NAILS - Obscene Humanity 12"

Currently I'm listening a lot to the Obscene Humanity 12" by Nails from the US.
It felt as if a bomb fell unto this part of the Mosh Eisley headquarter when I first listened to it.
The songs themselves can be found on some other blogs but I really felt the urge to write about them because they massivly struck a nerve here.

Some ex members of Carry On and Terror stear up 7 songs of mostly fast,passionate and fucked up sounding music which slightly avoids the "jock-core/tough-guy" category considering the bands they already played in.

What I like about this band and surprised me is that they don't seem to be interested in getting big or getting somewhere.These 3 guys just let go of all their frustrations and disgust for the ills of society which appels to me on a lot of levels:

No infos about the members beside their names,no myspace site or homepage,just a messed up handwritten lyricsheet,only a few played shows,no fotos and some honest to the point lyrics with which I can identify a lot.The way most of the them are are written remind me a bit of Discharge.They are short and to the point getting the message across as precise as possible.
"Confront them" is my favorite track because of it's direct approach:

Jealous cowards want to see us fail
Don't ever let them see you fail
They'll fight their wars based on lies
Shit on them and their plastic lives
Don't ever let them take what's yours

The overall motto of this 12" seems to be "get in,release anger and get out."
I really like the production because it's heavy as a sledgehammer but at the same time too noisy and ugly to get the attention of a wider audience.This point is proven by a remark on the cool Aversion Online blog.Great!!!
Don't get me wrong,the music is definetly tough as nail,massive and slightly metallic so it could appeal to the jocks in the pit but beside the production the feeling of the lyrics is much too desperate and introverted (a.k.a. "uncool") to be the background music for being an asshole on the dancefloor.At least I hope so...

I added the lyrics to the lyric bit on the right of the page because i think they're that important to me.Get your copy from these recources as some suggestions:

Six Feet Under Records
Revelation Records
Deathwish Records
Per Koro Records
Sentient Distribution

PISSED JEANS - King of Jeans

And now for something completely different again.Well,not really completely but definetly a lot different to the usual joints.
This album by Pissed Jeans (heard of them through the Mafia Messageboard) is a monster of Black Flag/The Stooges/Unsane fuzzed out slow to midtempo ROCK.No punk/metal/hardcore this time fellas.

The songs grew on me every time i listened to them over the last weeks so i thought i'd let you know what goes down in dissonant,offbeat and ugly heavyland today.

Whatever,I'm a little bit astonished that i like this stuff but opening yourself to new stuff is always good if you ask me.Check out my rant about this topic in the FHAKH post if you don't have a life...

End of story ->A band with such great live shows has to be good:

GERIATRIC UNIT - Live in Venlo 17.10.2009

One of the few shows I attended this year...
I went there to see them together with The Stupids,Nitad and Citizens Patrol with Rob and his girlfriend and had a total blast.This band is so good it's not even funny anymore!
By the way the microphone stand of the singer Gords was a modified crutch because of a lot of health issues in the band in the last year.

Geriatric Unit - R'r fest 2009 from DarcyTrash on Vimeo.

"RECORD COLLECTIONS,AMPS AND GUITARS WILL BE MY PENSION!"

OPPOSITION - Better Days & Bad Advice LP

This Mini LP (8 songs total) got recorded at Salad Days Studio by Brian Mcternan from Battery.It must have been taken place somewhere in the 90'ties of the last century.
The overall look of the layout seems pretty arty with all these pictures of different skies,a landscape,etc...but don't think you will hear some laid back emo music here.

This trio plays an interesting mix of stuff like Burn/Orange 9mm/Kill the Messenger/Shades Apart (considering the a little bit more complicated guitar/bass work.Damn it's the second time i mention this band - i really have to blog their self titled LP...) meaning the combination of traditional faster HC with noisier and more rocking elements.

They somehow manage to throw out a fast hardcore part, then go into some sort of rock part to some more melodic part and all the way back again and all the parts really do melt together to form a song.You could call the music a little bit more matured i guess-it's not your average 3 chord punk/HC (which is great i don't have to extra emphazise).
A lot of thoughts must have gone into the song writing.Not that it's some sort of Dream Theater/Nile/Dragonforce (metal speaking here...) opera but there are a lot of interesting twists and tweaks which show the musical variety.

Again you get all the goodies (320 kbs/sec-pics-IDE tags).I'm such a nerd...

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SPAZM 151 - Power Songs for the Kidz 7"

Dallas Hardcore Texas fucking style on the platter here!
These "a little bit older" dudes in Spazm 151 play straight ahead Hardcore with some bass melodies thrown into the works.
They cover Jerry's Kids on their 12" and like Poison Idea that you know where to put this stuff.For more recent stuff think Kill Your Idols,Out Cold,Violent Society or the Gordon Solie Motherfuckers.
To what pretty famous record does the artwork on the back remind you of?
If you don't know the answer poor you...




And if anyone reading this wants to get rid of their debut 7" from Spazm 151 feel free to contact me.
The 7" got put out by Mr. Felix Havoc on Havoc Records in 1998 with a quantity of 3000 items but is sold out by now.
IDE Tags + 320 + kbs/sec + layout included.
Now go praise who you want...

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CURBBITE - Same 7"

I was asked if i could upload the Curbbite 7" so i contacted
Karsten of BreakXOut Records if that would be okay.He was fine with it so here we go.Check the other Curbbite post to know what this band is all about and other pseudo-intelligent rants by me.
Like this one:As a small remark the order of the songs on the 7" seem a bit strange.Both first songs sound like intros.So when the second song starts it feels like "Yeah let's fucking go off now" but then another intro starts.Me being picky here again I guess...

UPDATE: Rob told me that the songs sound much too bassy on his stereo system at home.
I did some twists to the original rip and uploaded another version.
Check for yourself which one does the most damage to your ears!

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BULLET TREATMENT - The Mistake LP

In Bullet Treatment are no permanent members, founder/guitarist Chuck Dietrich seems to be the only constant.

Beside him Bullet Treatment featured and still features a constantly revolving and ever-changing group of performers.Since the band's inception six years ago the line-up has included over 20 members of for example ONLY CRIME, STRIKE ANYWHERE, THE VOIDS, INSTED, THE BRONX, RISE AGAINST, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, SWINGIN' UTTERS, THE ICARUS LINE and ANTI-FLAG.

It's like the band is some sort of outlet for these musicians to trash around and release some energy in a Circle Jerks/Minor Threat/Adolescents kind of way.
Chuck Dietrich stance on this point: "This is the secret recipe that is BULLET TREATMENT.Everyone's in other serious bands doing their own thing with their own bands, so that's what's cool about doing this, everyone comes in and out whenever they can as their schedules permit.How many bands do you actually know that still have all of their original members? Literally, none of them do. So we just figured if it's going to happen anyway, then we might as well do it on purpose."

For "The Mistake" Matt from THE BRONX was kicking teeth in on lead vocals once again. His vocal definetly fits the music perfectly: Fucking tight, fucking fast, and FUCKING GOOD in my opinion.

For the newest 7″ every song is exactly the same instrumentally while each singer will write and perform their own individual vocal track without hearing any of the other recordings. What an idea...The singers on this record are Johnny from the Swingin’ Utters, Russ from Only Crime/Good Riddance, Thomas of Strike Anywhere, Stza from Star Fucking Hipsters and Chris #2 of Anti-Flag.

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DFL - Proud to be CD

Now back to some more recent stuff:

First off DFL stands for Dead Fucking Last.
This 2nd album got released in 1995 on Epitath Records.
But don't stop reading already,no melodic traces like NOFX,Bad Religion or Down By Law can gladly be found here.

Instead your ears wringle with sheer hardcore energy in the spirit of untamed hardcore.20 un-relenting basic and trashy sounding tracks featuring pure angry adolescent driving guitars and vocals are featured on this CD.I don't think that an LP version exists.What a pity...

The songs really sound like the hardcore/punk stuff the Beastie Boys did (Pauls Boutique 7",Aglio e Olio CD,or the "Heartattack Man","Tough Guy","Time for Living" tracks).
"Club stupid" was recorded live in Las Vegas in 1995 and the announcements of the singer sound just hilarious to me:

EXCUSES,EXCUSES...ALRIGHT MONTY GETS THE MOST FUCKED UP SO FAR TROPY.

START THE FUCKING SONG!START THE SONG!!!!!!!!

DON'T FLUSH THE BOUNCERS YET.IT'S TOO FUCKING EARLY.

Continuing with the connections between DFL and the Beastie Boys the first DFL Record was put out by Grand Royale Records and this CD here was produced by Adam Horovitz from the Beastie Boys.

If you do want to inform yourself about the band check out this website for the discography of DFL,interviews,pictures and a biography.

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NEON CHRIST - S/T Double 7" Reissue

Continuing from my first Neon Christ post i lately purchased the reissue of said EP with some xtra goodies on it.
I know the original and even the reissue are already blogged several times.
The intentions of this post are that you can have a look at the artwork of this jammer so enjoy.Beside this I did some editing to the mixing of the tracks and the IDE Tags.
Sadly there is no lyric sheet included but whatever.Go to Killed By Death Records and check out the scan from the original version.

So off to the records (!) :

This reissue on F-King Records from 1990 consists of 2 7"es.On the first spinner we have the so called "Parental Supression" EP, but the 2 first tracks from the original B side are missing.For what reasons I don't know...
Record 2 contains material from 1984 ("Ashes to Ashes" is from the Peace Compilation LP) that's even better than the other 7", 3 ultra fast tracks plus one melancholic love song.
The Cover is a Fold Out jacket in which the 2 7"es rest.Strangely the order of the tracks is different to the original.
The fotos of the singer remind me of the Heresy singer John hehe.





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STATUE-Something to say 7"

Here we we have a 3 song 7" which saw the light of day at the end of the so called "youth crew era" in the USA in 1990.
There were some connections to bands like Chain of Strength and Circle Storm memberwise and also in the musical style.

Okay the first song is pretty mellow and melodic (in the vain of the first Shades Apart LP perhaps - I have to listen to this again) but song 2 and 3 pick up the pace and have more of a traditional hardcore structure/approach.
On the later released stuff the band got more melodic and less fast so I sticked to this 7".

It's like Ian Mackaye (in his Embrace days) took some practice sessions with the guys from Inside Out and End to End.A lot of emotions shine through in the vocal department but the speed (not your "all over the top/let's play as fast as we can/fuck it all up" type of fast,more your average upper hardcore tempo) and power are gladly not deglected.

There's also a cd version from Revelation/Ambassador Records floating around which i lately bought.From that i took the 3 song because they sounded better compared to my vinyl rips....buha!Said cd contains 8 songs,5 studio cuts and 3 live songs.
If you ask for my advice (...) the 7" version is way better because beside being on vinyl the other stuff by Statue is more midtempo post rock/quicksandish/emo/indie stuff.

As a small but important remark it seems strange to me to name ones 7" "Something to say" and then include no lyric sheet...At least my copy doesn't have one.Does yours?

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SOME RECOMMENDATIONS...

Yo for a quick musical fix check out the 7" es of CURBBITE from Germany and NOMOS from NYC in the States.

The guys from Curbbite live in Bremen and sound like a more metallic version of Left for Dead or Mind Eraser.Not many bands from Germany play this sort of style so this 7" is refreshing and appreciated.
What a nice surprise!
The only hint of the so called "Bremen Style" represented through bands like Acme/Carol/Mörser/Minion can be found in the production.The guitar really creates a massive wall of sound and the bass is niceley distorted.
Only 200 copies were made so be on the lookout and contact Karsten from Break X Out Records!


The Nomos Demo 7" gives you great early 80's hardcore mixing up influences from back in the day to Wasted Time or Career Suicide sometimes even cracking the speed limits of these bands.
MRR says they also sound like Citizens Arrest but I don't hear that.
Definetly good stuff being put out by Deranged Records (like with the Brain Killer Demo 7").
You can listen to some of the tracks on the 7" on their Myspace site so go over there and check it out if you're interested.

TITANARUM - Spastis Progressivus Aggressiorum 7"

I stumbled over this little spinner while checking the Per Koro Mailorder lateley and was drawn to because it was stated that Kenny Leek of The Neighbors is their vocalist.It did cost 2,50 € so what are you waiting for?

Due to my subjective (how else) opinion that The Neighbors were a suberb band I had to check out this band immediatly.

Kenny really follows the "scream your guts out and your head off" formula again here and leaves no prisoners concerning the health of his vocal chords.Absolutly brilliant work here again.The bitterness,negative outlook on life and the feeling of still being out of step with the world really shines through his lyrics and vocal deliverance.Intense!

I don't know,somehow his desperation gets to me when he screams his mind.It's hard to say or to describe how you are affected by something.Listen for yourself,I can't really put it into the exact words.

The musical side of Titanarum is a little bit slower and "progressive" compared to The Neighbors incorporating some sort of Accused/Tankard-like trash/crossover/metal influences.Especially the guitar work is extraordinary with some more complicated to play melodies,breaks or chord structures including a lot of off beat tempos/changes.

The first song "Aging Quickly" musically is a little different to the ones following because its fast from beginning to end a.k.a. just great.The lyrics to this song are awesome too describing getting older with age but still wanting to kill it musically and the feeling the urge to play fast.

Compared to this song the tempo unfortunaly settles in lower regions in the rest of the songs only sometimes changing into fast gear again.Here the earlierer mentioned progressive part with more of a mid tempo approach takes effect.Don't get me wrong,the songs are still great and some parts even pretty fast.But its not the "full blast till you drop" way like with The Neighbors.Did I mention this band enough now?Can't be!

"Your death,my living" talks about how Kenny earns his living as a coroner."You die,I clean you up and so earn my money to live" could be the motto here.The lyrics are pretty sarcastic and should be taken with a lot of black humor.

Another song ("Muckhead") is a comment on how everyone around Kenny seems to get older,breeds kids (even the wives are thanked for letting the band exist-old guys at work here...),marries,has kids while he is still left alone with only himself to hate.

The 7" was self released by the band in 2008.Like Unbroken,Find Him And Kill Him,The Neighbors (ha!) or Battalions of Saints for some more classic stuff their homebase is San Diego,USA.On their homepage they state that a split LP with Hummingbird of Death is currently in the works.Whoa!

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FREE SPIRIT - Be yourself Demo

It's demo time in the short,fast & loud categorie (with an emphasis on short) again.After featuring Vaccine you get 5 songs from the US band Free Spirit which clock by in exactly 2:14 seconds.The shortest song is 6 seconds in length.One more second would have been great haha.Get it?!
Everything about this tape(demo title, song titles, layout) might look a little generic but the whole package is definetly on purpose paying hommage to bands like Our Gang or Straight Ahead/NYC Mayhem.
The demo was the first release by Triple B Records and is sold out by now.Damn,I really would like to have a copy of this refreshing tape.
But now the good news:
The guys are supposed to record for an upcoming 7" coming out as a split release on Triple B Records and Lookin'Out Records.I'm looking forward to this!

Check out this Token Entry rip off shirt design:

Breakthrough,Breakfree,Breakaway!!!

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

"WE ARE A HARDCORE BAND.A LOT OF NOISE,A LOT OF DISTORTION,A LOT OF UNDERGROUND."

Fuck yes,plain and simple.
There is nothing to be added!

V.A. - DEUTSCHLAND IN DECLINE

Until Rob gets more of his arsenal of musical destruction ready to unleash onto your ears you get another hit record from HEARTFIRST RECORDS here.
This compilation contains 1 otherwise unreleased song from each of the following bands: Amen 81, Bombenalarm, Burial, Chainbreaker, Doomtown, The Now-Denial and Solid Decline.
Get it?All german bands here.No d-beat,no crust,no deutschpunk,just fast and raw hardcore on this jelly. Chainbreaker wins the prize for the best song title with their song „dorf nazis must die".
Cover and artwork with a four colour cover and the lyric sheet being a fold out poster are nicely executed.The vinyl itself comes in a nice red colour and even the plastic sleeve has artwork on it.I've never seen anything like it.Thats scores an A+ in my book!
Go support Florian with his label and get it from him if you don't already own this smoker.He has some copies to spare.


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I´M BACK

Hi folks.
I know, I know I haven´t been around here for a while. I just didn´t have the time to post here. Now it seems that all the dust has settled I´m free to breath again.
Right now I´m digitizing tons of awesome grind / power violence records. I bought about some hundred records in the last weeks... ;-)
I don´t want to tell you what you will get here but it will be delightful as always.
In the meantime check out this hilarious piece of bootleg / fake shirt I saw at the Obscene Extreme fest in the Czech Republic. It´s basicly a Heresy T-shirt with a picture of Kevin from 7 Seconds, hahaha.

FIND HIM AND KILL HIM - You can't fuck with the kids 7"

Fast and noisy hardcore this time.Don't act as if you're surprised haha.What did you expect?
Looking at my posts on this blog my taste of music must be pretty clear and i appear to be your generic hardcore dude.

It's true,fast,passionate and pissed off music is what i enjoy the most and what still gets my blood boiling.Hardcore and punk music stayed by my side until today and I can't/don't want to leave all this behind.Pathetic but true...
But as an advice don't limit yourself to only one genre of music.Being open minded and also giving the likes of Unbroken, Disembodied, Deltron 3030, MF Doom, Bolt Thrower, Anthrax, Embrace, Sepultura(old) , Brainoil, Run D.M.C., Grand Master Flash, Kreator, Jay Reatard, A Tribe called Quest, Pharcyde, Johnny Cash, etc. some of your time is rewarding and fulfilling.There is so much music out there!
I once was (and probably still am to some extent) pretty ignorant to other forms of music but that changed throughout the years.

"What the fuck is this guy talking about and what does this has to do with FHAKM" you may ask...nothing really.These thoughts just recently popped into my head.

Enough has been said.Download these 5 brilliant tracks of this now defunct band from San Diego,CA.The breakdown at the end of their motto song "Find Him and Kill Him" is sooo good and gets you to sing along instantly!At least in my case...

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OBSCENE EXTREME FESTIVAL 2009

Meet me this weekend here:

IDLE HANDS - Postponed LP

Part four of our Hardware Records excursion takes us to the recently released LP from Idle Hands.Damn we could name our blog "Hardware of friends" if we continue like this haha.
Chris Hardware told me we can upload the first Lp from Idle Hands here.So why not do so.
It contains 15 highly melodic/melancholic midtempo punk rock songs which mix some inspirations from bands like The Wipers, Buzzcocks, Descendents or All with the more relaxed stuff of Jay Reatard.The ideal music for the summer time!
The bandmemembers also do time in Press Gang and The Missing Shadows.
So if you want some musical background for a nice mellow summer evening or a laid back car drive listen to this LP.

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BLACK MARK - Wrecked 7"

This one sided rager got released on HARDWARE RECORDS as #9 in 2008.Black Mark are suited in the otherwise not so known landscape of Kansas,Missouri.100 handnumbered 7"es in red and 400 in black were pressed.
As with the Wormeaters 7" (also done by Chris Hardware) posted somewhere else on this blog it's in the same style: stomp and go,fast and rowdy.
I reminds me of old Boston Hardcore like SSD or older DYS fronted by the singer of THE FIX.
Whith this comparison is there anything else to do for you but to go out and grab one of the last copies?Didn't think so...
Go here for some listening pleasure. Ah and if you're already at it also grab a copy of the Organism 12"! You won't be dissapointed either.

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VACCINE - Demo

Some sort of a rip off post but with good intentions gorilla biscuits style.I just want to "spread the word" here a little bit.
I found this on the great Zen and the art of Face punching blog where the Vaccine Demo is featured.Thanks for letting us know dude!
I was really blown away by this.5 blistering songs where the longest lasts 0:37 seconds.The music is harsh and to the point with no intros or other bullshit and a singer who must have burbled with a mix of sandpaper and nails.Yes it's that tough a.k.a. just brilliant!
Older guys from Think I care,Orchid and Bucket full of teeth in full affect here.
100 tapes were made which are sadly all gone by now.But the songs should be put on a one-sided 7" later this year on Clean Plate/Red Room Records.I'm really stoked,yeah!!!

Do yourself a favour and go to the Vaccine blog and download the demo immediatly!

MIND ERASER - Teenagers 7"

In honor of Rob who has the responsibility to attend a holiday with the adolescents he works with (who have a lot of beavioural problems) all by himself as the only Grown Up in charge I upload this one-sided 7" from our darlings Mind Eraser.
This 7" only sporting the title track (which is a cover of the Meat Puppets song) was a bonus and only given to the ones who ordered the "Glacial Reign" LP from the Painkiller Records Mailorder.There are 308 copies floating around.

So all the best to Rob.Good nerves and return home safe buddy!

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WHITE MALE DUMBINANCE - Forced Vengeance 7"

Long time no writing...
But after I received a copy of this gem and asked for the permission to put it on this Blog I had to let you know about White Male Dumbinance.

Hailing from the land down under a.k.a. Australia these guys really give you a boot to the ear!They rage through 12 songs of pure,fast and powerful hardcore that leaves me speechless every time i listen to the 7".They do cover cover Infest with "Why don't you" but manage to give the band the actual justice it deserves.Their version is as if a train is rushing through your head and wrecks everything in it's way.Like with the original!
Top Notch stuff from a not so known band which surly deserves your attention!I'm glad that I ran across this.

I got my copy of this 7" from one of the bandmembers but you can also go to Missing Link Records for a purchase.They also worked on stuff for Iron Lung,Agents of Abhorrance or Regulations so you know you're on safe musiacal ground there.

For an attempt at some sort of musical comparison imagine a bastard son of Extortion (not only for territorial reasons),The Neighbors and Lack of Interest I guess.

The name of the band goes hand in hand with their strong anti war/ australian/ nationalist stance commenting on the almost complete extinction and genocide of the aborigines (the original australian inhabitans).
And by the way if the name of the band sounds familiar to you you already have a good taste in music.If not check out B.G.K. from holland.

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ADVERTISMENT!

My band Toxic Revolution has released a split LP with Magnicide from Singapure on TVG Records lately.Hear for yourself and let me know what you think of it.If you want a copy get in contact.
We play pretty fast and scream our lungs out singing about the importance of coffee,fucked up dresscodes in punk/hc and the stupidity of tv shows so what can go wrong with that!?



Information Highway:

Toxic Revolution
Magnicide
TVG Records

SOME RECOMMENDATIONS AGAIN!

The demo 7" from Brain Killer (Massachusetts,USA) is some rad piece of music.I read about them in MRR:

"This demo is fucking great! Fast powerful noisy-as-fuck hardcore with some burly ass vocals and a definite DISCHARGE influence, but they are by no means a D-beat or Dis-band. They just have that element somewhere in the sound. Actually BRAIN KILLER has more than just a little bit of a DEATHREAT/BASTARD feel, but this shit totally stands on it’s own. I love this and if I had any money, I’d try to put out their record! Best demo in months."


You can listen to a side A of this demo 7" on Deranged Records on Myspace for a while.Nothing more can be added.Get your copy NOW!


I bought this and the Hatred Surge/Iron Lung Collab 7" from Deranged Records.
The Collab 7" really fuses the "bands" to form a strong musical unit combining the best moments of both.You really get what you expect here.
Beside the music the 7" also looks great.The cover is some sort of sandwich paper which together with another layer of paper underneath makes the cover complete.It's pretty hard to describe,hunt it down and see for yourself.But be quick,it's already sold out and a second press is on it's way.


The last record on our journey today is the "Isolated Human" 7" from Hatred Surge again.Like on the Split LP with The Endless Blockade (Amy from Despise You) the main man behind this band Alex got together with a female vocalist again.This time Faiza from Faithealer accompanies him and together they deliver 6 serious and hardhitting jams."Fatalist" is my favorite here.But definetly check it out for yourself.


Go here for more infos:

Brain Killer Demo 7": Deranged Records
Hatred Surge/Iron Lung "Collab" 7": Iron Lung Records
Hatred Surge "Isolated Human" 7": Painkiller Records

YOUTH OF TODAY - Live in Germany 1989

Here is something for your average Youth Crew Taste (if you like this style...).Despite the fact that I don't like live records that much here is another one:

I came across this tape (yes you read right some people still like this format) including 2 live shows of Youth of Today on their european tour in 1989 cheap so I bought it.
I am really surprised here!The recording is pretty good for my taste.
Both sides are able to capture a lot of energy Youth of Today spread out on their live shows when they were around.All instruments and the vocals are in good balance and especially the drums are listenable (and played faster than on the actual records).

Here are the hard facts:

- side A gives you 12 tracks from the show in Bielefeld on the 18.02.89.
- side B has another 12 songs from the show in Dortmund on the 21.02.89.
- released on Koma Records in a quantity of 200.

What I really like is the fact that none of the songs are doubled,every song only appears once.The announcements from Ray of Today maybe a little bit cliche but to some degree I still believe in some things he points out.
As a bonus the song "One Night Stand" on side A is a song you can't hear on any of Youth of Todays records.It only came out as one of the songs on the Revelation Records sampler celebrating their 100th release.And who buys that sort of thing?!

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KILL THAT CAT LIVE FOOTAGE!

In case you didn't know Daniel and Corin host so many vidoes of live shows at their database it's getting ridiculous.Ridiculously great I mean!Check out Kill That Cat and spend endless hours watching your favorite bands killing it live.
Just for example this one:

NO PARADE - Ceaseless Fire LP

This post is for Batguano from the Fugitive Equilibrium Blog.
Enjoy pal!

I'll keep it short and simple:

Personel of From Ashes Rise crank out 15 tracks of stripped down Hardcorepunk in a Deathreat/Talk is Poison/Balance of Terror/Sleeper Cell kind of way.
The tempo is kept pretty moderate,3 participants (bass,guitar,drums) of which 2 share the vocal duties.
A lot of the mentioned bands can also be found elsewhere on this blog. What did you expect?I'm a sucker for this style.
Beside this the fact that this LP came out on Partners in Crime Records also should give you an idea what this will sound like.

This band is no longer in existence aka was "only" meant as a sideproject.So check it out if this got your attention.

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Nice Appreciation!

Today i got a switchblade comb as a present from an aquaintance for my efforts with this blog.Nice idea Paul!The only problem is that i shaved my head some weeks ago so my hair needs to grow again before I can use it haha.
But thats only a small issue which will be solved easily!

P.S:Work is demanding so no new posts before Rob and I have some free time...

DISFEAR - A brutal sight of war 10"

Here is my older Disfear post again.I newly recorded the songs for a better sound quality because I wasn't satisfied with the older outcome anymore:

After listening to their "Live the storm" album for some days straight (check it out,I'm really hooked!) I dug out this older recording.
It's the second output of Disfear after their self-titled single on No Records from 1992 (later being rereleased on Finn/Rödel Records in 1998).Yacoepsae also did their "Krank ist Normal" 7" with Rödel Records.Just in case you wanted to know...

Getting back on track this "album" originally got put out in 1993 as a CD on Lost & Found Records and later also was rereleased this time by Feral Ward as a 10" in 2004.Yes,it's THAT complicated!
These rips come from the 10".The first 4 tracks of this 10"/CD are actual new songs,the last 5 come from the above mentioned first 7".So it's not a real longplayer,more a collection.But a great one indeed!

Imagine Entombed playing Discharge covers.I mean with a name like this and songtitles like "Judgement day" or "Forced to conform" or the title track what do you expect?You get the traditional d-beat attack backed up by a real good production.Disrupt,Disclose,Disgust,Recharge etc. does the talking.
The band came to life in 1989 under the name Anti-Bofors (later changing it to Disfear) and carried on until now sporting ex and current members from bands like AT THE GATES,the already mentioned ENTOMBED,THE CROWN,SKITSYSTEM or THE GREAT DECEIVER.

They evolved a lot lyrically and musically throughout the years but still carry a diy/political agenda with a vision for another world filled with more solidarity between us humans and less consumption/capitalism.To never give up hope in a world as complicated,cloudy and depressive as it looks today.

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