ABDUKTION

It's been a long weekend. The CONQUEST FOR DEATH shows with DANGERS were a blast, but between that and life's incessant obligations, I think I need a nap. So no long winded prostrations today - just ripping raw hardcore punk from Texas. Seriously, this shit will melt you.

ABDUKTION DEMO 2011

OUT OF TOUCH

Posted their 1991 demo a while back, but two years later Nagoya's OUT OF TOUCH got even better. I know it's hard to believe, but it's true. Raw, noisy, and fast as shit.

OUT OF TOUCH 1993 DEMO

SECRET POLICE

A snarling dervish of a demo - early DIE KREUZEN meets HOLY SHIT! in a bar: they get drunk and play fast and that is all. Fukkn good jams, period.

DEMO TAPE

ODOUR OF DUST AND ROT

More sounds from a certain circle of incestuous black metal savants, this 60+ minute comp features many of the regular suspects (GLOSSOLALIA, ODZ MANOUK, ABSUM, TUKAARIA) as well as newcomers KUXAN SUUM and NIHILOBSTAT and a few uncredited tracks (which I suspect might be attributed to RHINOCERVS, the label responsible for this compilation). 

The presentation is as good as the contents, even more so than is typically the case with this crew, harsh and distant black metal sounds are accompanied by a booklet filled with pages of bleak images. Basically, it's exactly what you expect aurally and aesthetically.

ODOUR OF DUST AND ROT

THE MANUAL AND THE MACHINE

Soundscapes that fall somewhere between early SONIC YOUTH dirges and present day versions of electronically driven bedroom genius. If the modern age of musical innovation is just going to take us back in time and submerge us in the sounds of my youth, then I must confess that I relish the thought of getting wet. All gothy and weird, THE MANUAL AND THE MACHINE might take a few listens to sink into, but their distorted and distant missives are abrasive and welcoming at the same time..and I find myself seeking comfort in their arms. 

BOILER MAKER

SLEEPER CELL

A lot of stuff from the early '00s gets overlooked, and plenty of it with good reason. Generic rehashes of genres past were running rampant, and kids didn't really seem to know how to deal with hardcore as a twenty year old genre - in other words, when DOWN IN FLAMES started, MINOR THREAT was as old as THE BEATLES were when MINOR THREAT started and too many bands seemed hell bent on trying to recreate magic that they never personally experienced, and the result (while often very fast) was often quite stale. But as with any rough patch, just kick the dust around for a minute and you'll uncover some magic. Boston's SLEEPER CELL tend to slip through my mental cracks more often than they should; I rarely listen to their LP but every I time I do I am reintroduced to how fukkn great it is, and last night while trying to find a place to store yet another daunting box of cassettes I was reminded that I hadn't blasted this demo in half a decade. My loss. Seven songs in under nine minutes, packed with awkward blasts of breakneck hardcore. File this shit between TALK IS POISON and TEAR IT UP, even though it starts with an S. Think about it...it makes sense.

SLEEPER CELL 2003 DEMO

ARTE ZABOTAJE

High energy Mexican punk with more than their acceptable quotient of sing along choruses that temper fiercely insistent vocals and guitars that are constantly on the verge of breaking down. ARTE ZABOTAJE look to classic Spanish punk and DEAD KENNEDYS for influence, and their bouncing anger will have you looking for the rewind button when it's over. You won't find one of course, because this is the internet, but I'm sure you can sort out an arrow to click or something else that will help you listen to this again.

DIRIJE TU ODIO