"The Godfathers of Hardcore takes us from Agnostic Front's beginnings amid the junkies, street gangs and derelicts inhabiting New York's Lower East Side in the early Eighties right up today, as the band heralds its third decade with a new world tour ... The Godfathers of Hardcore does two things brilliantly: It vividly depicts how Stigma, Miret and their band members and New York hardcore co-conspirators were forced to forge their own surrogate family. At the same time, it demonstrates what happens when punks rise up from the gutter as they age and start conventional middle-class families".