MILE END || HARDCORE FOR THE NEW GENERATION

Feb 10

Blooming from Flower City is Brampton’s finest Mile End. With a unique sound and songwriting so potent and stimulating, they have taken the DIY Hardcore scene to a new level. First founded by Patrick, Brandon and Alex and later by their frontman Jake in 2018. Mile End made a name for themselves in the scene when they were only in their late teens.

These four truly have proved that they pave the way for the new generation of Hardcore by giving back the same respect they received when entering the scene.

“SO LET THE KIDS INTO HARDCORE, IF IT’S SOMETHING THEY’RE MEANT TO BE IN AND THEY WANT TO STICK WITH FOREVER OR FOR A LONG TIME THEY’LL TAKE THE TIME TO LEARN AND RESPECT HARDCORE”

Mile End vocalist Jake tells us. We had the opportunity to sit and chat with him and ask him a few questions:

WHERE DOES YOUR NAME “MILE END” COME FROM?

Man we got the name Mile End from Patrick, he was big into Godspeed our when we started, Godspeed is from mile end Montreal so they just named it after that. Shout out Montreal HC.

FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVEN’T HEARD OF YOU BEFORE HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR BAND?

Anyone who doesn’t know Mile End, dang I don’t know haha people say we’re weird Hardcore and pull breakdowns out, outta nowhere. So I guess weird HC but not like cringe nerd shit I guess.

WHAT ARE YOUR MAJOR INFLUENCES?

We all got different ones but as a band collectively Deftones is a common one, early Refused, any weird sounding hardcore always draw our attention also we found Turnstile’s Step To Rhythm in high school and that shit kinda had a chokehold on us and our homies so fuck it I guess Turnstile too. Personal ones, Mil-Spec or World Of Pleasure are some that come too mind first there’s more but that’s what I got on my mind right now.

WHAT ARE SOME LOCAL BANDS YOU’D LOVE TO PLAY WITH OR SHOUTOUT?

Local bands, gotta shout out our OFFLEASH crew with Doflame and Dear-God, also other Brampton bands Sicayda and Temper Tantrum. Also some big homies Gavel, Cohezion, Reality Denied, Fight On Sight, Die Alone, Friction, The Fact, SOV, The Beat, Deadbolt, Prowl, Cloned Apparition. Straight up shout out everyone also shout out XconditonedX and Dear Evangeline, a young Brampton band starting out, ready to do dope shit. I think I named all of ONHC with that one- haha. Plus some MTLHC.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE SHOW YOU’VE PLAYED SO FAR?

We played under a bridge in Montreal with Deadbolt, Gavel, Desecrate and Sicayda. That shit was unreal, we also did a Christmas show a few months ago in a church in Brampton with Dear-God, Doflame and Deadbolt. That shit was tight felt like the stuff us DG and Doflame would do in high school, felt like we found a sick Brampton DIY spot until that church pulled some whack shit a few days after, but no worries us and Doflame have some leads in Brampton DIY spaces.

WHAT’S COMING UP FOR THE BAND THIS YEAR?

We got a bunch of new music ready to be released this year, lots of big shows planned, lots of outta town shows in the works. Some big announcements coming real soon, overall just really stoked for Mile End this year!

Checkout their Bandcamp here: Mile End

Writer : @bertnay

Editor : @just_reidz

02/10/23

Robert Reid