Midwest hardcore band PURGATORY are about to unleash their sophomore full-length Lawless To Grave on April 9th via Unbeaten Records, and to celebrate and tease it a bit more, we have teamed up with the Midwest Street Metal to give you their top 5 albums that inspired the new record! The new LP finds the band at their most adversarial, taking no prisoners while lashing out at systems of oppression and personal relationships mired by distrust, abuse, and religion. Formed in the cold and desolate midwest in 2011, Purgatory, slings unflinching metallic hardcore with an emphasis on the metal sown into their sound, or as they’ve been dubbed, “Midwest Street Metal”. Pulling from influences foundational to their gritty world of hardcore such as Biohazard, Cold As Life, Stigmata, and Mera...
