ECLECTIC BLOG CREW!

I admit that I'd have nearly overlooked that AM I MEAN? has it's 2nd birthday today and therefore hadn't prepared any special rips or so. well, fuck it! I had ripped the REVERSAL OF MAN / COMBAT WOUNDED VETERAN split 12" a while ago and decided I'd prefer to use this split above XCHORUSX's TRUTH GIVES WINGS... as I don't see a S.E. record fit into a post that has something to do with a birthday celebration.! anyway, as both bands are well-known I just add that it comes with 9 tracks of spastic HARDCORE . click the pic below!

LET'S DANCE AGAIN (the 2nd)

LEPERS TO FEED THE LEPERS

one of my favorite bands at the moment: TRASH TALK this is their one-sided 6 song 7" that was released in 2008 and is called PLAGUES. music-wise you can expect fast and really pissed of HARDCORE that can be summed up in one word: brilliant! click the last pic to d/l!

BUY THIS CD (IF YOU CAN)

DRUG PROBLEM is SHORTLIVED's guitarist James' other band and this is their new CD. this is a totally sick piece of art & music - a mix of SLUDGE and POWER VIOLENCE you haven't heard before! it's sold on SHORTLIVED's tour so hurry up and get yourself a copy. they got a good review in SHORT, FAST + LOUD too!

THE GEAR

not much activity here lately, I know, I know...but IDONEUM BELLO keeps me busy as well as some other shit! anyway, here's another short post. BENÜMB's GEAR IN THE MACHINE 7" which was released as part of the RELAPSE 7" series. 6 heavy hitters way rawer than their last 2 full-lengths!

PULLING THE FRIGHTENER'S TEETH

it's PULLING TEETH vs. FRIGHTENER on this 7" and I couldn't say who wins! both bands fight tooth and claw to take the crown but in my ears it's a draw. even though PULLING TEETH love to throw in METAL parts in their HARDCORE here and there. sweet artwork and colored wax what more can you ask for?

SENTENCING

I ripped ENEMY SOIL's LIVE AT FIESTA GRANDE # 5 FLEXI 7" while playing it for the 1st. I don't like live-recordings that much and these here are no exceptions but I've heard worse live stuff. basically I just bought it cause I got it very cheap to tell the truth and I think I won't play it very often. click on the pic below.

ZODIAC

someone requested USE YOUR STRENGTH and Count Yorga at once stepped up and delivered the goods. so here`s USE YOUR STRENGTH's ZODIAC 12" YOUTH-CREW sound from the east of Germany! click the pic below!

OLD BLUE EYES IS DEAD! (the 2nd)

THE SWARM's brilliant 7" is re-upped! click the cover!

WOLF IN IDIOT'S CLOTHING

so here's the last post in the 625 THRASHCORE special: the HATRED SURGE 7" is not only one of the best 625 7"es it's one of best GRINDCORE 7"es ever! period! it's like a fucking tsunami pressed on vinyl! 9 tracks of raging, furious, GRINDCORE! 8 tracks of their own and a cover of DESPISE YOU's HAND ME DOWN EXISTNCIA! download this!

SUPER BRUTALIZER

the 625 THRASHCORE special is coming near it's end. the 2nd to last record to be posted in it is the LORDS OF LIGHT 7". 8 tracks of UFC and wrestling influenced spastic HARDCORE. I don't know why but I somehow always thought they'd be from Nippon until I recently realized they're from Portland, Or. which is home to some of the best HARDCORE bands to ever come out of the U.S.!

CRASHDEATH

more noise from South-East Asia! Indonesia's EDÖRA rip through 8 tracks on their debut 7" that was released in 2001. when this 7" came out they put a lot of "established" bands to shame. where the "established" bands just bored me EDÖRA showed that you can beat a dead horse a.k.a. FASTCORE without bore the listeners to death!

EARTHQUAKE BOWL

what have KNUCKLE SCRAPPER, MACHINE GUN ROMANTICS, TERRORIZER, EXCRUCIATING TERROR, etc. in common? they all shared members with 50/50 and ENDLESS DEMISE! do I have to write more?

BRAIN DISEASED

OK, here we go again - the next chapter in the 625 THRASHCORE special: on their self-titled debut 7" Arizona's GET DESTROYED deliver 10 tracks of full-throttle NO COMMENT styled POWER VIOLENCE that destroys everything in it's path and takes no prisoners! musical brutality to the max!

NEITHER STAPLED NOR NAILED!

as I'm in a hurry I'll keep it short: another winner from 625 THRASH would be the XBRÄNIAX / NO COMPLY split 7". XBRÄNIAX take the cake in my ears with 10 tracks of their own and a LACK OF INTEREST cover that's not listed anywhere.

INSANITY

truth be told - I don't know more about NINE CURVE than what Max wrote on the 625 THRASH site: "this is a the final culmination of Nine Curve (who broke up in 2002)....totally fast thrash metal inspired Japanese hardcore. I am really happy with these songs and glad that they got something out to document this rad band. Members went onto to form WE MUST BURN." I might add that I agree with him NINE CURVE were a rad band! d/l and hear for yourself!

PLAY FAST LIKE THERE IS NO TOMORROW!

one of my favorite 625 THRASH releases would be SECRET 7's one-sided 11 track 7" called PLAY FAST LIKE THERE IS NO TOMORROW! SECRET 7 are from Singapore and were the 1st band from there I've heard. in my book having 11 tracks on a 7" side is a good sign you know but that alone doesn't make a good record as that's just not enough but SECRET 7 don't have any problems adding what's needed to not only make it a good record they make it a brilliant record! fuck, those guys are impressive! they are not only fast they are faster and while they are faster they're still powerful which is the part where a lot of other hyper-fast bands fail!

IN THE BEGINNING...

there was the EVOLVED TO OBLITERATION / NO LE$$ split 7". as that was 625 THRASHCORE # 1 I perhaps should have started the ongoing one week of THRASH with this 7". anyway, in the discography section of the 625 website Max tells you: "The very first 625 release. Although I put out releases before this (976/Plutocracy split EP, etc), this was the first release as a label. The whole idea behind this was to document the explosion of brutal hardcore from the local West Bay scene. This split took tracks from both the ETO and NO LESS demos. I only made about 700 (because I was low on cash) but I think the original purpose worked. People heard these bands, and some people liked em enough to ask em to do future projects." well, while I think that EVOLVED TO OBLITERATION are quite cool NO LE$$ don't do anything for me! as their tracks are linked with samples and whatnot, that can't prevent that they really fucking bore me, I left it that way (meaning their side is one track). in my opinion just the 6 EVOLVED TO OBLITERATION tracks are worth a listen but download and decide for yourself!

RE-UPPED POST ISN'T THE BASTARD

here's a re-up that isn't a re-up! how that works? the 1st time the KNUCKLE SCRAPER 7" was posted it was contributed by Mitchel and didn't include the artwork. now it does include the artwork and was ripped with 320 k/bits!

ONE WAY OUT!

I'll kick off the one week of 625 THRASH with... STOCKHOLM SYNDROME (= when a hostage is attracted to / falls in love with it's kidnapper) which were another band that had Max 625 himself within it's ranks. if I'm not mistaken it took this 7" 2 years to see the light of day and it came out just a very short time before they disbanded. it's a fucking shame - I'd love to hear more of STOCKHOLM SYNDROME's blend of distorted THRASH but I think the 6 songs here is all they left!

ONE WEEK OF THRASH!

the next 6 posts will all be 625 THRASH related. starting with STOCKHOLM SYNDROME tomorrow (or maybe even later this evening) and continuing from there!