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Some bloody little rippers

By cooch | Published 11/05/2010

I was sorting through my UK 7″s the other night and making note of a few records I’m missing, and here comes mrhate_nomad with a bunch of cool shit, though I only really need one of them…

Rudimentary Peni – first 7″ – one of my top 5 favorite bands ever, though this is my 2nd favorite record by them (Farce 7″ being #1). I was blown away the first time I heard this band in the early 90s, when an older friend played it for me. Short, to-the-point blasts of neurotic punk that could only be made by a legitimate lunatic like Nick Blinko. First press here with the booklet, which is full of Nick’s incredible artwork.

Iconic artwork, “Two Monstrous Nuclear Stockpiles” on the flip, and it’s Discharge. Chaos non musica.

4-Skins with Hodges? ‘Nuff said.

Got into this band when I saw them playing “Moped Lads” off of some UK punk/oi video comp back in the early 90s. They released a lot of garbage but these early singles and the first LP are all-time classics.

Ending Today!

By morgado | Published 10/21/2010

Seller poonog’s auctions are ending today (as is my series of quickie posts, I’ve managed to get caught up a decent enough amount, I think, so this should be the last of those), and I’m a bit surprised we didn’t notice them until now given the presence of Cooch’s favorite record from The Mob. The copy up is kind of beat up, but as of this writing it’s still under 20 bucks so it stands to be a really good pick up.

Ingenting for Norge

By cooch | Published 10/12/2010

There aren’t too many early hardcore records outta Norway, but seller breiflabb79 is currently selling three of them, and a lot of people would probably say these are the three best.

SVART FRAMTID’s debut ep is probably the most well-known Norwegian record, a six-track hardcore shredder.

On the same label as Svart Framtid, BANNLYST’s ep is a little thrashier, and maybe my favorite record from the country. Recently booted, but this is the real deal for sale.

V/A Ingenting For Norge – probably the rarest of the bunch, this one never turns up even though it’s claimed to be 1,000 pressed. It’s a 4-way split, and honestly I have never heard the 3 other bands, but everyone wants this for the Fader War tracks, which are lo-fi Discharge-style stupidity. Personally I think they’re a bit overrated, but rare = expensive so start bidding.

Anti-System LP BIN

By cooch | Published 10/01/2010

Great BIN price on this LP… the first by England’s mighty Anti-System. For the uninitiated, this is a pummeling slab of metallic post-Discharge hardcore, not unlike Antisect or Crucifix, and you can definitely hear a lot of their sound in modern bands like Tragedy.

This one’s a steal at about half of the usual going rate, and even with Euro shipping it’s still a great deal. BIN’s away!

Some Swede-core rippers

By cooch | Published 09/06/2010

A couple of Swedish sellers are dropping some top shelf platters from the motherland, though strangely, neither has anything else for sale.

So here are two of the top ep’s ever released from the country, with Anti-Cimex’s Raped Ass coming in tops on my list, and Absurd’s Bloodig Stad (Bloody City) rounding out the top 5*.

Raped Ass, in my (largely worthless) opinion, is the greatest example of taking the Discharge/d-beat style and cranking it up to 11, whereas other top-tier d-beaters like the Shitlickers Cracked Cop Skulls or Agent Orange Your Mother Sucks Cocks In Hell 7″s kind of dumb things down to negative 11. All five songs here are unrelenting, brutal steamrollers with absolutely perfect production, with the larynx-shredding vocals and one note guitar solos sending everything that much more over the top. Several variations of this record exist, with the copy at hand — card cardboard sleeve with printed labels — being the most common (but still difficult to obtain). I believe there are 1,000 of these pressed, but for an exhaustive archive of Anti-Cimex pressing variations and related ephemera, go here.

Next up is Absurd’s one and only release, the extremely rare Blodig Stad ep. While not quite as over the top as Raped Ass or as brutally stupid as Cracked Cop Skulls, this record still d-beats with the best of them. Various rumors abound about the band and this record… it’s believed that only 300 were pressed, and many copies were rumored to be lost/trashed/thrown out by mom/something to that effect. Also the singer is now a priest in Sweden, and supposedly he was liberated of his remaining copies a few years back. Regardless, this record is extremely difficult to track down, with original copies selling for as much as $700 in the past (though more recently they top out around $400), so that $99 opening bid is pretty appealing. Beware of recent American-made bootlegs, the original should have a machine stamped matrix number and a thin, slightly glossy, pocket sleeve cover.

* My top 5 Swedish hardcore 7″s:
1. Anti Cimex – Raped Ass
2. Shitlickers – Cracked Cop Skulls
3. Headcleaners – Disinfection
4. Bombanfall – Asiksfrihet
5. Absurd – Blodig Stad

BOMBANFALL – Åsiksfrihet 7″

By cooch | Published 04/30/2010

Awesome Swedish hardcore from 1987, thick metallic Discharge-style hardcore with extremely gutteral vocals. To me, they sound like a Swedish version of United Mutation, so if you’re into the current crop of “weirdcore” bands, this might have some cross-genre appeal. The $100 BIN is decent considering the condition, but maybe someone could take this home with a good offer.

Here’s a funny band autobiography (they later changed their name to Two Moons Rising)
“Two Moons Rising started as a joke. A couple of unlikely orchestra members decided to started making music together under the influence of ideas on social upheaval. In the beginning we called ourselves Bombanfall ["Bomb Attack"] which was changed for Two Moons Rising. We practiced and practiced and after some time started to sound better. At the same time we got more serious. I played guitar, Pettersson sang and we picked him because of his ability to create full resonance in most tones. Pontus Nydal we found in a samba-orchestra, this fact alone was enough for us to understand that he would be able to find the beats we were after. Fredrik Berglin was picked because of his correct attitude and for his fair looks. Time went and in the end we managed to scrape together enough money to pay for an EP. After that everything ran out in the sand and we quit. Quite pointless, isn’t it?” 

Interesting side note: Almost all Swedish and Finnish 7″ records of the early to mid 80s have blank labels. Apparently it cost as much to print the labels as it did to press the records, so the bands used blank labels to save money.

AGENT ORANGE – Your Mother Sucks Cocks In Hell 7″

By cooch | Published 04/26/2010

Hardcore from the land of tulips and windmills… Agent Orange’s debut 7″, probably the best record named after a quote from The Exorcist. Four tracks of retardo Discharge worship, every song sounds like it’s on the verge of falling apart at any given second. I think their former band (Jezus & The Gospelfuckers) was better, but this is still one of the best and most iconic early European hardcore records ever.

I’ve read that only 200 of these were pressed, but I’ve seen wayyyy too many copies for that to seem right. My guess is least 300-500. At any rate, this thing has been going for big bucks lately, but sometimes I feel like auctions with a high starting price don’t always go as high because people are afraid to throw down the initial bid. At any rate, start saving those gilders now. Or, save some dough and get the Agent Orange/Jezus & The Gospelfuckers reissue lp on Kangaroo Records.

BATTALION OF SAINTS – Fighting Boys 12″

By cooch | Published 03/31/2010

I like ranking things in lists, so here’s one of the three best 12″ ep’s that would fit on one side of a 7″, along with Black Flag Jealous Again and the Straight Ahead 12″.

These guys took the best elements of Motörhead (metal) and Discharge (d-beat) and combined it with a healthy dose of Southern California to make some rippin’ metal-tinged hardcore. Guitarist Chris Smith was a certified shredder, even lending some licks on one of the Kraut LPs, before his untimely demise (passed out in a bathtub, I believe.) Allegedly the band is cursed, as all original members aside from singer George Anthony are dead, but I saw these guys about 15 years ago and everyone from that lineup is still alive.

Also cool with this copy, aside from belonging to Chuck Dukowski, is that it has a press kit with it. I got one of these off ebay a couple years ago in a lot of random flyers, and it’s filled with KILLER material.