METH SORES

These San Jose mutants don't just have one of the best band monikers I've ever encountered, they also crank out the most profoundly brilliant garage genius meets blown out noise punk insanity I've ever heard. Take Helios Creed's guitar and inject it into lost TYRADES tracks performed by GAI (yeah, I drew that line...get into it).  The only thing wrong with this tape is that it's only 8 minutes and change. Seriously, listen to "All I Do Is Live" and tell me that when the drums switch to double time at 1:20...tell me that this is not total perfection. If you can tell me that, then you are very good at lying and you are not my friend. Noisy raw and completely fukkd - I needed this music when I was 17, and I need this music now.

DEATH VIGIL

All three METH SORES demos included in this download.

IMPATIENCE

Seemed appropriate to post something from Wisconsin today, so here's the blast that brought me to my knees the first day I pressed play. Devastatingly heavy hardcore, tougher than any breaux-core nonsense and not even remotely contrived, Milwaukee's IMPATIENCE inject the unbridled fury of hate filled east coast hardcore into an impassioned midwestern assault. Churning and metallic breakdowns make me want to pull my hair out and throw shit across the room - this demo is just fukkn ferocious. The words are every bit as unforgiving as the music, drenched in fear and contempt. A monster, ready for battle.

NEVER ANY PEACE

Never Any Peace comes from Sacred Plague

LOS CAIDOS

The guitars that start "Odio" will haunt you, and the ensuing three and on half minutes will eviscerate you. These Argentinians have achieved greatness, injecting dark vibes and a '90s basement delivery into manic fastcore. This is their third demo and, as much as I dig the first two, this self titled banger is total fukkn perfection. Male/female vocals and riffs that will melt your brain - and it's fast.

LOS CAIDOS

OZRIC TENTACLES

Seriously, fukk a bunch of punk points, right? I mean, you can't use them for shit and other punks only resent you for having lots of them, so why not flush them all down the toilet with a blast of past-century psychedelic instrumental rock 'n roll? Equal parts PINK FLOYD, HAWKWIND, ALAN PARSONS and LSD, OZRIC TENTACLES cranked out an impressive cassette-ography before 1989's Pungent Efflungent, their first proper and official release. While their catalog certainly ventures too far into jam band territory for my liking, these early efforts are no-rules and guitar solo laden without stepping into hippie territory. This was put to cassette (minus two of the songs found on the full length), backed with some way less punk stuff which I have shared here - just in case the paint had not peeled itself from your jacket in disgust after hearing "Hgog In The Ether" and you are up for more torture.

PUNGENT EFFLUNGENT

REGRETS

Released early last year, this downtuned rager slipped under my radar until recently, but I'm glad I picked up the blips and paid attention. Equal parts CURSED, HIS HERO IS GONE and MÖRSER, Chicago's REGRETS concentrate on the calculated attack and just simply destroy. The vocals are overbearing and weighty, and the band is at their best when they slow to a painful crawl and let that harsh voice take the lead. Crushing, oppressive and excellent.

POST DIGNITY

FALLOUT

I decided a couple of months back to concentrate on demos and cassette releases on Terminal Escape, and started Escape Is Terminal (don't thank me for the original blog title, I've already congratulated myself plenty) as an outlet for live recordings, but it didn't seem right to let this Italian gem languish on a blog that is in its infancy and likely has a much narrower appeal. FALLOUT unleashed this collection of live tunes in 1985, a few years after dropping an essential ripper in the Criminal World EP. Classic thrashing Italian mayhem very much in line with WRETCHED, EU's ARSE and other contemporaries and recorded live in 1984/5 at various venues. The sleeve is a cut/paste hodgepodge (and in Italian) so I fear that my editing might be a little lax on this one, but that's no reason to keep these songs from entering your life. 

INSURREZIONE

BONELESS RATS

A raucous storm of hardcore damage, Florida style, with just enough hooks lifted from the early '80s to hold your interest. Six raw studio tracks and a live set from Sluggo's in Pennsacola. Rules.

FIRST TWO YEARS DEMO

BONELESS RATS