Crow - Last Chaos (reissue)

Artist: Crow
Title: Last Chaos (reissue)
Release: 1994
Label: Overthrow Records

1. Anarchy Chaos destruction
2. War
3. Crow
4. No Violence
5. Give Up All Hope
6. The Day of Annihilation
7. Last Chaos
8. Storms of Despair
9. Is This Fiction?
10. Hiroshima Nagasaki
11. For Fucking State
12. Give Peace a Chance
13. Air Attack
14. Last Chaos

Last release from Crow that I have.

Download: Crow - Last Chaos (reissue) (LAME 3.93 192 kbps) Mediafire

Current/Chino Horde - split

Artist: Current/Chino Horde
Title: split
Release: 1994
Label: Council Records/File 13 Records

Track List:
1. Current - Monument
2. Chino Horde - What You Can't Get Now, I'll Give You Later (Prelude)
3. Chino Horde - Silo

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I like Chino Horde more than Current.

Download: Current/Chino Horde - split (LAME 3.98r V0) Mediafire

The Gaia - No.1

Artist: The Gaia
Title: No.1
Release: 1994
Label: Six Weeks Records

Track List:
1. You Are No. 1
2. No Sleep. No Dream
3. Dream Machine
4. Why Not?
5. Boys (The Beatles)
6. なだれ

I can't say I know much about this band other than they were all female, from Tokyo, and are totally awesome. If you're familiar with Six Weeks Records and haven't heard The Gaia then you probably know what you're getting into anyways. Fast loud hardcore that verges on the edge of what some might call power violence. As far as this record goes it's definitely just straight up hardcore punk. Track 5 is cover of The Beatles.

Download: The Gaia - No.1 (LAME 3.98r V0) Multiupload

Download: The Gaia - No.1 (LAME 3.98r V0) Mediafire

Hoover - The Lurid Traversal of Route 7

Artist: Hoover
Title: The Lurid Traversal of Route 7
Release: 1994
Label: New Renaissance Records

Track List:
1. Distant
2. Pretender
3. Electrolux
4. Shut
5. Route 7
6. Regulator Watts
7. Father
8. Cable
9. Letter
10. Cuts Like Drugs
11. Return
12. Private
13. Dries

What little I know about Hoover comes from Discord website so I might as well just copy and paste it since I have very little to add.

By the early 1990s, DC had become well-known in the underground music scene and had become a destination for people looking for a place to land after leaving their hometowns. Because many of the people moving into town were musicians, a number of new bands featuring these transplants began to spring up and, probably owing to their unique perspective on what was happening here, they brought with them new interpretations of the music. One of these bands was Hoover. Ian MacKaye had met most of the members in their respective towns over the years while on tour with his band, Fugazi, and rolled in the same circles when they moved to DC. Their early shows convinced him to go into Inner Ear with them to record their first single, which was released as a Dischord/Hoover Limited half-label. Later they would record an album for Dischord with Geoff Turner at WGNS studios, but, in keeping with the DC tradition, in 1994 after two short years the band broke up.

This is really good stuff. From a time that now seems long ago and nearly forgotten except by a few who choose to hang on. When "emo" was just a superfluous word for emotional hardcore. I'll spare you the rant about how bastardized the word has become. If you're a fan of the "D.C. Sound" you probably already know about this album.

This is the 2005 reissue with additional tracks. I encoded this from a perfect FLAC rip I downloaded.

Like everything from Dischord (to my knowledge anyways) this has never gone out of print and can still be purchased. As usual if you like it you should at least consider purchasing it since it's still available.

Download: Hoover - The Lurid Traversal of Route 7 (LAME 3.98r V0) Multiupload

Download: Hoover - The Lurid Traversal of Route 7 (LAME 3.98r V0) Mediafire

Bunnygrunt - Standing Hampton

Artist: Bunnygrunt
Title: Standing Hampton
Release: 1994
Label: No Life Records

Track List:
1. Macho Beagle
2. Mississippi
3. Favorite Food
4. Cry (Raspberries)

Bunnygrunt, from St. Louis, has been around for a long time in the indie pop/twee scene. What little I know about them I know from Wikipedia so I'm afraid I have very little to add about their history.

This 7" is pretty much exactly what would come to my mind when I think of twee. Poppy but fizzy guitars, drum beats with roots firmly planted in punk rock, and vocals sung in a sing song sort of way with lots of back up harmonies. Oh and hand claps. Can't forget those. "Cry" is a top-notch cover of a song by 70's power pop group Raspberries.

I got to see Bunnygrunt in May of 2009 with Denton, TX's Fishboy (albloltross). Sadly they didn't get much of a response from the 20 or so people there despite playing an excellent set. I blame the fact that they hadn't done much of anything in a really long time. I bet most of their original fans are old enough to have better things to do than hang out in a pizza place's basement on a Friday night.

I don't remember where it was (probably in Austin) that I bought this record for my girlfriend. I'm glad I did because I enjoy it an awful lot too.

Download: Bunnygrunt - Standing Hampton (LAME 3.98r V0) Multiupload

Download: Bunnygrunt - Standing Hampton (LAME 3.98r V0) Mediafire

Distortion to Hell

Artist: Various
Title: Distortion to Hell
Release: 1994
Label: Distortion Records

Track List:
1. Warcollapse - Misery & Despair
2. Warcollapse - Warcollapse
3. Dispense - Disorder
4. Dispense - Nervous Breakdown
5. Dispense - Massgenocide
6. The Perukers - Protest & Survive
7. The Perukers - Spräckta Snutskallar
8. The Perukers - Burn Out
9. Sauna - Bestiality
10. Sauna - Different
11. Sauna - M.N.C
12. Asocial - The Nightmare Arrives / Goodbye
13. Asocial - Burn Offerings
14. Asocial - Rebound Reality
15. Bombraid - Fuck Society
16. Bombraid - Brända Pengar
17. 3-Way Cum - Government Arseholes
18. 3-Way Cum - Begging for Help
19. 3-Way Cum - Kill & Infest
20. Dissober - Bödlar I Vita Rockar
21. Dissober - In the Shit
22. Dissober - Days of Pride
23. S.L.R - When the System Falls
24. S.L.R - Stimulated Agression
25. S.L.R - Crusade of the Cursed
26. Black Nation - Bomben
27. Black Nation - Ändrar Din Asikt
28. Black Nation - Vägra Blunda
29. Black Nation - Maskiner
30. Arsedestroyer - 4.25 Minuters Sodomi
31. Driller Killer - Who?
32. Driller Killer - Alcoholocaust

This is an excellent compilation of Swedish crust bands from the mid-90's. Highly recommended. I got lucky and picked this up for dirt cheap. I figured I might as well post my own rip. Expect more awesome compilations to follow.

Download: Distortion to Hell (LAME 3.98r V0) Multiupload

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