Ruinacre - S/T

Hardcore from Flagstaff Arizona. These guys had what I call the "southwest sound". A lot of bands from Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado all had a similar sound and these guys have it. It's sort of metallic, but not overly so, it's hard to describe unless you live around here and hear all the bands that I'm talking about.

Anyway, this stuff sort of blurs the line between fast metallic hardcore and power-violence. It's not quite what I think of as power-violence, but a lot of kids these days would probably call it that.

I'm pretty sure this would be cheap if you were to look around the web, Satan's Pimp did decent size presses of most of their releases, and a lot of them seem to have been forgotten by most people.

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Tomsk-7 - Discography

I know very little about Tomsk-7. What I do know is that they were from Arizona, were active from the mid-90s until sometime shortly after 2000, and they released a total of 13 songs which comprise just under 15 min. of music.

Musically they fall into the southwestern hardcore sound that is hard to describe, but it's sort of a mix of hardcore, sludge, grind, and power-violence. Tomsk-7 was also female fronted, so it's a bit different than some of the other bands who had the "southwest" sound.

They didn't have an "official" discography release, so I compiled this one, which is sourced from my own rips of the vinyl the songs appeared on. I've included complete artwork for the release in case anyone gets the urge to burn the songs and print their own case (I did).

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Sicarii - Within Your City Walls A Rising Storm

I've had a copy of this for about a decade now, and I never knew the album wasn't self-titled. The band only had screen printed cover versions on sale when they were on tour, and no place on that cover does it mention the album's actual title.

Anyway, it's a pretty good album. I remember when I set the show up, the band member in charge of booking said something like "we're similar to what would happen if Orchid and Catharsis melded together". That's fairly accurate I guess. 

It's got elements of both Orchid and Catharsis. It's less chaotic than Orchid but does feature some of their chaotic bursts, and way less metal than Catharsis, but gives you the same overall feel as listening to them, all while being slightly less pretentious than either of those bands. It's been one of the records I've held on to even through multiple purges...so there's something about it that really does it for me. I don't know how other people would feel about it, so I don't know if I'd call it a lost gem or anything, but it's certainly a personal gem.

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Lie Still - Demo 2011

Old school power violence seems to be a pretty dead genre. These days kids want all sorts of bullshit like what Weekend Nachos, or some similarly detestable band, is doing. Lie Still are for people like me: who don't want innovation or hybridizing fucking up their music. This is power violence played perfectly with nods to all the greats. Get this and let Pete Benumb and friends help you forget about all that shit that kids are calling power violence these days.

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Vomitus - Discography

I know very little about the history of these guys aside from the fact that they're from Arizona, recorded two tapes (one of which went unreleased), and a split 7" with Flux of Disorder, and are no longer active. What I can tell you is that their two tapes are some of the best crusty hardcore/grind/metal that has ever been overlooked by most people.

Until I met a local punk rock fan at a show, I had almost completely forgotten about this band. I have owned the split wiht Flux of Disorder for probably 12 years, and while I used to listen to it a lot, I hadn't heard it in about half a decade...then this kid showed up with a Vomitus t-shirt. "Holy shit, is that a Vomitus shirt?" I inquired, totally perplexed because very few people around here are familiar with them. Turns out this dude used to be roommates with some guys in the band. He turned me on to both these tapes (and hooked it up with a sweet Vomitus t-shirt). Since, these aren't particularly easy to find on the web, I figured I'd share it. This link contains both the released Sutimov tape, and the unreleased, unnamed tape. The songs from the split with Flux of Disorder are taken from these two tapes, so this is, in essence, their complete discography.

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Fukrot - Local legends.

Fukrot was one of the best bands to ever grace the Albuquerque local scene. The music is a sludgy, crust, hardcore assault. The guitarist manages to get the BEST guitar tone in this history of 6 stringed instruments.

They toured a few times, and played quite frequently around town. Yet to me, they where one of the few bands that played a lot that never got boring.

It was really a sad day when the drummer moved to Portland putting the band on indefinite hiatus. The drummer and his wife formed Murderess in Portland, who are another great band, but they don't have the awful muck (this is a positive thing...) of Fukrot, while the guitarist and bassist continued to make similar under the name Roñoso (Who I'll talk about in another post).

I still hope for a Fukrot reunion.


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Creepout - Discography

Creepout is Japan's finest Integrity worship. They even went as far as using a modified Asian version of the Integrity skull as their logo.

Musically, they are pretty much exactly what you would expect, metallic hardcore. Though lyrically they don't seem to follow in the typical "holy terror" footsteps, instead opting for more of a typical "tough guy" meets "youth crew" approach in that area. They do have a few songs that would fit the holy terror genre though. I can easily overlook the silly lyrics in part because they aren't native English speakers, and so they just go with what they know, but mostly because this album rages.

Once again, a quick internet search tuned up nothing, so this is, as far as I know, another R'lyeh Liberation Front exclusive...for now.

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Pressure - Beasts

This 7" was limited to 100 copies, and is the first recorded output from one of the best new Belgian hardcore bands. Belgium has cranked out some awesome hardcore, so that's a pretty decent compliment.

This stuff has some sludge sensibilities, but is still rooted firmly in the holy terror hardcore style.

I got this 7" when I saw them play live. It was a great show.


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