Anyone that has followed this blog over the decade that its existed knows of my odd love of German 80's hardcore. I was turned onto a lot of it by two Germans who spent time in SF hanging with my buddy Zoran and I in around 86-87. After they left back to Germany I'd get random mixed tapes of obscure German hc in the mail.
This is one of those bands I was turned onto by these guys. I had to work pretty hard to find the actual vinyl of it back then.
Pretty raging thrashy hardcore that at times remind me of the almighty Black Flag (check out the song Last Mistake).
Listening to this one brings back many happy memories. Enjoy!
1.Right Now
2.Last Mistake
3.Differant
4.Happiness
5.Your Scene
6.Don't Get Mad
7.Joy Boy
8.Names
9.Traped
10.Dreams Of Pain
11.No Allegiance
A gig that happened around 20 years ago. I found this flyer and tape of both Spazz and Monster X while
picking through some of my basement crap. The tape is a recording from the board. This CBGBs show was insanely packed,
with a very "diverse" crowd due to the strange line up. One emo band would play and a bunch of kids from outside would run in while they played. A more brutal band would play and the emo kids would go outside while the other kids came in. Tyler King put this one on. I recall him talking to me as we were loading in
about him getting a cease and desist letter from a lawyer from another
Monster X band. I laughed and told him we got those every month.
Tyler ripped it up and obviously let us play. Some highlights for me
were having Danny Lilker (Anthrax, SOD and Brutal Truth) come up to me
after our set and tell me how much he dug us and loved the cover of
straight ahead that we did. Also meeting Timojhen Mark face to face and him telling me that he flew out to see us from Cali. Listening to Chris Kellys between song banter ragging on all the emo bands playing. Hilarious... It sure was a strange line up. I would love to see the MX set come out as a live LP. Get at me if you have interest i n putting it out. Someday I'll post the Spazz set. Set is separated into 2 sides, both sides are larger wav files
Hands down the greatest Cleveland punk/hardcore band of all time in my opinion. I was introduced to their sound by my buddy Wedge in the 90s. Wedge lives in the Cleveland area and was a founding member of 9 Shocks Terror (and numerous other bands). Dude would always bring me surprise tapes of bands I'd never heard on our mini tours or weekend gigs we'd play together.
The band started off as a two piece, then later joined up with others to make them a legit force to be reckoned with. This features everything... 43 songs. "Outta Glue", "Kill Preps" etc. Don't sleep on this one.
I rarely post newer stuff on this blog, but this 7" is godly and deserves attention. You love Infest? Well then you need this 7". It features members of Infest basically sounding just like Infest. Haven't ever heard Infest? Do you live under a rock? One of my top 20 hardcore bands of all times. I have never been stoked on them doing reunion shows... but this I can get behind. Fierce Hardcore powerviolence destroys side A, while Side B is a longer instrumental tune that sorta reminds me of Sick-O. Enjoy! http://www.mediafire.com/file/qchda61dj4ef4l5/Exit_Unit_ep.zip
The Comes are by far one of my top 5 favorite Japanese hardcore bands ever. They were involved in the early wave of Japanese hardcore (Lipcream, Gauze, Gism, etc). I am in love with the "No Side LP". These guys were fronted by a punk as fuck female (a rarity in those days). Chitose who sang went on to sing in a few metal bands after the Comes broke up (Virgin Rocks, The Wretched). Pretty sure the drummer went on to play in Gastunk. There are a shit tons of songs on this disc. Its live... but I still love it. The band only had two proper releases, so this is like a dream come true.
This CD has a whopping 47 songs on it, way to many for me to list. It consists of theRaleigh,
North Carolina bands 1982 Jane Doe demo, a bunch of compilation tracks, and a
live set. Total nerdum for hardcore freaks. For those unfamiliar No Labels were pre C.O.C.
(Woody on Bass, and Reed on Drums). I had only ever heard a few of the
bands comp tracks, and then later on the No Core stuff. This was a
beautiful time for hardcore. I was still a metal head when this band
existed, and didn't start gravitating towards stuff like this until maybe
1984. The band was infamous for their war on Ian Mackaye and the D.C. Straight edge scene. Enjoy the rage!
1.Massada/Will To Die
2.We'll Make More
3.The Machine
4.The Gift
5.Your Mistake
6.Battle Fatigue
7.Poisinous Solution
8.Take A Walk
9.Frustrated Existence
10.No Need/Leap Of Faith
11.It's Time/Shorty
Back in the 90's my buddy and band mate (from Devoid Of Faith) Jim MacNaughton did a radio show on WRPI in Troy NY. He also helped to book punk hardcore bands to play live on the air to a room full of friends and supporters. It was a cool little thing the folks at the station would let Jim do. It was mainly Jim, this guy Bob Curry who did sound, and a Japanese girl who went to school there named Akimia. I saw so many cool shows there by the likes of Oi Polloi, the Gaia, 9 Shocks Terror, Los Crudos and endless other bands. Both the bands I was playing in at the time were lucky enough to get to play some of these gigs.
This is a recording of a set that my old band Monster X did at the station. There were probably ten people there to watch us. I think the recording came out great (although the bass guitar is way to low). We actually released the recording on cassette limited to somewhere between 25-50 copies. Enjoy!
Killer obscure thrash metal from Montreal Canada. They were a three piece on this demo, pretty sure these guys only put out an LP after this demo as a four piece. I recently heard that one of the members was recently murdered. Enjoy.
This is terrible news. My heart goes out to his twins and his family.
I'm sure those of us that knew Brandon all have awesome thoughts of his past antics...Dude played in a kazillion bands that many folks saw or heard over the years. Municipal Waste, Direct Control, Government Warning, Obsessor, Career Suicide, Wasted Time, etc.
I first met
Brandon in Richmond VA. when he played drums in Municipal Waste and they
opened for us on some stupid Das Oath tour long ago. After that I'd get
instant messages from him all the time telling me to check out this or
that band that he was in. Seeing if I had interest in putting out random records by his bands on my label, Asking to play Gloom Fest, etc.
A really fond memory I have of him is when I sold him a Corrupted Morals
7".. both of us gushing over how amazing and underrated we thought
they were. A year later I went to see one of his bands with Career
Suicide in Albany NY. Him and members of various other bands (Career
Suicide, Direct Control etc) decided to play a covers gig on the spot
(never practicing). Brandon asked me to pick my favorite CM song. I
obviously picked "Peer pressure". He said ok, but you are singing it. I
did. That was rad. He helped an old man relive his youth for a second.
thanks buddy. Rest easy and free.
Erik
Meade is a musician who has been a SF staple for decades.
We met as neighbors in the Hayes District
of San Fransisco in the mid 80's. Back then if you looked different, or
wore a certain band t shirt you'd likely make conversation with others
that
also looked the part. Erik sort of became my
mentor turning me onto some cool obscure punk/hardcore, and introduced
me to
other like minded folks in the Bay area. I moved back East in 1989 so
we lost touch for over twenty years. I randomly ran into Erik
while he was working at a record store about 8 years ago. It was crazy, and was weirdly emotional for
me. I felt like I needed to tell him that he had influenced my entire
life in a positive way through his influencing me musically. I ended up sending him everything I played on, and records I'd released over the years. At any rate Erik has a
long history of playing in tons of bands. One of those bands was the
Florida death metal band Death. Death along with Possessed pretty much
invented the death metal genre. I thought it would be cool to pick
Erik's brain about his short time in the band. In my opinion he played on the best demo by this Legendary metal act.
Nate -You were one of the most open minded people I'd met in
the 1980's San Francisco scene. You and your ex girlfriend Janis turned
me onto a lot of different music and art back then. It was the
punk/hardcore stuff that resonated with me. I still to this day have a
tape you made me in 1985 with a bunch of East coast hardcore bands on it (76%
Uncertain, Bad Brains, SSD, Sacred Denial, Beastie Boys ep, etc).
You
played bass in Death in 1985... I am trying to figure out the timeline
because we were next door neighbors from late '85-1987. You were taking
me to early meetings at Gilman Street as it was just being constructed,
you introduced me to Tim Yo (who disliked me because I was metal dude), and
you had me singing in a band you were doing with Short Dogs Grow, and
Rhythm Pigs folks. Was this all taking place during the days you were in
Death, or after it? How the hell did I miss this?
Erik -I would think it was during the period I was in Death,
although it seems strange that I wouldn’t have mentioned it. It was
probably just after I left, and I might not have mentioned it because,
at the time, it didn’t seem important. LOL.
I'm sure I knew, but probably acted unimpressed because I was one of those metal dudes who was transforming into
a hardcore kid, and I was rebelling against my metal roots. I'm WAY more
impressed now...Haha. Did your days playing in Death end your playing in
metal bands all together?
Erik - Yeah, I just played in punk and rock bands after that, as a guitarist, not a bass player. How did you end up meeting Chuck and joining Death? What made him relocate from Florida to the Bay Area in '85?
Erik -Eric Brecht was playing metal with some guys in Oakland,
and somehow, I had joined the group, I think as the singer. That project
quickly fell apart, but a few weeks later Eric got a call from Chuck,
who sent him some demo tapes. Eric was really excited about it, so when
Chuck asked him if he knew any bass players, Eric asked me if I played
bass. I didn’t really play bass much. I was a guitar player, but I said
yes, and ran out and bought a bass. I then created a really ridiculous
bass rig by putting my Roland guitar amp thru a 400 watt Sunn Power amp
into a 4/12 guitar cabinet. It was an odd combo, but it worked. Chuck
flew out a few weeks later and started staying at Eric’s place, and then
with a girl named Amber who hung out in the scene. She drove him around
everywhere while he was out here because he didn’t have car. I assume he
moved here because the bay area had become the home of thrash metal. How long did your time in the band last? Why did it end? Did Chuck
continue with Death in the Bay Area after you guys were out, or did he
move back to Florida?
Erik -We were only in the band for about six months and a few
shows. then we had an argument with Chuck and he left. He just stormed out
of the rehearsal room and that was that. I think he went back to Florida
for a few months and then came back to SF, but I’m not 100% sure. Did Eric Brecht quit DRI to Join Death? I recall seeing DRI at the Rock On
Broadway once in 1985, and Eric approached his brother Kurt after the
gig and started telling him about how he was jamming with
Death. Kurt was totally supportive of everything Eric was telling him. It was a cool conversation that I dropped in on.
Erik - No, as I said, Eric had already left DRI when Chuck had
called him. As for Kurt, as soon as we started rehearsing we got a call
from Kurt, who was in Chicago touring with DRI. He said “You’ll never
believe what some kid just gave me, It’s a tape of you guys rehearsing
last week”. It turned out that Chuck had taped our rehearsals, and then
dubbed copies and sent them to particular die hard fans in various cities,
who then made copies for their friends. It was at that moment that I
realized just how powerful and important the tape trading circuit was
within the metal scene. That was why Chuck already had a fan base in SF
before he even had an album out. How old were you guys at the time?
Erik -I would have been 22, Chuck was 18 and I don't know how old Eric was, but probably 19 or 20. Did you help in any of the song writing at all, or did Chuck
move to the Bay Area with all the songs that you were going to play
already written?
Erik - We worked on creating some of the songs that were on the
first Death LP although over the years I’ve become a bit hazy about
which songs, but overall they were Chucks ideas. We may have had a hand
in some of the arrangements though. I bought the first LP when it came
out just to see whether he gave us any credits, and was kind of amused
to see that he’d gotten around the songwriting issue by simply not
having any songwriting credits at all. I assume that was because he
would also have the original members from Florida and Mantis to contend
with. He may have claimed ownership on later pressings. but I don’t
care. It was clearly his ideas. Did you play on any of the demos or rehearsals that have been released through out the years?
Erik
-Yes. I'm on the Back From the Dead demo which was the tape that Kurt Brecht
heard in Chicago. Scott Carlson gave
me a board recording of one of our Ruthie's Inn shows that is a much
higher quality recording then Back from the Dead (which was recorded on a
boom box). I've thought about trying to have an engineer clean up the
Ruthie's tape and boost up the guitar tones if possible.
How many live gigs did you play with Death? Where were they? Most in Bay Area I assume?
Erik - As far as I can remember we only played three or four gigs
total. All but one of them at Ruthie’s Inn in Berkley. The other one was at
the Farm in SF with Mordred and the Rhythm Pigs.
I think I recall that you guys used to practice at Turk Street Studios in SF?
Erik- I honestly don’t remember where we rehearsed initially. It
might have been Turk. But near the end we were rehearsing at a studio out by Potrero hill owned by Franco from MDC.
What was the reaction to the band by other local metal bands in the Bay Area
at the time? Did they accept Chucks move to the area? Did they welcome the band? I recall much competition
back then within the metal scene. Bands sort of competing to get
signed, play bigger shows etc. Was Death involved in this crap?
Erik -I wasn’t really that familiar with the East bay metal scene
since I was part of the punk scene in SF, and was only occasionally
crossing paths with metal bands. But the first time we played Ruthie’s I
was really surprised by how excited the kids there were to see us. You
see, I had never heard of Death before Eric Brecht asked me if I’d want
to play bass in the band. I thought they were just a band with a few home made
cassette tapes out, which in punk circles meant you were just locally
known. Death were from Florida so I figured nobody in the bay area
had heard of them/us. I didn’t realize that within the metal scene tape
trading homemade cassettes was a big deal, and true fans took it
seriously. So at our first show there were actually people with our band
logo painted on the back of their leather jackets who were all jacked
up to see us. I also remember that the opening act at our first show
was an Oakland band called Black Death who sounded an awful lot like us,
and were really excited to be on the bill. It was an nice surprise for
me. I think we either played with Sacrilege BC, or at least they were at
the shows because I became friends with those guys thru Death, and
later on when Dave Edwardson (of Sacrilege and Violent Coercion) started
Neurosis. He and Scott Kelly asked me to be part of it. I lasted about
two rehearsals before I guess they decided I wasn’t on the same page
with them musically, and stopped calling me about rehearsals. When I
finally called Scott he said “Oh, we decided we just want to be a three
piece”, so I said, "Ok, well then, I’m gonna come over and pick up my
amp”, to which Scott said “Oh, that’s another thing... we accidentally
blew up your amp the other night”. Only last year Scott commented to me
on Facebook, “By the way, I still haven’t forgotten that I owe you an
amp. But you will always be OG Neurosis”. I thought that was nice. but
back to your question. No, I didn’t see any backstabbing or catty
behavior ever, in fact one of the guitarists from Testament loaned
Chuck a Marshall Stack for one of our Ruthie’s shows, because at that
time all Chuck had was a Peavey Transistor amp.
What was it that Chuck and you guys were listening to at the time that
helped influence the extreme sound Death was later known for? This
boggles my mind…
Erik- I have no idea what Chuck was listening to that made him come up
with his sound. Me and Eric were both into mostly punk, so honestly Chucks
music didn’t seem that radically new to me since I’d been listening to
really harsh fast music for quite some time, and well Eric Brecht was
the kid who invented ‘blast beats when he was in DRI. In fact, that was
probably why Chuck called him in the first place. So I suppose it’s safe
to say that Chuck had heard DRI. A few of the albums that come to mind
were the first Die Kreuzen records, Dehumanization by Crucifix, and
Animosity by Corrosion of Conformity, which had just come out around the
time I joined Death. That one was particularly relevant as me and Janis
Tanaka were hanging out with COC when they toured thru SF that year
because they were staying with our friend Ruth Schwartz for the couple
days they were in town.
Chuck, Erik, & Eric Brecht at Ruthies '85
Did you or those other guys realize at the time that you were basically
involved with something that was much different then other metal that was happening at the time?
Erik- Not me, No. In fact, to be quite honest I didn’t get it,
and really didn’t like it. I thought I was gonna be joining a band more
like Exodus or Slayer, and I thought that Chucks, or to be more precise
Eric’s, beats were so fast that nobody could mosh or headbang to them. I
kept coming home and saying “I don’t like what we’re doing,
it’s too chaotic”. and Janis would say “No, it’s great. Keep doing it”.
Even after I left/quit/got kicked out of the band I didn’t get it. and
consequently, gave away or taped over all of my cassettes of our
rehearsals. I didn’t have any tapes of myself with Death for two
decades, until one day I ran into Scott Carlson of Repulsion, who had
been the original bass player for Death back in Florida. First off he
told me that tapes of our rehearsals and Ruthlie’s shows were still
being traded by Death fans, but more importantly he said that Chuck had
mailed him copies of the tapes back in 1985 and he still had them. So he
burned me a tape of all the recordings I was on. To be honest, I still
think it sounds like a couple of kids going crazy in a garage. But my
Girlfriend Sonja loves it. Her current favorite band is GoatWhore. On a
side note some time around 1998 I was walking past a club, and heard a
band inside that was playing blast beats with a cookie monster voiced
singer, and I thought, ‘Fuck, they sound exactly like what we were doing
18
years ago. who would have thought our sound would stick around so long. I
was also kind of astounded when I was in a bookstore and started
browsing thru the pages of that book Lords Of Chaos. I thought, ‘man,
this is some crazy shit. how did this start’. Then was kind of
shocked and surprised to find Death listed as one of the original
inspirations for those bands.
Do you think Chuck was setting out to try to invent a genre that later
turned into "Death Metal", or was it like many things in life that was
just a series of mistakes that happened? Bad recordings that were
looked at as raw because engineers had no idea how to deal with the
production...musicianship, etc? I can't get my head around what bands
like Death and Possessed were thinking, and how they did what they did
back then? Total innovators.
Erik- I think Chuck had it in his head that he was trying to
create something new that had never been done before. At least he always
talked that way. I remember asking him how he had come up with the name
Death, and he said, “ I just wanted to have the heaviest band name ever, then it hit me...what’s heavier then death? The answer was,
nothing... nothings heavier then death. So that had to be the name”. I
thought that was kind of funny because it reminded me of that line from
Spinal Tap, ‘How much blacker can it be? The answer is, None. None
more black”. Did you ever play in a band with Eric again?
Erik -I never played with him again. He was asked to be in Hirax pretty soon after that and moved to LA I think.
Had you been in Touch with Chuck after your time in the band...before his passing?
Erik -No, the last time I saw him or talked to him was at our
last rehearsal at Franco’s place. We got into an argument about the
lyrical content, which I thought was juvenile even though he had said he
wanted to get more serious. Then he came in with another song about
ripping peoples guts out (Regurgitated Guts maybe?), so I complained,
and I guess Eric Brecht sided with me. Chuck said “I don’t need you guys. I’ll
find someone who really wants to play my songs”. He then dragged his amp
out onto the sidewalk and sat out there for the next hour waiting for
his ride to arrive. I think if we had just walked outside and apologized
we might have continued as a band, but we didn’t because of course at that time Death weren’t legendary, so we really didn’t care that
much. Which is fine because I already knew I wasn’t the right bass
player for his ideas. so it all worked out the way it was supposed to. Was chuck someone that was easy to talk to, or was he difficult to get along with? He seemed to be hard headed but also seemed to know exactly what he wanted. Was he a control freak?
Erik
-No, Chuck was a pretty easy going guy. A bit like Sean Penn's
character Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, only not stoned.
Chuck seem a little bit more square then that. He knew what he wanted musically, but
compared to some of the egomaniacs I've dealt with over the years he
wasn't unpleasant at all. Like a stoner surfer attitude? He didn't really party?
Erik -I remember that he was really straight (no drugs) and kind of
innocent when he first arrived in SF, but near the end of our run he changed. Oh come on, there must be some crazy stories from those days? Something Death fans would find interesting? Drinking? Violence? Drugging? Hookers?
Erik -Lot's. but I don't think any of them involved Death. We
went to keg parties and the like but it never got out of hand with
regards to the three of us.
What are your fondest memories of those 1985 Death days?
Erik - Chuck playing with Kittens at Eric Brechts place which was
a storefront at Haight and Fillmore. I think its next door to that
crepe place that’s there now. Tell people about the music climate in the bay area at the time. I recall Janis was in bands (with Courtney Love), and you were always in multiple bands.
Erik -the San Francisco scene in the 1980s and mid 90s was a really
amazing thing. It seemed as though everybody was either in a band or a
bike messenger, or both. it was a pretty large scene of hundreds of
people who were all trying to do something creative. Back then the idea
of playing in a cover band or tribute band was unthinkable. if you were a
musician you wanted to create something new and hopefully unique. Not
like today where most musicians are fine playing in tribute bands, or,
if they do deign to play original songs they go out of there way to
sound like whatever everybody else is doing. Granted, the metal scene
has fought the longest against that mentality. but back then, the
concept of creating original, unique music was everywhere. Take hardcore
for instance. RKL, DRI, NOFX , Rhythm Pigs, Victims Family, COC, MDC,
Dwarves, may have all been super fast thrash bands, and usually friends,
but they all put their own spin on the form. Same with Bay Area Metal, Anvil
Chorus,Exodus, Death Angel, Possessed. Then throw in all the artsier
bands like Tuxedomoon, Flipper, Melvins,Neurosis, Trial, Treason, a State
Of Mind, Clown Alley, etc, etc, and you can kind of understand why I
didn't think what Death were doing was particularly weird or
groundbreaking. I mean it was but so were dozens and dozens of other
bands at that time, just ground breaking, original, and unique in
different ways.
John sang in Reason To Believe and Sensefield. Reason to believe blew my mind when I first heard them on a tape comp that also featured Our Gang, and Infest back in 1987. Johns singing was that of someone who actually was very talented and had an amazing voice that somehow worked with a fast hardcore band. A rarity as most of us who listen to the genre know. I lost track of what he was doing over the years, but I'm saddened by his death at the young age of 45. He was still doing music, and was a talented person. I still get shivers down my spine when I hear his voice on any Reason To Believe recordings. Rest In Power!
Fourteen Or Fight Side:
1.Revenge of the latchkey kids
2.Agressive collector
3.combo amp a go go
4.godless America
The Repos Side:
5.no control
6.one last time
7.fugitive family 2
8.haha hardcore
9.alright!?!
10.fast decline
11.hollow trees
I put this one out many years ago on my label. Pretty sure it was both bands first vinyl appearance. I remember hearing the Repos demo in my bedroom in Albany NY… I was floored. Totally reminded me of Septic Death meets Infest in some really warped way. So When I talked to Aaron from the Repos and he told me they were supposed to do a split with Fourteen Or Fight and it couldn't happen for whatever reason I jumped at the chance to help them out by releasing it. Fourteen Or Fight was my old room mate Jon Arends hc band after Charles Bronson. The band also featured Frank on vox who years earlier fronted the legendary MK Ultra. The copy I have up on here is the limited to 30 copies or something… how can you go wrong with an 11 song 7". Enjoy and Share
Some records I still need. Will trade or pay money.
Identity Crysis-tied to the tracks 7"
Phantom Lord- evil never sleeps Lp
Phantom Lord-s/t Lp
Scared Straight- you drink, you drive, you die Lp
Subculture- I heard a scream Lp
Exorcist-nightmare theatre Lp
Dream Death-Journey into mystery Lp
Stone Henge-cats eyez 7"
Griffin- flight of the griffin Lp
Griffin- protectors of the lair
Schizo- thrash the unreasonable tape
Slam- ingens Slav Lp
M 16- locked and loaded Lp
Yòuth Youth Youth - repackaged Lp
Iron Rainbow- metal man 7"
Witch Cross 7"
Satanic Rites Live to ride 7"
This was a really fun band to play in. It was really relaxing to do. I worked with My buddy Mark Telfian painting houses all day, then we'd go write songs or practice them after work. It was a great stress release. This was recorded in 2003, and released on youth Attack Records while we were all living in Albany NY. McCoy did the entire layout, and made it look as questionable as Telfians politics. I love it. We wrote these songs in Altamont NY at Dan Barkers parents house. He played drums. My 'ol buddy/roomate Eric Schou played bass, Mark Telfian played guitar, and did the main vox. I played lead guitars, acoustic guitars, and back up vox.
We recorded the ep at Will Dandy's Dead Air Studio in Western Mass. At the time that Mark and I were writing these songs, we were heavily influenced by three bands. Megadeth, Abc Diablo, and Citizens Arrest. Thats all I recall listening to during that time period. I don't think you can hear the influences so much, but that is what we were going for musically. I wish we'd been able to do more together. We recorded a demo tape, that later got pressed to vinyl, but thats really it... enjoy.
This tape being uncovered I owe to my friend Kevin 'O who I gave the only copy to well over twenty years ago. He was nice enough to save it, and recently sent it back to me. My guess is that if I would have kept it, it would be lost in a sea of tapes, or given away to someone else. I wish I still had the Possessed, and A.A. sets from the gig on tape... they are lost in a sea of tapes for sure.
The tape is from 1986 at the Farm in SF. It was the last show Discharge played after touring the U.S.A. on a their sell out LP. I had no idea that they had put out a bad record, and were touring on it, so me hearing them sounding like this was a complete shock. I was ready to hear the classic Discharge... I can be heard talking to another dude standing next to me about how they sound worse then Ratt, and wondering if anyone from the Orig lineup is even in the band. They really were horrible, and within the first song you can hear the crowd chanting fuck you. Within 10 mins in they give up playing, and for the next 30 mins, random dudes come out on stage to yell at the crowd, and tell them the cops are coming, and that we are closed minded assholes. Andy Anderson(Attitude Adjustment), and Scotty Verbal Abuse are some of the randoms talking the crowd down. Seriously a great memory. The entire farm chanting DRI, DRI, DRI, DRI...In hopes that DRI who had opened would come back out and play. Turns out that when Discharge came back out to give it another go, DRI walked up with a trash can full of garbage and threw it at the band. Members of the band were actually crying because of the reaction. Years later My friend Jim MacNaughton told me he saw them at La'Mar or something in NY, and the same thing happened. That would have been at the beginning of the tour. Hard to believe they toured like this. The recording was done on a little walkmen type tape player, but sounds awesome. There are only a few songs played, most the time of this tape is the great banter by roadies, and SF scene dudes. Pretty sure nothing else in the world exists like this. Enjoy the download
Years before any one else was calling themselves Terror, these guys were playing as Terror. I
know very little about these Japanese thrashers. My old Albany friend
Louis J gave me this one back in the early 1990's. All he said was "enjoy
this Japanese rarity". He was the first guy I'd ever met who went
balls out collecting Japanese punk hardcore records. It was like an
addiction for the guy. Even back in 1989 he was sometimes paying $75
for records that I thought he was insane for buying. Turned out he was
way ahead of his time.
The record is chock full of speed and
blur. I'd say they were influenced by the likes of SOB, Outo, Gauze,
etc. The vocals are what make this for me. I love the Totally raw
recording on this ep. The songs are all like 3-4 mins long, but the
only one with any metal influence that I'm here is "no see mine". The
others are all raging hardcore tunes with some cool breakdowns to boot.
Enjoy.
I haven't listened to this LP in a really long time. I originally bought it at the Record Vault on Polk street in San Fransisco in around 1985 or 1986. I had no idea what they sounded like, but was told I should buy it by Andy Airborne who sang for Attitude Adjustment at the time. He worked at the shop on weekends, and told me Anti were a heavy influence on Attitude Adjustment. I was sold on that and the art work. Upon getting back to my apartment to listen to the LP I was somewhat disappointed by what I heard. The band played a more mid paced punk style rather then the thrashy HC that I was sorta expecting. I'd say if you crossed the Circle Jerks with Adolescents you'd understand the sound I'm talking about. The sound has def grown on me. Its melodic as hell punk, with snotty vocals, and kick ass catchy guitar solos that make me happy when hearing this. Still not sure if Andy was fucking with me or not...but I sorta think the bands politics and punk attitude might have had a influence on AA. I did take a lot of his recommendations, and most panned out and kept me a happy little thrasher. The band was from L.A., and with this release have nailed the L.A. punk sound.
This ep was released just after the band had broken up, and even though there are only two songs on the ep, there is 10 mins worth of music. These guys were one of the first death metal bands to incorporate a keyboard player both live and on records. As any old metal heads out there remember key boards were a no no for most metal. NO FUCKING KEYBOARDS! When I first looked at their records I had the same thought. With these guys I always thought it worked pretty well though, as the themes of the songs were always pretty Sci-fi based, and it worked as cool back ground effects. I was turned onto the band by Dave & Jack who owned Erl Records. They would always call me up when new stuff came in, and throw stuff in the save drawer at their shop for me. I first discovered Carcass, and Crossed Out through these guys and their Albany NY based record shop. I picked up this bands first LP from them, and consistently kept buying other stuff from them that they released. These dudes were total Technical death nerds, and influenced a slew of other death-tech bands. The original line up included the first Morbid Angel drummer(who also sang). Florida death metal will always have a place in my heart.
Here is some more Western Mass hardcore for you. As stated in the Outpatients post before this, I mentioned I saw these guys in a basement with G-Man. Wishful thinking blew me away live. Total straight edge youth crew, but a bit more harsh sounding then say youth of today, etc. I'd say Wishful thinking were influenced by lots of straight edge(duh...Minor threat for sure), but mixed in the speed and rawness of other bands from their area(Deep Wound, Siege, Outpatients, etc). After I'd seen them, and got the 7" I tried to turn on the Albany folks I started to meet in the scene. Albany was sorta weird though. A very Straight edge, New York hardcore mentality existed here. If it wasn't from NY, it wasn't of interest to about 80% of the scene. Dudes in Albany who wanted to book, SNFU, Victims Family, Operation Ivy, and bands that weren't "hard" or "straight" had to book Judge, Token Entry, Super Touch, Sick Of It All, YOT, Breakdown, GB, etc. to get kids to come out to shows. It was weird.
Years after seeing these guys, and getting the 7" from my Western Mass connection, I'd met, and become friends with the singer of Wishful thinking. Mark Dargie, one of the nicest guys ever. I think I met him selling his record collection at a show. He's still around, and semi hip to whats going on. Download this...nine ragers on this 7" ep slab.
Sample:
Download ep http://www.mediafire.com/?31mmwoocdd7m06c
I was turned onto these guys by a kid i'd met at Worlds Records in Albany NY maybe around 1989. I'd just moved back to the area from SF, and really hadn't met to many Albany punk/hc people yet. The guy I met wasn't from Albany, he was from Pittsfield Massachusetts(45 mins away). Back then when one saw another person in say a 7 Seconds shirt on or something, you'd approach them and make some conversation(seems like that sorta thing doesn't really happen anymore). At any rate this dude and myself exchanged info, and I ended up going to a couple of shows in Western MA with him. One was in a basement, with a band called Wishful Thinking, and G-Man. This guy introduced me to some of his friends, and a few months later sent me a copy of the outpatients demo, and a Wishful Thinking 7".
I'm pretty sure I still have the demo, but haven't unearthed it yet(or seen it in over a decade). This CD compiles the bands early stuff, including the demo. I love this stuff..raw silly sounding thrashed out punk hardcore.
1.sphinx
2.lurking fear
3.slaves(of the crucifix)
4.requiem/alive(undead)
5.satan commands
6.zombie dance
7.angel of satan
8.alive(undead)
9.wake the dead
10.black death
11.witchfynde
12.possessed (by hell)
fucking Metal!!! This should not be confused with the cock rock band with the same name.
I wasn't familiar with these guys in the early days. It wasn't until the 90's that I was introduced to them by this metal freak named John who would frequent the comic shop I worked at. John would swing by every week, and give me cassettes of demo's and rare obscure metal records that he had dubbed for me. What I recall most about this dude was that he lived at home with him mom, but had a porn addiction that i'd say matched almost any one I'd ever met. Dude drove around in this clunker of a car(like a la barren I think), blasting metal on his tape deck, with his video porn collection stored in the trunk so that his mother wouldn't find it at home. Totally hilarious. All I could ever imagine was him getting in an accident, or pulled over by the cops who searched his car only to find a huge stash of porn in the trunk. At any rate John taped me one of this bands demo's from the 80's. Years later I saw this sucker and knew I needed it. I guess this German Black/Death/Thrash band flew under my radar because I was more interested in Sodom, Kreator, and Destruction. At any rate this compiles a bunch of demo tracks, a live tune, and some other rarities. The band formed in the early 80's, and signed some bogus contract that didn't allow them to record anything for some time. This lead to inactivity, and then the bands break up.
1.Plague 2.Born In A Mess 3.Exit 4.Promised 5.Splintered 6.Spoon Fed 7.Fangs 8.Praying For Failure 9.Body And Blood 10.Frozen Minds 11.You've Been Had 12.Sensory Deprivation 13.Invincible 14.Fooled Again
Here is another
obscure classic hardcore release from the 90's. Eucharist were
from Richmond Virginia, and put out this 12" LP, and another four
compilation tracks. Unfortunately the band never did a demo. The band did an entire U.S. tour with Suppression,
and played the North East pretty regularly. My connection to this is
that one of my best friends, Mark Telfian formed this band after leaving
my band Devoid Of Faith, and moving from Albany down south. Mark
played on many a records including, Conniption, DOF, Death
Squad, By The Throat, Hail Mary and
Limp Wrist. This one is by far his most triumphant recording. The songs are
short, tight, and very harsh sounding. Totally brutal stuff indeed. I
always thought the band was under the influence of Econochrist meets
Citizens Arrest or Rorschach. When I mentioned this to Mark he laughed
and said "Negative Approach dude". This came out on Mountain, a label run by Chris Jenson. Enjoy!
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