oppressive regimes of Pinochet, Peron, Rojas Pinilla and the like in latin america, and how it was in their hands to have the fire of resistance to injustice. It was distilled into a more universal feeling by band leader, singer, lyricist and resident skinny guy, Johnny with , at least to yours truly, impressive results. The band endeavored to leave the state of Florida a few times, some more successful than others, but none more successful than the winter tour at the beginning of 2005. The tour provided shows with the likes of Bracewar, permanent, ten33(a band with whom STF developed an ambiguously gay relationship that lasts to this day),In search of ( a band that they would share a split record with later on), Killing the dream, and the very fucking amazing Modern life is war. The tour was punctuated by 4 shows with The risk taken, a kindred spirit band that provided for some of the more memorable moments in the life of the band, as well as massive amounts of kinship and inspiration. It also served as the first time that 4 of the 5 band members had ever seen snow, as well as an important lesson about not touring the northeast in winter without first having the heat in the van checked. A string of shows in Florida followed the successful tour , as well as a recording session that yielded four tracks that would end up on the "Become the living" 7" and a split with In search of, Colin of arabia, and Blood stands still. The recording would yield an attack on commander in fallacy George W. Bush int he form of the track "Smart Alec Baldwin", as well as another collaboration between the basist and vocalist lyrically in the fairly unknown track "ghosts". The 7" featured three of the new tracks, as well as photoshot dead, in a tip of the hat to the vinyl crazy DIY scene, and the art was done by the overwhelmingly talented Cristy Road, of Green Zine fame. The split came out on scorpion records, while the 7" came out as the first release on moment of truth records, helmed by old hardcore and bandana enthusiast as well as south Florida underground unsung staple, Mike Blum. The band would have it's coup de grace delivered to it while on it's ill fated 2005 summer tour. The van would implode, as would the band. Not before Tyranny of shaw vocalist lead the band in johnny's absence. Finally, in debt, without fame or glory, the band pulled itself apart and had it's final show, fittingly, at an info shop space in north Miami. Stop this fall said what it wanted to, not propelled by hype or popularity, but by a select few promoters and hardcore kids that still believed in what the band tried to stand for. Everyone in the band is now trying to get their literal and proverbial shit together in waiting for the day when kids get stoked on the band and in true hardcore fashion, resurrect it way after the fact.

Johnny - Vocals
Jacob - Guitar
Daniel - Bass
Eddie - Guitar
Nicky - Drums
www.myspace.com/stopthisfall