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MUS 207EP
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RELEASE DATE: 1/24/2020
On the A side the Madrid power trio puts music to a poem of José María Gabriel y Galán (1870-1905) turning its melancholic prose into a mid-tempo punk beauty with surf guitars and deep bass tones. A chance meeting of Spanish Costumbrismo and kitsch as seen on the song's video. The flip side "Problemas, No" brings back to life Video's minor hit from 1983 updating the synth pop of the original to a sharp upbeat punk jam which will have you dancing your shoes off. Includes a lyric insert.
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MUS 203LP
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RELEASE DATE: 1/17/2020
Athen's Chain Cult return with their first full length following a great Demo (MUS 169LP) and 7" (MUS 175EP) from 2018. Shallow Grave shows the progression of a band who have played non-stop for two years, covering pretty much all of Europe. Chain Cult's post punk is anthemic, militant and idealistic, putting music to a very dark and bleak time and place. You can hear echoes of early The Cure, The Sound, Second Empire Justice-era Blitz, or Wipers in their music but also the passion and conviction of locals Metro Decay, Stress, or Anti... Very much a perfect reflection of what springs to mind thinking about the current Athens scene.
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MUS 204EP
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RELEASE DATE: 1/17/2020
Barcelona's Lux returns with a new four-track EP and it's pogo thrills the whole way. It's raw, tight, and primal. It perfectly captures the sound of a classic and much loved UK82 release with a basic production and foot to the floor energy. Standouts include "Action" which sits next to the first two singles by Vice Squad and The Expelled. "Mañana", which is more up-tempo, shows a love of Action Pact and all things Riot City Records. Simplicity done well is a hard thing to do but Lux do it without any problems. Comes in a colorful sleeve designed by guitarist Nico; includes lyric insert.
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RELEASE DATE: 1/17/2020
So much to sink into on this debut long haul with the elusive NYC skirmishers. Lean, concise, often juxtaposed songs and interludes are deftly thatched together to make up the majority of Side A, with dense, drowning-world electronics on tracks like "Heavy Weather" clearing the skies for jovial anthems like "New Country" (which totally rings the same joyous bells as Yuzo Iwata's "Gigolo") and the grittier, barnacled basement ethereality of "Sleep The Trees". The restrained fury in the opening minutes of Side B at first recalls the slow-stirring storm clouds on that shadow-cast Blodarna 7", the thought of seeking shelter only arising as proceedings are adrenalized and escalated into what feels more akin to listening to Amon Düül perform kali ma on the guys from Pelt in some subterranean death church. The closing trio of "So", "Far", and "Down" tunnels on and takes place as some sorta on-acid-and-caught-in-earthquake rite, that sees the volcanic pounding intensify and whatever THAT sound is (bass guitar?? some demonic synthesiser??!) begin to envelop everything like the swelling of oblivion -- any brief interval between tracks serving only as a moment to observe your own mind try to scramble its way out of the slowly opening sinkhole. Bonkers. Slender channels the same wild and earthy desire for experimentation as such un-pinable, sleeping giants as Cro-Magnon, Blumen Des Exotischen Eises, The Fates, or Moolah. Cover art by Emil Bognar Nasdor. Eight-page booklet by Eugene Terry; A2 poster designed by Keegan Dakkar.
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20 years ago, Disclose released their response to the greatest hardcore 12" ever released: Discharge's Why (1981). At the time the band was at the peak of their Discharge era and had perfectly crafted a trademark sound, which shows through on the recording. The chainsaw-sounding double-toned guitar, Kawakami's unmistakable vocals, and a rhythm section firmly based on the Stoke-On-Trent's beat melded together to create a repetitive mantra-like noise chant. Recorded at Grove Cargo and mastered at Studio D-Takt by Jan Jutila, the production is a perfect example of noise not music pressed into vinyl, with both high and low frequencies cutting through the mix without losing any power. Lyrically, Nightmare Or Reality focuses on the tragic sights of war while aurally the record is a full-blown attack on all senses. D-beat, raw punk at its best. 20 years on and many times imitated but never duplicated. Originally released by MCR Company, this 20-year anniversary official reissue comes in a printed inner sleeve and heavy board outer sleeve.
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RELEASE DATE: 12/6/2019
Sophomore release by Lublin's Ohyda. Picking up where their self-titled LP left in 2016 their new 12" ups the feedback, aggression, and psychedelic-infused hardcore of their previous release to new levels. Sonically Ohyda are dark and anthemic, with a ferocious guitar tone and delay vocals backed up by an extremely solid rhythm section. Not afraid of riffs or creating atmospheric passages leading to explosions of noise full of nightmarish visions of the current world. Imagine Abaddon meeting Hawkwind at Jarocin Festival then using Cress's gear to write an album of distorted, quasi industrial hardcore. If the class of 1984 Polish hardcore had dreamed of what the future would sound, it will be close to Koszmar.
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2019 saw Irreal face guitar player changes. With a new line-up they entered studio with Dani Frutos to record the nine songs on Fi Del Mon. Nine tracks or urgent hardcore punk continuing the tradition of modern Barcelona hardcore while keeping an eye in Finnish hardcore and which are not afraid to turn the speed down to a pace that could bring to mind mid-paced Discharge or Cro-Mags. The riffs are thick and crunchy, full of feedback and distortion, backed by a solid rhythm section and an assertive Catalan voice.
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Official reissue of No Side, the debut from seminal Japanese hardcore band The Comes. Originally released in 1983 on Dogma Records, a newly created City Rocker's side label to release hardcore/hard punk, No Side remains a milestone of first wave Japanese hardcore. A vital document to understand the days when the Tokyo hardcore scene was small and unknown with G.I.S.M., Execute, Gauze, and The Comes as main runners. Bands who shared stages, record labels and who grew to be one of the most varied, influential and enigmatic punk scenes of the planet. The Comes' music is frantic and sharp punk, bass-driven and manic sounding with vocalist Chitose's aggressive vocals punctuating every syllable and dominating the tunes. Like most first wave hardcore acts, they own their own sound. And although many times imitated, it has never been matched. Comes in an old-school, paste-on board sleeve with a faithfully replicated insert.
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MUS 197EP
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RELEASE DATE: 11/8/2019
Formed in Madrid in 1979. Influenced equally by Dadaism and Futurist ideas as by the contemporary sounds of bands such as Devo, Throbbing Gristle, or Cabaret Voltaire, they started creating their own brand of electronic music. Soon after the band won the third prize of a local Battle of The Bands show and were given a record deal as a prize that resulted in La Chica De Plexiglás 7" (Movieplay, 1980) and La Vision 7" (Movieplay, 1981) both of which were recorded at the same session with a third 7" recorded but not released at the time. Faced with the total lack of interest showed by the label and feeling alienated in a music world which wasn't the one they dreamed of, they decided to do what dozens of their peers were doing worldwide; They started their own label, Discos Radioactivos Organizados (DRO) following the steps of Factory or Industrial Records. Faced with the exit of three members who left the band to form a more radical band (Esplendor Geometrico), Aviador Dro entered Doublewtronix studios to record Nuclear, Sí, marking the birth of the independent music industry in Spain. The four tracks on the EP became instant classics with "Nuclear, Sí" being the absolute standout track, while "Varsovia en Llamas", "Sintonia Del Refugio Atomico", and "Godzilla" were perfect nuggets of synth-punk who remain amongst the greatest Spanish pop songs ever. Originally hand-assembled, hand-colored, self-released, and distributed in the total DIY spirit, the first release of DRO remains a perfect example of what a bunch of teenagers can achieve armed with just their youthful energy and idealism. Nuclear, Si, was repressed three times and has been out of print since the early '80s. This reissue of 500 radioactive green vinyl comes out in the year that Aviador Dro celebrates its 40th anniversary.
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"Kaleidoscope's new LP swells unsteadily into existence, with the tinkle of half-jazzy drums filtering through an industrial gloom. It's a sign that what is to come isn't your standard down-the-line hardcore offering. Title track 'After The Futures ...', for instance, opens with a languorous guitar stab that wouldn't be out of a place on a drone or noise record, a brooding rumble like a distant closing door in an warehouse, before the song tumbles into gear, Shiva enunciating the lyrics with a sharp-tongued Jerry A-like clarity. From the chomp of 'Sigint --> E.K.I.A.', the deathrock swells swooping out from the itchy insistent guitar line of 'Crocodile Tears' to deep thrum of 'Soft Cage', After The Futures ... is full of moments of punk broken and reconstituted, familiar structures and beats rearranged in the uncomfortable clamor into something wilder and weirder. It's about sustained tension before a riff kicks in, a solo looking like it's about to soar before being broken sharply off into a thorny keening. A punk record fractured and sliced-through, twisted into fresh shape and shining with a razor's gleam." --Joe Briggs
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MUS 195EP
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Obsessió's debut is a blast of crude hardcore. Formed during the extremely dark times of August of 2018 and based between Athens and Barcelona the band first statement is an eight-track 12" at 45rpm which knocks you down with the first chord. Kindly indebted to the living legacy of Totalitär, Crudity, and other Nordic Beat greats while keeping an unmistakably modern swagger. Breakneck pace and musical manufacture care of three Greeks who have set the stage for Angela's no doubt bleak summary of the world in a distinctively intimidating and minimal powerhouse voice.
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RELEASE DATE: 9/27/2019
After two albums and an EP on Southern Lord and Svart Records, Finland's Kohti Tuhoa unleash their 12-track LP Ihmisen Kasvot on La Vida Es Un Mus. Ihmisen Kasvot presents killer songwriting with influences ranging from powerful Killing Joke -- like tom-tom beats to fast-paced hardcore punk á la Impalers -- with several nods to classic Finnish hardcore punk bands, such as Varaus. The 12 tracks paint a picture of an overpopulated dystopian world that's being slowly destroyed by self-centered human behavior, delivered with Helena's piercing yet versatile vocal work. Recorded at VR Studio in Turku, Finland. Mastered by Jack Control (Enormous Door). Comes in a sleeve painted by artist Jaakko Karjula.
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MUS 192EP
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Tokyo powerhouse Kriegshög returns with a two-track 7" of distorted hardcore punk perfection. Facing a line-up change the band sound was altered slightly after the previous guitarist quit. The new line-up may have taken the guitar fuzziness a notch down in favor of a crunchier guitar tone but amped-up the songwriting to the next level with an overdose of riffs, attacking each note with their ferocious venom. These two tracks display both sides of Kriegshög perfectly, a mid-tempo bass driven four-minute banger backed up by a classic destructive sonic jam with the gnarliest punk vocals out there.
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Texas's Nosferatu unleash their first full-length of hardcore ramped-up into its highest echelons of breakneck propulsiveness, whizzed-up and faultily-wired, a tumbledown chaos of Siege-like flurries, whipping about with Die Kreuzen sharpness, or the more modern uncompromising flailings of Permission and No. Ugly barks, murky blurs of riffs slammed into you with the force of a bomb-blast. Barely room for breath, most of the tracks snapping off with little ceremony, apart from on the "Under The Sun" which drags that grimy noise out into a grubby itchy monster three times the length of most of the other tracks on the album, and on the apocalyptic stomp of the closer "Solution Absolute".
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Oakland's KHIIS, on Bezoar, their first full-length record, unleash a torrent of killer riffs, building songs of purpose and power, absent of the chaos and noise that engulfs many modern hardcore records. While such noise obviously has its place in the canon of punk and its raw machinations, KHIIS know they don't need the obscurant balm of feedback, they stand clear and robust, simply put: they've just got the fuckin riffs. Similarly, the vocals are declamatory and forthright, not wild ghosts of delay and reverb, determined attacks, stark in their fury. KHIIS charge mightily through nine striking tracks of thick, full-blooded hardcore punk, taking no prisoners. Jacket design by Ji Hwan; Includes 11X11 insert and A2 poster by KHIIS' guitarist Austin M. Recorded and mixed by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios. Mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios.
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"On their first vinyl effort, Asid's almost monomaniacal devotion to gutting hardcore of its accretions of style and refinement and reveling in its basest instincts of power and fury is on rude display. Pounding forward with a jackhammer beat, Asid burn through tough riffs birthed choking in a dirty glut of muggy fuzz that conjures up the sickened tone of something like Disclose's Nightmare Or Reality 12". Pathetic Flesh is an intense explosion of a record, chucking up the rudimentary stomp of 'Fever', the brawny pogo of 'Bootlicker', the panic-stricken downhill rush of the title track. This record is a total hardcore statement, with stunning art from the singer Tin, whose tortured yell struggles painfully against the storm of the noise, breaking through with ugly anguish." --Joe Briggs
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After two 7"s on Crust War and Hardcore Victim and a tour flexi in Japan on Vox Populi Records, Australian noise-punks Enzyme release their debut ten-track album. The band made up of ex members of Pisschrist, Kromosom, and Unknown To God worship at the altar of Perdition era Disorder, Chaos UK and Confuse. The bass drives the sound, the drums hectic with a lot of rolling tom tom work whilst the guitar has an immense tone of buzzing distortion and flanged psychedelics which sits somewhere between Gloom and Les Rallizes Denudes. Pummeling, assertive one-two hardcore with a visceral-physical without stupidity, clever but unpretentious venomous vocals. Recorded by Jason Fuller at Goatsound and mastered by Shige at Noise Room Howling Mind. Includes 16-page book designed by Zach Malakonas.
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With a slight line-up change in the drum department, Rakta tighten up their more tense, soundtrack natured developments alongside their more sparse and vulnerable elegance. They consistently manage to create a tripped-out creep chamber with room to explore as the aura builds to nightmare crescendos juxtaposed with shaking silences. Simultaneously eerie and serene. With each new release, you see more and more of what makes this group so essential in the canon of modern music. Art by André Penteado, Karlla Giratto, and Rakta. Recorded by Fernando Sanchez; Mastered by James Plotkin. Printed inner sleeve inside a heavy-duty reversible cover with a vellum insert; Edition of 400.
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San Felipe Es Punk is an anomaly in the history of punk. Overlooked at the time it was released by the international scene, this object contains the essence of Mexican underground rock in a couple of songs. Polo Pepo came from the '60s hippie movement, survived the government repression of the youth during the '70s and '80s, and finally found in punk the true spirit of rock and roll. "San Felipe Es Punk" is an ode to a poor neighborhood in North DF. Self-released in 1988 by Polo Pepo and Merced Belén Valdéz. Includes eight-page booklet, a recent interview with Polo Pepo.
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Formed in Barcelona in the summer of 2017, Fatamorgana sprang to life from the hearts and minds of Patrycja Anna Proniewska and Louis Harding. What began as a bedroom project of sorts (monophonic synthesizers, four-track cassette recordings), the project soon blossomed into a functional live unit. Following a self-released cassette single at the start of the year, the pair spent the latter part of 2018 touring continental Europe and the west coast of North America. Recorded at Holyrook Estudio in Barcelona, Terra Alta is the group's first full-length effort. The verse-chorus songwriting, the raw set-up of two-synths-and-a-beat, and the primal rhythms nod to the duo's background in punk. But Terra Alta has a pensive and mesmeric quality, provided in part by an outstanding production job (Studio AS One, Warsaw), but also by lyrics concerning themselves with themes of love, time travel, reflections on the future, the power of imagination and the mysteries of the natural world. If pressed for musical references the band could be pin-pointed somewhere between early Depeche Mode, Young Marble Giants, The Human League and a rounder-around-the-edges Borghesia. Dreamlike synthesizers and echoed voices circle around danceable rhythms, inviting one to simultaneously contemplate and move one's body. Be teleported from the majesty of nature to the glow of the discotheque. RIYL: Belgrado, The Love Triangle, The Shitty Limits, Lux.
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If one were looking for a sound that could encapsulate the myriad forms that hardcore takes in 2018 one could do a lot worse than slam a record on by Zodd, who have emerged from the vibrant Singapore punk/hardcore scene in the wake of bands like Vaarallinen, Sial, and Lubricant. Operationally Ready Dead demonstrates an approach based in a vicious pogo-thump but drawing in elements of hardcore's various strands, with echoing screams ripping painfully through chomping riffs: weird enough for the freakpunx, hard enough for the mosh kids. Chaotic and blown out, squealing and stumbling, but never losing its dynamism, Operationally Ready Dead is ten tracks of contemporary anxiety shaped into hardcore anger, touching upon themes of apocalyptic angst, psychopaths with uniforms and without, and society's born corrupt, all the while getting darker still. Zodd provide a searing soundtrack to this and more. Cover designed by Nicky Rat with a lyric insert designed by the band.
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Exotica returns with Musique Exotíque #03, their third and best release to date. The intensity has been ramped up and their chaotic nature is more out of control. It's still pogo-friendly, destructive to the ears and totally explosive, with special care on the songwriting. This is a band who have worn out their copy of Raw War (1983), taking bits from UK '82, (especially Perdition-era Disorder), classic '80s Brazilian punk, and Finnish hardcore, creating a kaleidoscope of the greatest punk era, while keeping the attitude of what made international hardcore punk once so exciting.
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Howling and screaming like an acid trip gone wrong, Melbourne's Priors punch to the surface with nine ultra-bombastic cuts of relentless hardcore! Priors is a frightening mix of breakneck melodies and cacophonous destruction! Featuring members from a circle of Australian bands quickly making their mark on the international scene (including Sistema En Decadencia, Execution, Helta Skelta, and Nerve), this LP was one of the first to be started and last to be finished, over three years in the making from conception to delivery. A slab of wax that hits like a wrecking ball -- impossible to ignore!
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Rat Cage aka Bryan Suddaby is back with Blood On Your Boots, another dose of first-caliber hardcore. Taking cues from the golden age of hardcore circa 1983 and with eyes fixed on the late Totalitär, this madman manages to write and record four new anthems. Do not expect many changes, there is the same fixation with Headcleaners, Disarm and Swedish Käng. With more of the same political content than their previous output, this is a fresh and sharp look at contemporary world affairs somehow missed in current punk.
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Less than a year-and-a-half after their debut Rata Negra from Madrid release their sophomore album, Justicia Cosmica. Made up of members from Juanita Y Los Feos and La Urss this trio have a strong work ethic and deal in super catchy and upbeat punk. On Justicia Cósmica, Rata Negra have upped the pop element in the songs and the production is stronger and chunky, without losing any of the raw elements. Again the whole sound is immersed in the darker and morbid side of post punk but mixed with the up-tempo nature and tunes and of LA's X and Gorilla Angreb. Like on their debut, it's love at first listen. Justicia Cósmica was recorded and produced by the legendary Paco Loco and as in previous releases the sleeve was designed by the band's guitarist Fa Feo who also took care of the lyric insert.
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