We are proud to announce that Bridge Nine Records has signed Providence, RI’s long-running hardcore band VERSE. The band will be entering God City Studios in Salem, MA & The Getaway Group Studios in MA with engineer Jay Maas this week to being tracking what will become their THIRD full-length album for Bridge Nine, titled Aggression, set to hit stores June 10th.

In a day and age where hardcore bands have a shelf-life limited to a few years, and third albums are rare and usually past the prescribed shelf-life, Verse is a band that has retained the energy & purpose of a new band after five years and two monumental full-lengths, 2004’s Rebuild and 2006’s From Anger And Rage, both released on California’s Rivalry Records (who will still be handling the vinyl release of Aggression). Frontman Sean Murphy clarified, “Kyle [Rivalry] has been supportive of Verse and we’re excited to be working with Bridge Nine with his blessing, but we still get to have a relationship & connection to the label that helped get our band off the ground and that was very important for us.”

Verse has hit the international road making a name for themselves as they shared the stage with Bane, Have Heart, Comeback Kid, Evergreen Terrace & many, many more. But what makes Verse a band with staying power and identity is that they take a powerful, dynamic, and passionate performance both on record & tape and infuse it with a political and social backbone that is all but lost in the hardcore scene. Punknews.org agreed when reviewing From Anger And Rage, saying, “Hardcore, plain and simple, needs more bands like Verse- More bands that can match their own passion and intensity with the skill to parlay it into something memorable.”

Murphy continued on, "You used to go to shows and you couldn't escape the tables with animal rights and leftist literature, the different flyers, distros, and a strong sense of action & interest as a scene. It's almost like kids choose to avoid reality. It seems like very few are compassionate anymore. No one says anything on the stage. We don't beat the message over anyone's heads, but it's very important to us that we provide reading lists in our records & other outlets for information because it's that same thing I had growing up, that level of awareness was there and undeniable."

Aggression will be unleashed June 10th. Expect Verse to stay out of Rhode Island as much of this year as possible. If not, it’s your loss.