Some time ago dany from torino has sent me some links for the hardcore punk band frammenti, and a couple days ago sent me a link to check out his old band from torino (turin). In his own words : APD (antisocial personality disorder) it's my old band. Shitty, downtuned, crust / grind. Our drummer was the same of Social Inseurity and Afterbirth at they start.
Luka used to live in scortland, and when he come back we started to play to support our friends Ratbull Bite, but they fast broke up and their gutarrist joined us on APD and we played for three-four years only in italy, in our anarcho/punk scene. Alex ,our bass player is living @ EL PASo, our oldest Squat.
4 guys with too many different priorities, work, politics, stupidity etc... 4 years seems too much time for APD... (bob-voice, luka-drums, alex-bass, marco-guitar, dany-guitar)
Now, some guys from APD created the band Zeitgeist...
Here you get well played old-scholl grindcore with topics against state and gods (in general, including Gantzos religion) with crusty mid-tempo parts before blastbeat attacks. You may not get the new (!!!!) nasum album here but this band is very good for the type of music that plays (i have to admit : i'm not the biggest fan of grindcore)...
Hope you'll enjoy them... cheers daniel
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Hour of the chicken :
Never heard of A.P.D. before, and i guess i won't hear anything new since they have apparently dis-banned!
Actually, this isn't bad at all...indeed this isn't your new Nasum-like favorite band, but they definately have their moments...This is something between the older grindcore stuff (Napalm Death, Brutal Truth etc.) and the more modern tunes of bands like Nasum, Rotten Sound (fuck!!!) and Gadget.. Death like riffs, which are followed by some rocking crusty parts, with dual vocal trade-offs from deep gutteral grouwl to screaming scorcher.
Some tracks have a kind of a good production (the ones with the more mature structure and more powerfull riffs), while others don't follow expectations (the older ones i guess..more raw but in a bad way), but since this is a demo they are easily excused!
Not bad at all.
gbill
Feb 10, 2010
Feb 9, 2010
Totalalitar - Gia ena aurio... (demo)
Here we have, not the ultra pioneers of old-school d-beat hardcore from sweden, but ultra katsa-punks from thessaloniki, greece. Katsa punk is a music genre that took form in greece under very difficult circumstances... 'Cos you must have guts to take elements from uk punk of the 80's, anarchopunk or even early european hardcore, to mix it and the result to be so shitty and awful (as japan's (music) has to do something with susi and portland (music and women) has to do something with the industrial water, greece's hardcore music is a real mystery. How the majority of bands is so shitty?)...
But not all of them, no. no. no...
Here we have some serious, killing, '77 - '82 uk punk with all the great elements. Passionate, from the heart, with voices straight from my grandma's well, and melodic for endless sing-alongs...
Gia ena aurio means "for a tomoroww... (different)"
So, enjoy...
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Hour of the wolverine :
Hey ho, let's go! I remember we played with Totalalitar in Salonika (exei dika mas paidia!) @ Orfanotrofio squat (exei dika mas paidia!). I'm not a big fan of UK '77 punk, but those punks fucking rocked live. Simple and rocking punk riffs, sweet sing along melodies, and Nikolakis (their singer) saying really bad/cold jokes between the tracks.
I therefore came back home (zofos athens hardcore city, exei dika mas paidia!) with one of their cd's in my bag, kind courtesy of mr. Nikolakis trellakias himself (oust gourouni!). To be honest though, their cd doesn't give the feeling i had at their live perfomance. It might just not be my style, but their music doesn't really touch me. Maybe cause i don't have a mohawk, or zips on my tight pants.
If you're a fan of katsapunk, or want to become one, then maybe this is your stuff.
dbill zofos athens hardcore city
But not all of them, no. no. no...
Here we have some serious, killing, '77 - '82 uk punk with all the great elements. Passionate, from the heart, with voices straight from my grandma's well, and melodic for endless sing-alongs...
Gia ena aurio means "for a tomoroww... (different)"
So, enjoy...
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Hour of the wolverine :
Hey ho, let's go! I remember we played with Totalalitar in Salonika (exei dika mas paidia!) @ Orfanotrofio squat (exei dika mas paidia!). I'm not a big fan of UK '77 punk, but those punks fucking rocked live. Simple and rocking punk riffs, sweet sing along melodies, and Nikolakis (their singer) saying really bad/cold jokes between the tracks.
I therefore came back home (zofos athens hardcore city, exei dika mas paidia!) with one of their cd's in my bag, kind courtesy of mr. Nikolakis trellakias himself (oust gourouni!). To be honest though, their cd doesn't give the feeling i had at their live perfomance. It might just not be my style, but their music doesn't really touch me. Maybe cause i don't have a mohawk, or zips on my tight pants.
If you're a fan of katsapunk, or want to become one, then maybe this is your stuff.
dbill zofos athens hardcore city
Feb 8, 2010
Slang - Immortal sin
Another band from Japan and i know what you thinking... FUCKING YEEEEA (without hhhhh, short and sharp as a japanese sword)
Late night, the rain keeps falling, make your wet boots much more wet... the dark alley seems so peacefull but suddenly you feel a warm unfriendly blade licking your beautiful neck... don't panic... use reflexes and kill that bastard, drink his blood and listen to a slang's album (this one i suggest)...
Slang is a 20 years old (much more older than a good, mature scotch) band, that fucks some ears just to have fun. Coming from sapporo city, these maniacs are the perfect soundtrack to throw some rocks in the first police pig you'll meet outside your home...
Energetic, pissed-off, fast and angry with some motorhead influences (listen to "no hope no life" and "humanistic disorder"), dbeat magics and stuff... reminds me of early blowback a lot (great band also)
THE IMMORTAL SIN referring to the Hiroshima Nuclear Detonation (the album cover is of the lone surviving Hiroshima Dome)
What else to say?
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Pay some respect, losers :
Fuuuuuckkkk....i had no idea of the existance of this jap bastard, until i read about them in the ''Japan and Disorderly'' article in Mountza no.4 (written by Fabsie and ..''aaghuum''..Wiho of the not so good BURIAL..hehe!!), and dear ol' mikey Mike posted the ''Immortal Sin'' LP.
Heavy japanese hardcore (i feel i've used this fraze way too many times this month!), metalic influenced, but PUNK dominated!! Jockingly, this is how CROW would sound if they played FORWARD covers....Dear gents and gals, SLANG has nothing to fear, and stands fast amongst the titans of the japcore [ ;) ] genre. Bulldozer-like crusty hardcorepunk, pullverizingly beautifull, with a full bass sound...they have earned a spot in my new cd-r compilation for driving around zofos city, aka. @thens...
d bill the turd
Zeroid - 2004 lp
Once upon a time was a band called Jeniger. Jeniger released two 7'' and a lp and then disbanded (i think). After that some guys from jeniger formed the band ZEROID...
Zeroid was a band from germany, and besides this lp have also released a lp back in 2001 and a 10'' in 2002 (that you can buy it easily as one cd - see below for labels)...
This album is the final one 'cos later the band fell in hiatus...
Dark and metallic crust is the sound pollution that these guys offer with their arms aloft. Down-tuned guitars and bass lines alongside fast drumming, some blast-beats every now and then to make the whole mix unpredictable and weirdly catchy with fucking solid, heavy and metallic production (or is the mastering?)... Not the band that dbill would like, but all of you, the dark hardcore / crust maniacs with the from ashes rise posters above your mama's pillow will get little secret orgasms for about half an hour from these dreadlocking crusties...
All of you (like me of course) that bands like schifosi, november 13th or even rubbish heap drives you crazy and a passion to buy some gasoline gallons and start some play-off arson grows bigger and bigger would not be disappointed, believe me...
And to make my own advertisement : You know that this blog posts no SHIT !!!
This cd has been released by three labels : Unsociable / per koro records / totenschiff and it's still available...
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Dark metallic hardcore is kind of a weird genre for me...Not because i don't like it at all, but mostly because most of the bands don't keep the punk background on the way they work their tunes....Too muck emphasis on the heavy sound, lots of cliche chugga-chugga guitar parts, words that are said just to said...''shallow'' is a word that would describe what i think of most of the bands of this style.
But...there are exceptions to the rule (as always). Zeroid can fit into one of these exceptions. Dark intense hardcore, that leans heavily towards the atmospheric side of things creating a suffocating feeling. Kinda like the audio equivalent of a Kafka (the author...not the band) book (maybe ''the Trial'' or ''The Sinic wall and other short stories'')...They don't let the production do the talking for them, instead the band structures really good pieces equally fast and slow, almost mud sludgy-like. Screams from a sore throat, nice unmelodical-melodies from the guitar, part blast beats part slow pounds from the drummer, and fuzzy heavy bass lines supporting the main musical idea.
This doesn't sound like the His Hero Is Gone (aka. destructor as fuck!) stuff, nor the Jeniger (aka. destructor no.2) releases, from the ashes of which Zeroid formed. I'd say they sound similar (no copy stuff) with Paranoia Keeps Crawling, Arsen (also released by Unsociable-Hate records as Zeroid) and The Last Mile.
dbill approaved
Zeroid was a band from germany, and besides this lp have also released a lp back in 2001 and a 10'' in 2002 (that you can buy it easily as one cd - see below for labels)...
This album is the final one 'cos later the band fell in hiatus...
Dark and metallic crust is the sound pollution that these guys offer with their arms aloft. Down-tuned guitars and bass lines alongside fast drumming, some blast-beats every now and then to make the whole mix unpredictable and weirdly catchy with fucking solid, heavy and metallic production (or is the mastering?)... Not the band that dbill would like, but all of you, the dark hardcore / crust maniacs with the from ashes rise posters above your mama's pillow will get little secret orgasms for about half an hour from these dreadlocking crusties...
All of you (like me of course) that bands like schifosi, november 13th or even rubbish heap drives you crazy and a passion to buy some gasoline gallons and start some play-off arson grows bigger and bigger would not be disappointed, believe me...
And to make my own advertisement : You know that this blog posts no SHIT !!!
This cd has been released by three labels : Unsociable / per koro records / totenschiff and it's still available...
download
Dark metallic hardcore is kind of a weird genre for me...Not because i don't like it at all, but mostly because most of the bands don't keep the punk background on the way they work their tunes....Too muck emphasis on the heavy sound, lots of cliche chugga-chugga guitar parts, words that are said just to said...''shallow'' is a word that would describe what i think of most of the bands of this style.
But...there are exceptions to the rule (as always). Zeroid can fit into one of these exceptions. Dark intense hardcore, that leans heavily towards the atmospheric side of things creating a suffocating feeling. Kinda like the audio equivalent of a Kafka (the author...not the band) book (maybe ''the Trial'' or ''The Sinic wall and other short stories'')...They don't let the production do the talking for them, instead the band structures really good pieces equally fast and slow, almost mud sludgy-like. Screams from a sore throat, nice unmelodical-melodies from the guitar, part blast beats part slow pounds from the drummer, and fuzzy heavy bass lines supporting the main musical idea.
This doesn't sound like the His Hero Is Gone (aka. destructor as fuck!) stuff, nor the Jeniger (aka. destructor no.2) releases, from the ashes of which Zeroid formed. I'd say they sound similar (no copy stuff) with Paranoia Keeps Crawling, Arsen (also released by Unsociable-Hate records as Zeroid) and The Last Mile.
dbill approaved
Feb 7, 2010
Concrete sox - Live (tour japan '92)
I don't know what to say about this band...
I'll try to keep things simple...
Concrete sox is the best hardcore band that came out of uk (after ripcord). For me they were better from heresy (what a blasphemy!! hehe)... They shared members with heresy, city indians and a few tones more...
This is from wiki :
Concrete Sox are a british crust punk band largely seen as an early style crossover thrash band who incorporated many thrash metal style riffs on their earlier albums.
Started in 1983 from jam sessions with 'Gabba' (Chaos UK/F.U.K.) and 'Kalv' (Heresy/Geriatric Unit) and various other 'friends', the band were formed by Vic Timoveric (Vic Croll) and his friend Les Duly. Not set on a permanent name, they once gigged as 'Concrete Evidence', but the name 'Concrete Sox' (Vics parody of a Hendrix Dead Boy sub-band, called 'The Steam Roller Gloves') became the bands official name. First release was the LP Your Turn Next in 1985 on COR records followed by —a split LP with heresy in 1987. The band went on to record a further album on Manic Ears records entitled Whoops, Sorry Vicar! (1987) and a fourth album on Big Kiss records entitled Sewerside (1989). They later released a further album entitled No World Order in the early 1990s.
They were one of the more important of the British hardcore punk influenced thrash bands during the late 1980s..
Here you get a live recording from 7 / 11 / 92 outta osaka, japan, and except ten at least arigato from the englishmen you also get a cover from discharge's "death dealers" and s.o.d.'s "speak english (japanese) or die" alongside some killer sox songs...
Also get their silence 7'' here
Now, they are active again and planning a new european tour
extremely hardcore
Dbill from 80's :
Sometimes you wonder with yourself, how an amazing band has been under your nose (or between your other records in this circumstance!), and you never gave them a listen until some years after you passed by the record sleeve, again and again!!
Last night i listened to the silence EP and started banging my head against the walls... Fucking good thrash punk, speedy and angry, a true diamond amongst the UK punk scene. This is equivalent to Discharge, Ripcord, Heresy and the lot...give it a carefull listen and start playing like this with your band!
d bill the 3rd
I'll try to keep things simple...
Concrete sox is the best hardcore band that came out of uk (after ripcord). For me they were better from heresy (what a blasphemy!! hehe)... They shared members with heresy, city indians and a few tones more...
This is from wiki :
Concrete Sox are a british crust punk band largely seen as an early style crossover thrash band who incorporated many thrash metal style riffs on their earlier albums.
Started in 1983 from jam sessions with 'Gabba' (Chaos UK/F.U.K.) and 'Kalv' (Heresy/Geriatric Unit) and various other 'friends', the band were formed by Vic Timoveric (Vic Croll) and his friend Les Duly. Not set on a permanent name, they once gigged as 'Concrete Evidence', but the name 'Concrete Sox' (Vics parody of a Hendrix Dead Boy sub-band, called 'The Steam Roller Gloves') became the bands official name. First release was the LP Your Turn Next in 1985 on COR records followed by —a split LP with heresy in 1987. The band went on to record a further album on Manic Ears records entitled Whoops, Sorry Vicar! (1987) and a fourth album on Big Kiss records entitled Sewerside (1989). They later released a further album entitled No World Order in the early 1990s.
They were one of the more important of the British hardcore punk influenced thrash bands during the late 1980s..
Here you get a live recording from 7 / 11 / 92 outta osaka, japan, and except ten at least arigato from the englishmen you also get a cover from discharge's "death dealers" and s.o.d.'s "speak english (japanese) or die" alongside some killer sox songs...
Also get their silence 7'' here
Now, they are active again and planning a new european tour
extremely hardcore
Dbill from 80's :
Sometimes you wonder with yourself, how an amazing band has been under your nose (or between your other records in this circumstance!), and you never gave them a listen until some years after you passed by the record sleeve, again and again!!
Last night i listened to the silence EP and started banging my head against the walls... Fucking good thrash punk, speedy and angry, a true diamond amongst the UK punk scene. This is equivalent to Discharge, Ripcord, Heresy and the lot...give it a carefull listen and start playing like this with your band!
d bill the 3rd
Feb 6, 2010
Zone - First blow is the half battle 7''
Yeah, after a while i have my own internet connection so now, i can more easily disturb you... HEHEHE
As i have promised here's zone's 7'' (from 1996) that will blow your mind away.. Crazy ugly guitars alongside the well-known japanese vocals and d-beat till the end... I have no further informations about these lunatics except that is from tokyo and dbill already loves them as the screams from the gutter and no beast so fierce blogs should do also... HEHEHE...
Awesome japanese hardcore once again...
Check a zone's 7inch from 1994 here
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Not the dbill's mohawk :
There are bands that grow on you as you listen to them, and there are bands that instantly give this feeling that something just isn't there...Zone has nothing to do with any of the afformentioned categories...
This is frantic japanese hardcore, played by japanese punks, the japanese way. Again you get full-on attack mode guitar assaults, rabid singalongs with the main singer spewwing his guts out, while the rhythm section is rock solid...I don't know haw the japs do it...it must something in their sushi or whatever, but 90% of the releases from the country of the rising sun are energetic as fuck, this one included.
Maybe not the best japanese hardcore band, but they compete seriously with the pioneers of this punk style...dig in.
dbilll
As i have promised here's zone's 7'' (from 1996) that will blow your mind away.. Crazy ugly guitars alongside the well-known japanese vocals and d-beat till the end... I have no further informations about these lunatics except that is from tokyo and dbill already loves them as the screams from the gutter and no beast so fierce blogs should do also... HEHEHE...
Awesome japanese hardcore once again...
Check a zone's 7inch from 1994 here
download
Not the dbill's mohawk :
There are bands that grow on you as you listen to them, and there are bands that instantly give this feeling that something just isn't there...Zone has nothing to do with any of the afformentioned categories...
This is frantic japanese hardcore, played by japanese punks, the japanese way. Again you get full-on attack mode guitar assaults, rabid singalongs with the main singer spewwing his guts out, while the rhythm section is rock solid...I don't know haw the japs do it...it must something in their sushi or whatever, but 90% of the releases from the country of the rising sun are energetic as fuck, this one included.
Maybe not the best japanese hardcore band, but they compete seriously with the pioneers of this punk style...dig in.
dbilll
Feb 4, 2010
Straightjacket nation - Cheap kicks 7''
Hour of the WOLVERINE :
Like a steamroller building up speed, this 7'' gives you maybe cheap kicks, but fucking lots of them!
Straightjacket Nation play pure pissed off 80's american hardcorepunk, the way no greek band will ever get close to play, and this is really sad to admit...fuck....
Like the one punch knockout ''Cheap Kicks'' only needs about 4 minutes to send you to the closest hospital with a cardiac arrest, this review is equally small cause there is nothing more that needs to be said...punk..
p.s. the interview in Mountza zine, with their member who is behind Distort fanzine is really
enlightening..read it.
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Feb 3, 2010
Arxi tou telous (Beginning of the end) - Thorivos (noise)
This band has nothing to do with the 3 piece crust group beginning of the end from uk...
Arxi tou telous (Beginning of the end in english) is a four piece act from athens, greece...
After making some important member changes (bassist and drummer) these guys started to take their selfs more seriously, and the mini greek tour with usa's anarcho crust-punks Witch hunt is a proof i think..
As you imagine the name is borrowed by the almighty Amebix, and yes indeed these guys you can say that have some later amebix influences, mainly in the battle hymn drum hitting (i think). As it's perfectly clear, the main songwriting was made by the guitarist and mastermind of the band K. A lot of "weird" killing joke's guitars mixed with huge fugazi guitar parts more or less (red medicine era), even some post rock long time "fillers". The bass lines are solid (from the good friend and classmate P.) and clear enough, so you can understand what the hell is happening... The only thing that i don't like is the vocals that is a little bit poetic and clear and i think that doesn't match so good, but then that's my opinion, i guess i would prefer it more screaming...
This is a self release and i think is already out so check it out and buy it to help the band make more great music... I had stolen this rip from greek punk blog so cheers to them
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Hour of the Wolvy (in greek language) :
Prwth (nomizw) hxhtikh douleia twn Arxh tou Telous, kai enw den mporw na pw oti me porwnei, par'ola auta anagnwrizw oti einai ena kalodoulemeno kai demeno apotelesma.
Pragmati, akougontai kapoies anafores se Amebix, enw ka8'olh th diarkeia tou diskou uparxei mia atmosfairikh ais8hsh. An eprepe wstoso na to katata3w kapou, gia kapoio periergo logo pio eukola 8a to evaza sto rock, para sto punk/hardcore/crust h' den 3erw kai gw ti allo. Yparxei arketh ki8aristikh douleia...h mpanta demenh sto sunolo ths (opws anafer8hke kai pio prin), enw kai emena den mou poluaresei h fwnh.
Logw tou oti genikws oi hxolhptes ths elladas koliontai na vgaloun kana sovaro hxo, peran tou (asovarou) tupikou ellhnikou pok (..vlepe ''zofo''..), 8a h8ela na dw kai thn mpanta live gia na sxhmatisw mia pio oloklhrwmenh apopsh.
dbill 2
Arxi tou telous (Beginning of the end in english) is a four piece act from athens, greece...
After making some important member changes (bassist and drummer) these guys started to take their selfs more seriously, and the mini greek tour with usa's anarcho crust-punks Witch hunt is a proof i think..
As you imagine the name is borrowed by the almighty Amebix, and yes indeed these guys you can say that have some later amebix influences, mainly in the battle hymn drum hitting (i think). As it's perfectly clear, the main songwriting was made by the guitarist and mastermind of the band K. A lot of "weird" killing joke's guitars mixed with huge fugazi guitar parts more or less (red medicine era), even some post rock long time "fillers". The bass lines are solid (from the good friend and classmate P.) and clear enough, so you can understand what the hell is happening... The only thing that i don't like is the vocals that is a little bit poetic and clear and i think that doesn't match so good, but then that's my opinion, i guess i would prefer it more screaming...
This is a self release and i think is already out so check it out and buy it to help the band make more great music... I had stolen this rip from greek punk blog so cheers to them
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Hour of the Wolvy (in greek language) :
Prwth (nomizw) hxhtikh douleia twn Arxh tou Telous, kai enw den mporw na pw oti me porwnei, par'ola auta anagnwrizw oti einai ena kalodoulemeno kai demeno apotelesma.
Pragmati, akougontai kapoies anafores se Amebix, enw ka8'olh th diarkeia tou diskou uparxei mia atmosfairikh ais8hsh. An eprepe wstoso na to katata3w kapou, gia kapoio periergo logo pio eukola 8a to evaza sto rock, para sto punk/hardcore/crust h' den 3erw kai gw ti allo. Yparxei arketh ki8aristikh douleia...h mpanta demenh sto sunolo ths (opws anafer8hke kai pio prin), enw kai emena den mou poluaresei h fwnh.
Logw tou oti genikws oi hxolhptes ths elladas koliontai na vgaloun kana sovaro hxo, peran tou (asovarou) tupikou ellhnikou pok (..vlepe ''zofo''..), 8a h8ela na dw kai thn mpanta live gia na sxhmatisw mia pio oloklhrwmenh apopsh.
dbill 2
Feb 2, 2010
Forward - Burn down the corrupted justice
In the mid-90's the exotic fruit named death side broke up.. (to tell you one more sin, in the great question : death side or bastard ? I vote bastard with my eyes closed. sorry d-bill)
Their singer, ishiya, left no time to pass him by and soon enough created FORWARD... (also, other members of death side created a couple of japcore legends such as judgement and paintbox)
A bunch of 7'' (get two of them here) and four full lenght albums is the legacy of FORWARD...
From the devastating year of 2004 here we have this little diamond, the last forward's lp that has been released in HG:fact records and i think it's expensive enough (if you wanna buy it)...
This one is my favourite lp (i love this fucking kanji song), the perfect combination of pure japcore power alongside catchy song-writting (thanx to mountza fanzine for the copyright)
Forward is probably the most active japanese band and has toured the states alongside warhead and tragedy back in 2006...
I forgot to mention the member changes. A lot of guys that used to play in other great japcore bands (check out systematic death and insane youth for example) played (more or less) for forward also. hehehe...
So, make some downloads....
Pure fucking JAPCORE
(P.S. thanx also to the no beast so fierce blog for insane youth and the other goodies... thanx, sean
P.S. i was in posting mood and the next one up was Selfish's "cause pain", but d-crust blog catch me up and post it before i realize it... hehehe... so, check it out here)
dbill is a man of his (late) word...
Forward:
You are riding (and by riding I mean going at about 130cph)your favorite japanese ''pure-bred'' (..''ka8aro'' gia ta alania) 500cc two-stroke, oil-spitting, blood-tornado enduro motorbike...nothing too flashy....just an over-cylindered double-torque mountain monster that swallows every obstacle that can come on it's way for breakfast...
Suddenly, you see four police cars, and a couple of polise bastards on motorbikes blocking the road ahead of you...lights flashing from blue to red, sirens can be heard on the background, and you know ''the man'' has no good intention towards you.
But you are calm...by stepping on the back brake your companion (the afformentioned 1993 Honda CR 500) turnes 90 degrees after leaving a 10 meter skid mark. The tires are smoking and so is your attitude towards the pigs of the law. Your mind is fixed on the targed...no turning back...just Forward...
Forward is your reason of going full throtle against a wall of death... Raw like your impending collition, monolithic like your state of mind, rocking like your foreseen death.
These Japs have no intention of stopping for anything and anyone...they just go (go ahead!), blazing through 11 tracks of total hardcorepunk fury...the drums are pounded the heavy speedy way (i.e. the right way!), the bass is an earthquake of pure low-tuned attack, and the guitars never stop cranking riff after riff after riff...and to top things off a crazy Japerman verbal assaulting you (irrelevant, but listen to Verbal Abuse! (irrelevans no.2 but listen also to Total Abuse!)) with words more caustic than acid.
This might be the soundtrack to your death, but it is the best death soundtrack anyone can get close to...
Forward is your reason for turning your own throttle further than full speed...
Now go Forward, forward to death.
dbill FE650
Their singer, ishiya, left no time to pass him by and soon enough created FORWARD... (also, other members of death side created a couple of japcore legends such as judgement and paintbox)
A bunch of 7'' (get two of them here) and four full lenght albums is the legacy of FORWARD...
From the devastating year of 2004 here we have this little diamond, the last forward's lp that has been released in HG:fact records and i think it's expensive enough (if you wanna buy it)...
This one is my favourite lp (i love this fucking kanji song), the perfect combination of pure japcore power alongside catchy song-writting (thanx to mountza fanzine for the copyright)
Forward is probably the most active japanese band and has toured the states alongside warhead and tragedy back in 2006...
I forgot to mention the member changes. A lot of guys that used to play in other great japcore bands (check out systematic death and insane youth for example) played (more or less) for forward also. hehehe...
So, make some downloads....
Pure fucking JAPCORE
(P.S. thanx also to the no beast so fierce blog for insane youth and the other goodies... thanx, sean
P.S. i was in posting mood and the next one up was Selfish's "cause pain", but d-crust blog catch me up and post it before i realize it... hehehe... so, check it out here)
dbill is a man of his (late) word...
Forward:
You are riding (and by riding I mean going at about 130cph)your favorite japanese ''pure-bred'' (..''ka8aro'' gia ta alania) 500cc two-stroke, oil-spitting, blood-tornado enduro motorbike...nothing too flashy....just an over-cylindered double-torque mountain monster that swallows every obstacle that can come on it's way for breakfast...
Suddenly, you see four police cars, and a couple of polise bastards on motorbikes blocking the road ahead of you...lights flashing from blue to red, sirens can be heard on the background, and you know ''the man'' has no good intention towards you.
But you are calm...by stepping on the back brake your companion (the afformentioned 1993 Honda CR 500) turnes 90 degrees after leaving a 10 meter skid mark. The tires are smoking and so is your attitude towards the pigs of the law. Your mind is fixed on the targed...no turning back...just Forward...
Forward is your reason of going full throtle against a wall of death... Raw like your impending collition, monolithic like your state of mind, rocking like your foreseen death.
These Japs have no intention of stopping for anything and anyone...they just go (go ahead!), blazing through 11 tracks of total hardcorepunk fury...the drums are pounded the heavy speedy way (i.e. the right way!), the bass is an earthquake of pure low-tuned attack, and the guitars never stop cranking riff after riff after riff...and to top things off a crazy Japerman verbal assaulting you (irrelevant, but listen to Verbal Abuse! (irrelevans no.2 but listen also to Total Abuse!)) with words more caustic than acid.
This might be the soundtrack to your death, but it is the best death soundtrack anyone can get close to...
Forward is your reason for turning your own throttle further than full speed...
Now go Forward, forward to death.
dbill FE650
Feb 1, 2010
No parade - Ceaseless Fire lp
After 7 fucking hours of a trip (.trance.travelling.) to hell aka a shitholl of 15000 people in the north west of the shithole of greece (see previous posts), i managed to reach my target aka the bed of my youngness... So, for this fucking time my mp3 player played - over and over again - an anathematized type of hardcore punk... These three fellas fuck the fuck around with this awesome, in-your-face, no artsy-fartsy, no shinning production, no tzoutzou mproutzou, hardcore punk...
But, first i'l give you some notices that i found on other blogs :
"Personel of From Ashes Rise crank out 15 tracks of stripped down Hardcorepunk in a Deathreat/Talk is Poison/Balance of Terror/Sleeper Cell kind of way.
The tempo is kept pretty moderate,3 participants (bass,guitar,drums) of which 2 share the vocal duties"...
..."Fifteen tracks of powerful but catchy hardcore from No Parade. The style is similar to From Ashes Rise or Tragedy, and in fact No Parade features members of From Ashes Rise. The music is harsh and hard hitting with screamed vocals, but the melodic underbelly keeps the songs memorable and almost pleasant"
In fact this band is From ashes rise 'cos all the three guys that no parade is / was used to play in from ashes rise...
My own ear say to me though : "this is a well-played hardcore punk. Take for the musical carpet the defined from the masters of genre, d-beat (yeah, i know. D-beat is a dogma, a religion etc... Yeah! Right, you losers), fill it with some terrific dis-riffs plus well-hidden "from ashes rise" tricks and dual male acidic vocals. Plus it's a release from partners in crime records (tragedy's bassist label) with the just perfect cover... (download to see it, you fucker)
And i will allow d-bill to say fabian's (burial's drummer) opinion about no parade, njoy
download
Dbill's sideburns :
On the spot, tuff and hard-hitting, without any goofing around, pure energy hardcore punk stripped to it's core..this is the sound of No Parade.
No need to tell who is who since Mike did a pretty good job above, but to keep things simple think what From Ashes Rise would sound like if they replaced part darkness (..vlepe ''zofos'') with anxiety, and part crust epicness with straight forward attack mode (..vlepe ''lakwnikothta'', ''mpes sto pshto'', ''a'i'ntaaa pameee'' kai alla tetoia).
His Masters Voice, aka. Fabian says they are better than F.A.R. and you KNOW you should listen to a guy who plays in a band called Burial.
This is hardcorepunk and you should listen to it.
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