Children of War 7″

I admit, I’ve been trolling the 7inch Crust blog today looking for nuggets of Minnesota Punk history.  It’s hard to NOT find a lot of Misery.  When a band has been around for 20+ years, putting out records, there’s bound to be a lot out there.

I’m old.  I admit it.  If you’re not old you probably won’t get this reference, but here goes:  To me, Misery has always sounds like listening to an old Black Sabbath record at 16RPM.  🙂

I didn’t intend to post a full week of crust.  Actually my intent was to find some metal.  I started out over at Lockjaw, and eventually found my way to a solid week of 7inch Crust linking.  I hope you’ve enjoyed it…if not, maybe next week will have something more your speed.  If there is something you are looking for, or you have a blog and want me to link something up, let me know.

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Next Time 7″

MNPunk is turning into MNCrust this week. More Misery.  Seriously, I don’t know if enough can be stated about these guys.   They’ve been doing it in this town for years, and they keep on doing it.  Amazing.

Links to more Misery releases can also be found after the jump.

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Poison Gas split 7″

More Misery. This time a split with Hellspawn.

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Born, Fed…Slaughtered

If there were a grandfather of crust…the old man with crazy stories that you still see hanging around the neighborhood, it would be Misery.  Easily the longest lasting crust band in Minneapolis, these guys have been around for years, and somehow they are still doing shows.

This record is probably their best known (to me anyway) and one of their earliest recordings (1989).  This is a great rip, complete with all the scans.  Grab it while you can.

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Disrespect (self titled)

More crust punk from Minneapolis.   From the Profane Existence website:

Veterans members of Misery, Destroy, Pissed, and Civil Disobedience, plus a couple of new faces, have joined together to play the style of music that brought them into the punk movement – 80’s punk rock in the UK style. Having played entire sets of classic punk songs for most of their two years’ existence, Disrespect have finally turned their attention to original songs of their own, highlighing the musical style that brought them together. Five songs of male/female vocal fronted, sing-along punk rock, with social-political lyrics, and all the power you’d expect from a PE release. Includes fold-out poster sleeve and are pressed on red vinyl. Read the review at Aversiononline!

Out of print (according to the PE website).

Profane Existence

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Next Time 7″
Misery are Minnesota’s longest continuously operating punk band. 22 years and still counting! Minneapolis crust punk.
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