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United Mutation Dischord/DSI

By Justin O | Published 12/04/2011

This 7 inch would make for a great soundtrack for a horror film. I can only imagine what the singer of this band looked like in the studio to make some of the demonish vox found on this record. United Mutation was a band from Fairfax, Virginia and originally put out this E.P. entitled “The Fugitive Family”and it was a split release between Dischord Records and DSI. The first press was out of 1000, with a later pressing out of 500 with an extra track. Seller housatonic has got a pretty clean 1st press copy up for grabs. Talking about this record and playing the mp3′s of this makes me wish I didn’t trade my copy away. Hopefully, I’ll be able to scoop one up down the line.

Fugitive Family

By cooch | Published 10/19/2010

Here is imo the most underrated records, and one of my personal favorites, from the early DC scene. This record really sounds like nothing before it, and nothing since has come remotely close, which is funny considering a ton of “weird” hardcore bands these days cite United Mutation and Void as influences.

There’s a UM discography reissue on the horizon, which should be pretty cool.

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.