Obliteration This Is Tomorrow 7″ Painkiller Records Wow! Members of Knife Fight and Mind Eraser come together to play heavy crusty hardcore. Somewhere between Crucifix, Cro-Mags, Totalitar, and Nausea, this six song ep is one of the best records of the past few years. More please!
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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Mind Eraser Conscious/Unconscious LP Clean Plate Records Mind Eraser continue to progress with this two song LP. Each song hits about 10 minutes in length, which some fast parts and then a lot of sludgey, ugly, slowdowns. Combined with their previous influences I am hearing a lot more of both Discharge and Eyehategod in their sound. Some elements of more metallic Japanese bands like Crow can also be heard. It looks like this record is out of print currently.
Obliteration Self Titled 7” Members of Knife Fight and Mind Eraser combine for fast D-Beat hardcore influenced by bands like Nausea, Misery, and Discharge. Noisy, ugly, hardcore which really stands out from most of the boring bands who play this style. Highly recommended.
I think, at this point, the podcast is going to be canceled, or, at least, released in a different form than weekly (I’m thinking maybe a longer, monthly, show? Man, I can’t imagine how Al does two hours a week!). Since the show came back for the fall, listenership has been sporadic. This will leave the written portion of Signifying Nothing as the main focus. I have a large backlog of reviews to post, plus some other features I’d like to implement. Let’s see what happens as we experiment with this new format. Hopefully, people care enough to check it…
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Out Cold-Nothing Left To Say (Self Titled) Out Cold-Shot Dead (Permanent Twilight World) Out Cold-Suicide Watch (Will Attack If Provoked) Out Cold-It’s Terminal (Split With Voorhees) Out Cold-Menticide (No Bullshit Volume Three) Beyond-Seasons (New Breed) Black Flag-I’ve Heard It Before (The Future Looks Bright) Ignition-Rebuilding (Sinker) Iron Age-Dispossessed (The Sleeping Eye) Oi Polloi-Hands Off Nicaragua (Resist The Atomic Menace) Waste Management-No Way Out (Waste Tape Demo) War Cry-Hellish Slaughter (Not So Distant Future) Trauma-No Hope No More (Demo) Mind Eraser-Spear (The Prodigal Son Brings Death) Devoid of Faith-Purpose: Lost (Purpose: Lost) No Escape-Silenced (Rebuilding) Anti Cimex-Desperate Hours (Victims of a…
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The Rival Mob Bitter Rivals Demo 2007 Members of XFilesX, Mind Eraser, and others come together to combine the best parts of early Madball and Ringworm into some brutal contemporary hardcore. Very heavy riffs and great mosh parts. This band has run a bit under my rader, but I am looking into more by them for sure.
Hatchetface-Man Bites Dog (Volume Two) Crass-Systematic Death (Penis Envy) Calvary-According To Visions & Dreams (Outnumbered Is Outflanked) No Tolerance-Boston Ex (Demo) Rorschach-Raw Nerve (Protestant) Assuck-State To State (State to State) Knife Fight-Brainwashed (Isolated) Born Against-Nine Years Later (Nine Patriotic Hymns For Children) Black Flag-Bastard In Love (Loose Nut) Get High-Magnetized (Demo) Raw Deal-Wall of Hate (New Breed) Raw Power-Police Police/Destroy (We Can Do Whatever We Want) Stop & Think-Thick Skinned (Edge Day 2002 Demo) FYA-Human Disgrace (Demo) Mind Eraser-Leader (Unreleased) October Faction-Gimmie A Quarter/Twenty Five Cents For The Bus/Bad Acid (Self Titled)
Sorry I sound so manic during this episode. I was waiting for a phone call about a job, which has had a number of bumps along the way, so I might sound a bit cranky/silly. Napalm Death-Evolved As One (From Enslavement To Obliteration) Black Flag-White Minority (Jealous Again) Negative Approach-Hypocrite (Tied Down) 97a-Blind Fury (Abandoned Future) Floorpunch-Shottsie (New Jersey) Rancor-Till The End (Demo) Free Spirit-Stand As One (Demo) White Walls-The Great Excuse (Demo) The Rival Mob-I.I.B. (Demo) Splitting Headache-Highway Hypnosis (Night Terrors) Scapegoat-Thoughtless (Self Titled) Iconoclast-I Like You Less Than Apple Pie (Discography) Clitboys-I Hate The KKK (Demo) Mind Eraser-World…
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Dry Rot Philistine LP Parts Unknown Records Dry Rot have been a band who came highly recommended from many friends. Didn’t they tour with Mind Eraser one summer too? Cool. I have enjoyed their many eps in the past, but they never really pulled me in where I would listen to them a lot. That has changed a bit with their new LP on Parts Unknown. Manic hardcore bouncing between power violence and the free jazz influenced style of SST bands like Saccharine Trust (a member of whom played on this record!), Black Flag, Gone, Painted Willie, etc. This is…
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