SKRAPYARD

Every bit as ugly and primitive as the neanderthal cover implies, SKRAPYARD plod through five tracks of gutter Oi that will make you question your affinity for new wave music and wonder why you aren't flailing around in a circle with your elbows in the air like an asshole. Nasty, rough sounds that hate you almost as much as they appear to hate cats...this is beyond childish, but it's kinda awesome. SKRAPYARD is the sound of middle aged rednecks who just discovered NEGATIVE APPROACH for the first time, open mic night at Buster's Tavern in Elgin better look the fukk out.

SKRAPYARD 2010

OORWORMER

Three cheers for bored teenagers copying records onto cassette for their friends. Oorwormer is an essential 1982 anarcho/post punk comp from Holland, and some well meaning punk rocker presented her/his copy with a homemade cover and some crafty editing (the VERZ ED tracks are "Shit, so not on this tape" - though I think that the space time continuum limitations of a 90 minute tape might have been a factor as well, as this comp clocks in just under the 45 minute mark without the VERZ ED songs, so I can only imagine the extra effort required to make a cool cover and a cohesive package with two songs crammed onto the SVÄTSOX Ruins side of the cassette - that's the record taped onto the other side of this shell, naturally it will appear here soon...making tapes is tough work, kids - way harder than crafting a playlist). Two songs each from 13 different seminal Dutch acts, B-SOCIAL and RED ORCHESTRA are my least favorites, though on their own they are still stellar, which let's you know a bit about the exceptionally high level of quality on this comp. NV DE ADEREN turn in two scorchers and might be the punkest act here in the traditional sense, the brilliant INDEX, angular addictions from ZOWISO, dirty melancholy burners from GRRR (fukkn love the guitars), and female fronted bass driven sounds from ASBEST that remind me inexplicably of THE CURE's early recordings. THE EX turn in their expected quality, and the comp rounds out with ATIMS, ZWEMBADEN, HANGDOGS, and  SVÄTSOX - if anyone has a copy of this comp lying around gathering dust, I assure you I will give it a good home.

OORWORMER

SURROGATE ACTIVITY

I've posted some shit from these fools before, and since I love this band I'll post some more. As if THE GRUMPIES had somehow been trained to stay between the lines, SURROGATE ACTIVITY crank out insanely infectious and indescribably adorable punk tunes. While "Freezer Aisle" is a burner of a love song (sounds like one, anyway, don't actually know what it's about), "Worry Cycle" is just a burner of a song. Female fronted and appropriately dirty sounding melodic jams from Newfoundland, today's post features their second demo from 2010 (cleaner, slower) along with their 2011 tape (faster, way more distorted). These punks live really far from my house, and that is sad. Fans of THIS IS MY FIST, GRUMPIES, VANBUILDERASS and punk in general take note and start to swoon.

SURROGATE ACTIVITY 2010/2011

SHORT WALK

Urgh, a music war upon your face. Brutal and blistering shit attack from Milwaukee that will crush the shit out of your mind. Members of HOLY SHIT, ABADDON and THE BUTTS have stepped up their game for this tape, and the result is a dozen songs in less than 7 minutes - vocals at their very breaking point, devastatingly heavy for the brief respites from breakneck speed, and so fukkn fast when they want to be. The riffs are the kind that make your exclaim "YES!" as soon as the shredding begins, SHORT WALK pull no punches.

SHORT WALK

LIABLE

Two nasty industrial dirges from LIABLE. I'm not going to try to read too much into this (or suggest that you read too much into this by writing too much about this), but these tracks are ugly and mean. "Hypocrisy" sounds like the awful and uncomfortable union of THE NORMAL and THROBBING GRISTLE. Yeah - it's that good. Disjointed and disconcerting sounds, from the Nostilevo family, of course.

SILVER/HYPOCRISY

BATTLESCARD

Ripping metallic traditional Japanese hardcore with screaming leads and that undeniable Japanese snarl/yowl from the vocals, presented with a subtle nod towards the breakneck mania of the modern noise punk set. Reminds me of the first DSB single, but the drummer is playing that stripped down thrash 1-2-1-2 instead of the beats I normally associate with rampaging far east hardcore. Five song banger recently given the pro treatment by Black Konflik, don't pass this one up.

MOTORCHARGE

CORRUPTED MORALS

So many forgotten bands from this era of hardcore punk...listen to this 10 song banger from Pinole, California and tell me the late '80s sucked. Eat shit, man - this is fukkn brilliant. You don't have to listen if you don't want to, but it's in your best interest to do so.

CORRUPTED MORALS