Current Release: "Sixteen" Release Date: June 21, 2005 Track Listing: 1. Better Days 2. We Are The Ones 3. Dead Cities 4. Sixteen 5. Nothing's Changed 6. The Ring Band: Jeff (Vocals, Guitar), Paul (Drums), Joey (Bass) Official Website: www.bleederresistor.com

BIO: Since 2001 Washington DC's Bleeder Resistor has been crafting their own original brand of hardcore punk rock. Taking a cue from early punk heroes like DAG NASTY, BAD RELIGION and 7 SECONDS, they inject energetic hardcore riffs with melodies that stick in your head. Layers of brooding guitar noise ride waves of shifting rythm, straddling the gap between modern hardcore acts like STRIKE ANYWHERE and the noisy power pop of SONIC YOUTH and SEBADOH. Their new e.p. is a testament to those who long for high energetic and melodic punk rock. 6 songs that get the heart pounding and the chest pumpin'.

REVIEWS: "What's fast, aggressive, and sounds like a cross between KID DYNAMITE and THE LAWRENCE ARMS? Your answer is the new Bleeder Resistor record. This is straight-ahead hardcore/punk with pop sensibility. It's refreshing to hear an aggressive band that isn't jumping on the metal-emo-core bandwagon that seems to have plagued the entire underground music scene. I'm one of those people who misses the old Kid Dynamite, and hearing a record like this satisfies my appetite-if even only for a few minutes." - SKRATCH MAGAZINE

"Washington DC's BLEEDER RESISTOR have been a fairly active local group in the past couple of years and while a full-length recording has eluded them, they have assembled their most advanced material yet with this Matt Squire recorded, six song EP Sixteen. What has intrigued me from the start with this band is that their influences are wholly from another era. ... we're talking early BAD RELIGION and DAG NASTY. Fast, melodic, aggressive, but not "macho," BLEEDER RESISTOR accurately capture the intensity and passion of early hardcore without its roughest edges. Lead vocalist/guitarist Jeff Forbes (formerly of LATCHKEY) bears strong similarities in style to Thomas of STRIKE ANYWHERE, but with a more subdued delivery. Sixteen takes a couple of songs to get going, but the band really hits its stride on the third track, "Dead Cities," with its insidious guitar licks and traditional "whoaohhhh!" backing vocals. Politically charged, and personally smoothed over, BLEEDER RESISTOR are much like the firebrands of DC from 20 years ago. Angered by what surrounds them, but smart enough to avoid cornball slogans. "Nothing's Changed" screams with the lyrics "You call this the DC system / You call this diplomacy, but West's side's so easy / We'd all like to walk proud / Say what you want about a starving nation / We call this a war machine that goes out and comes in again and won't drop in value." Sixteen is great hardcore punk, it's as simple as that." - PASTEPUNK.COM

"I must agree with AMP and Skratch Magazines when I say that this is an EP worth your listening time. Bleeder Resistor blends a few different sounds, everything from the Lawrence Arms and Strike Anywhere, to the earliest A.F.I. and Pennywise records. Each song reminds me of the punk rock we listened to in the mid 1990s, but they carry the catchiness from more recent popular punkish outfits. Chanty backup vocals and quick snare drumming keep the audience throwing its fists high. The sounds a reminiscent underground fill the air with intensity in this 6 song album. Basement Records better hang on to these guys, I could see Fat Wreck picking these guys up any day." - SAN DIEGO PUNK