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Power Violence you can actually listen to…

By Doug W | Published 02/03/2012

Here’s a little piece of power violence history you can own as thisisourstruggle is offering up Slap A Ham Records #1.5, the Infest / Pissed Happy Children split.

True, it isn’t the original Slap A Ham #1 blue 8″ flexi disc, but this one you can put on your turntable without fear of destroying the record or breaking your stylus! Win/win!

Dude could have helped himself out a bit with that picture though. A staedy hand or using focus always helps and he needs to get out of his own way with the shadows, but really, all you need to know is that it isn’t the flexi.

This one you can actually listen to.

Dropdead & Crossed Out & Desecration… Oh My!

By Josh | Published 10/07/2011

Here is a cool 3 7″ box set from batfuk, who has a lot of cool auctions you should check out.

This is the West Coast Power Violence and More box set. Its a 3 x 7″ set with records from Dropdead, Crossed Out & Desecration. The auction description doesn’t give much info, but I have this so here is the low down…

The Crossed Out tracks are taken from the split 7″ with Dropdead, the split 7″ with Man Is The Bastard on Slap A Ham Records, their s/t 7″ on Slap A Ham Records, and their tracks from the Son Of Bllleeeaaauurrgghhh compilation on Slap A Ham Records.

Dropdead’s tracks were recorded live at WFMU Radio on 8/8/93.

The Desecration tracks are taken from The North Atlantic Noise Attack compilation on Manic Ears Records, Who’s In Control EP on TPC Records, the Metal Gives Us A Headache compilation on Hippycore Records, and their split LP with Subverse on Manic Ears Records.

The whole package was limited to only 200 copies!

Fighting Music

By cooch | Published 05/21/2011

One of the holy grails of power violence, courtesy of god_among_men_77 and ending Sunday night. Only 300 of these were made, and based on Chris Dodge’s recent ebay activities with Slap-A-Ham dead stock, I wonder how many of these even made it out into the wild? One of these years Deep Six will reissue this record, but until then get ready to fork over the buxxx on ebay.

Ham Slappin’ Hits

By cooch | Published 05/05/2011

Slap-A-Ham Records head honcho Chris Dodge, aka ponty, has been selling off these “extra” copies of his releases for the better part of 10 years now, it makes you wonder if he ever even distributed them in the first place.

Anyways, the Crossed Out/Man Is the Bastard split 7″ is pretty much the pinnacle of powerviolence as far as I’m concerned, and the rest of these ain’t too shabby either. Blank label guy down there at the bottom is a test press of the Despise You/Suppression split.

West Coast Powerviolence

By cooch | Published 02/01/2011

Nice little assortment of stuff here from djprana2003…

Low Threat Profile just dropped a new 12″, and if you haven’t heard of them yet maybe you know a couple of their previous band’s records below. LTP is a little more straightforward than either No Comment or Neanderthal, but their records are pretty ripping none the less. Do yourself a favor and go grab a copy of the 12″ from Deep Six.

West Coast Power Violence

By cooch | Published 09/03/2010

Slap-A-Ham head honcho Chris Dodge is digging into the vaults again, which makes you wonder how much of this stuff he actually sold in the first place ;) . No wonder these records were always so hard to get.

1. Crossed Out discography lp on white – some people say they are the #1 PV band of all time, I may be inclined to agree on certain days, but on other days I prefer No Comment. This LP collects all of their vinyl output (first 7″, split w/ Man Is The Bastard, split w/ Drop Dead) and some other odds n sods. I believe only 300 came on white, I’m still kicking myself for not buying a $15 sealed copy at Vinyl Solution in CA back in 2002.

2. Couple o’ Capitalist Casualties 7″s – Raised Ignorant and Dope & War. These are their 2nd and 3rd singles, respectively. I was listening to the split LP with MITB the other day (scored for $7 a couple months ago, so ILL) and was thinking how fucking shredding this band is and how much they are unfairly overshadowed by their peers (Crossed Out, Infest, MITB, etc). I wasn’t too into the later stuff with Max from Spazz on drums, but everything they released up to that point is top shelf PV material.

NO COMMENT Downsided 7″

By cooch | Published 08/11/2010

To go along with the Infest ep’s I posted below, here’s another of the best HC 7″s of the ’90s. This is No Comment’s second release from 1992, and the absolute pinnacle of their (few) releases. 11 songs that blaze by in just a few minutes, but instead of the typical powerviolence formula of cookie monster vocals and stompy mosh parts, they just took early ’80s American hardcore and turned the speed up to 11.

Approx. 1500 made on clear, I believe this is actually the 2nd press (whereas the first is black). If anyone’s holding a blue or pink copy, hit me up.

Coupla HC rippers…

By cooch | Published 04/23/2010

This seller out in the midwest has some pretty cool shit for sale with cheap opening bids. Here are a couple hits…

First press (blue labels) copy of the End The Warzone comp 7″. Weird collection of bands here… obviously everyone wants this because it has 9/12ths of the Straight Ahead demo, but there are two really good Attitude Adjustment songs (taken from their demo) and a couple of ok Lärm tracks (one of Straight Ahead’s early influences, their songs all sound the same to me), and one throwaway live Pillsbury Hardcore track. I believe there are 1000 first press/500 second press copies (w/ red labels) of this record. I remember when I first found out about this record in the early 90s it was IMPOSSIBLE to find, nowadays it seems a bit more common. Thanks ebay.

Secondly… a first press copy of Infest’s debut ep. IMO, this is one of the most extreme hardcore records of the era, like a cross between Break Down The Walls and the Siege demo. And like YOT, this band set the stage for a million crappy imitators. There’s been a recent swell of unreleased Infest footage popping up on youtube, do yourself a favor and check it out.

1000 copies pressed, with double sided xerox covers and a legal-sized insert (as pictured). Beware of shoddy bootlegs!

CROSSED OUT 7″ original

By cooch | Published 02/15/2010

First off, this seller has a GREAT user name. Diehard metalheads do NOT fuck around.

Another best-in-genre release here, Crossed Out’s debut 7″ on Slap-A-Ham from 1991. One of the original “power violence” bands—as christened by Man Is The Bastard—these guys originally set out to form a band that sounded like “Siege meets the Shitlickers,” which is a pretty good summation of CO’s sound when you think of the Shitlickers’ lack of fidelity coupled with Siege’s extreme speed. A friend of mine hung out with these guys back in the day and said all they wanted to do was smoke weed and play Sega Genesis, aka living the good life.

1000 made of the original press, all on black vinyl with really big dead vinyl gaps between each song. Six test presses exist on solid purple vinyl, 2–3 of which have come up on ebay in the past few years (and one of which I now own.) Nice opening price on this copy, but who knows where it’s going to end.

Funny side note: check out what singer Dallas VanKempen is up to these days