EKULU (NY, USA) - Half Alive (7"inch) (2019) Released by Triple-B Records (2nd Pressing) on: Half Olive Green/Half Black vinyl - limited to 500 copies. 
One cool thing about Hardcore: It’s a genre where a band can still 
get a ton of attention thanks to a single demo. Case in point: EKULU. 
EKULU are a New York-based Hardcore band, and members of the group have 
spent time in a bunch of different well-regarded groups: Candy, 
Ecostrike, Glory, Illusion. 
But the reason why Ekulu are booked at 
pretty much every American Hardcore festival this year isn’t because 
it’s some all-star enterprise. (It’s really not. None of those other 
bands are huge.) 
They’re booked because they released a three-song demo
 last year, and it absolutely crushed. (Triple-B ended up releasing that
 demo as a 7″inch.)  And now they’ve got two new songs, and those crush, too. 
EKULU exist within a grand tradition of hard, anthemic, Metal-infused
 New York Hardcore, and like a lot of the best Hardcore bands currently 
working, they’ve got some 80's Thrash in their DNA. And their recordings
 sound heavy and clean, not raspy and Lo-fi. 
They’ve just come out with 
two new songs, “Half Alive” and “Emulation,” that will make you want to stand 
in the middle of the highway and headbutt an 18-wheeler!  --  Triple-B Records – TBR-103