Fuckheads - 2011 Summer Tour Tape

Artist: Fuckheads
Title: 2011 Summer Tour Tape
Release: 2011
Label: self released

1. Lion
2. Sit Around
3. Grinder
4. Traitor
5. Choke
6. Empty

This has been sitting in my tape player for a while now. I just never got around to ripping it until recently.

Fuckheads are from Boston and play crazy distorted noise in the same vein as D-Clone. Their longest song is a minute and 13 seconds so they never even come close to breaking the two minute rule. You'll either love this or think it shouldn't even be considered music.

Download: Fuckheads - 2011 Summer Tour Tape (LAME 3.98r V0) Mediafire

Proclamation - Straight Edge Hardcore

Artist: Proclamation
Title: Straight Edge Hardcore
Release: 1998
Label: Bridge 9 Records

Track List:
1. Straight Edge Hardcore
2. What It Takes
3. ...In the Family
4. Glorify the Lies
5. You Should Pay
6. On the Rise
7. Torn Apart
8. You Gave In

This is really cheesy straight edge hardcore (obviously) from Boston in the mid-90's. I realize that at the time this band was forming that this style of hardcore with these kind of lyrics probably wasn't quite as cliched as it is now. But that doesn't do much to keep this EP from seeming like a parody. I'd be lying if I said I didn't like it, but I'd also be lying if I said it was good.

Here's some more info on Proclamation and this particular record. If you like this you can actually get it on CD as part of an early singles collection from Bridge 9 Records still. And for an extremely fair price of six dollars.

Download: Proclamation - Straight Edge Hardcore (LAME 3.98r V0) Multiupload

Download: Proclamation - Straight Edge Hardcore (LAME 3.98r V0) Mediafire

R'N'R/The Suicide File - split

Artist: R'N'R/The Suicide File
Title: split
Release: 2002
Label: This Blessing This Curse Recordings

Track List:
1. R'N'R - Poser
2. R'N'R - All Murder, All Guts, All Fun! (Samhain)
3. The Suicide File - Some Mistakes You Never Stop Paying For
4. The Suicide File - Achtung! Landmind!

This one requested on a certain message board. Obviously I wouldn't go to the trouble of ripping something this awesome and not post it here as well. R'N'R and The Suicide File both play a sort of Boston hardcore with strong rock and roll undertones.

The R'N'R side is kinda quiet so you may have to turn up the volume. As usual I recorded it as loudly as I could without distorting the sound.

Download: R'N'R/The Suicide File - split (LAME 3.98r V0) Multiupload

Download: R'N'R/The Suicide File - split (LAME 3.98r V0) Mediafire

Slang/Mind Eraser - split

Artist: Slang/Mind Eraser
Title: split
Release: 2010
Label: 540 Records

Track List:
1. Slang - Drug Society
2. Mind Eraser - Prime
3. Mind Eraser - Crushing in My Dreams

This has probably been posted on just about every music blog that focuses on hardcore. And for good reason. Mind Eraser has had quite a bit of well deserved hype behind them for years now here in the US. Hopefully the long time Sapporo veterans featured on the A side of this split will get the recognition they deserve after their summer tour with Mind Eraser last year. I'm sure anyone in Japan and any die hard Japanese hardcore fans elsewhere have long been familiar with Slang, as they've been around since 1988.

Slang's single song clocks in at just over a minute and I don't think they could be faster if they tried. Pretty standard fare for them. Excellent as always. Mind Eraser's side is (in my opinion) their best material yet. I really hate using words like "punishing" or "brutal" to describe music. Not just because it's so cliche, but because it's always sounded stupid. But goddamn Mind Eraser makes it hard to come up with any other way of describing them without consulting a thesaurus.

This is a personal rip, not the scene release that has been floating around on the internet since the first half of last year. I got my copy from the bass player of Criaturas' distro. When I saw Slang and Mind Eraser play in Dallas (after having missed Slang during Chaos in Tejas down in Austin the previous week) I didn't have enough money for this 7" and a Slang shirt. And I really really wanted a Slang shirt.

Scans of the sleeve are included. As usual, Sugi's cover art cannot be fucked with.

Download: Slang/Mind Eraser - split (LAME 3.98r V0) Multiupload

Download: Slang/Mind Eraser - split (LAME 3.98r V0) Mediafire