Flipper – Fight
Flipper – Fight CD MVD Audio Flipper was one of the earliest San Francisco punk rock bands and practically invented the genre of “noise rock”. While most bands of the time were playing faster, harder and shorter songs, Flipper played slower, noisier, and longer than just about everyone. Many people didn’t really get it and [...]
flu.ID – Iots
flu.ID – Iots CD Exile on Mainstream Records flu.ID were an experimental hardcore band from Germany who seems to have disbanded shortly after this release. This CD contains all the songs from their previous two 10″ vinyl releases that are long out of print. The songs have been remixed and expanded upon to create a [...]
Voetsek – Infernal Command
Vöetsek – Infernal Command CD Self Made God Records Despite their band name making me think they are some sort of old Finnish hardcore band, Vöetsek hail from San Francisco, CA and have been around for five years. The band has had a handful of releases but this is only their second full length album. [...]
Eerie Von’s SpiderCider – That’s All There Is
Eerie Von’s SpiderCider – That’s All There Is CD Ghastly Records Since the last two Eerie Von records sounded nothing alike, I wondered what the next one would sound like. Would it be more like the last one or would it be something completely different again. The latter turned out to be true and if [...]
Eerie Von – Bad Dream No. 13
Eerie Von – Bad Dream N0. 13 CD Ghastly Records For those of you who may not know who Eerie Von is I will explain. Eerie Von was the drummer for a relatively obscure New Jersey hardcore band called Rosemary’s Babies and was also a huge Misfits fan and friend to Glenn Danzig. When Glenn [...]
Rosemary’s Babies – Talking to the Dead
Rosemary’s Babies – Talking to the Dead CD Ghastly Records Rosemary’s Babies were a very short-lived New Jersey hardcore punk band who were around between 1981-1983. Their sole muscial output consisted of the Blood Lust 7″ EP which came out the year they disbanded. Those of you who are Samhain and Danzig fans will be [...]
Farflung – A Wound in Eternity
Farflung – A Wound in Eternity CD Meteor City Though they’ve been around for around 14 years now and have a few albums under their belts, this CD is the first time I’ve heard Farflung, or even heard of them for that matter. Even with having a couple releases on the defunct Flipside Records they [...]
Ohgr – Devils In My Details
Ohgr – Devils In My Details CD SPV Records Skinny Puppy has been my favorite band on Earth for the past 20 years. I can’t get enough of them and to me there will never be a better band ever in my lifetime. On top of being in the greatest band to walk the globe, [...]
The Wacky Hi-Jinks of… Adrenalin O.D. CD
Adrenalin O.D. – The Wacky Hi-Jinks of… Adrenalin O.D. 2xCD Chunksaah Records My initiation to Adrenalin O.D. (or AOD for short) came at the hands of a pair of compilations: Flipside Vinyl Fanzine Volume One (where their cover of the Brady Bunch theme cracked me up and was awesome) and We Got Power (where their [...]
Asva – What You Don’t Know is Frontier
Asva – What You Don’t Know is Frontier CD Southern Records Asva is a bit of an underground “supergroup” that was started by G. Stuart Dahlquist of Burning Witch, Goatsnake, and Sunn0))). Those more familiar with those bands will undoubtedly know of this man, and probably know what to expect out of Asva. For those [...]
Rudimentary Peni – No More Pain
Rudimentary Peni – No More Pain CD Southern Records When I was a young punker in the 1980s, I stuck mostly to the North American punk rock and never got super heavy into the British stuff with few exceptions. I remember all the “Crass punks” as I called them also seemed to be into Rudimentary [...]
Plan 9 – Manmade Monster
Plan 9 – Manmade Monster CD Nickel and Dime Records The worst kept secret in the entire world is that I don’t like new punk bands doing covers of old punk rock songs so when I opened up my mailbox to find a CD from a band whose entire premise was formed as a Misfits [...]
Mouth of the Architect – Quietly
Mouth of the Architect – Quietly CD Translation Loss I think it was about a year and a half ago that i saw Mouth of the Architect play a show. I had never heard of them before and they were opening up for the band that brought me to there. I was pretty blown away [...]
The Accused – More Fun Than an Open Casket Funeral CD
The Accused – More Fun Than an Open Casket Funeral CD Unrest Records Back in the late 1980s punk rock fell on some dark times. All the great hardcore bands were either breaking up, trying to sound like U2 or turning metal, with turning metal being the avenue that was the most popular. While this [...]
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks – Beirut Slump/Shut Up and Bleed
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks – Beirut Slump/Shut Up and Bleed CD Atavistic In punk rock’s infancy, one of the more interesting scenes going on was the No Wave scene happening in New York City. The No Wave compilation is one of those mandatory punk records that should be found in every record collection and [...]
Lair of the Minotaur – War Metal Battle Master
Lair of the Minotaur – War Metal Battle Master CD Southern Lord Recordings Despite this being their third album and evidently the band being from my own city, this CD stands as my first exposure to Lair of the Minotaur. The band name alone conjured images in my mind of something dark and sinister and [...]
