THIS IS HARDCORE: Maximum Penalty.

While this isn’t a piece of TIHC exclusive merch or anything, I still wanted to post this Maximum Penalty shirt that hottdogg9000 has up so that I’d have an excuse to comment on their set from TIHC…

Now look. I’ve seen MaxPen many, many times since they reunited. My old band even played the Absolution reunion with them. And try as I might, I had never been able to get into them. Don’t know why. Just never clicked. Watching their set at TIHC though… it clicked. Totally won me over. One of my favorite sets of the weekend, and given the competition, that’s saying a lot.