By Benjamin Joe
Image above: Jorden Cudzillo, vocalist for GOA, belts out some lyrics in Rochester on Oct. 27.. Photo by Tia X Slaughter.

GOA, or Gentlemen of Age, will be releasing their newest album on Jan. 10 at Mohawk Place. Supporting the new release will be Buffalo’s On The Cinder, Hold Out, Do Crime and Bile Study. Doors are at 6 p.m. and music at 7 p.m. at 47 East Mohawk..

Do Crime, a hardcore act that has been recording its own release with producer Jay Zubricky, will be coming off hiatus to play the show.

“We were stoked GOA asked us,” said bassist Joe Villella. “It’s a family affair at this point with us, Hold Out and On The Cinder. I don’t know much about Bile Study, but we’ve checked them out and they are pretty great. Looking forward to meeting them.”

Villella also said, having already listened to the GOA record, “More! More! More!” he is excited to see these songs played live.

GOA released “More! More! More!” on Triple Hammer Records and it is their first EP release since 2010. With the band comprising Jorden Cudzilo on vocals, Rich McDermott on bass, MikeUnion  Jeffers on drums and Griffin Coyne on guitar, the album is something special with the fabled production skills of Don Fury, a Troy-based producer who mixes indie, punk and hardcore  in a way that results in a very “real” sound, like the band is right in front of the listener.

Jeffers said it was always a dream to record something like “More! More! More!”

“Classic hardcore punk, recorded by the legend himself, Don Fury,” Jeffers said. “Stacked lineup to boot! Great cross section of Buffalo Hardcore past and present.”

Hold Out, fronted by vocalist Mark Miller, is releasing its “Movies” b/w “Poison Air,” a two-song release that Miller said the band has been playing out for a while. The song “Movies” is about, “feeling prejudged even though you feel like you’ve proven yourself in life,” Miller said.

Miller said that any CDs he distributes will also have the entire catalog of Hold Out dating back to its demo in 2019, “Genuine Life“ in 2022 and “Comply or Die”in 2023.

The night will also be Do Crime’s singer Torsten Wildermuth’s birthday, leading the fellows of Do Crime to say that their pyrotechnics “will be out of this world!!” 

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