Beatdown Hardwear Explained

Beatdown Hardwear
Founder:	Toni Grunert
Genre:	Hardcore punk, beatdown hardcore, metalcore
Location:	Leipzig, Germany

Beatdown Hardwear (BDHW) is a Germany-based hardcore independent record label founded by Toni Grunert in 2005. As of January 2020, it has had 90 official releases, featuring bands such as,^[1],^[2] Born from Pain,^[3] Lionheart,^[4] Malevolence,^{[5] [6]} and World of Pain.^{[7] [8]}

The name of the label is a play on the name of the genre "beatdown hardcore", replacing the word "hardcore" with a misspelled variant of the word hardware.

Current artists

• Born From Pain
• Brutality Will Prevail
• CDC
  • Cold Hard Truth
• Dagger Threat
• DCA
• Detriment
• Dead End Tragedy
• Dead Man's Chest
  • Easy Money
• Eisberg
• Enemy Mind
  • Guilt Trip
• Hardside
• Harm/Shelter
  • Lawgiver
• Lionheart
• Malevolence
• Mad At The World
• Manu Armata
  • Negative Self
• No Altars
• No Zodiac
• Optimist
• Pallass
• Ruckus
  • Sand
• Slope
• These Streets
• The Last Charge
• The Setup
• Thronetorcher
• World of Pain
• Wolfpack
• Whatever It Takes
  • Worst
• XILE

Former artists

• 45. Stainless
• Awaken Demons
• Circle of Death
• Delusions of Lunacy
• Dos Dias De Sangre
• Give Em Blood
• Last to Remain
• Look My Way
• Red Eyed Devil
• Screamin Silence
• Sun Tzu
• Twitching Tongues
• World Eater
• Xibalba

External links

• Official website
• Beatdown Hardwear on Facebook
• Beatdown Hardwear at Discogs

Notes and References

1. Web site: ALBUM REVIEW: Realigion – Nasty. 29 September 2017.
2. Web site: Metal-Temple.com :: Fallbrawl – Darkness (CD Review). www.metal-temple.com.
3. Web site: BORN FROM PAIN – Neues Album Dance With The Devil auf Beatdown Hardware. partyausfall.de.
4. Web site: ALBUM REVIEW: Love Don't Live Here – Lionheart. 20 January 2016.
5. Web site: REVIEW: Malevolence – Self Supremacy [2017]]. Connor. Welsh. 12 May 2017.
6. Web site: Desolated – The End | Grande Rock ezine. www.grande-rock.com.
7. Web site: WORLD OF PAIN – WORLD OF PAIN. partyausfall.de.
8. Web site: » RECORD RELEASES. 31 January 2020. 12 February 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200212151717/http://www.beatdownhardwear.com/record-releases/. dead.