COLUMBUS DIY

After digging around in the collection earlier this evening I thought this might be a good thread.

Subverse/ Desecration split lp 1987 Manic Ears Records

Naturally with a split format one band is given the thumbs up and the other becomes "that one band". With this lp Desecration takes the nod though they really try to mess it up. First of all, if you dig on Asshole Parade or any of those real fast bands with a strange vocalist that snarls you would likely dig on this. Then are the tracks with weird spoken word, a rap and some 80's pop song cover that is sooo out of time. Weed out the crap and it would be great. Subverse are like Seige in vocals but bad musically.

Logical Nonsense

Laser and I used to sweat this band and I was real curious to see how they have aged. I listened to "expand the hive" and I must say that they still get it done though nu-metal has ruined their sound a little bit. There are moments that are cringe worthy Korn-ish sounding bits but otherwise a metally hardcore album that doesn't make me roll my eyes when I think of metally hardcore. It's like HHIG sped up a bit. No gauged ears, hair gel or whatever. I would presume these dudes were real into smoking laced pot and drinking bad beer in the desert.

Word Salad lp on Prank

I simply love this record and was so bummed when they didn't come to Columbus. Thorn said he was scared of them or something. Their 7" on prank is garbage but the lp is this weird speed metal lp that is unrelenting. Mine is on red with a bonus Slayer cover on the wax. I would presume these guys were speed freaks and probably fought people in pool halls so therefore were not able to play the LOD. I'll listen to the 10" split with Hellchild to review later. All I know is that the 10" has foil lettering and that was something that I thought was only left for baseball cards and childrens books. Whatever. It's on Hater of God records which you really can't put on your resume unless you are Anton Lavey or are trying out for Deicide.

The Word Salad and Logical Nonsense lps have totally ignorant art. WS features lepers or some people with some ill ass illnesses making it totally metal. LN features some aliens and other weirdo creatures (chupacabra!?) which makes sense due to being from New Mexico...area 51 bros. Hesh as fuck.

Round two....

Eyehategod- dopesick

It took me probably three years to comprehend that these dudes are real fucked up and love the Allman Brothers (or whatever southern equivalent). I remember Phil from Pantera had an Eyehategod shirt in a video and I thought it was ignorant and was curious. I bought this used at Threshold (RIP) probably three times because it didn't sink in. I am still pissed I didn't see them at the Alrosa with Soilent Green before the singer went to rehab (supposedly)/ and the band broke up. Dude went to jail for looting pharmacies post Katrina thus making him total hero and trillest white maniac. He will likely never die or die in some weird shootout with cops/ fans.


Hellchild/ Word Salad- 10" hater of god

This record doesn't fit the slept on requirement but I had to do this. There is a reason I haven't listened to this in about 5 years, at least. Total garbage. Hellchild sounds like groove metal with metallica vocals from that "YOUAIN'T MY BITCHHHHHHAAAA" song styled after the "YOUAI" part. Fucking stupid and hurts my mind to even think about. Word Salad songs were forgettable. Why do I have this?

The art for WS looks like some garbage you find in a 7th grade heshers notebook. Stupid shit with heads on poles. Eyehategod is just s&m photos. Whatever. Lyric sheet is a jumble of words from a junkie. As if you could ever follow them maaaan.

Indestructible Noise Command- razorback lp

Yearning for Bay Area speed metal? They aren't from the bay but Connecticut instead and do a decent job at mimmicking the Bay Area sound. It is pretty midpaced but it holds my attention. There are no raps, ballads or any other nonsense. Though it does have the ultimate hesh anthem "anarchy" which would make Steve Ignorant roll over in his grave. Solid lp if you turn it up on the cheap. If you find two, snag me one because mine cracks and pops and the cover has old mold on it.

The cover has what could be frankenstien pushing a patient on a guerney in a mental hospital. Imagine...the horror!

Back at it....

Necronomicon- lp (self titled, I do believe)

If you think the German powerhouses are (in no particular order) Kreator, Destruction, Sodom you are right but there are sleeper gems out there for kraut metal rippers. The lp from Necronomicon hits some speedier moments but where it really hits is in its burliness. Sorta Dischargey in delivery. They certainly don't have the chops of the three but it has guts.


Messiah- hymn to abramelin lp

Swiss metal.... I dunno about that but when I acquired this lp I checked the thank you list to see who made the list. Snobbish? Possibly but if I handed you a mysterious lp (or 1000 of them) and you had to sort them into piles of ones to play first it may make sense. Well anyway, they have Poison on their thank you list and you may have heard there is a German metal band named Poison. Needless to say, this moved to the front of the pile to play. This is inept metal. Inept and raw kinda like Sarcofago hits those speeds and are hanging in time by the smallest of margins. Totally primitive and good. Some of these dudes went on to bigger named Swedish death metal bands too.

i'll admit, i've definately slept on a few of those records. good infos brandon, more please!

Thanks Jimmy. I've been cataloging records for the past couple of days and thought it would be fun to do.

Warfare- metal anarchy (neat records 1985)

When Dane saw this record he was like "dude, this record is awesome. You can't get rid of it." I hadn't listened to it yet so I held on to it. Dane is right, it is awesome. It treads in that territory that is like hardcore punk/ metal realm. You know kinda Discharge and kinda Venom or Motorhead. Strangely enough, this album was produced by Lemmy and Mantas (Venom) was in the band for a stint. I could imagine the crowd of people to see them, a fair mix of heshers and punks. Probably never big enough to headline a show but a solid middle bill band. It is on Neat so some record goonie may try to charge an arm and a leg for it.

I paid an arm, but not a leg, for that! It came with the bonus 7" inside as well. Basically, they are the VENOM farm team. Very cool.

"Burn Down the King's Road"

Mine doesn't have the bonus 7". Oh well.

Nervous Gender/ Beezlebub Youth split lp (subterranean records)

This came in used to the store once in a huge pile of soundtrack lps and showtunes. Weird. I saw it was on Subterranean and snagged it. Again, split format gives the nod to Nervous Gender. Musically, they are one of those early punk bands that are synth driven. They come close to the level of the Screamers and there are some songs that reach that mark and easily fill the void after you've listened to the Screamers demos for the millionth time over. Beezlebub Youth... I can't remember 'em. Sorry dudes.

The artwork is painful to look at. Song titles? Unreadable font.

A side note, personally I try to pick up everything on Subterranean because it is such a mixed bag label. Almost everything I own I have found in town relatively cheap. They have put out records by Factrix (early SF industrial), Minimal Man ($1 used kids score, droned out synth sorta punk), they did something for The Lewd apparently, Z'ev, and I have two more records upstairs on the label that are avant garde, noisy, can't categorize type. Keep your eyes open. If you do find anything on the label and can't hang with it. Let me know because I will buy it from you.

Fudge Tunnel -complicated futility of ignorance (earache, 1994)

Just got this in the mail and could be the last good thing earache ever did (sorry Muni Waste fans!). Anyway, after not hearing this for about 10+ years I found a copy on wax and was afraid it would sound like Hotel War or worse (if that is possible). In a nutshell, they remind me somewhat of the midtempo Melvins songs. Fudge Tunnel never goes overdrive or cripplingly slow on this album. Nevertheless, it hits hard with plenty of groove (I am wincing using the word groove because it is so Chili Peppers). In addition, if you were ever a Nailbomb fan (early to mid 90's Sepultura side project) was with Alex Newport of Fudge Tunnel so don't sleep.

bbrandon wrote:
Eyehategod- dopesick

ive been sizzurping to eyehategod this last week. nothing else makes me look forward to ohio winter as much as this each year

Indestructable Noise Command rules! The Visitor album is sweet too.

bbrandon wrote:
Messiah- hymn to abramelin lp

anyone interested in checking out messiah (as well as about a million other bands) should take a look at this website:

http://www.anus.com/metal/hall/YaBB.cgi?board=mp3

tons upon tons of classics from the metal world.

I need to check out that Warfare record

So I woke up this morning thinking about the Loli and the Chones lps so here goes.

The first lp is called "PS I hate you" and I cannot remember the second lp title. I haven't listened to either of these lps in probably a year or two but they are garage punk of the highest caliber. All I have to say is the song "Nazi Death Camp" compares living at home to living in a death camp. Some of the lyrics are as follows "Clean your room. Take out the trash or else I'll turn you into ash!" Seriously sleeper gems from the mid to late 90's. I don't think they ever toured.

Bolt Thrower- 4th Crusade
Hypocrisy-Catch 22 (kinda like slipknot)
In Aeternum- First 2 jawns...

Not really slept on but an avoid this one

Unearthly Trance- "electrocution". I really liked their first one. Bought "Trident" when it came out and still haven't played it. Listened to the new one today. First two cuts sound like some shit bag early 90's hard rock with singing type vocals (EVEN FLO-OOW BLAH BLAH BLAH- Pearl Jam). The third cut gets nasty and the 4th cut is about 1/4 reasonable but there is some more bullshit hard rockisms along with a "black metal" breakdown. I put on some other stuff after the A-side because it was messing up my game of Madden. Seriously so boring. A high schooler with some garbage taste could write this album. Dudes, cut your hair and/or goatee and sell me your records. Thx!

G.I.S.M. - M.A.N.

I first heard songs from this album randomly in a friend's car back in high school, and was immediately taken back to my infant years as a MegaMan junkie. Ever since, I've had a strange fascination with this band, and their obsession with self inflicted obscurity. Example; I had to buy this album off of e-bay.....in CD-R form.

I think this record stands out among the rest of the G.I.S.M. catalog, and I'd consider it their best by far. First off, the guitar riffs and arrangement's are much more reminiscent of N.W.O.B.H.M. than hardcore punk, something that was present in their previous and post M.A.N. releases, but not nearly as pronounced (we can thank guitarist Randy Uchida for this - RIP). And yet the integration is seamless, creating what I would consider a perfect hybrid of the two genre's. Sakevi sounds like a ravenous wolverine as usual, punctuating some of the songs with sometimes all too drawn out verses of butchered english, but this is redeemed almost completely by the wicked dual guitar leads that usually accompany them. Unlike other GISM albums, Sakevi uses quite a few vocal effects, which got me totally psyched because they reminded me of the monsters in an old, gorey anime I used to watch when I was a kid. The bass has some pretty poignant moment's also, doing well to play its role in the rythm section while still injecting some very memorable melodies into the mix. The drums are also a strong point, doing well to spice things up with time-changes, and all out thrash-having breakdowns, usually triggered by a change in the riffs. There are also a couple of strange industrial tracks peppered in, mostly noise and ambience, that make pretty good soundtracks to your haunted porch display during halloween. When you listen to them along with the rest of the album, however, they groom you well for the ear fucking that follows with the next track.

All in all, I can't shut up about this record. It makes sick that this band is toted by so many posers for a single song like endless blockades, while this album, chock full of enough NWOBHM riffs to make even Iron Maiden jealous, seems to have gone entirely unnoticed. For shame. For fucking shame.

Over and out.

bbrandon wrote:Not really slept on but an avoid this one

Unearthly Trance- "electrocution". I really liked their first one. Bought "Trident" when it came out and still haven't played it. Listened to the new one today. First two cuts sound like some shit bag early 90's hard rock with singing type vocals (EVEN FLO-OOW BLAH BLAH BLAH- Pearl Jam). The third cut gets nasty and the 4th cut is about 1/4 reasonable but there is some more bullshit hard rockisms along with a "black metal" breakdown. I put on some other stuff after the A-side because it was messing up my game of Madden. Seriously so boring. A high schooler with some garbage taste could write this album. Dudes, cut your hair and/or goatee and sell me your records. Thx!

so right...trident had a huge impact on me in SF for real, i used to get so fucked up and listen to that- electrocution has no substance to it.

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X-creta- patronizing the heterodox lp

Ok, this was part of the huge speed metal/punk collection I bought a couple of years ago. I had filed it in with my punk lps and gets kinda lost behind everything. So lost, that I forgot I had it. X-creta (what a weird name?!) is from Belgium and play a hearty mix of punk and thrash. Vox sound kinda United Mutation-y which is a huge plus in my book. The first cut has some rock-ish overtones but once you get into the middle of the lp it gets pretty raging. Kinda mixed bag song writing wise with the various influences/ blurred lines between hardcore and thrash but overall a good listen. Dude on the insert has a double necked guitar.... why? The lp came out in 1986 so it likely wasn't viewed as an "Oh shit!" metal record but that doesn't mean it isn't ripping.

So I went to that alleged record convention on Saturday. The last time I went I bought Aphrodite's Child "666" and the first Bo Hansson lp but that was like 5 years ago. I had delusions of grandeur when I went on Saturday to say the least. I think I bought the only punk/ metal record there. That is if you don't count the Clash as punk (seriously, fuck the Clash). The one punk/metal record I found was Genocide "submit to" lp on New Reniassance. First, the cover is so stupid that I had to buy it. They are from New Jersey and look like they worship the Misfits, shitty era Discharge and Good Charlotte (2 outta 3 Jersey bands!) Add plastic skeletons to the glammy charged out vibe and you have a winner.There are some real dumb songs but for the most part it is a rock solid hardcore punk record made by a bunch of idiots from the Jersey shore.
Highlight- Die Wasted
Lowlight- Live to Fuck. Fuck to Live.

brandon, i got that genocide record for fifty cents somewhere once. i think i listened to a side of it and shelved it. i'll have to give it another spin.

I respect McCoy so much that the first time I heard him say "fuck the Clash" I believed it for life. He will do well with America's youth.

inspired to write reviews of random 7"s out of my collection.
im glad i re listened
-mm
MEREL/ICONOCLAST split 7" ///old glory recs.::
early ebullition era.uh merel sucks big time. i remember loving this band in 94-95. i had a homemade merel shirt. what the fuk. the song has the singer of stix&stones reading camus and some dudes screaming like all hell over it. totally annoying. the music is hardly agressive-like a weaker moss icon!!??.
the 1st iconoclast song on here is pretty good, reminding me of why i liked this band (rorschach worship). the 2nd track was weak- more like merel.

WORLDS COLLIDE 7"// victory recs.:::::
people were pissed this was a 2 song 7" in 1993. metal hardcore from d.c. their cro mags parts are good but the breakdowns & chorus are embarrassing to be reminded of. the instrumental is terrible ala rage against the machine. these dudes were really cool and played in columbus 3 or 4 times,but this does not age well.

MELT BANANA/THE LOCUST split 7"//gsl recs.:::::
i will say this is one of the best record covers ive ever seen. its amazing, i cant describe it well except it was done by sam mcpheeters. the 1st time i heard this 7" i thought the MB tracks were bad but the 2nd time i came around. track one is insane!! MELT BANANA are one of the sickest bands ever.ever.ever. THE LOCUST are really fukkin terrible in ways i cant comprehend. if you like this band ill fight you. i tried to like this band in ernest and they suck. their early shit w/ dylan from struggle was good, all downhill.
**BUY THIS RECORD FOR THE COVER ALONE .....also MB rips>>

INSIDE OUT 7"//revelation recs.:::::::::::::
a hardcore classic!! i was very interested to see that INSIDE OUT has aged well. people used to say this 7" is youth crews version of VOID and i think that is an ok description. lots of feedback and aural violence. vocals are still great. i cant really dig alot of the breakdowns- they seem out of place. like a song will be raging along and the next part will sound like bad brains- "re ignition". breakdowns of that era bother me-it seems like poor songwriting. this was a fun listen- i sang along.

NO ESCAPE/TURNING POINT split 7"
the NO ESCAPE side of this record is FUKKING BADASS!! so powerful and heavy for a hardcore band. meaningful,pissed off lyrics delivered w/ rage by tim singer of boiling point zine fame. tim went on to sing for deadguy and kiss it goodbye but those bands dont even come close to these 2 songs.
even better than INSDE OUT. no lie. TURNING POINT on the other hand really suck in 2008 to my ears. this is their later stuff when they got fluffy, but i loved this shit 15 years ago. maybe NO ESCAPE just make them look like total wussbags. hmmmm????

LIFESBLOOD 7"//combined effort recs.:::::::::
i didnt really like this in 1990 but now i totally dig this record, its totally fucking pissed hardcore similar to AGNOSTIC FRONT and CITIZENS ARREST.
black and white cover. real NY hardcore from albany. adam went onto form BORN AGAINST, arguably one of the great hc bands of the decade. thats no reason to overlook this band like i did.

end lesson::
NO ESCAPE
i own lots of records by bands from NEW JERSEY???!!

Great reviews! Speaking of Locust hating... Justin Pearson has joined Bastard Noise. I dunno?!

Last night during the ice I thought I would revisit Cirith Ungol. This band plays that Sabbath influenced hard rock/ metal hybrid. The vocals are a little screechier and the music plods but it is supposed to! It's heavy metal...caveman rock. I feel that they are one of the last bands that can do this without seeming like a throwback to another era. My explanation follows...

Their first two lps came out in the early to mid 80's. This is significant because it was, in my opinion, the last good era of comic books (and you could still buy them in pharmacies, grocery stores, etc). As a youngin', I could still tune in to WUAB and catch wild ass sci-fi and fantasy tv shows on saturdays. There was a Dungeon and Dragons cartoon and I played Dark Tower (does anyone have a complete game they would sell?). This was before video games became the babysitter of America's youth. I did have an Atari but could anyone play it for more than an hour at a time? It wasn't until college that I was able to play Asteroids for two hours.

The first lp was released in 1980 and the second, "King of the Dead" in 1984 (third in '86 but I don't have the third). The two lps play into in popularity of D&D with the cover art, named after LOTR, and fantasy themed songs. Just keep your eyes peeled for fantasy record covers and not the Molly Hatchet ones.

Funny side story, when my brother was in elementary school he went to a yard sale. He bought me Black Sabbath "V.4" lp (Vertigo original), Grateful Dead lp (he thought they were death metal) and Molly Hatchet (death metal assumption).

i recently revisited that NO ESCAPE demo. crushing stuff. i ripped it for easily repeated listens. i will up it if there is any interest.

i also ripped the inept lp and split 7", and need to get those posted.

that was fun reading those reviews of those 90s bands...all of which I loved as well. I'm bummed to hear that Worlds Collide didn't age well for you, they were one of my favorite bands to see at Freakin' Pizza.

Cirith Ungol is great, I think
Miner said it best...

"Cirith Ungol sound like Judas priest playing out of combo amps."

cirith ungol are cool
real mysterious.
ive been digging early MANILLA ROAD esp. "crystal logic" from 1982.
very similar to CU.
anyone wanna sell some manilla road vinyl???
i love how smitty has cirith ungol written all shitty and big on his guitar case.
more reviews coming......

The only Manilla Road that I have on wax is "The Deluge". It's good and unfortunately I don't want to part with it. I've been bossing the first two Jade Warrior lps and Circle latitudes series double lp.

i've only heard manilla road's cover of bloodrock's DOA, which sounded too much like the original.
ever heard this song? it's a bloody delightful hallucinogenic little nut sundae, and it sounds like he says "someone laid a shit across my chest" in one lyric.
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Spike In Vein- disease is relative LP (trans dada records)

I've been listening to this a good bit lately so I could finally give Jimmy the scoop on this. This came into work in a collection and I had no idea what it was but was intrigued by the cover art. I looked it up online and discovered it was some weirdo Cleveland piece so it was going on the turntable next.

I would call this a post punk hardcore record. I really can't hang with most post punk stuff at all but this record has a hardcore edge to it but it is out there enough to get the art school kids into it. The guitar work is fantastic. Killer cuts are "God on Drugs" which is a grind out dirge. The intro into "Ghetto Songs" has guitar work that could easily fit onto the No New York comp. The last cut on the a-side comes soooo close to some weird punk funk. Actually fuck that, there is a totally shitty funk break down that I thought I was imagining. No, it's real. The clean bass kinda ruins that song but everything on the a-side is killer. The b-side is quite similar with "Children In The Subway" being a standout.

I feel that this record probably suffered most because it was a midwest record and is a few years ahead of its time in sound. Unfortunately, these two factors have left it as a cult favorite for those who are lucky or in the know. My only real problem with the record is that it is incredibly tinny. Now I could normally give two shits about the quality of the recording unless it sounds horrible and this record is walking a very fine line between tolerable and intolerable. It could be my old man ears.

Originals are still available from Scat Records for $25 if that gives you any indication on how well it was received in 1983.[/i]

jimmybuttons wrote:i recently revisited that NO ESCAPE demo. crushing stuff. i ripped it for easily repeated listens. i will up it if there is any interest.

i also ripped the inept lp and split 7", and need to get those posted.

I am interested in the NO ESCAPE demo (and anything else they've done if you have it) if/when you find the time to upload it.

the no escape demo rips. gave my copy to andy perlman recently in trade for a couple of things, but i have the mp3s i could post here if i get a minute.

No Escape was heavy as fuck. I love Tim's vocals. Saw them at Stache's in Columbus (1992 or 91?), fucking brutal. Their split EP with Turning Point is devastating as well. Imagine the demo, but WAY heavier. The Turning Point side is pretty bad, though...

(and that's coming from someone who loves the TP lp)