Hailing from Hamilton, Ontario in Canada and featured folks who have played in The Swarm (aka Knee Deep In The Dead), Left For Dead, Our War, Cursed and Chokehold to name but a few the members are of Haymaker are rooted in the best and most brutal hardcore to come out of Canada.
I came across Haymaker around the same time as The Rites (see post on them HERE ) when i had a renewed interest in hardcore round the early 00's, This was when downloading from the internet first came along as well so i used to go round all the record label sites take the 1 or 2 songs from each release they would offer free and make my own CD samplers to listen to and one of the songs i got from Deranged Records was 'Built To Destroy' by Haymaker from their debut album and this was one of the first Cd's I bought that renewed my interest in some of the newer hardcore that had happened while I was not paying attention to that scene in the 90's! Their last EP 'Lost Tribe' from 2004 was the last I heard of them and I assumed they were long gone however yesterday i heard the news that they had a new EP called 'Let them Rot' which is why i thought a post was long overdue.
