BLUE PATROL

Fukkn BLUE PATROL!! The perfect cure for those "I don't have enough lo-fi super catchy but still totally shitty early 80s UK punk to make it through my Wednesday!!" blues.  I know those blues well, and I am here to help. BLUE PATROL graced us with this rager back in 1982(?) on the Pig Tapes label (my guess is that this was their one and only release), and then seemingly dropped off the planet.  But if you are going to leave only one tape as the sole document of your existence, I suppose it should be a piece of pure quality featuring superb bass lines and a solid punk-as-fuck vocal attack with a guitar that sounds like it was dragged through the sewer and pelted with stones before plugging into a homemade distortion box and drinking liters of cheap cider (say...White Ace or some equally horrid equivalent?).  Yeah, that's the kind of legacy that's well worth leaving.

ON THE BEAT

The inside of the tape cover with band info and song titles is all hand written (as in individually written on each copy, as opposed to hand written and then photocopied), and they were nice enough to offer replacement tapes to anyone who got tapes that were poorly recorded "within reason." In addition, there was this:

Rather entertaining, as it is written on the tape itself.  So obviously anyone who could read the statement already knew how to "get hold of a copy" because they already had one because how else would they be able to how to "obtain"? Ahhhh, the punx!

ASOCIAL TERROR FABRICATION

Killer crasher crust from Tokyo...really, is there anything more to say?  Five tracks (like the cover says) of distorted shit-chaos Japanese hardcore blown out to oblivion and played to near perfection.  I hope there is more to come from them, but in the meantime put on this demo and play the shit LOUD!!!

ATOMIC NOISE WINTER BOMB

DEVIATED INSTINCT

I posted the Tip Of The Iceberg demo from DEVIATED INSTINCT a few months back, and Slaughter Of Innocents  gave us their early 4 track recordings back in December, so here is the 1985 demo that (perhaps) came between those two recordings.  Many of the same songs from the more primitive early demo (and several also appear on Tip Of The Iceberg as well), but slightly more polished recordings, though these tracks are still raw as hell and brilliant pissed political UK punk.  I love the short blasts of "Eat The Rich" contrasted with vocal only bits like "War" and the longer plodding songs that I almost called proto-crust, but then I stopped myself because that is a ridiculously pretentious descriptor...even though it's pretty appropriate.  DEVIATED INSTINCT material has been floating around for ages, from the tape traders in the 80s to the countless uploads in internetland, but I haven't yet come across this recording (I know it's out there...it's all out there) and, more importantly, they were way ahead of their time and the shit just rules. The dudes are still kicking around in DI and other bands, check them out here.

DEVIATED INSTINCT September 1985 demo

there is about one minute of disconcerting noise at the end of the demo...no clue what it is, but it was on my copy so just in case the band included it on purpose, I included it here... 

BG

I have been posting Oklahoma tapes for several Sundays now, but I'm going to cheat a little bit today and rock a demo from my former neighbor to the east, Arkansas.  Fort Smith was where I played my first ever show outside of Oklahoma, and I believe that most of the folks from BG were there (and helped set up the show), so it was good to roll through town nearly a decade later in 2001 and see that the dudes are still killing it.  This band would have been hugely popular had they been from somewhere "cool," but then they also might not have been nearly as good. This demo was the precursor to a couple of crushing EPs and a split with IRON LUNG, and came from RASH OF BEATINGS and BURNED UP BLED DRY personnel (anyone got those demos? drop me a line). The band's namesake and cover model is the guitarist's brother (his name is BG)...I guess it's a little easier to become a legend in Arkansas.

BG DEMO 2001

AXEMAN

I picked this up last week from the Raw Ponx from LA when they were up in The Bay last week (great fukkn show from TB, POLISCHITZO, RAYOS X and that band from San Jose who rules but I could never remember the name of), and it pretty well floored me.  Epic and dismal raw black metal from Southern California that deals as heavily in tape hiss as it does guitar fuzz, AXEMAN create an utterly painful vibe in these three songs.

If this suits your fancy, then please check out this weeks Black Twilight post over at Cosmic Hearse, and if it doesn't, then rest assured that poorly played shitty punk will be returning soon.  "poorly played" and "shitty" are both terms of endearment, and meant as positive comments, in case you were offended.  I like poorly played shitty punk...anyway, get your evil on:

ARRIVE

RIPPLING FLESH

Fridays are for compilations, here at TEHQ, and this one is a fukkn scorcher, if I do say so myself.  An entry over at KFTH was the only way I was able to identify half of this shit, and even with that limited guide, it's kinda tough picking out the CAPITLE (sic) tracks from the PSYCHO tunes, and MOTTEK and RAZZIA sound a bit alike as well on this release, so a fair bit of the editing here might be a little suspect (the few song titles I've included are pure guesses...I figure it's a safe bet that when the singer for the brilliantly named band PUNKS shouts "KKK" over and over throughout the song, the song is called "KKK," but you know what they say about assuming...).  Ripping shit throughout, the first half from the USA (PUNKS, killer live shit from Alabama's THE KNOCKABOUTS, CAPITLE, PSYCHO, NO IDENTITY, THE ART THIEVES, my favorite songs on the tape from JERK WARD and TOEJAM) and the other half from West Germany (R.A.F. GIER, RANOLA, RAZZIA, MOTTEK, EA80, BLUTTAT, and a band I cannot identify).  A few songs from each of these bands, and everything here is top notch, enjoy.

RIPPING FLESH

WOGENDES FLEISCH

for folks in the greater Los Angeles area, please come say hello tonight: OPT OUT, 

NO STATIK, ANIMALITOS, LA VOZ, COBWEBBS at The Eastside Manor on Olympic in LA.  

SATAN'S CHEERLEADERS

Here's the third tape from early 80s New York City bizarro thrash outfit SATAN'S CHEERLEADERS.  It would be pretty easy to dismiss this band upon first listen; the vocals are completely all over the place and teeter right on the brink of being really irritating for most of the tape, and the guitar attack kinda comes off as DEAD KENNEDYS worship gone the way of VICTIM'S FAMILY, but around the middle of "Down On All Fours" something just clicks, and this shit becomes indispensable.  How a song seemingly about eating frozen dinners could end up being a rather profound and thought provoking tune addressing the dangers of complacency is a testament to SATANS CHEERLEADERS being more than the grating nerd hardcore that they seem to be.  Don't get me wrong, getting over the shrieks coming from frontman Jon Sanborne might take more than a little bit of effort, but I think you will find the reward quite worth your while. Mix early MDC with DKs, REAGAN YOUTH and MINUTEMEN...now play it too fast and slop everything up a lot.  I don't believe that they did anything after this tape (except maybe get their drivers licenses?), but check out this 15 minute, 12 song manic attack.

BARK TWICE FOR FREEDOM

it kinda sounds like this looks: