FREE VOICE

 

I do not understand why any band of any era and/or genre would think that this artwork was a good idea. And then you listen to FREE VOICE and somehow it all makes sense - it's still a bad idea but it makes sense. Absolute '90s melodic hardcore but from modern Indonesia. Think Ontario's NOAH FENCE (the Canadian Ontario, to be clear) or early AFI - all the shit from the early Fat Wreck / NOFX tree that influenced thousands of bands around the world. Including FREE VOICE, apparently. Seriously dudes, the artwork sucks.

LET'S THINK CLEARLY FOR A WHILE

The dude in the DISRUPT shirt really just reinforces the '90s vibes. 

BARREN SOIL

 

Quintessential UK anarcho crust from Vancouver - right down to the Celtic knots in the art. Apocalyptic and dystopian stench with an ear turned towards '90s Japanese hardcore...and yeah, it's every bit as essential as that (brief) description suggests. 

ALL PATHS LEAD TO DARKNESS

ORIGINAL PIHILIPPINE MUSIC

 

This is like 100 Strings from Philippines, and if you actually dig through records and tapes in thrift stores then you should know what I mean. And if you don't dig through records and tapes in thrifts stores....? Well, you should.  

ORIGINAL PHILIPPINE MUSIC: VOLUME IV

SIDE A

 

These are the things you find when you just.....look. I wish I had some history, but my guess is that was a pop group being marketed by a would-be music business entrepreneur from Oakland. Or mayhaps it was just a bootleg. Either way, we're left with 86 minutes of Filipino pop. No one needs twenty-one songs on a commercial pop cassette, especially when the eighteenth and nineteenth tracks are the only potential hits. There's a really (really) small audience here, but to those readers......keep digging.

SIDE A

WAVE OF NOISE

 

Continuing on a theme....a total hyper-crust assault in four movements. DISCHARGE worship from SKITSÖFRENIA. Ferocious street punk from INCRUST. Clenched fist '90s crust from DISGRACE. Apocalypse fastcore/crust mania from DISTRUST. Singapore meets Malaysia, and DIY punk still rules. 

WAVE OF NOISE
Seriously though, the DISTRUST tracks are next level. 
You're welcome.

ZUDAS KRUST // CONFLITTO

 

Shoelace headband crust assault at its finest - nine minutes of blistering sonic devastation in your earholes. 
All eyes upon Papua.

CONFLITTO // ZUDAS KRUST

HEAVY COMFORTER

 

Gloriously sinister synth driven hyper punk from Tennessee. We're talking infectious Reatard caliber hooks, '90s Rip-Off energy and PHANTOM LIMBS mystique all supercharged and hyped beyond description. Listen to the (backing) vocals in "Unholy Armistice" and know that punk rules, ok?

IRON RATIONS