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June 16, 2016
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Antidote, Ari Katz, Brotherhood, Carl The Mosher, Crucial Intentions, Crucial Response Records, Enuf, Full Speed Ahead, Lifetime, Madball, Release, Teamwork Records, The Icemen, Up Front
The Black Cat was Ari Katz (Lifetime, Enuf, Up Front)’s record store. We went there a bunch of times and picked up good records. They did this and maybe a few other shows? I remember we talked in and the dude working there put on the Release 7”, which we dug. John moshed around the store. Antidote got back together and played this show and one other at Casino Skate Park. Oddly enough, they had Carl The Mosher on bass. This led to many calls for Icemen songs. Remember how hard we all looked for soundboards and then suddenly there was…
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January 20, 2012
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540 Records, Back To Back Records, Bastard, Beyond, Bl'ast!, Brotherhood, Circle Jerks, Cold Sweat, Confront, Corrosion of Conformity, Critical Point, Cro-Mags, Cyclopean Records, Deep Six Records, Deranged Records, Devoid Of Faith, Die Kreuzen, Discharge, Dischord Records, Double Negative, Eyeball, Eyehategod, Flower Of Carnage Records, Four Walls Falling, Gasmask Terror, Give, Guerrilla Records, Hoax, Ignition, Impact Unit, Infest, Iron Age, Krakdown, Lack Of Interest, Low Profile Threat, Mainstrike, Mind Eraser, Necros, Negative Approach, No Comment, No Tolerance, Nomos, Omegas, Our Side, Outlaw Order, Parts Unknown Records, Pigsticker, Powered Records, Release, Rites Of Spring, Seasons Of Mist Records, Society System DeControl, Stick Together, Swiz, Technocracy, The Icemen, The Rival Mob, The Snobs, Touch & Go Records, Triple B Records, Turning Point, Underdog, Void, Waste Management, Youngblood Records, Youth Of Today
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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March 8, 2011
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Cro-Mags, Hands Tied, Livewire Records, Ressurection, Rest In Pieces, Skull Crusher, The Icemen
Skull Crusher Blinded By Illusion LP Livewire Records Members of Hands Tied and Ressurection heading in a more metal direction. These guys are obviously going for Best Wishes era Cro-Mags, later Rest in Pieces, or The Icemen, but this record hasn’t held my interest that much. The intent is there, for sure, but it doesn’t really grab me. You’ll have to decide on this one for yourself.
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October 12, 2010
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Desperate Measures, Far From Breaking, Flower Travellin Band, Iron Age, Leeway, Metallica, Painkiller Records, The Icemen
Iron Age The Way Is Narrow EP Painkiller Records Iron Age, featuring former members of Far From Breaking and Desperate Measures, continue to put out excellent metallic hardcore similar to Leeway, The Icemen, and early Metallica. Side A is a new song that evolves further from their debut LP, getting heavier and more urgent like Leeway. Side B is a fantastic cover of Flower Travellin Band’s song Satori Part One. That was a nice surprise and very well done.
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July 27, 2009
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1.6 Band, 411, Acme, All Chrome, Arms Reach, Assuck, Aus-Rotten, Bastard, Bikini Kill, Black Army Jacket, Born Against, Breakdown, Burn, By The Grace Of God, Charles Bronson, Chopping Block, Citizens Arrest, Cop Out, Crossed Out, Crown Of Thornz, Dead Nation, Deadguy, Death Side, Devoid Of Faith, Disclose, Down But Not Out, DropDead, Electric Wizard, Endpoint, Eyeball, Eyehategod, Face Value, Fastbreak, Fit For Abuse, Floor, Floorpunch, Fu Manchu, Full Speed Ahead, Gauze, Get High, Gordon Solie Mother Fuckers, H 100's, Hatchetface, Haywire, Heroin, His Hero Is Gone, Huggy Bear, Human Remains, In My Eyes, Infest, Inmates, Integrity, Into Another, Jello Biafra & DOA, Judge, Kiss It Goodbye, Laughing Hyenas, Leeway, Los Crudos, Madball, Mainstrike, Man Is The Bastard, Man Lifting Banner, Mouthpiece, Mukilteo Fairies, Neanderthal, Neurosis, No Comment, No Escape, Out Cold, Paintbox, Poison Idea, Puncture Wound, Quicksand, Ringworm, Ripping Corpse, Rollins Band, Rorschach, Rupture, S.D.S., S.O.D., Saint Vitus, Septic Death, Skewbald, Sleater Kinney, Sleep, Spazz, Speak 714, Spitboy, Sportswear, Supertouch, Talk Is Poison, Team Dresch, The Icemen, Top 100 Of The Nineties, True Blue, Turning Point, Verbal Assault, Voorhees, Warhead
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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December 1, 2006
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Burn, Desperate Measures, Far From Breaking, Iron Age, Lockin Out Records, Metallica, The Icemen
Iron Age Butcher’s Bill 7″ Lockin Out Records Three new ones that I believe are going to be on their next record. These continue in the same vein as their excellent LP Constant Struggle. The Icemen, early Metallica, and Burn are definite reference points here. I just hope the metal influences don’t overwhelm them. Members of this band were in Far From Breaking and Desperate Measures, but this is far from that sound.
