BRAIN KILLER

 

Damn, this band is severely under appreciated. Maybe there were just too many bands doing *this* at the time, but really I think it swas because there were a heap of other  bands who were doing this a few years earlier and punk attention spans are criminally short. But hindsight is a motherfukkr, and the BRAIN KILLER material doesn''t just hold up - the shit shines. Raw, powerful, noisy, manic hardcore punk from Boston - live shit, some covers, punk, no song titles, no compromise, off the rails. And also punk. 

BRAIN KILLER

FOIL

 

I ripped these thirteen minutes of wild style mutant hardcore when I got home from a frustrating fourteen hour day and it was exactly what I needed. First few tracks are muddy and phased out (because DIY punk, punk) but the shit clears up just about the same time as the after-shifter starts working and I'm feeling the fukk out of FOIL because hi-NRG punk rules always, you dig? The Wonder Destroying Machine tells me that there is even more and I make a mental note to include more FOIL in my future but before I delve any deeper I hear the murk starts to clear and oh snap these fools are gloriously ferocious treble rebels and I swear I am paying full attention because bands like this don't swing through very frequently and FOIL is sounding like something I need more of. A lot more of. Sometime around "Drawing Blood" it becomes apparent that FOIL are one of those essential bands and then.....then "Tale Of A Rat Race" starts and I feel like the Universe is speaking to me. 

"...,when do we get to relax / every day feels back to back / working at your stupid job...."

So I'm just gonna go to sleep now and this will post in a few hours around the time I get up to go to work again. Actually, I'm going to set this to post at the same time I'm setting my alarm, which is something less than five hours from now. Foiled indeed, right? The entire fukkn thing is a scam and it's all a lie except for the part that's real and super duper important. But no one is gonna tell you what that part really is, you dig? That's what sucks. You know what doesn't suck? Foiled by FOIL.

FOILED BY FOIL

BACKYARD

 

More Doomryderz worship from...Austria?
Yes it is.
Yes it is amazing.
There's something about BACKYARD that I can't put my finger on (much less describe) and I think it's about a level of brutality. Like...a marker on the brutal-o-meter or something, because the shit is just brutal. BACKYARD are the definition of primal inn the best possible way - take a deep breath and steel yourself before you grind......because you're gonna grind.You like grinding because grinding is so fukkn good and downtuned DIY hardcore is even better. 

RODENT'S BURROW

SAY GOODBYE

 

Meaty. turn of the century Boston hardcore - reared on the classics with a forward focus that's even more keen in retrospect. The foundation here ;ands somewhere between early '80s Boston and late '80s NYHC, but in 2002 the USDIY world was filled with barely retro-posi and Y2K fastcore energy...all of that shit is here. Then consider that the nuclear of SAY GOODBYE would later be connected to MIND ERASER, WASTE MANAGEMENT, THINK I CARE, RIVAL MOB and a host of others? Well, you see where I'm going here. SAY GOODBYE's 2002 demo was the launch point for a lot of this shit, for a lot of these dudes, and the vision is absolutely clear on these four tracks. "Don't Lean" to start your day, punk.

SAY GOODBYE

THE SABOTAGE // DICKHEAD

 

Gloriously raw first wave Indonesian hardcore from two of the scene's fiercest. Both bands hail(ed) from metro Jakarta, both bands deliver uncompromising DIY punk....and really that's the end of my in depth analysis. DICKHEAD evolved into something that was more strictly DBeat, but listening to this 2000 recording makes me wonder if that's what they were trying to do from the beginning. THE SABOTAGE tracks are more street punk tinged, like a primitive group of UK82 miscreants stumbling through the slums kicking nazis in the face. I know I said my genius analysis was over, but this shit is absolutely punk as fukk. 

THERE IS NO GOOD SIDE OF WAR

THE VALLEY RECALLS

 

I snagged this at Savers in San Jose last week; honestly I mostly grabbed it because there were a shitheap of cassettes but nothing at called to me, not even faintly. There had to be something. So I combed through the mail order cassettevangelists and Grandma's schmaltz again determined to find a reason to spend 74¢ even it was spent on crap. Suffice to say that it wasn't crap. Maybe I just needed to look again, so the universe could help me find a reason to stop looking. When you first put it on, The Valley Recalls kinda disappears; but then you stop - and so many other things appear in the sounds.  So comb again if you need to.....that's the lesson.

RAGA BHOOPALI

NTSP PAL

 

Full on freak synth. 

I literally don't know what else I could ask for tonight, since there's no way this world can be real. 
There are bonus tracks.

FULL OF SPOTS