Good Clean Fun – Between Christian Rock and a Hard Place

This record got a lot of play when I was in high school. My friend bought it from Beatdisc and let me borrow it. I was hooked. This is insanely fun, positive and never fails to put a smile on my face.

What else can you say? They are a positive hardcore band!

Good Clean Fun - Shopping for a Crew

Fun and humour filled youth crew spreading the word of positivity, straight edge, veganism and not taking yourself too seriously.  

FFO: Gorilla Biscuits, 7 Seconds and Youth Of Today

Go It Alone – Vancouver Gold

I don’t really know what else to say about this band. If you’ve read my last posts about them you will know what to expect. I highly recommend this band to anyone slightly interested in hardcore.

Go It Alone – The Only Blood Between Us

This is Go It Alone’s first full length and it is seriously good. More of the same passionate and melodic hardcore from these guys.

FFO: Carry On and Battery.

Final Rage – Tombstone

NYHC inspired UK hardcore.

Final Rage features members of Never Again, Wayfarer, Coldsnap and a bunch of others.

Website: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Final-Rage/163025573752526?ref=ts

Coalesce – Functioning on Impatience

Techy metalcore. This band is having a seizure with their time signatures which keeps things fresh and interesting. I’ve given this a few listens and it hasn’t gotten boring yet.

FFO: The Dillinger Escape Plan

Website: http://www.facebook.com/Coalesce

Captain Cleanoff – Symphonies of Slackness

Punked up grindcore.

I found myself enjoying this album more than their self-titled. This album just sounds so much more full and in your face.

Captain Cleanoff – Captain Cleanoff

Crusty grindcore.

Website: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Captain-Cleanoff/104452571850

Daylight – Dispirit 7” (yellow /250)

‘Dispirit’ is even more depressing than ‘Sinking’!

Daylight are back with 3 more melodic and emotionally driven songs.

I’m really upset that I missed these guys when they toured Australia. I have the poster on my wall to remind me what I missed.

Daylight – Sinking 10” (silver/white swirl /133)

Gruff and melodic punk rock to get depressed to. Daylight takes a lot of influence from emo bands of the 90’s.

FFO: Hot Water Music, Polar Bear Club and Title Fight

Website: http://www.facebook.com/daylightpa

            http://daylightpa.bandcamp.com/

Various Artists – This Comp Kills Fascists Vol. 1

14 grindcore and power violence bands on one CD. I enjoyed this quite abit, much to the displeasure of my girlfriend.

Tacklisting:

1. Agents of Satan – Joe Ryder (Doomryder)
2. Agents Of Satan - Rape 'Em All And Let God Sort 'Em Out
3. Agents Of Satan - Skrote Skin Mask
4. Agents Of Satan - Kill For Baloff
5. Weekend Nachos – Prioritize
6. Weekend Nachos - If You Come Near
7. Weekend Nachos – Scars
8. Weekend Nachos - Worthless Words
9. Kill The Client - False Flag Attack
10. Kill The Client - Triple Six Bastard
11. Kill The Client - Shithouse Lawyer
12. Spoonful Of Vicodin - Totally Brutal News Exposure
13. Spoonful Of Vicodin - Designer Track Marks
14. Spoonful Of Vicodin - I Don't Lift Weights Or Drive An SUV (Because I'm Comfy With My Genitalia)
15. Spoonful Of Vicodin - Put That In Your Pipe And Smoke It
16. Spoonful Of Vicodin - Our Explanations Are Longer Than Our Songs
17. Spoonful Of Vicodin - Confession Booth Gloryhole
18. Maruta - Behind The Steel Curtain
19. Maruta - Chemical Tomb
20. Insect Warfare - Information Economy
21. Insect Warfare – Cellgraft
22. Insect Warfare – Disassembler
23. Insect Warfare - Cancer Of Oppression
24. Shitstorm - Paranoid Existence
25. Shitstorm - Burning Alive
26. Shitstorm – Brainwashed
27. Shitstorm – Victim
28. Shitstorm – Controlling
29. Shitstorm - Mince Meat Human
30. Man Will Destroy Himself – Fuse
31. Man Will Destroy Himself – Empty
32. Total Fucking Destruction - Human Is The Bastard
33. Total Fucking Destruction - In The Process Of Correcting Thinking errors
34. Total Fucking Destruction - Welcome To The Fascist Corporate Wastelands Of America Part One
35. Chainsaw To The Face - Hating Life
36. Chainsaw To The Face – Skewered
37. Chainsaw To The Face - Burnt To Death
38. Chainsaw To The Face - Ripped In Half
39. Magrudergrind - Inevitable Progression
40. Magrudergrind - Heavy Bombing
41. Magrudergrind – Burden
42. Brutal Truth - Forever In A Daze
43. Brutal Truth - You Should Know Better
44. Brutal Truth - Dogs Of War
45. Brutal Truth – Turmoil
46. A.S.R.A. – Chytridiomycosis
47. A.S.R.A. – Cancer
48. A.S.R.A. - Pig Squealer
49. Wasteoid - Drink N Hand
50. Wasteoid – Bangover
51. Wasteoid - Handcuffed And Fucked

Go It Alone / Blue Monday – Split

Split between Vancouver’s Go It Alone and Blue Monday. Both bands play similar style of passionate melodic hardcore. Each band offer 2 new songs and a cover by Reserve 34.

All the songs that the bands offer are deserving of a listen. I wish I got a chance to see these bands live. I don’t know anything about Reserve 34 so I can’t really comment on the quality of these covers.

Best Coast – Crazy For You

I want to listen to this with my headphones on while lazing on the beach in summer.  

Balance and Composure / Tigers Jaw – Split 12” (green /200)

This split really got under my skin. I woke up mornings with its songs stuck in my head. I had it playing on repeat all day for weeks. This has found its way into my Top 5 Splits list.

Balance and Composure spill their guts out. This is emotionally intense post-hardcore/punk/whatever.

Tigers Jaw is stylistically very different. Fuzzy and lazy punk rock that smokes to much weed.

Balance and Composure

FFO: Brand New

Tigers Jaw

FFO: Cheap Girls

Balance and Composure are touring Australia at the moment with Fires of Waco. I’m missing them unfortunately as I’m in Perth when they play Sydney. Make sure you go to one of these shows.

Bad Seed – Bad Seed 7” (mint /500)

I like this band more than I expected to.

Bad Seed / War Hungry – Split

More NYHC influence hardcore from Bad Seed.

War Hungry play hardcore that’s heavy and as solid as a brick wall.

Stomp your ears into your head. 

Bad Seed

Website: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bad-Seed/107403409298444

War Hungry

Website: http://www.myspace.com/whwb

Bad Seed – Demo 2008

Tough and moshy NYHC influenced hardcore from Wilkes-Barre. Featuring members of Title Fight.

FFO: Backtrack, Trapped Under Ice

Brutality Will Prevail – Root Of All Evil

Taking a more experimental and sludgy direction rather than witting more of the brutal beatdowns that appeared on ‘Forgotten Soul’.

I really dig this band, which is really surprising to me. I really want this on wax!

Brutality Will Prevail / Hang The Bastard – Split 7”x2 (Black w/ grey smudge and clear yellow w/ black smudge /500)

I got turned onto both these bands by my mate Kyle. I liked both bands a lot and when he told me they had a split I tracked it down ASAP.

Both bands are from the UK and play variations of metallic and moshable hardcore with a distinctive British feel.

Brutality Will Prevail are on the black w/ grey wax. I’m not a fan of their name in any way. BWP are heavier in the mosh aspect and their lyrics let them down.

Hang The Bastard are found on the clear yellow w/ black smudge wax. They are more metallic with some solid riffs and a rock n’ roll vibe. Dark and evil hardcore.

The artwork on this split is good, although my copy has seen better days. I would have appreciated it if each 7” was labelled with which band appears on it.

Hang The Bastard

Website: http://www.facebook.com/hangthebastard

Brutality Will Prevail

Website: http://www.facebook.com/brutalitywillprevail

Go It Alone – North Hollywood Demo

Energetic and passionate melodic hardcore. This demo is raw and sounds like it’s been ripped from a cassette (yeah I downloaded this).  In my eyes, I don’t think that this band go the credit that they deserved.

FFO: Champion

Brutality Will Prevail – Sleep Paralysis

Dark and aggressive down tuned hardcore from the UK. Moody and haunting.

I’ve been really getting into this band since my mate Kyle introduced me to them. BWP have progressively been getting better and better with each release.

On this EP they play around more with instrumental parts and melodic interludes.

I need this on vinyl!

FFO: Blacklisted, Disembodied

Website: http://brutalitywillprevail.bandcamp.com/

For The Worse – Blood, Guts and Going Nuts

Boston hardcore. I’d be a lot more into this if the vocals didn’t annoy me so much.

There is a lot packed into this. 23 songs in 32 minutes.

FFO: A Poor Excuse, Fit For Abuse,

28 Days – Bring ‘Em Back EP

I guess you can call this nu-hardcore. This is pretty embarrassing at times. 

Website: 28days.com.au

Various Artists – Radiant Live Presents: Lesstalk Vs Dream Damage

This is a compilation specially made at the FBi social on the 23.06.2011. Playing were Halal, How Are You? (it was their last show), TV colours, Sweet Teeth and The Fighting League. This is a pretty good comp and all the bands are definitely worth checking out.

Tacklisting

1. TV Colours – TV Glow
2. Halal, How Are You? – Big Cats
3. Assassins 88 – Three Kings
4. Sweet Teeth – Girls
5. Fighting League – Pizza Man
6. The Brutal Poodles – 6 Days
7. Teddy Trouble – Byths
8. Origami Girls – I Like Craft
9. Jonny Telafone – Lonely Masturbator
10. Polyfox and the Union of the Most Ghosts – Reflection of the Polyforest in Monolake

Record labels:

http://www.lesstalkrecords.com/

http://www.dreamdamage.com/

Various Artists – This is…Two Bucks Records: Volume 1

I picked this up for something like a dollar.

The stand out tracks on this are by God So Loved The World, Stolen Youth and Equal Minded.

Tracklisting:

1. Day I Die – Valley Of Corpses
2. God So Loved The World – Not For Me
3. The Brews – Forgotten Sense
4. Straight Away – Stolen Days of Innocence
5. Stolen Youth – Dumb and Dumber
6. Beer Bong – My Shorts
7. Bad Taste – Sliding
8. Donkey Kong – Strength Through Diversity
9. Before It All Ends – Can’t Be Bought
10. The Rip – Stand Alone
11. Equal Minded – We Made Our Heroes Up
12. Everhappens – Side By Side

The Fighting League – 2 Songs

Tropical punx from the ACT, ‘the capital of your country’. You need to see these guys live!

These songs are really fun and poppy that’s stuck somewhere between the 70’s and 80’s.

FFO: Eddie Current Suppression Ring and TV Colours

Website: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Fighting-League/61952713853

Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint – The River In Reverse

Another one for your parents to put on when they have people over.

Elvis Costello and the Imposters – The Delivery Man

I was really excited when I picked this up with the other Elvis Costello CDs. Now I’m bored and thinking I should’ve gotten something else.

Give this to your parents.

Elvis Costello – Live with the Metropole Orkest: My Flame Burns Blue

This is Elvis Costello’s jazz and orchestral material. This was recorded live at the 2004 North Sea Jazz Festival. This also comes with a bonus CD ‘Il Soncno’, which are excerpts from Elvis Costello’s ballet ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.
The booklet details stories behind the songs on ‘My Flame Burns Blue’. The stories are lost on me though because I know nothing of jazz or the orchestra.

Give this to your parents or drink a lot of red wine and feel mature.

Gomez – How We Operate

Boring folk rock.

I couldn’t bring myself to listen to the whole album. I got bored, restless and alittle irritated.

Firearms – Demo

I picked this up when I went to see Coerce play at Hermans. Also playing were Hira Hira, Between The Devil and the Deep and Totally Unicorn. They are all great bands and worth checking out.  I unfortunately missed Firearms due to a delicious lasagne dinner. Thanks mum.

These guys play a very rocky style of punk rock.

FFO: The Bronx

Goldust – Noir

Hard hitting hardcore mixed with trashy metal from Germany. Full of rage and was over before I knew it. i don't know anything about this band so I'm keeping this short. 

+44 – When Your Heart Stops Beating

I thought that this was going to be a lot better than what it turned out to be. I always liked Mark’s songs in Blink 182 the best but this stuff is kinda bland. There is only one or two songs that I would re-listen to.

FFO: Blink 182, Motion City Soundtrack

Goldfinger – Open Your Eyes

A mixture of NOFX styled punk rock with almost Blink 182 pop punk. There are some good songs on here, though some of them are way too sugary for me at times.

There is more of a political and socially conscious slanting in the lyrics on this album as well. But then again that only at times.

There are times on here as well when I forget I’m listening to Goldfinger and think that I’m listening to The Used.

Spokesman was also on Tony Hawks which took me back a few years. I enjoyed that.

Overall this is a confusing listen.

Goldfinger – Goldfinger

Punk rock ska. I never really got into these guys like a bunch of my friends did. I didn’t really see their appeal over Less Than Jake and other third wave ska bands.

FFO: Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish

Website: http://www.goldfingermusic.com/

Gold Kids – The Sound Of Breaking Up

Hailing from Italy, Gold Kids play dark and bleak hardcore. They sing about desperation and heartache.

FFO: Dead Swans

Website: http://www.facebook.com/goldkids