FISTFIGHTHXC: Honor Enters the Hardcore Punk Conversation as Track Four of Respect
Regina Hardcore Five-Piece Built the Respect EP Around Four Singles Including Honor
Honor is the third of four hardcore singles FISTFIGHTHXC released before the Regina band’s debut EP. It now holds track four on Respect. The hardcore punk song arrived at the turn of 2025 and runs three minutes and twenty seconds. It sets metal and metalcore weight under a lyric about loyalty and standing firm.
FISTFIGHTHXC’s Honor sits in the RockCharts.News playlist below, next to the punk and metal tracks this desk is following, and every article on the band sits on the FISTFIGHTHXC profile. Honor came to this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news desks. Press play, then keep reading for where the song sits in the band’s catalogue.
Four Hardcore Singles in Nine Months Gave FISTFIGHTHXC the Core of Respect, and Honor Was the Third
The run starts with No Tolerance on 2 August 2024. At two minutes and thirty-seven seconds, it is still the shortest song in the catalogue. Four months later, on 13 December 2024, N.L.B. followed. The band’s own live videos spell the initials out as Never Looking Back. Honor then came within three weeks. So two of the band’s first three songs landed within a month of each other.
After that, Overcome closed the singles phase on 25 April 2025. UniteAsia covered it that September and heard more thrash in the riffs than before. The site named Sepultura as the reference point. It also placed the band in the modern hardcore and crossover scene and noted its Filipino roots.
A year later, on 24 April 2026, the debut EP Respect collected all four singles. It added one new song, the title track, at two minutes and fifty-nine seconds. The running order opens with N.L.B., moves through No Tolerance and Respect, places Honor fourth and closes on Overcome. In total, the EP runs fifteen minutes and fifty-one seconds. Apple Music files the four singles under metal and the EP under punk. That is as close to a one-line summary of the band as any store tag gets.
What Changed When Honor Followed N.L.B. Within Three Weeks and Turned the Lyric to Loyalty
Honor was the first time FISTFIGHTHXC issued two songs back to back. It also ran longer than No Tolerance: three minutes and twenty seconds against two minutes and thirty-seven. That put it level with N.L.B. As a result, the second and third songs in the catalogue share a length the first one did not.
The subject is loyalty. Specifically, the lyric celebrates friendship and asks the listener to hold their ground when things turn hard. Landon Buford heard it that way in February 2025. He wrote about the song’s intense guitar riffs, driving drums and vocals delivered with conviction. He also read the message as one about actions over words. That fits the band’s own framing, because its launch note for Respect calls it five tracks of stripped-down hardcore for the pit.
A Regina Five-Piece and a Loyalty Lyric Form the Through-Line of a Catalogue Built for the Pit
The band’s biography lists five members. Patrick Cross sings, and David Ojeda and Abimael Crooc play guitar. Donald Pinay plays bass and Alan Guevara Garcia plays drums. Two members are of Filipino descent and one is of Mexican descent. One is from the First Nations community and one is of European descent. The band ties that mix of backgrounds directly to the themes of resilience and personal struggle in its songs.
Meanwhile, the titles read like a short list of rules: No Tolerance, Never Looking Back, Honor, Overcome, Respect. Each one names a position held under pressure, and Honor is the one that turns that position toward other people.
The live set also shows how the early songs hold. On 27 December 2025, the band filmed a set at Queen City Hardcore in Regina. It then posted performances of Honor and N.L.B. from that night, almost a year after Honor came out. The Honor clip runs three minutes and twenty-one seconds, within a second of the studio version. Both songs were still in the set a year on, a practical sign of which songs the band leans on.
Two longer-running acts help place it. Hatebreed, formed in Connecticut in 1994, built metallic hardcore around breakdowns and lyrics about perseverance. Honor works the same seam with a loyalty theme. Similarly, Comeback Kid, formed in Winnipeg in 2001, showed that fast prairie hardcore could travel well beyond the Prairies. FISTFIGHTHXC is working the same ground one province west.
From the RockCharts.News Curator Team: “Honor holds its place on Respect on drumming and conviction. It is the track for anyone who wants hardcore punk with metal’s weight at a hardcore tempo.”
Stream Honor and Follow FISTFIGHTHXC Across Hardcore Channels From Spotify to TikTok
This one is for hardcore and metalcore listeners who follow a band release by release. Start with Honor, then play Respect from the top to hear the four singles beside the title track.
Hear Overcome on Spotify, and find the band on Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer and SoundCloud. Follow FISTFIGHTHXC across platforms: YouTube channel, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and the band’s official website.
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