No Warning

Suffer, Survive, the debut release on Machine Shop Recordings from the fast-rising Toronto band No Warning, puts a whole new slant on hardcore with a sound that mixes melody with mayhem. Equal parts punk, hardcore and a secret songwriting ingredient all their own, Suffer, Survive features such No Warning originals as "Breeding Insanity," "Dirtier Than The Next," "Hopeless Case," "Back To Life" and "Bad Timing" and is a whole new musical direction from a band with a big future. That future began in the late '90's when a fifteen year-old guitarist named Matt DeLong started trolling his neighborhood for a singer to join his quest for straight up, pissed off hardcore, the way it should be played. He found this in junior high school buddy, Ben Cook. "I'd been in some punk bands," Cook recalls, "but I'd never done any hardcore before. I said 'Fuck it, Delong, we're doing this and we're gonna be the fuckin best". At first, the hometown crowd didn't catch on to the explosive potential of No Warning, but by the time the young band added local guitarist Jordan Posner to the line-up they had become local contenders. It was only a matter of time before they recorded their first 7" EP... more...