Category: 2015/04

Posted on

Gas + 肉弾 Split 8″.zip

Instead of describing the Gas + 肉弾 Split 8″ myself, I just let the late and great Tim Yohannon of MRR do the talking. His review is just too good not to share:

“GAS is sort of a Japanese SIOUXSIE-in-more-pain-than-usual, with an accompanying hard post-punk backup. But watch out for those rock guitar solos and wah-wah pedals! NIKUDAN (MEAT HUNTER) is heavy on complex structures, high production, and atmospheric hard post-punk. All you “hardcore is passé” BIRTHDAY PARTY freaks will like it. I don’t.”

I guess I must be a “hardcore is passé” BIRTHDAY PARTY freak then!

Btw. Nikudan means something more like Human Bullet, not Meat Hunter.

Posted on

Bastard – Wind Of Pain Compilation LP

I have no idea, whether Bastard chose their name in an hommage to Motörhead, but they sure are heavy! These guys were all members of other well known japanese hardcore bands (Gudon, Systematic Death, Judgement, D.O.N.D.O.N., Rocky & The Sweden, Tetsu Arei), and wrote one the most iconic songs of the whole genre: Misery. This is a bootleg compilation containing their Controled In The Frame 7″, the original Wind Of Pain 12″ and one track from the Triple Cross Counter compilation 7″.

What is misery for you?

Posted on

v.a. Great Punk Hits LP

Just what can you expect of a compilation named “Great Punk Hits”? Exactly what it says on the tin: GISM deliver two tracks of completely distorted, fuzzy and hissing metallic hardcore; The Execute songs are fast and melodic with some metal guitars (just like their first 7″); The Clay are great, primitive political hardcore punk; Aburadako are weird and awesome (sadly the record skips on one of their songs); G-Zet are simply great with one heavy hardcore track and one instrumental song; Laughin’ Nose are forgettable as always.
This version here is a bootleg; there was a skip during one track by Aburadako on the original record, and it’s faithfully reproduced here for your listening pleasure. Also the cover of the original compilation is yellow instead of white.

Did I mention how great these punk hits are?

Posted on

Damnable Excite Zombies! – Suck Your Soul 7″

The Damnable Excite Zombies! from the early nineties are another band that I don’t know a whole lot about, maybe except that they had a really cool name. The music sounds a lot like early Nightmare: damn fast thrash with cool breaks and the occasional guitar wank. In addition to this 7″ from 1991 the released two more splits and a couple of compilation tracks.

A band name with an exclamation mark? Fuckin’ A!

Posted on

v.a. Eye Of The Thrash Guerilla LP

Eye Of The Thrash Guerilla is a great compilation with a cool mix of different styles. It’s got great Burning Spirits hardcore by Death Side and 鉄アレイ (Tetsu Arei), wild thrash by Nightmare and Raise Cain, total mayhem by SxOxB and dark d-beat by Crow (who were not nearly as heavy back then as they are now). This version is a german bootleg on the 大阪 records, who also released boots of SxOxB and Outo.

Better an eye of a thrash guerilla than an eye of a tiger…

Posted on

The Mobs – Diabolism 7″

The Mobs were originally a dark hardcore/punk band not unlike Ghoul or Zouo, but later developed into something of a crude and primitive deathrock band. There’s really funny youtube footage of them in some kind of game show where they scare the contenstants wearing heavy make-up. This 7″ was originally released as a demotape, so the recording quality is pretty raw. One song (“Stead Fast”) is mentioned on the cover but not actually featured on the 7″, two more songs are demo versions of their tracks on the Hardcore Unlawful Assembly album.

Kill me all!

Posted on

v.a. Hardcore Unlawful Assembly LP

This compilation LP from 1984 is something of a misnomer, since there’s quite a lot of non-hardcore on it: Cobra, Laughin’ Nose (absolute unlistenable and unbearable lyrics on this release) and Baws are more Oi!/punk than hardcore. The rest are real heavy weights, though: Zouo were the darkest band in japanese hardcore, Lip Cream deliver heavy thrash, Outo are pure distortion, Mobs play dark, somewhat melodic mid-tempo hardcore and GISM are pure evil (as usual)!

I thought this was a riotous assembly?

Design a site like this with WordPress.com
Get started