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

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[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

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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

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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

dangerbird, couch forts @ legion of doom 08.09.08

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dangerbird came out from philly to lay down the epic crazy horse stylings and couch forts folked off!

dangerbird | couch forts

devil makes three, ripshit, lose the tude, dylan bredeau, brown sugar, rational animals @ lod 07.09.08

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epic show at the legion of doom. seven bands tore it up in less than four hours!! check the links!!

devil makes three | ripshit | lose the tude | dylan bredeau | brown sugar | rational animals | john walsh

onion - faster

here's one i uploaded for a friend and decided to post since it's already upped.  i haven't been able to find any infos on this band, but i know i do have at least one other 7", maybe two.  the CD was released on crisis records, which, to my knowledge, was a short-lived subsidiary of revelation.  i think i bought this because it was the same label that put out the first farside 7", which i was really into.  this release doesn't fall far from that type of sound, either.  very melodic rock-ish type stuff.  if you're a fan of bay area punk from the early 90s (samiam/jawbreaker) or minneapolis in the 80s (soul asylum/husker du), i think you'll dig this.  if anyone has any more information, it would be greatly appreciated!!


onion - faster
http://lix.in/-259f0f
mp3 320kbps VBR [94.64 MB]

01   What Can I Do? (2:82) 
02   What Comes From Today (2:21) 
03   Empty Glass (4:15) 
04   No One's Home (3:59) 
05   The Same (2:91) 
06   3 Or 4 (3:29) 
07   Dreamizer (3:50) 
08   10 Below (3:49) 
09   So Emotional (3:02) 
10   8 Hours To Apathy (2:91) 
11   The Flying Buttress (5:48) 
12   All Falls Apart (3:23) 
13   Words Left At Home (2:60)
14   Over The Fire (3:34)
15   Room (2:86)

you can still pick this up from revelation records online for twelve bucks.  do it.

awakening - demo 1992

(not to be confused with the more recent awakening, from here in columbus, oh)

an historical document in it's own right, a hardcore demo from a band in hazleton, pa back in 1992.  i always wondered what type of underground music happened there before this era, if any.  i mean there had to be something, right?  i completely remember seeing alleyway graffiti there when i was just a wee lad that read PUNK OUT! in red spraypaint on a white wall just behind the main street downtown.  years later when i was a skaterat punker, i would sometimes see this mob of older goth punks that used to hang out, but i was too shy to talk to them.

we always used to laugh about how hazleton was 20 years behind the times with everything, and if hardcore began in 1982, then i would say that this demo from 1992 was way ahead of it's time!!  pioneers of mob city hardcore?  who knows.  i was friends with all the kids in this band, was there when they recorded this demo at the unisound in reading, pa, and always helped drive equipment to the shows.  i'm not sure if the band even lasted more than a summer.  i only remember there being less than a handful of shows and then the band was no more.  such was the fate of most NEPA hc/punk bands from back in the day.

i think there was a big oi! influence in this band, especially with the more melodic edge and gruff vocals.  i think the bruisers were a favourite at the time.  for what it's worth, hardcore existed in hazleton, pa in 1992.  this is a document.

awakening - demo [cassette rip]
http://lix.in/-22514f
mp3 320kbps VBR [30.36MB]

01 shrug
02 rise
03 pale embrace
04 crazy
05 social prejudice

option - not forgotten '91 demo

i'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this tape might very well be THE holy grail wilkes-barre, pa hardcore demo. option (usually along with sideover) played support to just about every major name in hardcore that came through the area during the early to mid 90s, and ventured out of town on occasion as well.  option could headline a bill of all locals and there would be 2-300 kids there, all singing along!! these songs were staples in their super-energetic live set, the choruses often inducing large dog-piles of kids with backwards baseball caps. wilkes-barre has a pretty rich history of hardcore, DIY shows at firehalls, kids doing fanzines, etc. and where most bands and spots were flashes in the pan, option were there through the thick of it, and really deserve their due.  or at least an MVP award for keeping the scene alive all those years.

the inspiration for this post came from EMS's COREGASM blog, where i was delighted to find the option demo that came out in 1993. a tape which i had never actually owned a copy.  thanx, eric!





option - not forgotten '91 [cassette rip]
http://lix.in/-29f1d4
mp3 320kbps [22.86MB]

01 photo-negative
02 not forgotten
03 mind trap
04 transparent

born bad, search and destroy, reflect, vegetative state @ LOD 06.23.08

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two canadian bands shredded the legion of doom last nite, born bad and search and destroy. born bad stealing the show with their intensely raw energy. both bands sharing most members and other bands' equipment. reflect also debuted some new material, and there are talks of a new demo coming up. long overdue, but better late than never. i'm pretty excited about it. vegetative state opened up the show with their youthful brand of spazzo weirdcore, hope they'll play more legion shows sometime soon!!

click it or ticket!
born bad | search and destroy | reflect | vegetative state

mountain asleep, nice people, eric ayotte, saintseneca, stringpocalypse @ LOD 06.20.08

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great show, but failed to get flicks of stringpocalypse since one of their members decided that his penis needed some fresh air. maybe that's grounds for taking lots more pics? i don't know, but flickr has a certain policy that i, myself, cannot dispute.

mountain asleep | nice people | eric ayotte | saintseneca