Tags Matching: Crossover

Corrosion of Conformity – Technocracy

By Doug W | Published 02/02/2012

Seeing C.O.C. on the Technocracy tour was a game changer for me. It opened up a new world of aggressive music that until that point was limited to thrash metal. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. At all.

Seller takamuracuy has a pretty nice first press copy of Technocracy available. It’s also nice that it is reasonably priced and has no bids on it yet. There are way too many high priced “Buy It Now” auctions out there.

The seller’s description also lets you know that he is pretty excited about including the booklet insert, what with all the capitals and exclamation points. He might have been so excited he spelled “booklet” wrong a couple times too.
To be fair, I’d be excited about this record too.

A true classic.

Turban-head wants you dead

By Emil | Published 12/26/2011

Hope everyone had a good Christmas and is looking forward to New Year’s! Jaybil didn’t post “Fuck Christmas” and I couldn’t find SSD’s “Jolly Old St. Nick”, so I kind of gave up on a themed post and decided to just post a good, solid record, something that works in every season!

Here itsxdead has Leeway’s “Born To Expire”. This is something you just can’t go wrong with. The riffs, the mosh, it hasn’t been matched since, even though this sort of NYHC-crossover style seems pretty en-vogue these days. I am not sure this can ever be re-captured. Everything about this LP is just perfect, well for the genre anyway, you need this!

Don’t NEGLECT this BIN

By Emil | Published 07/29/2011

Gonna switch it up to some filthy, hard metallic NYHC right now from taste-e-grooves. Morgado posted a test from one of their EP’s a while back. I feel this band doesn’t get enough love at all. Coming out of the early 1990′s NYHC crossover scene, I think this band was grittier, heavier and angrier, and real-er (it’s a word now!) and so much more balls-out than say Biohazard or LOA or Carnivore. Something like Sheer Terror’s more metal cousin, this is the kind of NYHC you wanna listen to when you feel ugly and just want to kill the world and yourself by moshing it all to death. “Stick it in and fuck life, fuck life, fuck life”. Neglect actually had a good number of 7″ releases, including a split with the then not yet famous Hatebreed. This 2xLP is kind of a retrospective, collecting demo and various recordings from 1991 to 1993 done with Don Fury, and has all of their best songs like ‘Horrorstruck’, ‘Neglect’, ’2 Foot City’ and others. Even though this is the last thing Neglect released, I think this is a good starting point, as opposed to their various EP’s. This is tough without any gangsta pose, hateful without being ignorant, self-deprecating without being whiny. Fucking hard. Don’t know much about what happened to the dudes in this band or if they had any prior or past projects, so if you have a clue, comment! At $9.99 I can’t say this BIN is a bad deal, I’m pretty sure I paid a little more for my copy!

Crossover Sucks?

By Josh | Published 03/07/2010

No secret that I’m a huge Slapshot fan… but I have been known to enjoy some ‘crossover’ from time to time as well. I have a CD copy of the Judgement Night soundtrack and I have this Helmet/House of Pain 12″, but not the Biohazard one (which is another autographed record!).

This is a couple of 12″ers with BIN prices that are not super high. House of Pain & Helmet is five versions of the song ‘Just Another Victim’ and its on clear vinyl. The Biohazard & Onyx is four versions of the song ‘Judgement Night’.