Madball offers classic old school hardcore. These heavily tatted, locomotive-rhythmed, aggro growlers could make the Washington Monument feel overshadowed. The chugga-chugga-roar's that imposing. For two decades they've moved between thrash, punky four-on-the-floor malevolence and dark metal menace, expressing an inclusive musical mind-set. The rhythmic diversity forestalls the tedium hardcore sometimes invites. Frontman Freddy Cricien, who formed the band when he was 13, is still pretty young, and their latest vibrates the case right off the speaker. —Chris Parker