Mar 30, 2010

Schwartz and anger - II

Under the sickening moonlight of the Athenian night, these four wolves had team-up their forces to deliver a blistering combination of insane riffing crust mayhem alongside fast drum-part-changes turning into hot and erotic grindcore (to be more specific they think that they play grind, something that exists only in their wet-fantasies).
Schwartz and anger was a band that it’s reason of existence was to terrorize, to “speak” to the open-minded or to try to create groundbreaking field, to play extreme music and to communicate their own manifesto (if you can call a living part of four different individuals as a manifesto).


Having experienced the sludgy and dirty culture of the greek d.i.y. hardcore punk scene, Schwartz’s members decided to distribute by themselves their first album and not to sell it as the classical “rules” orders (despite the negative comments that they received), in an against-merchandise, against-"selling and buying" ideology (anyone could give anything that he wanted, without paying a standard price).
The band has chosen to create a great piece of “art”, if you can call art something like this, and I don’t mean any type of alternative, sterile and in the end, dead piece of commercialization, but an alive, energetic and interactive power of thinking and acting…
Members of Schwartz and anger has been playing – formerly or currently – in the following bands : antimob, avgrund livet, boktorva bhq, 925, atopia, despite everything, nekra katsikia trikavalo and nata (hip-hop!!!) so their experience made their skill a weapon, a well-sharpened knife that keeps turning-around making your mind bleeding.
As a band they managed to establish their own unique footprint mainly of their beastie, unleashing-hell live performances.
You may already know that I am a blood-sucker for the Schwartz’s tunes, and I consider them – maybe - the best greek live performing-act that I have ever seen. Their energy acts as a cathartic pressure valve – in a good way.
Even now I cannot recall any influences from other bands, and not ‘cos there aren’t any but mainly ‘cos these guys managed to make it sounding so unique and “their stuff”. In this album (II) all the hard-work has been made by their guitarist G. Riffs, bridges and lyrics has been written by him and after tones (lol) of rehearsals the other members contributed their magic.
Lyric themes work as a vomiting, disgusting poison against consumerism in modern societies and in modern life in general, against state and capital(ism), but in a personal way of express. The album starts where the previous album (get it here) ends. The band screams it’s lungs out the lyric-phrase “η το τέλος της αρχής…” (Trans: or the end of the beginning…) before a vicious assault of constantly-changing riffs bites your carotid, ice-breaking tempos grab you from the neck, and the feeling of nausea diffuses in every inch of your body.
This album has not as many blast-beats as the previous one but the fast chugga-chugga parts make you wanna chop-off your head. The post-rockish leading riffs create different tone-colours. The relaxing soundscapes soon turns out to be a nightmarish soundtrack that only a pervert could compose.
Reading an interview of the band on a fanzine some time ago, when the guy asked them: “if Schwartz and anger was a machine, what type of machine would be?” the answer was: “Schwartz and anger would probably be a machinery of minced on wheels”. And “what type of food would be?” the friendly journalist continued. “For sure Schwartz would be a burnt food, ‘cos it’s black (Schwartz) and make you feel angry when you eat it”. I agree!
I’m very proud to post this awesome band, after taking the permission of the (half) band.
Let's see if db-ill has the guts to judge the band that he does vocals and plays bass-satanist-guitar.
No guts - No glory, my dear friend.
Hope you’ll enjoy Schwartz’s unstoppable power…
as I am… way too long now…

Flock of anger (download)

Mar 28, 2010

Boktorva bhq interviewed by Dbill

Yes, this is not a proper post.
This interview was done by dbill some time ago and i re-post it just to remember some thinks 'coz tomorrow i'll post a new one.
Unfortunately is on greek language. enjoy

Here's the interview by Boktorva bhq (ecxlusively for fifteencountsofarson - Unfortounately in greek language) :
(questions : Dbill, the friend)

Filos Boktorva: Geia xara paidia. Me 8umaste?
Boktorva: De se 8umamai re file, s'exw kapou 3anadei?

Filos Boktorva: fae turopita kai 8a me 8umh8eis...

Boktorva: A nai...twra se 8umamai re file...kai auto einai sxedon to onoma apo to kainourgio mas CD.

Filos Boktorva: Ti einai to CD?  kai peste mou liga logia gia to kainourgio sas almpoum filoi?

Boktorva: Oi Boctorva ws aenaoi prwtomastores tou eurwpaikou giatonmpeo-core, kata to luma Beowolf, anoi3an ton dromo pros to mellon. To me 8umasai re file...nai einai se diaforetikh hxhtikh morfh... mia morfh hxou xwris eikona pou den exete 3anadei... tou mellontos.

Einai to CD

To CD, se anti8esh me to vinylio, pou tosa xronia vgazane oloi oi alloi mazi kai emeis, apotelei to mellon ths mousikhs ypostashs. Terma pia to vinylio. Papala ST'ARXIDIA MAS OLA...Oi Boktorva, prwtoi se olo ton kosmo vgalan to CD, mia anakalupsh pou egine sta ergasthria TEKFB (Technologische Enstitut Kauf Frauerbauch Boktorva CO.) apo ton megalo katarthsmeno purhniko episthmona Giwrgo Magnetidh, o opoios efuvre prwtos to magnetofono, to opoio magnhtizei ST'ARXIDIA TOU OLA. Me thn polutimh voh8eia tou, oi vraveumenoi me Nobel eirhnhs, logw tou polemikou tous stixou, Boktora efhvran  auto to mikro ka8reftaki pou legetai CD, sta latinika Compactus Compacti Discus Spiro Spero Discii, h' alliws sta ellhnika ''plastiko ka8reftaki me trupa sth mesh'', pou opws kai ta vynilia eixan trixa, h giagia mou eixe klwsth...file mou...To 8umasai? Me 8umasai re file?

Opote Ww CDs, mpainei mesa apo ena portaki se ena mhxanaki, kapws san to video alla pio steno, me microrompotikh diadikasia se mia oph pou arxinaei na to strovilizei fugokentrika, me uperan8rwph dunamh kai upeu8unothta. Me to thlekontrol mono oi Boktorva elegxoun to cd. Ena uperlayser diaperna kata mhkos tou....kai o hxos vgainei apo ta hxeia...opws palia...to 8umasai re file? Me 8umasai re file?

Miliounia sundiasmoi duadikwn pshfiwn diadexontai o enas ton allon mesw ths pros8eshs kai ths afaireshs, anakaluptontas neous mhgadikous, anaparagontas auto to prwtoplasto almpoum...ton Adam tou hxou...to texnologiko epiteugma...to CD, afou prwta valoume to mhxanima sth mpriza, enw prwtitera oi Boktorva (sta upo8alassia 3ulina nhsiwtika spitakia tous-ergasthria mazi me ton uperdiashmo Gianni Giwrgo SG trellameno kuprio aderfo) anakalupsame to reuma, dhladh ton geniko diakoph kai ola ta kalwdia, kata la8os.

Kai vraveutikame me metallia kolumvhshs prwtou antrikou rolou se tainia street porn, me klanies kai kalo krasisiha.

Filos Boktorva: A wraia, mpravo, polu kala arista..euge. Eiste polu omorfh. Auta kai an einai nea...Pws kai meinate treis stous Boktorva?
Boktorva: Panta 8a'mai enas enantiwn olos, san thn agia triada pou einai ena enantion olwn. Kai oi treis swmato8ulakes, o Gatzos o Miltos kai o Pordos, htan enas sto prwsopo tou D'artanian, opws kai oi treis Xarites htan mia sto proswpo ths Mpempekas, opws oi treis Aparadektoi htan enas sto proswpo tou Bonatsou. Opws ta tria Xelwnonintzakia htan e3i vasika, sto proswpo tou mpekrh-meze Splinter. Opws ta tria gkavlia mas htan ena ston kwlo tou hardcore. Ta panta rei re file...to 8umasai? Me 8umasai?

Filos Boktorva: Legetai oti mia fora eixe 3anaemfanistei o enas kai Magnhtikos, kai eftia3e thn prwth mera kata tas grafas ta ydravlika kai tis tsimouxes autou tou planhtou. Xronia meta oi tsimouxes ef8arisan kai ai swlines fagw8hkan, afhnontas xwro gia pare3hghseis kai gia thn anodo tou neofileleu8erou dogmatismou. Skata ginhkan ola kai nera xu8hkan pantou. Sxoliaste authn thn alh8inh istoria.

Boktorva: Auto to 8eiko almpoum paigmeno apo treis ephgeious 8eous...twn Aiguptiwn, pou tugxanei h mia puramida na einai kai ergasthrio tous, kai efivran ton Hlio, kai vraveutikan me hlektrikes suskeves kai to Jocker. Autoi oi treis 8eoi einai gnwstoi ws Ramsis o Maxairas, Markos Sfigkas kai Stavros moumias Midaghamon kai o Toutagatzon, h' alliws Navoudigatzosoras o V' h' Moame8 o Midas, h' Kallimaher Anumvis, kai Ihsous Markos, o prwtos pou ezhse mexri ta 34 gumnos apo ta matia kai panw.

E3i meres krathse h hxografish...e3i meres autoi oi 8eoi idrwnan me ta kalozmhlemena tous swmata, ftiagmena apo ton Fidia kai ton Kallikrath me fide kai fido kai fidia kai fidaki gia ta kounoupia kai file sta malia kai falous sto stoma, autoi oi treis tesseris valanoi, autoi oi pente saturoi hxografousan thn Kainh Dia8hkh tou Hardcore. Meta ara3an...

Me okto entoles/kommatia upotassoun tous pistous tou hardcore, se auton ton disko, dhladh CD platinenio. H A' entolh milaei gia mpixla. Gia thn mpixla ths vromias, thn vromia pou mastizei ta mastaria mas, mastoura masturbation kai Mastrokwsta...auth einai h A' entolh twn 8rulikwn Boktorva. H B' milaei gia thn sxesh twn an8rwpwn me ta zwa, idiaitera autwn pou zoun se 8ermes perioxes, p.x. dipla se kalorifer kai zougles (psagmenia eee). Epishs auto to trito kommati einai afierwmeno ston Xarru Klin pou einai zwo ntumeno, kai korh mas tautoxrona, kai vraveutike sto palio mas ergasthrio, pou vraveutikame gia thn anakalupsh ths fwtosun8eshs, me thn xrush zvastigka apo ton Louies De Funnes kai ton trixwto filo mas, to Vellouxiwth ton filo mas...mas 8umasai re file? To D' tetarto kommati den exei stixous katalaves? Milaei omws gia thn glwssa ths psixhs kai th glwssa to psari. Sto neo mas ergasthrio, ekei pou vraveutikame gia ta palia mas epiteugmata...thn fwtia, thn opoia anakalupse o arxaios Promu8eas Mi-idiwths o Kavatzothras, me laxmatzoun...kavatzose, eklepse vasika apo ton Ypsisto Yxesto savourogamh Maxaira, h' alliws Magdalinh Tsoulara Maxaira, h' alliws Sampson tou kwlou kai ths poutsas (pou an thn kopseis xanei th dunamh tou, alla an thn 3anafaei, 3anafutrwnei...dhladh trwei poutsa) upo thn epivlepsh tou Dia Sodoh Malmo Karkatzelakh, h' alliws Markom X , pou eswse th dunasteia (to sirial) apo ton kako Mao Tse Gatzos...Eeee Dbill file mas...twra pou to diavazeis to 8umasai? To ekto kommati kata tas grafas milaei gia ton Marko, kai gia to nuxi pou evgale panw sto kefalaki ths poutsas tou, pou egine daxtulo kai meta xeri-ypovoh8hma TIMpaniko-ston paniko. Gi'auto milaei to ekto kommath, epeidh exei sundesh TIM. Ta trixwta kakaouxa vuzia pou evgale stis masxales tou o Maxairas...duo masxales...duo vuzares, duo sthn timh tou EOT apo authn thn kakaomana mpassistria, katw ap'to gkavlaki ST'ARXIDIA TOU OLA. Enw o Midas koimotan arrwstos, me 40 upo to mhden pureto, me ton lu8argo auton na ton voh8a na efevresei mia 8erapeia...to test mouniou PAP, kai ton prostath, dhladh mpravo koloniaristh kolonismenh kolaouzi Tourouk Xavaledes, pou aplwxera...a plw xe ra lew, upo8alptoun sta ergasthria tous olous tous upoxondrious tsigganous ths Alaskas, sto kainourgio tous ergasthrio pou einai sto styl sic pagwvounou pou den liwnei pote, kai kapote o Titanikos trakare panw tou. Sto evdomo kai proteleutaio kommati, o megaloviomhxanos Maxairas ta pontarei ola gia ola, kai ta xanei ta logika tou gia mia agaph pantotinh, otan kerdizei pali thn orash tou meta apo ena peirama pou kanane oi alloi duo episthmones-pankides koimontasan ton upno ths episthmhs...ST'ARXIDIA TOUS SOLA APO MPOTA. Tote 3afnou o megalometoxos tou Pana8hnaikou kai termatofulakas tou, Ntinos Maxairas exase thn akoh tou kai thn afh tou kai ta duo tou podaria...kai egine o Darth Vapord Action, h' alliws o anapthras dioikhths, enw oi alloi duo ton sthri3an san na htan pantoflinoi filoi tou...Kai egeneto o Gwgos Maxairas, kai eipen ston eauto tou ''emena oi filoi mou exoun mavra gkavlia, san tostieres apo kantina kai apo mikro kai apo trello ma8aineis thn alh8eia''. Sto ogdoo 8auma tou hardcore, tou sklhrou purhna tou planhth olou, to ogdoo kommati milaei gia ordes apo podres, me xordes kai asxhmes lordes mas piasan...na paragkeiloume kati h' 8a mas pareia ta aftia fwnazontas mas ''8a sas parw pipes''? Wraio to fle-sou ths manas tou Vizarionovitch Maxaira, Kozako ths Saxaras...koxlazonta Tsarou tou Karditshs kai psari ths mpatzinas...auth h udrovia tsoula, h iptamenh aderfara o Maxairas korese thn peina tou me oles tis sardeles ths limnhs, kai ezvise thn almura tous pinontas th limnh olh me ena kalamaki se sxhma poutsas, exontas sto nou tou oti htan alh8inh...kai thn 3anakatourhse panw tou, afou prwta ta'kane panw tou. Autos o ahtos tou saltsou moradele einai pragmatika arxhgos twn pantwn...kai oxi ths pipas opws o Miltos, gnwstos kai ws The Miltons ston egw-xwro, ston diko tou xwro, alla kai ston diko sas me prosites times kai filikotato service me pipes.

Filos Boktorva: Fxaristw polu filh...exete kati na pros8esete?

Boktorva: Oxi
Boktorva: Nai
Boktorva: Oxi
Boktorva: Nai h' Oxi, To kanei h' den to Kanei, ki8aristas h' Rapper, Cramer enantion Cramer? Isws...pantws me 8umasai re file?

Mar 27, 2010

Hitler died from tzatziki - 3 track demo

Hitler died from tzatziki is / was a side-project by members of antimob and burial. A greek-german alliance for the spreading of old-school feta cheese (greek traditional cheese - προστατευομενη ονομασια προελευσης) of parnassos (but i have to admit that i prefer feta dodoni).

Fetian (aka fabian from burial) and asthma, dbill started this project back in the day but only in the 2007 the band recorded this 3 track demo in fabian's place at hagen city, germany and only after dbill was turned out of the band (without not even knowing it - they throwed him away like a driven-dry lemon rind - what a great friendly behavior) and the bass duties has been carried out by drop virus 666 (also from antimob / boktorva).

The sound is more than decent and will make you dancing all night. Yes, this is the stuff that will make you stop listening bombenalarm's first 7'' for a while. But the one thing you have to advert is the fucking great lyrics (if there is any...) and the vocals. Every time i hear this three track demo i can't resist myself for having a stupid face "painted" in my face. What else to say for these stupid-fuckers that put a german guy to sing greek lyrics so they can laugh with him - but fabian does a great work. The music is a total old-school hardcore worship with great track titles like "this is feta not batsos" (this is feta not cop!) and the iron maiden's never released song "666 - the number of the cheese".

I still have my issues with the posting of this shit 'coz these bastards made dbill unhappy, but then you definetely must hear it...

"Hitler Died From Tzatziki started in September 2006 with goal to spread around the negative-trisatanic message of Feta Power. The band features two Greek Feta maniac punks and a German Feta punk Revolutioner. We started as a trio with Fetian - Son of Feta on drums (ex- Fabian), Dis-Feta-Bill on bass guitar and Asthmatic Feta on guitars but a sunny day of July of 2007 brought some major changes to the line up . After an Important Feta punk meeting, in the wild forests of Hagen, the band was joined by Necrofetas on Bass and Yoshifet(a) on sound engineering. Dis- Feta Bill is still a spiritual member of the band but he decided to focus mostly on Feta activism and leave for a while Feta phylosophism. The new lineup, after being extremely satisfied by the new Feta Cheese collection of Parnasos bio-producers, decided to record a new soundrack demo (the first of the band) with music, lyrics and recording made within the same day- since there was such a great inspiration out there(on the 21/07/2007). The demo is used exclusively for the propaganda of this new powerfull Feta!
7" made by original goat milk out soon! 

Influences : Our Famlies, Thodoros Rousopoulos, Our School Teachers and Last but Not Least The Homosexual Backround of Greek Feta!"

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Mar 26, 2010

Evance - False peace & If tomorrow & Fucker, fucker, fucker, fucker

Hey, finally my good friend Drop virus 666 (artist - known as "the greek sugi" / guitarist of boktorva and bassist of antimob) finished the hand-painted logo for this blog. Hope you like it - Leave me some comments to tell me what you think. cheers

As long as i wait the days to pass me by and the "voting shit" take it's own road to history's dumb, the best way to introduce a japanese-styled dot-by-dot technique logo is a blasting fist-by-fist japanese hardcore.
"Brutality, skill, power, fun, all mashed together in a hot, totally over the top, bowl of fury and rage. It is indeed hard not to be a (blood) sucker for japanese hardcore punk".
I couldn't describe it better.
Evance is a band that i don't know a single thing about them, except that, back in 2007 when burial played in athens their singer was wearing an evance t-shirt. so i wanted to hear what the fuck they sound like. Straight forward, up-tempo hardcore punk but for the first time this band is more on the punk side of life. You gonna love them.
Here you get three 7inches :
"False peace" - 1997
"If tomorrow..." - 1997
"Fucker, fucker, fucker, fucker" - 1998

Nothing more to say, 'coz i know that you are "(blood) suckers for japanese hardcore punk"


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Mar 22, 2010

Blowback - Crazy attacker & Remember oneself

Some days ago a friend of mine sent me an email saying : "post japanese hardcore. We're thirsty". As i searching the blog i found out that i have not post anything from the land of the rising sun for a month or so. Blowback is my gift to the japan-addicts that keeps on coming on this blog.
Hailing from niigata city (west coast of honshu), these skinny-body maniacs delivers the goods. High octane straight-forward hardcore punk with a lot of 70's rock influences as any punk band from japan that respects itself would have...
In my mind i always have some "splits" if tou know what i mean, so i have for japanese hardcore. On the one side bastard, crude and forward and on the other side assault, muga and blowback. Not that is a two "speed" situation thing, that the first one are better than the second. I don't know, maybe it's just a chronological seperation... I assure you : this fuckers are a blast.
Here we have blowback's ep "remember one self" from 2002 - propably my favourite blowback's release till now. Four awesome tracks that gonna make you paint your head with yellow henna, tear apart your t-shirt (before tear off your genitals) and make a whole-body dragon tatto...
Also, we have the 2005 ep "crazy attacker" that have been released only as a cd if i'm not mistaken... Very good japanese hardcore with one of the best vocalists of the already mentioned scene. Both records have been released from HG : fact records.
Every winter blowback is making a tour called Gokukan with their fellas Mustang. Also they have toured usa with tragedy back in 2006 (check the video).
Awesome band, awesome music. Enjoy..
I know that you already love these freaks...
(once again i have stolen some infos from mountza 4 fanzine - the column about japanese scene written by the burial guys totally kicks ass. Chears to them)
Dedicated to alex who keep on asking for good japanese, rock influeced hardcore punk. Cheers, man.

Never bow down your head


Mar 20, 2010

Rubbish heap - Path of lies 7''


Rubbish heap was a crust / sludge band from belgium, active at the late 90's scene.
I don't know what to say for one of my favourite bands of all time, check out here their self titled lp.
Here's some of the most bitter lyrics ever has been vomiting from a human mouth... Full of dark emotions, angry vocals and degeneration for  the living creatures of this fucking planet...
The music is a mid-tempo crust mix, with heavy as hell distorted guitars and some sludgy influences (not so clear-viewed as the self titled lp's sludgy parts...) i think i must leave the band to speak for theirself...
This is a masterpiece, one of the best 7'' you will ever be able to hear.
Be carefull, this one demon's spawn may burn out your speakers even if you play it at 0 decibel...
two guys of rubbish heap keep on running conspiracy records - with fat bellys, nowadays.
This column came as an insert with this interesting piece of vinyl :
"This is your life - your freedom too choose - taken away by those who don't care about you - those addicted to traditions - to their ignorance - slaves to the machine that guarantees safety and predictability from the cradle to the grave - brainwashed by the institutions of indoctrination - they just want you to blindly follow the stream - to walk their path of lies without questioning - we must choose our own path instead of ruminating the old ways over and over again - we must break the structures and take back our stolen lives..."
My writting is so uninspired, but you have to hear this one.

Usual way of life, your path of lies

Mar 18, 2010

Hammers - Orogeny

Fuck, yeah!
This album fucking rocks really hard.
It's blazing, raging, ripping and fucking sickening...

Yeah, this is the ultimate Hammers from the city of manchester. They used to be a 4-piece outfit but andy left the band, instead of breaking-up they continued as a trio that seems to works really fine and in this one-sided lp they deliver 6 tracks of manic dbeat crust alongside (much more ) sludge parts (from their previous releases) that definetely make you fall on your knees and shout your lungs out at the moon pretending you hold a mic on your right hand and your chest on the left one.. This is Hammers. Call them thrash, power-violence or hardcore punk. these lunatics plays fast-forward hardcore punk with some blast-beats, holy-terrorising-monsterous riffs with dual, great vocals...
This masterpiece comes as a one side picture disc also.. First press of 100 copies and i already have one : number 5!!!
I really love this band and you have to love them too, one of the best bands that i totally enjoy to listen at my "free-time" a long time now... A good fucking company... Members can be found also in war coma.
Check out hammers self titled 7'' here.
words are in no need to be told (at all). You know what you'll get...
"There is nothing ahead. There is no regret."

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- o dbill, κραδαινοντας την βαριοπουλα :
This LP is a perfect exception to the rule ''you shouldn't judge a book by its cover''. Just by looking at this piece of wax you know there is a lot of effort, energy and love put into this release. Excellent killer silkscreen printed cover with white, gold and black inks on a good quality raw paper...i know i sound like a fetish guy, but i really appreciate a well-done work when i see it. The vinyl is one-sided, while the other side is also gold screen printed...

Onto the music, Hammers are humongous. Heavy sludgy epic riffs, giving place to raw d-beat and blasting work. A dark haunting feeling covers the songs, like the chilling mountain mist, leaving just slight melodic undertones to escape the thick layer of fog coming down from the hills, heavy and mystical. The lyrics are deeply personal, but with a serious political hint underneath them (explanations and thoughts included by the members), and its good to see nice thoughtfull stuff from bands, rather than a dogmatic style manifesto of stuff that has been said before, and are being written just to get the credit of a ''political'' band.

Really good stuff here, if you come by this LP be sure to pick it up in a wink...i feel i have to thank Mike for giving me one as a present. Hope to see these englishmen live also.

dbill, in mountain mood

Mar 14, 2010

Black hole kids - demo

A few days ago wess from black hole kids contacted me and asked me if i was in the willing mood to post their demo. As you can see on your right : "Any d.i.y band that wants to be posted here can send me an e-mail and we can work it out...". So, i told wess : "hope that you're into d.i.y and not in the alternative suck companies that keep sucking dry hardcore punk" and his answer was : "D.i.y. or die". What else to say? I'm very glad to post his band.

Black hole kids is a hardcore punk band from birmingham, alabama. I don't know when these guys started playing together, but i guess this is a fresh new band if i can judge from the infos on their blog. They have already played something like 4 or 5 gigs.

Music wise, black hole kids are playing a mix of mid-tempo melodic crust with "sad" guitar rifs alongside some "swallow-me-down" hardcore punk. Even if the production is not so good and you can't hear all the instruments so clear, and the vocals is not so powerfoul - i'll prefer it a lot more if it was more "ugly" and angry - nevertheless, this is a very-good attempt for a band's first demo and i hope that we'll see a very good ear-destroying vinyl coming out some day soon. Until then, i'll keep listening this demo 'cos every time becomes better and better... cheers

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Mar 11, 2010

Ripping headache - Self titled 7''

Fuck yeah, this bands blows some minds away just for fun.
As dbill now tries to make the "catch-up" i'm running one more post away. This band comes once again from our beloved denmark to deliver 8 tracks of fast, angry and energetic hardcore punk. They remind me a mix of tear it up meets poison idea and die kreuzen, but in the danish way. I'm sure that once more, you'll have this stuff on your mp3 player for a long time. Members from ripping headache can be found also in the bands : death token, dsu, dodskontrol, night fever, hjertestop, complete, sygdom and nuclear death terror (formerly and currently)...
Energetic, in your face hardcore that sings about alcohol, fightings and drugs (even if the band nowadays declares a more sophisticated profile), what else do you want to hear to press the download button?

we won't be ignored

Mar 8, 2010

Boktorva bhq - H ora tou maga (The time of the dude)

Keeping the flag of humour-crust high for over a decade this platinum crustcore heroes are back, or not? Right, the night avengers of greek crust are back on track with a new seveninch from the past!!!
The holy trinity of markos (chief in god's service - not knight in satan's service), midas (kotsovolos gone loose seller) and alex (i don't catch him on my mouth), hit the road again with six anthems of their early carrier that only now sees the light of day (or i must say the light of darkness!!!???). These lunatics have been posted here before (check their first lp here), and the urban legend says that in their latest-technology-accomplished laboratories well known as Technologische Enstitut Kauf Frauerbauch Boktorva CO. they have already recorded and mixed four more albums to end their trilogy of vinyl releases, released as cds and don't put me in the sad position to explain what the band thinks the cd is... Way heavier than Fall of efrafa (that also have released a trilogy of three albums - what a loser band, three albums for a trilogy, LOSERS), boktorva's sound-steel sounds like a steel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The lyrics are way more serious than their previous releases with song-titles like "i like to eat" and "fuck (off) my faith" to represent with a clear view the "going-on" in the greek suburbs of the greek borough... Hailing from mesologi, and now from athens and aigio, and mixing their influences of pure old-school hip-hop alongside singapoorean grind-harsh techno they sound like "moutherfaaacker tsoutsouroumoumou"!!!
Rumours wants them to already have three different contract-options from nine different major labels such as Relapse, Music for idiots, Guinea aplle kids records, Bannana kai bacardi productions, kapari is the law recs and markos favourite pagoto vanilia biskoto me mous sokola records (from luxemburg) to joust / tilt / tourney for the signature-capture of this dog-eating band. The offers are incredible with a tour alongside mastodon, rihanna and kostas bigalis to be already scheduled, so stay tuned for dates (another urban-legend says that the tour will start from tei igoumenitsas with support band Dirty Rotten Michigan and will end with a secret gig in a basement somewhere between fylis kai smirnis gonia in athens on a sunday's lunchtime under the name "with our stomachs full of vegan meat")...
Limited to 4 copies (three for the band, half for me and half for d-bill), this 7'' is a must-download-have, so download it 'cos you cannot have it - it's already sold, sorry!!! So simple...
The band has already given an interview to this blog and we now working on a new one....

The time of GATZOS

Mar 7, 2010

Hibernation - Discography

I just got back home from a live concert of Hibernation, and for once more i thought "they're so fucking mind-blowing". The crowd was going nuts for over 40 minutes and the sing-along thing was present in every single one lyric part. So true, so passionate, they gave me the impression that they live to play gigs. That it's their whole life... Trully great.
energetic, fast, sweat, all in one. Even, when two guys grabbed alex's mic to do all the vocal duties the band (and especially yanna) seemed to be ammused... Hope that more bands would emulate them...
I decided to post all of their releases (two seveninches and a full-lenght lp) 'cos i can't choose the best one, all of their releases are up to 10 and you have to check them out, if you are not already into it...
After the disband of Haotiko telos (Chaotic end) (one of the best dark hardcore bands of all time in greece and "fathers" of the dark crust genre that after years came as a trend in greece), alex (their main lyric / song writter) creates this band. The first ep has been released in 1998 and the line-up consisted by alex : guitar, vocals (that is the only member from the first line up, also from Ksehasmeni profiteia (forgotten prophecy)), savvas : guitar (later on anatellon tromos (rising terror)) and two guys (from nekriki sigi (deadly silence) on bass and drums. The sound is heavy and doomy hardcore, and is clear that the band continues what chaotic end left behind...
The second ep (monaksia (loneliness)) has been released in 2000, and some serious member-changes have been occured (only alex stayed to be more specific) and behind the drumkit - from then till now - sits yanna (formerly of pyrinikos heimonas (nuclear winter)), and the bass goes to : a lot of people... Hehe...
Heavy as hell with a better production, yanna's vocals is - still - my favourite female vocals of all time and the song "metropolis of glass" maybe is already a classic... The keyboard samples works just fine for the whole production and gives a more claustrophobic atmosphere while the drum hitting makes you wanna hit your head on a wall...
Last but not least, the lp released somewhere between 2003-2004 and stands it's own large footprint in the european crust scene... Gloomy, melodic with terrifying samples that adds an unpleasant and dystopic scene in the whole thing, alongside the awesome "alex's riffs" (i say it as a term - alex's riffs rips). 10 in your face crust hymns with beautiful (but pessimistic lyrics) with social-political-enverimental themes... I don't know what else to say. One of my all-time favourites, a band that still keep on going, with a steady line-up nowadays with meletis on bass (also from straighthate) and haris on second guitar (formerly of sarabande)...Alex and yanna have also two children.
Also, go here and click to hibernation to see some of the bands lyrics.
Thanx to the blogs that some of their links has been used here, such as :
crust-demos, crustcracker, 7inchcrust and tapes gone loose
the band currently working on new songs, to be released someday in the future as an lp... i can't wait...

Feel your Power

Mar 6, 2010

Young wasteners - We got ways Lp

So, a guy the other day asked for young wasteners. Although i have decided not to post them, i change my mind 'coz if someone asks something - not so well-known, that hasn't been posted in 1 million other blogs - i'm the type of guy who is enjoying the do-favours thing...
So, hardcore punk from denmark in the old good way - not so hardcore as amdi petersens arme, but neither so punk as gorilla angreb. They have some similarities with dead kennedys, but not the usual copy-paste thing. Some tracks are "hurricanes" and some a little bit midiocre. I don't know a thing about the band except that they have another 7''...
So, dbill has to make the difficult job... HEHEHE
If anyone has infos or links for other good bands from denmark feel free to leave messages or share some links. Thanx...

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Mar 3, 2010

Va - Disrturbance Of Domestic Peace (1996, GRE)

Once more i'm pausing the k-town series (don't worry, we have three more posts) to give you one of my all-time favourite albums, or compilations if you like. As you may already know i don't like any of my posts to have photos, but today is a special one. i think this album is a masterpiece that captures the energy of the greek scene of the 90's in a perfect way. Also you must know what the fuck some lunatic-punks used to say about the d.i.y hardcore punk before fourteen years. On your right you can see one of the inserts of this comp with thoughts (in english) about the d.i.y scene in greece back in the day. Before the usual music-talk i have to mention one of the more important things that this page says : "No companies, no managers or intervinings would deal with the sending off of this action...". I guess you already know my view on the topic "profit"! Please : read it carefully.

This comp.Lp released back in 1996 from the collaboration of the 6 bands that took part in it, alongside two occupied buildings - "social centres" : Villa amalias in athens and Villa varvara in thessaloniki. Here's propably the best bands of mid-90's in greece (sadly this comp does not include naytia and chaotic end - i think that they had already disbanded) with eleven ass-kicking diamonds. Every each-one band plays a unique style of their own that makes the listening provocative about what the fuck the next in line band will sound. All the lyrics are about social-political issues, the "scene" etc. This lp was also the first lp i ever bought (the same day i bought my first sony turntable also... so beautiful days - so energetic).

The bands that participated were :
MASTIGA :  (trans. infliction, plague) they played a combo of mid-tempo hardcore with some faster parts, double vocals and a lot of drum breaks.
SHIT HIT THE FAN : the only band that you can say it's not hardcore. a lot of melodies, fantastic riffs and expressive vocals. something like the petrograd of greece.
MIASMA : ass-kicking mid-tempo hardcore punk. excellent guitar works.
ANASA STAHTI : (ashen breath) from the ashes of Levelling, ashen breath took form adding the first vocalist of chaotic end. they played a hardcore heavily influeced from the late 80's, early 90's heavy-thrash metal scene with a lot of dark, gloom lyrics about society etc... their guitarist and main song/lyric writter created the band anatellon tromos (rising terror) in the late 90's.
PANIKOS : (panic) The first greek band that had samples and a "post-rock" touch, way before this genre becomes a trend... these two songs are more aggressive and a litlle bit faster than their usual... They only band that keeps playing nowadays.
PSYHOSI : (psychosis) If a band from greece we can say that is/was underestimated, this would definetely be psychosis... Heavy, distorted guitars, heavy, distorted bass, mid-tempo drum hitting and amazing vocals with much more amazing lyrics. When i was a liitle kid i used to call them greek Amebix but the band has it's own mark and it's so fucking great. maybe my favourite band from the comp. their bassist/ singer know plays for the "anti-seller", post-rock band Incognita sperans.

If you want infos about greek bands etc you can check the blogs : crustcracker, 7inchcrust, crust-demos
and punk.gr
Last, but not least : this rip isn't mine.
Enjoy and leave comments to tell me if you like it...
Heads Up :
I have made a mistake : when you download this album the folder says "disruption of public peace"
Change the word public with the word domestic!

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Mar 1, 2010

Nuclear death terror - demo, Lp and 2 seveinches

-Corpse painted mikxxx :
As i'm waiting dbill to write about gorilla angreb, i remember that i have promised him that we'll definetely do a post about nuclear death terror. Having as a base the ungdomshuset squat, these crusties began their illegal action back in 2003 (if i'm not mistaken), but only in 2005 made their first attempt to destroy our ears and make us love them with the release of their 8-track demo...
Consisting of members of skarpretter, uro and some others these corpse-painted, zombie-like crusties released also two seveninches and one full-lenght lp.
Speaking about music, if hellshock played a less bit boring and not so "i'm-over-30-years-old-and-only-now-i-discovered-sunlight-studios-sound", yet clear as a plastic diamond metallic edge definetely their name would  be NUCLEAR DEATH TERROR! Epic, d-beat crust by these old wolves of the danish scene, heavily influeced by (old) Bolt thrower (or even the best band ever to came outta sweden - Entombed (for me - don't start to throw rocks on me, guys)) with the proper black / white artwork...
So, i didn't make an upload for these guys 'cos they had already posted all their music by themselves in their netpages, that's why you may ask why i got myself in such "trouble", to write some bad-english shit about some punks from copenhagen. the reason is, that i feel like i share some common views with this band about what is d.i.y. and what is profit. I think that downloading music (when no asshole gets money out of it) is a good thing, it helps you find new bands, share some views and opinions. Afterall tape-trading is the power of the scene for over of 30 years now and maybe this is a way of "tape-teading" nowadays, also if you like the band the best think is  to grab some records...read here some interesting views from the band on this topic (i'm not posting the cahrecords mail 'cos i think it's too big, but you can read it at the band's my(as)space):

There's some messages going around to the tune of "downloading mp3s is killing the punk scene." The one we just received is below. After responding to it that not only were we not interested, but that we were actually against charging money for music downloads, I checked out the www.cahdownloads.com site and discovered that our album the top selling record there - for $8. We didn't give permission for this. Where's the money going?

I've nothing against Nick or CAH Records (or at least I didn't before this), it's a good label and he seems like a friendly, genuine guy. I presume one of the labels who released our album gave CAH Records permission to sell our music online, which we're entirely against. We'll get to the bottom of it and make sure the situation is remedied. I should probably find out what the story is and clear all that up before posting this...but I'm pissed off and astounded at this situation, so I'm not going to wait.

It brings up an interesting issue: that of music downloads. We're completely in favour of them. The fact that some of the biggest DIY punk labels around are against free music downloads has influenced our decision not to work with those labels before. The labels we do work with continue to sell out of their pressings of our records, whether on CD, vinyl or cassette, so although sales might be down on what they used to be, and postage more expensive, it's complete bullshit that downloads are killing the scene.

Music downloads are killing the scene for people who commodify and commercialise punk and make a living out if it. If that's what they want to do, that's their business (literally) and I won't villainise them for it. But when they claim that they're "trying to educate people that stealing mp3s is killing the entire scene right now" and describe selling mp3s on the internet as " total D.I.Y." (it would more accurate to describe it as "total bullshit" or "a load of bollocks"), whilst making a profit from selling our music without permission, then naturally we're going to react.

Our LP and our demo are available for free at http://nucleardeathterror.blogspot.com/ and after the first pressing is sold out of our new 7" EP that'll be up there too. File sharing and free music downloads are one of the greatest threats to property and copyright that have ever occurred. To describe it as stealing is ridiculous. The true theft is when people build on other influences to write original music, and then define that as their own "intellectual property" which they then attempt to protect with copyright. Fuck that shit. People will keep sharing music for free, and we'll support them in this.


You can download their whole discography from here or here.

-"don't you satanize me" Dbill :
I might have my fair share of crusty records, but i'm not really fond of this style of punk too much anymore. Mainly because it tends to get soooo repeatetive, and boring to hear the same melodies again and again, read the same war lyrics again and again, see the same images again and again and again...you get the picture..There are exceptions though, every once in a while you'll hear a crust band which just shines from the millions of others.

Nuclear Death Terror.

The name really says it all. Pure raw holocaust. What really impressed me was their cassette demo, from back in 2005. I heard the LP, and the 7'', but the demo is the real deal here. Raw dirty recording, with monolithic rocking heavy crust riffs, mid paced dbeat pounding attack, and gruff phlegmatic vocals that makes you think their vocalists have had one a dozen too many whiskeys...brilliant! The whole demo actually flys by, no pauses between tracks, like a good powerfull live gig that ends up in ashes.

If you are not too into crust hardcore, then listen to their demo tape...if you are a Decrepit looney then download (or if you have the chance buy) their whole discography...

Speaking of downloads, and since it was mentioned by Mike, with the addition of words from the Nuclear Death Terror site, i figured i'd also chip in to give you my annoying said-before point of view... Claiming that downloading diy music kills punk culture is absurd and plain stupid. It brings people closer to music they would otherwise never had the (financial mostly) possibility of listening. Personaly i don't enjoy downloading music too much cause it feels out of touch with the bands aesthetic view on things. With soul-less mp3 files you can't get the artwork (in it's full extent i mean), you pack it with the rest of the bullshit you download on some hick named file like ''punk rock and stuff'', rather than ceremonialy placing it in your record collection...I'm definately no record collector (and don't intend to become one!), but i enjoy having a library with records, and picking the one i want to accompany me with whatever i feel like doing, jamming it on the record player and letting the needle fall on the dead sexy wax grooves!!!! With binary digits you can't sit down and read the lyrics sheet, figuring out what the hell the singer is yelling about (bands also seem to have nothing interesting to say, but thats another story to be told..)....BUT it offers in an uncommercial way the opportunity to people who live in greece (some example ehhh!) to learn about punk (or noise, or whatever..) bands/culture from far abroad (japan maybe?usa anyone?). As for ''diy'' labels cashing in by selling mp3...fuck that shit...that's not my punk..

keep bootlegin'!!!!