another catching up/recap post aka yup, i'm still here!

columbus DIY is raging hard into the summertime now. the basements are steamy and the shows are many. every band is on tour this summer and columbus happens to be one of the treasured staples of tour. (let's try not to mention how spoiled our scene is currently.) lots of new bands bubbling up, and things are surprisingly staying fresh and interesting. here's some of my recent flicks from a couple of shows, please follow the links to see more!!


painkiller @ crackhouse 05.12.09



defiance, ohio @ skylab 05.04.09
http://defianceohio.terrorware.com/



the effort @ LOD 05.20.09
http://xeffortx.blogspot.com/



heath deadger @ monster house 05.23.09
http://myspace.com/heathdeadger



nukkehammer @ 15th house 06.05.09

cola freaks, forever, shannon and the clams, cars can be blue, jelly hearts, ignorant motherfucker @ monster house 10.18.08

click here to view the slidehshow on flickr.

after a bit of musical chairs for a last-minute space for cola freaks to play, we ended up adding them to a monster house show after broke as a joke canceled an hour before the show was to begin at the legion of doom.  even already with five bands, the monster house show actually worked out really well.  each of the other bands were really good and the entire evening kept with an extremely positive vibe.  cola freaks capped off the evening and melted minds.  my favourite of the other bands were called forever, and sort of had a tilt meets x kind of sound. plus, they ended their set with a cover of academy fight song by mission of burma, which was really nice to hear. 

click some links below to discover some sweet sounds of the bands that played that night.
shannon and the clams | ignorant motherfucker | the jellyhearts | forever | cars can be blue | cola freaks

pierced arrows @ beachland tavern, cleveland oh 10.13.08

click here for the slideshow on flickr.

took a short roadtrip to cleveland this week to see pierced arrows play at the beachland tavern.  the more than two hour ride wasn't nearly as annoying as it usually could be, although i didn't have to drive so that part was really awesome.  upon arriving, we were met with two unexpected carloads of friends from pittsburgh, and shortly thereafter, another carload from columbus.  the sad part was, that together, our formed voltron of rock-hungry punks outnumbered the locals present for the show.  it didn't matter though, after anxiously waiting through two opening bands, pierced arrows still played with the ferocity and fervor of a packed ampitheater.  i was seriously floored by the performance.  i couldn't help but even be somewhat intimidated knowing the long rock legacy of toody and fred cole, despite how amazingly humble and personable these souls completely are.  for more info on said legacy, check out the unknown passage: the dead moon story DVD.  i picked one up after the show, and can't wait to crack into it.

photos: boom boom kid, samothrace, an albatross, and more!

too many amazing shows this week, so you get one post instead of a flurry of smaller individual posts.


boom boom kid, samothrace, empire, lose the tude @ lod 10.08.08



click here for the slideshow.


an albatross @ summit station 10.07.08

click here for the slideshow.


heath deadger, ignorant motherfucker @ lod 10.06.08

click here for the slideshow.

and now having said all that, i'm off to catch lemuria, gordon gano's army, and the sidekicks at the monster house! cheers!

screaming females, cop on fire, nukkehammer, night of pleasure, reflect @ lod 09.30.08

 

click here to view the slideshow on flickr.

fantastic show with a largely varied bill at the legion of doom.  nice turnout with lots of new faces.
click some links!
screaming females | night of pleasure | cop on fire | reflect

dean dirg, bill bondsmen, heath deadger @ monster house 09.27.08

click here to see the slideshow on flickr.
[all photos taken on my 6 year old, taped-together 2.0 megapixel digital camera]

what a completely fun show.  i'm really into three-band shows.  anything more these days it seems, exceeds my hardcore attention span.  bill bondsmen opened up with some gritty, raging hc, but these guys seemed maybe a little too light-hearted coming from blown-out detroit, perhaps they're not from detroit proper.  regardless, they put down some solid riffage that set the tone for the remainder of the evening.  dean dirg, all the way from germany, followed up with theirshort blasts of intense and catchy hardcore punk, complete with chanty choruses.  their live performance did not disappoint in the least.  they sounded pretty amazing, super tight, and somehow very close to their records.  maybe they recorded them live in a basement?!  their setlist resembled a groceries receipt, some 25-30 songs long, and they just plowed right on through it flawlessly.  heath deadger capped off the night with an unexpected tremendous debut.  born out of the bandluck band lottery earlier this year, they were pretty much the only ones to persevere the consequences.  not sure what happened to any of the other bands from the bandluck lottery, but HD certainly nailed it for what it's worth.  mickey pulls of growling vox, fronting this skate-thrash hc unit with ease.  also to their credit, starting a band in this style of music without all of the flip-cap-bandanna posturings is a very welcome gesture in my book.  kudos to a new band for columbus that seems quite promising.  let's hear a demo soon, heath deadger!

dissystema, nukkehammer, nightfall, pancreatectomie @ lod 09.22.08

nukkehammer	pancreatectomie
nightfall	dissystema

click each photo for more on flickr.  or click here for the slideshow.

pancreatectomie opened the show with a killer set of disgusting medical/gore grind rounded out with a few (maybe too short) mosh parts, too bad it was their last show for a while.  demo and other releases coming soon!  nightfall were up next and fucking set the tank on steamroller.  ripping three piece dis-crust, all three members also of dissystema, who (+1) were up next and thrashed through a similar set of epic metallic crust.  nukkehammer closed the show with their scandi-bulldoze style of hardcore.

   nukkehammer recorded a face-melter of a demo, which will be released on cassette sometime soon.  in the meantime, get your fix in the mp3 format here.

vile gash @ skylab 09.20.08

click the photo to see the slideshow.



vile gash are the new chapter in columbus hardcore. if you're not offended enough by the name, try make it out to one of their shows. several extremely limited tapes available from angry andy in person, first 7" out on youth attack! records on the come up.

photo roundup: cult ritual, dangerbird, reflect, lose the 'tude and more!

lose the tude	lose the tude	pancreatectomie
cult ritual	cult ritual	dangerbird
reflect	vile gash	couch forts

 each picture links to its own flickr page, you can click to the sets from there.

columbus demo tape action - deathly fighter, intense justice, and we remain

been a bit of a nostalgia trip going on over at the columbus sucks message board, old columbus flyers are the topic of one of the most popular threads right now and there are some pretty good ones being posted.  lots of old legion of doom flyers, as well as flyers for shows at addition 13, fire exit, and elsewhere.  the lot of which corresponded with a few cassette rips i'd recently done of a bunch of demos i've been wanting to listen to, and as your luck would have it, posted here for your listening pleasure as well.

first up, we have the xAND WE REMAINx demo.  straightedge youth crew thrash-core featuring past/future/present members of killed in action, dismal, reflect, the ordeal, the dead hate the living, severe, etc.  i think they were still all straightedge at this point.  which still remain?  haha.






xAND WE REMAINx demo 2002 [cassette rip]
http://sharebee.com/093c7e5d
mp3 320kbps VBR [27.24 MB]

it's too late (again)
practice makes you an asshole
#11...i forgot the title
kill your neighborhood drug dealer
the tunnels of cu chi
this city's ours
all that street cred and you're still a loser


next up is the intense justice tape.  this band would prove to be the precursor to the styling (and featuring future members) of the infamous columbus power violence cartel, weed steeler.

intense justice - nail and bail [cassette rip] http://sharebee.com/b4635393 mp3 320kbps VBR [35.64 MB] intense justice that's not normal learn to skate do not go b&r only till september giant bird bass tape rapist live @ madlab 8/29

last, but certainly not least, we have the almighty deathly fighter demo.  maybe even better than 9 shocks terror, this japanese hardcore-influenced band pulled out all the stops, and with surgical precision.  GISM were given their due run for the money.  deathly fighter are kind of still a band, mostly in name only, but are totally different and do not sound like this anymore.  christian who provided vocals for this outfit, currently carries the banner with his latest abomination to humanity, vile gash.

deathly fighter demo [cassette rip] http://sharebee.com/2919f9c6  mp3 320kbps VBR [27.29 MB] gastric detonator u boat jungle the alchemical process (pedigree of a madman) mettallic appliance from guru artifact fear tactics in guru situation

comments, please!  more to come soon!!

a few more photosets, playing catch-up

click each photo to go to the set's page.

 

abiku, hulk smash, dragtown @ lod 07.26.08	overated @ lod 07.22.08
shot baker, overated, wishyouweres @ lod 07.19.08	surroundings, harold kunkle, drought @ lod 07.18.08

 
outclassed, le vansona @ monster house 07.17.08