8-5 This is Hardcore, Integrity, All Out War, Ringworm, Iron Reagan, Haymaker, Full of Hell, Eternal Sleep, Year of the Knife, Iron Price, Nomads, Panzer Bastard, Philly @The Electric Factory

Day 2 of the fest, like the last year, was the first day at the Electric Factory. This was metal day for the fest, tons of heavy ass bands playing. I was happy about the return of the food trucks. I had this grilled cheese sandwich from this grilled cheese sandwich truck and it was fucking fire. Loved that shit. Soo soo soo good.

Panzer Bastard - This band sounds a lot like Motorhead. We walked in for the last two songs.

Nomads - This band would be better off playing Skull Fest than This is Hardcore. Ripping fast metalpunks. TIHC wasn't into it real much. Which is to be expected. They didn't give a shit about Fuck You Pay Me, so of course they wouldn't give a shit about Nomads. Singer is a scary looking dude, lots of face and head tattoos.

Iron Price - Big guy hardcore. We were outside getting food and whatnot while they played. Sounded ok.

Year of the Knife - Was still outside eating and getting merch. This band had a lady in it though, which was one of three bands this year.

Eternal Sleep - This band keeps getting better and better. Pittsburgh is churning out some good ones these days. They played all the good songs and the place went off for them. Love this band.

Full of Hell - Didn't watch this band too hard. They are good, but more grindy than thrashy, and more fast than groovy. Good band, but not my fav. At TIHC you gotta pick your spots.

Haymaker - "We're the band that no one wants to see." He was a little bit right. But this band was helped big time by the barrier. When they started playing like no one was in the room, but by the end of the set it had filled in nicely and the songs were getting people into it. This was one of the sleeper bands of the entire fest. I enjoyed their set a whole lot.

Iron Reagan - Best band of the day. Sooo much fun. They played a ton of songs, but to my dismay Close to Toast wasn't one of them. But that's ok, they thrashed the shit out of the place. It was great. One of the best bands I've ever seen to play TIHC. I was worried that they wouldn't get the response because they're more of a thrash band, but I was wrong and the set was great.

All Out War - Heavy as fuck, slayed everyone and their loved ones. Played all their good songs, of course, since they don't have anything new or even newish to play. Always like banging my head to this band.

Ringworm - Overbilled in my opinion. They just don't get enough response for enough songs to play second to last. But that doesn't matter too much because I really like this band. Even though they don't play some of my fav songs ever they do play Dollar Whore and Justice Replaced by Revenge and some other true bangers. The crowd supported them and the set was good. Human Furnace is the fucking man.

Integrity - I had never seen them before, and honestly my love for integrity is lukewarm. They didn't play my favorite song, Heaven's Final War. But their set was good, if a bit long. The singer has the worst speaking voice ever, sooo gruff. But he's perfect for singing for a band like Integrity. They were super heavy and good all around.

Hi's - The Electric Factory, all the food trucks, almost all the bands.
Low's - Nothing.