DEAD PROPAGANDA

 

As if I wasn't already sold by the face melting ferocity of the opening track "Diskrininasi Rasial," DEAD PROPAGANDA drop this ridiculous double bass into the outro for maybe three seconds and I swear it felt like the clouds parted and the heavens were exposed. The sixteen minutes that follow are pure, harsh, chaotic....a gorgeous display of raw thrashing political grindcrust. Virtually no low end, minimal fidelity and no slow parts, just in your face and unforgiving DIY hardcore.

HORROR GENOCIDE

ARDENT VEIN

 

Listening to ARDENT VEIN produces more questions than answers, and I suspect that's exactly how they prefer it. Two tracks here, almost forty minutes of deliberate and desperate ambient noise...it's a really beautiful release, but there's an intangible darkness that you can't put your finger on. Maybe you can't put a finger on it because you can feel it? And oh....you can feel it. Both ARDENT VEIN (the band) and Dead Accents (the label) have volumes more to offer - I'm almost scared to seek it out. Almost.

THE TRESPASSER'S GIFT // IRON DOORS ON FIRE

BUTCHER

 

Nick sent me this one a few weeks back and I've been meaning to ask him about it, but I guess I'll ask you instead. Thinking it might be the BUTCHER from the Acid Sound From United Kingdom comp, but that's really just a guess. However, I know that if you dig dark, ramshackle UK-tinged punk interspersed with bursts of unhinged proto-thrash.....then this is your BUTCHER.

BUTCHER

D.I.Y. CONSPIRACY VOL.2

 

Sometimes with the comps I don't know if it's better to just go: "here. it's a comp. the tracks generally fall into ____ genre. enjoy?" or if I should dissect the shit track by track. It's even harder with collections that aren't genre specific because the dissection can get really pedantic and I feel like I'm gonna lose you...and I don't want to lose you. So anyway....here's a compilation. I've posted a few of these Covid-era collections previously and I'm pleased to say that reaching for a 'new' volume still gives me those good shivvers because I know I'm about to bump a bunch of tracks I've never heard from bands Ive never heard of. This second volume is more about the catchy almost-garage shits, and listeners would be forgiven if they mentioned SOVIETTES and./or REATARDS when referring to bands like GULG BEACH and LA VASE, but then there are some rippers on the flip from GHETTO GOSPEL and SKARA and there are some primitive blackened punk/metal shits from UDDA so maybe there isn't any kind of theme at all. Maybe the intent was just to collect a bunch of good ass bands from all over this flat-ass planet and present them in one place for you to listen to. If so? Success.

DIY CONSPIRACY VOL.2

MIND TRAP

 

Hopeless, nihilistic USHC from Berlin. MIND TRAP reeks of working class '80s Midwest 'core, stained jeans and out of breath with sweat dripping from their collective brow. How they manifested this sound so brilliantly from Berlin is anyone's guess....or you you could just revel in "Left Alone" and how they hang on the high note in the intro for a half beat longer than they 'should' and it makes you grit your teeth a little harder. Hardcore is supposed to make you grit your teeth. Now listen to "Perseverance." You're welcome.

DRESDEN SESSIONS

OLIVER with guests....

 

Thanks to Pat's tapes for continuing to insert mystery into my ears. As near as I can tell, MILO HERNĆ was a Croatian pop singer and who the fukk knows what NARODNE MUZIKE was all about. Apparently both collaborated with someone named OLIVER and apparently someone Pat knew copied these recordings onto a cassette that I digitized last week. Pat wrote "demos" on the label he put on the case. And now we have reached then end of my knowledge and the beginning of my questions. Notably: Who is Oliver? So enter a different realm of sound and please enjoy yourself. See you tomorrow.

MILO HERNĆ + OLIVER // OLIVER + NARODNE MUZIKE

BOMB HOARDER

 

They never made it too far outside of the Bay Area (and their legacy barely made it out of the early '00s), but BLOWN TO BITS were a constant in the Mission Records era. The singer's name was Punk Rock Jim, one of the dudes had been in OPPRESSED LOGIC and it seemed like if there was a good show then BLOWN TO BITS were probably playing. A very specific reference perhaps (and one that will likely escape most readers), but I'm willing to bet that band existed in your scene too.....and in the narrative I create in my own dusty mind,  BOMB HOARDER were Corpus Christie's BLOWN TO BITS. Fist banging, studded jacket wearing, midpaced drunken DBeat-adjacent hardcore punk. This tape from 2013 is all about the guitar break in "Body Bags" and memories. 

BOMB HOARDER