Thrash/Crossover
 UK

Releasing 29th of August, 2026

Grab your boards, dig out your old VHS tapes and take it to 88 with the Brighton crew’s second EP.

Without sounding like THAT old codger at every rock-centric watering hole, crossover just isn’t the same as back in my day.
While I subscribe to being a codger, the new breed of crossover is just as prevalent. Although, you can’t blame a hankering for a bit of some vintage stuff.

Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing that High Command, Pest Control, Municipal Waste and their modern ilk are doing wrong. Far from it. The highly volatile scene has never been so vibrant, and is standing up on its own merits.
The callback that RAD are offering, however, is one of a shared beginning. Thrash, the metal and Thrasher, the skateboarding magazine both started in 1981, and for many years since, bands like Anthrax D.R.I. and Suicidal Tendancies have championed that symbiotic relationship.

It would seem that RAD, the Brighton based five piece, wish to add themselves to the collective with their second EP, titled RAD TO THE BONE.
The six tracks on offer comes in at a pretty brisk fifteen minutes with not one second being wasted.
A look at the track list is a trip to your local Blockbuster with the songs FIRST BLOOD and POINT BREAK, while meta mentions come in the forms of CYBERDYNE SYSTEMS and NO TIME TO BLEED.

First is FIRST BLOOD. an instrumental,chugging overture to limber the limbs, while DEAD MEAT dishes out some hardcore damage intent on causing boarding and moshing’s most common side effects… bruises, grazes and a gleeful willingness to repeat them.

POINT BREAK goes all in with plenty of punk swagger as well as inciting breaks and riffs.
Later on, the outright thrasher CYBERDYNE SYSTEMS (featuring Inhuman Nature, for added flex) has a message far more telling now than the 80’s reference it carries.

Even though RAD manage to keep an even level between the old and new schools of crossover, SOUNDTRACK TO SLAM is all about those sweaty days of skate park gigs, where denim and baggy shorts united under a common kindred of the pit and danger.

By the time the closer, NO TIME TO BLEED comes around, adrenaline is coursing and it comes across more a homage to both moshpit and half pipe than the Arnie led film The Predator. Urgent, primal… it can easily fit both movie and musical genre in two minutes.

Harking back to the old and continuing the new that RAD embrace is not a compromise, but a rallying call. The barflies and pit rats can unite with the shredders and, in doing so with RAD TO THE BONE, strengthen the bond between these twinned activities.
I’m no boarder. I can’t kick, push or coast to save my life, but I do like what the scene offers and I like the attitude it encompasses.
RAD has what we all need, and if you are reading this it is also in your bones too.

RAD TO THE BONE is out on the 29th of August on all streaming platforms as well as the RAD Bandcamp (HERE).