Zouo - The Final Agony (CD from Box Set)

Artist: Zouo
Title: The Final Agony
Release: 2012
Label: Black Lodge

1. Sons of Satan
2. Making Love with Devil
3. No Power
4. Bloody Master
5. Frustration
6. You Like It That Way
7. Survivor
8. No Power
9. Making Love with Devil
10. Bloody Master
11. You Like It That Way
12. Violent Age
13. Frustration
14. System Fuck Off
15. Change Your Life
16. Out of Order
17. Dance
18. Sons of Satan

Holy crap guys, it's Zouo.

For the longest time I always thought I'd only ever have poorly ripped mp3s of the one EP Zouo put out in 1984 and the two songs on "Hardcore Unlawful Assembly". While they're not quite as popular as some of the bigger similar bands of the era (G.I.S.M., etc.) just about everyone I know that is aware of who they are loves "The Final Agony". Well, like a year ago or so it seems that someone over in Japan realized that people actually want to have a chance to hear their music or something because there's been a slew of reissues and an LP with songs that were only recorded live.

This CD is from an awesome box set that came out earlier this summer. It's also the first time any of these songs have been on CD. It also came with a live set DVD. The CD itself combines all of the recent reissue material.

Tracks 1-4 from "The Final Agony" 7" (1984, AA Records)
Tracks 5-6 from "Frustration" 7" (2011, Crust War Records)
Tracks 7-18 recorded live at Duck Studio in Osaka 1984/9/7

If you can read Japanese you can find more information about the box set over at Black Lodge's website. It doesn't say if this is sold out. But I'm gonna go ahead and assume it probably is.

NO POWER!

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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.

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Four Hundred Years - Transmit Failure (reissue)

Artist: Four Hundred Years
Title: Transmit Failure (reissue)
Release: 2004 (originally 1998)
Label: Lovitt Records

Track List:
1. Power of Speech
2. Penny for Your Thoughts
3. Radio Silence
4. Transmit Failure
5. An Hour too Late
6. Motion Sickness
7. Throw Spark
8. Sequence
9. Give Us This Day
10. Line Breaker
11. Untitled

Since I had somehow never even heard of this band until two days ago I'm just going to be quoting their bio from amazon.com...

Four Hundred Years were not merely a band, but a phenomenon. A force of emo/hardcore intensity that began in Tucson, Arizona, following the end of Groundwork, they eventually migrated to Richmond, Virginia. Four Hundred Years amassed a large, frenzied, and rabid audience. Intelligent and intricate with a perfect blend of melody and dissonance in all the right places, Four Hundred Years had unparalleled abilities to captivate their listeners and turn them loose on an unsuspecting music world. Alternative Press noted, "Combined with the weight of their political views, the tension of Four Hundred Years' music is simultaneously a catharsis and a call to arms."

Four Hundred Years toured Europe, Japan, and America numerous times and played with such notables as Fugazi, Frodus, Sleepytime Trio, and many more. Upon the completion of recording The New Imperialism, their third full-length, they played four final shows on the east coast and disbanded.

This reminds me of a ton of other awesome early emo bands so if you like that kind of stuff and like me haven't heard of this band before you'll love this. "An Hour too Late" is pretty much the definition of goosebump inducing emotional release.

As usual, if you like it consider buying it.

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Gauze - 限界は何処だ (reissue)

Artist: Gauze
Title: 限界は何処だ (reissue)
Release 1997
Label: XXX Records

1. 山深雪未溶
2. 己
3. 聾桟敷
4. 一触即発
5. 小細工無用
6. ふんだくる だけなら 誰にでも出来る 汚い 臭い 手前らクソ爺に 四の五の言われ 銭を取られるのは 真っ平御免だ
7. 人非人
8. ゴム紐どうだ
9. 逃れの街
10. 死人に口無し
11. Live in Scotland 1989 August

Originally put out in 1989 by Selfish Records this is Gauze's third album. 限界は何処だ (genkai wa doko da?) means "where is the limit?". Kind of an appropriate question for Gauze to be asking.

This is a LAME V0 encode made from a FLAC rip of XXX Records' 1997 CD reissue.

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Gauze - Equalizing Distort (reissue)

Artist: Gauze
Title: Equalizing Distort (reissue)
Release 1997
Label: XXX Records

1. Pressing On
2. Crash the Pose
3. Thrash Thrash Thrash
4. 勝手にさらせ
5. Fact and Criminal
6. パッパッパ
7. Low Charge
8. Absinth Trip
9. Distort Japan
10. 言いなり / Children Fuck Off

Originally put out in 1986 by Selfish Records this is Gauze's second full length. Probably their best work. Probably one of the best hardcore albums period.

This is a LAME V0 encode made from a FLAC rip of XXX Records' 1997 CD reissue.

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Gauze - Fuck Heads (reissue)

Artist: Gauze
Title: Fuck Heads (reissue)
Release 1997
Label: XXX Records

1. Power
2. Fuck Head
3. Shot
4. Coretik
5. One Last Kiss
6. Love Song
7. Ghostlike Crime
8. ノイローゼ
9. 酔狂
10. Go

Originally put out in 1984 by ADK Records this is Gauze's first LP. Consider this required listening.

This is a LAME V0 encode made from a FLAC rip of XXX Records' 1997 CD reissue.

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