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Integrity 1st 7″ on Red

By mcs | Published 01/08/2012

baosgarden brings one of the most saught after Integrity records there are, the ‘In Contrast Of Sin’ 7″ on Victory Records on red vinyl. Depending on who you believe, there are either only 100 or 200 of these out there. I personally would lean more toward 100 seeing as it does not pop up that often, and a lot of big collectors I have known over the years either didn’t have one or couldn’t get one. It’s a tough find and can go for a tidy sum. This one is sitting at $51 with slightly less than 24 hours to go, although the reserve has not been met. Who knows what the reserve might be or how much this could fetch, but you can bet someone has their eye on this bigtime.

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Pay Day

By mcs | Published 10/25/2011

Today for me is pay day. Quite an exciting time as it was the first month that my new pay rise kicked in. In celebration I thought I was thinking about splurging some of my cash prize monies on this aptly named 7″ from Confront that fishingpompey is offering up. As some of you will no doubt recognise, this is the original Dark Empire pressing, not the Dutch East India repress, and this is not a bad price.

Still not sure whether I want it or not. But thought I’d post it up here in case someone wants it more than I do.

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Final Plan 7″ on clear

By Dave | Published 10/05/2011

My old bud adambombx79 listed this a few days ago and im just getting around to posting it now. Robby Redcheeks was well known for creating stupid amounts of limited versions for his records but this one cant be blamed on him. Three of them randomly showed up on clear vinyl when the rest of the pressing was on red. There was a time when this was a $300 record. I shit you not. I had one of them and sold it for that much. I guess i got out while the getting was good.

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Inmates – Government Crimes TPThurs

By cooch | Published 07/21/2011

A real barnstormer here courtesy of bloodclot-kichigaijin. This is one of my favorite hardcore records of the 90s, and it was my pleasure to help release their sole LP. Do yourself a favor and search this out if you haven’t heard it, it’s easily available on CD and can probably be found on a blog or three. And for all you Norman Coremans keeping score out there, you get a couple Melnicks in this band as well as the guy who wrote the Meanstreak song on the Only The Strong comp. Cleveland hardcore rules!

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Septic Death(wish) Karaoke

By cooch | Published 12/28/2010

Another one in the Great Tre McCarthy Record Purge of ’10 (which I assume will carry on into 2011)…

This is a great idea for a record — take instrumental versions of old hardcore songs, record your own vocals over them, and release it as a “karaoke” ep. When I first heard this record I was scratching my head at how they were able to replicate that terrible Septic Death snare drum sound, but it all made sense when I finally put two and two together. I think A2 might have added some guitar licks too, but I haven’t spun this in ages so I don’t remember exactly. Oh yeah, the zine is cool too. Great picture of Tony Erba getting ill for Project X, and some good shit talk from Frank 3-Gun. I also always loved the style of Bloodbook, with that cool two-color xerox printing and good cut and paste layout.

At one point I owned the acetate to this 7″ but traded it away for some Brazilian hardcore goodies. I probably should have waited for the Integ bubble to inflate itself back up again and sold it, but such is life.

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…And The Sheik Throwing Fire

By cooch | Published 11/12/2010

My friend Mark used to own a record store in Western Mass circa 1996-1997called Community Chest Records (and previously a record label of the same name), and I remember walking in one day and asking him what was new, and he showed me this record. Albeit, it was the standard black vinyl pressing, but I was still pretty intrigued when he told me it was basically a reformed H100s with a new singer. That’s all it took for me to plunk down the 4 or 5 bucks for the record, and took it home and gave it a spin. At the time there weren’t a lot of bands doing this style, especially from America, so this was pretty hot shit as far as I was concerned. I missed their first show in WMass around the same time, but on the next trip they played an abandoned auto garage in Springfield and laid waste to the 30-40 people that were there. After that I saw these guys about 23,432 times and got to be pretty good friends with them, but was never able to track down one of these blue copies. Eventually my friend Mark who sold me the record in the first place traded me his copy for a Deathreat first LP gatefold, and cosmic order was restored to the record collecting universe. I think somewhere down the line I scored an acetate of this record, but that’s another story for another day.

Scum stats: I think the first run of these was 500 or 1,000 (can’t remember off hand), but only 100 were made on blue. There were a couple of weirdo cover variations with the blue copies, mostly involving clear acetates (like the copy up for sale here), and some had silver foil paper under the acetates. Either way, a tough record to get, so that $9.99 opening bid is pretty appealing imo.

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$ix and Change

By cooch | Published 10/29/2010

Another big ‘un from creeper_ohio…

The Pagans pressed 200 copies of their debut Six & Change single back in ’77, and the story goes the boxes got buried under a snowbank outside of Mike Hudson’s house after being delivered by the pressing plant, so it’s a tough record to get and even harder to get in nice shape. IMO their next single is better, but this one’s a real raw and nasty slice of primal punk trash.

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INMATES – A-holes Unanimous LP

By cooch | Published 10/01/2010

More from mnl_studios… he ain’t just sellin NYHC.

OK, I gotta admit I’m partial to this LP because I put it out. My friend Mike originally released it around 2002, but he only did 300 so a few years later we (Painkiller) took his stampers and did another 900 LP, with 600 black and 300 pink marble.

This LP is a total scorcher, with 18 tracks of early-US-meets-UK82-hardcore bliss. And for all you Norman Coremans out there, you get 3/5 of the For Those Who Fear Tomorrow era Integrity lineup, and a member of Meanstreak (!). I played a show with them once at a bowling alley in the Clevo burbs, and pretty much anything that wasn’t bolted down was flying during their set — bowling balls, paint, garbage barrels, broomsticks — you name it.

I saw these guys play a couple of weekends ago in NYC, their 3rd and 2nd to last shows ever, and they f’n killed it both times. Coincidentally their last show ever is tonight in New Orleans, kind of a weird place to send it off but whatever!

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H100s Dismantle 7″

By cooch | Published 07/28/2010

One of the best hardcore 7″s of the 90s… definitely in my top 5, and maybe even top 3 depending on the weather. They played about half a dozen club-destroying shows, released another couple of eps, and then self destructed and reformed with a different singer as 9 Shocks Terror. More proof that Cleveland churned out a large chunk of the good hardcore in America during the dismal 90′s.

First press here w/ big 45 hole and screened cover, 500 made. DRRRRRRRRUGSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

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Voice Of Thousands comp LP

By cooch | Published 07/05/2010

One more comp for this evening… the Voice Of Thousands on Conversion Records. Again on the Cleveland tip, this has good tracks from Integrity, Face Value and Force Of Habit. The rest is stuff I really don’t care much for these days (so much 90′s stuff has NOT aged well), though the Refuse song is cool youthful hardcore. They were Seattle’s answer to Crippled Youth and went on to form Undertow.

The highlight of this comp for me though is the Force Of Habit track, which features a pre-Ringworm Human Furnace and Frank 3-Gun. This is their only studio recorded track, and according to Frank they only ever played a couple of backyard party type shows (which I believe at least one of exists on video). The dark metal stylings of the ‘Worm hadn’t set in yet, and this one’s a good straightforward hardcore track in the early Integrity vein. If they had recorded a full demo or a record, I think it would probably sound a lot like For Those Who Fear Tomorrow.

Currently at a measly $2! Do yourself a favor and bid, and throw some money my friend Lui B‘s way.

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Clevo comp #2 – They Pelted Us With Rocks and Garbage

By cooch | Published 07/05/2010

This fine slab, They Pelted Us With Rocks And Garbage, makes an excellent companion to the New Hope LP posted below, for the Cleveland hardcore completest.

This was released in 1985 by Negative Print fanzine, and isn’t necessarily a straight-up punk comp — the A-side is heavy on the hardcore, featuring the Dark, The Guns, The Offbeats and the ever-fucked up sounding Spike In Vain, but the B-side is mostly college/alt rocky and some gothy stuff (but don’t let that scare you off). The Dark’s “Fire In The Church” is a great track that alternates between tortured plodding and mid-tempo chug, and the Guns do their finest Ruts impersonation with “Your Mistake”, which is a bit more metallic sounding than their tracks on The New Hope, but a great cut none the less. I believe the Guns track is taken from their aborted LP session, which I’ve heard was to be released on Toxic Shock but fell through for some reason. It was bootlegged in the late 90′s on the end of Bowel’s Rotten Fecal Duct CD on Victory.

Again, like The New Hope, this is a cool regional comp of bands that didn’t receive a lot of outside exposure. Between these two LP’s, you can have the complete vinyl output of the Guns and the Dark. Grab it now while it’s cheap.

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Clevo comp #1 – The New Hope

By cooch | Published 07/05/2010

When it comes to Cleveland hardcore, everyone seems to know about the 90′s to present bands like Integrity, Ringworm, 9 Shocks Terror, Imates, etc, but there isn’t much talk about the early 80′s hardcore scene. So here we have The New Hope comp LP, from 1983 outta Cleveland. It features a bunch of RAGING bands that rarely get their just due, since this LP doesn’t turn up much and very few of the bands made proper records. The Guns lead the comp off with two absolutely ripping tracks, reminding me of Urban Waste with a slightly smaller cloud of fuzz. The band was only a 2-man unit with guitar and drums, and they were only 12–13 years old, but they completely blew me away on the first listen and still blow me away whenever I throw this platter on. Drummer Dave Araca later played in Integrity (see Palm Sunday live LP) but tragically passed away of a brain aneurysm in 1994. Singer/guitarist Scott Eakin went on to play drums for Stepsister with his brother Tom Dark (who released this LP) and Tony Erba of Face Value/9 Shocks Terror fame, but also tragically passed away young, of a heart attack in 2007. RIP.

After the Guns, you get more killer tracks from The Dark and The Agitated (both fast hc ragers), Spike In Vain and Outerwear (f’d up noisy stuff), The Offbeats (funny HC a-la AOD), Zero Defex (0DFX) and more. As far as I know, only Starvation Army, the Offbeats and Spike In Vain ever had proper records, so this comp is a great document of one of the more off-the-radar “regional” scenes of the early 80′s. The Agitated and 0DFX had their demos pressed to 7″ in recent years, and both are worth tracking down. Both the Dark and the Guns recorded for LPs that were never released for some reason or another, though the Dark sessions are available on CD from Grand Theft Audio and the Guns material should be available soon on CD from Smog Veil Records.

Grab this now while it’s cheap, it doesn’t come up much!

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CONFRONT – Payday 7″

By cooch | Published 05/17/2010

Straight edge HARD core… what a great genre of music. Judge, Confront, Brotherhood, etc etc. I could listen to this stuff all day every day and not get tired of it.

Here’s the original Dark Empire pressing of Confront’s first and only record (not counting comp tracks). I think there were just 1000 copies made, with some oddball colors here and there. Maybe 500, I’m not totally sure. Either way this record doesn’t turn up much on any color, so get bidding while the bidding’s cheap ($2.99 cheap at the moment).

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Gordon Solie Motherfuckers 7″

By cooch | Published 04/12/2010

This record came out around ’98 at a point where I thought hardcore was really starting to suck. I ordered it on a whim from Vacuum Distro (RIP), who described it something like “Tony Erba from Face Value’s new band, fast lo-fi hardcore with songs about wrestling”, and when I received it I was totally blown away when I dropped the needle. The distro description was pretty on-point, this was some really raw shit. Songs about wrestling, condemnation of shitty moshcore bands, conspiracy theories and other stuff most bands of the day weren’t singing about. At the time it was really refreshing to hear a good blast of no-frills, fast hardcore that didn’t take itself too seriously.

I only saw these guys twice. Some highlights:

Chicago Fest 2001
1. Anything in the building that was not tied down was flying through the air. Chairs, trash barrels, tables, bodies, etc etc. Close Call and Think I Care drove 17 hours each way to Chicago only to have the show shut down by the cops after GSMF played, which was right before we were supposed to play. We still got paid $300. Shark Attack got a police escort out of Chicago.
2. Felix Havoc yelling FUCK OFF PIG! to a cop and then jumping out a window of the hall, directly into another group of cops waiting outside.
3. Erba crowning Jay Scheller over the head with a folding chair. After the show he said to me, “I think I got hit with one of those garbage barrels that were flying around” as he rubbed his head. LOL

Last show – see photo essay below.

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MIDNIGHT – Farewell To Hell 10″ + 7″

By cooch | Published 04/08/2010

The absolute BEST current metal band going, proving once again that Cleveland is one of the greatest music-producing cities in the world. If you’re in to Venom, Motorhead, Bathory, or anything remotely along those lines, you NEED to own this record. These guys kill it on record and they put on a tremendous live show that is entertaining on all fronts.

As for the wax – this came out about a year ago, and this die hard* version comes on clear wax with a poster and a 1-song picture disc 7″ that contains an exclusive track not available elsewhere (and it might even be the best song of the release.) Only 200 of these were made and they sold out immediately, so don’t miss it again. The opening bid might look high but it’s only a few dollars more than what this record cost new.

*That’s metal-speak for “limited edition”

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