Warhead-The lost self and beating heart (1996,Blood Sucker Rec.s)

No much blurb for this diamond: Warhead was another diamond from the Land of Rising Sun, they formed in Kyoto and self-released Cry of Truth 7" in 1991 (re-released in 1992 by Amok Rec.s and in 2001 by Devour Rec.s), Kono Omoi Wo Dokow E cd/12" came out in 1993 on Blood Sucker and was followed by Lost self and beating heart and Drive it in your head 7" (1999, Fast Nail), in 2001 they appeared in One Shot One Kill lp comp (Overthrow) with Extinct Government, Zone and D.S.B., then they called it a day and came back in action in 2004 releasing a split 7" w Order on HG:Fact.
The first time i listened to a Warhead record was many years ago, the record was Kono Omoi Wo Dokow E and still remember me shatting my pants and keep listening again and again, amazed by the unexpected brutality: Nine songs and less than twenty minutes of raging hardcore, hands down this is great record!
The Lost self... was released in 1996 by Blood Sucker in blue and black vinyl versions and continues Kono Omo..'s journey into brutality: The band now had new pass player and delivers six tracks and nearly twelve minutes of manic rage with insane vocals, thrashing guitars spitting noise and fast smashing drums leading each song beyond the speed limit. A masterpiece of noise.
Ugly Pop Records included The Lost self.. in the vinyl version of Kono Omoi Wo Dokow E to make a full-length and Blood Sucker released the cd version of it. Blood Sucker stands behind some other jewels of Japanese scene such as Death Side, Bastard, Gudon, Forward, Disclose, Liberate, Nightmare, Crude, D.S.B. and many others
This was posted in May '07 and here is again in new rip and blah blah blah blah, enjoy it.

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Bastard-Controlled in the frame 7" (bootleg)

As the stats counter hits over half a million crusties, punks, hc kids or any curious or non-punk guy who entered here, i feel the need to celebrate by posting a record that has a special meaning for me. Controlled in the Frame is related to a very special person for me and since St Valentine is on the way and St' s Valentine's Day Massacre is already posted elsewhere, this piece of vinyl is perfect for me and also a good reason to bring to first page an old post, but also this post goes to Mike of Fifteen Counts.. blog as a shout out to continue blogging and stop self-inflicted inner heart-eating criticism.kouraggio ree!ante gamoto!
To be honest this post was inspired also by this ep's appearance in an auction on eBay some weeks ago and as expected it caused a little fever to some pretencious assholes (it ended in 90 or 100$ and to coin Herman of Bombanfall "Punk and e-bay….NOT a combination!". But then i have to coin Whispy:"Punk is business on eBay". Sad and true. Anyway, this is the bootleg vinyl of Controlled in the Frame, the original release was posted in summer of '07 here. Bastard stand in the pantheon of Japanese punk scene and despite the poor discography (one lp,one ep and contribution in Triple Cross Counter and Go ahead make my day–Smashing Odds Ness 2, lp comp's) their records where masterpieces and put them among the other legends of Japanese scene.
The guy from the now defunct Austrinken site, a site run by a guy from Germany(?) presenting information about records (number of copies pressed, vinyl colors,different covers, pressings and such shit and many of these records where from Japan) had written back in the day that there were two different sleeves, the standard/original with hard paper inner sleeve and the limited to 300 copies with poor xerox/photocopied sleeve (a tour edition?). Punk Rock Pictures Sleeves says about blue vinyl of second press (the flimsy cover one), not quite sure though. The bootleg's cover came in a (poor) photocopy too, labels are blank as expected and if i am correct this was bootlegged in 2001 or so, if you know anything about it just drop a few lines.
This was the rant and i said much shit again, now listen it

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Bombanfall-Asiktsfrihet 7" (1987,selfreleased)

"To set the record right; we had 3 gigs. In Stockholm with Asta Kask and once at Ultra Huset-the legendary house of punk and also in Gothenburg at the anarchist festival with bands like Disarm and other heros. Our name was Two Moons Rising( taken from the native American chief who fought the oppressors and general Custer in Little Big Horn.)."
This was written by Herman guitarist of Bombanfall in 7inchpunk. Asiktsfrihet (Freedom of opinion) is their only recorded material, it came out in 1987 and its a milestone of powerful and brutal crustcore that stands equal to other diamonds of Swedish scene of 80's such as Anti Cinex, Disarm, Shitlickers and others: Is this a blasphemy? no noway! this record rules! Brutal vocals, aggressive guitars and blasting drums, though not much D-beat drumming here. The whole thing is very close to the old n good Extreme Noise Terror era.
The record was selfreleased and 500 copies or so were made, the band changed their name to Two Moon Rising after the record was released so some copies had a sticker on back side informing "Text oh musik Two Moon Rising". These copies included a red sheet with lyrics and this info:"Inspelad och mixad pa Bee Three Bee Records"=recorded and mixed byBee Three Bee Records.
Disfear covered Halsning fran helvetet in Powerload 7", the entire Asiktsfrhet ep appears in Hardcore elitserien vol. 1-It Is Yourself Who Makes It Possible bootleg lp and All Hope Lost..Swedish hardcore 1982-1993 bootleg tape, Kill From The Heart says they were included in Delirium Tremens vol 14, Mr Toxik from Crucified For Your Sins posted this tape but there is no sign of them.Edit:in fact Bombanfall appear in Delirium Tremens #4 , thanks -Chris-!!!
This was the only release of Bombanfall. Erich (Fear of God, Good Bad Music) wrote about an offer for a future ep release on his own label Off Disc Records but TMR asked for a shitload of money upfront so things didn't work out.
This was posted back in summer of 2007 and here it is again in fresh new rip and scans (no sticker and lyrics sheet though). Nowadays this is a shit of rarity but if you really want a piece of it, Herman still got some copies:"I´ve got some unplayed 7″ left from that time for those wanting to blow up e-bay paranoia ripoff prices like 105 us dollars for a used 7″ with us…what a bunch of bullshit! Punk and e-bay….NOT a combination!Drop me a line at my e-mail: nopartial (at) hotmail (dot)com"

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Hellbastard-They brought death 7" (Temple of Love,1989)

This was posted in the second day of lifetime of this blog in March '07 and since is a classic for the genre here it is again in fresh new rip and scans
There is no much to say about those who first coined the Crust term, what's sad about them is the fact that they belong in this category of bands with glorious/great beginning and continued with not so good/less good/mediocre records in their later releases
They brought death was released in 1989 by the German label Temple of Love Records in 1000 copies of clear gold, yellow, red, black and blue vinyl. The package includes a sheet with some lyrics and special thanks and a second sheet with flyer drowing and infos about Temple of Love releases (Temple of Love was a Neuendeich (north Germany) based label and back in 1988 released the Fear of God 7").
Hellbastard's later records delivered predictable Bay Area thrash metal but their early stuff (Hate Militia & Ripper Crust demos & Heading for Internal Darkness lp from 1988) makes them one of the 80's UK crust legends, They brought death comes from this period:
Schwarzwasser is the emotional intro that leads to the mid tempo thrash attacks of Deadlock and eponymous track, imagine Venom meeting Amebix or to coin Maximum Rock n Roll "Crass meets Metallica", both tracks are too long (the whole ep lasts over fourteen minutes) and despite the metal riffs and the "too much metal" guitar sound, the record stands with one foot in the crust/punk territory and delivers the goods. Good enough to consider it as a classic.
Twenty years after the release of They brought death and it has become a collector's item and is the reason for bid farts on eBay each time it appears, not as big farts as Deviated Instinct's Welcome to the Orgy but still big smelly farts, and since its New Year's Eve Santa Crust brings you two colors and the songs ripped from each record, listen it and say what color sounds better! Cheers and Crusty New Year!

blue vinyl
clear gold vinyl

Extreme Noise Terror-Are you that desperate 7'' (Crust Records,1989)

This is how the story goes: Victims of War was a shortlived and unknown band from Ipswich, England, they formed in 1981 and recorded an eight track demo tape, sometime they changed their name to Freestate and recorded another demo, this was their only recorded material ever. A few years later a band called Raw Noise formed in Ipswich too and recorded A Holocaust in your Home tape in 1984. The next year they released a split lp with Chaos UK on Manic Ears(re-released in 1990 by Vinyl Japan), this year they split and Dean and Olley a.k.a Pigkiller formed Extreme Noise Terror along with Phil Vane & Pete Hurley from Victims of War/Freestate. The rest are history well known...
Are you that Desperate comes from the old good and glorious days of Extreme Noise Terror and 3/4 of the band is still here (plus Stick who beats the drums), its a live recording from 1989, it was released by Crust Records and delivers some of the ENT classics and their raw furry and manic brutality: Deceived, Another Nail In The Coffin, Subliminal Music, Murder, Raping the Earth... 12':30" of noisy Crustcore. The record comes in gatefold cover including lyrics and the statement "Meat:Food for thought", (band members used to be veggies back in the day, nowadays only Phil Vane is still vegetarian) and once again b side label print is the same to other Crust Records releases (check Apocalypse's Earth or Disrupt's st 7").
There is no need to blurb more, ENT are widely known so the rant will be a little short. Check their myspace, Wikipedia and Metal Archives for more information
01-Deceived
02-Another nail in the coffin
03-Subliminal music
04-Murder
05-Raping the Earth
06-Punk:Fact of fiction

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G-ANX/Filthy Christians-split 7" (Gore Core Records.1988)

Another old diamond and this time we got a split ep with two legendary bands from Sweden: Fri Som En FÃ¥gel… was released in 1988 by Gore Core Records, it came in colored vinyl (there were red,blue and yellow copies) and included two of Sweden's finest acts of late '80's and for both this was the first official release:G-ANX need no introduction, their ep's are already posted here and here, check these posts if you already haven't for more, just to add here an interview with Patrick(vocals) of No Te Calles Fanzine.
Filthy Christians formed in 1985 and included Per Thunell, vocalist of Protes Beng in their ranks, they played in many gigs in Sweden, in the next years they recorded three demos, in 1988 they released the split with G-ANX, in 1990 the Mean lp (and they became the first Swedish band on Earache Records) in 1992 the Nailed cd was recorded at Sunlight Studios and produced by Tomas Skogsberg, they also appeared in the infamous Grindcrusher compilation along with some monsters of extreme metal such as Carcass, Morbid Angel, Bolt Thrower, Terrorizer, Napalm Death etc. When F.C called it quits, members went on Bruce Banner and BombKlan
Here we got one of the blue vinyl copies, the record comes in gatefold cover and includes special thanks and some funny artwork, a sheet with lyrics was included too. Filthy Christians tracks come from their second demo tape: imagine the crust brutality of Bombanfall enriched with some grindcore hints that po p up here and there. There are brutal vocals, rough guitars, beat changes with slower parts followed by fast outbreaks, there is a grindcore feeling but this is not the grindcore as we know it, six tracks are delivered and some of them last less than a minute. On the other side, G-ANX deliver five tracks of their powerful and aggressive hardcore, very fast, fierce, angry and raw and without the acoustic parts that appeared for first time in Far Out.
And the rant will finish with something written in Blood Sisters:"Carl of I Love a Parade, whose old band His Hero is Gone once toured with someone who played in G-ANX, reports that the name (being Swedish) is pronounced more like "yonks" than like "gee-anks" or "ganks." Also it apparently means "pregnant duck," but I'm a little dubiouser on that one". But then Tony said that "We always said "GEEe-Annks" in Swedish". And why G-Anx are included in Blood Sisters? Because of a girl who used to handle bass duties..
Once again too much ranting..go get it

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G-ANX-Far out 7" (Finn Rec.s, 1989)

"Started as Gravida Anker (Pregnant Ducks) in Huskvarna, Sweden 1982. Gravida Anker were playing some old school midtempo punkrock, but the following years they were infiltrated by the young noisecore extremists from Penisknyckarna (Steve, Putte & Hoccy) and the name was cut down to G-ANX in '84. A few years later the last original member Sonnerby was replaced by Hedda. With this final setting we rehearsed approx. 20 times until the split-up in '91 (it's better to split up than to be infiltrated and replaced). We also performed about 20 gigs and recorded 4 vinyl-ep:s - that's all folks. The last ep was supposed to be an album, but some tapes were erased by mistake(?) and we didn't have the energy to complete it". (taken from Swedishpunk)
Far out was the first of the three ep's that complete the G-ANX discography and was released in 1989 by Finn Records and right after the split with Filthy Christians, their other ep's are already posted here and here check these for further details about the band,(soon there will be a repost of split w Filthy Christians) and their demo tapes
The first thing worth to mention about Far Out is the strange artwork for a punk record, it reminds me of the little price of Antoine Exipery fairytale, next worth to say is about the music: Powerful hardcore with aggression and wrath, shouted vocals and catchy riffs and raw sound , tracks are fast with slower breaks and the usual acoustic parts for G-ANX songs appear here and there, in Ninteenninteyeight they create the link that connects Far Out and the form of songs of their next records by the emotional acoustic intro and slowing down the speed, Stenad is a raw noise attack of 49 seconds, Appelskruttar is fast a hell with slower parts and Skitsnack moves from mid paced to moderately fast pace. The record comes in gatefold cover and includes lyrics.
This is it, go get and tell what you think, These tracks appeared in Flashback discog. cd(Sound Pollution / Elderberry Records), G-ANX contributed in several compilations such as Really fast vol 4, (1988,Really Fast Rec.s), Bblleeaauurrgghh 7"(1991,Slap a Ham), Civilisationens Bakgård 7''(1991,Elderberry) and as you already know members continued with mighty Counterblast (a new 10" is just unleashed) and in a less known act named Farcical, & don't forget that some of these people also ran Elderberry Records

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S.D.S.-Scum system kill 7" (Mangrove, 1996)

S.D.S. were the answer from Japan to UK's masters of crust of '80's and Scum system kill is another diamond of Japanese punk crust scene. They started back in 1987 and a brief history can be found in the old post of Never Arise, blog wise old timers probably remember Scum system kill posted in low bitrate and no scans in the first weeks of this blog so here it is in fresh new rip and scans.
Scum system kill includes four tracks that were recorded in the fall of 1995 and was released in 1996 by Mangrove in several vinyl colors, according to Discogs "This record was pressed on a myriad of colors. Red with blue splatter, yellow marble & black also exist, most likely others as well") and was included in 2cd discography (Past and Future, released on Mangrove/MCR).
Never arise was the first S.D.S. record and was pure worship of Antisect, Amebix and Axegrinder with heavy guitar riffs and mid-paced tempos, in Scum System Kill and the seminal split LP w Misery S.D.S. moved forward to a type of crustcore that mixes their metallic heritage of UK's crust legends with faster tempos, aggressive riffs, noisier sound and the typical gruff Japanese vocals (even the shrieking vocals of Distort fucking hope fit nicely with the music), i don't know if the example is appropriate but they remind me of the Deviated Instinct changes from Terminal Filth Stenchcore and Welcome to the Orgy to Rock n Roll Conformity, Guttural Breath and Nailed. The Punk Metal Bastard of artwork is just nice, a sheet with a text written by Takacho (vox) is Japanese is included, not any colored vinyl here, just the typical black.
In Ameber, S.D.S. slightly moved to a more metallic crustcore by adding some more metal hints that appeared also in Digital Evil in your Life 10" and in split w Hong Kong Knife they presented some rock n roll elements, when they called it a day some members continued with Delta.
That's the crappy rant, now go get it and say someshit about the record

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Black Kronstadt-Crimes of Capital, Crimes of the State (Hierarkill, 1992)

Black Kronstadt formed in early 90's in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and called it a day in mid '90's, their legacy is Crimes of Capital... 7", A world to Win 7", Free Spirit lp and a contribution in Retrogression #10 but what is important and their real heritage is the fact that they were the founders of what was later to become Blackened Crust, a sub-genre that was developed by Iskra, the band that arose from the ashes of Black Kronstadt. (Iskra members are involved with Skagos, Leper, Corrodead and others)
Crimes of Capital... was released in 1992 by Hierarkill Records (band's own label), the package is awesome, the record comes in poster shaped sleeve with amazing cover artwork, lyrics, explanations, special thanks and texts about topics related with the lyrics: the other side of foldout becomes poster and includes some artwork and small-letter font writings (just like Sludge and Lettuce) about Zapatistas and ELZN, a sheet with some poetry is included. Music wise this is powerful hardcore with shouted vocals and guitar riffs influenced by Discharge, Conflict, Chaos UK and the likes, (the Blackened Crust seeds started to grow a few years latter in A World to Win 7" before take their complete form in the intense guitar riffs and screamed vocals of Iskra) and as expected for a band named after the city that is synonymous with the rebellion that became the last cry and hope for freedom in Lenin's Soviet Union (read Ida Mett's book and check youtube for some old videos), lyric wise each track is a strong political statement, the first song "Tragedy" is about the desperate 12 day revolt and struggle in Barcelona in 1909, well written lyrics and interesting enough to make you sit down and read.
No more useless rant, there are two links, the first for the tracks and the second with the high resolution scans, check also A world to win (full scans too)

Crimes of Capital (tracks)
Crimes of the State (artwork)

Wolfpack-Hellhound warpig 7" (Distortion Rec.s,1997)

This post was supposed to be Bloodstained dreams 7" but then i remembered that Hellhound warpig was posted some ages ago without scans and so here is the real shit for you
There is no much to say about Wolfpack since you know the basics, don't you?:Hellhound warpig came out in 1997 and its long out of print, Distortion Records is the label behind this diamond and apart from the classic black there were copies in red vinyl and white as well. Music wise delivers five tracks of Swedish hardcore with metal-edged sound blending melody, power and aggression in an amazing combination. Tracks move from midpaced yet steady (Gunhead battalion) to moderately fast chord progressions (Hellhound warpig), guitar sound delivers the right average of melody in roughness and aggression with raging riffs and some great clear melody lines with metallic hints that pop up here and there (Shapeshifter, Submission), bass is thick and dissonant and Jonnson's (Anti Cimex "fame") shouted vocals are just awesome,. These five tracks appeared later in the cd version of Lycanthro Punk on Regain Records, there is a forceful aura from the beginning to the end and the record delivers the goods, production/sound quality is excellent and there is nothing to complain to. Artwork is nice and this is what became Wolfpack's logo, lyrics included in an insert.
i think i have said it all, now go get it
Tracklist:
01:Hellhound warpig
02:Shapeshifter
03:Cinte-fuckin-rella
04:Gunhead battalion
05:Submission

hellhound warpig