Tag Archive: Infest

April 2012 Reviews

Stick Together Demo This Wilkes-Barre band plays 88 style hardcore that reminds me a lot of Four Walls Falling and Release. Good stuff. Mindless Human Conditioning Tape Despite their name, Mindless are not so kind of Infest worship band (although I call dibs on Human Conditioning as a band name…I dig it). Mindless remind me a bit of His Hero Is Gone, but with some 1990’s power violence influence (Charles Bronson I think?). This is a pretty interesting sound and I would like to hear more from them. Fashionable Activism #2 I really liked the firsti ssue of this fanzine…
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Signifying Nothing 3-5-12

Cops And Robbers-Execution Style (Execution Style) Crow-Children Lost The Bright Future (Neurotic Organization) Mainstrike-Can You Believe It? (Self Titled) Warning-Blind Leads Blind (War) Team Dresch-#1 Chance Pirate TV (Personal Best) Infest-Judge Me (Mankind) Napalm Death-Lucid Fairytale (From Enslavement To Obliteration) Knife Fight-Isolated (Isolated) Antidote-Zero Mentality (2010 Reissue) Fury-Shotgun (Resurrection) Heroin-Blindly (Paper Bag EP) Born Against-This Trash Should’ve Been Free (Battle Hymns Of The Race War) Discharge-Never Again (Never Again) Krakdown-Ignorance (New York City Hardcore: The Way It Is) Sacrilege-Shadow From Mordor (Behind The Realms Of Madness) The Boston Strangler-First Offense (Promo Tape) Life Cycle-Face To The Ground (Myth & Ritual)…
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Winter 2012 Reviews

Nomos Demo Great 82 style hardcore from this New York band. There are a lot of modern influences on this band’s demo including Cold Sweat, The Snobs, and other, hey, early 00 bands. I would like to hear more. Our Side Demo Really raw, late eighties, influenced hardcore in the vein of Release, Youth Of Today, and Four Walls Falling. With a better recording, I sense this band could be pretty good. I want to hear more. Pigsticker Demo I really like this demo. Pigsticker reminds me a cross between Circle Jerks and Necros with sloppy, raw, production values that sounds pretty authentic to the early eighties…
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Signifying Nothing Podcast January 7th 2012

United Youth-Fuck Your Standards (Demo) Vaccine-Patriot (Crime In Blood) Infest-Break The Chain (Slave) Lethal Aggression-Newcaster Lies (Life Is Hard…But That’s No Excuse…) Staring Problem-Scattered Pieces (Pissed Human Dick) Give-Life Unknown (Self Titled) Bl’ast!-Look Into Myself (The Power Of Expression) Crow-Occupied Japan (Vertigo) Cro Mags-Do Unto Others (Age Of Quarrel) The Rival Mob-Raw Life (Raw Life) Black Flag-I’ve Heard It Before (Blasting Concept Volume One) Mauser-New Threat (End Of The Line) No Hope For The Kids-Cold Touch of Death (Angels of Destruction) Overkill-Hell’s Getting Hotter (Blasting Concept Volume One) Hatred Surge-Brutal Supremacy (Brutal Supremacy) Siege-Conform (Demo) Siege-Walls (Cleanse The Bacteria) Siege-Grim…
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Reviews For The Week of August 15th

A 1965 performance of Naima by John Coltrane.   Antidote Thou Shalt Not Kill 7″ Bridge 9 Records Along with Infest, when I got into hardcore there wasn’t another band talked about in such mysterious and hushed tones as Antidote. The record was expensive, but the music was great. There was a bootleg 12″ of it with other early NYC eps (Cause For Alarm, The Abused and either The Mob or Urban Waste), but for most people, this was a record to get on tape, which I had a really nice dub from a virtually mint copy in 1997. Obviously,…
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Reviews For The Week Of July 25th

Mind Eraser at some Scion sponsored gig. I giggled at how DFJ bums out the bouncers. Blessed Offal Self Titled Tape Death metal coming highly recommended by friends who dig this stuff. While a few songs go on forever, Blessed Offal keeps them interesting with enough changes of pace to not lose me. This is pretty good. United Youth Demo Decent 88 style hardcore that goes by in the blink of an eye. I see a lot of potential for an ep. Keep going. Vaccine Crimes In Blood 5″ Painkiller Records I am glad this is a 5″ because there…
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Citizens Arrest-Colossus: The Discography

Citizens Arrest Colossus: The Discography Double LP Nuclear War Now Records Citizens Arrest are one of the most essential bands of the late 80’s to early 90’s period when hardcore was taking a turn towards uglier, noisier, and harsher sounds. Contemporary to bands like Rorschach, Burn, and No Comment, Citizens Arrest’s sound is equal parts influenced by bands like Napalm Death and Siege, and more youth crew oriented bands like Youth of Today or Infest. This discography contains pretty much everything it could possibly contain in a very organized manner. Their lukewarm demo (includes vocals by Ted Leo, that guy…
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Signifying Nothing Episode 03×03

Pressure Release-Paralyzed (Prison Of My Own) Die Krezuen-Among The Ruins (October File) Iron Age-The Way Is Narrow (The Way Is Narrow) Black Flag-TV Party (TV Party) Four One One-Blackout (This Isn’t Me) Citizen’s Patrol-Mental Disorder (No Bullshit Volume Four) Modern Problems-Quality Control (Demo) Midnight-Distance (Demo) Infest-Excess Pig (Mankind Reissue) Germs-Richie Dagger’s Crime (Lion’s Share) Life’s Blood-Maximum Security (New Breed) Framtid-The Plague (Split With Seein Red) Agent Orange-KKK (VD) Hatred Surge-Monster (Isolated Human) Discharge-Never Again (Never Again)

Signifying Nothing Top 100 Of The Nineties

Four years late, here is the final list.  One thing I’ve noticed as I put this together is that there is a great lack of compilations on this list.  A lot of the decent compilations in the nineties have great songs, but also terrible ones.  I still feel like I am missing something obvious… 1.6 Band, Self Titled LP, USA, 1992 Acme, Self Titled 7″, Belgium, 1994 All Chrome, Flounders Flyers College & Canada LP, USA, 1999 Arms Reach, Self Titled 7″, Australia, 1998 Assuck, State To State 7″, USA, 1993 Aus-Rotten, Fuck Nazi Sympathy, USA, 1994 Bastard, Wind Of…
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