THE COLLAPSE : s/t - 7"

 

A vinyl released in 2005 for this band from Australia. They didn't release much. But their music is a good slap. A mix of very furious hardcore, with touches of crust, alternating very fast parts and other more intense ones.

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DIRTY LOOKS / BOSSY : split - 7"

 

A split EP released in 2007 on Salinas rds, with American bands. Despite the cover design, it's not an oi! The register is a very catchy emo punk with some nice folk touches.

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BANDANOS / VIOLATOR : split - 7"

 

A beautiful colored cover for this split EP released in 2010.  Both bands are from Brazil. BANDANOS plays good strong thrashcore perfect for skateboarding. VIOLATOR is more of a powerful crossover thrash. Perfect for skatee too!

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ROSENBOMBS : s/t - 7"

 

It was a band from San Francisco (USA) with among others members of PUNCH. This EP was released in 2005 on 625 Thrashcore rds. They also released an album. Here we find 11 tracks of furious fastcore, borderline powerviolence.

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THELOVESONGCOMPAGNY : s/t - 7"

 

Released in 2000, it seems to me that this is the only EP for this band from Germany. They played a screamo and chaotic hardcore style like LOSCUST and company.

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ABUSO SONORO / NO VIOLENCE : split - 7"

 This split EP dates from 2000 and includes two very angry bands from Brazil. ABUSO SONORO is not really unknown in the scene. They play a very direct kind of fastcore, sometimes crust on the edges. NO VIOLENCE is also fastcore, sometimes more hardcore or thrashcore. But sure, it's fast!

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SEVEN MINUTES OF NAUSEA / EUNUCH : split - 7"

 

A split EP from 1995, with two projects from Germany and Australia. If you don't like the music, this is a perfect soundtrack for noisecore fans. Make some fucking noise, more noise!

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THE FALL OF JULIUS : s/t - 7"

 

Unique EP for this band from Sweden, released in 1999. No other information. Their music was a kind of hardcore, sometimes intense, with a dose of screamo and crusty part. Not bad.

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RAW HATE : drunk as fuck existence - 7"

 

First EP released in 2008 for this band from Sweden. They played rough and wild crust-punk dbeat. The band has released other EPs and an album.

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SEPARATION / SERENE : split - 7"

 

A split EP released in 1997 with two bands from Sweden. SEPARATION played oldschool hardcore but with a modern approach. SERENE was an intense hardcore screamo band, one of the best in this style..

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THE ANGEL ASSASSINS : Cult Of Assassination - 7"

 

Unique EP for this American band (San Francisco) released in 1997 on the Hymnal Sound rds label. The band played a nervous hardcore style screamo rockin'chaos like the San Diego bands.

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V/A : double impact - 7"

 

This EP includes a techno/indus track (JOSHUA, from France), a death/grind track (RISE ABOVE from Japan), and two brutal-death tracks (CEPHALIC CARNAGE from USA). It was released in 2001.

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SEVEN FEET FOUR / THE FLYING WORKER : split - 7"

 

A split EP released in 2003, with on one side THE FLYING WORKER, an intense screamo band from France, and on the other side SEVEN FEET FOUR, from Sweden who make a kind of very r'n'r emocore with a touch of FUGAZY.

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STELLINA - s/t - 7"

 

STELLINA was a band from Italy, and this unique (??) EP was released in 1997.It played a kind of frenetic and nervous hardcore screamo, with some post-hc sound sometimes.

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MICHEL PLATINIUM : s/t - 7"

 

Released in 2008, this EP gives us 12 tracks of furious grindcore and punk in spirit, with a dose of crust here, or powerviolence there. The band was from France, and also released a demo and a compilation.

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STACK : Selbstfindungsgruppe - 6"

 

STACK was a German band active between 1993 and 2003. This small 6" vinyl was released in 1997. This band was in the German emoviolence movement, mixing in an intense way hardcore, screamo, grind, metal, chaos.... The band proposes a Bandcamp here : https://stack.bandcamp.com/  

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CONTAINER CRUSTIES FROM HELL / MIHOEN! split - 7"

 

A split EP released in 2000, on among others Maloka rds. CONTAINER CRUSTIES FROM HELL was a band from France who played furious crust. They didn't release much else. MIHOEN were from the Netherlands and played fast and in your face hardcore. They released a lot of split EPs.

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KENEDA : whatever you can say - CD

 

I discovered this band from Orleans (France) on the "Opposite Run" compilation. They played melodic hardcore, perfect for skateboarding. They released a demo "Greenpower" in 1996, which I would like to listen to again. Here it is their first album, released in 1997. Their melodic hardcore is more mature, and ventures towards emo and noisy influences, close to SEVEN HATE sometimes. Another album will follow in 1998

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SUBMERGE : in gold we crush - 7"

 

Second EP (after the split with ANANDA) for this band from Reims, France.It played a kind of heavy and tense post-hardcore, with fast and chaotic parts.  They released afterwards other EPs and an album.

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STANDSTILL / ENGRAVE : split - 7"

 

A split released in 2001, with two rather emo hardcore bands. STNDILL was from Spain, while ENGRAVE was from Germany. The latter sound a bit more screamo.  

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SOAR / GRIEVANCE : split - 7"

 

Split EP released in 2000 on Stonehenge rds, gathering SOAR from France and GRIEVANCE from Italy. Both bands played a mix of intense hardcore metal, with grind, screamo, chaotic, heavy or fast parts. Let's call it emoviolence.

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BLAME LUKE : s/t - 7"

 

Unique EP for this band from Sweden, released early 2000 I think. Among the members is the singer of OUTLAST. 11 tracks of very fast and nervous hardcore, between oldschool and fastcore. A good slap! 

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SABETH : zwei - 7"

 

Released in 1998, this is the second EP for this German band. They were part of this wave of intense bands, which mixed hardcore, screamo, metal or grind, as we will find many of them on the Per Koro rds label. SABETH had a pretty heavy approach. An album will follow in 1999.

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DEAD IN THE WATER - s/t - 7"

 

First EP for this band from Finland, who played a very heavy hardcore crust style, sometimes at the borders of sludge and doom. They released a few records afterwards. Some members also played in the hardcore punk band SHARPEVILLE before.

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NOT WAIVING BUT DROWNING : If It's Too Cute...Set It On Fire - CD

 

A band not very well known but which released a unique and cool album in 1999. They were from Missouri (USA) and played a hardcore metal style, with sometimes melodic, rock or emo touches, giving a very energetic and strong music.

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CORRUPTED / MACHETAZO : split - 7"

 Released in 2000, this split EP will delight fans of dark, heavy and creepy music. On one side the Japanese sludge masters CORRUPTED, and on the other side the Spanish grindcore band MACHETAZO.

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BONES BRIGADE / DFA : split - 7"

 

Split EP released in 2004 on the Belgian label Still Holding On rds. There is a band from the USA and one from Canada, each in their own way, they play fast and old fashioned thrashcore, to skate wildly

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MY HERO DIED TODAY : Definition Kill, Kill, Kill - CD

 

Band from Germany was playing intense hardcore, with some chaotic and rockin part. First MCD out in 1998.

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GLOBAL HOLOCAUST / OBNOXIOUS RACE : split - EP

 

This EP released in 1996 gathers two bands from Canada, in a raging punk style, sometimes a little crust, sometimes a little anarkopunk.

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TRIBE 8 : allen's mom - EP

 

Punk rock band from San Francisco, active from 1991 to 2005, close to the queer and riot grrrls movement. This EP was released in 1994.

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V/A : gore gore girls vol 1 & 2 - EP

Here are two compilations released on the French label New Wave rds, in 1996 and 1998. These compilations put forward a diy and international vision of hardcore punk, even if musically we find also metal, thrash tendency. It is here about female bands.

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DISTRAUGHT : staring at the sun - EP

 

Realized in 1996, this EP contains 3 tracks of crustpunk very raw and rough. DISTRAUGHT was a band from New York.

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THE MARSHES / FAKE HYPPI : split - EP

 

Released in 1998 on Kerosene records (which was also a fanzine), this split 7" gathers FAKE HYPPI, a band from Toulouse (France) in a noisy rock style (Dischord rds style), and THE MARSHES (USA), also noisy but a bit more punk pop.

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ARMED WITH INTELLIGENCE / THE YOUNG ONES : split - EP

 

Released in 2002, this split 7" contains two American bands, in a fast and nervous hardcore punk style.

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VANING 5 : Slå Tillbaks Och Överlev - 7"

 

This 7" was released in 2003, it's the second and last record of this Swedish band. They played an excellent anarchopunk, raging and furious, sometimes even crustpunk.

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V/A : Solidaritat mit politischen - K7

 

This tape was released in the late 90's (1996, 1998?) in support of political prisoners active in animal liberation. Many German bands, but also Swiss, Swedish, French. The register is rather hardcore (oldschool or metal), sometimes screamo, sometimes intense, and in a DIY spirit.

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Tracklist

Side A

01. ECORAGE : herrenmensch
02. ONE STEP BEYOND : intolerance
03. DAYBREAK : brotherhood
04. I SPY : you'll never smash the state
05. DOWN BUT NOT OUT : never again
06. LOXIRAN : endzeit
07. UPRIGHTS : by all means
08. BRISK : sinnloses schlachten
09. PLAIN : you'll never know
10. STRANGE FRUIT : strange fruit
11. DIRESPECT : realizing
12. THE BURNING FLAMES : wiaaah
13. MEHR WUT : ?
14. OUTRAGE : end insight (live)
15. SAPO : in arte ni cultura

Side B

01. UPRISING : ?
02. APPROACH TO CONCRETE : ?
03. POLE* : conteplation
04. INSURRECTION : fallen angels
05. TEMBLOR : misunderstanding
06. ENRAGED : refusal
07. BOILING POINT : gain of your own
08. MOTHER'S DAWN : ?
09. ...BUT ALIVE : es sei demn du bist snake plisken
10. MINE : backseat (live)
11. SUNDANCE : ironcage
12. CHAPTER 11 : searching for identity
13. MIOZAN : big stick policy
14. DISTRICT 14 : captain future

BASQUADE INCHALA : reividicacion - CDR

 

This is the tape version on CDR for this band from Uruguay. Don't really know the date of this release. They was playing fast punk hardcore with rage.

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REMORSE : zero - CD

 

First album released in 2008 for this band from Clermont Ferrand (France), in a cold grindcore style close to NASUM or NOSTROMO. 

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SUBURBAN TERROR PROJECT : s/t - EP

 

Released in 2002, this EP for this American band is in a very chaotic metallic hardcore vein, with some jazz touch sometime. 

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MAKE IT LAST : lower east side tokyo - CD

 

Released in 2014, this EP is a good overview of Japanese hardcore, oldschool but modern, with melody, energy and passion. 

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BORN UNDER SATURN / SHORA : split - EP

 

This split EP was released in 1999 on the Snuff rds label. BORN UNDER SATURN was from the USA and SHORA from Switzerland. Both bands play in a chaotic and intense hardcore metal style. 

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BORN UNDER SATURN : 45 - EP

 

This band was from the USA and played chaotic hardcore with intense parts, influenced as well by grind, metal or mathcore. This EP was released in 1999.

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TAMPERE SS : kuollut & kuopattu - EP

 

Raw punk/hardcore from Finland, playing in the early 1980's. This EP from Havoc rds (1998) is the vinyl version about the tape from 1983.

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BADGER : unhappy life - EP

 

BADGER was an American band, playing nice and catchy emo / meodic punk. This EP was realesed in 1995.

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DAWN OF ALL AGES : rock'n'roll - EP

 

A band from Germany, was playing newschool hardcore with some intense or melodic part. Released in 1997.

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TUOMIOPAIVAN LAPSET : ei koskaan periksi - EP

 

4th (?) EP for this band from Finland, released in 1995, on French label Sludge rds. This band band play scandicore, fast and brutal punk with disbeat touch.

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