Exotica - Demo CS (2016)

Mutant punk based in NYC but with members from Mexico, Argentina and USA. This demo is a total rager from first track to last and if you're fan of international punk, raw punk or noisy punk similar to new wave of british bands such as Good Throb or Frau this one's for ya. Members of La Misma, Nuclear Spring, Ratas Del Vaticano, Muerte, Tercer Mundo etc.

Buy the tape from LVEUM here.

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G.S.B. - Goldman's Beat CS (2016)

This is yet another one of Mark Winter solo projects which I'm assuming stemmed from Gordon Spicer Band, which probably was the first incarnation of The Coneheads, that appeared on the Cool Bands compilation tapes that Mark put together. G.S.B. sounds like a weirder and more punk take on Coneheads sound, with the exception of a track Telephone Bore as a total pop chartbreaker.

For fans and related to The Coneheads, Liquids, C.C.T.V., Big Zit, D.L.I.M.C., Cal And The Calories etc.

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D.L.I.M.C. - Cassingles (2015)

What if Beavis and Butthead were in a punk rock band??? Well, the band would probably sound similar to D.L.I.M.C.

D.L.I.M.C. is one of many projects of Mark Winter from Big Zit, The Coneheads, CCTV, Liquids and dozen other bands hailing from the blooming NWI punk scene.

D.L.I.M.C. is all about infectious tunes, goofiness, satirical tongue-in-cheek humor and the most important thing; killer riffs. Not sure why this is not hyped more but I'm totally hooked on this and I'm afraid I don't know where you can buy this tapes, but I collected them all for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!

For fans of Devo, The Dead Milkmen, Cal And The Calories, Meat Puppets, Nobunny etc.

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Public Eye - Mood Change Party CS (2016)

Public Eye is what happens when members of PDX’s Autistic Youth switch instruments and decide to start a new band and play something entirely different and that is a stripped down, straight forward and repetitive post-punk.

This tape, even thought is a demo, do not sound like a demo at all. On the contrary, it fucking slays! Public Eye combines powerful and melodic songwriting with laser sharp technical precision, indie rock sensibilities and guitar-driven poppiness of 80's new wave and post-punk.

For fans of early Rought Trade catalogue, Fugazi, Wire, Spacemen 3, Institute, Ceremony, Parquet Courts etc.

Buy the tape from Sabotage Records here.
Listen to new song from upcoming LP here.

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Catholic Guilt - Futile Attempts 7" (2014)

Yet another release by Doomtown Records I forgot to post here. Below is the press info for the release I wrote.

"Catholic Guilt are from Austria and play dense, discordant hardcore in 80's hardcore punk tradition. They are said to be measuring up with Poison Idea and Die Kreuzen when it comes to dashing off cogent, well-written songs that eloquently express the band's lack of interest in most of humanity. What’s more, they have plenty of chorus effect on the guitar, which reminds of early Hüsker Dü and many other bands from that era. Sickoids would be also a good reference if we speak about some new bands doing something similar."

Beside this 7", Catholic Guilt put out another 7" EP called "Cabin Fever" just a few months ago, as well as S/T LP and split 12" with their buddies INU from Spain.

You can buy all CG releases from DOOMTOWN store here.

Stream other Doomtown releases here.
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Buy Doomtown releases and other goods here or here.

The next release on Doomtown is debut vinyl release by Bay Area band with members of Deskonocidos, Neon Piss, The New Flesh, Criaturas and more. You can read more about Silent Era and preorder the record here. Download the amazingly killer Silent Era demo tape from last year here.

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Obedience - Demo CS (2016)

Old school hardcore-punk band based in Austin, Texas. Obedience are all about nurturing love towards good ol' fashioned American hardcore. This tape contains six hard punches in the face brought to you by members of Breakout, Signal Lost, Severed Head of State, Dead Nation, Splitting Headache and Dave from legendary Tear It Up on vocals duties!

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Deformity - Bug Collection CS (2016)

From the depths of New York City Deformity were born and they played high intensity weirdo raw hardcore at the same time both aggressive and noisy. All mixed up and recorded following the old "all knobs to the right" method. This should appeal to fans of classic noise punk not unlike Confuse, Disorder or Zyanose while at the same time, I can see how someone digging Hank Wood And The Hammerheads could be into this cause of occasional garage punk swagger.

This tape compiles all of their demos (released and unreleased ones), both 7" singles on Toxic State and La Vida Es Un Mus and scrapped LP from 2012. So you get the discography type of thing here.

After the band broke up members went on to form Kaleidoscope, JJ Doll and Ivy (who also call it quits).

This one was released by the band via their label D4MT Labs. Get it here. You can also buy Shards 7" here.

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Nandas - Demo (2014) & S/T 7" (2016)

Recent primitive raw punk addition to the roster of Toxic State Records from NYC.

Nandas are female fronted gang of mutated punks heavily into barbaric stomps, distorted trashy guitar sound, raspy whispering vocals and generally dreadful sound. Essential like everything Toxic State puts out!

For fans of Nog Watt, early Rudi Peni singles, Wretched, european hardcore and Nandas nyc contemporaries like Crazy Spirit, Dawn of Humans, Hank Wood etc.

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V/A "Richmond Burning Compilation" CS (2014)

Cassette-only mixtape of newer bands from Richmond, Virginia, compiled by Feel It! Records. Features tracks from Slugz, Animal Planet, the Nervous Ticks, Diamond Hairbrush, Omega Boys, Christi, Asylum, Atrocious Kontrol, Cretins, Barge and two songs from the aborted Southside Stranglers LP session. This is pretty intense selection of some of the most exciting hardcore and garage punk bands from Richmond even thought I must admit, at first I only tracked this one for unreleased Southside Stranglers stuff. Was worth it!

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V/A "Bughouse I Mixtape" CS (2015)

Pretty killer, diverse and high quality compilation compiled by Not Normal Tapes from Lansing, Illinois. Full release compiles around 40 rare, live, previously unreleased, or alternate takes from the likes of American Hate, Baghead, Boots, the Bug, Christi, Chuckleheads, CHUD, The Coltranes, Common Ignorance, The Floor Above, Fogg, Lech, Leech, Mystic Inane, Negative Scanner, Orden Mundial, Otherized, Primetime, Slugbugs, Tenement, and Youth Sucks. So you basically get everything from the lo-fi raw hardcore punk sounds of Orden Mundial to the more melodic punk of Tenement plus a whole lot of brilliant punk and hardcore that falls somewhere in between.

Buy the tape here.

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Mirror - Demo (2015)

Uncompromising, primitive and raw Texan hardcore at it's best. New band featuring old blood from Wiccans, The Impalers, Institute, Blotter, Criaturas, Kurraka and Vaaska. Enough said?

New 7" soon to be out on Erste Theke from Germany.

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Modern Delusion - Days Of Us 12'' [2015]

After two releases on Doomtown Records, Wasteland tape and split 7" with Chresus Jist, this synth-oriented, gloomy post punk trio managed to craft twelve memorable songs for their highly anticipated debut LP.

"Days of Us" captures bleak atmosphere and isolation caused by living in the big city on some shitty part of the world and the 4-track lo-fi production doesn't hurt either. Wide range of influences come from some classic synth punk sounds like Devo, The Screamers or Units and there's definitely some obvious influence from Yugoslavian post-punk/new wave scene and bands such as Paraf and some contemporary stuff not unlike Jay Reatard's Lost Sounds. But this is not straight up death rock, post-punk or goth revival band, Modern Delusion build up their own trademark sound with strong melancholic touch and vocals soaked in reverb backed up with punk attitude and primitive raw sound.

Silkscreened sleeves come in two different colors; red and grey. Artwork by Dirt Sleeze.

Buy this LP here.

Also, there's a new band called The Celetoids featuring 2/3 of Modern Delusion plus drummer from Chresus Jist. The trio plays a frantic, nervous and rabid kind of furious punk rock inspired by the first wave of British punk and obscure KBD gems, even outsider punk weirdos like Rudimentary Peni.

The Celetoids debut tape called Pupal Stage is released by Doomtown a few days ago along with the new Generacion Suicida tapes and Cal And The Calories tapes (this one is on Doomtown's sublabel Outsider Tapes). Get the new tapes here. Stream new DT releases here.

Download Modern Delusion's Days of Us 12"
Download other MD releases here.

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Chroma - Cuerpos Dóciles 12'' [2016]

Amazing new group from Barcelona consisting of 3 ladies who formerly and currently played in RAKTA, LAS OTRAS, INVISIBLES, SIEGA and RAKTA EM TRANSE. Primitive, mechanically repetitive, brooding tribal punk with some industrial influences that recall bands such as Killing Joke. I must admit I like this band even more than all off their other projects.

For fans of La Misma, Una Bestia Incontrolable, Belgrado, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Ultimo Resorte...

You can get it here.

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Nadie - Demo (2016)

Minimalistic fusion of raw punk, UK anarcho-punk with some hints toward post-punk brought to you by people from Belgrado, Sect, The Love Triangle and Shitty Limits.

This is only released in digital format but if you like this demo you might be interested in vinyl records by Sect, Belgrado and The Love Triangle. I added some last copies Sect LP, 2nd Belgrado LP and The Love Triangle 7" to a distro store. Get it here.

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Latishia's Skull Drawing - Demo CS (2015)

Since the demise of Cult Ritual, the band members formed some other bands but neither of those bands had anything in common with the nasty dirge madness Cult Ritual were. This demo contains six songs full of noisy, atonal, chaotic and loud hardcore CR were known for and this tape is as close to CR sound as you can get. Don't sleep on this!

Members of Cult Ritual, Salvation, Slavescene, The Ukiah Drag and Anxiety Hammer.

Buy the tape here.

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Muerte - Selftitled LP [2015]

Muerte is a hardcore punk band from Mexico City formed by members of Inservibles, Crimen, Tercer Mundo and Ratas del Vaticano.

This is some proper and well crafted hardcore punk with some goth/anarcho-punk/post-punk undertones. While at the same time straight forward, pissed off and angry, Muerte's bleak guitar work manage to bring some dark and broody atmosphere plus sense of a total despair and dread into this rabid mix. One my favourite releases from the year 2015.

For fans of Nerorgasmo, Deskonocidos, Rudimentary Peni, Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers etc.  

Get it here.

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Cal And The Calories ‎– Greatest Ass CS [2016]

Discography tape with all songs by over the top nasal punk from Lumpy's alter ego.

See earlier write up on Cal And The Calories here. If you live on another planet and you haven't heard stuff Lumpy is recording under the moniker Lumpy & The Dumpers do yourself a favor and click this link.

This tape is sold out from Lumpy Records but there's euro press version on Doomtown Records sub-label - Outsider Tapes. Get it here.

Speaking of Lumpy, I added a couple of Lumpy & The Dumpsters - Collection LP's in Doomtown webstore. Get it here.

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Polio & Julie - S/T 7" [2016]

If you like Copenhagen punk from the early 2000's - this will be right up your alley! Catchy uptempo K-Town punk rock heavily inspired by The Avengers, X and Gorilla Angreb.

Get it here.

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Eastern Bloc - Demo CS [2015]

Boston retro hardcore punk worship brought to you by members of Savageheads, Dry Hump, Bloodkrow Butcher, 2x4 and Social Circkle.

Buy Eastern Bloc demo tape here.

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