YOURS TO KILL

thanks to RUINATION's former guitarist Andy (who now plays in NIGHTBRINGER which are one of the best bands around at the moment!) I was finally able to get the THEY LIVE / RUINATION split 7". sad but true the 3 THEY LIVE songs aren't doing that much for me and are not even half as good as their other stuff. luckily RUINATION make up for that with 4 great tracks. you can check it out by clicking on the cover. on a side note: the same cover was used on (at least) 2 other records! I guess that's enough...

LIVE BUSTED!

another find in the depths of the web: COKE BUST, which really got me with their LINES IN THE SAND 12", with 9 tracks that were recorded live @ SIDE2 studio. while this isn't the best live cut I've ever heard it's still fun to listen if you dig COKE BUST like I do. on a side-note: "another find in the depths of the web" translates to not my rip and should tell you that if you got complaints about the bit-rate or the quality and whatnot I'm the wrong guy to complain to.

YOU, YES YOU! TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!

I could have also called this post "the Ivan" post cause it all started when I was chatting with him a while ago and we ended up talking about RINGWORM quite a bit. in that conversation Ivan said that in his ears their demo would be THE ultimate definition of the sound that people would later refer to as HOLY TERROR HARDCORE (most likely after they came across that term in a zine called INSIDE FRONT or in an interview with the vocalist of CATHARSIS who published that zine in the mid and late 90ies) and I pretty much agree with him. other bands might have gained more popularity over the years, released more records, etc. but I always considered RINGWORM's THE WORMS WILL GET IN demo to be the foundation for the whole genre since I heard it for the 1st time. I openly admit that I'm nearly 100% sure that the records of other HOLY TERROR bands like INTEGRITY or CATHARSIS got played a lot more than RINGWORM's demo or their 12" in my place which may or may not have something to with the fact that RINGWORM seemed to feel quite comfortable within the patterns they (helped) define(d) and with continuing to base their songs on sheer brutality while INTEGRITY and CATHARSIS tried to push the envelope while still sounding brutal at the same time. oh, and I'm well aware that a lot of people would slap/tried to slap GEHENNA with the HOLY TERROR label but I wouldn't file GEHENNA under HOLY TERROR. anyway, back to RINGWORM and to what the title of the post means. in 1995 the RINGWORM demo was pressed on vinyl and came with the 4th issue of a zine called BLOODBOOK that was published by INTEGRITY's vocalist Dwid. now that 7" contains the remixed or remastered versions of the 5 tracks on the demo in a different order and without the movie soundtrack styled parts that were between the tracks on the org. tape which I didn't know back then as had neither seen nor heard one of the actual tapes and haven't seen or heard a physical copy of the demo till today (but I hope to get my hands on an org. copy of the tape soon) and I don't think that it would have any influence on my love for this 7" if I would have known. fast forward to 2009: RINGWORM's THE PROMISE 12" is re-issued on A389 RECORDS and the pre-order version came with a GLUTTONS 7" (which have Human Furnace on vox) and a 2nd 7" with a, I think remastered, version of the RINGWORM demo. this time it comes with the track order of the tape, the above mentioned soundtrack styled parts between the songs and also with the artwork that was used on the tape if I'm not mistaken. I decided to prefer the vinyl color and the darker cover of the INCISION pressing above the vinyl color and the cover of the A389 re-issue (which also doesn't display the band's name and the record title anymore) but the re-issue scores points for having a foldout cover and for coming with a booklet while most of the INCISION 12"es not even came with a lyric sheet. now, as the music on the 12"es isn't really that different enough about the full-length and back to the 7"es cause what I want you to tell me is which version of the demo you prefer. to simplify that task a click on the cover on the top will enable you to d/l an archive that contains mp3 rips of both versions and scans of the artwork.

as already written above the INCISION pressing had RINGWORM and the record title on the front-cover which also wasn't as bright as the cover of the re-issue plus the marbled vinyl didn't look like an abortion which I can't say about the red & yellow vinyl of the re-issue...

TRANSPLANTED

PIG HEART TRANSPLANT is the band in which Jon Kortland, who play-s/ed in IRON LUNG and GOB, lives out his more experimental/noisy side. while I like his other bands way more this is still pretty decent stuff.

WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE

Gehenna (Full Set) from hate5six productions on Vimeo.

fuck, yes!

GUTRIPPER

one of the best bands I discovered in the last years are HUMMINGBIRD OF DEATH and therefore you get their 1st 7" here. released by FATALIST, 625 and GIVE PRAISE in 2007 with a print-run of only 500 copies that should be long gone by now. I thought about posting their 20 (!) track 5" as that's my favorite HUMMINGBIRD OF DEATH record but as that was re-pressed only a short time ago (I got an extra copy of the 5" from the 1st pressing to trade if anybody is interested) I went for the 18 track 7" instead. anyway, you won't be disappointed from their 7" neither as it delivers blistering, furious FASTCORE that comes with outstanding lyrics with quite a bit sarcasm here and there (e.g. STUPID BILLS: OFF TO THE RECORD STORE... WHERE DID ALL MY MONEY GO? good question that I'd ask myself quite often if there would be any record stores here I guess - Satan bless the distros!) and is really gut-ripping just as the title oft the b-side promises.

GAME OVER

as I wanted something really special for the 1st post in 2010 it took me a little while to decide what band/record I should go for before I made my pick but here it is: ENEWETAK's 1st 7" a.k.a. DEAD BIRD which is a monster! it's ugly, it's gritty, it's angry and it blows most of today's records out of the water! period! plus it was released on REVOLUTIONARY POWER TOOLS which was done by Mike Cheese a.k.a. Mike Apocalypse the vocalist of GEHENNA. I know I have seen this 7" on another blog before but I can't remember which blog it was and I'm to lazy to look but my 1st suspect would be Mr. Batguano at FUGITIVE EQUILIBRIUM. even if I'd be mistaken and it wasn't his blog he has posted some other ENEWETAK stuff you should also grab in case you haven't done yet!

WATCH OUT!

I've been told today that there will be a new release from those guys in 2010!

DISTORT EVERYTHING!

here you get down under's top notch thrashers EXTORTION sold out split 7" with JED WHITEY. I saw that on some other posts already but as I like it I decided to post it nevertheless. why does mine have 2 different covers you might ask? well, cause mine is one of the 150 that came exclusive with an issue of Australia's DISTORT zine to the subscribers. in case you don't know the zine let me suggest you check it out as it's one of the best zines around. music-wise you get 5 new slashers from EXTORTION incl. a cover of BLACK FLAG's FIX ME and 2 more PUNK sounding tracks from JED WHITEY.

Q: THE MOST FUCKED UP ABUSE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE? A: ICONOCLAST

music-wise Nippon's ICONOCLAST are a D-BEAT monster but lyric-wise they are a joke which makes it impossible for me to take them serious. really, why would anybody write lyrics in a language he doesn't know properly? even the spelling is horrible! however the music is powerful and they know how to handle their instruments.

POWER BOMB ANTHEMS

yesterday I was chatting with Ivan who runs FUCK YOGA! REC.and I asked him what the most embarrassing record in his collection would be and announced WARZONE's 1st 12" as the most embarrassing in mine (cause I traded their 3rd 12" years ago which is the most embarrassing HARDCORE record EVER!) but thinking about it I should have said FACE VALUE's THE PRICE OF MATURITY 12". what has that to do with GORDON SOLIE MOTHERFUCKERS' brilliant 10" which is called POWER BOMB ANTHEMS VOL. I and was released by 625 THRASH you might ask? well, it also features Tony Erba on vocals (whom they forgot to mention on the inlay!) but here you get 12 fast, pissed off smash hits and not some of the most boring S.E. music ever released as in case of the FACE VALUE 12". one of my favorite 625 releases!

edit: sell/trade me their CHAIRSHOT POLITICS 7" now, goddammit!

SOME GEMS...

someone I know needs money and sells some records - some real gems among them! get them while you can!

Cro-Mags 10" 1st pressing (737/1500)
Integrity "in contrast of sin" 7" 1st pressing
Integrity "change/thaw"-Septic Death-Karaoke 7"
Integrity/Psywarfare Picture-7"
Integrity/Lockweld 7"
Integrity/Mayday 7" 1st pressing/white vinyl
Psywarfare "holocaust angel" 7"
Mayday "staplegun" 10" marble-blue vinyl
Mayday "the underdark" 7"
Mayday "lost in sabbath" 7"
Apartment 213 "vacancy" 7"
V/A "only the strong" 7" (w/ Integrity, Face Value, Confront, Meanstreak, Life Cycle, Insight) 1st pressing, blue vinyl
Face Value "coming of age" 7"
Ringworm/Terror 7" clear vinyl
Head First "back in control" 7"
Head First "intervention/black" 7"
Head First "intervention/come together" 7" (393/550)
Hard Stance "face reality" 7"
Alone i a crowd 7" 2nd pressing
Unbroken "absentee debate/crushed on you" 7"
Ink And Dagger "love is dead" 7" white vinyl
Verbal Assault "tiny giants/more than music" 7"
ABC diabolo 1st 7"
Luzifers Mob 7"
Golgatha 7"
Iron Skull/Born from Pain Split-7"

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FUCK - IT NEVER CHANGES!

Winnipeg's NOOSE sent me a rip of their demo tape which was released in a quantity of 100 tapes by PEACE & QUIET RECORDINGS and asked if I would give it a try and post it here in case that I'd like them/their demo. today I finally found the time to give NOOSE (which have ties to WITHDRAWAL and FIRST STRIKE which I don't know either) a try. Ariel, who has sent me the demo was kind enough to also send me the lyrics to the 8 tracks on the demo. once in a while their lyrics make me wonder if I really got the message but they display such negativity that I don't doubt that who wrote them doesn't have the most positive outlook on life nevertheless. music-wise it's POWER VIOLENCE with some really nasty slower/sludgy parts thrown in for good measure. the sound quality of the recordings is rough and raw and while it's still decent a better recording could have made the difference. don't get me wrong it's a solid demo which could have been better than that. the PEACE & QUIET REC. blog tells you that NOOSE play "Power Violence made to ruin your life to". hm, their demo is a solid try no matter what and in the future they might be able to do so... anyway, check out the demo yourself. I had some trouble to burn the original m4a files as audio-CD therefore I also included an mp3 rip of my CD-R so you won't have to fuck up 3 CD-Rs like I did.