Selfish - Life Has No Vacant Time

You already know Selfish. You may know the fellow finnishpunks to be the most boring punk band ever to watch live but they've released some the best japcore albums ever. Life has no vacant time is their latest album on Feral Ward records. It's been recorded some years ago but never saw the light of day until now. Heavy and in your face like a fighting movie scene directed by Chan-Wook Park. "life in every breath" kicks in like a kick trying to destroy an enormous door. oh man, i had a long time to listen such a good jap record. The flying solos and the biting vocals, the fast tempos. Everything is absolutely perfect here, nothing will make you feel numb or bored. Grab a huge glass full of london's finset dry gin with tonic, hold this record in your hands and go to the nearest beach bar. Grab the neck of the stupid dj, hit him hard and play SELFISH louddddddddddddddddd.....you know Life has no vacant time.

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Selfish & Liberate - split - The only thing between life and death ... is you

Let's get once more, "back in the day". It was propably 2001 or 2002 when alex from hibernation sent me a bag of cool stuff. Detestation's "the inhuman condition" 7'', Cavity's "Fuck diablo" 7'' and this masterpiece split between two of the greatest japcore bands of the planet... I couldn't find it ripped anywhere, that's why i rip it. Since i can't trace it anywhere and as it was a request of buddy 7inchcrust here we go...

This 7'' has been released from H:G fact records (H:G fact-111 release) in japan and contains 4 songs of ultimate destruction...Songs to drink beers, songs to cry, songs to wake-up from hangover or songs to stare at birds (Liberate's "need the power..."). Also, Sugi's artwork is amazing and propably one of the best drawings the dude ever done.

On a-side we have Liberate from Tokyo, japan and the only think i know about them is that they are ex-members of ACID and Macrofarge and pre-members of Crossface.
Now, the sound is thick, modern japcore with great metallic riffs and crazy vocals like a dog barging before the bite. the japanese motherland has the tendency to offerr us... thanx for that... (and the bassist is Kawagutsi that i can not recall...other bands maybe?)

Selfish on the other side, is more or less well-known as one of the best japcore bands outside japan (alongside Burial). They started as a crustcore band with uk influences and soon change their sound to japanese hardcore. This is the first 7'' with the usual solid japanese sound. Tight ass maybe is the most ugly and sing-along song Selfish ever wrote and has a secret magic power to make you wanna do harakiri..Yeah right, and you know something... Chelsea (from Death side and Paintbox) do the guitar-solos here... The grave is open, go on and hide... Last chance.

Never gonna lose it

Selfish - Burning sensation

As you can imagine i love the third, fourth and fifth wave of japanese played hardcore punk... (HEHE)
Selfish are the pioneers of the second wave (HEHEHEHE) of this style and their playing their fucking socks out (greek expression), so you can download right now the second best album (that is better than their third best album) of their discography after "cause pain"... (that will be posted soon enough)
Also check this for a previous post...
Fast hardcore / punk full of great riffs and ear damaging vocals in the japanese way alongside beautiful drum "changes". The sound is classic melodic and thrashy hardcore with desperate, angry lyrics about life and death.
I don't know what else to say... BRILLIANT!!!

reach the end (download)

''How will you reach the end?''...apparently with this record in hand, you are promised a free pass to hardcore hell...guaranteed!!!

This is Selfish's first LP strike (after three 7'', an equal number of 7''splits with DOOM, LIBERATE and DISCLOSE and the collection CD ''flashback!''), and my, what a strike it is!!

Filled with pure hardcore rocking fury, japanese warcries and epic (not the worn out crusty epicness) guitar leads, this record is going to be your daily soundtrack for the moody mornings, as well as the long party nights...Seriously this record packs my day with the nerve and eye sparkle I need to get up and do stuff.

Get it (or download it...whatever turns you on!)

Artwork by the legendary kanpai punk SUGI....

...actually buy all SELFISH releases.

.the dbill has spoken.


P.S. the well-known artist named as Drop-Virus 666 (the greek Sugi) promised to make some graphics, logos for this blog for free.... Hell yeaaahhhh

Selfish - Cry for love, cry for death

In the so-called "japanese hardcore" genre you can add a tone or maybe more of good or not so good bands, but only a few can be named as great...
One of these bands is not even by japan...
Selfish took form back in 1989 in the snow-falling land of Finland, heavy influenced by the uk punk in their first releases (they have released a bunch of records, splits etc),but slowly they changed their sound with a lot of "burning spirit" japanese hardcore elements alongside heavy 70's hard rock parts...
Here you get one of the most "japcore" albums (for me it's as good as "cause pain" lp)...
Enjoy

tight ass (download)