THE CONTROL - 10 ''

With this record it was like this:

Looked through my records,found this 10",put it on my turntable and got blown away.I pretty much forgot about this band.Not good...
It came out on +- Records around 2000 if I remember correctly.It's got a powerful bass sound and a great screaming singer.The length of his scream in "Head and Shoulders" is unreal.It must be fake hehe...
I advice you to find this 10" if you want your core raw,fast and to the point.But beware if you want a top notch production here.
There are some cracks left over which I couldn't erase.I personally like this because it somehow suits the songs well (no it's not THAT bad).
Shirts spotted by Void and Discharge give you a hint of what to expect.
The band later put out another 7" on Reflection Records from the Netherlands which in my opinion isn't as good (meaning more melodic) as this rager here.But be on the lookout for the 7" for the song "Poker Face" alone.

This was my last music post for 2008.I hope you enjoy this as I am dancing along to this record right now in my room!

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STRAIN - The Lost & Found Incident

I removed the 2 song Bootleg post by Strain because now that I got the "Bomb Wedemark CD" (image for this post taken from the cd tray) I read about how Lost and Found ripped off Strain with this 2 song Bootleg because of not asking the band the permission to release this.

So if you want to support the band (as also stated in the other Strain post) get their stuff through Heartfirst Records.

Beside ripping of Strain Lost and Found also released music from other bands without their knowledge (if interested read further in the comments of the Siege/Deep Wound Post) and made a lot of cash with that.So I don't want to support this kind of action through distributing something like this.

KNUCKLE SCRAPER - Demo-lition 2007

Here's another post for the ones liking the core more of being fucked up-fastcore-in your face-powerviolence-whatever before i post other more traditional sounding hardcore stuff again.
We will all agree that Knuckle Scraper really ripped it up.
Great dual attack vocals and guitar/bass destruction from these older dudes who also play in bands like Hatred Surge,Insect Warfare,Pretty Little Flower and Machine Gun Romantics.So this should give you an idea where we're heading here.
The band coming from Texas only existed for a year and is now defunct.
I got this demo from the great Little Balls Blog but I think the posting over there is doing this great demo not the actual justice it deservs.

So go there and download the demo for your listening pleasure!

Knuckle Scraper Demo

P.S: Beside featuring other great bands you can get more nice stuff from the likes of Knuckle Scraper/Hatred Surge/Iron Lung at the Little Balls Blog.Check it out!

STRAIN - Repetition CD (The Heartfirst Years)

The man behind the Aversion Online Blog posted here that he needs some of the Strain stuff to rock out to.
So i thought it would be clever to upload the "Repetition" CD out on Heartfirst Records.The CD contains Strains first 2 7"es on that label plus a track from the "Vancouver vs. L.A." Compilation which was supposed to be released by Pushead but never did.
While getting the infos together for this post i see that there's more older stuff from Strain floating around compiled by Flo Heartfirst ("Bomb Wedemark"+"Our End" CDs) which have some tracks on them which i do not own yet.So I have to get these as well.Yeah!

All this stuff can be purchased through Heartfirst Records.So if you like what you hear get in contact with Florian!
UPDATE:

I uploaded the tracks a second time.The first try ended in a mono version of the songs which is no good.Download them again if you want the songs in stereo!

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REASON TO BELIEVE-The next door 7"

This great band released both this 7" (1988) and their Lp (1990) "When reason sleeps demons dance" on the now defunct Nemesis Records.
They played fast but melodic Hardcore like Amercan Standard,Decry,Statue or Dag Nasty.
The singer really knows how to hold a tone or to shred out a melody.
The first press of this 7" was on Soulforce Records, 500 were made.The second press came on Nemesis Records.My copy is the Nemisis one in red.There are also some items in gold floating around.Whatever...

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ANTHEM 88 - Define a Lifetime LP

This post again is a request from the MAFIA messageboard.Thanks for reminding me of this band.I didn't hear this LP for a long time and was quite enjoying the songs when digitalizing it.So I thought I'd make a short post of of this:

Anthem 88 was a cool project band with members from the grindcore veterans Assück and the Posicore band Good Clean Fun.Strange mix but it works here.
Anthem 88 play some sort of Youth Crew sound as the name insists.The cool thing about these songs here is that they are more brutal and rawer than your average Youth Crew sound (check the End to End post for some examples).
No Idea Records can be held responsible for the birth of this LP.It took place in September 1999.
Go check out their website.You can get this LP for cheap at the moment.They also have some coloured vinyl left for the nerds.I would insist getting this great LP!

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THE GATE CRASHERS - Loud at any Volume 7"

The Gate Crashers from the USA bring you 10 times fast and furious hardcore with every song clocking in around 45 seconds.In the beginning the 2 original members started the band in january 2000 because they were bored with all the bands being around so they wrote the songs for this 7" in less than a month adding 2 covers by The Neos and DYS.Good choice!
The lyrics mocking for example 1988 styled youth crew bands were written on the day before the actual recording which also only took 1 day. Quote from the lyric sheet:

"Once again proving we can do a band in a month better than you can in 5 years."
This collection of short blasts was released by Parts Unkown Records (also bringing you stuff from Violent Minds and Career Suicide).So this is another hint of what to expect musically.

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END TO END - Dedicated to the emotion 7"

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RUINED & BLOODRED BACTERIA - Split 7"

Again a german team-up here.Both bands are good but for me Ruined gets home first.Off we go:
Bloodred Bacteria got some good grind with a few punky influences going on.Sweet.Also good lyrics!
2 examples:

ant live: patent on live,our DNA maps are dated/only clones will pass purity control/rich kids will see original nature on tape during history at school.
self-pity: whining and creeping against this unfair world/you once decided to be different from superficial words/now you're cup of punkrock ist just filled with whining complaints/keep on drowning in your sea of tears/where is your dignity and your will to bite?/or is your barking just a stupid,stale lie?

But now to Ruined: They got 6 awesome songs which also could have been on the "Trapped Inside" LP from Lack of Interest.Musically and vocally they sound exactly like them!2 members from Kent Brockman were also involved here.The third track somehow sounds different than the others,more muddy and a not that loud.Only that you know.
If you like stuff from My own Lies,Quattro Stagioni or Wilburr Cobb you will love Ruined.I didn't know of this bands so thanks again to Bert from Bizarre X for introducing me to them.


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LOADED FOR BEAR & HOMBRINUS DUDES - Split 7"

I got in contact with Bert from Bizarre X from germany and he sent me this awesome 7".Thx friend!
Rob did post the Loaded for Bear/Half Gorilla Split 7" some time ago here so you should be familiar with their blend of -let's just say- brutal music.They are fast,they are heavy (also meaning their body presence) and they have some of the best social aware lyrics out there.
I will post their Split LP with Bizarre X in the near future because I think the band is important for their good music AND good lyrics.

HOMBRINUS DUDES consist of just 2 members (drums/guitar-vocals) which unleash a pretty good dose of a political influenced grind/trash whirlwind.They didn't include their lyrics though but inserted a address where they can be reached.

Like stated above LOADED FOR BEAR gets home first with their brand of heavy shit.They also cover some good lyrical ground writing about abusive relationships and how the punk community should be a real alternative instead of wondering about "studded belts and fashion".

"A sense of belonging for anyone who wants to participate and believes in the ideals-subversion of these systems,equal rights for women and homosexuals,equal rights for the minority,eradicating sexism and racism and homophobia,taking control of the community.All these things are punk rock.Let's not alienate further.Let's welcome people into the field."
AMEN!

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DEADWAIT - Same 7"

Just another short one here:

Deadwait from California offer 4 songs of new school/chuggs chugga metal inspired hardcore.This 7" was released in 1994.
The first song "Lifecycle" really stuck in my head.
After writing so much in the Burst of Silence post for their 7" (check it) i'll just leave you with that.
Go check out Deadwait if you dig this kind of music.

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V.A.-TRAPPED IN A SCENE

Here you have the "Trapped in a Scene" sampler which features bands like SEVERE, IRON LUNG, THREATENER, THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE, XBRAINIAX, HATRED SURGE, IN DISGUST, INSECT WARFARE, RUNNING FOR COVER, WARZONE WOMYN, KNUCKLESCRAPER and TUMORFEAST.
Pretty much all of the songs are killer so this is a really good sampler.
It's a Cooperation between Give Praise Records and 625 Records,so with these informations you can't go wrong,do you?!
Like expected you can listen to the best (in my opinion) current US Powerviolence/Fastcore/Grindcore bands of today.
Weekend Nachos would have also matched the selection (they don't appear) but that's just a small remark.The price for best bandname and songtitel goes to Call the Cops with their song "You've gotta be shitting me" hahaha!
Have fun with this bastard!

A sidenote:

Tagging all the 44 songs was a lot of work but was worth it.
This goes out to all the blogs who only give a download link,no information and perhaps the tracklist if you're lucky.In Robs and my opinion this has no soul to it.It shows that the uploader doesn't really care about the actual recording.This makes the music and message less important and we at MOSH EISLEY don't support this.

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BOXED IN - First 7"

Boxed In came from Leeds in the United Kingdom and played raw and fast hardcore.Ripcord,Geriatric Unit,Sawn Off and Health Hazard (all from the U.K.) come to my mind listening to the songs."Boxed In" itself is a songtitel from Sawn Off.
Beside having ex members of Doom,OI Polloi,Sawn Off,Ebola,Minute Manifesto,Status Quo and Embittered in the band the last song is a cover by Anti-Cimex so that should give you a glimpse of what to expect.
You will find no melodies or backups here-just plain fast and ugly stripped down hardcore.Boxed In didn't gave names to their singles so its like this:First,second,third 7" and so on.
I don't know if the band still exists.This 7" was released in 2002 on Crime Scene Records.Boxed In also released a 12" and another 2 7"'s on Busted Head Records from Sweden and Heartfirst Records from Germany that I know of.I've got all of the records mentioned so if you want I can upload more.

Writing from the lyricsheet:

"The name Boxed In has a number of meanings beyond the original concept of being depressed,fucked up and hating the world.Like being boxed in on an officer floor (on fire with no option but to burn,choke or jump to death) or in a hospital or school destroyed by missiles.In a refugee camp/centre,shanty town,an overflowing prison or by borders between rich and poor.Crammed into the back of a truck dying of suffocation,being persecuted for seeking asylum.The media builds the fear and perpetuatates stereotypes.Another box to put you in.Divide and rule!"

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LIFE SENTENCE - Same

This LP by Life Sentence is a classic to me.Almost all songs are hits.Cool basslines,melody,energy,power,tempo,it's all there!
Imagine Pat Dubar from Uniform Choice singing for 7 Seconds or Youth Brigade.There's also a big influence by the Stupids from the UK which I really like.
Life Sentence came from Chicago in the USA and put out these 10 tracks on Walkthrufyre in 1987.
They reformed in 2005 under the name "Regress" and released another 7".I shared the stage with them on their european tour in that year with my old band. It was like a timewarp as if the last 20 years didn't happen.
A funny story about them from the 80'ties:
A friend of them gave a sticker of Life Sentence to James Hetfield.He liked the band and wore the sticker on his leather jacket in an old issue of Kerrang magazine.After that they sent metallica more merchandise to wear and it worked.Lars Ulrich wore a shirt in one of their videos so they got a lot a attention from the metalheads and covered "Ace of Spades" (Motörhead) and "Chemical Warfare" (Slayer) to please them.I would love to hear their versions.





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BURST OF SILENCE - Thicker than Blood...7"

Let me take you back once again to the 90'ties.
Here comes another new school record in the vain of already mentioned bands like Indecision,Unbroken,Left with Nothing or Dragbody.
Surprisingly I also hear a small hint of Turning Point/Wide Awake because Burst of Silence throw in a fast part from time to time.Other bands which come to my mind: Deadwait,Holdstrong,Conviction,Undertow or Canon.As you can see i have a soft spot for this kind of music.I think i also have to blog the Deadwait 7" in the near future listening to it right now!

Back to Burst of Silence:These songs were recorded in 1993 and came out on Stability Records.The recording itself is sort of muddy and dirty in a good way.It's not that polished like other New School/Metal stuff so i like that.
The band came from Ontario,Canada.
Burst of Silence recorded a lot more (another single and a whole LP) but never released any of this.I remember listening to the LP recordings a long time ago.A friend of mine got a copy of it from another friend and I really liked the songs.

SO IF ANYONE,I MEAN ANYONE CAN HELP ME TRACK DOWN THE "LOST" RECORDINGS OF THIS LP I WOULD BE VERY GLAD!I MEAN REALLY GLAD!

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WORMEATERS - In God we Thrust 7"

Chris Hardware told me to put this online because he has hardly any copies left of the 7" so here we go.
6 fast Hardcore tracks in the Sheer Terror meets Poison Idea fashion.
I personally can't get into the vocal style too much but this here is for Chris so support your local hardcore scene and buy the last copies!

Check Hardware Records

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INFEST - Mankind 10"

It took me some time but here you have some more of Infest.
Does the title of this postings irritate you?It's correct.Here comes the Mankind 10" released 2004 by Draw Blank and Deep Six Records.I contains the Mankind 7" and 4 compilation tracks from Infest.
I won't ramble much about Infest being one of the forefathers of the Powerviolence genre and one of the greatest bands ever existing.Pretty much everything has been said in the previous Siege/Deep Wound post so let's keep this short:Infest was the Shit!
Coming from Ventura,California in the USA they shaped hard and fast music from 1986 until 1996.
Their "Slave" LP is a classic and can be downloaded here.
The interesting part of this post are the above mentionend 4 compilation tracks which are on this 10".Fill me in if you know where they come from(I know of the tracks from the Live Split 8" with Pissed Happy Children, the Apocalyptic Convulsion 10" and the Bllleeeeaaauuurrrrgghhh Sampler).
The last song is not a cover by Gorilla Biscuits hehe.
I ripped the whole thing in 320 kbs/sec. for the first time to see the difference to 192 kbs./sec.There is a big one so I guess i'll continue with this.
The Talking in the Outro bit at the end where it runs backwards goes "Daddy you shithead where's my burger".Secret message buh!

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HELLSTRÖM & PERTH EXPRESS - Split 7"

Again a team up of 2 german bands.And again a release by Flowerviolence Records from germany.This time Ralph worked together with Crucificados Pelo Sistema,despite the spanish name another german recordlabel [also bringing you stuff like the Luzifers Mob Discography or the The FA/Even Worse Split LP(together with Prügelprinz Records and Emancypunx Records).Check it out!].
This split 7" was released 2004 to support the Perth Express/Hellström tour in fall of the same year. Both bands sing in german.

Hellström came (again) from the city of Mannheim and was another colloberation from members of Stack/FITPTTDS and My own Lies.They named themselves after a swedisch goalkeeper.
They were a shortlived band but toured and played out live a lot in their 2 year existence.Influences were Seeing Red/Rorschach with sparkles of the swedish crust sound and a soft spot for radio plays.In 3 words:heavy and brutal!Here you get 3 songs from them,1 from the demo and 2 new ones.

Perth Express come from Leipzig and are still active today releasing stuff on the Vendetta label from berlin.They combine aspects of Tragedy/His Hero is Gone with more chaotic stuff like Coalesce and perhaps a little bit of other german bands Men in Search of the perfect Weapon or Trainwreck.They don't sound like a copycat but instead add their own little twist to this kind of music.
They contribute 2 songs to this split 7".One of them is called "Liebeskontrolle" which has a lot of meaning to me.It's about confessing your true feelings to someone without being afraid of rejection.

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GOLGATHA & LUZIFERS MOB - Split LP

2 german bands from the 90'ties here.The collage which I also uploaded should have been the cover of this LP but all parties (Spring Records,X-Mist Records and both bands) had many problems because all cover printers refused to print it because of swastikas inside the collage.So they got erased and it turned into a poster.

Golgatha shared members with Iron Skull and True Blue.
Musicwise they combined some sort of new school approach with the Cro Mags or Hammerhead.
Especially the singer sounds a lot like Tobias Shit from Hammerhead screaming his lyrics in german.

Luzifers Mob were the first mentionable (does this word exist?) powerviolence band from germany.
They also sang in german.The voice of the singer is pretty distorted so you definetly don't understand what he's screaming about if you don't have the lyric sheet in front of you.
There is an interview where they explain how they wrote the songs for their first 7" copying parts from Infest and Youth of Today 1:1.Funny as hell!
All their songs were reissued at about 2 years ago on CD and LP.
In the Linernotes they point out the fact that their rehearsal room was in a church but never had problems because of their name haha.They also toured the USA.Pretty astonishing for a german band in the 90'ties.



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Go check out the Luzifers Mob Discography LP on Crucificados and the CD version on Repoman Records!

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SIEGE & DEEP WOUND - Boston Special

Still on the Map
Part I from my Boston-O-Mania.Siege made noise around 1984.
This LP was recently released on Deep Six Records.It contains all songs by Siege basically being their demo and 2 unreleased songs!All songs have been remastered so with 2 extra songs this should be enough reasons for you to pick this up.
Siege was a very influencial band for the Fastcore/Powerviolence genre just like Deep Wound,Heresy or Infest/Neanderthal.They played ultra-fast Hardcore with to the point lyrics and songstructures.
The last song on the Demo is also a new improvment for the genre being all slow for the length of 7:22 minutes and including a saxophon for giving the song a pretty atmospheric touch.Its somehow comparable to the song "After" on the Neon Christ Parental Suppression 7" or the already mentioned Deep Wound and their song "Dead Babies".It's astonishing that a lot of bands from Boston on the famous X Claim label including DYS,The Fu's or Jerry's Kids had a real slow song on their records as a trademark.
Drop Dead named themselves after a song by Siege.Cold War from Berlin,Germany is another band which drew their name/influences from Siege.
Powerviolence/Fastcore wouldn't have happenend this way if this band didn't exist.

As an extra here you have a report about Siege participating in a "battle of the bands" competition at their highschool.I would've loved to witness this event haha.Click on the image and it gets bigger:



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Part II: After Siege here comes another classic from Boston.Deep Wounds selftitled single included 9 tracks which added new music fuel to the Boston scene and differed a lot from bands like The Fu's,SS Decontrol,DYS or The Freeze.
They were in the same vain as Negative FX or earlier Gang Green playing ultra-fast punk with songlengths around 1 minute.
The 7" was released on the Radiobeat Records in 1983 which also was a comic shop.
Another influential label from Boston around this time was Modern Method Records releasing 2 important samplers from bands out of Boston ("This is Boston not L.A."/"Process of Elimination").
After this 7" Deep Wound submitted 2 songs on the "Bands that could be God" Sampler and then called it quits.They also made a Demo called "American Style" in 1982 which was bootlegged on vinyl and included 11 songs.I have it here so if you want it let me know.
All songs by Deep Wound were rereleased in 2006 on Damaged Goods Records.The LP includes no lyric sheet or extra information.So thats a big minus in my book.
Some members later founded Dinosaur Jr.Huh!

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