Madball: True To The Game - The Roadrunner Years, 3CD Deluxe Digipack

• 42 track, three disc set from New York hardcore legends Madball featuring their first three full length studio albums, originally released via Roadrunner Records.

• CD1 features their debut full length recording ‘Set It Off’, originally released in 1994, while CD2 features the classic follow up ‘Demonstrating My Style’, originally released in 1996. The final disc, CD3, features the band’s 1998 full length ‘Look My Way’.

Madball began life as a side project of New York hardcore royalty Agnostic Front in the late 80s, sometimes featuring Roger Miret’s younger half-brother Freddy Cricien on vocal duties, leading to Cricien making his debut recording aged just 12-years old on Madball’s first 7” single ‘Ball of Destruction’ in 1989.

The band signed to Roadrunner in 1994 with Cricien barely in his teens and established themselves as hardcore legends with their debut release in the same year. Touring globally at a relentless pace, Madball established themselves as one of the most intense, dedicated, and most importantly credible hardcore bands in the scene, pushing a message of positivity and self- advancement through discipline and application.

This release is complimented with the addition of extensive liner notes from writer Mark Freebase, who conducted brand new interviews with Freddy Cricien himself, as well as guitarist Matt Henderson and drummer Will Shepler (both of whom were also former Agnostic Front members), plus video director Drew Stone and also Howie Abrams, the A&R guy that signed Madball to Roadrunner Records. The release is personally endorsed and approved by Freddy Cricien.

Decibel magazine inducted ‘Set It Off’ into their ‘Hall Of Fame’ series stating; “This is the story of how Cricien, guitarists Vinnie Stigma and Matt Henderson, bassist Jorge “Hoya Roc” Guerra and drummer Will Shepler stormed an otherwise fallow scene a quarter-century ago, forged real evolutionary synergy between the old and new schools, fomented a scene revolution and, amidst the flames, and created ‘Set It Off’, one of the single greatest, most enduring hardcore records of all time.”

Circien once explained the band Madball philosophy in basic terms; “If you’re not fighting for a cause, you’re not participating in life. Simple as that. Speak up, fight, educate yourself, make a difference and make sacrifices for what’s important to you.”

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

Set It Off

1  Set It Off

2  Lockdown

3  New York City

4  Never Had It

5  It’s Time

6  C.T.Y.C. (R.I.P.)

7 Across Your Face

8  Down By Law

9  Spit On Your Grave

10  Face To Face

11  Smell The Bacon (What’s With You?)

12  Get Out

13  The World Is Mine

14  Friend Or Foe

DISC TWO

Demonstrating My Style

1  Demonstrating My Style

2  Unity

3  Live or Die

4  Pride (Times Are Changing)

5  Streets Of Hate

6  Back On The Bus

7  Hardcore Still Lives!

8  Nuestra Familia

9  5-O

10  Addict

11  True To The Game

12  Godfather

13  In Memory Of…

14  Ball Of Destruction (incl. hidden track ‘Your Fall’)

DISC THREE

Look My Way

1  Look My Way

2  Moment Of Truth

3  Cut Off

4  Temptation Or Restraint

5  Waste Of Time

6  False Threats

7  Pushin’ Me

8  Walk Away

9  Our Family

10  Lesson Of Life

11  All I Can Take

12  Been There, Done That

13  Talkin’ To Myself

14  Fool’s Die