22/07/2026
[EP OUT NOW!!] Here's another release from Butuan City's Frontal Assault Records. Dbeat/crust punk newcomers OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS unleashes 4 tracks of pure and relentless fast punk. OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS is TURNPIKE's (Cebu) Bryle Tomilap's brainchild. It is not just a brainchild, but an anti-thesis to his routinary metallic hardcore songwriting. He seeks to go back to the drawing board and pay homage to where it all came from: raw, almost primitive, hardcore punk; a deliberate nod from the noise that brewed in the early '80s in the likes of The Stains, Angry Samoans, and Antidote, paired with the arcane crust punk movements of the early '90s (Disrupt/Skitsystem/Nausea), all with the conclusive intent to stowaway from metallic hardcore and the hundreds of Y2K revivals going on right now and boldly introduce a forgotten page of the vast book that is our hardcore punk history.
The entire EP is an ode to the contemporary post-truth dystopian era, where truth is stripped off of its Websterian definition, and is now often described as one that is upheld and maintained by the many. Question everything.
This EP is Frontal Assault Records' 2nd EP release. Priding itself as the only underground punk/hardcore/metal label in the city, Frontal Assault aims to amplify its own exotic, unheard local scene, one release after another. Make sure to follow this page for future releases!
