War Wounds

Epilepsy As Performance Art

2012-01-24T17:19:00.002-07:00

I started a new website for documenting, archiving, and digitizing cassettes and some out of print vinyl.

http://epilepsyasperformanceart.tumblr.com/
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Wolves

2012-01-24T17:18:00.000-07:00

I'm shocked that this post hasn't been made yet. Wolves were unknowingly one of the bands that got me out of the if-it-doesn't-sound-like-Have-Heart-it-sucks phase I went through when I first discovered hardcore punk music. That's probably the most uncool thing I could've posted. Whatever.

Wolves were started by people that were previously in Orchid amongst others. More of an early-Hot Cross thing going on though. You can tell it's less influenced by aggression. Think along the lines of bands like Unwound, Hoover, or Shotmaker.

Bonus points for having mindful lyrics;

"Our revolution will take time back.
Our reality will be found in our desires to take everything back."

Wolves/Sinaloa (2004)
1. Wolves - 16
2. Sinaloa - New Teen Craze
3. Sinaloa - Strike Aloud

Transistor Transistor/Wolves (2004)
1. Transistor Transistor - Transistor Transistor vs. The Narcs
2. Transistor Transistor - I Am The Goddamn Devil
3. Transistor Transistor - Paul Is Dead
4. Transistor Transistor - Cigaretteflavoredbeer
5. Wolves - 17
6. Wolves - 18
7. Wolves - 19
8. Wolves - 20

Wolves/Ampere (2003)
1. Wolves - 10
2. Wolves - 11
3. Ampere - My Favorite Movie
4. Ampere - What It's Like To Fly
5. Ampere - A New Dialect
6. Ampere - A Letter To A Friend
7. Ampere - Things I'd Rather Not Have Learned

Simulation.Transparency.Alienation (2003)
1. 14
2. 15
3. 12
4. 13

Art.Culture.Work (2002)
1. 9
2. -
3. 2
4. -
5. 1
6. 6
7. -
8. 7
9. 3
10. 8
11. -
12. 4

Threadbare

2012-01-21T12:10:00.001-07:00

“a flame never burned as hot as the one that i lit today.”

Escapist (1997)
1. Error
2. In Effigy
3. Thirds
4. Lesser Evils
5. Weatherman
6. Twenty One
7. Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tony

Feeling Older Faster (1996)
1. Midas
2. Feed
3. Penicillin
4. Relocation Policy
5. Confessional
6. Dive

Threadbare (1994)
1. Ignition
2. Hoover

Yaphet Kotto

2012-01-19T14:07:00.001-07:00

"...you said you'd wait."

Somebody sell me the first 7".

Unreleased CD-R (2008)
1. Existence Is Pain
2. Full Of Mistakes
3. Heritage (Jasemine Cover)
*available only at their "last show"

We Bury Our Dead Alive (2004)
1. Intro
2. We Bury Our Dead Alive
3. The Heavy Burden
4. Past On The Stairs
5. Chime The Day
6. Paths
7. The Constant Ringing
8. The Lurking
9. Chime The Night
10. Outro

European Tour 12" (2003)
1. Alive and Dead
2. Tracing
3. Momentary Loss Of Breath

Envy/Yaphet Kotto/This Machine Kills (2002)
1. Envy - A Far-Off Reason
2. Envy - Signal
3. Envy - An Adventure Of Silence and Purpose
4. Yaphet Kotto - The Fall
5. Yaphet Kotto - Tracing
6. Yaphet Kotto - Momentary Loss Of Breath
7. This Machine Kills - Define Silence
8. This Machine Kills - Carpet Of Gold/Carpet Of Bombs
9. This Machine Kills - Our Histories Have Burned Holes In Your Flag
10. Envy/Yaphet Kotto/This Machine Kills - Untitled
*this was released on CD as a tour compilation

Yaphet Kotto (2002)
1. Usual Suspect
2. According To History

Syncopated Synthetic Laments For Love (2001)
1. Circumstantial Evidence
2. Status Symbol
3. Inquire Within
4. The Wight Of Remorse
5. Fact Or Fiction
6. Syncopated Synthetic Laments For Love
7. Highly Enlightened
8. Blind Leading The Blind
9. Of Epic Proportions
10. Untitled

Yaphet Kotto/Suicide Nation (2000)
1. Yaphet Kotto - Critical Response
2. Suicide Nation - Collapse and Die

The Killer Was In The Government Blankets (1999)
1. First Meetings Agreement
2. Torn Pictures
3. Reserved For Speaker
4. Driving Through Natchez
5. Are You Still Working At That Café?
6. B and C
7. A Symbol
8. The Killer Was In The Government Blankets
9. Suffocate

Amber Inn

2012-01-10T00:10:00.000-07:00

"This wasn't the first record I bought that was released by Ebullition Records (that honor goes to the Downcast 12"), but it still ranks as one of my favorites. Staffed by ex-members of Sinker, Amber Inn existed during one of the great stylistic schisms in hardcore. The summer this came out, almost every kid I knew went straight edge, started listening to Floorpunch and Ten Yard Fight and called anyone who disagreed "a fake-ass faggot". Good times, right? 1998 was the year I where I went off the deep end. I drank too much, shit all over most of my friends and went batshit crazy one night on my radio show after some X'ed up thugs showed up with ball bats. But Amber Inn was the band that kept me listening to the underground. It led me to Yaphet Kotto, Orchid, Sweep the Leg Johnny, the Ottobar, the Fuses, League of Death, out of the north Baltimore suburbs and into my twenties, which were roaring indeed." —Ape Mummy

For Fans Of: Shotmaker, Fugazi, Current, Yaphet Kotto, Navio Forge

All Roads Lead Home (1997)
1. Leave With Dignity
2. Shouldering Reflex
3. A Thousand Spotlights
4. Sandpaper My Eyes
5. The Inherent Purity of Rain in May
6. This Is Not An Entrance
7. Salvage Mission
8. The Sky Is Blue
9. Life Instantaneous
10. Through The Blinds
11. Out Like Irsay

Serenity In Hand b/w Wednesday Streak (1995)
1. Serenity In Hand
2. Wednesday Streak

Amber Inn (1995)
1. Life Instantaneous
2. Dead Calm
3. Martyr Complex

Left Back/Let Down

2012-01-08T15:33:00.000-07:00

Left Back/Let Down (1995)
1. Stapled Shut – Wicked!
2. Stapled Shut – So!
3. Stapled Shut – Burnout!
4. Stapled Shut – Illegal Or Not!
5. Stapled Shut – Roach!
6. Crom – Twgk
7. Crom – Rise Of The Euphrates
8. Crom – The Flesh
9. Crom – The Four Winds
10. Spazz – Spudboy
11. Spazz – Smoking Don's Crack Hole
12. Spazz – Dirt The Purity
13. Spazz – Knuckle Scraper
14. Spazz – Box II (Yates Goes To Africa)
15. Despise You – Hand Me Down Existencia
16. Despise You – Shit Trait
17. Despise You – Glasgow Relocation
18. Despise You – Couch Slouch
19. Despise You – Random Salvation
20. Despise You – Encontraran Otro You
21. Despise You – Unmoved / Complacent
22. Despise You – Career Overview
23. Despise You – Imajinate Que It's Fine

Despise You

2012-01-06T11:15:00.000-07:00

"California’s purest personification of hate, formed in Inglewood in the year 1995. The band utilizes a dual vocal style with male & female vocals with a political edge."

I've posted everything pre-reunion.

For Fans Of: Capitalist Casualties, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Man Is The Bastard, No Comment, Hatred Surge (Deconstruct-era)

Despise You/Man Is The Bastard (1994-1996)*
1. Culpa Mia
2. Divisions
3. It's All In God's Hands Now
4. In My Abscence
5. Lagrimas
6. Two One Three
7. Cut Your Arms Solves A Lot
8. Bullshit Reflection
9. My West Side Horizon
10. You Make A Good Follower
11. High & Defenseless
12. Stupid Routines
13. One More Rosary
14. Burning In Hell (Possessed Cover)
15. Thirty-One Days Of Rain
*the Man Is The Bastard side was recorded but without vocals
*the Despise You side was recorded but they broke up before it could be released
*the Man Is The Bastard side remains unfinished and unreleased

PCP Scapegoat (1996)
1. Pig Mindset
2. Puppet
3. If We Could Switch
4. Pacification Attempt
5. De Volada Decision
6. Loathe
7. Decline / Demise
8. Llevame
9. Past Reasons
10. PCP Scapegoat
11. Cesar Chavez
12. Guess
13. Guilty View

Despise You/Stapled Shut (1996)
1. Despise You – Passive Position
2. Despise You – I End Me
3. Despise You – Portrait
4. Despise You – Lost And Losing
5. Despise You – No More...Feelings
6. Despise You – Euphoric Confusion
7. Despise You – Been Lead
8. Stapled Shut – Resin Heaven
9. Stapled Shut – No Score

...To Show How Much You Meant/Mechanized Flesh (1995)
1. Despise You – Busted Outlook
2. Despise You – ... When You Fail
3. Despise You – Nel Interesa
4. Despise You – In Your Eyes (Circle Jerks Cover)
5. Despise You – Say You Felt This Way
6. Despise You – Enseñame Myself
7. Despise You – Caring Less
8. Despise You – Seen The Lines
9. Suppression – Elite
10. Suppression – Strangehold
11. Suppression – Enema
12. Suppression – Overdose
13. Suppression – Zodiac
14. Suppression – Choice Kill
15. Suppression – 7-4-94
16. Suppression – Labeled As Subhuman (Genocide)
17. Suppression – Mechanized Flesh
18. Suppression – Desensitized
19. Suppression – Manipulate

Despise You/Crom (1995)
1. Despise You – Swing And Cease
2. Despise You – ... And Always Gets Her Way
3. Despise You – Born In The Dirt (Raised In A Hole)
4. Despise You – Despreciado Me Voy
5. Despise You – Pa Que Te Sirve?
6. Despise You – Taste The Steel
7. Despise You – Tired Of Trying
8. Despise You – Inborn Outcome
9. Crom – I'm Crushing You
10. Crom – Mako
11. Crom – The Aftermath
12. Crom – Dogboy
13. Crom – The Clicker

Discourse

2012-01-05T00:01:00.002-07:00

I usually don't download demo's I come across on the internet, but on a whim I thought I'd take a listen to Discourse. I was blown the fuck away. Calling this a "demo" is a huge understatement. The recordings sound huge and, oh, that bass tone, how it makes me swoon. Um, anyways, they sound pretty close to their influences, and I'm still deciding whether it's just the high production quality or the actual songs themselves that's making me like this so much right now. Listen for yourself and decide. I'm writing like a two year old right now.

Website: Facebook
Influences: Indecision, Turmoil, Buried Alive, Earth Crisis, One King Down

Demo 2011
1. Condemn
2. Carved In Stone
3. Follow
4. No Heroes

Amnesia

2012-01-04T10:45:00.002-07:00

Ebullition #29.

"When this came out I was going through a mid-life crisis of sorts. I was getting closer to thirty, and while that isn't all that old in the real world it does feel pretty ancient in the U.S. hardcore scene. The fold out cover consists of writings about identity, amnesia, memory and self-realization. Much of the writing is bleak, and while I managed to pass into my thirties without losing my grasp on reality I do consider some of these writings to be the best I ever wrote. Life can be pretty ugly at times, and understanding our purpose can be very difficult in a world where identity is bought and sold in an advertising war for our dollars and souls. Our own community more often than not promotes a godless anti-spiritual concept of existence that can leave the insides cold and dead. Learning to live with the question can be a life long journey. The years in which I wrote this material were some of the hardest I ever dealt with. What am I about?

We can exist in ambiguity, but it means the deepest loneliness.

8/11/01: Once more I am drawn by these words. I am in that place again. Looking up at that fucking two by four wondering why not? What keeps the flame flickering? Right now it is mere fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of what can never be changed. The permanence of suicide keeps me at bay. Maybe this depression will fade. Perhaps tomorrow I will breathe without pain. I am alone and I am terrified. I don't know what I am, and I don't how to save myself. I am drowning in ambiguity.

8/12/01: I have a secret. A secret to tell. It has power. It may even cause destruction. I am afraid of my secret. Afraid of what it means. Afraid of what it contains. There is weight to my secret, and with each passing week it becomes more volatile and difficult to contain. Secrets yearn to be told. I think about it every day and I wake in the night with remnants of secret dreams lingering in the cool air. And so I am distraught when the apparition taunts me once again. Floating so near. I can feel the presence and yet I am denied touch. My fingers ache to caress, but I resist the siren's call fearing that it is merely fool's folly. We are intertwined and yet we are distant. I have relied on my senses in the past. I have divined the burning attraction and the hidden passion. But now I am unsure. The stakes are high, higher than ever before, and perhaps catastrophic. I doubt myself. My senses may have gone dull, or maybe they have been clouded by some sliver of insanity that has wedged itself deep within my spinal cord. And so I wait patiently; not so patiently, but I mask my impatience well. My secret remains with me, brewing and percolating beneath the fabric of my existence.

8/31/01: Somebody wants to be with you.

9/1/01: It comes like a wave. Pulsating through my mind. My mood goes dark so quickly. But what choice do I have. I have no play. I am cornered and I can only wait and watch. I still retain my secret, or should I say, it retains me.

10/31/01: I lost my secret. Just forgot all about it. Washed everything away with distraction. But the distraction cracked tonight, came apart at the seems and unraveled. Back to square one. Looking myself in the mirror and wondering who I am and what I am doing. Can't continue on this endless path, but not sure how to chart a new course. My map has faded and I don't recognize the landmarks. The scars are bittersweet. Lost in a crowded room, I am torn apart by my cruel intentions, my cruel inventions, my cruel retentions. Not sure where to go, just sure that I have yet to arrive. Perhaps I will never arrive. I may have missed my destination. Maybe lost. Maybe never had a destination at all. The folly is mine. I have to embrace it. Devour it. Take steps to dismantle my life. Tonight I resolve to rebuild my search. The secret is a tease. Something I can't have. The quick path to destruction is to unleash the secret. To accept and to strive for the embrace. But it is a gamble, with almost no chance of success. A fool's fool would I be indeed if I simply rolled the die and let the pieces of my life fall where they may. No, I must find another way. I must take a longer path. Calculate and conspire, set a time line and a routine, but also a dead line. Ten moon cycles. Make the hard choice. Yes, in ten moon cycles I make the hard choice. I must resolve myself to tone my will, to prepare for impact, to focus mind and body for the challenge of self destruction. Tear myself apart and rebuild; the gear begins to turn.

7/5/02: Epiphany. Day of infamy. I lost my heart.

7/13/02: I am an idiot. A fool. I made a mistake. It splits me apart. I am walking dead. A frail shard of what I should have been. The depression comes and goes, but even at my lightest I still feel the regret. At times I am incapacitated with grief. I was wrong. Oh, god, I was so fucking wrong."

All together this is a fucking great compilation and downloadable if only for the Ordination Of Aaron song, which I believe is one of their best songs released.

Amnesia (1997)
1. Three Studies For A Crucifixion – Indescribable Velocity
2. Silence Equals – Prolefeed
3 In/Humanity – Beaten Words
4. Scout – I Don't Want Seconds
5. Stephen Hero – Train's Distance
6. Thumbnail – Div. iii
7. Car Vs. Driver – Me With
8. Failure Face – Pure Entertainment
9. Wellington – Fluent
10. Ipecac – Untitled
11. Lybernum – Librarian/Everyday/Confession/Intangible/Witness/Paper Bag/Closure
12. Ordination Of Aaron – With Haste and Flight In All Her Steps See Comes Walking Dawn This Way Again

XXX: Some Ideas Are Poisonous

2012-01-01T09:47:00.000-07:00

Ebullition Records compilation from 1995. It's tough to explain this one thoroughly and do it justice. This double LP comes with a 24-page booklet written by Kent McClard about straight edge, on personal, social, and political levels, as well as why he released this comp. A brief excerpt;
"I have been straight edge for more than half of my life; twenty years and counting. And while many people might consider Ebullition to be a straight edge label there have never really been many straight edge bands on Ebullition. I wanted to do a compilation of all straight edge bands, but I also wanted to point out that many straight edge bands are not caught up in the stereotype of mosh and regurgitated Youth of Today songs. Straight edge to me was never about belonging to the crew or trying to fit in with some preconceived idea of existence. Instead I believe straight edge to be a deeply personal philosophical choice that will effect your life in both good and bad ways for the rest of your days on the planet. I consider it both a curse and a boon. At age thirty-five I can safely say that straight edge will be a part of my existence until I draw my last breath. For better or worse. Some ideas are poisonous."

XXX: Some Ideas Are Poisonous (1995)
1. Monster X - The Gift
2. V.I.A. - Homage
3. Well Away - Embodied
4. Frail - Drought
5. Policy Of 3 - Autronic Eye
6. Trees Without Leaves - A Drop In The Ocean
7. Prozac Memory - To Have Voice
8. Pogrom - Laughing At The World
9. Groundwork - Willing Victim
10. Portraits Of Past - Stick Together
11. Threadbare - Feed
12. Shatter The Myth - Fuite (Escape)
13. Endeavor - Nothing More/Burn In Hell
14. None Left Standing - Station Identification

Sevin

2011-12-30T10:24:00.000-07:00

Mid 90's Militant Records band. They only ever released a demo tape, a 7" (Vegan-003 on Militant Records), and one song on the Stones To Mark A Fire compilation.

Heaven's Deception (1995)
1. Grail
2. Conspiracy Of The Angels
3. Automation
4. Stillborn

Demo (1994)
1. Final Solution
2. Automation
3. Pray For Rain
4. Conspiracy Of The Angels
5. Untitled

3/12/93

2011-12-28T08:17:00.000-07:00

Ebullition #011: "On 3/12/93 Sinker, John Henry West, Manumission, and Not For The Lack of Trying played a show at the Anaconda in Goleta, CA. The idea was that all four bands would play a show together and then release a 7" comp based on that show. All of the songs are studio songs, and while the date of the show does serve as the title for the 7" none of the songs were actually live songs. Everyone that attended the show wrote their name and address down in a notebook and when the record came out they received a copy with a hand screened cover.

Manumission and Not For The Lack of Trying were local bands from Goleta, while Sinker and John Henry West were from Northern California. Manumission of course recorded two 7"s for Ebullition, and while Not For The Lack of Trying should have recorded for Ebullition they unfortunately never got the chance. Not For The Lack of Trying featured three former members of Downcast, and after they broke up the various members went on to form Jara, Born and Razed, Good Riddance, Stephen Hero, and This Machine Kills. Members of Sinker went on to become known as Amber Inn and Indian Summer, and John Henry West featured members of End of the Line, Sawhorse, and Fuel."

3/12/93 (1993)
1. John Henry West - Untitled
2. Sinker - Slash and Burn
3. Not For The Lack of Trying - Goodbye
4. Manumission - Hawthorne Effect

Voice Of The Voiceless

2011-12-26T10:12:00.000-07:00

"This record is dedicated to the dream that we as humans will one day come to the realization that with each and every creature we harm, we ultimately harm ourselves."

Smorgasbord Records #006

Voice Of The Voiceless (1991)
1. Endpoint – Black Skies
2. Juvenocracy – Through Their Eyes
3. Transcend – Product Of Greed
4. Worlds Collide – Effect Of The Age
5. Youth Of Today – No More
6. Split Lip – Evolution
7. Straight From The Heart – Feast
8. Encounter – Consequence
9. Shelter – In Defense Of Reality
10. Discipline – Truth, Facts Or Lies
11. Downcast – Force
12. Majority Of One – One Man
13. Outspoken – Daydream
14. Rob R Rock – Cruelty Free

Torches To Rome

2011-12-24T11:12:00.000-07:00

Torches To Rome only existed to release a collection of songs released on one LP. They were a three piece comprised of the drummer from Portraits of Past and the guitarist from Navio Forge and Sawhorse, to name only two. This album was recorded in '95, mixed in '97, and released in '99 on Ebullition. There's something for everyone here.

Torches To Rome (1999)
1. Mass For The Dead
2. Young Arsenal
3. Life Led Idle
4. This Is Not A Step
5. Torches To Rome
6. The Guards Are Itchy
7. Idle Heroes
8. Numbered Days

Sinker

2011-12-22T03:12:00.001-07:00

Precursor to Indian Summer and Amber Inn. 90's emo. Nothing more, nothing less. Beautiful music.

Finality (1995)
1. Comfort
2. Low-Tac Tape

Thoughts On Beauty b/w Perseverance (1993)
1. Thoughts On Beauty
2. Perseverance

Purity Control

2011-12-19T08:19:00.000-07:00

Something between Short Hate Temper and Shank. Purity Control were featured on the City Limits comp and should have new material out on High Anxiety soon. Cassette II rips.

Cassette II (2011)
1. Taking Control
2. Flesh Revelation
3. Writer's Block
4. Bite Marks
5. Swallowing/Losing Control
6. Orgone

Cassette I (2010)
1. Secondhand
2. Eviscerator
3. Feral
4. Hate Deprived
5. Obedience
6. Morality
7. Sympathy Pains

Lord Snow

2011-12-17T13:41:00.001-07:00

New band with members from Suffix and Raw Nerve. Sounds like what you'd expect: a noisier Suffix.

Website: Lord Snow

Lord Snow (2011)
1. Teeth
2. Corrective Consciousness
3. Natural Order
4. Indifference
5. Detours Disguised
6. It Is Known

Maus

2011-12-16T02:02:00.000-07:00

Maus (pronounced "Mouse") are a sludgy hardcore band from Edmonton. "The Robber Bride" was a song that completely stopped me in my tracks and wholly consumed me hearing it live for the first time. It still gives me shivers listening to it recorded. This band is very talented.

Website: Bandcamp
Support: Go see them at a show
Influences: Swans, Unbroken, Discharge, Entombed

Maus (2010)
1. Horrors Manufactured Here
2. Schadenfreude
3. No Medicine
4. The Robber Bride

Demo (2009)
1. Rotting Death
2. Stepping Blindly
3. Never Realized
4. My Own Self God

No Tolerance

2011-12-15T23:05:00.002-07:00

Complete Brotherhood worship. Nothing wrong with that.

Support: Youngblood Records
For Fans Of: Brotherhood, Straight Ahead, Lockin' Out

No Remorse, No Tolerance (2011)
1. No Remorse, No Tolerance
2. Empty Words
3. You Never Learn
4. Knew The Truth
5. End of the Line
6. Can't Help You

Boston Straight Edge (2009)
1. Intro/B.S.E.D.F.Y.
2. Boston Ex
3. Pay The Cost
4. Sentenced

End Of A Year Self Defense Family

2011-12-15T22:49:00.000-07:00

Here is a comprehensive discography for you. People download music — get over it.

Website: Self Defense Music
Support: Deathwish Inc.
For Fans Of: Rites Of Spring, Lungfish, Embrace, Talking Heads

Self Defense Family/Fires (2011)
1. Self Defense Family - I Can't Work A Straight Job
2. Self Defense Family - M1911
3. Fires - Things We Lost In The Sea
Troubled Monkey Records

I Heard Crime Gets You Off b/w To Your Scattered Bodies Go (2011)
1. I Heard Crime Gets You Off
2. To Your Scattered Bodies Go

I'm Going Through Some Shit b/w All Fruit Is Ripe (2011)
1. I'm Going Through Some Shit
2. All Fruit Is Ripe

The Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Emanuela Orlandi (2011)
1. Emanuela Orlandi
2. Mehmet Ali Agca
3. The Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary

You Are Beneath Me (2010)
1. Composite Character
2. Charles Ewert
3. Marissa Wendolovske
4. Fred Dekker
5. Louis Slotin
6. Eric Hall
7. Sara Hayden
8. Jeni Leigh
9. Bo Diaz
10. Eddie Antar
11. Philip Jose Farmer

Live On The Waiting Room (2010)
1. Robert E. Howard/Michael Larson
2. Eric Hall
3. Jeni Leigh

End Of A Year With Caroline Corrigan (2010)
1. Jeni Leigh
2. Philip Jose Farmer
3. Eric Hall
4. Marissa Wendolovske

More Songs About Transportation and Intercourse (2010)
1. Barbara Payton
2. Ethan Hawke
3. Wild Wild Life (Talking Heads Cover)

End Of A Year/Segwei (2009)
1. End Of A Year - Charles Rocket
2. End Of A Year - Gary Evans
3. End Of A Year - Sensitive Leopard
4. Segwei - Gain Ground
5. Segwei - Projection

Descend, Bold Traveler (2009)
1. Robert E. Howard
2. Gray Morrow
3. Walter M. Miller Jr.

Shook Ones/End Of A Year (2008)
1. Shook Ones - Raised By Woofs
2. Shook Ones - It's Not What You Think
3. Shook Ones - Asterisk
4. Shook Ones - Marked With A Crows Foot
5. End Of A Year - Dan Cooper

End Of A Year/Red Tape Parade (2008)
1. End Of A Year - William Kennedy
2. End Of A Year - Red Tape Parade (Seaweed Cover)
3. Red Tape Parade - Towns
4. Red Tape Parade - End Of A Year (Embrace Cover)

End Of A Year/Adorno (2008)
1. End Of A Year - Michael Ray Richardson
2. End Of A Year - Go To Hell, Dickhead
3. Adorno - Life. Love. Don't Need Regret
4. Adorno - Theoretically Driven

We Understand Europeans Are A Sexual People (2007)
1. Michael Larson
2. Let's Grow Fat and Unhappy Together
3. &Jurt (Colin Newman Cover)
4. Annandale

End Of A Year/Kids Explode (2007)
1. End Of A Year - Audrey Kishline
2. Kids Explode - Yards and Miles
3. Kids Explode - A Crash, Literally

End Of A Year/Fire Team Charlie (2007)
1. End Of A Year - McEnroe
2. End Of A Year - Harrison At Clapton's Wedding
3. Fire Team Charlie - Captain Fantastic & Boris The Heavy Metal Kid
4. Fire Team Charlie - Someday We'll Look Back

Sincerely (2006)
1. The Browns
2. Time Shares
3. Beleaders
4. Darnel
5. Harrison
6. Midwest
7. Anxiety II
8. Bad Land Deals
9. You Better Work
10. Escrow
11. Above Ground Pools

End Of A Year/Three Fifteen (2005)
1. End Of A Year - Beleaders
2. End Of A Year - Girls
3. End Of A Year - Chopper
4. Three Fifteen - The Warm Air...
5. Three Fifteen - ...The Late Nights

Disappear Here (2004)
1. Anxiety
2. I Wash My Ass With Piss
3. Like Four Flat Tires
4. I Hate Fun, I Hate Young People, Stay Off My Lawn
5. 30 Degrees 10 Seconds After It Rains
6. Hey
7. If You're Not Into It, You're Dead
8. My Baboon Heart
9. Shy Partier Meets Talkative Recluse
10. It Was A Total Nightmare
11. Occupation
12. Good To Meet You

Warm (Demo 2004)
1. If You're Not Into It, You're Dead
2. The Birthplace Of Plastic
3. Caldor
4. Hey
5. It Was A Total Nightmare
6. Good To Meet You
7. 60 Degrees 10 Seconds After It Rains
8. Odometer
9. Kentucky Is A Revolution

Rinse

2011-12-15T08:47:00.000-07:00

Precursor to Hassan I Sabbah and Force Fed Glass. Abrasive and shriek filled. They were only around long enough to put out this 7" and one comp track.

For Fans Of: Hassan I Sabbah, Undone, Reversal Of Man, Puritan

Rinse (1996)
1. Stoic
2. Letters Never Sent
3. To The Father From The Son
4. Perder Un Momento
5. Like You Said
6. And Still The Promise

From Stars Come Hearts

2011-12-13T19:45:00.001-07:00

From Stars Come Hearts (1997)
1. Makara - Papercuts
2. Khmer Rouge - Times Past But Memories Not Lost
3. Rinse - Go
4. Puritan - Dark

STRESSCASE "Cut Me Off" EP - PRE ORDER

2011-11-29T23:46:00.003-07:00

California's STRESSCASE make their debut with 5 tracks of ripping fast, ear splitting female-fronted hardcore punk. Confrontational and intelligent lyrics directly dealing with social and political introspectiveness. No gimmicks. No ploys.

There are two options available:

Pre-Order limited to 50.
Regular pressing limited to 200.

If you order two copies, you will get one of each.

Records will ship by mid-January.

This is EFF-001

http://effusionrecords.bigcartel.com/
http://effusionrecords.bigcartel.com/
http://effusionrecords.bigcartel.com/

Black Flag

2011-11-29T11:40:00.004-07:00

"Somewhat legendary demo featuring the short-lived five-piece lineup of Rollins/Ginn/Dukowski/Cadena/Biscuits. Recorded secretly, under threat of imprisonment. The tracks are mostly stuff that would end up on My War and Slip It In, but there are two that have never officially been released."

1982 Demo
1. What Can You Believe
2. Yes, I Know
3. Slip It In
4. Modern Man
5. My War
6. Black Coffee
7. Beat My Head
8. I Can't Decide
9. I Love You
10. Nothing Left Inside/Scream

Enuf

2011-11-22T11:48:00.004-07:00

"The Enuf demo...now here is a recording that does not get discussed as much as it should. Hard, energetic straight edge hardcore that sounds much more NY than it does NJ. Angry straight edge lyrics? Check. Well played mosh breaks? Check. Skating references? Check. The package is complete. Do you think that when pimple faced nerds are singing along to Lifetime they have any idea that Ari Katz was once behind the drumkit busting out the beat to "Suckah Mosh?" No, they don't."

Interview with Ajay Enuf: Double Cross

Demo 1988
1. Suckah Mosh
2. Face The Music
3. I Just Wanna Skate
4. MF/Get It Done
5. Once Too Many Times
6. Fantasy World

Crisis Of Faith

2011-11-20T15:10:00.000-07:00

(No pictures of the band seem to exist so the photo above I took and is the cover from their side of the split with Chokehold. Fucking rad.)

Crisis Of Faith existed as a side project from Toronto area hardcore band One Blood. Crisis Of Faith are usually remembered as "that band that did a split with Chokehold", which is unfortunate to some extent seeing as how fans of Chokehold should be way into this. Lyrically, the songs range from calling out the early 90's seemingly "hardline" bands that held morally conservative, pro-life, homophobic lyrics, to spoken word tracks spitting out facts on domestic violence against women. They recorded their demo in 1990 and at that point Heath Carr, from Degenerate Youth, was the vocalist. Because of that, the demo songs have a very distinct Bad Religion vibe going on.

For Fans Of: Nausea, Chokehold, Disrupt, Struggle, Straight Ahead, Bad Religion

Chokehold/Crisis Of Faith (1992)
1. Chokehold - One Scream
2. Chokehold - Second Hand Murder
3. Chokehold - Ignorance and Oppression
4. Crisis Of Faith - Hardline
5. Crisis Of Faith - Ecological Business

The American Dream...A Global Nightmare (1992)
1. Consume
2. Incest
3. Public Assistance
4. Close Your Mouth
5. Struggle For Existence
6. Doctor Of Death
7. Land Of The Free

"Keep The Baby, Faith" Demo (1990)
1. 700 Club
2. Incest
3. Public Assistance
4. Death Of A Landlord
5. Raw Deal
6. Educated Discrimination
7. Colour Blind
8. End Of Suffering
9. Aryan Society

Nazi Bondage

2011-11-17T12:03:00.000-07:00

Harsh noise. Processions of Hate is a 15 minute performance piece recorded on November 15. A small edition of tapes will be available soon.

Website: Nazi Bondage

Processions of Hate (2011)
01. Processions of Hate

Mahria

2011-11-15T11:10:00.000-07:00

Mahria are very unique, to say the least. Trying to describe them is like trying to peel back the layers of an onion (awesome comparison, right?!). They have so much going on, musically; and take influence from such an array of styles. Usually this is a major turn off because for so many bands this leads to shitty music. Mahria keep everything spot on and tasteful. Dig it. Their new tape is proof that Alberta can be more than just a plethora of complacent, uninteresting music.

Website: Facebook//Bandcamp
For Fans Of: Yaphet Kotto, His Hero Is Gone, Loma Prieta, Celeste, Orchid, Beach House, Joy Division, Converge, Hiretsukan

Mahria (2011)
01. Lights
02. Justification Of An Old Man
03. Ghost Limb
04. Wagering Life
05. Sleep
06. Instrumental
07. Save Yourself

Mahria/Todos Caerán (2011)
01. Mahria - Scarlet Letter
02. Mahria - Blind
03. Mahria - Mask
04. Mahria - Self-Sacrafice
05. Mahria - Smog Line
06. Todos Caerán - Diamond Age
07. Todos Caerán - Snow Crash

Fall Of Efrafa

2011-11-14T17:52:00.000-07:00

"Fall of Efrafa were a concept band formed in Brighton, United Kingdom in 2005, starting life as a cello driven hardcore band, yet after various line up changes, focused on creating their own sound, mixing elements of post rock, post metal and ambient folk black metal."

For Fans Of: Neurosis, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wolves In The Throne Room, Agalloch, Buried Inside, Otesanek

Inlé (2009)
01. Simulacrum
02. Fu Inlé
03. Republic Of Heaven
04. Woundwort
05. The Sky Suspended
06. The Warren Of Snares

Tharn (2009)
01. Tharn

The Burial (2009)
01. The Burial

Elil (2007)
01. Beyond The Veil
02. Dominion Theology
03. For El Ahrairah To Cry

Down To Agony/Fall Of Efrafa (2007)
01. Down To Agony - Where We Will Burn
02. Down To Agony - The Hands Of The Watch Spin
03. Fall Of Efrafa - No Longer Human

Owsla (2006)
01. Intro
02. Pity The Weak
03. A Soul To Bare
04. Lament
05. Last But Not Least
06. The Fall Of Efrafa

Demo (2006)
01. Pity The Weak
02. A Soul To Bare
03. Last But Not Least
04. The Fall Of Efrafa

Spitboy

2011-11-12T12:30:00.001-07:00

"Spitboy was a punk rock band from San Francisco that consisted of four women who founded the band in early 1990's. They played powerful political hardcore that was influenced by the fact that they were all women living in a male dominated world."

Los Crudos/Spitboy (1995)
01. Los Crudos – Achicados
02. Los Crudos – En Mi Opinion
03. Los Crudos – No Te Debo Nado
04. Los Crudos – Levantante!
05. Los Crudos – La Caida De Latino America
06. Los Crudos – Nos Quieren Como Siempre
07. Los Crudos – No Me Vengan A Salvar
08. Los Crudos – Dejanos En Paz
09. Los Crudos – Tierna De Libertad?
10. Los Crudos – Victorias Y Ganancias
11. Los Crudos – Unidad Prohibida
12. Spitboy – What Are Little Girls Made Of?
13. Spitboy – Emaciation
14. Spitboy – You And Me And The Art Of Being A Woman
15. Spitboy – Fences
16. Spitboy – Wizened
17. Spitboy – 6 Ft. Down

Rasana (1995)
01. Unknown
02. Blue
03. All Grown Up

Mi Cuerpo Es Mio (1994)
01. Removal
02. Word Problem
03. Touch

True Self Revealed (1993)
01. In Your Face
02. Isolation Burns
03. Right
04. Moral Casualty
05. In Tradition
06. Violent Tongue
07. Motivated By Fear
08. True Self Revealed

Spitboy (1991)
01. The Threat
02. Sexism Impressed
03. Ultimate Violations

The Fallacy

2011-11-10T09:42:00.001-07:00

Website: Facebook
For Fans Of: Norma Jean, Botch, Converge

La Fin Du Monde (2011)
01. Gears Of War
02. In His Image
03. La Fin Du Monde
04. World On Fire
05. Captain Trips
06. Pick Up After Your Dogma

The Fallacy (2009)
01. Pick Up After Your Dogma
02. Caricatures Of Reality TV
03. The Hymen Maneuver
04. Ultra Charmin
05. I Hate Nancy Grace

Drug Culture

2011-11-08T07:24:00.001-07:00

Ex-Bully and other Washington bands. Exactly what you'd expect. Hard hitting and relentless.

Website: Bandcamp
Support: Mind Melt Ent.

Tape 2011
01. Prescribe
02. Objects
03. Slave Ships
04. To Cope
05. Mckinley

Stones To Mark A Fire

2011-11-06T09:46:00.000-07:00

Stones To Mark A Fire (1995)
01. Vigil - Vigil
02. Sevin - Rebirth
03. Statement - Traces Of Blood
04. Shenoem - Stitch
05. Autumn - Perfect Surface
06. Birthright - Ascension
07. Operation Cliff Calvin - Plundered
08. One Nature - Covenant
09. Unborn - Subject To Change
10. Abnegation - Hopes Of Harmony
11. Earth Crisis - The Order That Shall Be
12. Culture - Memento Mori
13. Stedding - Weighting
14. Tension - Stand Aside
15. Rain Still Falls - Specific Elsewhere
16. Painstake - Bloodshed
17. Hatebreed - Prepare For War
18. Birthrite - Trigger Ethic

Statement

2011-11-04T14:29:00.000-06:00

Not to be mistaken with the Statement from the other side of the pond. This Statement was from Seattle and featured non other than Greg Anderson. If you're into Brotherhood, Inside Out, or Battery, you'll be really into this.

Don't Sacrifice Me (1989)
01. No Forgivance
02. I Burn
03. Value You Can't See
04. Soul Sacrifice

Statement

2011-11-02T14:46:00.003-06:00

The Vegan Straight Edge. I didn't bother with the material pre-1990—two splits with The Apostles—'cause they're both really fucking bad.

Genocidal Justice (1996)
01. Cries Within
02. Imminent Pleasure
03. No Remorse
04. Seas Of Crimson
05. Throw Away Your Cross
06. Unworthy

Statement/Dim-Mak (1994)
01. Statement - Release
02. Statement - Forced Sacrifice
03. Dim-Mak - Disturbing Beauty

Vegan Inquisition (1992)
01. The Trial Begins
02. My Law
03. The Final Call

Prepare For Battle (1990)
01. Beneath Blood
02. Tread The Path
03. Prepare For Battle
04. The True Path

Embassy

2011-10-30T20:29:00.005-06:00

Vegan, feminist....emo? Yeah. Weird right? Agressive at just the right times. Hopeless at just the right times. Fans of 90's emo: don't make me poser expose you with this post.

Embassy LP (1995)
01. Beyond Bridges
02. Baby Blue Daydream
03. Wispers Of No Small Intent
04. Behind Closed Doors
05. Beauty in the Sky
06. Departure
07. Training Wheels
08. Flowers Bloom

Indian Summer/Embassy (1994)
01. Indian Summer - I Think Your Train Is Leaving
02. Embassy - Stepping By
03. Embassy - Said

Embassy EP (1994)
01. Rachael Pomea
02. The Many Faces Of
03. Whispers Of No Small Intent

Burn

2011-10-25T17:05:00.002-06:00

Burn. Disbanded in 1994, reformed with members of Inside Out, 108 and Glassjaw to release Cleanse in 2001 on EVR. Saying this band is important is an understatement. Intelligent, forward thinking agressive music.

Cleanse (2001)
01. Cleanse
02. Strata
03. Melt-Meta-Growth
04. The Bait
05. Disgraces
06. Decay

Burn/Prison (1995)*
01. Burn - Decay
02. Burn - Drown
03. Prison - Suffer
04. Prison - Taken
*Burn tracks taken from “Forever” and “Rebuilding” compilations
*Prison tracks taken straight from CD
*This release has never made any sense

Last Great Sea (1992)
01. New Morality
02. Tales Of Shatou
03. Last Great Sea

Burn (1990)
01. ...Shall Be Judged
02. Godhead
03. Drown
04. Out Of Time

Green Rage

2011-10-17T00:22:00.004-06:00

In "celebration" of Edge Day 2011. The fucking Vegan Straight Edge.

For Fans Of: Chokehold, Canon, Statement, Earth Crisis, Vegan Reich

Green Rage (1994)
01. Declaration
02. Sea Of Blood
03. Disinfect
04. Existence

Otesanek

2011-10-15T13:10:00.002-06:00

“Slower than the second coming of Jesus Christ”, as their label states. Huge chords and avalanche drumbeats surge and decay beneath male/female vocals. As bleak and diseased as Khanate ‘s ambient crunch, as blackened and crusty and demonically melodic as Unearthly Trance. The sounds of thunderclouds and bad days coming in slow tide over the horizon. Otesanek explore the sublime space and speaker grit trapped between monstrous riffs and feedback decay."

Coffins/Otesanek (2007)
01. Coffins - Evil Infection
02. Coffins - Only Corpse
03. Coffins - Acid Orgy
04. Otesanek - Narcotic Hues

Otesanek (2005)
01. Oceans
02. Dead In The Park

Untitled Demo (2002)
01. Decay As Precursor To Rebirth (Aka The Unconditional Warmth Of Our Mother's Arms)
02. When Efficiency and Ambition Supersede Natural Parameters (Aka Ego Denied At 200.000 Miles Per Hour)
03. Vacant Stare Of The Wounded Psyche (A.K.A. Deference Of Hope)
04. Outro

Book Of Caverns

2011-10-14T20:31:00.001-06:00

Sounds like snuggling up next to a warm fire with the sound of traffic all around.

Website: Facebook
Support: Bart Records/Revolution Winter//Clue #2 Records
For Fans Of: Snuggling up next to a warm fire with the sound of traffic all around, Current, ...Who Call So Loud, Lungfish

Lizards Have Personalities/Todos Caerán/Book Of Caverns/¡Silencio, Ahora, Silencio! (2011)
01. Lizards Have Personalities - Je suis fait d'ombre et de marbre
02. Lizards Have Personalities - Ptolomea
03. Todos Caerán - The Gernsback Contiuum
04. Todos Caerán - The Fragments of a Hologram Rose
05. Book Of Caverns - Marial Bai
06. Book Of Caverns - Champion City
07. ¡Silencio, Ahora, Silencio! - Dr. John Dee
08. ¡Silencio, Ahora, Silencio! - Sin Dolor No Hay Presencia

Damages/Book Of Caverns (2011)
01. Damages - Suppression Therapy
02. Book Of Caverns - Subsuburban

Book Of Caverns (2010)
01. Born Of Salt
02. Tuxedo Mask
03. Leviathan
04. Shorelines
05. Ocean Rites

Damages

2011-10-14T11:13:00.001-06:00

Damages are fucking incredible. I'll break it down for you this way: 40% revolution summer, 20% mid-90's mid-west emo, 15% 90's Ebullition, 15% Shotmaker, 10% grit of late-era-Black Flag.

Website: Facebook//Tumblr
Support: Clue #2 Records//REACT! Records
For Fans Of: See the above mathematical calculations

Damages/Book Of Caverns (2011)
01. Damages - Suppression Therapy
02. Book Of Caverns - Subsuburban

Unrequited (2010)
01. Post Date
02. Saving Face

Scars (2009)
01. Gears
02. A Failing Cell

Todos Caerán

2011-10-12T09:08:00.002-06:00

This band, from Edmonton, is really good at "being loud in loud parts and quiet in quiet parts". They grow exponentially with each release.

Website: Facebook
Support: BigCartel
For Fans Of: Portraits of Past, Funeral Diner, City of Caterpillar, Fugazi, Sed Non Satiata, Lizards Have Personalities

Mahria/Todos Caerán (2011)
01. Mahria - Scarlet Letter
02. Mahria - Blind
03. Mahria - Mask
04. Mahria - Self-Sacrafice
05. Mahria - Smog Line
06. Todos Caerán - Diamond Age
07. Todos Caerán - Snow Crash

Lizards Have Personalities/Todos Caerán/Book Of Caverns/¡Silencio, Ahora, Silencio! (2011)
01. Lizards Have Personalities - Je suis fait d'ombre et de marbre
02. Lizards Have Personalities - Ptolomea
03. Todos Caerán - The Gernsback Contiuum
04. Todos Caerán - The Fragments of a Hologram Rose
05. Book Of Caverns - Marial Bai
06. Book Of Caverns - Champion City
07. ¡Silencio, Ahora, Silencio! - Dr. John Dee
08. ¡Silencio, Ahora, Silencio! - Sin Dolor No Hay Presencia

After Dark (2011)
01. After Dark
02. Wild Sheep Chase
03. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
04. Dance Dance Dance
05. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Bears/Todos Caerán (2011)
1. Bears - A Boy In Paris
2. Bears - We All Have Rocks In Our Shoes
3. Todos Caerán - Aspirations
4. Todos Caerán - Illusions

Todos Caerán (2010)
1. Comfort In Chaos
2. Lilliputian Heroes
3. The Futility Of Flight Of Fight
4. Answers
5. Questions

Sex Vid

2011-10-08T22:45:00.002-06:00

Noisy, disgusting, repulsive anger. They've been over and done for a while now.

Communal Living (2008)
01. Cleansing
02. Footsteps/Cardinal Red
03. Authority Of Scripture
04. No Room
05. Sublimation
06. Communal Living I + II

Voyeur (2008)
01. Cleansing
02. Nests
03. Exorcism
04. No Room

Live At QB (2008)
01. Footsteps/Cardinal Red
02. Sublimation
03. Exorcism
04. Tania
05. Necrophilia

Nests (2008)
01. Song III
02. Nests
03. Exorcism

Tania (2007)
01. Firm Grasp
02. Misprint
03. Suspended Daylight
04. Tania

Drugging (2006)
01. Drugging
02. Trainwreck
03. Gates Of Hell
04. Wide Open
05. Not Interested
06. New Low

Live On KEXP (06/25/05)
01. Live On KEXP (06/25/05)

"Sex Vid" Demo (2005)
01. Locked and Loaded
02. Trainwreck
03. Dead Ends
04. Law and Order
05. Untitled
06. Gates Of Hell
07. New Low
08. Wide Open/Not Interested

Trapped In A Scene

2011-10-08T13:17:00.000-06:00

Trapped In A Scene (2007)
01. Hatred Surge - Pressures
02. Hatred Surge - Domestic
03. Braniax - 32%
04. Braniax - No Refuge
05. Braniax - Do Me A Favor
06. Braniax - Tsunami
07. The Endless Blockade - Shot, Bound & Drowned
08. The Endless Blockade - Death To Spies
09. The Endless Blockade - Tomorrow's Ghettos
10. The Endless Blockade - The Endless Blockade
11. Insect Warfare - Law Of The Saw
12. Insect Warfare - After War Obliteration
13. Severe - 2006
14. Severe - Security Deposit
15. Severe - Organ Harvester
16. Severe - Moloch
17. Severe - Lifer
18. Threatener - WCBN Radio Promo
19. Threatener - Isolation King (Live On WCBN)
20. Threatener - Voice Of Cotton (Live On WCBN)
21. In Disgust - Missing
22. In Disgust - Ruined
23. In Disgust - Empty Head
24. Iron Lung - White Flag
25. Iron Lung - Mob
26. Tumorfeast - Gutted
27. Tumorfeast - Troubled Sleep
28. Tumorfeast - Entrenched In Futility
29. Tumorfeast - Rotting Spine
30. Tumorfeast - Amannequinism
31. Knucklescraper - Road Rage
32. Knucklescraper - Crutch
33. Call The Cops - Easy To Break
34. Call The Cops - Yourspace
35. Call The Cops - You've Gotta Be Shitting Me
36. Call The Cops - Corpse-Carriers To The Guardhouse
37. Warzone Womyn - First Moments
38. Warzone Womyn - Sexual Tyrannosaur
39. Warzone Womyn - Cashin' Em In Wholesale
40. Warzone Womyn - Waste Of Bullets
41. Warzone Womyn - Therapy Notes
42. Running For Cover - Left Behind
43. Running For Cover - Organism
44. Running For Cover - Consent

His Hero Is Gone

2011-10-06T11:20:00.000-06:00

The Plot Sickens: Enslavement Redefined (1998)
01. Surrender
02. The Garden
03. What Goes Up
04. Remedy Past Remedies
05. Angry Gods
06. In The Red
07. Outside In
08. Who Benefits
09. The Willing Host
10. Enslavement Redefined

Fool's Gold (1998)
01. Scare Tactic
02. Fool's Gold
03. Sound The Alarm
04. Friendly Fire
05. Becoming Soil
06. Raise The Curtain

His Hero Is Gone/Uranus (1997)
01. His Hero Is Gone - Intro
02. His Hero Is Gone - Friendly Fire
03. His Hero Is Gone - Fool's Gold
04. His Hero Is Gone - Scare Tactic
05. His Hero Is Gone - Sound The Alarm
06. His Hero Is Gone - Becoming Soil
07. His Hero Is Gone - Raise The Curtain
08. Uranus - Backhand
09. Uranus - One Eye Strengthens
10. Uranus - Weight Of Tomorrow
11. Uranus - Equilibriate
12. Uranus - Pressure

Monument To Thieves (1997)
01. Like Weeds
02. Monument To Thieves
03. Paranoia Secured
04. Carry On
05. Automation
06. Cavities
07. Chain Of Command
08. Headless/Heartless
09. Hinges
10. Sin & Vice
11. The Mess
12. Disease Of Ease
13. Under Watchful Eyes
14. Stacks
15. The Unwanted Child

Fifteen Counts Of Arson (1997)
01. Professional Mindfuckers
02. ...And We Burn
03. Unleash
04. Leash
05. Sterile Fortress
06. Good Samaritan
07. Hand That Feeds
08. Raindance
09. Vountary Amputation
10. Anthem of the Undesirables
11. Concrete Cage
12. Abandoned
13. Thieves
14. The End Result of 11 Days in the Mental Hospital
15. Skinfeast

The Dead Of Night In Eight Movements (1996)
01. Epidemic
02. Headcount
03. T-Minus Zero
04. Unvisited Grave
05. Internally Bleeding
06. Richter
07. Marry and Reproduce
08. The End Result

"Medicine Of Thieves" Demo (1995)
01. Like Hell
02. View From A Holding Cell
03. Ghosts Of Regret
04. Re-Entry Examination
05. The Oracle
06. Of Thieves
07. Descent
08. Thanking Your Lover In Sincerity
09. Bombs Away

Tragedy

2011-10-04T11:31:00.000-06:00

Support: Tragedy Records

Nerve Damage (2006)
01. Eyes Of Madness
02. Force Of Law
03. Rabid Panic
04. Deaf and Disbelieving
05. The Hunger
06. Total Vision
07. In Formation
08. Incendiary
09. Crucifier
10. Under The Radar
11. Plan Of Execution

To The Dogs b/w The Lure (2004)
01. To The Dogs
02. The Lure

Vengeance (2002)
01. Conflicting Ideas
02. Call To Arms
03. Vengeance
04. Recurring Nightmare
05. Beginning Of The End
06. The Lure
07. Night Falls
08. The Day After
09. War Within Us
10. Revengeance
11. To The Dogs
12. No Words
13. Untitled
14. Untitled
15. Untitled

Can We Call This Life? (2001)
01. The Ending Fight
02. Life
03. The Warning

Tragedy/Totalitär (2000)*
01. Tragedy - No End In Sight
02. Tragedy - None Of Your Business
03. Totalitär - Krossa Elitsystemet
04. Totalitär - Förena Er
*Tragedy tracks recorded at Polymorph Studios Oakland CA May 2000 at the time of the self-titled album.
*Totalitär tracks were recorded in Studio Ambassaden in Eskiltuna December 15, 1996 at the time of the "Sin Egen Motståndare" album.

Tragedy (2000)
01. The Point Of No Return
02. Not Fucking Fodder
03. Never Knowing Peace
04. Confessions Of A Suicide Advocate
05. The Intolerable Weight
06. You Are An Experiment
07. Products Of A Cold War
08. With Empty Hands Extended
09. Tension Awaiting Imminent Collapse
10. Chemical Imbalance

From Ashes Rise

2011-10-02T01:09:00.007-06:00

...as we all rot together.

Website: Facebook//Jade Tree
Support: Jade Tree

Live Hell (2010)*
01. Silence
02. Hell In The Darkness
03. They
04. All In Due Time
05. Nightmares
06. The Noise
07. The Mandate
08. So Say The Wise
09. Moths To The Flame
10. The Final Goodbye
11. Uniforms
12. Reaction
13. The Widow
*Recorded live in Los Angels on April 30, 2005.

Nightmares (2003)
01. Reaction
02. Hell In The Darkness
03. They
04. The Final Goodbye
05. On The Fray
06. Nightmares
07. Noise
08. The Inner Beast
09. Interlude
10. The Mandate
11. Bloodlust
12. In A Free Land

From Ashes Rise/Victims (2003)
01. From Ashes Rise - So Say The Wise
02. From Ashes Rise - Like Moths To The Flame
03. From Ashes Rise - Uniforms
04. From Ashes Rise - Mechanical
05. From Ashes Rise - No Fears Or Worries In A Post War Town
06. From Ashes Rise - Transfer
07. Victims - Intro/En Galen Dröm
08. Victims - The Danger
09. Victims - Moments
10. Victims - Out Of Reach
11. Victims - We Are Dead
12. Victims - End Up In Pain
13. Victims - Victims In Blood, Pt. II
14. Victims - I Mänsklighetens Tjänst
15. Victims - Drömvärld
16. Victims - Tomorrow, The End
17. Victims - Awake

Silence (2000)
01. Silence
02. Accomplishment
03. Lineage
04. High On The Media Fix
05. Centre Of The World
06. Beware The Golden Tide
07. Public Service
08. Trading Children For Corpses
09. Blood On The Screen
10. The Face Of Poverty
11. The Widow

Concrete and Steel (1999)
01. Concrete and Steel
02. Dotted Lines
03. All Eyes on the Tease
04. Rung By Rung
05. Eden
06. No Shades Of Grey
07. The Last World
08. All In Due Time
09. And We're Still Waiting
10. Help Wanted
11. What the Good Book Says
12. Stained Glass
13. Divine Reich

Life and Death (1999)
01. Life and Death
02. At Peace
03. Seeping
04. Flags
05. Walking Dead
06. Bastards
07. Ambitions

Fragments Of A Falling Sky (1998)
01. Haunted Conscience
02. All Too Willing Target
03. Driven To
04. Product Of Lust
05. Drawing Circles
06. Fragments

S

2011-09-30T10:01:00.001-06:00

S is the solo project of Carissa's Wierd singer/songwriter Jenn Ghetto.

Support: Hardly Art//Recession Records

I'm Not As Good At It As You (2010)*
01. Wait
02. Not A Problem
03. Away Around This
04. Save Me
05. This Is Love
06. Save You
07. We Are Not Friends
08. The Message
09. This Way Always
10. R.I.P. Calgon
11. Through It All
12. Outro (The Agony)
*Track 1 recorded at MRX Studio, Seattle. The rest recorded on a 8-track in a bedroom 2006-2008.

Puking and Crying (2004)
01. 5 Dollers
02. Falling
03. I'm Fine...Bye Bye
04. Cavity
05. You Decide
06. You Decide, Pt. II
07. Crushed
08. I'm So Bored I'm Going To Sleep
09. Metal Beds
10. The Last Song
11. 100 X
12. Bells
13. The Coffin Of Your True Love

Sadstyle (2001)
01. Try
02. See Through Me
03. The Waltz
04. R.R.
05. Pathetic
06. I Love You Too...
07. Lemonade Sweetheart
08. Never Tragic
09. Welcome Home (Metallica Cover)
10. Reach For The Sky
11. Up & Down
12. Another X-Mas Without You
13. Sometimes I Feel Like Throwing Up
14. Elevator
15. Anti-Love Song
16. Everyone Else
17. Sadstyle

Ink & Dagger

2011-09-27T12:03:00.001-06:00

and are you down with the sound of this devil town?

Ink & Dagger (2000)
1. She Came Crashing
2. Sweet Relief Of Revenge
3. Sarcastic Sunrise
4. The Lines Of Lies
5. Part Time Prophet
6. Den Of The Scorpio
7. Absinthe
8. Lolita
9. Creatures Like Us
10. Omit
11. Facedremer

Ink & Dagger/The Icarus Line (1999)
1. Ink & Dagger - The Solo Mission
2. The Icarus Line - We're Never Gonna Make It

Sensation (1999)
1. Mayor Withdrawal
2. Part Time Prophet

Ink & Dagger/Le Shok (1999)
1. Ink & Dagger - Catch The Flashback
2. Le Shok - Electric Digits

For All The Fucked Up Children Of This World We Give You Ink & Dagger (1998)*
1. Introdaggernoise
2. The Fine Art Of Original Sin
3. Full Circle
4. Cut Throat Tactics
5. Vampire Fast Code
6. Six Feet Under Swindle
7. Luciddaggernoise
8. The History In Ecstasy
9. Philapsychosis
10. Shadowtalker
*Live set on WKDU

The Fine Art Of Original Sin (1998)
1. The Fine Art Of Original Sin
2. Philapsychosis
3. We Live Despite Their Schemes
4. Cut Throat Tactics
5. The Six Feet Under Swindle
6. The History In Ecstasy
7. Vampire Fastcode Ver. 1.5

The Experiments In Nocturnal Sound and Energy (1998)
1. Philapsychosis
2. 13th Dream
3. 13th Dream (JG's Remix)

Drive This Seven Inch Wooden Stake Through My Philadelphia Heart (1997)
1. The Road To Hell
2. Shadowtalker
3. Caretaker
4. Full Circle

Love Is Dead (1997)
1. Changeling
2. Frigid Shortcomings
3. Newspaper Tragedy
4. Bloodthirst
5. My Ladylove

Razor X Fade

2011-09-26T13:53:00.003-06:00

Chicago straight edge. Hang 'em if they're high.

Support: Razor X Fade//Not Normal Records
For Fans Of: Infest, Straight Ahead, Minor Threat, Vaccine, Noose

Razor X Fade (2011)
01. Friend
02. Never Again
03. Called Out
04. Turn Me Off
05. My Mind Spray Pt. II
06. Needle & Thread
07. Invisible
08. Inside Out
09. Nos Tienen Miedo
10. All

Demo 2010
01. Invisible
02. Intro/Last In Line
03. Holy Hands
04. Choke
05. Called Out
06. Turn Your Back

Vaccine

2011-09-24T10:29:00.000-06:00

Formerly of: Ampere, Failures, Glue, Orchid, Relics and Think I Care. Most of you should have this by now so I won't go into detail. The fucking straight edge powerviolence.

Crimes In Blood (2011)
01. Hidden History
02. No Chance
03. Hell On Earth
04. Patriot
05. Drug War

Human Hatred (2010)
01. Your Life's A Joke
02. Cheap
03. Failure
04. Soul Fuckers
05. Limited Edition
06. Fuck Your Faith
07. Enlistment
08. Rotting Away
09. Pious
10. Waste

Demo (2009)
01. Rat Race
02. Ward Of The State
03. Clear
04. Family
05. Murder

Divorce Money

2011-09-22T11:12:00.000-06:00

NYC scum. Distorted and ugly punk music bordering on what some would proclaim as a "Youth Attack" sound. If you sans the silliness, pretentiousness and lack of creativity then I find myself hard to disagree. Sweet jams.

Names b/w Use Your Imagination (2010)
01. Names
02. Use Your Imagination

Demo 2009
01. Untitled
02. Untitled
03. Untitled
04. Untitled

Vile Intent

2011-09-20T12:01:00.004-06:00

Infest worship. Crossed Out riffs.

Website: Vile Intent

Regression To The Mean (2011)
01. Bellows
02. Shepherd
03. Brace
04. Muzzle
05. Vessel
06. Gait Analysis

Tour CS (2010)
01. Bellows
02. Shepherd
03. Brace
04. Muzzle
05. Vessel
06. Leech
07. Justice
08. Teeth
09. Masquerade

Shadow Of The Skull (2010)
01. Menagerie
02. Poke
03. Teeth
04. All Talk
05. Masquerade
06. Pneumothorax
07. Front

Demo 2008
01. Zero Card
02. Pneumothorax
03. Poke
04. Recrudescence
05. Total War
06. Violent
07. Tensions

They As In Them

2011-09-18T12:02:00.002-06:00

Crusty and crushing sludge. Highly recommended. Does not contain any members of Stresscase.

Website: Facebook//Bandcamp

Demo 2010
01. Nineteen-Seventeen
02. Orchid
03. Soft Machines
04. Blue Period

Iron Lung Mixtape

2011-09-16T10:44:00.003-06:00

Iron Lung Mixtape (2011)
01. Mentally Challenged - Demon Idea
02. Slices - Bottom Of The Barrel
03. Solutions - Human Meat
04. Iron Lung - Spent
05. Cold Sweat - I've Heard It Before
06. Self Com - 8am
07. Total Control - S.I.B.
08. Eddie Current Suppression Ring - Rush To Relax
09. Walls - Blinding Light Of Truth
10. Pig Heart Transplant - Mental Jobs
11. Vaccuum - Driven
12. White Wards - Acceptance
13. Society Nurse - Locked In
14. Big Crux - Protocore
15. Kim Phuc - Something's Dead
16. Running For Cover - You Are The Victim
17. Opt Out - The Exposé
18. Mind Eraser - Phonophobic
19. Master Chaos - Enlightenment
20. Studio Georide - Museum Dub

Iron Lung

2011-09-16T10:01:00.010-06:00

This is the closest you're going to get to finding a complete Iron Lung discography. All that's missing is:

Iron Lung/The Process - UK Tour Split (2007)
Enterruption Hermetic Archival Series I CS (2006)

Website: Iron Lung Records//Iron Lung Records
Support: Iron Lung Records

I Hate You Motherfuckers: Iron Lung Live In Australia March 2011
01. Newcastle (3.1.11)
02. Sydney (3.2.11) + Adelaide (3.5.11)

Iron Lung/Mind Eraser/Hatred Surge/Scapegoat "Brutal Supremacy" (2011)
01. Iron Lung - Brutal Supremacy I
02. Iron Lung - Brutal Supremacy II
03. Iron Lung - Brutal Supremacy III
04. Mind Eraser - The Way Is Shut
05. Mind Eraser - Flinch
06. Mind Eraser - Graveyard
07. Hatred Surge - Brutal Tyranny
08. Hatred Surge - Brutal Pharmaceutical
09. Hatred Surge - Brutal Supremacy
10. Scapegoat - Unstable
11. Scapegoat - Noose
12. Scapegoat - Ether
13. Scapegoat - Suppress
14. Scapegoat - Pedestal
15. Scapegoat - Clone
16. Scapegoat - Master

Live At Supersonic 2009
01. Future Corpses/Nails/Cauterization/Paralyzed Words
02. Autojector/Rehabilitation/Wet Cough
03. Final Say/Exposed/Pig Hands/Lost Appeal
04. Sick Child/Nothing/Sexless//No Sex
05. Cancer/Rate Of Respiration/Prison Medical Officer/Politics Of Science

Exposed (2009)
01. Exposed
02. No Room
03. Nothing

Iron Lung/Walls/Pig Heart Transplant "Public Humiliation" (2009)
01. Politics Of Science
02. Wild Animal
03. In The End
04. Corpse
05. Sexless/No Sex
06. Quiet Populace
07. Cancer
08. L-Dopa
09. Humiliation
10. He Has Been Shot Down
11. Strong and Able Fist

Iron Lung//Hatred Surge "Broken: A Collaboration" (2008)
01. Eraser
02. Cold World
03. Rehabilitation
04. The Collection
05. Awakening
06. Hunted
07. Night Crawler
08. Oppressor/Suppressor

Iron Lung/The Endless Blockade "Broadcasting Negativity" (2008)
01. Iron Lung - Stone Hands
02. Iron Lung - Sexless//No Sex
03. Iron Lung - Pig Hands
04. Iron Lung - Contested
05. Iron Lung - Lost Appeal
06. Iron Lung - Leave As Ashes
07. Iron Lung - Liars
08. Iron Lung - A Farce
09. Iron Lung - White Flag
10. The Endless Blockade - Island
11. The Endless Blockade - Shot, Bound & Drowned
12. The Endless Blockade - Role Models For Dummies
13. The Endless Blockade - Pathologised
14. The Endless Blockade - Ulrike Meinholf's Brain
15. The Endless Blockade - Descent Into The Eternal Paradigm Of Brutality
16. The Endless Blockade - Don't Voice Your Opinion/Damn Man
17. The Endless Blockade - Black Ecomony
18. The Endless Blockade - Dr. Stockwell
19. The Endless Blockade - The Endless Blockade
20. The Endless Blockade - Mothra

Sexless//No Sex (2007)
01. Pig Hands
02. Stone Hands
03. Future Corpses
04. Sexless//No Sex
05. Lost Appeal
06. Pressure
07. Politics Of Science
08. Medic
09. White Flag
10. Contested
11. Here//Alone
12. Autojector
13. First Night In
14. Liars
15. Unattended Funeral
16. Leave As Ashes
17. Skills
18. Lumbar Picture Death
19. A Farce
20. Cancer

Cancer b/w Life Of Pain (2007)
01. Cancer
02. Life Of Pain (Black Flag)

Iron Lung/Agents Of Abhorrence "Silent Decay" (2006)
01. Iron Lung - Rot/Civility
02. Iron Lung - Choke
03. Iron Lung - A Certainty
04. Iron Lung - All Hope Lost
05. Iron Lung - Another Certainty
06. Agents Of Abhorrence - Floodgate
07. Agents Of Abhorrence - Hollow
08. Agents Of Abhorrence - Chut Up
09. Agents Of Abhorrence - Hungry Ghosts
10. Agents Of Abhorrence - Open Up

Iron Lung/Lords Of Light (2006)
01. Iron Lung - Final Say
02. Iron Lung – Instruction
03. Iron Lung – Wet Cough
04. Iron Lung – Them
05. Iron Lung – Sick Child
06.Lords Of Light – A Man Will Come
07. Lords Of Light – The King
08. Lords Of Light – Tiamat

Iron Lung/Shank (2005)
01. Iron Lung – Riot in the Infirmary
02. Iron Lung – Prison Epidemic
03. Iron Lung – Prison Medical Officer
04. Iron Lung – Search and Expulsion
05. Iron Lung – Stabwound
06. Iron Lung – Chest Assessment
07. Iron Lung – Bound in Voltage
08. Iron Lung – Sour Tests
09. Iron Lung – Wrists Still Raw
10. Iron Lung – Deathbeds
11. Shank – No Logo? No Shit!
12. Shank – "I’m Probably More of a Feminist Than You Are, Dear"
13. Shank – Panoramas of Hell
14. Shank – Witch Hunts Work
15. Shank – I Spent $50 on Ebay and All I Got Was this Lousy 7″
16. Shank – Remember the Lyric Sheet
17. Shank – Knowing When to Scream

Life. Iron Lung. Death. (2004)
01. Diagnosis
02. Condemned
03. Shingles
04. One Cure For Two Diseases
05. Cauterization
06. Paralyzed Words
07. Manufactured
08. Care For The Machine
09. A Grim Possibility For Owen Moses
10. Life. Iron Lung. Death.
11. Primal Therapy Pt. 3
12. Rate Of Respiration
13. Life's Worth
14. Cleansing Breath
15. Stricken
16. Complications
17. Jarvik 7
18. Focal Segmental Glomerular Sclerosis
19. Thankful
20. ...As Technology Advances
21. Sound Of Cold

Iron Lung/Scurvy Bastards (2004)
01. Iron Lung - Graves For Babies
02. Iron Lung - The Bleeders
03. Iron Lung - Strict Laboratory Methods
04. Scurvy Bastards - Halloweentown

Iron Lung/Quattro Stagioni (2003)
01. Iron Lung - Orthoscopy
02. Iron Lung - Primal Therapy, Pt. I
03. Iron Lung - Museum
04. Quattro Stagiono - Grundbedürfnis + Mwst.
05. Quattro Stagiono - Hirnwaschstrasse
06. Quattro Stagiono - Kriegsmonologe
07. Quattro Stagiono - Quattro Stagioni

Iron Lung Comedy Hour (2002)
01. Only Death
02. Nails
03. Bonesaw
04. Modified For Arm Abduction
05. Storage Unit
06. Iron Lung
07. Arc Lamp
08. Cervical Laser
09. Chest Assessment
10. Placement Six

Iron Lung/Lana Dagales (2002)
01. Iron Lung - Loss Of Breath
02. Iron Lung - Cervical Laser
03. Iron Lung - Bonesaw
04. Iron Lung - Nails
05. Iron Lung - Only Death
06. Iron Lung - Horizontal Respiration
07. Iron Lung - Scanoptic
08. Iron Lung - Magnetic Resonance
09. Lana Dagales - Skepticism
10. Lana Dagales - A Note To All Commentaries
11. Lana Dagales - Multiply
12. Lana Dagales - Shelter's Web
13. Lana Dagales - Imprints Of Our New Leader
14. Lana Dagales - One Foot In The Grave
15. Lana Dagales - Covered Pain
16. Lana Dagales - There's Plenty To Accept Me
17. Lana Dagales - Life's Seal
18. Lana Dagales - Under The Queen Bee
19. Lana Dagales - Accomplishments?

Iron Lung/BG (2002)
01. Iron Lung - Disgusting Body
02. Iron Lung - Roentgen's Machine
03. Iron Lung - Primal Therapy, Pt. II
04. BG - Out Of The Cove
05. BG - The Hill
06. BG - BG (The Man)

Demonstrations In Pressure and Volume (2001)
01. Regenerate
02. Modified For Arm Reduction
03. Abduction Boots
04. Body Enclosing
05. Positive Pressure Breathing Apparatus
06. Placement Six
07. Storage Unit
08. Arc Lamp
09. Sporophore

Iron Lung/Teen Cthulhu "Tentacled Breathing" (2001)
01. Iron Lung - Concentric Circulator
02. Iron Lung - Esocargophagus
03. Iron Lung - Brainscan
04. Iron Lung - Exorcism
05. Iron Lung - Iron Lung
06. Teen Cthulhu - Southenders
07. Teen Cthulhu - Fuck It, Smoke Weed
08. Teen Cthulhu - Curse Of The Poison Rat Clan
09. Teen Cthulhu - Knife Hits

Iron Lung/Brainoil "Brain Lung" (2001)
01. Iron Lung - Mechanical Assistance
02. Iron Lung - Pathoclast
03. Iron Lung - If Pollo Strikes!
04. Brainoil - Wielding Strength

10 Song Demo (2000)
01. Brainscan/Exorcism
02. Iron Lung
03. Pushing Life
04. Abduction Boots
05. Concentric Circulator
06. Arc Lamp
07. Regenerate
08. Mechanical Assistance
09. Placement Six
10. Modified For Arm Abduction

Erode

2011-09-14T10:53:00.001-06:00

"Erode is a hardcore band from Tacoma, WA. Fusing traditional hardcore fury with metallic riffs and hairnadoes, Erode has been working non-stop for the past year to create a sound and groove all their own."

Website: Facebook//Bandcamp
For Fans Of: Freedom, American Nightmare, Dead Hearts

Live Demos (2011)
1. Deep End
2. Disconnected
3. Requiem

End Of An Era (2010)
1. Three Of Swords
2. B.C.E.
3. Barricade
4. End Of An Era

Unrest

2011-09-12T11:35:00.000-06:00

Unrest are a XVX band based out of Oklahoma. Their self-proclaimed influences are, "Spitboy, Earth Crisis, Chokehold, Trial, Culture, Excessive Force, Nausea, Disrupt, Left For Dead, Catharsis, One King Down and Struggle". How spot on are those influences? I had the privilege of seeing Unrest live when I was in Seattle and they blew me the fuck away. Their cover of Not A Solution by Chokehold is, dare I say, better...than the original? Anyways, check them out - they still play the occasional show, although I haven't heard of any news on new material.

Website: Facebook//Bandcamp

Demo 2010
1. No Compromise
2. Denounce
3. Apathy Never
4. Not A Solution (Chokehold cover)

Eunuch

2011-09-10T10:05:00.000-06:00

Absolutely disgusting "all female" 3-piece powerviolence from Boston.

Eunuch (2010)
1. Stillborn
2. Human Waste
3. Moral Law
4. Past Life
5. Carcasses
6. The Archer

Eunuch Demo Tape (2009)
1. Iron Eye
2. EZB To EZ Clean
3. Coeur
4. The Sister Wolf
5. Time
6. Like Vultures
7. November
8. False Perceptions
9. The Archer

Mindless

2011-09-08T12:01:00.000-06:00

Mindless feature none other than Faiza Kracheni; possibly better known for her work on certain Hatred Surge releases (i.e. the best ones). Fans of the Deconstruct LP by Hatred Surge will lose their shit over Mindless, and for good reason. This is straight up the most ugly and crushing crusty powerviolence to come out in a long while.

Website: Facebook//Bandcamp
Support: Mindless

Human Conditioning (2010)
1. Live Burial
2. 11-15-09
3. Phychosis
4. Mental Deficiency
5. Left to Rot
6. Skinned
7. Human Conditioning

Mindless Demo Tape (2010)
1. Beyond The Black Box
2. Mindless
3. Impulse
4. Failure
5. Sex Negativity
6. Invisible War

Mondo Aggro

2011-09-06T12:01:00.002-06:00

"The three piece that is Mondo Aggro is awesome in its simplicity. Robert has always had a knack for writing catchy lyrics quicker than you can begin brainstorming. This coupled with Miles' blazin' licks form a wonderful punk medley." -Suds Denim

Tape II (2010)
1. Intro
2. Charlie
3. Just Because
4. Concerned Citizen
5. Selective Enforcement
6. Pay To Skate
7. Tall Tales
8. H.O.L.L.
9. Reckless Behavior

Demo Tape (2009)
1. Pay to Skate
2. Bully
3. God Is Broke (D.R.I. Cover)
4. Freaks Come Out At Night
5. People Suck
6. I Don't Care
7. Concerned Citizens

Limp Wrist

2011-09-05T12:01:00.001-06:00

Limp Wrist One Sided 12" (2009)
1. To The Grave
2. Bought Out
3. Dead Weight
4. Collapse
5. Spun
6. Knuckles
7. S.T.A.

Want Us Dead (2006)
1. Just Like You
2. What's Gone Wrong?
3. Fake Fags Fuck Off
4. Want Us Dead

Limp Wrist/Knifed (2003)
1. Limp Wrist - Message To The President
2. Limp Wrist - The Ode
3. Limp Wrist - Complex
4. Limp Wrist - Angry Queen
5. Limp Wrist - Does Daddy Know?
6. Knifed - Fuck Dublin
7. Knifed - Bum Gravy
8. Knifed - My Cock, Your Arse...
9. Knifed - Wash Your Cock

Limp Wrist 7" (2001)
1. What's Up With The Kids?
2. Stabbed In The Back
3. Punk Ass Queers
4. Rainbows
5. Recruiting Time
6. Define

Limp Wrist 12" (2001)
1. I Love Hardcore Boys, I Love Boys Hardcore
2. Secrets
3. Cruisin' At The Show
4. Smear The Fear
5. You Ain't That Fierce
6. Back In The Days
7. Relatives Got Nerve
8. Cheap Art
9. Limp Wrist
10. Limp Wrist Vs. Dr. Laura
11. This Ain't No Cross On My Hand
12. Brotherhood
13. Thanks
14. We Started This Band To Get Dates
15. O.D.'d On Pop
16. Give Me A Fuckin' Break
17. Man To Man
18. No Choice

Demo (2000)*
1. This Ain't No Cross On My Hand
2. Limp Wrist
3. I Love Hardcore Boys, I Love Boys Hardcore
4. Recruiting Time
5. Stabbed In The Back
6. Thanks
7. Brotherhood
8. All About That Brotherhood
9. No More Secrets
10. Define
11. Cheap Art
12. No Choice
*a.k.a. Don't Knock It 'til You Try It
*a.k.a. Out Of The Closet; Into The Pit
(Bonus Tracks)
13. Man To Man (Instrumental)
14. OD'd On Pop (Instrumental)
15. (Instrumental)
16. Limp Wrist vs. Dr. Laura (Instrumental)

Hatred Surge

2011-09-04T12:05:00.004-06:00

Deconstruction of the mind.
Deconstruction of the body.
Deconstruction of the soul.
Deconstruction of society.
Deconstruction of the world.
Deconstruction of all life.

Iron Lung/Mind Eraser/Hatred Surge/Scapegoat "Brutal Supremacy" (2011)
01. Iron Lung - Brutal Supremacy I
02. Iron Lung - Brutal Supremacy II
03. Iron Lung - Brutal Supremacy III
04. Mind Eraser - The Way Is Shut
05. Mind Eraser - Flinch
06. Mind Eraser - Graveyard
07. Hatred Surge - Brutal Tyranny
08. Hatred Surge - Brutal Pharmaceutical
09. Hatred Surge - Brutal Supremacy
10. Scapegoat - Unstable
11. Scapegoat - Noose
12. Scapegoat - Ether
13. Scapegoat - Suppress
14. Scapegoat - Pedestal
15. Scapegoat - Clone
16. Scapegoat - Master

Mammoth Grinder/Hatred Surge (2011)
1. Mammoth Grinder - Pulverizer
2. Mammoth Grinder - Societal Collapse
3. Mammoth Grinder - Surveilled
4. Hatred Surge - Invega
5. Hatred Surge - Disconnected
6. Hatred Surge - Mood Stabilizer
7. Hatred Surge - Supernova

Isolated Human E.P. (2009)
1. Black Box
2. Isolated Human
3. Hell and Back
4. Monster
5. Fatalist
6. Gaining Momentum

Deconstruct (2009)
1. Deconstruct Pt. I/Weightless
2. Draw The Curtains
3. Skull Cell
4. Dark Circles
5. The Slithering
6. Outsider
7. Rotten To Forgotten
8. Maladjusted
9. Deconstruct Pt. II
10. Out Of Balance
11. Feeding
12. Big Smile
13. Sleep Terrorizer
14. Lethal Pedigree
15. I Hate
16. Infinity

Iron Lung//Hatred Surge - Broken: A Collaboration (2008)
1. Eraser
2. Cold World
3. Rehabilitation
4. The Collection
5. Awakening
6. Hunted
7. Night Crawler
8. Oppressor/Suppressor

Servant b/w Bestial (2008)
1. Servant
2. Bestial

Con Artist b/w Lack of Intelligence (2008)
1. Con Artist
2. Lack Of Intelligence (Disrupt Cover)

The Endless Blockade/Hatred Surge (2007)
1. The Endless Blockade - Abraxas
2. The Endless Blockade - When There's Nothing Left To Lose
3. The Endless Blockade - Dr. Stockwell
4. The Endless Blockade - Tar Pit Neanderthal
5. The Endless Blockade - Dawn Man
6. The Endless Blockade - Pathologised
7. The Endless Blockade - Don't Voice Your Opinion
8. The Endless Blockade - Big City Nights
9. The Endless Blockade - The Endless Blockade
10. The Endless Blockade - Hex
11. The Endless Blockade - 091006
12. Hatred Surge - Split Personality
13. Hatred Surge - Gag Reflex
14. Hatred Surge - Respect
15. Hatred Surge - Unanswered
16. Hatred Surge - Jaws Of Life
17. Hatred Surge - Addict
18. Hatred Surge - Society Sucker
19. Hatred Surge - Surge Of Hatred
20. Hatred Surge - Casket

Insect Warfare/Hatred Surge (2006)
1. Insect Warfare - Negative Appeal
2. Insect Warfare - Obscene Creed
3. Insect Warfare - Reanimated Horde
4. Insect Warfare - But Now You Die
5. Insect Warfare - Hurricane Death
6. Hatred Surge - Rot
7. Hatred Surge - Out Of My Head
8. Hatred Surge - Pile Of Shit
9. Hatred Surge - Funeral
10. Hatred Surge - Old and Tired
11. Hatred Surge - Farce

Hatred Surge (2005)
1. Horrible Mess
2. Trapped In Lies
3. Stubborn
4. Numb
5. Wolf In Idiot's Clothing
6. Creation For Destruction
7. Invisible Noose
8. Waste
9. Hand Me Down Existencia (Despise You Cover)

Demo 2004
1. Creation For Destruction
2. Horrible Mess
3. Invisible Noose
4. Trapped In Lies
5. Wolf In Idiot's Clothing

La Bella

2011-09-03T10:50:00.004-06:00

La Bella are a forward and leftist thinking latin and jazz influenced SoCal hardcore punk band. Definitely one of the more interesting things I've been exposed to in a long while. This is a major recommendation.

Website: Facebook//Bandcamp
Support: La Bella

S/T EP DEMO
1. 10,000 Miles (From Tip to Tip)
2. Todo Para Todos
3. Culturejamming
4. ¿Rendiremos? ¡Nunca!
5. Catalonia, Spain 1936
6. Avacado and the Sun
7. End

Griever

2011-09-02T12:39:00.003-06:00

It seems as though the status quo is to mention this band through the discourse of "ex-members". I don't see how that is important, but, I will begin with stating that Griever feature ex-members of Lewd Acts. Musically, there isn't much similarity; in fact, I'm not even exactly sure how to begin describing their sound. I'll skip over that part for now though and get to the big news. Griever will be opening for one of Morrissey's California dates in November! How fucking rad is that! Give them a listen to and drop a comment if you can describe what Griever sound like.

Website: Griever
Support: Vitriol Records

Inferior (2011)
1. The Forgetter
2. Black Vinyl Clouds
3. Stag Hymn
4. Home Again, Alone Again

The Forgetter Single (2011)
1. Home Again, Alone Again
2. The Forgetter

Open Relationship

2011-09-01T14:38:00.003-06:00

Rad as fuck "all female" punk from Victoria.

"One Day We'll Slay" Demo (2011)
1. Condom Aisle
2. Hate Baby
3. Stick and Poke
4. Jet Boy Jet Girl
5. Teen Sex Party

Portraits Of Past

2011-08-26T21:55:00.005-06:00

I don't believe much needs to be said here. The self-titled LP is basically an essential.

Website: Portraits Of Past
Support: Ebullition or Excursion Into The Abyss
For Fans Of: City Of Caterpillar, Indian Summer, You and I, Funeral Diner, ...Who Calls So Loud

Cypress Dust Witch (2009)
1. Fire Song
2. Cypress Dust Witch
3. Through To An End
4. Cypress Dust Witch II (Bridge)

Portraits Of Past a.k.a. 0100101110100011100100100 (1996)
1. KQED Equals Volvo
2. Bang Yer Head
3. The Outlook Is Bleak
4. The Control Freak
5. Implications Of A Sinkhole Personality
6. Snicker Snicker
7. Something Less Than Intended

Portraits Of Past/Bleed (1994)
1. Portraits Of Past - Journeyman
2. Portraits Of Past - A Known Place
3. Bleed - Mr. Elliot
4. Bleed - Past Tense Hero

Demo (1994)
1. Demo

Grow

2011-08-13T22:27:00.005-06:00

Grow are a band that I was lucky enough to get to see and talk with when I was in Victoria this past weekend. They played a few spots before us and they were one of my favorite sets of the whole festival despite all the equipment malfunctions. It turns out that the night before we both played, they were crashing at the same house as us. I'm pretty bummed because I got to talk to one of their members after our set and I wish we could've conversed more. Really interesting guy. Going into their set, I was expecting some form of punk-y powerviolence but was totally blown away with their sound. They remind me of Hassan I Sabbah...needless to say...that was a huge fucking surprise to me. We did a tape exchange and I got the chance to read the lyrics; they're really fucking emotional and raw. I'm not 100% sure, but I think they might still be on tour. If they're coming to your town/village, go and check them out.

LET THE SOUND OF HEAVY RAIN DESTROY YOUR EARS

Website: Bandcamp
Support: Go see them!
For Fans Of: Hassan I Sabbah, Reversal Of Man, iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook

Leave. & Say Nothing (2011)
1. Say Nothing
2. What's The Point?
3. Merciless Moon
4. Giving Up Is So Much Easier
5. Thicker Than Bricks
6. Because Pictures Aren't Enough

Grow... (2011)
1. Carved Into...
2. ...A Frame
3. Struck By Disaster
4. Breaking Knives
5. Never
6. Ruins

I Hate Myself

2011-08-01T18:04:00.005-06:00

Gainesville emotive screamo pioneers. 100% essential.

Website: n/a
Support: No Idea Records
For Fans Of: Still Life, Indian Summer, Julia, Cap'n Jazz, Portraits of Past

3 Songs (2005)
1. Roy Sullivan, By Lightning Loved
2. Roy On The Maker
3. The Lightning Says

2 Songs (2000)
1. Drama In The Emergency Room
2. Darren's Roof

I Hate Myself/Twelve Hour Turn (1998)
1. I Hate Myself - Fred Mertz Was Most Likely A Bad Poet and A Pervert
2. I Hate Myself - Song For All The Young Casanovas and Casanovettes
3. I Hate Myself - Kamikaze
4. Twelve Hour Turn - Pennyloafer
5. Twelve Hour Turn - Jack Bailey Vs. Mt. Airy, North Carolina
6. Twelve Hour Turn - Call Chance
7. Twelve Hour Turn - Clothesline
8. Twelve Hour Turn - Cassette

I Hate Myself/Strikeforce Diablo (1997)
1. I Hate Myself - To A Husband At War
2. Strikeforce Diablo - Lift Me Up
3. Strikeforce Diablo - Sleepyhollow

10 Songs (1997)
1. This Isn't The Tenka-ichi-Budôkai
2. Urban Barbie
3. Polar Bear Summer
4. ...And Keep Reaching For Those Stars
5. Caught In A Flood With The Captain Of The Cheerleading Squad
6. Kind Of A Long Way Down
7. Not Waving But Drowning
8. Destroy All Monsters
9. Conversation With Dr. Seussicide
10. Secret Lovers At The Heaven's Gate Ranch

4 Songs (1996)
1. Song One
2. Song Two (Less Than Nothing)
3. Song Three
4. Song Four

Followed By 37 Seconds Of Happiness

2011-08-01T12:18:00.006-06:00

From MISSING A WARM LIGHT:
"FB37SOH was a short-lived Swedish screamo band. They only recorded 4 songs which were released on a 7" by Ape Must Not Kill Ape."

Website: Myspace
For Fans Of: Sailboats, Suis La Lune, The Birds Are Spies, They Report To The Trees

Followed By 37 Seconds Of Happiness (2007)
1. End Of Times
2. Death Of Oceans
3. Monument
4. Close Like Us

The Assistant

2011-07-22T21:17:00.004-06:00

The Assistant were an emo violence/screamo band that arose out of the ashes of You and I in the late 90's. The lyrics are really something special with this band; forward thinking, sociopolitical, and very, very, very personal. Check out their website- it's still up from when it was made in, what I'm guessing was, the late 90's.

Website: The Assistant
For Fans Of: This Ship Will Sink, Joshua Fit For Battle, You and I, 1905, Light The Fuse and Run, Neil Perry

The Assistant/This Ship Will Sink/Takaru (2004)
1. The Assistant - I Have A Name
2. George Bush Could Fuck Up A Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
3. Takaru - Attack Of The Drones
4. Takaru - Why Don't You Ask Me? Motherfucker?!
5. Takaru - Chronophobia

We'll Make The Roads By Walking (2003)
1. Be Nice To Me, I Had A Ruff Day
2. We Are All Collateral Damage
3. Too Bad Spiderman Doesn't Exist Because There Really Is A Green Goblin
4. Tom Hanks Has A Huge Beard
5. Whatchoodid
6. Four Years In Five Lives
7. An Afternoon At The Badlands
8. My Last Potential Self Destruction

Bubblegum Cigars/...You Dumb Bastard (2001)
1. The Assistant - Bubblegum Cigars
2. The Scarlet Letter - Fifteen Greasy Tubs of Ribs & The Leather Wallet Conspiracy
3. The Scarlett Letter - A Hollow Threat
4. The Scarlett Letter - How Is That Fat Muffin-Assed Bastard
5. The Scarlett Letter - Debacle Sound, Footprints In The Sand

The Assistant (2000)
1. Humyn Capital
2. People Vs. The State
3. I Don't Believe
4. Sequel
5. Five Year Old Mentality
6. Route 18
7. Training Wheels Or No Hands
8. Isabelle Hates Charlie
9. 3-5363A
10. F.orever A.ngry at M.y I.nner L.ove F.or Y.ou
11. Cyclic
12. 93,800 Hours

Native Nod

2011-07-21T15:49:00.007-06:00

"Native Nod was one of those pioneering bands from the early '90s which helped define the anxious, inordinately sincere roaring hardcore sound soon known as “emo,” before that word fell into disrepute."

How true that statement is. With a discography consisting of 9 songs, spanning three 7"s and one compilation, Native Nod prove how important "quality over quantity" is. A great majority of their music was released while the members were still in high school. They prove, yet again, that age cannot be a measuring stick for artistic merit.

For Fans Of: Moss Icon, Ordination Of Aaron, Indian Summer, Still Life, Mineral

Zither Music (1994)
1. Lower G.I. Bleed
2. Runner

Bread (1993)
1. Bread
2. High Tide In Alaska
3. Back To Mimsey

Untitled a.k.a. Native Nod (1992)
1. Answers
2. Crossing
3. Tangled

Less Life

2011-07-21T12:20:00.006-06:00

Ex and current members of Black Kites, the Assistant, This Ship Will Sink, You and I, Write Back Soon and more. Honestly, the only reason I initially listened to this band was because of the former bands the members were apart of. I was pleasantly surprised. Some seriously heavy jams.

Website: Bandcamp
Support: How Soon Is Now? Records
For Fans Of: Botch, Deadguy, Tragedy, Furnace

Demo (2011)
1. Glory Of The Morning
2. False Positives
3. Left Behind
4. Roots Of Enslavement
5. Move Mountains

Downcast

2011-07-20T16:29:00.005-06:00

Support: Ebullition Records
For Fans Of: Rorschach, Struggle, Integrity

Downcast 12" (1991)
1. System
2. De-Recognized
3. Paradox
4. From You and Me
5. In This Last
6. Grace
7. They Are Not
8. See
9. Privilege
10. Hope

Downcast 7" (1990)
1. Schedule
2. Lie
3. Force
4. System

Ten Thousand Leagues

2011-07-20T10:04:00.005-06:00

After my first listen through of the Ten Thousand Leagues demo, I knew I had to share it with everyone who has the misfortune of stumbling onto this blog. I rarely get this excited over a demo.

Website: Band Site
For Fans Of: Beau Navire, Loma Prieta, Joshua Fit For Battle

John Cota/Ten Thousand Leagues (2011)
1. John Cota - Curtains
2. John Cota - Dissemble
3. John Cota - Our Vacation, Ruined
4. Ten Thousand Leagues - Burning Victim
5. Ten Thousand Leagues - Home Along The Tracks
6. Ten Thousand Leagues - Loose Ties

Demo (2010)
1. Pieces Of Mosaic
2. Blank Scripture
3. Timepiece
4. Forfeit This Routine
5. Early Morning Eyes

Struggle

2011-07-19T22:23:00.017-06:00

"Before The Locust, before The Swing Kids, before Bread & Circuits there was a very young band from San Diego called Struggle. They were an energetic band that played brutal political hardcore that was powered by anger and youthful angst."

Support: Ebullition Records
For Fans Of: Downcast, Rorschach, Reversal Of Man, Chokehold, Unbroken, His Hero Is Gone

Struggle 12" (1994)
1. Pain
2. Culture
3. Cement
4. The Untitled
5. Brain Tourniquet
6. War #1
7. Wait A Second

Undertow/Struggle (1992)
1. Undertow - Words Of Fire
2. Undertow - Pin
3. Struggle - Tradition
4. Struggle - Real Estate

Struggle 7" (1992)
1. Red, White and You
2. Death Of A Friend
3. Envy
4. Pigs On Fire

Eye In The Sky

2011-07-19T22:23:00.015-06:00

Eye In The Sky was a cassette released in 2009 by Cody Sullivan, vocalist of Sabertooth Zombie. There were 200 of these puppies made and all came in an awesome package which included: hand printed or spray painted stenciled package, a "read along" neon green-inside out printed-one size fits all (XL)-shirt, a stick of incense, a googly eye and an instructional card. The tape itself is ten short stories, each consisting of exactly 100 words (called drabbles), read by Cody and set to brilliantly weird soundscapes. Fucking brilliant.

Eye In The Sky (2009)
1. Eye In The Sky

White Ribs

2011-07-13T20:11:00.010-06:00

Watch the video.

Website: Myspace
Support: n/a
For Fans Of: The Locust, Data Cave, Arab On Radar

White Ribs (2010)
1. Fucktooth
2. Mugafuana
3. Untitled
4. Meat Grinder Sausage Party
5. Untitled

Land Of Greed...World Of Need

2011-07-04T09:13:00.005-06:00

A compilation featuring interpretations of the self-titled LP by Embrace.

Land Of Greed…World Of Need (1994)
1. Nations On Fire - Give Me Back
2. Current - Dance Of Days
3. Undertow - Building
4. Groundwork - Past
5. Outspoken - Spoke
6. Sparkmarker - Do Not Consider Yourself Free
7. Function - No More Pain
8. Blindfold - I Wish I
9. Avail - Said Gun
10. Rancid - Can’t Forgive
11. Lifetime - Money
12. Process - If I Never Thought About It
13. Farside - End Of A Year
14. Ashes - Last Song

Man Is The Bastard

2011-06-26T17:43:00.006-06:00

Website: n/a
Support: n/a
For Fans Of: n/a

Mumia Abu-Jamal Spoken Word With Music By Man Is The Bastard (1997)
1. Mumia Abu-Jamal - A Bright Shining Hell
2. Assata Shakur - A Message To Mumia
3. Mumia Abu-Jamal - A House Is Not A Home
4. Mumia Abu-Jamal - May 13th Remembered
5. Mumia Abu-Jamal - Father Hunger
6. Mumia Abu-Jamal - Black August
7. Mumia Abu-Jamal - Legalized Crime
8. Bob Dole - Diversity On The Airwaves
9. Allen Ginsburg - The Freedom To Write
10. Jello Biafra - Statement
11. Assata Shakur - The Depth Of Our Courage
12. Mumia Abu-Jamal - Who Is Not On Death Row?
13. Man Is The Bastard - Alignment
14. Man Is The Bastard - Infiltrator
15. Man Is The Bastard - Fusing Skull And Anvil
16. Man Is The Bastard - Subterfuge

The Locust/Man Is The Bastard (1996)
1. The Locust - Ass Gravity
2. The Locust - Futile Agreement
3. The Locust - Sever The Toe
4. The Locust - Emaciation Fuckers
5. The Locust - Red
6. The Locust - Inbred America
7. The Locust - Helios
8. The Locust - Personal History
9. The Locust - Keep Off The Tracks
10. Man Is The Bastard - Margin For Disintegration/War/Prayer From Another Land/Robotic Anenomi/Cave Water Rings/A Periscope's Demise By Torpedo/Rocket Brain Failure/Ward Of Knives/Lunatic Hunting People/Pluto's Winter/Jupiter's Autumn/Katlehong Journal (An Update)

Thoughtless... (1995)
1. Puppy Mill
2. Kosher Grimace
3. Unweened Infant Orphan
4. Tyke
5. The Great Ebola
6. Prepared Hammond
7. Interplanetary Intrusion
8. Galactic Insect Swarm
9. Lunar Landing
10. Forced Alien Confinement
11. Short Trek To The Cauldron
12. Moloch

Deprogramming The Bigot (1995)
1. Flying Limbs
2. Tomb Ride
3. Mr. Wilson
4. Lime Doom

Sanctity Of Oil (1993)
1. Grasp The Bug
2. Human Condition
3. Mary Jane (The Ultimate Girl)
4. Oil Bomb

The Brutality Continues... (1993)
1. Doll
2. Media Project
3. Slay Or Slander
4. Squaw

Bastard Noise (1993)
1. Trapped Within Burning Machinery
2. Pain Of The Iron
3. Steak Eating Boss
4. Lobotomize A Cop
5. Fine Feathered Friend

Discorporation (1992)
1. Existence Decay
2. Secret Surgery
3. Attempt To Damage
4. Smile Trick
5. Telegram Death Threat
6. Once Upon A...
7. Shoes Of Cement
8. (Tony Williams) Strifetime
9. H.S.M.P.

Crossed Out/Man Is The Bastard (1992)
1. Crossed Out - Practiced Hatred
2. Crossed Out - Pure Delusion
3. Crossed Out - Society
4. Crossed Out - Lowlife
5. Crossed Out - Scapegoat
6. Crossed Out - Vacuum
7. Man Is The Bastard - S.O.I.G.
8. Man Is The Bastard - Work To Death
9. Man Is The Bastard - Instantly Bent
10. Man Is The Bastard - Screwdriver In the Urethra of Thomas Lenz
11. Man Is The Bastard - Snake Apartment
12. Man Is The Bastard - Walkers of the Streets

Backwards Species (1992)
1. Ether Rag
2. Stocks
3. Blood Gutter
4. Heretic's Fork
5. Koro Treatment
6. Justice Is Swift (Jack)

Abundance Of Guns (1992)
1. Scavengers World
2. Regression To Birth
3. Mocha Rebirth
4. Semen In the Eyesocket of Thomas Lenz
5. Slave To The Bean
6. The Iron Room
7. Incoming
8. Volatile Cocktail
9. Tumult Being
10. Abundance Of Guns
11. Suttee

Charred Remains A·K·A Man Is The Bastard (1991)
1. Eunuch
2. No Concern For the Inhuman
3. The Arena
4. Refuse To Thrive

Crossed Out

2011-06-20T23:46:00.009-06:00

WHY? BECAUSE MAN WILL ALWAYS BE MAN.

For Fans Of: Infest, Despise You, Man Is The Bastard, Dropdead, Spazz, Los Crudos, Any powerviolence band since

Live At The Che Cafe (08/21/93)
1. Pure Delusion
2. Lowlife
3. Nightstalker
4. Practiced Hatred

Crossed Out/Dropdead (1992)
1. Crossed Out - Supremacy
2. Crossed Out - Neglect
3. Crossed Out - Suffocate
4. Crossed Out - Selfserve
5. Dropdead - New World Slaughter
6. Dropdead - Sheep
7. Dropdead - Belly Full Of Lies
8. Dropdead - Requiem
9. Dropdead - Bosnia
10. Dropdead - Nazi Atrocities

Crossed Out/Man Is The Bastard (1992)
1. Crossed Out - Practiced Hatred
2. Crossed Out - Pure Delusion
3. Crossed Out - Society
4. Crossed Out - Lowlife
5. Crossed Out - Scapegoat
6. Crossed Out - Vacuum
7. Man Is The Bastard - S.O.I.G.
8. Man Is The Bastard - Work To Death
9. Man Is The Bastard - Instantly Bent
10. Man Is The Bastard - Screwdriver In the Urethra of Thomas Lenz
11. Man Is The Bastard - Snake Apartment
12. Man Is The Bastard - Walkers of the Streets

Live On KSPC (03/27/92)
1. Locked In
2. Fraud
3. Ulcer
4. He-Man
5. Internal
6. Suffocate
7. Supremacy
8. Force Of Habit
9. Homegrown
10. Selfserve
11. Crown Of Thorns
12. Neglect

Crossed Out (1991)
1. Internal
2. He-Man
3. Locked In
4. Fraud
5. Crown Of Thorns
6. Force Of Habit
7. Crutch

Demo '91
1. Fraud
2. Leech
3. Never Forget
4. He-Man
5. Suicide Of The Species
6. Selfish Avenger
7. Advice?

New Direction Fest Mixtape

2011-06-20T18:02:00.006-06:00

"We live in scary times. We are witnessing the eruption of a number of societal tensions on a global scale and it is far from clear what the results will be. Millions of people unemployed and being foreclosed and evicted from their houses; millions in prison; military conflict around the world with no end in sight; the melting of glaciers and polar ice caps along with mounting natural disasters and growing scarcity of resources exacerbated by climate change; rising racial supremacist movements; depression and trauma on a massive scale; the mass incarceration and discrimination against “non-citizens”; and the continual centralization of wealth and means of human livelihood in the hands of a small but powerful class of people. The point is not to paint a picture of a hopeless situation in which everything is falling apart and the world is ending because of some supposed inherent evil of human kind. The point is it’s increasingly obvious that the flawed systems which these problems stem from are no longer tolerable: capitalism, industrialism, representative politics, all forms of oppression. As all these various crises converge we are told we can look to our political systems for solutions, or ought to lose ourselves in some spectacular new product or substance. These answers are not going to prevent us from feeling the effects of these mounting issues.

The mounting crises prompt a need for immediate radical change in the direction of a more equitable, democratic, and free society. The lessons of history indicate that such an effort cannot be accomplished successfully as isolated cases within individual countries. The current situation requires the mobilization of afflicted people working together on a global scale for radical change.

The hardcore music community emerged in the 1980s during a time of global crisis and transition somewhat similar to the present. Through the efforts of hundreds of musicians, promoters, artists, activists, and music-lovers, a global network was created through which people resisted the onset of an oppressive social order and sought a better of life.

Members of the Olympia hardcore community are calling upon people of the worldwide hardcore community engaged in the practical application of the radical ideas and values of hardcore. We are seeking:

-Activists
-Community organizers
-Labor organizers
-Bands
-People involved in other forms of radical action

We ask you to join us in the August 19-20 of 2011 to give workshops and perform. We hope that we can learn from one-anthers’ skills, experiences, wisdom, ideas, and struggles in order to breath new life into the hardcore tradition and to push our networks in a NEW DIRECTION. From this new direction we can bridge the chasm which has grown between hardcore values and the application of these values through radical practice. We can use this opportunity to build new relationships and strengthen our global network in order to begin working for radical change and a new vision of a freer society."

Website: New Direction Fest

New Direction Fest Mixtape (2011)
1. Cowardice - National Pride
2. Cowardice - Death Survivor
3. Adelitas - Estado Asesino
4. Adelitas - 500 Years
5. Migraine - In A World Of Right
6. Migraine - Vision
7. Know More - Close The Door
8. Know More - Learn More, Know More
9. Red & Black - Control
10. Resist and Exist - Insurrectionist Deed
11. Brigada Roja - Es La Razon
12. Brigada Roja - Brigada Roja
13. Wolves - Hope You Know
14. Outlook - Living For More

Groundwork

2011-06-17T00:12:00.007-06:00

Hard and heavy in a way that only the 90's can serve up. Throw out your preconceived notions of "tough guy, right wing" hardcore that is synonymous with bands of this time because they prove that critical thought can exist through a heavy medium. Expect some surprising screamo influence ala-Ebullition Records as well as some riffs that would later be plainly ripped off in the early Disembodied material.

This is also the first band from Arizona I have ever posted. A good place to begin...

Support: Bloodlink Records
For Fans Of: Chokehold, Struggle, Unbroken, Strain

Today We Will Not Be Invisible Nor Silent (1994)
1. A Prayer For The Dead
2. Question Me
3. Hungry
4. Willing Victim
5. Channel 1
6. Token Man
7. Daily Bread
8. Birds Of Passage
9. Epitaph
10. Control

Unbroken/Groundwork (1994)
1. Unbroken - Final Expression
2. Unbroken - The Setup
3. Groundwork - End Of The Line
4. Groundwork - Nude
5. Groundwork - Happy Puppet

Living In Fear (1993)
1. Sea To Shining Sea
2. Gearhead
3. Utopia
4. Living In Fear

Lay Down (1992)
1. Lay Down
2 Etched In Stone
3. Amputate
4. Vacancy

A Lacking Mindset Compilation

2011-06-17T00:06:00.004-06:00

A Lacking Mindset Compilation (1993)
1. Struggle - The Untitled
2. Unbroken - Blanket
3. Honeywell - Mesh Control
4. Groundwork - Worthelss

Anne

2011-06-15T17:04:00.006-06:00

Anne play a very likable mix of shoegaze, post punk and electronic. Very similar to contemporaries American Gods and Whirr (formerly known as Whirl).

Website: Anne
Support: Big Cartel
For Fans Of: American Gods, Whirr, True Widow, Cold Cave

Mixtape One (2010)
1. Get It How You Live
2. Stripping
3. Perfect Teeth
4. All Your Time

Demo 2010
1. Summer Babies
2. Punk Bike
3. Rich People
4. Collection
5. The Way You Talk About Other People Makes Me Wonder If You Hate Me

Brotherhood

2011-06-09T13:47:00.009-06:00

Seattle Straight Edge. People make a big deal about Brotherhood because one of the members went on to play in Sun O))), Sunny Day Real Estate and The Foo Fighters while starting and operating Southern Lord Records as well. I just see them as the most important straight edge band from the Northwest. As Youth Of Today were for New York, as Uniform Choice were for California; Brotherhood was for Washington. Below is the COMPLETE discography. Yes, COMPLETE. This is everything that ever was recorded by Brotherhood. Fuck racism, no tolerance for ignorance.

For Fans Of: SSD, DYS, Straight Ahead, No For An Answer, Youth Of Today

Words Run...As Thick As Blood (1990)
1. The Deal
2. Breaking The Ice
3. Stolen Mind
4. Gain
5. Three Things
6. Til Death
7. Courage
8. No Tolerance
9. Support
10. Get Involved
11. Won't Turn Our Backs

No Tolerance For Ignorance (1989)
1. The Deal
2. No Tolerance
3. Courage
4. Til Death (Do Us Part)
5. Gain
6. Won't Turn Our Backs

Live At Gilman (03/24/89)
1. Breaking The Ice
2. Courage
3. Gain
4. Glue (SSD Cover)
5. Get Involved
6. No Tolerance
7. Stolen Mind
8. Support
9. The Deal
10. Won't Turn Our Backs

"Brotherhood Of Friends" Demo '89
1. Til Death Do Us Part
2. Breaking The Ice
3. No Tolerance
4. Stolen Mind
5. Courage
6. Get Involved
7. Support
8. The Deal
9. Three Things I Gave

Demo '88*
1. Our World
2. Give It All You Got
3. Caring Edge
4. Breaking The ice
5. Gain
6. Stolen mind
7. Bond Together In Ignorance
*Info on this demo straight from Ron Brotherhood:
"There's another Brotherhood demo recorded a few months before the "B'hood of Friends" recording. John White from Open Your Eyes zine sings and a dude named Ken Hagel played bass. It has 5 songs we kept, 2 songs we changed the lyrics for, and 1 song we dropped. A couple of the songs were on the Open Your Eyes tape comp."

Ramon Gris

2011-06-09T11:04:00.000-06:00

Reference: "For Fans Of".

Website: Bandcamp
Support: At a show
For Fans Of: Orchid, Yaphet Kotto, Funeral Diner, Indian Summer, Saetia

Victims Of The Human Condition (2010)
1. Delo Truda - Sinking Ship
2. Delo Truda - Lighthouse
3. Ramon Gris - Aren't We Just The Cutest Couple
4. Ramon Gris - These Fading Murals Of Our Lives

Chapter 1: The Withering Spirit, Our Collective Struggle (2010)
1. Cold Concrete Dreams
2. Contempt For The Lost
3. Swan Song

Coalspur

2011-06-07T23:04:00.001-06:00

I really only know how to describe and relate this band in contemporary terms (Adobe Homes, Suffix, We Were Skeleton, Beau Navire...). Basically, Coalspur take their favorite 90's emotionally driven "hardcore" bands (or skramz, screamo, emo...) and integrate it into something newly created in 2011. There's a lot of really great bands playing this style of music right now and Coalspur are no exception. Really great tunes.

Website: Bandcamp
Support: At a show
For Fans Of: Adobe Homes, Suffix, We Were Skeletons, Beau Navire

Toast Goats b/w Deckard Cain (2011)
1. Toast Goats
2. Deckard Cain

Booze Cruise (2011)
1. Elders
2. Tennis Roof Nights
3. Between Evils

Demo 2010
1. Nothing Happens In Vegas
2. Corky Romano
3. Birds
4. A.D.I.D.A.G.
5. Tel Aviv

Delo Truda

2011-06-06T12:04:00.001-06:00

The most epic thing you'll hear coming out of the Ontario post hardcore scene.

Website: Bandcamp or Tumblr
Support: Big Cartel
For Fans Of: Hot Cross, Sed Non Satiata, The Saddest Landscape, Suis La Lune

Victims Of The Human Condition (2010)
1. Delo Truda - Sinking Ship
2. Delo Truda - Lighthouse
3. Ramon Gris - Aren't We Just The Cutest Couple
4. Ramon Gris - These Fading Murals Of Our Lives

Delo Truda (2010)
1. Broken Koan
2. Self-Made Man
3. Soapbox
4. Realms

Flint

2011-06-05T10:54:00.008-06:00

I fell in love with this band about a month ago when I saw them in Edmonton. Kevin at Gonna Get Sued provides a delicate and accurate desription of the band:

"They make the Locust look like hacks and Blood Brothers look like amateurs. I suppose that's what happens, geniuses born amidst the isolation of small towns, you take 90's pop culture, face paint, guitar wizardry, the most deft drumming ever, back hair, a vocalist who doesn't know whether he's singing or vomiting into the mic, stick all that in a blender and hit frappe - and you end up with this horribly delicious concoction that is Flint."

Website: Bandcamp
Support: At a show
For Fans Of: Some Girls, Daughters, Blood Brothers, The Locust, Limp Wrist

Clubhouse (2011)
1. Clubhouse
*One of the new songs recorded in February for an upcoming release

Glemno Essi (2010)
1. New English
2. Urethra Franklin
3. Sorry About That Punctured Lung, Boris
4. The Screaming Lucy's
5. Ignore (The Year Of Free Bikes)
6. Deano Mozzerelli

Flies All Over The Place (2010)
1. My Head Don't Fit
2. Urethra Franklin
3. This Adultery Is Ripe (Blood Brothers Cover)
*Recorded live at the Likwid Lounge Edmonton, Alberta September 27th 2010

Remains To Be Seen

2011-05-22T00:21:00.010-06:00

Remains To Be Seen featured half of Chilean REACT! band Remission. To be honest, that's the only reason why I initially listened to this band. I'm very glad I did though. A little less forward thinking than Remission; which is not to say that the lyrics are bad, they're just classic jams about staying young and knowing your identity.

Support: Amendment Records
For Fans Of: No For An Answer, Insted, Up Front, Straight Ahead

Defined Identity (2006)
1. Spirit
2. Wind
3. Force
4. Bully
5. Identity
6. Vision
7. Remains

The resemblance to Ray is uncanny.

Lumber Lung

2011-05-18T23:44:00.009-06:00

Moving on to something a little more relevant...Lumber Lung are fresh off of their first release since their demo. The Self-Titled LP features re-recorded versions of the 5 songs that made up said demo as well as 4 brand new tracks. This band is seriously fucking good. The guitar knows exactly when to fade back just until the right moment and then deliver the most pleasant hooks. Lyrically, Lumber Lung have set themselves miles apart from the pack. With a write up this erratic and impulsive, you know it's going to be good!

Website: Wordpress
Support: Link
For Fans Of: I honestly have no idea, so instead of just saying "Good music." I'll post the last.fm similar artists- there's at least a little bit of merit in that... Adobe Homes, John Cota, Ten Thousand Leagues, Beau Navire

Lumber Lung (2011)
1. Seward Park
2. Watershed
3. Best To Keep Moving
4. Receiver
5. Warm Arms
6. Trajectory
7. Contrails
8. Time Bandits
9. Vomit A Little In Your Mouth

Demo 2010
1. Watershed
2. Time Bandits
3. Vomit A Little In My Mouth
4. Contrails
5. Best To Keep Moving

Silence Through Injustice

2011-05-18T23:35:00.005-06:00

This was sent to me a little while ago. Silence Through Injustice were apparently the precursor to Southern Metalcore band The Fortunate. They sound more like '05 Warped Tour Post Hardcore.

Website: Purevolume
For Fans Of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warped_Tour_2005

Tear The Sky Open (2005)
1. Leprosy Of The Heart
2. Lighting Fires
3. Untitled Track Red On Black
4. Seal It With A Kiss
5. Night Of Broken Glass
6. Tear Open The Sky
7. Now Let Me Show You Just How Much I Love You
8. Write Our Lives Out
9. Cast The Stones

Moss Icon

2011-05-17T13:01:00.007-06:00

Moss Icon were a post hardcore band based out of Maryland from 1986-1991. Though they are typically lumped in with the other D.C. "Revolution Summer" bands, certain aspects of their music set them apart. The biggest of which is the fact that they began to use the loud/soft dynamic in their music which would become a staple-point for 90's emo bands.

For Fans Of: Embrace, One Last Wish, The Pine, Indian Summer, Hot Water Music

It Disappears (1994)
1. Guatemala
2. Memorial
3. Moth
4. Gravity
5. I'm Back Sleeping, Or Fucking, Or Something
6. It Disappears
*Compilation of out of print material and live songs recorded between 1990-1991

Lyburnum Wit's End Liberation Fly (1993)
1. Mirror
2. I'm Back Sleeping, Or Fucking, Or Something
3. The life
4. Divinity Cove
5. Locket
6. Kick The Can
7. Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly
8. Cricketty Rise
9. As Afterwards The Words Still Ring
10. Happy (Unbounded Glory)
*Originally recorded in 1988

Memorial (1991)
1. Memorial
2. Moth

Mahpiua Luta (1989)
1. The Life Or This Grapes Juice Drink
2. Kick The Can

Hate In Me (1988)
1. Hate In Me
2. What They Lack
3. I'm Back Sleeping, Or Fucking, Or Something
4. Kiss The Girls and Make Them Die

Demo (1987)
1. Hate In Me
2. What They Lack
3. Never Turning
4. My Strength, My Weakness
5. Mirror
6. We Deny
7. Sorrow

Face Of Change

2011-05-16T10:05:00.004-06:00

Face Of Change were a Japanese youth crew band from the late 80's. They sound exactly like if "The Crew" era 7 Seconds were from Japan.

For Fans Of: 7 Seconds, Gorilla Biscuits, In My Eyes, Uniform Choice

Demo 2xEP (1990)
1. Force One's Way
2. Conform
3. Victim Of Society
4. Speak One's Mind
5. Face Of Change
6. Mental Work
7. Psychology
8. Live For Today
9. Don't Be Afraid
10. Free Will

Sleepwalkers

2011-05-15T14:52:00.003-06:00

Sleepwalkers are a band from Worcester, Massachusetts. I've been listening to them for about a month now and have come to the conclusion that they sound like equal parts Botch and Defeater. They combine the heavy and groovy parts that make Botch so desirable with the melody and fast transitioning of Defeater.

Website: Bandcamp
Support: Big Cartel
For Fans Of: Botch, Defeater

Your Hell Looks Like Heaven To Me (2011)
1. White Cotton Gods
2. Your Hell Looks Like Heaven To Me
3. Frozen In Heat
4. Helldagger
5. Red Skin, Black Lace
6. Obsolete
7. Flirting With Death

Sailboats

2011-05-12T11:56:00.000-06:00

Here we have the infamous Sailboats and their equally infamous demo. This band is somewhat shrouded in mystery. There are/were rumours of two-thirds of the band dying in a car accident. This is all false though and, in fact, two-thirds of the band now play in Loma Prieta. Nonetheless, the notoriety of this band is well deserved in the form of an amazing demo.

Website: n/a
Support: Loma Prieta
For Fans Of: Loma Prieta, Saetia, Jeromes Dream, iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook

Demo (2003)
1. Behind Trees
2. Two
3. 53 Second Song
4. Four

Violent Tumor

2011-05-11T16:35:00.000-06:00

Violent Tumor were a mid-80's punk band from Chicago. At the time, Chicago was known for being rather racially conservative, which made Violent Tumor stick out like a sore thumb due to the band consisting of all black men. They only released one EP and it's quite a spectacular recording. Most of the songs are absolute ragers that feature fast, spastic drums with violently spewed out verses. You'll be banging yer head and wanting to bedroom skank. "Runnin' Machine" is the gem that really sets Violent Tumor apart from the rest of the pack though. Stuck square in the middle of the release, it kicks out a much more laid back, rock 'n roll vide that ends up sounding very pleasing. Overall, this release is worth downloading and isn't just interesting for hardcore punk historians.

Website: n/a
Support: n/a
For Fans Of: Negative FX, Gang Green, Mental Abuse, Straight Ahead

Violent Tumor (1986)
1. Abortion
2. Basket Case
3. Problems
4. 99 Floors
5. Runnin' Machine
6. Welcome Home
7. Tool Box
8. Army Song

Hassan I Sabbah

2011-05-11T02:34:00.003-06:00

I came across this comment while I was doing research for this post tonight, I believe it most accurately sums up this band and why you should listen to them:

"...they woulda been the Minor Threat of the 2000's had they kept chugging along. The second Untitled song was the embodiment of perfection."

Ok, so maybe it's a little bit exaggerated, but still, there is some merit in the first part of this bold statement. It's very, very easy to dismiss Hassan I Sabbah. This is undoubtably due to the fact that most emoviolence bands sound the same. Even I'll admit that. Like mentioned above though, the first time you listen the the second Untitled song you'll understand what I'm very poorly and sporadically trying to convey.

Website: n/a
Support: n/a
For Fans Of: Jeromes Dream, Combatwoundedveteran, Reversal Of Man, iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook

Hassan I Sabbah (2000)
1. Untitled
2. Watching The Eyes Of Someone Lying
3. Not So In Tune With Shells
4. Untitled

Just Do It! (2000)
1. Usurp Synapse - Wrist, Meet Razor
2. Usurp Synapse - Maybe You Should Kill Yourself
3. Usurp Synapse - You Thought You Were Special, You Were Wrong
4. Usurp Synapse - Just Do It!
5. Hassan I Sabbah - Yella's Son, Cold Mourning
6. Hassan I Sabbah - A Horse Never Goes Heartless

Hassan I Sabbah and the Holy Handgrenades (1999)
1. Yella's Son, Cold Mourning
2. Untitled
3. Not So In Tune With Shells
4. Head On A Stake
5. A Horse Never Goes Heartless

Mouth Of Flowers

2011-05-10T23:09:00.005-06:00

Mouth Of Flowers are a 3-piece from Rhode Island featuring Sean Murphy, Alyssa Amaral and Rich Gaccione. A little background for those who don't know, all three members played in a band called What Feeds The Fire back in the early 00's. After their demise, Sean and Rich would go on to form Verse. Further yet, Rich would also start a band called Soul Control. Mouth Of Flowers have the 3 former members of What Feeds The Fire back together again, although you may be surprised at the what they are playing. Through the first couple of listens, I get a very distinctive Smashing Pumpkins vibe. Courses like "She is the sun that clears every storm/Everybody loves you" bring up none other than Corgan to mind. At the same time though, the overall feel of the demo is far less abrasive then the Pumpkins. Instead, it's much more mellow and spacey in a way not dissimilar to something along the lines of Hum.

Website: Blogspot
Support: Dead But Dreaming (BigCartel)
For Fans Of: The Smashing Pumpkins, Hum, My Bloody Valentine

3 Song Demo (2010)
1. The Providence Brave
2. Emma's Song
3. Ocean Town