To order, please contact us: All prices are excluding postage of course. We're always willing to think about a way to get things cheaper to you, so if you know something please say so. Filter: 7"-es 10"-es 12"/lp's CD's 10" Austrasian Goat, the / Neige Morte split €9 (Musicfearsatan) Two of the most exciting new wave of french black metal (NWOFBM) bands offer us one new unreleased track (10 minutes per side) for a very special record with mysteriously both-sides printed inner and outside covers. Limited to 1.000 copies, all on white vinyl 10" Battle of Wolf 359 / Resurrectionists split €8 (7 degrees, rwp) Resurrectionists play pulverizing grinding HC with touches of melodic chords amidst the chaos. This band is tight, very heavy, and has multiple vocalists. Very fast played drums and guitar, distorted bass riffs and desperate voices extol the end of the world. Once again Resurrectionists built a solid bridge between the banks of emoviolence and grindcore. If you allready got their LP you might have idea what you can expect. Battle Of Wolf 359 play brilliant screamo with female and male vocals. Heavy guitarriffs and harsh played drums lay into slow parts to break out in chaos again in the next moment. Very well done songwriting that will catch your ears if you are into music of this kind. The records comes in a nice silkscreened cover. 10" California Cult Crap / Grind nation split €3 (DIY) CxCxCx produce raw and angry hardcore punk with fastcore influences. GxNx create a bastard of grindcore, hardcore punk and a bit of thrash metal. Hand numbered out of 500 and all are on white vinyl. 10" Crow's Foot s/t €8 (IFB Records) Crow's Foot hails from Clearwater FL. These young punks take the blazing sound of bands like Bread and Water or Ballast, but add the passionate intensity of mid 90's anarcho/emo bands from France like Anomie. Raw anger mixed with a sense that we really could change things. This is the perfect answer to today's apolitical punk. 4 songs of rage and hope housed in a screenprinted and sewn handmade jacket with a nice booklet with lyrics/writing and Spanish translations. 10" Dead In The Water s/t €3 (winter) Heavy metalic hc from Finland. It's even better than their 7". The covers are damaged by water. the vinyl is still good though. Good record! 10" Ghostlimb / Fisher split €8 (Vitriol) This 11 song 10" Split is the second Vitriol Release, featuring LA's pissed ass Ghostlimb, and the Bay Area's own vitruosos of "going there", Fischer. 6 new songs from Ghostlimb raging on such subjects as the Spanish Civil War, autonomy, and hating you, while Fischer focus on the lighter side of human suffering. Excellent record that i can't stop listening to. all records come w/ a great cover artwork, that include printed PVC plastic sleeve. Looks fuckin siqq 10" Hallowed Butchery / Austrasian Goat, the split €9 (vendetta) The USA-based progressive doom soloist Hallowed Butchery teams up with the French funeral doom soloist The Austrasian Goat for a monumental collaborative split 10" based upon the moral stance of self-reliance, popularized and preached by the Transcendentalist movement of the 19th-century. In a world of consumerism, conformity, religious-brainwashing, and political bullshit, these two musical geniuses refuse to merely follow the pack. This is reflected in both their lyrical content, and in their approach to their music, which is performed in solitude, and which often defies categorization. The Austrasian Goat begins the split with two songs of dark, minimalistic, funeral doom reminiscent of Ahab, Celestiial, and Nortt, but with an approach all his own. On the second of the two dirges, Ryan Fairfield of Hallowed Butchery makes a guest appearance. Side two features one epic song from Hallowed Butchery. His song is different from anything he has done in the past – reminiscent of Hawkwind-on-a-bad-acid-trip with Black Sabbath chugging cough syrup, while My Bloody Valentine snorts a mishmash of pills. The song features guest appearances from Julien Louvet of The Austrasian Goat and Brad Bolduc of Terrible Old Man. In a nutshell, "Songs of Self-Reliance and Solitude" is music for the forward-thinking, the individualist, the anarchist, the artist, and the metal-head in us all 10" Kingterror / Agathocles split €7 (Crashlanding) Kingterror first release. Ex-members of Vuur and Rubbish Heap blast out 8 tracks of stop and start hc not unlike Charles Bronson. Agathocles do what they are best at. Cult grindcore. 10" Lady Tornado / The Infarto Scheisse split €4 (Concubine, Shove) Two times Italy here. Lady Tornado consists of ex-members and current members of death of anna karina, by all means etc etc. It has a huge production. Agressive emo-violence. The infarto Scheisse! choose a somewhat similar approach but more hectic. Seems like the italian scene is very good in picking up the Orchid/Neil Perry kind of thing. Nice! 10" Life Ends / Corrosive split €8 (Fucking Kill records) POWERVIOLENCE/GRINDCORE. This record turned out to be a real must have for everyone into fast music! Both bands blurr out a massive hurricane of musical destruction - what you get is a total grindcore and power-violence worship! German veterans CORROSIVE brings 6 new thrashcore tracks in the tradition of Slap-A-Ha, Record classics, mostly fucking fast hardcore mixed with some slower, crawling heavy stuff. These old farts were on hiatus for a long time, but returned so angry and fresh. LIFE ENDS is power-violence styled grindcore with nihilistic lyrics. If you dig the power-violence parts of IRON LUNG and like german stop-and-go grindcore you can’t be wrong here. LIFE ENDS deliver 9 songs that made hungry for more. 10" Panzram Reform €9 (IFB Records) got a few copies of the new Panzram 10" from IFB Records in Florida. Panzram continues their ugly, noisy, and non-traditional approach to hardcore/punk - dark, menacing and focused on the ugly side of people (somewhere along the lines of Walls, Pollution, etc). The packaging is sweet - a handmade 10" sleeve with a screen-printed, fold over cover. 10" Protestant Stalemate €9 (Parade Of Spectres) 6 new songs of fast, heavy, dark midwestern hardcore. their 10th release aptly released on the 10" format. screenprinted foldover cover on recycled chipboard, antique brown inner sleeves, 8 page booklet, download card. 10" SeeinRed / Shikari split €6 (diy) From the original pressing, but with new artwork. SR deliver some of their best songs up to date including a cover of Myth Of Freedom by Manliftingbanner. Shikari have 4 songs on this in their hyperactive Uranus / orchid style. Classic stuff. 10" Shermer/The machines will take over split €3 (sncl etc.) Nice! two Uk bands doing a very melodic hot water music sort of thing. especialy shermer stands out. looking forward hearing more from them. 10" Shotgun Wedding Long Live Artificial €1 (lotsof love) 10" Solanki s/t €3 (flat earth) Great UK band from the 90's. Seems like an almost forgotten release. For fans of minutemen this is a must have. Great stuff. 10" Suffering Mind At war with mankind €9 (Crucificados) Head crushing grindcore from Poland. Completely unrelenting blasting that only slows down for a few measures throughout the entire 10". If INSECT WARFARE and MAGRUDERGRIND got into a head-on collision. 10" Zodiac Rasierter Affe €4 (7degrees) Five tracks of raging metallic hardcore. It has some Bremen era mixed with something that wouldn't be too far from a Cursed song. Well ok it's more metal. Cool stuff. Excellent political lyrics which are all in German nut i guess you could expect that from the singer who used to be in Age (!!!). 12"/lp A.I. Discography €5 (Purepainsugar) All the 7" output from this Japanese band on one 12". You know what you'll get. Fast and pissed of over the top Japanese hardcore 12"/lp Amarok s/t €9 (Halo Of Flies) Dark, brooding, heavy and intense. Members of THE MAKAI lay down a energetic lava-esque doom with noice harmonies, triple vocals. AMAROK have made the surprise-release of 2011. Due to the fact that they blend funeral, stoner and ambient doom-metal styles so well, this should be high on many an doomster's shopping list. For fans of KHANATE, WEEDEATER, BURNING WITCH and GRIEF and more ambient heavy styles. 12"/lp Amen Ra Mass III dlp €15 (Music Fear Satan) This is the third press of the first record Amen Ra recorded. This really defines the AMEN RA sound : a mix between dark post-metal and rough sludge with screamy and oppressive vocals. Like the previous press on SOUND DEVASTATION, it includes the four tracks of "Mass III" and two bonus tracks which initially appeared on "Mass II" ("From Birth to Grave, from Shadow to Light" et "Ritual"). This gatefold 2xLP is limited to 1.000 copies, 300 on dark green on 700 on black. 12"/lp Antillectual Testimony €4 (Shield) Antillectual is back Melodic political punk. For fans of Propagandhi, Strike Anywhere, Rise Against and Hot Water Music. Great production which does them justice. Sing along. 12"/lp Attack Of The Mad Axeman Systematic Death Slaughter €9 (RSR) Animalgrind is future and future is now. In the first 4 years of their existence ATTACK OF THE MAD AXEMAN have proven, that animals are unrenounceable for grindcore in general, and that even without releasing a split with AGATHOCLES, UNHOLY GRAVE. Now, "systematic death slaughter" is their 3rd full-length and still these guys are sticking to the spirit of true old- schoolish grindcore. They deliver 26 songs that are straight to the point and as fast as snails and turtles can go. Although there's only 3 tracks starting with a snare countdown, this record has everything that decent grindcore needs: good music and a message. 12"/lp Aussitot Mort Discography €15 (Adagio830) AUSSITOT MORT from CAEN are one of our favourite french bands. After releasing lots of great records that all went out of print (like the 12" on level plan etc) - this DLP contains the 4 songs from their first LP, the songs from the from the split with Balboa, they whole material from the Montuenga LP and some songs that have been never released on vinyl before. 12"/lp Austrasian Goat / Hollow Sunshine split €9 (Vendetta) limited to 300 copies, handnumbered, with silk screened covers "Two solo dirging monsters team up. HS delivers a pummeling, industrial sewer while TAG goes rather eclectic ... the b-side features a wild blackened shoegaze meets industrial psych piece by way of a collaboration between the two." 12"/lp Autistic Youth Idle Minds €5 (Sabotage) Driving, melodic punk/hardcore with dark, swirling undercurrents. Catchy but not at all vapid. Sounding like a cross between Portland, Southern California, and Copenhagen, you could compare this to bands like THE OBSERVERS, NO HOPE FOR THE KIDS, REAGAN YOUTH, or ADOLESCENTS. Excellent record. 12"/lp Bacchus s/t €9 (Contraszt) Housed in a gorgeously hefty production, the long-awaited debut LP from Irealnd’s BACCHUS is a tense and hulking assault of millenium-era progressive crusty hardcore. With Elements of FROM ASHES RISE and KYLESA forming a raging, spiralling monument of caustic desperation, this is never reductive. Refusing to take the easy option and revelling in a staunchy progressive approach to hardcore, this is like NEUROSIS raised on amphetamine and tempered with weed: excellent. 12"/lp Bastards Siberian Hardcore €9 (Hoehnie) Repress of a classic finnish punkrock album. These guys defined a whole genre it seems. 12"/lp Batillus Furnace €10 (Vendetta) Big on atmosphere, big on time and big on tone, the first album from Brooklyn doomers Batillus is a bleak, oppressive six-song outing that’s bound to ring their name out among the underground converted. Doom heads, be aware. The band, which formed as an instrumental trio and later added be-dreadlocked vocalist Fade Kainer (Inswarm, Jarboe, occasionally Man’s Gin), have unleashed a monster in Furnace. With one guitar, one bass, one set of drums, one vocalist and a host of effects and synths, they set up posts along a range of heavy-footed doomscapes — which, contrary to the album’s title, actually sound quite cold — managing to incorporate some of post-metal’s progressive ideology while almost completely avoiding the now-clichéd traps of that genre. Fans of Suma, Unearthly Trance, Ufomammut and other drone-conscious neo-doomers will want to take note of the four-piece’s methodology, impressive and punishing in equal measure as it is 12"/lp Bernays Propaganda My Personal Holiday €4 (Narshardaa) New album from Macedonian political new wavey post-punks BERNAYS PROPAGANDA, entitled "my personal holiday". BERNAYS PROPAGANDA praise the postulates and attributes which many post-punk and new-wave revivalists have forgotten. With their best intentions they mantain the ideas and attitudes of a long line of bands such as GANG OF FOUR, SLITS, FUGAZI, SUBMISSION HOLD, !!!, GOSSIP... Their danceable punk doesn't try to escape reality, but also refuses to accept status quo. BERNAYS PROPAGANDA don't want escapist entertainment - they're utopistically but honestly fighting for a better world. 12"/lp Black Blood World /Eskatol split €3 (Nakkeskudd) 2x new Norwegian d-beat-ish crust. Both play it dark and mean. Eskatol is my favorite here. They are just slighty faster than the usual bands in this genre. Hope to hear more from them soon. 12"/lp Blood I Bleed Gods out of Monsters €8 (Fast'n Furious) Well, 20-something tracks on a 12". You know you can't go wrong really with this grindband. Compared to their previous releases this stands out because of the overwhelming sound. It's the same band, it still sounds like a vacuumceaner but this time it sounds like a huge vacuumcleaner. Excellent. 12"/lp Blood I Bleed / Massgrav split €8 (Fast'n Furious) Tentatively planned to be released on cult SOUND POLLUTION label, here comes the LP version of the split between BLOOD I BLEED and MASSGRAV. The all-new LP consists of unrelenting, ultra-fast songs by the Dutch masters of non-stop thrash/grind/punk, BLOOD I BLEED, and MASSGRAV, the Swedish kings of fast punk/thrash fury. The bands have recorded respectively 12 and 13 songs each. If you are into HERESY, INTENSE DEGREE, S.O.B., MOB 47, KRIGSHOT, YACOPSEAE, MY MINDS MINE, HELLNATION, and SIEGE then this split is a must have. 12"/lp Bloody Phoenix War, Hate and Misery €8 (625) Featuring ex-members of LA's cult grinders Excruciating Terror, Bloody Phoenix takes up where ExTx left off - blistering, no fluff, straight forward grindcore a la early Napalm Death. Twenty-six tracks that won't disappoint. (2007) 12"/lp Brutal Knights Blown To Completion €10 (Deranged) The tapeworm of sickness which these manic Canadians kept on feeding with their 2 previous records is finally "blown 2 completion". If the BRUTAL KNIGHTS have already been fast in the past those new tracks really race like a heart on cheap amphetamines. Rumors say that singer Nick has been gargling bleach for weeks to impersonate his idol Damian of FUCKED UP in some of the mid-tempo bashers, and they even mistreat an innocent drumcomputer and crank out a wild electro-punk tune that sounds like CASSANDRA COMPLEX on cold turkey. This dozen of rotten eggs truly can't get any sicker and will blow you completely 2 shreds! 12"/lp Carrier Heart and Arms €3 (lotsoflove) Think built to spil and modest mouse. This is actualy really good, not cliche indierock. (Indie as in that it actualy means independent btw.) 12"/lp Catalyst, the Swallow Your Teeth €9 (Sons Of Vesta) Straight out from Richmond, Virginia, the catalyst is a blatantly grunge, stoner punkrock four-piece. Elements and influences took from nirvana, the melvins and city of caterpillar, rearranged in a modern, more chaotic and noisy version to deliver a gargantuan raging beast caged in a tiny plastic slab. 12"/lp Chambers s/t €4 (Shove) This is with ex-members of Italy's violent breakfast. So i expected some emo-violence sort of stuff. Wrong. This is very dc like at times with later Fugazi en Jawbox coming to mind. I kind of like it yes. 12"/lp Cloud Rat / Oily Menace / Wolbachia 3 way split €9 (IFB Records) Here's another impressive LP coreleased by IFB and Black House Records. Here's a description from IFB record's blog: A three way split of vicious HC and grind. Michigan's Cloud Rat continues their assault with crushing riffs which lapse into grinding violence, all backed up by some of the most palpably pained vocals I've ever heard. Fellow Michiganders The Oily Menace rip through ugly, heavy as hell old school low vocals grindcore with political lyrics and even using some classic folk song lyrics (no folk in the music though I promise). While you try to reattach your face after the first two, Canada's Wolbachia works on giving you a stroke as they slash through some non-traditional grind that sounds like having a heartattack in a swarm of bees. Wolbachia is members of Kursk and they maintain that seething vocal sound. 12"/lp Crowskin Black Lava €9 (Vendetta) After various split releases ( with BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS and BLACK FREIGHTER ) and compilation appearances, CROWSKIN come up with their first full length album, once again exploring the depths of slow, heavy and brutal sludge doom. The record delivers four lenghthy tracks that pend from super-sick slo-mo brutality to bulldozer grooves, from vast melancholic elegies to weird noise freak outs and even some thrash outbursts displaying the hardcore background of these doom punkers. Enjoy the feeling of being buried by a slow flooding, yet unstoppable lava of thick, black sound! 12"/lp Crowskin / Black Freighter split €4 (vendetta) Two heavy-weight doomcore acts from the empty, hopeless landscapes of Eastern Germany team up for a split LP that holds the balance between brutality and depressive bitterness. Leipzig's BLACK FREIGHTER who give their vinyl debut on this one start a slow, but unstoppable steamroller of tuned-to-zero guitars in complex and blurred arrangements. Potdam's CROWSKIN, known from their split LP with BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS and last year's "Harmony of death" 7" deliver feedback-soaked ugly pieces of sludge. 12"/lp D.U.N.E. L’ipotesi della stipsi €3 (Concubine) Italian band which consists of members of Laghetto and Revolution Summer. Hectic stuff but D.U.N.E. is not much like that. Here it's much more out of the Neurosis, Isis category. Slow, doomy stuff. Bits of Breach in it as well maybe. If you're into the above you should give this a try. 12"/lp Daitro Collection €9 (Adagio830) The LP contains the out of print stuff from the split LP w/ Sed Non Satiata, the split 7" w/ Ampere and the 2 songs that were on the US tour 7". Great french emo. 12"/lp Dead Elephant Thanatology €9 (Shove) Heavy Isis/Neurosis lke italian band. Loads of samples and soundscapes with some great riffing, singing, grunting, screaming and drumming. Cool record and sounding big. 12"/lp Deathrite s/t €9 (Per Koro) 2nd pressing with golden screen-print on the b-side. Right in time for their forthcoming tour with GOLDUST. It's really hard to describe the 8 tracks without mentioning the token words brutal and intense at the end of every sentence. DEATHRITE's noisy assault delivers the urgency of hardcore, the sheer brutality of extreme metal and the high speed attacks in the vein of your favourite power-violence bands - all wrapped up by the no-bullshit and fuck-you attitude of punk. Breakneck speeds, pounding percussion, raw vocals, and frantically raging guitars and bass round out their style which pleasantly scorches the eardrums. This splatter is caustic and merciless. It's an unrelenting torrent, an avalanche of thick grime and vitriol. There's so much hate spewed forth in such a short amount of time (18min.) that it takes a few listens to process everything that's going on. DEATHRITE are quick and to the point, dropping into each number like an unhinged guillotine blade. The band's sound is reminiscent of newer bands like NAILS, TRAP THEM and MIND ERASER, with an early '90s Earache Records (ENTOMBED and NAPALM DEATH) like crudity, complete with the grim production (mastered by Robin Völkert of Dean Dirg). The mysterious artwork is done by Paul Barsch of Julith Krishun. The one-sided LP comes with a screenprinted b-side, 350gr thick cover with reverse side printings, lyricsheet, black innersleeve and is housed in a polybag with sticker. You'll probably also find something to like on DEATHRITE - it's a promise! 12"/lp Deep Sleep Turn me off €5 (taken by surprise) After a series of seven-inch releases, Baltimore, MD pop-influenced aggressive punk outfit Deep Sleep finally get around to issuing a complete album. As expected with this ten-track affair, the band revel in their posi-punk and modest hardcore influences ? to absolute extremes. Taking the pace of proto-D.R.I. and smashing it into hooks culled directly from ADOLESCENTS and DESCENDENTS, every one of these tunes is a rousing excursion into punk rock's most formative days. Not content to sit on those influences, the entire affair is doused in a serious Take It Back, Take It On, Take It Over!-era 7 SECONDS delivery, most notably vocally, then completed by flourishes of Greg Ginn's scratchy, wanky guitar passages. Subtly instinctual, overtly melodic and enduringly catchy, Turn Me Off is equal parts relief in seeing DEEP SLEEP continue their stellar output and excitement at having a new batch of catchy, upbeat ragers to jam into our subconscious. 12"/lp Defect Defect s/t €4 (Taken By Surprise) Fighting their way out of the basement comes Portland’s DEFECT DEFECT with their best record to date! After two quality Eps and constant touring, Defect Defect hit it just perfect with their catchy-as-hell melodic punk style that hits hard with Colin’s spastic and blunt vocal style with Adam’s excellent song writing. Tracks like Stolen Ground and Post Apocalypse are perfect bookends of this argent and essential LP. Featuring ex and current members of the Observers, Autistic Youth, the Minds, Clorox Girls and the excellent Arctic Flowers this record will stick out over the pile of vinyl coming out in 2010. Do not miss out on this exciting band! 12"/lp Derrota / Leadershit split €4 (Be-part) HARDCORE-PUNK. LEADERSHIT should be already know from their 1st full-length album. Former members used to play in DISFACE, EKKAIA, COP ON FIRE and several other bands. This split contains yet again a heavy dose of traditional crust-hardcore with dark melodies, rocking bites and (old)metal slash thrown in. DERROTA on the flipside playing 6 tracks of hard hitting d-beat with a twist of deathrock 'n' roll, including a nice MISFITS coverversion. 12"/lp Desphosphorus Axion €9 (7Degrees) An Astrogrind – Masterpiece in 7 Acts The Debut of Greece’s Dephosphorus combines astral blasts, stellar grooves and spaced out soundscapes into a very own and unique experience in extreme music. The artwork crafted by Viral Graphics masterly underlines the band’s cosmic concept. www.dephosphorus.com 12"/lp Diet Pills s/t €9 (Forcefed) This is poisonous, evil stuff. Shifting their Melvins-meets-Flipper sound towards a far heavier, constipation-curing (early) Corrupted-esque level, Diet Pills have mastered the power that a truly obscene, downtuned low-end can have, especially when coupled with riff structures that twist and turn in nifty ways. The five songs (in 35 or so minutes) feel drawn out to breaking point, like Unsane at 16rpm, but it’s one of those weird instances where although the whole experience is pretty horrible, it is cathartically so, making you revel in the entire satisfying process. The vocals are unusual for this type of thing and will probably make or break it for you. A sneering, snotty approach like the guy from Circus Lupus at times, the desperate wails certainly augment the sleazy, depressed nature of it all. 12"/lp Dominic / The Third Memory split €4 (Impure music) Two new songs from both bands. Both have that typical 90's emo feeling to it. Funeral Diner and Portraits of Past fans should dig this. Dominic wins it for me though with their slighty softer approach. love it. 12"/lp Downfall Of Gaia Epos €9 (Shove) new lp by this neo crust from Germany, in the vein of FALL OF EFRAFA. great stuff 12"/lp Drain the Sky Introduction to the past €4 (destructure) Ex-members of Dimlaia and HHIG going on the Neurosis trip. This sounds a lot like Souls At Zero or Enemy of the Sun. Atmospheric and epic, doomy. Great record. 12"/lp Drain the sky / Birushanah split €9 (Destructure) Great split release between Birushanah, Japan (playing Doom Metal influenced by Japanese classical music) and Drain the Sky, USA playing some more crusty or older if you will Neurosis styled dark music. 12"/lp Drainland / Trenches split €9 (Graanrepubliek) Damn! a split with epic proportions. I've had the recordings from both bands for some time now and when it arrived here at our HQ i realized again how amazing both sides are. Drainland offer 4 songs of noise drenched hardcore. Slow, fast, heavy and powerful. For fans of Unruh, Noothgrush and Dystopia. Trenches on the other side come with their first output on vinyl. One song that lasts for about 14 minutes. I guess they could be best compared to a mixture between Ire and Isis (Celestial period). Riffing, groove, dark and just simply great. I just love it i'm actualy releasing records that will make the top of not just my own yearlist. Essential. Co-released with Vendetta and Headwrecker. 12"/lp Ensorcelor Crucifuge €9 (Psychic Assault) At long last, this LP is here, and it promises to be one of the best releases this year. Ensorcelor broke in last year with the EP Urarctica Begins, and fans of that recording have been waiting for this one ever since. Sludgy, creeping doom that never lets you get comfortable, changing tempos and sounds several times during a song. Inflections of black metal and crust also flavor Ensorcelor's bleak repertoire. Two songs - "By Mycomancy Insumed" (14:28) on the A-side, and "Crucifuge" (20:45) on the B-side. Printed on 180 gram vinyl, with spot gloss UV ink on 16pt stock jackets with full color printed sleeve, and both sides have center-etchings. Mastered by the always-busy James Plotkin, and the pressing was handled by Pirates Press, so you know this is quality. 12"/lp ENTH s/t €9 (Wifagena) funeral doom from lublin, poland featuring members of Suffering Mind and others, this is slow, suicidal, yet melodic doom. Two songs, so yeah you know what it's like. 12"/lp Eucharist Mirrorworlds €14 (Wolfsbane) Eucharist is a rather criminally unknown band out of Sweden who formed during the beginning of the Gothenburg scene. Forming in 1989, Eucharist plays melodic death metal which sounds relatively familiar and comfortable, but also has elements which take the listener by storm and throw in amounts of creativity which makes them sound fresh and alive, like they didn’t get bored writing material and didn’t seem to play the same song for half of the album. Their only two full-length albums, A Velvet Creation and Mirrorworlds go almost completely unknown to those who don’t look to find them, and that is really a shame. The band split up after releasing Mirrorworlds, ending their short, unrecognized, but impacting career in the scene. Now this was only released on cd before and Wolfsbane took the effort to put it out on vinyl. It looks and sounds amazing. If you're into that whole At The Gates sound from back then this is something you should grab immediately. 12"/lp Extreme Noise Terror Phonophobia €10 (Farewell) Official repress! Remastered and with 2 unreleased tracks. ENT along with Napalm Death, were twisting traditional punk influences into different shapes. All the conventions of crust are played out on this release: simple, punky riffs, fast d-beat drumming, and shout/screeching vocals. The songs are short, the songs are simple, the songs are just fast, more distorted punk music when you get down to it. Essential. 12"/lp Extreme Noise Terror Holocaust in your head €9 (Farewell) To 500 copies limited official re-release of the "Holocaust In Your Head" LP, which originaly came out in 1988 at "Head Erruption". It was re-recorded in 1991 and released at japanese label "Toys Factory". 1999 the LP based on the 1991 recordings was re-released by Distortion. On this re-release you get the original 1988 recordings remastered with a more raw and brutal sound. Includes the classics "Murder", "Bullshit Propaganda", "Another Nail In The Coffin", "Deceived"... actually the whole record is just a classic. 12"/lp Facel Vega The Body €9 (art for blind) This band keeps amazing me. To be honoust i thought the quit a year ago but now this new lp is just out. Probably the best UK band around. It has DC, it has punkrock, it is catchy and it's just fuckin brilliant. This band will probably go under most people's radar, but this is a perfect example of something you should get because others say so. B-R-I-L-L-I-A-N-T 12"/lp Family Man s/t €9 (Behind the Scenes) AMILY MAN from Berlin, Germany returns with their 2nd full-length. Fast, pissed, and innovative hardcore-punk - guitar riffs reminiscent of early BLACK FLAG, HÜSKER DÜ with a twist of BL'AST and punk as fuck vocals. These tracks rage with creative and devastating lyrics. Comes with an eyecatching silver-foiled cover. 12"/lp Final Club Blank Entertainment €9 (Adagio830) FINAL CLUB from DENTON, TX feat members of several Denton bands (including Teenage Cool Kids.) Final Club play sneery, melodic indie rock with a tendency to lean on the tremolo bar. Confident and loud. It also reminds me sometimes on Les Savy Fav and other 90s mathy rock w/ a great garage edge ... it's catchy and edgy at the same time. A great debut record. 12"/lp Gadget The Funeral March €10 (7 Degrees) More Than 5 Years after the CD-release of this forward-thinking grindcore-opus on Relapse, the time has come to listen to "the funeral march" in a re-mastered vinyl edition! This is more than a devout collection of blasting beats, sweltering guitars and real-world lyric by these swedish guys. "the funeral march" incorporates sinister melodies and a keen sense of dynamics to an already explosive mix. GADGET is more fierce and focused than ever before and shaping the future of grindcore with "the funeral march". Vinyl comes with gatefold-cover. 12"/lp Gasmask Terror Black Sun/Fake Gold €9 (Ifeelgoodrecords) 2nd 12" and the perfect follow up to their 'Architects Of Death' 7". Crashing cymbals, distortion and ugly honesty assault your ears, as I believe hardcore punk is meant to be heard. In a sea of lazy music, this great band is a beacon in the night. This is the 4th record from this French d-beat group, 11 tracks, pressing of 700. If you're looking for a more specific idea of what this band sounds like, think a more raw Totalitär for the music and Darkthrone for the vocals. 12"/lp Gentle Art Of Chokin, the s/t €9 (Graanrepubliek) Two years after releasing their one-sided 12" THE GENTLE ART OF CHOKIN' are back with ther first full length. Nineteen loud and short outbursts between powerviolence, fastcore and thrash with some slower, more rocking parts here and there in fifteen minutes. As a collaboration between React With Protest, IFB Records, Flowerviolence and us this piece of vinyl comes in two different colors with awesome silkscreened covers (glossy black on black!!) 12"/lp Ghostlimb s/t + Bearing and Distance €9 (Adagio830) After both Ghostlimb records have been out of print for a while and the band still keeps it strong - this is a repress of both records on one LP - all songs are remastered and feature the artwork of both records and have big poster insert. So you get both 12" of t his powerful three piece from LosAngeles. Ghostlimb deliver powerful solid in your face hardcore w/ a melodic edic age that reminds sometimes on Born Against. They are fast and angry and they want to give you a kick in your ass so you start to think about stuff again and not just care about boring stuff like friendship. If you care – Ghostlimb features Justin from Graf Orlock and two other rad kids that have their heart in the right place. 12"/lp Gods and Queens s/t €8 (Adagio830) On Gods and Queens' debut, washes of reverb collide with echoes of shoegazer's catchier moments. There's mature inconsistency here--or, in other words: fast songs, slow songs, and one droning psychedelic blissfest. To quote the band themselves, "Gods and Queens is a three-piece from Brooklyn/Philadelphia who tried in vain to blatantly steal riffs and song patterns from some of their favorite bands (Hoover, Lungfish, June of '44, Spaceman 3, and the like), but failed in every attempt. Instead, here are seven untitled songs that in no way resemble who or what they were intended to mimic. Some have compared the band to a low-rent, depressed version of Fugazi, others to Quicksand without the stop-start timing." 12"/lp Hallowed Butchery / Batillus split €9 (Vendetta) Amazing! Ultra slow doom by Batillus and doomish new wave by Hallowed Butchery. Recommended. 12"/lp Highgate s/t €10 (Vendetta) This album of Kentucky sick trio Highgate offers 1 untitled track, but not less then 54 minutes of nasty minimalist Doom, experimental noise and grim Black Metal (think about a crossbreeding between Dark Throne and Eyehategod). Expect for a loud and heavy production and prepare yourself for the worse! 12"/lp Highgate shrines to the warhead €9 (Vendetta) Highgate, a Kentucky trio of escaped mental patients play nasty sludge in the vein of Burning Witch, Toadliquor, Grief, Noothgrush, Winter, Wreck of the Hesperus and Corrupted 12"/lp Hiro / Almathea split €4 (Impure music) Amalthea from Sweden continue with their epic end '90s influenced emocore stuff on side A and on the flip side we have new songs by Hiro (ex Gantz) from France. Hiro play wonderful, emotional french 90's hardcore mixed some earlier Envy. This is a great split with nice cover artwork. 12"/lp Horror, the Spoils Of War €4 (Zandor) the second full length album from The Horror. Spoils of War see's the band at their absolute best, still raging, pissed off and fast as hell whilst being brutally heavy. 15 songs of hardcore in the vein of Discharge, Voorhees, SS Decontrol and Negative Approach. 12"/lp Hunger, the Hope Against Hope €4 (shield) Debut from these Groningers. Heavy hardcore like Cursed mixed with some Integrity (music) and Unbroken (soul). Seriously good. Next 7" will be on de Graanrepubliek. 12"/lp Inservibles s/t €10 (Shogun) Coming from mexico, a country where street executions and drug Lords are at war with everybody, INSERVIBLES can be described as the soundtrack of the mexican nightmare. Their deranged hybrid of negative hardcore with no-fi garage as been compared to NERORGASMO, RAW POWER, VOID or THE REATARDS. The 13 tracks contained on this LP may bring to mind some of those bands but there is something else behind all those layers of filth they call music. Acid lyrics with a macabre sense of humour. Laughing as a statement against the world and a continuous vile-spit on the face of formal folklore 12"/lp Iscariote Necropole Trauma €3 (lastdaysinjune) Technical mosh from switzerland. Bit cleaner than their 7" but still good 12"/lp Kolokol Flammer Og Farger €3 (Twisted Chords) From Norway. If you like old norwegian bands like So Much Hate this is worth listening. Typical sound. It's fast and rocks, guitars sometimes remind me of french bands like Anomie. Good Stuff! 12"/lp Krupskaya / Sandokhan split €9 (7 degrees) SANDOKHAN is two guys playing insanely fast Grindcore the old school way. This is the first recording of the band. 13 songs that they finish in 7 minutes.KRUPSKAYA from the UK are already well-known in the Grindcore-scene. The riffing reaches from ultra fast shredding to noisy interludes with dissonant melodies that never lack of the right portion groove. Insane drumworks on this. One of the best and most innovative Grindcore-bands. Pretty excellent release. 12"/lp Krush s/t €9 (Insane Society) About 21 tracks of furious D-beat Grindcore in the vein of the 3D's (Disrupt, Disfear and Disgust) and of course ancient Napalm Death & Extreme Noise Terror. After 3 years in the work, several recordingsessions, we got the final product and of course, the recordings are fucking brutal and tight. The frantic dual vocals add tons of aggression and you will love the deep voice. It doesn’t matter if they do a two minute long crust song or a forty second long grind tune; they deliver the goods! 12"/lp Last Match, the Discography €8 (Sound Virus) Pre-Trapdoor Fuckin Exit from Sweden. This collects all their vinyl output from 1997-1999. Very strong Born Against / Universal Order Of Armageddon feel to it. Might not be the most well known name in swedish hc but this is seriously good and much overlooked. 12"/lp Last Mile, the New Plastic Illusions €3 (Graanrepubliek) Brutal as their previous 7". For fans of His Hero is gone and the likes. VERY RECOMMENDED 12"/lp Le Kraken Exalt €4 (Vendetta) From the part of Canada. Sounding like Yaphet Kotto songs played by Tragedy. They've got all of the massive melodic passages and exploding epic riffage, gruff ferocious roaring vocals, pounding mid-tempo hardcore dirges and droning riffs, and some strategically placed eruptions of gloom-heavy thrash and D-beat to satisfy addicts of this sort of sound. It also reminds me a bit of a much more ferocious and thrashy Year Of No Light. Recommended! 12"/lp Little Killers, the A Real Good One €3 (Gern Blandsten) Not something you'd expect on Gern Blandsten. Garage Punkrock. Actualy this band released their first record on Crypt records. Which makes perfect sense if you hear this. Filthy, catchy and uptempo. Great band, excellent record! 12"/lp Lords Fuck All Y'all Motherfuckers €4 (Destructure) Lords have ex-members of Coliseum and Lick Golden Sky and bring a brand of dirty, chaotic, noisy hardcore punk with slight metal leanings that meets somewhere between the likes of Black Flag and Entombed with plenty of rooms for some weirdness. Good stuff. 12"/lp Lotus Fucker s/t €9 (RSR) Debut 12" from this Japanese-inspired band from Washington, DC. While these guys are clearly inspired by the noise-not-music approach of bands like Gai and Confuse (I think I even read somewhere that they have an upcoming split with the Wankys), there's a lot more than your typical "myspace crust" going on here... what particularly stands out are some blazing, Death Side-esque guitar leads. The result is a really fascinating combination of contemporary and classic Japanese hardcore styles. Fucker killer LP. 12"/lp Lucifers Mob discography €9 (crucificados) this legendary german hardcore, grind, powerviolence outfit existed from 1992 to 1996 and at that time they were one of those famous european counterbalance to the so called powerviolence scene in the states where bands as crossed out, no comment, lack of interest did shape this type of music .. this discography contains songs from the "close your eyes and see death", "whispers", "die human race", "plot", "up for grabs" compilations, the rare demo, the 7" and the split lp with golgatha .. all in all 50 songs .. all lp's come with an extensive booklet and the original poster from the golgatha split .. only 500 copies were made .. so hurry up to get your hands on this masterpiece .. essential stuff 12"/lp Millions Of Them Failures €4 (Adagio830) MILLIONS OF THEM play angry heavy hardcore that reminds me on all those end 90ies hardcore bands like BOTCH, meets NINE IRON SPITFIRE etc.. Brutal, heartfelt and dirty. Recorded at Fat Soundz, Mixed from Kurt Balou at God City and Mastered from Josh Bonati. 12"/lp Mob Rules The Donor €9 (Zandor) A wholly unpleasant blend of noise rock rhythms, sst leads and bilious vocals. The Donor finds Mob Rules depositing eleven songs at the altar of Ginn, somewhere in bradford. Little hints of Gore, Black Flag, Unsane and Bl'ast shine through at times but are generally obscured by haste, bad attitudes, linear structures and murky sonics. This is a really ugly record, which will appeal to people into ugly music. 12"/lp Moloch Possession €10 (Vendetta) Moloch brings the heat with super heavy, hateful songs. This is honestly some of the best angry and meanest sludge I have heard in years. Think Grief, Eyehategod and the likes. Not just trying to sound like those but actualy succeeding. 12"/lp Monuments The Good Life €10 (Adagio830) A fairly new band from Germany bringing more emotion, atmosphere and energy expressed through a hardcore sound that mixes the desperation of '90s bands like SHOTMAKER and MEREL with the aggression and catchiness of COMADRE or GHOSTLIMB and touches of traditional hardcore. Nice! 12"/lp Morser 1st Class Suicide €9 (7degrees) MÖRSER have been Bremens grinding death-metal powerhouse for more than 10 years now! ''first class suicide'' is their latest audiophile effort. This album is the resurrection of what was called "bremer schule" in the late '90s of the last millennium: a brutal bastard of groove, death-metal and grindcore making no compromises to alternate with instrumental parts and some painful dissonaces. 12"/lp Movies, the In one era out the other €3 (Gern Blandsten) New Wave post punk. Nice songs which sound like a postpunk Joy Division. Keyboards and Piano make the songs moody and dark. guitars are in teh back but that all seems to fit here. Nice. 12"/lp Nadja / Galena split €10 (Adagio830) Having long established themselves as pioneers in the heavy drone and dark ambient scene, Nadja, now based in Berlin, continue pushing things forward with Konstruktion, their newest vinyl only effort made exclusively for ADAGIO830. Nadja's unique thumbprint shines strong mostly on the B side of this album, punishing guitar that scratches the listeners itch for heavy, churning and an engulfing sonic experience. the pallet is made thicker with additions of accordion drone, bass and cogent drum patterns. Galena ads subtle synth and sustaining guitar lines that brew to boil just below Nadja's set threshold... Working in a similar and cohesive manner, Oakland California's Galena slowly stirs the pot with dark menacing synth layers, tape treatments and creeping washed out guitar. the burgeoning sounds fold out and in on themselves creating thunderous white noise windstorms your ears have no choice but to get lost in... voices appear and disappear under the wash and you're carried along not knowing when you'll be set back down. the A-Side shows Galena's strengths more prominent but again, welcoming subtle and tasteful additions by their collaborators. a wonderful example of 2 like-minded duo's joining forces to express their own unique styles and creating something new and fresh out of the mist... 12"/lp Narcosis Heart Slows Down €6 (Balowski) Classic UK grind album back in stock. Seems a bit forgotten but this is a true gem. With Peet from Hard To Swallow on vocals. For fans of Discordance Axis and the likes. Very recommended. 12"/lp Nasa Space Universe Across the wounded Galaxies €9 (Shogun) NASA SPACE UNIVERSE assaults you like a wild starving dog with its blend of quirky and noisy guitar riffs, post-punkish bass lines, roughly chaotic drumming and offensive vocals. It grabs you leg and bites you until you bleed to death dancing like a maniac victim. Very punk, very rude and not that pleasant if you're looking for a "quietly sat next to the fire" listen. You'll burn instead, and those maniacs will form the names of such great forerunners as BORN AGAINST, IN/HUMANITY, ASSFACTOR 4 and the likes with the remains of your bones. Before the wind blows it all away and leaves what once was a human being wandering across the wounded galaxies. 12"/lp Nervous Breakdown / Scheisse Minelli split €9 (Give Praise) Scheisse Minelli and Nervous Breakdown team up for an really good Split LP! SCHEISSE MINNELLI's plays a furious mixture of '80s old-school skatecore played with a modern fast as fuck high octane rock 'n' roll vengeance. No tricks, no overdubs, no technical cosmetics, all pure andreal! Even the guitar was never double-dubbed or played twice, all the solos and powerchords are live from the one and only take, just like a hardcore-show or the way it shoud be. This album is for fans of RAW POWER, SEEIN' RED, CHRIST ON PARADE and even THE MURDER JUNKIES or MUNICIPAL WASTE. NERVOUS BREAKDOWN is all about the circlepits and old-school singalongs of the old american hardcore days. From fast to slow, mosh breaks and fast circlepit parts. These guys from Germany have fun just like the old punk kids used to have, before it got beat up with too much hardcore! If you're into SHORT FUSE or TANGLED LINES you'll love NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. They combine the fun feel with smart lyrics about oppresion brought from people who just follow orders, and scene-core police...it comes together well! 12"/lp Neuroot Macht kaput was euch kaput macht €9 (Prugelprinz) ollands most controversial punkband!!! NEUROOT's "macht kaputt, was euch kaputt macht" contains the original 1983 demo, remastered from the original tapes and packaged in a fancy gatefold with original artwork. NEUROOT existed roughly from 1981 to 1987, there's not a lot known about them, the music speaks for itself: hard edge, rough, radical and very political. Words associated with the band: trouble, riots, uproar and upheavel. They fought the law and disapeared.... This is the 1st in a series of 3 LP re-releases that combine all NEUROOT’s studio recordings. 12"/lp Northless Clandestine Abuse €10 (Halo Of Flies) NORTHLESS has expanded on their original style of atmospheric sludgy metal and gone beyond the barrier that holds lesser bands back. This progression enabled NORTHLESS to break through into new territory and write truly exceptional songs, more focused, more dense. Clandestine Abuse might be one of the most misanthropic, angst-filled albums I've ever heard, but it never fails to instill a feeling of hope in the listener; a hope that a band can draw upon familiar influences and personal experiences, combining them to create something that breaks the mold of slow and heavy music. And yes this is a double lp for only €10. 12"/lp Nothing Double Dose Of Negativity €9 (Refuse) Although this band from Berlin is new, its members are far from newbies (features members of HIGHSCORE, MÖNSTER, HIGHSCORE, BOMBENALARM, NAILS, SITUATIONS to name a few). "double dose of negativity" is divided into 8 pills. It has the force of a full-length album where you can find some bits and pieces of former bands like POISON IDEA, NEGATIVE APPROACH and even a touch of NYC hardcore. It's a honest story about burn outs, lies, failures and growing old in a city where alternative culture are pushed out and brutalized by pseudo-artists, hipsters, trends and people celebrating their boredom and emptiness. It seems the youthful idealism of the 5 guys from Berlin is long gone but their passion, involvement and down to earth critical views are still here - stronger than ever. 12"/lp Observers. the So what's left now €8 (Taken by surprise) This album made the majority of the top ten best albums of 2004 in MRR and for obvious reasons, this band is incredible. THE OBSERVERS from Portland play not hardcore, no they play melancholy singalong punk-rock! They're combines the darker and more experimental aspects of bands like the DEAD KENNEDYS and WARSAW and other late 70’s UK art punk with the anthemic choruses of LA’s YOUTH BRIGADE yet sounding nothing like any of those bands. You're supposed to own this. 12"/lp Od Vratot Nadolu Mercury €9 (Fuck Yoga, Superfi) A Macedonian bass & drum duo making an unholy groove laden Man Is The Bastard style racket. This could have been on Amrep for the noisefan or 625 if you're into 90's powerviolence. Damn good record. 12"/lp Peace or Annihilation Fear Control €10 (Shogun) DISCHARGE / DISCLOSE worship band from Jakarta. Getting better and better. If you enjoyed the songs on the No Tomorrow comp, this is close. 12 songs, all killer. Pure raw distorted Punk Hardcore. 12"/lp Phobia Grind Your Fuckin Head In €9 (Roedel/DeepSix)) Gloomy and apocalyptic, PHOBIA offer up a wall of distorted vocals, hard hitting grindcore, and plenty of blasting moments of pure aural agony! Prepare to be annihilated. 12"/lp Pianoearthquake s/t €4 (diy) A beautiful one sided 12" by this young and new screamo band from Triest/ Italy - driven heartfelt screamo in the vein of early Raein & La Quiete ... its a great debut. All Lps come with silk screen covers and CD-R - well done 12"/lp Planks The Darkest of Grays €10 (Per Koro) PLANKS 2nd full-length. It features 12 songs that are pretty much different from their 1st self-titled record. Yet it is totally PLANKS. The band focused more on the dynamic aspekt in their music instead of sheer brutality. The songs are all full of different nuances, tempi changes and have an undeniable sense of melody. Stylewise don't expect pop music here, even though there are clearly some structures of a classic ('80s dark-wave ) hints to be found. If you feel the urge to describe the whole thing, you could imagine a blending of HIS HERO IS GONE's "the plot sickens" with MASTODON's "leviathan" mixed with ISIS "oceanic" , "closer" by JOY DIVISION and some classic Norwegian black-metal such as DARKTHRON's "transilvanian hunger". It all sounds rather unique and contemporary. If you enjoy bands such as the ones mentioned before this record might be your cup of black coffee. Cd version will be out on Southern Lord. 12"/lp Pollution Nasty DNA €9 (Feast Of Tentacles) Last copies. Pollution are a raw hardcore outfit featuring members of Unearthly Trance. Their debut album entitled "Nasty.DNA" was previously only available on CDr format, but Feast Of Tentacles stepped up and released this ugly sucker on vinyl as well. Pollution are a harsh, raw, dissonant hardcore outfit with some AmRep influences who remind me of classics such as Born Against and Rorschach. If you like your hardcore clean and buff, this won't do the trick for you. On the top of my yearlist.Amazing. 12"/lp Potomac s/t €2 (flowerviolence) 12"/lp POTOP / Burmese split €4 (Crucificados) Not a split between two bands you'd expect. POTOP from Macedonia play ultra slow doom or sludge if you like. Negativity all over. Burmese from the US bring us some really ugly music. Somewhere between the Discordance Axis mayhem and Index for Potential Suicide insanity. Bit's of MITB in there as well i guess. Impressive record. 12"/lp Protestant Judgements €9 (Vendetta) Raging hardcore from Milwaukee, WI., once again showcasing an urgent, passionate sound influenced by bands like Catharsis and From Ashes Rise or Rorschach. 12"/lp Psudoku Space Grind €9 (Crucificados) PARLAMENTARISK SODOMI side poject! SPACE (THE FINAL FRONTIER) IN THE FUTURE (2012): A rift in the space-time continuum opens up a wormhole in Trondheim, Norway. The local political one-man grindcore band Parlamentarisk Sodomi disappears into a higher dimension, warping directly into an alternate world line where the band (now called PSUDOKU) records music from the future. Using 2012 technology, this music is continuously sent back in time to our age, 2011. A chain of sub-space events are occuring in a parallell multiverse. BOOOOOOM. Imagine PARLAMENTARISK SODOMI on acid! Insane psycho-space-grind that has to be heard to be understood. 12"/lp Pygmy Lush Old Friends €10 (Adagio830) Acoustic strums, beautiful vocal harmonies, pianos, keyboards, and swelling ambient noise- not the kind of music one might assume would come from a band made up of veteran punk musicians, on a veteran punk record label. This is just the next step in the journey of Northern Virginia’s Pygmy Lush, one that has been marked by redefinition and rebirth. Nice! 12"/lp Pyramido / Gun Mob split €9 (Behind the scenes) swedish doom / sludge monsters PYRAMIDO return with 2 more hateful songs, bringing to mind eye hate god ... but also integrity... gun mob from germany, feat. members of black shape of nexus deliever 9 songs of angry d-beat hardcore. recommended. 12"/lp Railsplitter 860 some odd lbs €3 (deadtank) Heavy as hell, evil etc. This is sludge!! vocals sound not unlike Unsane. Brilliant. 12"/lp Rapider than Horsepower/ The Mae Shi split lp €3 (narshardaa) Great stuff here from RTHP. Crazy like pavement but catchy. The Mae Shi is more with electronics and adds even more weirdness to this lp. The songs from both bands are mixed so it's no real "split" lp. 12"/lp Regimes Bloody Regimes €9 (Headwrecker) Formed from the long cold ashes of Raging Speedhorn, Dead Inside, Tribute and Hard To Swallow, Spectra Hawk morphed into Regimes. Debut 12” “Regimes…Bloody Regimes”, 9 tracks of metal / dbeat inspired Hardcore for fans of Cursed and the likes. 12"/lp Resurrectionists s/t €9 (Parade of spectres) Swirling wild guitars pummeling blast beat ridden drumming, and multiple vocalist mania. Pretty much what Bremen would sound like if they'd be listening to Discordance Axis. Like. 12"/lp Sacred Shock You're not with us €4 (residue) Amazing full length after two 7"s. Lots of Born Against meets Deathreat with some vocals which reminds me of Dwid. 11 songs in steamroller style. get this! 12"/lp Salome Terminal dlp €15 (Vendetta) After releasing a well acclaimed debut album and a split with THOU, here's the 2nd full-length by virginas' SALOME. Fronted by a vocalist with one of the most powerful voices in metal, this three-piece quickly earned a reputation as one of the heaviest bands alongside the likes of YOB and DARK CASTLE, recognized for bearing the doom-metal torch passed to them by legends KHANATE and BURNING WITCH. Stripped down and bleak doom. 12"/lp Sandcreek Massacre / Years Of Decay split €4 (Crashlanding) SCM obviously being Hollands leading d-beat crew. They added a bit more of the "epic" to their sound, which works quite well. Nice. Years of Decay are from France and have a bit more straight forward approach. custy vibes! 12"/lp SATAN / The Bold and the Beautiful split €9 (Sadness of Noise) both bands can be placed on simmilar shelf - angry, fast, full of fury punk mixing fast hardcore with powerviolence and grindcore. You can say they are inspired by Artimus Pyle, Iron Lung, Dystopia, Orchid, Discordance Axis among many others. The Bold and The Beautiful from Lublin (with people from Amen, Antichrist, Knife in the leg, Silence and more) goses more into the 80's hardcore direction, but with full speed. S.A.T.A.N. (with guys from Romeo Must Die and H-407) go more into the grind direction. Brutal record. 12"/lp Sed Non Satiata s/t €9 (Adagio830) Hailing from France, Sed Non Satiata’s new album is honestly one of the most promising and finest pieces of emotional hardcore of the last 5-10 years. Their sound is actually not that hard to describe: imagine the European emo-sound ( daitro , aussitit mort , amanda woodward ) plus a hefty love for Japanese emo titans Envy. The result is 5 tracks of epic, dissonant, brutal yet beautiful music. 12"/lp Skarp Bury your dead €4 (Inimical) The 1st full-length release from Seattle's purveyors of grind. More raw than their release on Alternative Tentacles, but still as brutal. Raging hardcore with a couple of brutal grind hints. The missing link between the punk early releases and the full on grind of "requiem". More overtly political than later work. Contains a NASUM cover as well as the infamous SKITSYSTEM cover. 12"/lp Snowblood s/t double lp €15 (Superfi) It really is a shame that a band like UK’s Snowblood can go relatively unnoticed during their run while other critically praised bands that operate within the same area musically continue to do so, however less effectively. I was introduced to the band when their second album Being and Becoming was released in 2005 and it was a massive listen of sludgy doom ridden tunes that grabbed my attention from the start. I have never been a big fan of that sort of thing over the years, however when done right it forces you to take notice and that’s part of the beauty of what Snowblood managed to accomplish while remaining in the shadows of so many others sadly. Their music can definitely be considered exhausting to sit down and listen to fully in one sitting, much like I felt when I first heard the debut Jesu LP. Except the thing I appreciate about Snowblood, other than the music itself, is that the band didn’t shy away from that approach as they progressed. They still insist upon creating the type of slow and successive punch that grinds and toils until it hits the payoff, and the payoff almost always proves to be worth it. Here on their third and final album the band is undoubtedly at peak form and at their most challenging with four lengthy compositions for the listeners to digest. 12"/lp Spectres s/t €4 (Sabotage) The 1st full-length from SPECTRES expands the song writing skills from their 2 previous 7"s to include some more angular writing abilies. The vocals are more dynamic and overall better thought out. Being compared to bands like JOY DIVISION and SISTERS OF MERCY is a hard thing to live up to, but they have definitely taken those influences and molded them into something heartfelt and profound. 12"/lp Splitter / FUBAR split lp €4 (Fast'n Furious) Excellent grindcore combination. Splitter spit out 8 tracks of hardcore grind only to slow down a bit for some more crusty elements, which suits their sound great. FUBAR just do what Napalm Death and Terrorizer did some years ago. Speed. Rage. Great. 12"/lp Starve Wasteland €9 (Badger records) Debut lp by these dutch sludgers. Featuring ex-members of Insult and Civil terror these guys have chosen a slightly slower aproach to making music. For fans of Iron Monkey and Eyeheategod. Pretty good! 12"/lp Sunpower Bondage €4 (Crucial Attack) Sunpower from Belgium return with another 10 songs of good oldschool punk/hardcore. Again they succeed in mixing the urge and speed of Minor Threat with the catchyness and punkfeel of the Dead Kennedys. Great band, great release! 12"/lp The South/Hypatia split lp €3 (deadtank) Yes it's here!!. These are the last recordings by the The South and they will blow you away. Sort of palatka taking more time for their songs. Hypatia makes me think of a Mouthpiece doing screamo songs and it works!! Great stuff from both bands!! 12"/lp Thou / Cower split €10 (Vendetta) THOU needs no introduction. Heavy and melodic, currently the best thing in sludge around. COWER from california play some 90ies influenced power violence. These guys probably listened to a lot of bovine and pessimiser records. Which is still good in my book. 12"/lp Umbrella/ Every kids loves a clown split €3 (crucificados) 2x US technical grind, very evil record. 12"/lp Unearthly Trance Electrocution €10 (Relapse) I was able to get these on coloured vinyl for a decent price some come get it. Electrocution is UT 4th lp and so to say their most interesting if you look at the songwriting. I guess what most reviewers are trying to say is that they are not playing the blunt doom again as on their previous work. This has more going on in a good way. Some people have a hard time getting used to progression. Anyway, even though it's slightly different from the previous (and for instance V) this is still UT and a great lp. Comes on green wax. 12"/lp Unearthly Trance / The Endless Blockade split €10 (Chrome Peeler) New York doom-metal juggernaut UNEARTHLY TRANCE offer up a single track, side-long onslaught of d-beat and doom before plummeting deep into the noise depths while Toronto, Canada's THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE combine power-violence and electronics to brutal effect on their 9 tracks. 12"/lp Union Of Sleep Death in a place of rebirth €9 (Per Koro) After last year's self-titled debut, UNION OF SLEEP deliver their 2nd release "death in the place of rebirth". Yet again they dish out uncomplicated, riff-based songs and solos which are obviously rooted in rock, but they come with a doom-metal, sludge and even a hardcore edge. Ruder and more decisive, this record punches like a steam hammer! Besides the essential sludgy, heavy riffs and fucked up atmosphere, you will discover a lot of subliminal grooves, too. Be aware of eight beastly fuckers, raw and crude, from the lowest instincts of mankind. Comprehensive yet refined, the union of extreme influences, instinctual prowess and rugged beauty on "death in the place of rebirth" is nothing less than impressive. If you have any sort of neck, "death in the place of rebirth" will force movement out of your head - in an up and down motion. Tech-metal freaks and hipsters alike will pretend to hate it, but they'll be missing out one of the year's best albums. Imagine THE MELVINS committing fornication with NEUROSIS and you'll get a slight idea of what it's about. LP comes with 350gr thick inside-out cover, and inlay 12"/lp v/a Making Childrens Songs a Threat Again €4 (diy) We like products like these. A compilation with a theme and in doing so verey well taken care of. Everything looks nice on this. Punk Parents that wrote something about education, diet etc. in relation to bringing up your children. All bands on here feature parents i guess; Zanussi, Betercore, Dagda, Jinn and Zegota among others. Great stuff! 12"/lp Visions Of War Shit Parade €9 (Ifeelgoodrecords) New very brutal & gloomy album of Crust//Attack//Terrör from France//HellGium's drunkers 12"/lp Voices forming weapons s/t €3 Think Fuel and old dc. 12"/lp Wake Leeches €9 (7 Degrees) After a 7" and endless shows, Canada's grinding band WAKE release their 1st longplayer, "leeches". WAKE combine a good dose of blastbeats, sludgy midtempo parts, doublebass machinegunfire and sometimes even melodic crusty outbursts into a fresh own style. With the brutal wall of sound, mixed and mastered by Scott Hull - this album is a monster! 12"/lp Walls The Future Is Wide Open €10 (Graanrepubliek) Walls are basically everything a hardcore band should be these days. Aggressive, provoking and unsettling. Their music has been described as brooding and downright scary at times. They are heavy and fast but with plenty of room for slower and creepy parts. They remind me of the first times I heard a Born Against record. The mixture of pissed off lyrics with such fitting music. Or maybe Dead and Gone, with their basslines and dissonant guitars who make you feel miserable each time you put on their record. You know how some bands are described with images of axes, hammers or other equipment to just describe how brutal they are? Well, Walls are like knives. You don’t see them coming but you can feel they are here. Bleak and harsh. This is rage. This is the European pressing, Iron Lung records will be handling the US version 12"/lp Warcollapse Crap, Scrap and unforgivable slaughter 2 €9 (Blinddead) The follow-up to the Crap, scrap and unforgivable slaughter cover 7" Warcollapse made in 2003. Also, the first material since the fullength Defy. This time, the cover 7" has become a 12", and are now out on Blindead Productions. 12"/lp We Need Maps s/t €8 (Shove) French emo at it's very best. Think Hyacinth, Bokanovsky and the likes. 12"/lp Wreck Of The Hesperus Light Rotting Out €10 (Streaks Records) The woeful second album, for so long dreaded by many, from the Irish grime-bandits Wreck of the Hesperus. Crawling out from their grim festering underground caverns after five years - this new monstrosity shows they have, unsurprisingly, learnt nothing since the pitiful noise of "The Sunken Threshold" in 2006. "Light Rotting Out" is a regressive degenerate musical abomination of fetid, retarded doom. Dirty dissonance from demented dissidents. Guest vocals from Albert Witchfinder. 12"/lp Year Of No LIght Ausserwelt dlp €15 (Music Fear Satan) Year of no Light spent most of the last 4 years spreading its enthralling psychedelic warfare to a continually growing audience. Alongside they parted ways with their singer and recruited two other thirsty mercenaries. Shiran, of über-doom combo “Monarch!”, brings now his chthonian six strings to an already massive cathedral of noise and ambient drone tones. Mathieu, of deviant-electronics act “Aeroflot”, strengthens ritualistic tribal rhythm patterns. Out of their cave, they secluded into an old theater to record these 4 tracks catching every possible vibration of the trembling frame of this enlivened a new mansion. All the energy collected at that very moment forms “Ausserwelt”, the sophomore album of Year of no Light. Mystical emanations flow out of these riffs colliding into each other to an in ear-splitting shriek. Cranked amps and molested drums hurl their mourning chant as a choir intoning its final psalms at the dawn of the Last Judgment. Year of no Light follows the path opened by “Nord” towards more somber psychedelics, creating its own blend of black metal, sludge, drone or any other influence marked with the seal of darkness. Still no caps, no core neither stupid modern nihilism but instead an ambiguous electrical network of acting singularities, now ready to afford the collective metaphysical crash to come. 6" Hummingbird of Death / Sidetracked split €5 (Cowabunga) Over in 4 and a half minutes between the 2 sides so neither band is fooling around. Sidetracked rips through 9 very short songs in a matter of no time and they sound a lot like they did on the 16oh EP and the split LP with Dead Radical -in that Count Me Out edge hardcore crossed with Lack of Interest ferocity, speed and of course- blast beats. On the flip label fave Hummingbird of Death do 5 songs and of course its sheer genius-short songs that have so much going on in it they feel like minute long songs. Their tunes are in the vein of the Haste LP tracks but taking another step forward while being more complex but still FAST, intelligent and angry. On the absurd 6'' size as well. The labels have been reversed unfortunately due to a pressing error, so please keep this in mind! 7" Atomck / Paucities split €4 (7Degrees) PAUCITIES, from Chicago, are waving the flag of the new wave of American Mince-Core! This motley crue keep it fast and brutal with their offerings on this hunk o' vinyl. Members of WINTERS IN OSAKA and SOCIALLY RETARDED. The blokes in ATOMCK hail from the Newport in the UK and bring forth some insanely spazzed out death grind madness on their tracks. This split will be considered seminal a few years down the line 7" Abolition / Hang the Bastard split €4 (Hit Time Records) Two excellent bands from London, UK. Hang The Bastard have two songs on here that continue in the same vein as their mcd. Incredibly metallic hardcore with sick vocals, there are plenty of Ringworm/Integrity/Kickback influences throughout but they also have more doom & straight up metal influences. Abolition totally falls in the '90s hardcore category with their up-tempo hardcore that's similar to bands like Strife, Unashamed, Outspoken and Trial. Quality stuff. 7" Agents Of Abhorrence / Roskopp split €4 (Crucificados) two of australias finest grind bands team up for this great split. 5 new tracks from Agents Of Abhorrence and 3 new tracks from Roskopp. outstanding artwork with luxurious varnished printing. 7" Auryn / Bosque split €1 (Square Of Opposition) Bosque bring punishing epic d-beat out of the slums of Chicago. Auryn hail from Pittsburgh/Philly and bring a bit more melody and metal into a similarly well worn mold of heavy political crust hardcore. Neither band would sound out of place on a compilation LP from 1997 released by Ebullition or Old Glory. You might recognize members of Auryn from time spent in Sequoia, Rambo, Pissed Jeans, Hypatia, and The Gatecrashers. Nice! 7" Bait Every Lie I've Ever lived €1 (Nakkeskudd) From Norwich, Uk. Apperently this is ex-members from Deviated Instinct for those who remember them. Anyway, Biat is pretty metallic hardcore. In good way. Take some Rorschach and add some modern stuff like From Ashes Rise with a slightly metal edge. That's Bait. Pretty good. 7" Banran Stop Kor. €4 (Waybackwhen) Banran are from Seoul / South Korea . If you are familiar with hardcore from the far east you know the deal . 11 songs in less than 10 minutes should give you an idea what to expect . Fierce and relentless asian hardcore , including some great samples. 7" Betercore / My Own Lies split €4 (flowerviolence) Two of the best fastcorebands in europe from some time ago on one release, awesome. Both bands went to good studios and made brutal recordings with much power and aggression. 7" Betongbarn s/t €1 (nakkeskudd) Norwegian steamroller punk. This is loud and just goes. Has a bit an "old" feeling to it but it's a fairly new band. great stuff. 7" Big Crux Big Crux is a Big Funk €4 (Iron Lung) Out of nowhere, unseen for years, Felix from LIFE'S HALT came into the record shop armed with an ipod full of home-made demos aptly titled "Futuro", signaling that he had the itch to start a new band and get back to doing what he does best. Listening through these (only allowed on headphones) tunes we heard tastes of the BIG BOYS, THE PLUGZ and the MINUTEMEN. Best part is that some of those were sung in his native Spanish tongue. Dynamite! Now BIG CRUX is fully formed and tight as shit. Three of those "Futuro" tracks are recorded it is our extreme pleasure to share them with you. Felix, classify those tracks as "Presente" amigo. Silk screened sleeves. Art by Tim Kerr. 7" Black Everest demo €4 (MOC) Somewhere between Hardcore, Screamo but also Post-rock and Crust this demo 7" is to class in. Extremely powerful, yet playful and not too fiddly. In between a synthesizer provides a kind of epic atmosphere. (Almost feels like a surrounding spaceship). The four guys from Berlin, Hamburg and Oldenburg manage the balancing act between hard and fast parts and moodful melodies. to find a specific classification is difficult - a too wide-ranging musical spectrum had obviously influence on the five songs. If you cant imagine this, you should get this record and make your own impression. 7" Black September The Sermon Of Vengeance €4 (Iconoclast) Chicago’s deathblackcrust metallers Black September harkens back to the crust/death metal of old Bolt Thrower and the rough majesty of old Amon Amarth. This seven-inch single will feature two original songs Epic, furious, violently fast and violently slow too, with a powerful female voice to complete. Comes with a fold out 11"x17" poster and has members of Kungfu Rick and High on Crime. 7" Bloody Gears s/t €4 (Taken By Surprise) Their 2009 selftitled demo was a breath of fresh air, as the folks at MRR put it in issue # 315: "This band already has a sound that's their own, but likely draws from THE OBSERVERS and LEATHERFACE,and there's something very Midwest about these songs as well, making me think of early ARTICLES OF FAITH and HUSKER DU." I can also hear Greg Sage's WIPERS in those songs. Now their first piece of vinyl sees the light of day. 3 songs of dark melodic mayhem. 2 new songs and a re-recorded version of TAKE A RIDE from the demo. 7" Buckshot Facelift demo €4 (DIY) 11 tracks of brutal 90s style grind core. In vein of Enemy Soil, or Gob. Comes in two color silk screened jacket. 7" Burning the Prospect one sided €1 (DIY) Great band from the UK. Heavy as fuck. Think Artimus Pyle and His hero Is Gone in a blender. Agressive stuff. 7" Burning The Prospect / Valhalla Pacifists split €1 (Hollow Soul) our new circle-pit inducing thrashers from Valhalla Pacifists - they're fast, reckless and have a good sense of humor! Burning The Prospect offer up two songs of dark, brooding d-beat crust; driving fast parts crash into devastating slow sections with enough melody to make carry it all off 7" Burning Times s/t €1 (Tadpole) Yeah from Brighton, UK. Though if somebody told me they were from 94 and contained members of Halfman and Scapecrace i would have believed them as well. This is hardcore! awesome 7"! 7" Burning Times 2nd 7" €1 (tadpole) Their second 7". As expected this rules. This is punkrock. Much like older bands like Born Against or Halfman. This is full of energy. Great record! 7" Canadian Rifle Facts €4 (Taken By Surprise) In time for their first European adventure a new 7" by Chicago's CANADIAN RIFLE! Jordan Atkins from their US label put it this way: "Following up their amazing LP last year, this new EP has one of the best songs they have ever written (Blank Trade) and hit it hard with two of the fastest songs they have ever recorded on the B-side." 7" Capsule / Furnace split €4 (moments of collapse) split 7" between Florida's Capsule and Boston's Furnace. Those who aren't familiar with Capsule, (Ex-members of Kylesa and Torche) expect angry, raging hardcore influenced by bands such as Botch, Breather Resist, and 90's "screamo" bands such as Orchid or City Of Caterpillar. Boston MA's Furnace play an aggressive, metallic, and crust influenced brand of hardcore similar to bands such as Relics, Failures, and Ampere. Great release, 7" Carol Prefabricated €4 (Per Koro) CAROL were another legendary band of the almighty Bremen scene and members were involved in bands such as SYSTRAL, MÖRSER and QUEERFISH. This is a mighty impressive brutal and mayhemic 3 track 7" with frantic, energetic attacks. It's always brutal (doesn't matter if slow or fast). Actually influenced by ACME = but better! "prefabricated" was produced by (who else?) Dirk Kusche at Kuschelrock. No more description necessary, you know the rest. Essential 7" Chronic Heist Quick Fix with Repairs €1 (knives slits water) Guys who (used to) play in bands like 8 Days of Nothing and Trapdoor Fucking exit with a different appoach here. Chronic Heist plays a modern version of '70's art/krautrock. It's a kind of progressive spaced out glam or suburban goth or something. weird but interesting. 7" Chuck Damage / Short Fuse split €4 (Hardware) Split 7" from these two European bands who are both clearly inspired by Poison Idea... in fact, I hear distinctly ripped-off PI riffs in both bands songs! What they lack in originality, however, they more than make up for in power... these guys are up there with Wasted Time, Tramps, and bands like that who just make fucking BRUISING yet not tough-guy-sounding hardcore. 6 fucking rippers here! 7" Cibo / Airlines Of Terror split €1 (Shove) 2x Italy. Cibo is grind 'n' roll vs Airlines oF Terror with their mixture of death metal & folk punk, airlines with members from inferno. 7" Citizens Patrol Sick Routine €4 (Crucial Attack) Citizens Patrol from teh netherlands blast out 10 tracks of early '80s inspired hardcore on this 7". Short songs that never let up for one second. The songs take no prisoners, bringing to mind current bands like GOVERNMENT WARNING, DIRECT CONTROL and WASTED TIME. 7" Citizens Patrol Dead Children €4 (Crucial Attack) Their 2nd 7"! Citizens Patrol blast through another 6 tracks of early '80s inspired hardcore with demented vocals, buzzsaw guitars and drums that never seem to slow down. This is hyper-speed hardcore, comparable to early bands like RKL or even Spermbirds but bringing their own flavor to the table 7" Citizens Patrol demo 7" €4 (waybackwhen) After 2 ep's on No Way (USA) and Crucial Attack (Holland) their demo from 2006 finally makes it to vinyl. No clue why this took so long. Some songs made it to the first ep, some didn't . Complete your CP collection with this slap of wax 7" Ciudad del Cabo / Theraps split €1 (moment of collapse) Ciudad del cabo from spain are ex-members of enoch ardon and costacurta. they contrubute 2 songs to this split with theraps (ex-arse moreira), which also give 2 songs. Ciudad del cabo play more the classic mid 90s style. theraps play some technical, post hardcore style with long instrumental parts. 7" Clocked Out s/t €4 (diy) Fast and frantic hardcore from Glasgow. Think early DRI or Void. Mental. This is their self released debut 7" 7" Closure s/t €4 (Feast of Tentacles) second 7" from this UK powerviolence outfit. Pretty much on the same level as their first. And i liked that first a lot. Not very original but it's quality stuff. If you're into Crossed Out, Scapegoat and that sort of thing, this is totaly yours. Recommended. 7" Closure / Torn Apart / Mouth / Bonestorm compilation €8 (Hit time) UK powerviolence, fast hardcore comp 2x7" . Featuring Closure, Mouth, Torn Apart and Bonestorm. Essential stuff for fans of Infest, Crossed Out, Dropdead and the likes of them. Fast, abrasive and in your face. Packaged in beautiful gatefold covers. 7" Cold Ones Stay Thirsty €1 (Zandor) Killer, anthemic hardcore from the UK... these guys remind me a lot of Social Circkle in the way they manage to tread that fine line between punk and hardcore without definitively landing in either... one might also say this is great, catchy punk with an aggressive edge. (from sorry state records) 7" Control de Estado Ladron ep €4 (IFB Records) CONTROL DE ESTADO's second EP blasts six tracks of slightly twisted , straight forward thrash. Single-line bursts of spirited hardcore with shreded vocals, a la later CRUDOS, spitting point-blank political lyrics largely in Spanish. Quirky, odd twists, an occasional SST-styled guitar wail, or just bizzare breaks mix this up from any sort of formulaic thrash. Nicely packaged in a '90s styled screened, recycled paper fold out sleeve. 7" Cornered demo €1 (Crucial Attack) Nice! NYHC influenced stuff here. They act tough and sound mean. What else do you want? This is pretty pissed off stuff. Mosh! 7" Cracks in the Wall s/t €4 (diy) Second 7" by these dutch trashers. The sloppyness of the first one is gone and traded in for a much tighter approach. Fucked up hardcore that holds up somewhere between black flag and negative approach. 7" Crucial Section Against the Wind €4 (crew for life) 6 new rippers from these guys from japan. It's fast it's energetic, it's trashy. You know the deal. 7" Damages Scars €1 (Deaf Cult) This is ex-members of canadian band Al Through A Life and it shows. Scars essentially picks up where the members left off with their previous band. Damages still draw heavy inspiration from the likes of Fugazi and Embrace, but there are also hints of noise punk bands like Shellac and Unwound found here. The two songs of this 7” are rooted in the angular riff and methodical rhythms of the early 90's and the vocals are almost a dead ringer for Ian MacKaye; it's uncanny. Awesome! 7" Dark Ages Vicious Lie €4 (Cowabunga) The great debut EP from Kansas City's Dark Ages! Continuing from where their killer 4 song demo (which also saw a pressing on vinyl) left off, this picks it up from point A and yet cover new ground at the same time. Its progressed a little but not to the point where its evil to punks. Its like its more refined and the band knows which direction to take this musically. Lyrically it tackles similar angry topics as the demo did-being pro anti-religion, questioning politics (NOT preaching) and also a song about trying to not think of everything in a negative way, to be positive for a change. It's kind of like stuff you've heard before but really can't make comparisons to other bands with this record as they've developed a sound all their own &t its clearly midwestern. This is just Dark Ages and this is far from boring retread or mysterious HC/punk, comes w nice color covers. 7" Dead for a minute/Submerge split €1 (shogun) Dead for a minute is the french honeywell attempt. Submerge dark and technical metal hardcore 7" Dead Radical / Republicorpse split €4 (Give Praise) This is the final musical output for both of these bands! Brutal powerviolence, skull crushing blasts, rotting grindcore, marijuana debacles. Crucial! 7" Disclose / Scarred For Life split €4 (despotic) Two bands, from opposites sides of the Pacific, are keeping the spirit if classic "Noise not music" Discharge-type hardcore alive and kicking three songs of total d-beat massacre by Tokyo's Disclose, whose sound is more like EP years Discharge, are totally complemented by LA's Scarred For Life, who play in more of a "Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing" style. Some of the best songs released by either band and well worth picking up. 7" Dispense Nothing but the truth €4 (Finn) This is the pre-Victims, Skitsystem band with six songs that were originally released in 1994 on Finn Records. Of course, you can expect brutal riffing Scandicrust at its best here, like first DISFEAR and the likes. 7" Drip of Lies s/t €4 (Scarecrow) Drip Of Lies are five dudes hailing from Poland, playing four heavy songs in the vein of Tragedy with desperate personal lyrics. Amazing, deep and powerful recording. 7" Dude Japan / Weed Hounds split €4 (sncl) Long Island indie rock unite!! Dude Japan plays 90s styled lo fi indie rock/pop like Velocity Girl, Further, Superchunk and Tiger Trap. While on the flip side Weed Hounds play a style that is a mix between Swirlies, My Bloody Valentine and Dinosaur Jr. A limited pressing of 300 with full color covers. 7" Dusty Blinds Grind €4 (Brulkikker) No it's not grindcore. It's one of best indie / punkpop bands from the Netherlands. Two songs on this one in the vein of Dinosaur jr meets Sleater Kinney. Excellent catchy songs. Hope they release more soon. 7" Easpa Measa / Nemetona split €1 (Acclaim) EASPA MEASA are from Dublin, Ireland. They play amazing crusty melodic hardcore fury. Described as Disaffect meets Submission Hold based on Tragedy. Go figure!. NEMETONA is a Japanese female fronted raging crustcore attack. It's brutal. You'll like it. 7" Endless Blockade, the / Wadge split €4 (RSR) This split features 7 new tracks from the Canadian powerhouse ENDLESS BLOCKADE and 3 killer tracks from the mighty WADGE. ENDLESS BLOCKADE team up for this split with Paul Pfeiffers WADGE brutal drum-maschine. This is for fans of classic, frantic grindcore and power-violence. 7" Facel Vega / Sceptres split €4 (Dire) Facel Vega are Uk's best i think. Total Rites Of Spring, Torches To Rome worship but with their own twist. It feel slike they own that sound. Sceptres do a wave influenced 80's punk thing. Nice, but get this for the FV side. Excellent stuff. 7" Football etc. s/t €4 (sncl) football etc have their own sound but for ease of thought, you can pitch this in somewhere between mineral, rainer maria and evergreen. one song is soft and gentle, the other insistent and moody. so so good. 7" Fuck Wolves ... und zwischen all unseren trümmern €4 (MOC) Finally a new output by our four friends in Fuck Wolves. After their Demo and a split LP with “Chaos Is” we are happy to present their “und zwischen all unseren Trümmern und Traumgebilden” 7inch. The Band developed their sound and found a good base with a finally firm line-up. On this 7” you get three songs that throw you directly back in the days when you put early Screamo-records on your turntable and gathered melodies from all those nice bands that released record year’s back. A rough sound guided by high pitched melodies and brutal passages to flow into clean played guitar-lines that catch ears. These parts are rounded by handclaps, as well as intense and desperate vocals. Expect some really nice bass-lines that accentuate the well played drums before everything turns again in chaos. For those who are into very early Funeral Diner stuff, Enoch Ardon and Kobra Khan. Artwork by Gwaendo. 7" Furnace / Relics split €4 (Makeshift Origami) Great split 7"!!! Furnace sound like His Hero Is Gone songs played by Orchid. It works out brilliant. 2 new songs + a dropdead cover. Relics is with people from Ampere and they sound like they could have been on Council records. Intens and violent. also 2 new songs and a No Comment cover. You can't go wrong with this one! recommended. 7" Gas Chamber Corpse with Levity €4 (Warm Bath) "corpse with levity" deliver 6 new songs. A collaborative effort with the American folk artist COLOSSUS OF ROADS, in which he created artwork demonstrating the subject of the music. The vocals swell like a jug of rotten fluids prepared to spray indiscriminately, over drums that have become sick and mangled from the fall of hammers, while the bass and guitar have discovered each other as mitigating amongst a parade of obscene daily circumstances. Ugly hardcore / powerviolence from members of They Live and Running for Cover. 7" Gaz-66 intrusion s/t €4 (Crucificados) Straight forward blasting fastcore from the Ukraine. A ton of short and to the point tunes of high-speed thrash! For fans of Charles Bronson,Spazz. 7" Gehenna / Blind To Faith split €4 (A389) California’s sketchiest deliver two new songs and team up with BTF who feature members of Rise and Fall, AmenRa + Reproach. 7" Get Destroyed Shut in €4 (Give Praise) Back from the ashes, GET DESTROYED! drop their third EP of brutal fastcore – their best yet. Pummeling contrasts between short blasts and hammer-crushing slow parts, GxDx are veterans of this style and never fail to devestate. Fans of early HATRED SURGE and CROSSED OUT take note. Special guest vocals from Grace Perry of LANDMINE MARATHON 7" Good Wife, the Teeth and Tongue €1 (Superfi) We played with these guys on our tour in the UK. They were great. A bunch of outcasts playing seriously ugly music. Pretty intense as well. The label describes them as a heady mix of Oxbow, The Jesus Lizard and The Stooges with some seriously weighty literary references. That last part means "i don't get it".. but i do get the first part. Excellent stuff. 7" Grinding Halt / Diet Pills split €4 (Graanrepubliek) Finaly some Grinding Halt vinyl again. Here showing some of the slower side of their set. Two songs of which one is somewhat of a noisy hc song while the 2nd has 90's mosh written all over it. On the flip side there's Diet Pills insanity. Hints of Dystopia and Jesus Lizard thrown in a blender. It's so heavy it makes you wonder how it would fit on the vinyl. Great dutch/uk team up! 7" Hammers / Dolcim split €1 (React With Protest) This split features 2 awesome new tunes from HAMMERS. Melodic and heavy hardcore with a crusty edge. DOLCIM deliver some heavy tunes with this almost post-rockish edge and atmospheric parts. 7" Heartless s/t €4 (diy) Wait is this a long forgotten 90's gem? No, but Heartless definately knows how to put 90's mosh down and add some modern From Ashes Rise fury to the table. This is a really great 7". get this! 7" Heartless / The Blind split €4 (Suburban Mayhem) Two sides of the same coin - on side one Dublin's THE BLIND offer up two tense songs of explosive, driving modern hardcore with some 90's flavour. First time i heard this i thought i was thinking this would probably be Extinction ro Hourglass if they were around these days. Great stuff. Pittsburgh's HEARTLESS (feat members of Masakari) rip through a series of shorter, sharp shocks. Heavy, more crusty feel to it with a mosh vibe. Seriously. Nice split. 7" Human Hands s/t €4 (Hit time) Human Hands are unashamedly, unabashedly, an emo band. Look at the centre labels of this release, with loads of type written a's and b's (lower case for the most part, natch). The packaging is photocopied and the insert random with the lyrics pasted over brief biographies of jazz musicians and photos of boys. If you tippexed out the bit where it says "Human Hands" and showed me the record and said "Bet you've never seen this before, it's an unreleased Embassy 7" that never made it past tess presses" I would believe you. People into Bob Tilton and native Nod should check this out. 7" Hunger, the Winter €1 (Graanrepubliek, Shield) Great follow up to their 12" last year. This time they slowed down a bit to give some more room to some midpaced Undertow / Unbroken style heavyness. But don't worry, side B has the Cursed death'n roll pace and breakdown. Bringing back the 90's with some 09's flavour. We love it. 7" Hungry Lungs s/t €4 (Parade Of Spectres) 13 pounding hits and then the chaos ensues. Koerperjuenger is the perfect song to kick off a flawless 7". 3 tracks of brutal and raging german crust in the vein of His Hero Is Gone, Perth Express and Alpinist, this release will kick you in the ass, and leave you no time to recover. What I like best about the release is how dynamic the writing is. You can just tell each song was meticulously written, every transition, every riff, every finish perfected. This is the 7" that you will immediately spin the second the feedback of Philister fades. I don't know what is in the water in Germany, but I can't think of any other country that produces as many quality bands. What all German hardcore bands seem to have in common, and Hungry Lungs is no different, is outstanding drumming. The absolute intensity of the hits can be heard even through the recording. For fans of Alpinist, Perth Express, His Hero is Gone, Glasses and Gun Mob. Do Not Sleep On This Record. 7" Internal Rot s/t €4 (Crucificados, 625) Punishing grindcore from Australia not unlike Excruciating Terror or Terrorizer in "World Downfall" times. Headcrushing, blasting. Featuring members of Agents Of Abhorrence and Roskopp. 7" IZBA WYTRZEZWIEN On N'Est Pas Bien à L'Ombre €1 (shogun) 7 song EP made in Breizh. Anarcho-hardcore with hints of Finn Crust - mean d-beat. Charge of female vocals add a real great vibe to this relentless rager. 7" Karysun / Year Of No Light split 7" €4 (Destructure) Year Of No Light bring one track of dark soundwaves mixed with some black metal. Sounds almost like a classical composition. Karysun is a two piece from France doing some murderous havy riffing sounding like Unsane sing stoner songs. Works out quite well. 7" Kids Explode / Solemn League split €1 (Asymetrie) ere it is! Kids Explode are featured with a song called "Hotel Rooms" which was recorded together with the songs from their split 7inch with End Of A Year and a remix of their smash hit "Yards and Miles" from the same record. Highly energetic posthardcore - you should know them by now. Solemn League are a quite new post-punk band from Hamburg and Berlin playing music influenced by bands such as Wipers, Mission of Burma, Sonic Youth and Buzzcocks, without stepping into the retro trap though. Great record 7" Knife in the leg / Imperial Leather split €1 (sadness of noise) 4 new tracks by Stockholm's finest punk rock outfit with female vocal and more comparisosns to DIRT sound than on previous recordings. On the other side Poland's best 80s hardcore crew with 4 new tracks of pure hardcore energy, melody, rawness anger and fun. 7" Kriegshog Hardcore Hell €4 (Heartfirst) Thrashy, noisy hardcore from Tokyo, Japan. Highly praised record and highly recommended. This just blows you away. 7" Kruel / Unlearn split €4 (Crucificados) KRUEL are a raw DBeat assault killing it in the Los Angeles Raw Ponx scene. No frills and no filler, just kick ass ANTICIMEX, SHITLICKERS worshipping hardcore punk. Unlearn are a raw and brutal Dbeat attack from Vancouver. 5 minutes of pure distortion and maximum volume with guitar torture worthy of comparisons to the greats. A loud and noisy fury of raw punk levelling everything in their path. Vocals distorted in anguish and a wall of guitars tweaked to ear splitting frequencies held down with an impressive d-beat attack. If you're a fan of Disclose, Anti-Cimex, or raw punk in general, you should definitely check this out! 7" Kursk / Lycantrophy split €1 (Rimbaud) Short Fast And Loud reviewed this with the words: “KURSK play some fucked up, Discordance Axis meets the production values of lo-fi black metal, grindcore. Damaged, swirling guitars over completely buried, almost inaudible drums while a tortured, ghost of a larynx hovers above. Amazing!!! Czech's Lycanthrophy squeeze out a more straightforward grind with excellent production highlighting the rapid fire drumming.” Who am I to disagree. 7" Kurt Russel / Godeater split €4 (TVG) punishing brutalcore/powerviolence vs pissed fastcore destruction!! GREAT! 7" Lies Feed The Machine Gallows €1 (Contraszt) Two year after their last record Lies feed the machine from Berlin are back with a new great, little piece of vinyl, named “Gallows”. With Marek of Insuciety and Ex-Mönster now on drums, their sound has developed in variety and you can expect piercing, metallic guitar riffs and pummeling basslines, backed with heavy ‘n rough d-beat drumming and angry screamed vocals. The record comes with a beautiful, four coloured silkscreen cover (from the Contraszt website) 7" Limb from limb Dismemberment €1 (Institute for mental Hygiene) Raised on a diet of influences such as BOLT THROWER, ENTOMBED and AMEBIX, LIMB FROM LIMB mesh the best aspects of all those bands into a storming, unhinged cacophony of metallic upheaval. This limited european tour 7" features 2 new tracks of their incredible fresh metallic crust. 7" Los Asesinos de la Superficialidad manifesto €1 (graanrepubliek) Our first release. Think mike kirsch, think ebullition/gravity. 7" Lost boys Life.Work.Regret €1 (Trashbastard) Catchy, mid-tempo hardcore-punk inspired by bands like ANGRY SAMOANS, CIRCLE JERKS or BLACK FLAG among others. It’s LOST BOYS’ 6th release. This new 4 song 7“ (including a M.I.A. cover) brings you raging hardcore-punk heavily influenced by the '80 hardcore with a bit of Boston and lots of California in the mix. 7" Love Channel s/t €4 (Fucking Kill Records) Angry, raging THRASHCORE form Germany. Ultrafast with some slower parts. Some old classic Boston bands like JERRYS KIDS & THE FREEZE come to mind. But it´s really hard to describe that monster in words. But hey, 13 songs in 10 1/2 minutes; there is nothing more to say!!! 7" M:40 / Sandcreek Massacre split €4 (Halvfabrikat) On these three new tracks by M:40 they continue to develop their hardcore/crust sound. It's fast aggressive, but they aren't afraid to lower the tempo and perform some crushing tones and powerful rhythms as well. Faster and slower crustcore in a well executed blend. Sand Creek Massacre are more dark in their approach and falls under the category of "modern crustcore". Loads of melodies and crustness. Solid stuff. 7" Marvelous Darlings Shoot the piano player €4 (Taken by Surprise) his is perfect pop-punk music for the masses. The band's mastermind is Ben Cook, also previously or currently active in NO WARNING, FUCKED UP, VIOLENT MINDS, CRIMINALLY INSANE and with his great solo project YOUNG GOVERNOR! "shoot the piano player" is a hell of a '50s groove smash-hit and on the b-side the band rips a poppy punk tune executed in true DARLINGS fashion. 7" Melete s/t €1 (diy) Self released 7" from this great band from Slovenia. They do a crusty kind of emoviolence which sounds very 90's. I can assure you they do it totaly the right way. That with a booklet that will remind you of those ebullition days as well we have a winner here. Recommended. 7" Merkit / Resurrectionists split €4 (React with Protest) It's mister React with Protest himself again in a band and he pulls it of great. Superb agressive grind/hc mayhem not unlike the older Bremen style bands. Merkit are from the US and do their Left For Dead with bits of melody with class again. Awesome split. 7" Mindless Human Condition €4 (RSR) INDLESS comes at you full force with 7 songs in just under 8min.. Bringing their own unique style of hook driven hardcore with very present grindcore and power-violence influences. MINDLESS will drown you in negative noise. Each song is layered with tempo changes ala CROSSED OUT, SPAZZ and specifically INFEST. Buzzsaw guitars over carefully crafted blasting paired with blown out female-fronted gut-wrenching vocals. If you are looking for something to furiously bang your head too - pick-up this item! 7" Mob 47 Karnvapen Attack €4 (havoc) At long last an official re-issue of this most classic Swedish hardcore 7". MOB 47 took the anger and intensity of early '80s Swedish hardcore and injected it with the speed and high energy of American thrash. The result is some of the most powerful hardcore of the early '80s. 7" Moloch / Corpus dei split €4 (Feast Of Tentacles) Moloch deliver one track of their Eyehategod-esque misery. Corpus Dei play three tracks of heavy hitting ugly hardcore in the vein of Unruh and Gehenna. Filthy stuff. 7" Moloch / Rot In Hell split €4 (Feast Of Tentacles) Two heavy weights from the UK. Rot in Hell doing their Holy terror / Integrity influenced mayhem. Moloch take a their Eyehategod-esque sludge to the next level. Great stuff 7" Never Again / Mind Trap split €4 (Crucificados) Never Again from the UK play superfast sxe hardcore with bits of powerviolence. Mind Trap from Austria choose a more heavier approach. Something for the TrashTalk and Mind Eraser fans. 7" No Man's Slave / I Resign split €1 (Give Praise) No Mans Slave is back with even more pulverizing music! Complete with catchy breaks and powerviolence infused blasts, these new songs do not let down. I Resign is new out of Oklahoma City with more of a hardcore approach to the powerviolence spectrum. Fast and over the top, but with some ties into the melodic hardcore feel. Reminds me of Palatka and Charles Bronson for some reason. 7" No Statik s/t €4 (Iron Lung Records) Nicely done crusty hc by ex-members of Artimus Pyle, End Of The Century Party and Scrotum Grinder. How can you go wrong? 7" Parlementarisk Sodomi / Blodsprut split €4 (Crucificados) 10 new tracks from Norway's Parlamentarisk Sodomi. a 5 minutes long nonstop blast which sets a new high standard in modern gindcore. you will scratch your eyeballs out when you hear this - some of the most unrelenting grindcore since INSECT WARFARE and the most radical crusty punked up grind heard in the last decade. Blodsprut is grindcore in its purest form. Norway's noise artists Anders Hana (MoHa! / Ultralyd / Noxagt) and Patrick Petterson recorded a sonic statement of drastic metalic radicalism, paying tribute to the days of old school grind, noisecore and mixing it up with some hysterical noise rock interludes. With just two percussion kits, vocals, distortion and noise they conjure complex rhythmic blasts, evil feedback tortures and interfuse them with demonic howls from the deepest pits of hell. 7" Party By The Slice / Malparido split €1 (diy) From MRR; First things first, PARTY BY THE SLICE made me laugh out loud. When was the last time a hardcore record made you laugh out loud?? "You might ask me why I'm so chubby / The answer is stupid people make me hungry." "Veggie sausage and being nice / We love these things, we're PARTY BY THE SLICE / Here's to being old, here's to being single. / Here's to having fun, we fucking rule! / Too old to be posi / still young enough to smile." This is straightforward contemporary hardcore with slight crust leanings and they do everything just right. I love the female backing vocals that yell "Text" once in a while during the first track. Is the best hardcore in the US coming out of Wisconsin these days? I think maybe it is. I've listened to PARTY BY THE SLICE's side of this 7" ten times. Love it! Just found out that the band contains members of GET RAD, PROTESTANT, KUNG FU RICK and ABADDON. No wonder I like it so much. MALPARIDO plays a raw and lo-fi ripping fast hardcore. From New Zealand but sound like lat 90's South American fastcore bands. 7" Pick Your Side Survival Prayer €4 (RSR) PICK YOUR SIDE is a new studio project band featuring Jeff Beckman of HAYMAKER, LEFT FOR DEAD and Johnny Ibay of FUCK THE FACTS. "survival prayer" deliver 10 songs of lo-fi hardcore that will appeal to fans of both bands. Fast with lyrics that make sense. Nice! 7" Pig Heart Transplant / The Endless Blockade split €4 (Superfi) Sludged-out noise meets noised-out powerviolence. PHT is Jon from Iron Lung plus chums.The Endless Blockade are ex-Shank and this is their swansong. Very nice screenprinted foldout cover. Artwork done by Feeding. Essential. 7" Positive Noise / Xtra Vomit split €4 (ifb records) Positive Noise blazes through with thick heavy HC and a never give up attitude. Xtra Vomit now has a live drummer and you are not ready for what happened. Pained lyrics struggling to find hope and meaning rage over grinding never-let-up HC. A heavier Ottawa might be a good starting point. 7" Raging Fugitives s/t €1 (Nakkeskudd) Straight forward hardcore from Norway. No crust or d-beat but a bunch of kids that are just into speed and punkrock. This is raw and fast. Maybe if Sportswear were a really cool band that knew how to play garage rock then it might sound like this. nice! 7" Raised By Drunks / Link split €1 (Distro-Y records) Four songs of harsh fast crust from this Swedish band, known as RAISED BY DRUNKS who are a motley crew of fast mayhem, coupled with slow heavy bits. Anti-government lyrics that add a bite to their already rabid sound and when they are not fighting the system they’ll be in the pub causing an equal amount of mayhem. LINK (from Belgium) is slowed down crust, in the vein of AMEBIX, later ANTISECT and AXEGRINDER. A monolithic power house of subdued energy, channelled through powerful landscapes of putrid aggression. A dirty sound and minging view on society. (Mel Hughes / Profane Existence) 7" Rort s/t €4 (Crucificados) raging hardcore from melbourne, australia. featuring members from the mighty Extortion, Rort play excellent violent, self-loathing, power violence influenced hardcore for those who are down with bands as Crossed Out, Neanderthal or Mind Eraser. a bold brand of music with one common theme, brutality! artwork was drawn by Rohan/Extortion. 7" Roskopp s/t €4 (Crucificados) Grind. Not much more to say really. It's on the heavy side and it's damn good, they even do a Phobia cover. Can't really go wrong with this. 7" Roskopp / Doubled Over split €4 (Give Praise) Doubled Over starts their side blasting through dirty and raw brutal fucking riffs! And it doesnt stop. Ever. These Aussie's know how to play grindcore, in a way that takes you back to California in the mid 90's. Super tight. Super fast. Super heavy. Roskopp's side is some of their best material to date. Its like they dont know how NOT to play fast. The drums are some of the fastest most blistering drums I've heard from any band of any time. All the guitar work reeks of early regurgitate, and the vocals are low and guttural as you can get, rivaled by screaching highs. Roskopp make some of the most honest, pissed off grindcore in the WORLD. 7" Rot In Hell / Horders split €4 (Feast Of Tentacles) 7" vinyl features two new songs from HORDERS (aural side project of GIVE UP) in the usual minimal acoustics over harsh/ambient noise vein, and two new songs from ROT IN HELL that deviate from their traditional clevo metal/hard core assault while still maintaining their identifiable direction. pure holy terror. 7" Ruidosa Inmundicia demo 2004 7" €4 (waybackwhen) After their amazing ep and split lp their demo from 2004 is available again, this time on vinyl . Fast and furious hardcore with brutal female vocals and lyrics in spanish on top of that. 7" Ruidosa Inmundicia huellas de odio €4 (Heartfirst) After their split LP with SOLID DECLINE and their demo 7", RUIDOSA INMUNDICIA from Vienna/Austria return with new material. This is once more anthemic, energetic hardcore reminicent vocalwise (lyrics in Spanish) of many great South/Central American hardcore bands. They're different artworks available; all of them comes with screenprinted cover! 7" Sadville / Acts Of Sedition split €4 (Inkblot) Sadville delivers a song in three parts which showcases southern influenced stoner crust metal. Acts Of Sedition combine the dark crust sounds of bands like Born/Dead and Tragedy with the early '90s political NYHC of Citizens Arrest and Nausea. great split 7" Sand Creek Massacre / Boredom split €4 (Pandacrew) After a lot of touring together, SANDCREEK MASSACRE (NL) and BORDEOM (AT) finally team up on this split 7inch. SCM still doing their trashcrust, whereas BOREDOM brings us some really dark HC/Punk. 7" SATAN / After The Last Sky split €1 (Crucificados) UK's blackcore gentlemen vs fast polish hardcore thrash. After The Last Sky with new songs. black metal inspired grind with epic doom, sludge parts a real outburst of anger, full of raging guitars, tight fast drums, desperate vocals, deep grunts and even some blackish scream. poland's S.a.t.a.n. deliver more stuff of their patented grinding thrash hurrican which appeals to fans of rorschach, dystopia, dicordance axis. brutal stuff from both bands! 7" Saywhy / Idiots Parade split €4 (TVG) Fast and furious hardcore from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. 7" Sea of Shit s/t €5 (Prgnt Records) Sea of Shit bring you 8 tracks on their latest self titled attempt. Pissed off, fast, gritty power violence with a unique vocal style is what really sets them apart from modern bands of their ilk. Really demented sounding shit that will leave you feeling awful." 7" Sea Of Shit Demo €4 (Suburban Mayhem) FINALLY...vinyl version of this Chicago Power Violence power house's demo on vinyl, housed in a rough card sleeve. Raw as fuck, unpleasant music for unpleasant people. Think Despise You & Hatred Surge. 7" Seasick Ennui €1 (Refuse) Seasick take another step to the front of the New Jersey hardcore scene, bridging the gap between local heroes Endeavor, who crossed politics with mid-'90s crunch, and Tear It Up, who blazed a trail of fast, thrashing hardcore punk. 7" Seila Chiara s/t €4 (MOC) After a split record with their friends Orfevre and a single record (both on CD) this is the vinyl debut of this band from lyon. SEILA CHIARA play a mix of styles. You can find some real melodic, almost post-rockish moments mixed with some kind of classic french-emo-elements and also some post-punk. These three songs are beautiful, clear, simple. Completely free of any clichés. The A-Side starts with “standing up on swing”which reminds a bit on AMANDA WOODWARD-stuff. Bright and clear with a repeating melody. The second song “red tape” is more or less an instrumental track which leads into the third tracks. “The way madness lies“ has this post-rock elements and is the most catchy song on this record. Reminds me on AMALTHEA or DOMINIC. The record is limited to 350 copies and comes on limited (only 75 copies) black vinyl. The beautiful artwork was done by Aude Lemaitre. 7" Shitstorm / The Gentle Art Of Chokin split €4 (RSR) The second piece of vinyl by Hamburg's thrash torpedo T.G.A.O.C., 7 more tunes that pick up where they left off after their 7” debut in 2006. to the point, tight as fuck, still pulling the strings, ranging between something that once was called Powerviolence and ripping 80’s thrashcore! just as somebody mentioned before: putting the Hardcore back into Hardcore!! After their smashing split 12”, Miami’s supernova of grindcore aka SHITSTORM deliver us some more immense assaults of blistering whirlwind-grind, that don’t let any time to draw breath in between! absolutely determined to disassemble everything in range!! 7" Sick Fuckin O / Torn Apart split €4 (Feast Of Tentacles) Two sides of UK fast trash powerviolence. SFO obviously with Lecky from Voorhees. No surprises there really. TO are fast somewhere between Charles Bronson and Dropdead. Pretty cool. 7" Smashrooms The wind of tomorrow €1 (epidemic) The Smashrooms are from Brescia, Italy. Passionate and intense political charged hardcore, mixing old school hardcore with a modern approach. Pretty melodic, sung vocals not screamed. Quite good. 7" Sofy Major / Her Breath On Glass split €4 (IFB records) er Breath on Glass is two guys who played in the Last 40 Seconds and Saddest Landscape and continue to display mastery of the 90's emo tradition. The calm instrumental breaks to noisy, pained guitar, wonderful drumming and passionate strained vocals. Sofy Major hails from France and continues France's legendary emo tradition. If Mihai Edrisch had a child with Envy and that child was noisy and unruly, that's what this sounds like. Thick pounding riffs give way to a noisy exit, all with the screamed vocals that the French have always excelled at. 7" State Poison s/t €4 (Shogun) MRR:Make no mistake, these Frenchies plus one Floridian sleep cuddled next to their DISORDER records, passed out with a gluebag in hand. The glue fumes work to help them create the magnificient chaotic madness that is STATE POISON. They've got the sound pretty nailed down. Most of the songs feature a variety of gurgles, blarghs, and random shouts from the vocalist. STATE POISON align with SWANKYS or early CONFUSE, before lumping it in with the crasher crust scene. Overall, STATE POISON has enough ineptness, ridiculousness, catchiness, and creativity to pull this style off. 7" Submerge/Karras split €1 (shogun) 7" Surrender / Acts of Sedition split €1 (Penguin Suit) Two tracks from Oakland's SURRENDER, who are a total throwback to 80's English peace punk with a slight hint of riot grrrl. and one track from ACTS OF SEDITION, who borrow punk and hardcore sounds from Black Flag as well as modern heavyweights such as Artimus Pyle and Hot Cross with overtly political lyrics. Excellent stuff. 7" Systematic Death / See You In Hell split €4 (Insane Society) See You in Hell are unstoppable at this point. Two tracks of top-tier Japanese hardcore worship with a uniquely eastern European sense of arrangements and dynamics. Bombastic live unit that can transfer their power onto record quite well. Systematic Death should need no introduction. Legends. This record was released for the Systematic Death/See You in Hell European tour in 2010 7" The Phoenix Foundation/Red Cabaret split €1 (DIY) TPF are much like a Finnish husker du, punkpop played very well. Red C are poppy as well except their song takes about 7 minutes. 7" Think Twice National Sacrifice Zone €4 (Give Praise) From, Knoxville, Tennessee and feature members of Life Crisis - these folks play raw , angry, and fast hardcore! Coated with a bit of Southern crust, they lay it out all in a Southern hardcore platter that will crush you. 7" Thou / Human Intruder split €4 (diy) New split from our relentless brethren with vision: THOU. This 7" sees one of the best heavy bands around sharing space with HUMAN INTRUDER, whose nihilistic sludge sounds perfectly adept at backing up a groove from the swamp metal kings. Another elaborate and beautiful package too, of course. Substantial. 7" Throat Pee €5 (Kaos Kontrol) Two songs from these Finnish Unsane worshippers. Somehow they manage to mix the noise madness from amrep with slower bands like 16. Very well done. Heavy and good. 7" Time To Escape s/t €1 (Grave Mistake) Washington DC's TIME TO ESCAPE tear through five tracks no frills DC HARDCORE akin to early GOVERNMENT ISSUE or THE FAITH. Originally recorded as a demo with about 200 circulated, these tracks ripped too hard to fade into demo tape obscurity ... so here they are remastered and in vinyl format. Proof that our nation's capital can still churn out the fast, seething, pissed off hardcore that put it on the map in the first place. 7" Toecutter / Man Hands split €4 (Forcefed) Toecutter are ex-Hangover Heart Attack members. And what we get from them is similar to the old stuff but with more breakdowns and driving riffs, all punctuated with power violence blasts and grindy slow doom breaks. Fun! Man Hands on the other side sounds a bit Charles Bronson esque. Fast with bits of powerviolence. Quite good split. 7" Traumahelikopter Prey/Predator €4 (Kogar records) Local garage trash on legendary label. If you're into Gories and Oblivians this is your cup of tea. One of the best Groningen bands around today. 7" Tunguska / Karaktermoord split 7" €4 (restock, Graanrepubliek) This was sold out from us but i got a couple from Hollow Soul in stock again. Tunguska are from Ireland and lay down some thick walls guitars over a furious d-beat attack. Karaktermoord from the Netherlands treat us some Born Against vs His Hero Is Gone tunes. Lovely chaps, lovely music, lovely 7". 7" Twisted Stockholm €4 (artforblind) 3 songs of revolution summer emo from Leeds. Features members of State Run (rip), Facel Vega, Spectrals and Held by Hands. Sounds a bit like those bands but with a more punkrock feel to it. Nice one! 7" Ultimate Blowup / Kali split €4 (7Degrees) Raging fastcore from two parts of the world, that couldn't be more far away from each other. ULTIMATE BLOWUP from turkey with 8 tracks of maniac powerviolence with a similar stereo voice work to SPAZZ and kinda earsmashing soundwall, we all love INFEST for. KALI from Canada with a similar style, super fast thrashcore smashers with a completely mad singer. Thrash to the max, play fast, die slow! 7" Union Town Blinding Lights €4 (Sabotage) Call it post-hardcore or revolution summer. It's Union Town. great passionate very dc inspired hardcore. Great stuff. 7" Veloz s/t €4 (Karmic Swamp) Veloz is a new hardcore band out of Boston. This is their first record. A hardcore eruption of metallic d-beat frenzy, blazing riffs. Six songs in under eight minutes. VELOZ have definitely broken their own ground here musically, but if you're trying to pin them down i would say they occupy some frenetic space between the guts of DROPDEAD and the brains of BARONESS. I know, that sounds horrible, but it works. 7" Veloz 2nd €4 (RWP) Second 7" by this raging band. Taking cues from d-beat, powerviolence and crust this works out great. I guess you could compare this to some extenet to bands like Furnace and Protestant. 7" Vile Nation s/t €4 (Waybackwhen) Second 7" of this US band. Typical 80's hc which reminds me a lot of bands like Koro. Fast, raw and Furious. 7" Wadge / Soil of Ignorance split €4 (Give Praise) Two bands from Canada come together to complete blow out any kind of thoughts that you may have had on grindcore or powerviolence! Gritty and in-your-face powerviolence that borders on the dirty edge of grindcore / noisecore from both bands! Both have been around for a while and have now come together for a collection of blastviolence! 7" Walls s/t €4 (Iron Lung) Fucking crushing, sludgy hardcore somewhere in between Jesus Lizard, Black Flag, Rorshcach and Drunkdriver. Walls have a member of Iron Lung and three of the guys who played in Cold Sweat, which is a pretty good indication of what this sounds like. Comparisons to Cold Sweat definitely stand up. This EP has 2 original songs and a beast of a Die Kreuzen cover. I know that there are a ton of bands doing this type of thing just now and that folk are bound to dismiss it as the new trend because of that, but this is genuinely spot on. If you enjoyed the Public Humiliation LP, any of that Cult Ritual stuff or even just good old My War Side B, this is for you. So fucking good. 7" Whole in the head Them and us €4 (Zandor) 2nd 7" e.p from one of the uk's finest fast hardcore bands. Think ripcord/mob 47/drop dead/etc.. Angry stuff. This e.p has 7 fast hardcore tracks and comes in a fold out poster sleeve. Looks and sounds mighty fine. 7" Whole in the Head reclaim your future €1 (Opiate - Tadpole) A right bloody rager here from Whöle In The Head and make no mistake: 12 raw blasts of raging, politicised Discharge-meets-Dropdead punk-fucking-rock that razes the posturing and prickery of modern-day hardcore to the ground. Each and every track is pretty much gone before you know it, fit to burst with scathing ire and the steadfast belief that things should – and could – be better. The unruly aural sack-kicking that occurs when you set needle to wax is accompanied by a chunky sod of a booklet that’s not too dissimilar to the one that came with that old Kitchener 7”, tying the whole thing up with thoughts, words and imagery to match the sheer vitriol of the music itself. (alex deller for collective-zine) 7" Wit's End s/t €4 (Adagio830) Wits End deliver 4 songs of beautiful heartfelt mid90ies emo core played by ex members of Catena Collapse (so you kinda know what to expect?!) - It seems like Norway always puts me into a time traveling machine back to day where Council, Ebullition and all those labels released some of my favourite records. 7" Zann (+cd) X €7 (Adagio830) Finaly something new from Zann. Crushing songs again in their Unbroken meets Acme meet Chokehold style. Loud and Noisy. Packaged in a beautifully printed and letter-pressed cover, along with a full-length CD containing 15 additional songs (previously released on perkoro records - every song that got released before the "three years in the desert LP)