We should talk about Madball. Good band. Hard band. Madball have existed, in one form or another, since the late '80s. As a child, Freddy Cricien, now almost universally known as Freddie Madball, would jump onstage with his half-brother Roger Miret's band Agnostic Front. Madball started off as basically an Agnostic Front side project, with most of the band backing up 12-year-old Cricien. Eventually, Madball found a relatively stable lineup of their own -- bassist Jorge Guerra has been in the band since 1993 -- and became a regular touring act. By the time Madball released their debut album, the 1994 ass-beater classic Set It Off, the band's style had solidified. They played a direct, chest-thumping variant on New York hardcore, with metallic chug-riffs and choppy, rap-adjacent vocal cadences and lyrics about all the different reasons that Madball and their friends might potentially fuck you up.