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TESTS OF SPLITS & SPLITS OF TESTS

By Josh | Published 08/24/2011

Here are a couple more worth pointing out from xsheerxterrorx’s current crop of auctions.

The Hoods & Lockjaw split 7″ TEST PRESS!

Killing Time & Profound Effect TEST PRESS!

LOCKJAW Dead Friends 7″++

By cooch | Published 07/25/2010

A while back I posted the first Lockjaw ep, and here’s the second. Musically this sounds pretty much exactly like the first ep, and imo this one’s harder to find, so jump on this if you’re a fan. Skinhead hardcore at its finest!

Also from the same seller is the Drinking Is Great 7″ comp, with tracks by Poison Idea, Lockjaw, E-13 and Final Warning. Aside from Poison Idea, this comp is the only other material released on vinyl by these bands. I’ve posted records by all of those bands before, so if you’re unfamiliar, click the Fatal Erection tag below.

These and a bunch of other good records are being sold by my man Mitch SXE, Japanese tour promoter extraordinaire and the first guy I ever traded records with in Japan.

LOCKJAW – Shock Value 7″

By cooch | Published 06/28/2010

First of two 7″s by Portland, OR’s “most hated band.” Musically, they were basically PDX’s answer to Agnostic Front—hard ‘n fast skinhead hardcore, often maligned over their potential politics (or lack there of). They had another 7″ after this one called Dead Friends, and a track on Fatal Erection’s Drinking Is Great 7″ comp. There’s also an unreleased LP, which was collected along with their vinyl output on CD by Grand Theft Audio.

500 made of this guy back in ’82 (when the Cowboys were strong), with rumors of copies being smashed by local stores who accused the band of being nazis. There are also 50 alternate sleeves with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy on the cover, but I think those were made after the fact. As mentioned in an earlier post here, I passed up this and their other ep once in ’97 or so for $10 each, in lieu of buying a 2nd press Turning Point 7″. I did end up getting both records at once a few years back, but the price was not nearly as nice.

DEATH SIDE – The Will Never Die 7″

By cooch | Published 06/25/2010

The final installment in one of the finest legacies in Japanese hardcore. Death Side released two lp’s and three 7″s in about a 7 year span, and all of them are classics. This one’s probably my 2nd favorite of the 7″s, behind All Is Here Now, but all of their releases are top-shelf metal-tinged hardcore that has never really been equaled. Rumor has it their 2nd LP cost so much money to produce that it put Selfish Records out of business. Singer Ishiya currently (or formerly, they may have broken up?) fronts Forward, and in addition to having one of the illest mohawks ever, is one of the coolest people I have ever spent 7+ hours in a van with. Guitarist Chelsea recently passed away, but can be found doing his other-worldly shredding on all of Paintbox’s releases.

Fun facts: This 7″ was released by Devour Records—which was actually based in Boston at the time—and is one of the few Japanese HC records that had been released in the states up to that point. Label chief Yasu Koketsu can be found on the insert (and sampled in the last groove of side 2) of the Wrecking Crew Balance of Terror LP, listed as “spiritual adviser”. I bought this record off of him at Below Zero Records, which was a short lived shop in Boston’s South End that carried only the finest in underground hardcore vinyl. I once passed up both (Portland) Lockjaw 7″s there, for $10 each, in favor of a 2nd press Turning Point 7″. FAIL.