Quality Control HQ

24/08/2024

W.M.D.s ‘Front Toward Enemy’ Demo Cassette is out now! Fast hardcore done right straight from London channelling Ripcord, YDI and a touch of Disorder. F**k the imperialist war machine. Let’s fu***ng go.

5 track album

28/06/2024

It’s finally here. Four years in the making Imposter’s Oblivion Opens is a masterclass in doing hardcore your own way whilst keeping it 💯 : Cold as Life meets Bathory meets losing your fu***ng mind.

11 track album

06/06/2024

Second single 'Funeral March' from Imposter's upcoming LP is up now. If Cold as Life meets Bathory is your thing check this. Pre order the LP now worldwide!

11 track album

31/05/2024

Direct Threat ‘Endless Siege’ 7” out now via QC and Iron Lung! Pre orders shipping this weekend. Proper Oi! Infused fast hardcore punk

6 track album

17/05/2024

Second single online now for the upcoming ‘Endless Siege’ EP from Denver’s ! Check it out and pre-order the EP ready to ship May 31st!

6 track album

14/05/2024

Imposter’s debut LP ‘Oblivion Opens’ is now available for pre-order worldwide along with first single ‘Eulogy of Delusion’ Check it out if you like your hardcore sinister and cold as fu***ng life.

11 track album

03/05/2024

Direct Threat from Denver, Colorado are back with six scorching new Oi! infused early 80s NYHC with their debut 7” EP ‘Endless Siege’ ! Check out the first single ‘Forever Fighting’ and pre-order the 7” via QC and IL Recs.

6 track album

15/04/2024

12/04/2024

Take it in Blood ‘Roadmap of Pain’ 12” OUT NOW.
The one and only Paris tracksuit skins mixing Neglect dark ambiance with the groove of Dmize and Next step up. What else could you ask for?! The 15 min long ep feels like « a rope squeezing your neck as a reality check ».

6 track album

08/04/2024

23/02/2024

Dynamite 'Blow the Bloody Doors Off!' 7" is out now from QCHQ and Northern Unrest and it's an energetic scorcher of YoT / mid 2000s Boston hardcore straight from London! Check it out!

https://qualitycontrolhq.bandcamp.com/album/blow-the-bloody-doors-off

23/02/2024

Desorden 'Afilado Terror' LP is out now on QCHQ and it's gotta be the most mental artwork we've ever publish and we love it. If Breakdown is your thing then check out this 50ft Hardcore from Madrid!

12 track album

13/02/2024

This Friday in London we have an all UKHC line up with Malignant Methods, Blood Fury, Layback, Final Form, Dominate and new London band WMDs featuring members of Churchgoers and Last Affront. Get down on time 7PM, £10 OTD, NOTAFLOF, all ages x

02/02/2024

Jahanam Btistana (Hell Awaits), the debut release by IKHRAS, from Brighton and London, is out now. Five tracks of raging hardcore punk speedily exercise everything that makes the genre awesome as a soundtrack to destroy colonialism.

5 track album

26/01/2024

It’s out! BIB are back with their own style of equal parts frantic shredding and dreamy soundscapes. Full EP up on the QC bandcamp and streaming everywhere! Not many limited purple vinyl left, thank you to everyone who picked one up!

5 track album

05/01/2024

Listen to the new 'Biblical' EP from BIB! Physicals available for pre order at QC now!

5 track album

08/12/2023

Padova Wildstyle Hardcore Silver is here! Debut MLP 'Bullet Ballet' available worldwide and across all streaming platforms. FFO: Killing Time, Outburst and early Exodus:

7 track album

03/12/2023

Full line up and day splits available here! Damage is Done 2024 is go!

21/11/2023

TOZCOS Infernal LP is out fully today and shipping begins next week! Check it out and pick up a copy below! Artwork by the incredible Abe Garcia

12 track album

10/11/2023

Tozcos new LP ‘Infernal’ is ready to pre order now 🔥 Check out two tracks from the album and the music video for Presos! Split release with our friends at Toxic State Records

12 track album

06/10/2023

Stiff Meds 'Tales from the Slab' LP is out now worldwide! If fast as f**k music in the grand tradition of hardcore from the UK is your think check it out:

12 track album

29/09/2023

Mazandaran’s debut 7” is up on all streaming platforms and bandcamp in full! Go check it out - pre orders open and vinyl shipping October 13th ! If you like 80s Japanese and Skandi hardcore d beat this is for you !

4 track album

28/09/2023

Stiff Meds 'Law of the Saw' single M/V from their upcoming Tales From the Slab LP out October 6th. Fastest hardcore on earth in the grandest tradition of UKHC with a taste for the macabre. Check it out!

Single from the upcoming 'Tales from the Slab' LP out on Quality Control HQ Records, available to listen in full and purchase October 6th 2023. UKHC at it's ...

22/09/2023

Debut 7" by Mazandaran is up for pre-order now! All Iranian band from the UK that use ancient Persian mythology to talk about the current regime. FFO: Japanese and Skandinavian 80s hardcore punk.

4 track album

10/09/2023

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08/09/2023

Cold Decay’s debut ST EP is out now on Bandcamp, Streaming, and available on cassette tape worldwide. This lot really understood the heavy hardcore assignment with Everybody Gets Hurt and Billy Club vibes for days and we are stoked to be releasing this! It’s been on repeat since we received the tracks. Paris is popping these days so get listening!

6 track album

18/08/2023

Accusation’s Demo is out now worldwide! Northern Straight Edge crew doing it like their life depended on it ala Stop and Think and No Tolerance, a genre close to our hearts. Listen, there’s only about 10 edge people left in the UK so like this is it tand all you need. Recorded by Tom Pimlott, Mr Violent Reaction. Listen on the QC bandcamp, pick it up at your local dealer in the USA, UK or Germany!

5 track album

21/06/2023

Welcoming Stiff Meds to the QC family with their debut LP coming up first thing this Autumn! One of UKHC’s most loved bands FFO: No Comment, Intense Degree, Heresy. Dare you to play faster than this lot!

12/05/2023

Fairytale ‘Shooting Star’ LP is out in full today! Haunting and beautiful yet chaotic and intense hardcore punk, a perfect soundtrack to a distopian future. This is a split release with our family Toxic State Records so North Americans please purchase from them and of course for our EU followers we have our shop at Sounds of Subterrania! Will be up on streaming sites shortly and the whole album is up on our Bandcamps.

10 track album