KLONNS

 

It's hard to explain how something can simultaneously sound this raw and this bombastic, but then it's also hard to describe how KLONNS can feel so completely original within the admittedly restrictive confines of blown out hardcore. Then again, maybe you describe it the way KLONNS do...maybe you explain the sound as the New Wave Of Japanese Hardcore. They first popped on my radar with last year's Crow EP from Iron Lung Records, and digging back in their catalog since then has been a true joy. This tape combines the first two self released cassettes - twenty minutes of black metal tinged grinding crust destruction. Essentially just regular Tuesday stuff around TEHQ. 

DISCOGRAPHY 2016-2017

TOASTY!

 

You want to know what my life is like? I put on my coat a few days ago and this tape was in my pocket. I don't know where it came from. Maybe I was drunk or maybe my memory is garbage - either option works and neither option is acceptable. So I put the tape in and it's some weird future power violence with maybe sci-fi and/or gamer themes because there are words I don't understand but also I'm old and I don't understand a lot of things. But I understand blast beats and I like to grind, so I keep listening. Nine tracks, six minutes....if this was in your pocket then you'd be stoked too, right? So I guess my life doesn't completely suck. 

MK PV DEMO 2023

CRIME DESIRE

Look...time makes legends, okay? I've seen CRIME DESIRE a few times with admittedly mixed results. The first time I saw them I felt like I was watching a parody. Sounds fucked up to say about a band that I like but....shit was real. But punks is freaks, right? And few modern bands are willing to let that flag fly as honestly and proudly as San Diego's CRIME DESIRE. The band now (?) is completely different from the band that recorded this demo more than 20 years ago but...time makes legends. Listen to "Face The Facts" and know that these misfits and mutants were on a path. They were driven. They are driven. Also, the convergence of discordant hardcore punk and total dissolution is....well, this recording has aged well. I've seen CRIME DESIRE a few times. I cherish every one of those moments as I listen to these sounds with Future Ears and an old/er heart. CRIME DESIRE are always real, and they have never been anything that they weren't. We should all be so lucky. 

TXB 13014 DEMO 2003

MAX NORDILE

 

Why the fuck not stick with Wet Cassettes for another day...especially if they're combining forces with Max Nordile? Exactly. There's no reason not to stick with a winner paired with a winner. Twenty minutes of sonic debauchery from one of the finest modern purveyors of improvisational free form sound. I am in constant awe of Nordile's ability to create and document....the fact that they share those documentations with us? That's just the bonus. You never know what you're going to get, but you always know there's nothing else like it. 

A RACE TO THE BOTTOM

WET CASSETTES

 

For a label notable for criminally short releases, this 40+ minute compilation is noteworthy for its quantity alone. But the quality....? Oh, that's where Wet Cassettes truly excel. Fucked up noise, lo-fi punk, insane grind, complete fucking mania, dark industrial fuckery....it's all here, punks. Twenty tracks from the likes of ARACHNID SALAD, FLESH COLLAR, BIG GHONGUS, NIGHT GOSPEL, MORE SMOKE and others...time to submit. Time to get weird. 

THE COMP VOL.1

FLESH EATING CREEPS

 

In the 1990s, there was no widespread internet access. In the 1990s, there were fewer preconceived notions of what bands were supposed to sound like. In the 1990s, your scene was determined by your friends (especially if you lived in a small/er town). In the 1990s there was a band called FLESH EATING CREEPS from Virginia. Brutal, sarcastic, metallic, emotional. Rough? Yes. Powerful? Definitely. Rules? These kids didn't even open the book to know what they were (or weren't) supposed to do, they just unloaded. This is honest music created from a chaotic world - a patchwork of erratic technical hardcore with screamo tinges and grind tendencies presented with complete disregard for convention. This tape has everything, so you're gonna hear a coupla different versions of "The Brutal Blizzard Of '96" and "I Wish I Could Say I Give A Shit About You" along with "Fuck Your Friends, Every Single One Of Them" and 54 other doses of sonic butchery. In the 1990s there was a band called FLESH EATING CREEPS, and I honestly don't think that this band could even exist in the modern era....so revel in your history, young punk. 

THE BOOK ABOUT THE MOVIE: COMPLETE RECORDINGS 1995-2000

CYANIDE TOOTH

 

Got the latest CYANIDE TOOTH joint in the mail from EB a while back, but waiting until I had the time to properly listen before I popped it in...this was a wise move. It was dark, it was quiet (a rarity around my place), it felt right. Psychedelic other world sounds that move the listener light years beyond the realm of simple knob twiddlers - the pieces that make up the first side are absolute mind melters, while the three on the flip act in concert as a calculated come down. Sometimes you just need to get away - and a vacation to the sixth dimension might be exactly what the doctor ordered. 

SIXTH DIMENSION VACATION