Best Of 2023

Short Delco MF’s-March of the MF’s Kinetic Orbital Strike-The True Disaster People’s Temple-I’m With The People’s Temple Secretors-Comparing Missile Size Sirkka-Viivyttely Long Beyond The Pale-Self Titled Brain Tourniquet-…An Expression In Pain Heavy Discipline-Your Scapegoat Planet On A Chain-Boxed In Wound Man-Human Outline Demo/Tapes Intensive Care Unit Mentalite 81 Ordinance Sin Offering Tupperware Reissue/Collection Bl’ast!-Manic Ride Delco MF’s-The First Full Year Heroin-Discography Husker Du-Tonite Longhorn SS Decontrol-Kids Will Have Their Say

Ten Foot Pole-Vision-Digger @ Asbury Park NJ 6-29-99

My big memory of this show is Vision being really pissed at the venue for trying to cut their set short. Dave was pretty hot about it. This was a weird show too because a lot of the crowd didn’t really know Vision that well. I swear Full Speed Ahead opened this show maybe? I left after Vision and went to dinner with someone I’d taken a class with that spring. Ten Foot Pole has that band the guy from Scared Straight was in, but I am pretty sure he was out of the band by this time because he…
Read more

Against The Grain-Three Against One-Oi Scouts-To Each His Own-The Disturbed-Heatseekers-The Primitives @ Waretown NJ 8-14-99

So my big memory of this show was one of the bands covering local legends False Justice. When the mosh part in “Stick Together” hit, some rando started wailing on people, so I shoved him and he got in my face and then one of my friends threw the dude away from me. During this era I remember these kinds of scuffles happening a lot at local shows in Ocean County because someone would show up and think hardcore shows were just like Woodstock 99 or whatever.

Black Cross-Kodan Armada-Marathon-Nakotami Plaza-The Procedure @ Hamilton St. Bound Brook NJ 9-6-03

This is, as far as I know, the only show I ever went to on my birthday. I drove to it alone and spent most of the show hanging out outside with some friends before checking out Black Cross, who had members of Endpoint and some other Kentucky bands. They were kind of screamo meets more straight forward hardcore, I guess, but something I would never listen to now. I had a conversation with someone in this band that left me unimpressed too. Pretty long drive for only one band I only kind of liked.

One King Down-E Town Concrete-Rigid-Outlook-Tonsul-Tied Down 7-6-96

That Bates Lodge venue in Red Bank did a ton of shows from like 95-97 both big and small. Tied Down, Tonsul, and Rigid played a bunch of those shows. I think Tonsul sounded like Deadguy/Rorschach kind of stuff? Outlook did a demo that, if I recall right, kind of had a melodic Turning Point vibe to it. We used to run into a member of that band on LBI in the summer from time to time. E-Town Concrete were totally not my thing at all, but they were pretty nice guys. Random metal dudes in my high school got…
Read more

Best Of 2020

12 Rated X-United Front Don Cherry-Om Shanti Om Heavy Discipline-Self Titled Smut-First Kiss Exploatör–Avgrundens Brant 7 Scarecrow-Revenge Huraña–Brujas, Cholas E Inventadas Humant Blod–Flykten Från Verkligheten Skitklass-世界の平等さようなら Regimen De Terror-Inherente Del Poder Demo Jackal-Live At The Pain Cave Tape Ghouli-Nothing Esplosi Splitting Heads Planet On A Chain Reissue United Mutation-Dark Self Image Totalitar-Heydays Revisted Inzest-Violence Not Words (Reissue) DropDead-1993 DropDead-Volume One 1992-1993

css.php