Hjertestop - Vi ses i Helvede LP & Aaarh Fuck...Det Er Hjertestop! 7''

Dbill, the handsome goat-riser :
By doing a quick googlesearch on the name Heartstop, you will come across a bunch of lame uninspired emo rock alternative kids with perfectly combed hairstyle, trimmed ironed clothes (probably courtesy of some sporsorship with some hic clothing company), who seem to be winning in their songs about love (which they haven't met, and/or has brocken their heart, or made it stop..their heart...hence the name...;)wink )...

On the other hand, by checking out the name Hjertestop you will get a pack of punx with blood on their faces...from their live gigs, chipped teeth...from being too punk, chainlocks passed through their nose diy style...Come to think about it, Lasse could be the perfect picture on the Wikipedia ''What is Punk'' page!...I'm pretty sure that if Heartstop crossed Hjertestop on the street, then the emobitch yankees wouldn't dare touch another music equipment in their life out of fear that the danish motherfuckers would cut their hands off.

As you have figured out by now, Hjertestop is punk. Hjertestop is also the only band that their melodies make them sound more raw, rather than more...melodic! Taking quess from the old-era punk bands this trio makes some unrelentingly attack tunes, while they seem to add the exact dose of raw rock and roll, that urges you to smash your head on your wall a dozen times more than your head can handle. Their ''" AAARH FUCK...DET ER HJERTESTOP ! " 7inch is definately more raw, composing-wise, will the ''Vi ses i Helvede'' LP is more...should i say EPIC ROCK!!! Both are totally essential to your collection, and don't fucking miss picking them up wherever you find them. I can't really say ''they sound like this band'' or ''they are that kind of punk'' cause they really don;t sound like any other band, something that makes them even more fascinating.

Hjertestop also shreds live...Passionate and full of angst, fun and provocative, they are the reason you like busting your ass doing DIY gigs while you are losing money because of them.

Hjertestop is punk, cause their members are involved in the diy punk scene...We spent two or three days in Lasses fucked up apartment during the Antimob euro mini-tour, he made an excellent breakfast (''just eat what you find in the fridge''), and even took part in the diy german scheisse porn film also staring Nicolaj Hjertestop, Goran from Hamburg, Fabsie aus Burial und Sara.

Listen to them or else Lasse will rubb his 69 Ungsdomhuset tatoo (which is right over his dick) on your ugly face. Also if you come across Heartstop beat them up.

P.S. this is from the Hjertestop page, and is pretty informing about the attitude many can't handle:

FROM A GERMAN MESSAGE BOARD AFTER A CONCERT THERE :
"Watch out for this band!
Last weekend we had a concert in Berlin with 2 bands from Copenhagen. And one of them, called "Hjertestop" were total idiots.
One of the guys punctured his body with several injection needles, and threw the bloody needles at the audience with the words:
" I have AIDS!".
To everyone not pleased with this form of acts at their concertplaces, this might serve as information."
WE PLAYED IN ATHENS, GREECE TOO :
"...Afterwards Hjerte Stop got on stage and even before they warm up the people, they started making sex jokes about the greeks and anal sex and were prompting people to have anal sex in order to get free t-shirts from them.
Well I’m sorry but I was not very amused by this kind of jokes and when I go to a punk/diy gig, I expect the band to have something more to say than doing dirty jokes."

Where's my money?

Mikxxx, in his way to the PUNK THURSDAYS gathering :
After the k-town pause (for the upload of the best comp. ever to be made. hehehe) here we go again with danish hardcore punk serial...

The very frustrating thing about writing some shits about some shitty band from a shitty place of our shitty world, it's not the writing itself but, the writing after dbill's writing...

even, if i'm not gay (i'm sure you think i am), i have to say that the guy got the language and writes down his "balls"... so, i have to write something nice and clever after his 1000000000000000000 words...

i'll do my best...
hjertestop are three heroin addicts (that now are on rehab) that totally kick asses, consisting by ex-members of bands such as incontrollados, dod ungdom, leathervein etc...
Here you get both their vinyl releases (if i'm not mistaken, they have also one demo cassete) from the long-time-gone years of 2008 and 2006 (if i'm not mistaken again). The lp is more rock'n'rollish in my opinion while the ep - my personal favourite -  is so fucking speedy, sing-along(ish) punk that you want to beat the shit out of the first living creature you'll come across after the hearing of this stone. Hardcore punk or punk rock ( call it whatever you like) at it's finest. Some tracks could be described as "the total fucking destruction of your little sister's coca-cola party"...

I have to say that hjertestop live appearances is something not to be imagined... friendly, fighting pogo magic alongside acts of seer madness. As for lasse's bad, cold jokes i must say that i was among the guys (when hjertestop played in athens) that was a little bit annoyed from his sexist shit-talking, but then (as i have already accurate describe) i may not "get" the danish humour...
the music is beyond every expectation, believe me. they rock

last but not least : leave comments to say who the fuck gay writer of this gay blog's, gay witing you prefer (the gay thing is just a joke, don't feel insulted, please)...

"I'm going for a walk. And there's nothing you can do 'cuz I don't have to live like you"

I have to overthrow (just for one post) the k-town series (we promise : tomorrow we'll continue with more danish punk), for an expression of deep(er) feelings...

Being ill is so fucking shit, when a hell of things happening in real time in real world, and you are nailed to a fucking bed... I'm ill and i can't stand it...
So, i'm turning illness into a weapon (hehehe)
So, i created a comp, if you are in need of a walk, or if you are going to wash the dishes, or if... something...
Let's take it track by track...

1. Naytia - o ponos den einai omorfos (pain isn't beautiful)
I think i can go on and on about naytia, so i'll keep it simple. Dog-shoutings is the perfect sound for every-single-one-comp to get started... Maybe, the best band ever came out of greece.. heavy influeced by the old-school european hardcore alongside heavy thrashy guitar parts makes them so fucking awesome... also, maybe the most well-known band outside greece...

2. Dishammer - Wish of Suffering
Dishammer is a band from spain that blends : raw, dis, hardcore and black metal so beautiful that you think that these sub-genres is one and the same... imagine more crusty darkthrone... amazing...

3. Hjertestop - Pis Mig I Munden
This one must go to the k-town section so i don't say nothing more... great punkrock in da face
(they are the next k-town post)

4. Tentacles of destruction - Red Squad
Hell, i found this band in the rat king blog (the guy that runs it also plays in this band) and i can't throw-away this song from my mind. It's going straight two weeks now...
in your face hardcore punk, heavy influeced by old uk punk, hailing from new zealand...

5. Violent arrest - Take The Power Back
I have had to post something from Ripcord, but i couldn't decide. I wanted to post the "poetic justice" album, but i figure it out to be more interesting to introduce you to violent arrest... check out NBSF blog for more infos... including members of Ripcord, Heresy, Excrement Of War, Can't Decide, Spite, Dumbstruck, Bomb Blast Men...

6. Detestation - Consumed by your greed
Do i have to mention anything? best crust band ever - best female vocals ever... their members played (before and after detestation) in 3 billion bands (including : question, faggot, severed head of state, hellshock, murder disco x and a tone more)...

7. Antimob - H ora tis lyssas (Rabid time)
Dbill is playing with these assholes... one of my latest obsessions... a band that i hated when i listen to, in the first place... a song againt racism and the stupid racistscums... the best hardcore punk band in greece nowadays... (go here)

8. Negative approach - Ready to fight
ENOUGH SAID (go here)

9. Straightjacket nation - distate
Maybe the best band outta australia. pissed-off, angry and in your face hardcore as it should be played (go here)

10. The now-denial - Eraser
one of my personal favourite, if you wanna hit your head on a wall. and it has this fucking mid drum break... eraseaa... (go here)

11. His hero is gone - Scalor
This blog's name is 'fifteen counts of arson" and i had to include something from this well-known album : scalor is the most representive track, if you wish to know who the fuck copy-pasted all the neo-crust bands...

12. Xeimeria narki (Hibernation) - Gualini Mitropoli (Metropolis Of Glass)
Second greek band that i can talk about forever... members of hibernation also have been playing in Pyrinikos xeimonas (nuclear winter), Xaotiko telos (chaotic end) and ten more bands... With two european tours, they are by far the best greek crust band that keep going on and on nowadays... did i mention that i have a hibernation tatoo on my tiny body?

13. Active minds - Insomnia
One of my favourite bands ever, this one is from '98... amazing...

14. Coldbringer - Coming home
Two guys of From ashes rise playing melodic punk rock in the vein of wipers and leatherface, enough said...

15. Forward - absolutely
My love song. the finest honda worshippers... japanese burning spirits hardcore... FORWARD... amazing once more (go here)

I had to reach 15 (counts of arson)... neither more, nor less... so, i left out bands like masakari, hammers or destino final that i really love... maybe the next time...
-mikxxx, in need of a walk

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No hope for the kids - Discography

As you imagine, dbill has been kidnapped by the ultimate face of evil aka magneto. the police (fuck them either way) investigation still is on point zero, but as i suspect, he now propably is the new experiment in the boktorva's secret lab, in a cold, lonely place that civilians call (with terrifying disgust) moschato, a place that only vultures and cagoors (not kangaroos, don't be confused) can live... may god rest his lonely boxing gloves...

So, i have once more to get the snake outta it's hole... I thought that would be a good idea if i write dbill to my old-shoes gloom, fuck the k-town series and post the great Hitler died from tzatziki, but then i thought that i must continue dbill's legacy and post something danish and good...
As i am not the biggest owner of k-town knowledge, to make my life easy, i thought "post no hope for the kids, they rock", and...

No hope for the kids was a punk band from denmark formed by members of amdi petersens arme, asbest, hul, snipers, the natzees and young wasteners (i can continue...), they released two seveninches and one lp (and you'll get'em all, if you press the download button) and when they disbanded one billion bands came out of their ashes (to name a few : gorilla angreb. hjerte stop, pj bonnemann solo project and many more. check here for more infos)...

Now, i have heard too much descriptions of what really No hope for the kids sounds (a)like, and i have to talk my own bullshitting... If you like the old-school hardcore punk, melodic with clear, expressive vocals, mid paced drum-hitting going fast, heavy bass lines, catchy guitar works with a hard-rock attitude / playing, alongside lyric themes about depression, war and death (all written with a personal view, not the dis-clone-war-thing) then this is your new favourite band. The 7'' das reich is my personal favourite with the song secret police to be in my head for a couple of months (and i think : if i ever make a comp. cd to go for a car-trip, i'll use this track after motorhead's vibrator for sure)...
Last words : I have read an interview of these folks back in the day and i thought that they were total assholess (pathetic and apolitical = assholes), but then, maybe it's just the kind of danish humour that i can not get... The music fucking rules...
-mikxxx from the dusty surface of earth, called centre of athens...

angels of destruction

It took me sometime, but i managed to escape from the horrid terror, also known as ''Das Boktorva Bhq Laboratories''... dogde through some mean man-eating aligators of the infamous ''Rema Moschatou'', home of turbo sewer mutants, and could finally catch the extremely late 218 buss from the place of my capture, back to civilazation...what an adventure...more frustrating than trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with your KTM bike....Also during my ecape i lost an arm, and my left leg so writing this review, as well as playing for Antimob, will be done slower!!

It also took me some time to get into No hope for the Kids, but once getting introduced properly (i.e. sitting down and listening to them!) i found out a great band full of moody melodic guitar lines, giving a result that travels you through time....what a gay review!!!!!
Anyway, both their 7inchers and their LP totally rock your world, while the WWII lyrical theme creates a numb atmosphere...especially the song Kolyma, which refers to the russian Kolyma region, where thousands of political prisoners slaved to death by the russian (far from) communist tyrany of Stalin...

Unlike Mike, i have already made a compilation which includes the song ''Secret police'' from the ''Das Reich'' 7'', and it is just after Gulag's (old greek punk band) ''ethismos'', but before Rudimentary Peni, Bombenalarm and Judgement.

-dbill, the rescued from the human atrocities of the Boktorva Bhq pact

Amdi Petersens Arme - 1st ep & Blod Ser Mere Verkelict Ud Pa Film (7'')

Dbill :
It would be no lie to say that Amdi Petersens Arme was one of the biggest (if not the biggest) reasons K-Town got back in the map of international hardcorepunk.

Named after the leader of a cult organization (Amdi Peterse...no clue what sort of cult it was...worshipers of alien she-male jesuses, soon to commit suicide?) the band released a demo-tape, two 7inchers and gave presence at 3 compilations, if i am not mistaken.

The band's sound though is even larger than their legacy. Total raw oldschool punk sound, with a killer dirty attitude, that makes you want to take your nails out with a knife (see 'Blod Ser Mere Virkeligt Ud Pa Film' 7" cover). Really, a true soundtrack for looting smashed stores and threatening rich pigs with a sharp rusted pocket knife. Musically they don't sound seminal to anyone in particular (thats a big bonus), but one could generally say that they belong in the wide '80s american hardcorepunk sound...they even managed to capture this sound on their vinyl shit releases!

The first ep is relatively faster and more towards the roots of hardcorepunk, while the second one ('Blod Ser Mere Virkeligt Ud Pa Film') has a far more personal touch, while keeping in touch with early years Black Flag and the like. The band has disbanned since 2002, and members of them continued with the also great Young Wasteners, No Hope for the Kids, Gorilla Angreb...even Hjertestop (hehe Lasse fuck off!)...

All the metal, goregrind, gloomy crust war-themed bullshit albums combined can't be more threatening than one single song by Amdi Petersens Arme.

This is pure punk, and it can easily destroy your life.

Your pocket or your life, punk?

mikxxx :
Fuck, some times you get back to your home, feeling that your whole day, your whole life is shit and the meaning of it is a big, fat NOTHING... you feel exhausted and tired and angry and the list can go on forever...
Living in a city accurate described by dbill as zofos, and feling as zofos (zofos can be named a syndrome of everlasting numb, alongside dark clouds above your head and a heavy, black, cancerous anvil among your chest) too, is a weight, sometimes not to be uplifted!
Yeah, this day is one of those, you can't look your friends in the eyes and you have nothing to tell or to communicate with them, unfortunately... you may now think that i write a kind of post about the ultimate neo-crying-crust band, but... no, i am not...
If you feel like all the above mentioned shitty stuff and you want a hard, ass-kicking scotch in a music-form, you must download this two seveninches, not because mr.bonneman (gorilla angreb, no hope for the kids and a lot more) participated in this band (not as good as dbill would be, if he was behind the drumkit) but because you want something true, straight from the heart, that speaks for itself...
Amdi petersen arme is this kind of deal... punk(y), dirt(y) and street(y) all in one, as a vidal sasoon sampoo at maro kontou's head (or was she mairi chronopoulou?)... with a knife in the one hand and a cigarette ( slo-burn) in the other...
See for yourself, if you steel got - the- GUTS!

K-Town hardcore

DBILL the great :
Not so long ago, Mike and I had the idea of doing some mini specials on different scenes...after dropping the idea of posting the top 20 of greek ''la'i'ko'' rock-bottom pop ''skuladika'' music that greeks seem to hear nowadays, we thought of starting with K-Town related bands.

We recognize that its a scene which has been reviewed/presented/gloryfied way too many times, so would there be a point in posting stuff again? To tell you the truth, it sometimes feels like the only thing ''needed'' for a punk band to get awesome reviews (...best band of the year..., wow! what a record,...no other band has played this style!!...and so on...) in the well-established punk media (i.e. Maximum rock'n'roll and the like) is to be from the right country...If it happens that your band is from USA, Sweden, Denmark or Japan, even if it's a recording of your own farts after a grand veggie meal, it is almost sure that it will get hyped up as fuck. No joking really...i thought it was only my impression, but after talking with people (even with danish punk for example) they had the same opinion. On the other hand, bands from other countries, with not such a good ''name''/fame in the international DIY punk scene, usually don't get the attention they diserve, and/or they don't get anything but a two line review (at the best) saying that they sound like the ''usa, swedish, danish, japanese'' band...but not as good.

But, despite the ass-kissing words towards anything coming from countries like the aformentioned, K-town (alongside with Sweden, USA and Japan) has offered really great bands, totally inspiring and fresh. This special was my intention to inform mostly the greek punx about some bands that are worth their listen 100%...hope you enjoy...

P.S. Death Token and Love Potion will not be included in this series of posts, not because they are assholes (...they are!), but because they have been already posted in this blog...If you haven't downloaded their stuff, or even better got your filthy hands on their equally filthy good releases, then you are stupid, and the author of this crap article (i) carries no responsibility about the future of your pathetic little life.

P.S.2. For the k-town series we thought that would be more interested to make some upside-down(s), so... dbill will make all the writings and the band (to be posted) choises and mikxxx will make the comments... in a couple of hours press the refresh button......

Kick it of Mike.......

175 grams - self titled 7''

As d-bill is too lazy to put his own ass down and write some "articles" for k-town hardcore as he was promised, i grab the chance to post an amazing 7inch from the late 90's (i'm not so sure for the year, if anyone knows, share your knowledge)...

175 grams was an anarchist hardcore punk band from wellesley, massachusetts. This 7'' is one of my favourite 'cos was a total "single-hit" for my highschool years, absolute played ass-kicking hardcore punk... Imagine aus-rotten with no "i'm-reading-a-newsparer" lyric-sheet but anarcho-straighttotheheart stuff, with solid (and clear) bass lines to be over the top, angry vocals against state and capitalism, and "i'll-do-a-drum-change-if-you-pay-me-1-billion-dollars" drum hitting... Also i can call them alt t.c of usa 'cos they play(ed) my favourite mid-tempo hardcore punk style and they remind me the greeks a lot (alt t.c have 175grams on their thanx list at their split with 20 minutes de chaos, coincidence once more?)
This 7'' has been recorded, mixed, mastered and engineered at rodent popsicle studios by bill (popsicle / toxic narcotic) and has been released by rodent popsicle records alongside crowd control recordings (the band's own label)...
In this recording 175 grams was (were) :
ben-guitar / mike (not me)-drums / peteness-bass / steve sarcasm-vocals..
If anyone knows if these guys did other bands after the disband of 175grams please inform me, thanx...
ass-kicking hardcore-punk for life...

This change starts now!

Boktorva bhq - me thymase re file

Boktorva bhq was a band formed back in 1998 in the exotic city of mesologi, greece by three insane (as you can hear by their music quality) individuals who had been in the ghost-town (messologi) for their studies... and they had (not) destroyed several live stages for almost two years... The band was on hiatus untill... one day! They took the decision to record the material that they used to play 10 years before...
Let's take it step by step :
Boktorva consists of thrre guys well-known in the greek d.i.y scene : markos (schwartz and anger, drums), midas aka DropVirus666 (bass, antimob) and alex (something, Les skartoi - he is not so famous. hehe), but boktorva are NOT only these guys... Vocal duties has been equally shared by my beloved D-Bill ("memories fired-up, the first lad in tsamiko's dance"), gantzos (gadget / keitzer fan and ultra-magneto-guitar-hero) and zahos, jack (Despite everything) as well (and other two guys that i don't know and dbill forgot to mention)...
Music wise, the band plays a combo of 90's crust alongside crazy vocal changes and stupid guitar solo parts...
Some songs are old like a good bottle of wine, but they have also a new song "meta th boba (after the bomb)" that fucking rips (gantzos vocals are straight from hell), but my personal favourite is (with no competition) : "cripple commander" that has this opening snake-stoner riff and the lyrics start something like that : "Roll like a snake, see if you can ride a bike!!!!" lol, lol, lol, lol............ You can call it also surreal crustcore... HEHEHEHE!
The whole recording process and the mastering was made by the band itself so the cost was up to 0 $...
And as the band says : "crazy new album from the crust-core heroes boktorva bhq not available! thrashing and smashing 1998-2000, also we did an effort in grindin but noisin was more obvious than we expected. check our studio sessions on you tube,how did we make that perfect sound, and how did we record these perfect songs.YOU CANNOT DO IT, Still diy and no live comin up..."
D.I.Y. and dry bread...

Download (new link)

The GOAT itself : (for greeks only)
Ti akrivws na prwtopei kaneis gia autous tous crustcore hrwes?...Pragmatika xaonetai kaneis mesa se ena sunon8uleuma prwtotupias, ugrhs dunamhs kai au8entikothtas. Oi Boctorva Bill Hagget Quartet me to patentarismeno hardcore/crust tous prosferoun ena eklekto hardcore/crust edesma gia thn voukolikh hardcore/crust koinothta, pou anta3io tou 8ewreitai monon to paradosiako avgotaraxo tou Mesologgiou.

Το avgotaraxo βρίσκεται στις ωοθήκες kai tis tsepes του kautou θηλυκού του ψαριού Κέφαλος, που οι ντόπιοι punx ονομάζουν ΜΠΑΦΑ, kata to luma mpafos. Ολόκληρος ο κοsμoς του αυγοτάραχου χωρίζεται σε δύο trigwnous επιμήκεις και κυλινδρικούς tetragonismenous λοβούς, οι οποίοι καταλαμβάνουν το μισό περίπου σώμα του ψαριού,alla kai to upoloipo miso, που τα περιέχει, περιβαλλόμενα από λεπτό υμantα. Με super ειδική τεχνική οi Boctorva bhq αφαιρoun με τα δάκτυλα twn podiwn τουs το avgotaraxo έξω από τη σπλαχνική κοιλότητα tou fasistikou psariou απ'όπου θα πρέπει κανείς να ξέρει πολύ καλά τί κάνει, kai pou vadizoume, έτσι ώστε να μην "χυθεί" το avgotaraxo απο το ψάρι και καταστραφεί o planhths olos. Στη συνέχεια το αυγοτάραχο ξεπλένεται με ouiski, που είναι ο πιο κατάλληλος και υγιεινός τρόπος, και «παστώνεται» με χονδρό paidi.

Mousika tsimpane pio sklhra kai apo to kounoupi tou valtou tou Mesollogiou, enw ta operika fwnitika kaine san vitriolh tis manes sas. Potes allwte h alhteia den eixe toso styl.


Stixourgika kaluptoun ena toso euru fasma, pou kai koufos na eisai katalavaineis ti paizei, enw psagmenia apotelei kai h underground cult istoria tou koulou dioikhth h' alliws cripple commander, o opoios kai prospa8hse na ek8ronisei ton Gatzo apo 8eo kai eidate ti epa8e..emeine koulos kai twra den mporei oute se glx 50ari na anevei, poso mallon na paei gia psonia.

To quarteto apoteleitai apo tria atoma, ek twn opoiwn oi duo einai a3ioi anaforas, enw o allos pio polu akoma. To pws katafernoun enas mod-as, enas stulatos gatzetakias punkis kai enas ekstasiasmenos chef na kanoun toso kalu kai poiotikh mousikh, einai a3io anaforas, kai gi'auto to anaferw kiolas.


Mesa se auto to best ov 8a vreite triaaanta epituxies me thn morfh 8 tragoudiwn. 8 diamantia tou ellhnikou tetragramou pou den prepei na leipoun apo th disko8hkh sas, me tis kaluteres epituxies tou Marth tou 1999 kai tou Aprilh tou 2009 epishs.


Ta xrwmata einai ghina opws epitassei h teleutaia le3h ths modas, enw to styling einai tou nikou kasimh.


Par'te par'te, to mouni ths panagias einai prasino.


Limited kai bootleg, 2 kopies opoios prolave to kurio (boctorva) eide.


dbill, to asteri ths kalamarias.

Masakari - Live at WRUW's "Live from Cleveland" on Oct 1st 2009

Yeah, right. You know masakari (check out their 7'' here)...
So, download this stuff...
Nothing new, this live set has been posted a whike back at the band's blog but it fucking rip, so i had to repost it...
If you visit this blog, you know that i love masakari and their downtuned, haunted, epic and crusty melodic hardcore...
This shit has been recorded for a radio show, back in their hometown, cleveland...
For me, maybe the best crust band worldwide nowadays...
Also, this recording includes besides the tracks from their 7'', three tracks that has not been released yet.
20 minutes of raging hardcore / crust! Not bad at all i think...

enjoy

I asume this is for friends of Masakari, and die hard neo-crust followers...

The sound is pretty neat though, everything is heard, and they seem to play really tight so this could also serve as an introduction to the band. They seem a bit bored though to tell you the truth!!!

If you are a fan of His Hero Is Gone, Artimus Pylea nd the like then be sure to download this.


Just noticed that this is live for a radio show, not a live gig...they still seem a bit bored though!!!

dbill live from Cleveland Cavaliers arena

I.O.U. - I owe you lp 2005

Just a heads up : After a lot of listens to this norwegian masterpiece i finally made the conclusion that if you had your speakers loud this stuff becomes fuzzy, so i re-extract it... take care
-mikxxx...

This is my first rip, out of vinyl... and i'm feeling a little bit weird, hope that i did everything perfect. My "totalrecorder" program has no split tracks option that's why you get side a and side b, sorry... Please listen to it and leave comments if the sound it's ok...

So, here is the long awaited extract of one of the most perfect albums ever came out of the motherland of black metal, but here you will get nothing like that...
I.O.U. is the perfect hardcore punk band consisting of five individuals : kristian, dagger, ozzak, gundersen and vegard. Five alienated Culture Industry employees rising from the ashes of the fine Norwegian hardcore acts Kids Like Us (their truth alone triumphs ep is so fucking awesome...), Crash and The Union Policy.
They had released two seveninches (i'm still looking for "under filthy wings" you fuckers) and a fucking lp-hurricane, this one! They had toured Europe four times and played tons of shows in their home country Norway. The LP/CD "I Owe You" was released last year as a split release by five diy labels (Dead Letter Records, Analemma Records, Kontrabande Records, Asyl Vinyl and Black Soul Family Records) so go and buy it...
This is the best album i have heard for a long time and (think that) came to my hands almost by coincidence...
A blistering combination of early us hardcore alongside some crusty and melodic parts. think how TRAGEDY would sound if they played ONLY covers of NEGATIVE APPROACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you want to hear anything more? And at their my(as)space, in the section "influences", you can read : Negative Approach, Minor Threat, Black Flag, Los Crudos, Tragedy, No Parade, From Ashes Rise....
The new must-be-loved band by d-bill (i think...)
ENJOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and leave comments

Every rock is an I.O.U (download)


Dbill driven crazy :
This is I.O.U, and they are Mikexxx's new obsession. The guy never stops talking about them!!

He talked about them when we went for a cup of coffee, he talked about them while we went for a hot pizza, he talked about them while we were at an antifascist demonstration...hell, he even wouldn't stop talking about them while we were chased by the fucking pigs (or was that Skitkids?)!!!!!!!

I avoid going to the bathroom in fear that Mike will come out of the toilet and start ranting about the ''under filthy wings'' ep...no really, it's like some plague that hits your friend, and you wish he gets well, but then again...if it made him shut up...!!!!! (just joking Mike...please don't kick me out of the blog!!)

On to the Norwegian posse now...This is hardcorepunk, and indeed it's a mix between old american hardcore and the more modern hardcore/crust wave. It gives a feeling akin to Endstand (mostly cause of the sound and the mix of old hardcore with melodies), though they don't sound really similar. The tracks fly by like a jet plane on fire, and the tunes make you wanna pogo like a norwegian salmon fish leaping out of the river!!! I'd prefer a more ruff 'n' tough production, but it seems that i get used to their (a bit) polished production the more i hear the LP (am i turning soft at the age of 25?).

Download it cause i don't know how Mike will react if the downloads don't reach 100!!!!...Also they are really good (if you really need more motivation to press on the download link...)..

dbill trellos

The now denial - Viva viva threatening

While surfing on the net, i figure out that this diamond is not posted elsewhere, so i'm very glad that i can play the "smart-bad-ass" attitude...
The now denial is a fucking band! consisting of five gay-friendly handsome dolls from bremen,germany and the only think (that is (for)) sure is : with the end of this listening only nausea you should feel (if you still got feelings...)...
Let's start though... Now denial is a tractor-pulling, death-machine created by the ashes of HYBRIS, ENFOLD, HOCUS and DURANGO95, and in 2004 another member (from surf nazis must die (have you seen the movie? totally nuts. HEHE) this time) joined the team. The band has made several tours and released several albums. Here we have their second full lenght from 2004...
I can promise one thing : you'll get you're broomwood (new word, mine) and you won't stop sing along and fighting with ypur grandma ('cos we are in greece and all the hardcore / crusties live with their parents, grandparents, grand grand parents etc. dbill's included (i'm not included))...
I know that i have wrote the words mix, blender etc. a lot of times but if one band has to be named as an explosive mixture of genres and rhythms this band is definetely NOW-DENIAL... Example : the track "rotten,rotten, rotten"  is an ugly hardcore track (we all know it, even if we don't say it) and suddenly turn out to be melodic punk rock with a riff that stays in your little brain ('cos is little, if you're still reading my awful english nonsense(s)) forever... My personal favourites are : slaves, eraser and seek refuge in attack...
When you feel anger, anxiety and boredom all in one this is definetely the right soundtrack to make a walk from exarchia all the way to pagrati (through kolonaki), spit some very expensive "windows" and buy "draminh bougatsa" (no meat you fucker) at ymitou street...
Lyrics about (fuck the) gender, police brutality (with plans about the final extermination of cops), backstabbing stuff (aka "roots"), daily boredom and tediousness (check the eraser's lyrics : "my ass is nailed to the chair. obey, adapt, shut up and feel free.")
too sweet to be punk, too punk to be hardcore, too hardcore to be crust, too cynical to be anything at all

Check a previous post for denial, here

we buy our dependence, and they keep on killing  (download fuckers)

Wolverine :

It seems more and more difficult to write something unbiased about a band when you've met some of it's members... Maybe because you remember the good times, the jokes etc. but mostly because then you realise (when you've talked face to face with someone) whether or not his music/words are sincere or not. When a person is original, his actions are original.

The Now-Denial are original. They deal with very interesting, and to the point, social issues, while musicwise one could say they remind a neo-crust genre, but they are not neo-crust. Very nice guitar mellodies, beautiful groovy bass lines, and galloping drumwork. Again, this is one band that makes you read the lyrics while listening to the record, and this seems like something hard in the punk world lately.

Extra points for their different aesthetic, since they don't use this totally worn out war theme photo bullshit, bringing something fresh to the scene.

Everyone you saw them live in greece (zofos), or elsewhere (also zofos!) has been talking about their marvelous performance.

This is not a new record but definately worth every stamp you will pay for, so that they can send it over to you, since Soren is a pro table Fussball player, and Rob did a killer mastering for Antimob (hehe)!

Now D.e.bi.a.ll