Hands of the Few - Hands of the Few

Artist: Hands of the Few
Title: Hands of the Few
Release: 2006
Label: self released

Track List:
1. Intro
2. This Is Oak Cliff
3. Take Your Life Back
4. For Your Sake
5. Living Nightmare
6. Another Day
7. Friday Night

Wow. This takes me back. Dallas hardcore circa 2004-5 to 2007-8. Before they were Hands of the Few they were Curbcheck and now they're Grounds of Decay. If you like Buried Alive you'll love this.

Please excuse the shitty artwork. I'm actually the person responsible for it. I've gotten much better at Photoshop since then.

Download: Hands of the Few - Hands of the Few (LAME 3.98r V0) Multiupload

Download: Hands of the Few - Hands of the Few (LAME 3.98r V0) Mediafire

Chaotic Alliance/Unit 21 - split

Artist: Chaotic Alliance/Unit 21
Title: split
Release: 2006
Label: self released

Track List:
1. Chaotic Alliance - Idea of Destruction
2. Chaotic Alliance - Facing the Darkness
3. Unit 21 - Reckless Reality
4. Unit 21 - Force Fed Myths

This 7" is from the tour Dallas' Unit 21 and Cleveland's Chaotic Alliance did in 2006. Both sides offer up raging fast hardcore punk with attitude.

Download: Chaotic Alliance/Unit 21 - split (LAME 3.98r V0) Multiupload

Download: Chaotic Alliance/Unit 21 - split (LAME 3.98r V0) Mediafire

Skitsystem - Stigmata

Artist: Skitsystem
Title: Stigmata
Release: 2006
Label: Iron Fist Productions

Track List:
1. Apokalypsens Svarta Änglar
2. Våld
3. Stigmata
4. Hat, Klass Och Rang
5. Min Borg Av Hud
6. Blodskam
7. Det Samvetslösa Hatets Plågor
8. Den Mörka Floden I Vårt Hjärta
9. Öppen Grav
10. Slutstation Babylon
11. Solidaritetens Sista Utpost
12. Lepra

Same story as the previous post.

Like some other posts I've made this one is in a 7-Zip archive. You can download 7-Zip for free from here. I highly recommend it.

Download: Skitsystem - Stigmata (LAME 3.98r V0) Multiupload

Download: Skitsystem - Stigmata (LAME 3.98r V0) Mediafire

Of Montreal - Voltaic Crusher / Undrum to Muted Da

Artist: Of Montreal
Title: Voltaic Crusher / Undrum to Muted Da
Release: 2006
Label: Suicide Squeeze Records

Track List:
1. Voltaic Crusher / Undrum to Muted Da
2. Noir Blues to Tinnitus

From the girlfriend's collection, here's Of Montreal with Voltaic Crusher / Undrum to Muted Da b/w Noir Blues to Tinnitus.

This band is a bit strange. They're from Georgia, however I reckon that has nothing to do with it. Of Montreal sometimes play fairly normal, by the standards of the genre, indie pop/twee. But they also sometimes play a mix of music that can only be called eclectic (another cliched word that I hate in the context of describing music). This 7" is more towards the normal side. It's enjoyable but not stellar. But it's far better than some of their unfortunate later material.

Download: Of Montreal - Voltaic Crusher / Undrum to Muted Da (LAME 3.98r V0) Multiupload

Download: Of Montreal - Voltaic Crusher / Undrum to Muted Da (LAME 3.98r V0) Mediafire

Crow - Bloody Tear

Artist: Crow
Title: Bloody Tear
Release: 2006
Label: Prank Records

Track List:
1. 闘争 -Anarchy Chaos Destruction II-
2. 絶叫
3. 滅亡
4. Give Up All Hope
5. 終焉の扉
6. 混沌神
7. The Death is Singing With Wind
8. 血涙
9. -No Justice I-
10. Slaughter of Nationally　-No Justice II-

More metallic punk from Crow.

You can (and should) buy this from the No Idea Records distro.

Update: 07-21-12: I've swapped out the previous download with a new one. Now, instead of something of questionable origin, I've posted a V0 transcode of the FLAC files that Zer was so gracious to post. I took the liberty of running the tracks through Audition and removing the pops and clicks and normalizing the volume. Thanks a ton to Zer for this!
Download: Crow - Bloody Tear (LAME 3.98r V0)

Criminal Damage - Criminal Damage

Artist: Criminal Damage
Title: Criminal Damage
Release Date: 2006
Label: Feral Ward

Track List:
1. The Power of Fools
2. No Turning Back
3. Last Chance
4. World is Not Enough
5. On Goes the Fight
6. What Are We Gonna Be?
7. Tomorrow
8. Anesthesia

I can't say I know much about this band. I think they're from Portland. Which would make sense because this record, as well as at least one more is on Feral Ward records.

Download: Criminal Damage - Criminal Damage (LAME 3.97b V0)

Tarpit - Wake Up

Artist: Tarpit
Title: Wake Up
Release Date: 2006
Label: Collapse Records

Track List:
1. Smoke and Mirrors
2. Slave
3. The Cycle
4. Your Shit Stinks
5. The Swan
6. Gloom Merchants

Holy shit this band rules. Very very fast and obviously very very angry hardcore from Virginia Beach. The only thing I really know about this band is that some of the members were in Iron Boots and Victims. They recently released a new full length called "Vultures". Since I managed to snag this 7" a while back I've included high res scans of the artwork. Hopefully someone out there enjoys this band as much as I do, because I once drove about two or three hours with this EP on repeat the whole time.

Download: Tarpit - Wake Up (LAME 3.90 APS)

Look Out! - Unrestrained

Artist: Look Out!
Title: Unrestrained
Release Date: 2006
Label: Triple B Records and Team Science Records

Track List:
1. Barren Waste
2. People of the Book
3. Prophet of Doom
4. Unrestrained
5. Truth & Chaos
6. The Serpent

Sometime in 2006 San Antonio's Look Out! became Lie and Wait. Tyler Lutz, their singer is a huge Quicksand fan and at times it shows, not so much on this record though. Lie and Wait doesn't really sound like Quicksand but it's fairly obvious the influence extends past the name of the band. Tyler also has a shitload of nu-metal shared on SoulSeek, thank god there isn't a hint of that in this record. "Unrestrained" for me personally represents Lie and Wait at their best. That isn't to say their newest release "Led Astray" is bad or even worse in any way, it's just that having seen them play these songs so many times I've grown very attached to them. It's clearly a sort of transition record, coming after 2004's "No Control" which is no where near on the same level as "Unrestrained" and before "Led Astray" which is a better representation of what the band sounds like now. My favorite song on this, "People of the Book", is lyrically a fucking awesome song, dealing with religion and how it will be the death of us all. Musically "Unrestrained" is heavy and full of very catchy guitar riffs that will get stuck in your head for days and the recording quality helps the whole record shine.

Lie and Wait broke up. Womp womp.

Download: Look Out! - Unrestrained (FhG 192 kbps)