Juventud Podrida-1989 7"(Logica Ciega,2012)

A new post at last, i finally decided to update the blog with a post after a few months hiatus, i can't say if this is the come back or whatever since the shit here is getting shittier and you know what i mean, this was supposed to be posted in Crust Demos but then i said "what the hell, why not in 7IC since this is a great record?" so here we go, let's crust again!.
Juventud Podrida come from Panama, actually this band is the first punk band that i discover from this country, Josh from the band, the guy who sent this added some information and here it is: "Juventud Podrida (Spanish for "Rotten Youth") is a Panamanian crust punk band formed in 2007, they are the first band of its gender in their country, The band marked a milestone in the history of Panamanian punk for its "eccentricity", they embrace the idea to work under the DIY ethics and to release their music on vinyl, on a country where doing that is considered a financial disaster for any music group, "1989" is the very first self-released punk record in Panama,t he sampling on "Los Demonios Del Norte" was extracted from the documentary "The Panama Deception", the artwork was inspired on the United States invasion of Panama that occurred in 1989, never forget...."
 I can only add that they also appear in D-beat Hasta Que Te Sangren Los Oνdos compilation contributing Viviendo en depresion , the opening track of ep, Music wise 1989 delivers five tracks of  angry and fast D-beat crust with some slower breaks here and there and brutal vocals from hell, the sound quality is excellent and considering the country of origin, the sound engineer did a great work. Only 150 copies were made. You can stream the ep in their bandcamp, click em a "like" in their facebook or visit their other pages (and they have sooo many, check here). Dnld link includes scans and .txt files with infos and is provided by the band (thanx Josh!,cheers!).
No more ranting, go grab it and enjoy it. The EP costs $5.00 for anybody outside Panama, the shipping is $4.00 for US, feel free to e-mail podridajuventud (at) gmail (dot) com for a physical copy and support the band!

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Benediction-Flexi 8" (bootleg,199..?)

This little red gem comes from the late '80's and its a forgotten flexi from the old school deathsters Benediction. Metal orientated crusties know these vets who along with Bolt Thrower kept the flag of UK's old school death metal high since late '80's. Back in the day and when i was deep into to grindcore and death metal shit, they were one of my favorite bands along with Carcass, Napalm Death, Prophecy of Doom, Terrorizer, Disharmonic Orchestra etc. And since there is a post from these monsters why not something from Benediction? so here we go: "death metal reigns!!!"
The flexi comes in the unusual size of eight inches (which is too large for the usual plastic sleeves made for 7 inch ep's) and brings two songs that last about eight minutes: Subconscious Terror is of course the title track of their first lp and Bonesaw which appeared only in The Dreams You Dread demo tape from1989, (if the song or riffs of it appeared in a song in official release is a question that can be replied by Benediction die hard followers) the recording is live and was probably recorded in the years '89-'91 when Barney was still in the band before join Napalm Death (i love his grunting "punk is dead, rock is dead, hardcore is dead,death metal reigns!") and before Dave Ingram's arrival on vokill duties. Quality wise, this is far from the level of Antisect bootleg and even the cover artwork is far from Benediction's image and lyrical topics. I don't know the year this came out (probably in early '90's) or how many copies were made, if you know any information please share it with us, all i know is this little piece of red flexible vinyl and poor photocopied paper used to reach some high and insane prices on eBay's insanity.
And just a few more lines of meaningless ranting: Some great news about Benediction came up back in 2008 when they announced the release of a split with Wolfbrigade on FETO Rec.s after a seven year hiatus. My enthusiasm turned slowly into disappointment because the record never saw the light of day and the project died in oblivion. Killing Music their latest release is an amazing piece of old school death metal with plenty of crust influences and covers of Amebix and Broken Bones, don't give a shit about the low rates of reviewers in Metal Archives, they just are not into crust.

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Antisect-Out from the void 7" (bootleg)

First post of the year and here's a bootleg which stands equal to the original release: Antisect followed the wave of reunion of old crust bands and you may call it middle age crisis or awakening from their long time hiatus or return to the first love or whatever, the fact is that they are here: Amebix, Doom, and Deviated Instinct are some of the old masters who were back in action when i had this discussion with a friend many moons ago and sometime i said "how about Antisect and Axegrinder? they didn't come back yet". Well, some months later Antisect were back to join the club of reunited legends and Axegrinder are left for their come back if ever happens.
Out from the void is one of the milestone releases of crust punk genre and everything that could be said has already been said. I posted the original record some year ago in the first days of existence of this blog, here. The copy here is a bootleg which came out sometime in '00's, i don't know exactly the year (any help is appreciated) and quality wise looks like the original: It comes in a nice and well made cover in the standards of original release (it's not just a xeroxed photocopied piece of paper that many times bootlegs come with), the vinyl labels are exactly the same with the original and the surprise come from the vinyl which is clear white with some black shades. I don't know how many copies were made, if you know that or any other information about the record just drop some lines and enlighten us.
No more ranting, let's end it here, enjoy the record and have some crust fun.

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Narsaak-Vatra 7" (1997,Per Koro Records)

This is an amazing piece of vinyl from a now forgotten band which delivered some great records and somehow was ahead of its time: Narsaak formed in Darmstadt, Germany in early '90's and last summer they called a day after their final gig. "The members played in several bands after the split most of them in SKELETON ARMY & BASTARD KING just to name a few. Since late 2006 we are back on the map with almost the same line-up where we broke up 8 years ago". Their discography includes a handful of seven inch releases and weirdly not any lp, Their back catalogue is in their myspace and some of these are already posted here and there (split w Notwehr, split w Dead Beat, split w Stack, Hunde, lust and tod comp, etc, their swan song is the split with Planks which was released recently.
Vatra was released by Per Koro in 1997 and consists of three songs of dark, metallic emotional and crusty hardcore with rough vocals reminding the ferocious heavy crust of His Hero is Gone, though it's mistake to say "they sound like HHIG" since Narsaak existed before HHIG, The description in Per Koro's site about Prasina 7" which was released after a long hiatus says "NARSAAK played (and still playing) melody driven scandinavien hardcore long before WOLFPACK and long before TRAGEDY turned a million americanised trendhoppers onto that stuff." Criminally underrated band.. Dzini the singer sings in German language and lyrics are printed inside the gatefold cover. Unfortunately the record lasts for only 6:40" since two of the tracks are fast and end soon while the third is slower and a little longer.
This is an old rip of mine (and the title is mispelled "Valtra"), i did it sometime in 2009 in the same "ripping session" with Degarne's The Last Dance but never posted it since it was still available from Per Koro but not anymore. And since is an old rip here you got the all the scans. This is probably the last post for this year so have a happy new year and blah blah blah, see you the next year with more crust, cheers!

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Uprising-As Long As There's A Profit To Be Made... 7" (2004,Incendiary Sound,Act of Attribution)

First off i feel the need to send my apologies to Nate from Uprising for taking almost an eternity to post this little gem since is an awesome record, it comes from an underrated and not well known band that never had the attention it deserved from the crusties, yeah it's sad and true and i have to live with it: Ii m a lazy bastard who's getting aged and forgets... :/
Uprising formed in Michigan in early ' 00's and in their short life they released the amazing split with Contravene on Catchphraze Records in 2003 and this ep, there is also a cd-r demo which came out in only 35 copies plus a few more songs (in heavier crusty pathways) recorded for a future release that never saw the light of day because of lack of funds and motivation.
As long.. was recorded in 2003 and came out in '04 (or it was 2006?), the complete title is "As long as there's a profit to be made there's no telling where the killing will end", music wise it delivers six tracks of crusty anarcho-punk/hardcore with political lyrics in a blending of Nausea and early Contravene, it was released by Incendiary Sound Records and Acts Of Attrition (any help about the labels is appreciated), 300 copies were made, 25 came with release show limited covers. Despite being a nice record (Contravene is the first band that comes to mind each time i listen this, Uprising were such good) it didn't sell much copies due bad distribution, for those who might want to get a copy, Nate still has many ,contact him via mail at uprisedetroit (at) gmail (dot) com and get one, it rarely pops up on ebay, distros or elsewhere).
No more blurb, the songs of ep are already uploaded on Soundcloud by Nate so you can give it a listening.

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No title for this post since there is nothing on the cover revealing what is this but i m more than sure you already recognized the record: Anyway, from Doom's Live in Japan we continue with another rare shit: This is known as s/t tour ep or Phantom ep but the band informs with a text inside the gatefold cover that "the unofficial title of this is Live and Compressed". And yes, the band is Disfear and this is their self released tour ep for their US/Canada tour of May/June 2006, this was sold only in their gigs which makes it a little more rare than the Disfear releases of mid 00's plus the fact that there were pressed only 500 hand-numbered copies. The record came in gatefold cover with the lyrics of the three songs printed (Phantom, the first song which sometimes is taken as the title of record, was a new song previously unreleased and two years latter appeared as closing track of Live the Storm, Left to Die and Everyday Slaughter come from Soul Scars and Everyday Slaughter cd's-lp's ) and some information about the recording plus an insert with the date list of gigs for their tour and instructions to win on-line a Disfear pin. The songs were recorded at Tavastia Club in Hell-sinski, Finland and music wise and according to the band, the sound "is very live and unfortunately compressed" and that's what it is but still deliver the goods in chaos.
This was the short rant, . The last months i ripped some vinyls or scanned the covers (or took pictures) of old posts and the during the last weeks i re-up'ed em, so if you take a trip to back pages you will find a lot of these (Deviated Instinct, AGE, Warcollapse, Anarchus, Consume etc and some more will be updated soon, hopefully). So, until the next post, get some drinks and occupy the streets.

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Doom-Live in Japan (1992,Ecocentric Records)

This little piece of vinyl comes from the old days of Doom and brings some tracks live recorded at Antiknock, Tokyo, Japan in 1992. This was released by Ecocentric Records the same year and was the first Doom live record (the second was Pissed, Robbed and Twatted), there were two pressings, the first one came in black n blue cover and label while the second in black and white.A sheet with special thanks was included. Ecocentric site says about 1500-2000 copies were made and long long out of print. Music wise it delivers eight songs including the Black Sabbath cover they used to play and some of their all time classics (Lifelock, Exploitation, etc), the sound is bearable but without reaching the level of quality of Pissed, Robbed and Twatted but definitely much better than the live Multinationals.. bootleg. Not as famous as Police Bastard but a nice document of Doom on stage in early '90's and a rare collector's item and also the chance for some vultures to fill their pockets with money. And just to complete the 7IC Doom post linking, let me tell you that Ecocentric is also behind Doomed to Extinction split with Extinction of Mankind and the cd version of split w Selfish.(and yeah there are some more Doom post in back pages,shameless promotion,hahaha)
That's the short ranting. Yeah once again it took some time since the last post but finally here you have it again, until the next post whenever it come, don't stop listening to crust and keep spitting the face of neo-liberalism.

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Anti Cimex-Victims of a Bombraid (1984,Malign Massacre Records)

It took some time from the last post and a lot of shit happened but finally here we are again: You know the record, you know the band so only a few words here: Some months ago i posted the Hardcore Horror Records re-issue of Victims of A Bomb Raid (here) and i promised an older pressing so here is one of the diamonds of Swedish punk scene in its first issue: This is the original and first press of Victims of... from 1984 co-released by Anti Cimex and Malign Massacre Records. This pressing came in folded sleeve with lyrics and photos inside and had these little bits around the record title text on front cover, "Anti Cimex" is in this pale gray/silver color and vinyl labels were black, the second pressing was almost the same, came in cardboard sleeve it had the name of band in white but these little bits around the record title, the lyrics and photos inside, all were gone. As i said in the first Victims... post, for some reason the record appears with the name Set me Free in a Maximum Rock N Roll add in spring of '84(check it here)
So this is it. I won't rant much since there is no reason and also no mood (just check the headlines about what's going on in Europe and my country, this shit sucks and even if blogging is a way to escape, things are hard and had affect on you so you can not get away), let me direct you again to the amazing Shit-Fi of Stuart Schrader and his Anti Cimex Archive for many documents and crazy ebay auction stories about Anti Cimex records

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VA-Under the Cloudy Sky-Kanazawa City Hardcore (1994,MCR Company)

Under the Cloudy Sky-Kanazawa City Hardcore belongs to the endless seven inch compilation list of MCR Company  and as the title says it consists of bands from Kanazawa City. MCR released a bunch of 7" compilations back in '90's, each one dedicated to one city: Tokyo, Sapporo City, Kyoto, Yokosuka City, Mie City, Shizuoka City and many many others. Kanazawa City Hardcore came out in 1994 in 700 copies and its long long time out of print, it consists of four bands, Iconoclast, Damnable Excite Zombies, Noise Gate and Override Negative. Iconoclast and D.E.Z. are well/widely known, i posted Who does the freedom and equality exist for? and Suck your soul 7"  some years ago so check these posts for some bullshit ranting about them, if you know anything about Iconoclast's singer being also in Crow just drop some lines to reveal the mystery, i have met some conflicting opinions on the web. The other two bands didn't make it out of Japan or at least i never met them around yet, according to Discogs.com Noise Gate appeared in Revolutionary Cry 7" in 1995 which is another seven inch comp by MCR while Override Negative contributed some tracks to Ultimate Attack cd (1994, Ultimate Records).
The record came in four way fold-out cover, each band contributes one song: Iconoclast dominate here, their song appeared in their demo tape, Noise Gate stand equal to Iconoclast and deliver a fast and angry piece of Jap-core with catchy riffs and rough vocals, D.E.Z. are great too with their thrashing hardcore while Override Negative bring some US orientated hardcore.
Go get it,give it a listening and join the rally in your town

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Disfear/Uncurbed-Masslakt/The Strike Of Mankind split 7"(Lost and Found,1993)

Here's is a little gem including two of the most important bands of Swedish scene: Disfear and Uncurbed teamed up for this split which was released by the german label Lost And Found Records in 1993 in only 500 (?) copies and as expected is long out of print. There is no need to say anything about the bands, each of them delivers one song, Strike of mankind of Uncurbed was taken from the cd with the same title while Masslakt (mass slaughter) of Disfear was a new song. Both bands bring powerful, raw and aggressive Swedish hardcore, the record is too sort, it lasts only four minutes (wish there were more songs here) and it looks like a tour ep (the bands toured together in Germany but it was in 1995 not in '93..) or a bootleg (poor photocopied cover, blank labels), futhermore Discogs says "Most of Lost and Found releases are bootlegs" but then Uncurbed list the split as an official release in their discography, anyway if you know anything about that just drop some lines.
Recently Uncurbed called it a day after twenty years of activity, the split w Warvictims was their swan song. Members are already in other acts such as Demonical, Irritation, Interment, Kol & Stål, Entropi and Regurgitate. Disfear keep going on.
This was the short blurb, my scanner is still out of duty i don't know if it will ever recover from its problem but i used my digi cam for the covers. Old dead links are fixed, there is only a handful of them still dead, soon will be fixed (hopefully), no reposts for the moment, artwork was added to some posts and will do the same to some more.
No more crappy typing. Go get it and don't stop fighting IMF,EU and ECB

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Abstain-US '99 tour 7" (1999,Agitate 96)

I know its been a long time since the last post but i had and still have some problems with my turntable and scanner, the turntable is ok now but the scanner is still out of duty, i hope i will fix the problem soon.
A i said to Mike from Fifteen Counts... this post was supposed to bring you some Japanese crust but finally here 's something from the grindcore area: I posted some releases of these Pennsylvanian grinders in the past (Superiority Complex demo tape, split w Unholy Grave, split w Denak and split w Nasum) so there is no need for any blurb about them. This is their ep for the US tour of '99, released by Agitate 96 Records in 500 copies and as expected it delivers fast and brutal hardcore influenced old school grindcore with hyperfast blasting drums and thrashing riffs, vocals moved from the deep low growls of their early records to hoarse high pitched screams/yells, slightly reminding of Drop Dead or Siege. Unfortunately Abstain fall in the category of bands that would sound a little bit better if they added the missing instrument since the sound is a little dry despite the descent production and the chaos of fast drumming, by adding the bass the sound would be more deep and structured but then who am i to judge 'em?. By saying that i don't mean this is a bad record since everything is done fine, Abstain duet ruled back in their day,(Terrorizer is one of my favorite grindcore songs ever) and that's what they do here delivering the goods for nine minutes: Aggression and furry, rawness and speed, the wall of sound, the heaviness and socially awared lyrics are always there.
I said enough, go get it, EDIT: I used my digi cam to solve the scans problem so i added artwork photos, the scanner is still dead though...


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The Craw / Deathgrenade-Primitive thrash split 7" (2010,Live Fast,Die Drunk/Nuclfear)

This split was kindly offered by the Shane of Live Fast Die Drunk Records (myshit, site, blog), a Perth, West Australia based label and consists of two local bands, The Craw and Deathgrenade. I know absolutely nothing about them and the only information is from Live Fast... blog posts: The Craw have released so far Figure 241. Single Abdominal Wound in 2008, the 2009 demo and a four way split cd with Projekbabi, KrassKepala and Deathgrenade. The discography of Deathgrenade includes the two aforementioned releases. The split was released by Live Fast Die Drunk and Nuclfear Records in 500 copies of different cover colors (blue, yellow etc), 400 on limited black vinyl, the rest on pink. Music wise both bands bring primitive and noisy hardcore with some d-beat and crust elements, three tracks of noisy and raw hardcore by The Craw (plus an extra song from the four way split cd as bonus by Shane) and seven fast chaotic and thrashing blasts by Deathgrenade, all good enough to cares your ears. Some copies are still available from Live Fast Die Drunk here(price is in AU$) and also from other labels (here, here, there and there and probalby elsewhere, don't be lazy and search it.
There is nothing else to say,lets keep it short this time.

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