LP Boston Strangler-Primitive Fire & Ice-Not Of This World No Tolerance-Collection Tragedy-Darker Days Ahead Give-Singles Going Confetti Demo World War IV Wet Brain Violent Future Peacebreakers Free Spirit EP Magic Circle Secterian Violence Give-Petal Pushing Mauser-Isolation Bloodkrow Butcher-Anti War
Cro Mags-We Gotta Know (Age of Quarrel) New Lows-Last of The Rats (Harvest Of The Carcass) Citizens Arrest-Soaked In Others Blood (Soaked In Others Blood) Waste Management-Too Much Unity (Power Abuse) No Tolerance-Empty Words (No Remorse, No Tolerance) Technocracy-Aggressor (Diary of a Terrorist) NYC Mayhem-Want Authority (Crossover Days) Bastard-Defective Chain (Controlled In The Frame) Soul Swallower-Burning For The Ultimate (Devoured) Give-I Am Love (I Am Love) Void-Condensed Flesh (Sessions 81-83) Scapegoat-Bleach (Self Titled) Death Evocation-Relentless (Self Titled) Vaccine-Drug War (Crimes In Blood) Mauser-End Of The Line (End Of The Line) Omegas-Excessive Force (Blasts Of Lunacy) Faith-Untitled (Subject To Change Plus…
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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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2011 ends as a pretty strong year for new releases. Wading through the bullshit in hardcore seems to get harder and harder each year, but here is a list of the top records in various formats I enjoyed this year. Demos/Tapes/CD • Our Side • Cervix • Blessed Offal Seven Inch or Less • V/A-Brutal Supremacy Compilation • School Jerks-Control • Citizens Arrest-Soaked In Others Blood • Death Evocation-Self Titled • Waste Management-Power Abuse • No Tolerance-No Remorse, No Tolerance • Vaccine-Crimes In Blood • Mauser-End Of The Line • Give-I Am Love • Gasmask Terror-Like Daggers Longer Players •…
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Talk Is Poison-Right To Die (Self Titled) Youth Brigade-Snow Job (Demo) Voorhees-A Cure For The New Disease (Spilling Blood Without Reason) Necros-Youth Camp (IQ32) Mind Eraser-Manhood (Glacial Reign) Sacrilege-A Violation of Something Sacred (Beyond The Realm of Madness) Rorschach-Hemlock (Protestant) Corrosion of Conformity-Holier (Animosity) Blessed Offal-Bottomless Grave (Demo) Misery-Class Warfare (Who’s The Fool) Neurosis-The Choice (The Word As Law) Slang-World of Lunacy (Life Made Me Hardcore) Indian Dream-Silent Screams (Orca) Mauser-New Threat (End of the Line) Black Flag-Best One Yet (Loose Nut) Whirl-Blue (Distressor)
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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Taste of Fear-Pro Life=No Mind (Split With Disrupt) Madball-We Should Care (Ball of Destruction) Agnostic Front-Crucial Changes (United Blood) Obliteration-Fascist System (Self Titled) Capital Scum-Final Nail In My Coffin (Clutch The Flag) Cop Out-Burned Down (Self Titled) Mind Eraser-Withdrawal Symptoms (The Prodigal Son Brings Death) His Hero Is Gone-Leash (Fifteen Counts of Arson) The Proletariat-Bread & Circus (Soma Holiday) Government Warning-Arrested (Arrested) Trauma-Policy of War (Demo) Political Asylum-Flight of Fancy (Solitary) Fear of God-Two Sides of the Coin (As Statues Fall) War Cry-The New Age (Not So Distant Future) Messiah Force-Silent Tyrant (Female Fronted Heavy Metal 1976-1989 Disc Two) Off!-I…
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Mauser 2010 Summer Tour EP Burly D-Beat hardcore influenced by the best of England and Scandinavia. This style is more watered down than youth crew stuff, but this band keeps it pretty interesting throughout this record. I think a better recording and another record will have a lot of potential.
One of my students pointed this out the other day: our War-Pig-In-Chief Barack Obama continues the wars of the previous administration (and seems to be moving them to Pakistan as well). So much for “change,” suckers. My student then commented sarcastically, “boy, isn’t it great that there are monthly protests in Washington to end the war since Obama got in?” Oh. Whoops. Yeah. Funny how that all stopped once Bush was out of office. Democrats are just as pathetic as Republicans. The only reason anyone marches now is when Jon Stewart commands it. How pathetic. Monsanto, Coca Cola, Microsoft, and Blackwater…
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