Arxi Tou Telous "Live Sto Polytexneio"

Since I've been quite lazy lately it's great to get a contribution for the blog, so thanx to Kostas for contacting me with the stuff from his band Arxi Tou Telous. They hail from Athens, Greece and the members are Giannis (vocals), Kostas (guitar), Panos (bass) and Vaggelis (drums).
There's rarely any new stuff here, but this one is recorded just one month ago. What Kostas sent me is this live recording of their gig from the technological university of Athens which was held on 16/9 where they shared the stage with Witch Hunt, Hibernation and No Way Out. As I've already mentioned a couple of posts ago, I'm not much of a fan of live recordings, but this one is quite well recorded and gives good insight in bands' sound. The music is that gloomy dark hardcore post punk in that good old way only greeks do it. This is first release on their own B24 label/distro. They mostly do tapes and have already published three more releases with noise / no wave / experimental bands from Greece. They could wind up here too and if they are as good as this release you should definitely check it out.
You can contact the band here: anexparagogh@yahoo.gr or through their MySpace.
Here's what they wrote about themselves:
Arxi tou telous means "the beginning of the end", we've chosen that name because we wanted a way to explain our theory about life, we believe that a circle,in which every single spot is the beginning and the end at the same time, represents the way in which people grow up and die (giving their place to other people etc.) - (life giving her place to death). It was about 9 years ago when we decided to write some of our own songs. All keen admirers of hard, experimental and atmospheric sounds, we can say that especially new wave- no wave bands from the 80's inspired us the most. As the Years passing we are steping forward in order to find how long is our musically journey. We like trying new ways of creating dark punk songs, basically by finding atmospheric doomed riffs "married" to new wave - punk bass lines. Our lyrics, mostly written by Giannis, are social-political and have to do with subjects such as racism, human relationships, feelings etc. Our first album under the title “Noise” will be released the next months.

Released: 2009
Label: B24
Size: 39 MB

01. Youth / Tuflos Sti Gaza (Youth / Eyeless In Gaza)
02. To Xroma Tou Prosopou (Colour Of The Face)
03. Upokoultoura (Subculture (Adiexodo Cover ))

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VA "Grito Suburbano" LP

I guess that everybody knows this record, but for those few of you that don't - this compilation is probably the most important punk record from Brasil. It was originally released in 1982 on Punk Rock Discos, but my record is 1994 re-release by New Face Records. The bands featured are Olho Seco, Inocentes and Cólera and you know what to expect when all 12 songs last just under 20 minutes.
Here's some info about Grito Suburbano from Inocentes KFTH page:
During 1981, local punks (including members of the band) started organizing the legendary "Grito Suburbano" ("Suburban Screams") shows that took place all around the city and encouraged many kids to get into punk and start their own bands. Late in that same year, they recorded the compilation of the same name with Cólera and Olho Seco (another band, called Anarcolatras, was also supposed to be on the compilation, but ended up not taking part), but the result was so bad that all the bands had to record it all over again and the record (the first punk LP in Brazil) only came out in early '82.

Released: 1994
Label: New Face Records
Size: 48 MB

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01. Olho Seco: Desespero
02. Olho Seco: Sinto
03. Inocentes: Garotos Do Subúrbio
04. Inocentes: Medo De Morrer
05. Cólera: João
06. Cólera: Gritar
07. Olho Seco: Lutar Matar
08. Olho Seco: Eu Não Sei
09. Inocentes: Pânico Em S.P.
10. Inocentes: Morte Nuclear
11. Cólera: Subúrbio Geral
12. Cólera: Hhei

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Assfort/Chaos U.K. "The Dangerous Study" split 12" EP

Here I am at last. Summer lazyness is still in effect even though it's not so hot anymore. I finally made myself posting again. Sorry to those of you who waited for your comments to be published, but I forgot that I've enabled comment moderation due to heavy spamming from one fucking annoying blogger. I usually don't like this comment moderation stuff, but I was really starting to get pissed off and I don't want the fucker here anymore.
OK. Now... This time it's split of Japcore and UK punk legends. Each band delivers two songs and they rip all the way. Assfort are tight as usual and I guess that this is my favourite Chaos U.K. record and even though it's only two songs they are true dirty Röckin Nöiz just the way I like it. I guess that this EP is out of print and I just cannot find Vinyl Japan website. Also you can get Chaos U.K. songs on "Kings For A Day - The Vinyl Japan Years" on Anagram.
The sound level on this rip is quite off the scale because I cannot adjust volume on my USB phono pre-amp thingy (which sucks). But this is supposed to be cranked up all the fukken way up. If you don't already have this you mustn't miss it! Now go!

Released: 2001
Label: Vinyl Japan
Size: 21 MB

01. Assfort - Egoist Guidance
02. Assfort - Fairyland And Nonchalant
03. Chaos U.K. - Gone And Forgotten/Killa On Da Loose

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Brigade O.D./Pizda Materna split LP

This picture LP will be something like the end of live trilogy of posts. Actually, only Brigade O.D. side and Pizda Materna's last song are live recordings.
Anyway, Brigade O.D. are from Skopje, Macedonia and they play really great raw metallic crust with gruff vocals. Let's say something in Hiatus vein which equals excellent, right? All of you who don't like live recordings don't be put off by that fact because this was recorded in MKNŽ club in Ilirska Bistrica, Slovenia and there was always great sound there and a lot of bands released their live stuff from their shows in there. Doom's "Pissed, Robbed And Twatted" 7" and Schwartzeneggar's "Live In Slovenia" 7" come to mind.
Pizda Materna are from Slovenia and they play somewhat slower and psyched crusty punk. Here they offer three studio tracks and the last one is live (also from MKNŽ club) called Karaoke Punk and basically it's Exploited's "Sex & Violence" sung by some croatian punk as "Šeks and Valentić" (croatian politicians).
You can find more about Pizda Materna's music output in their last post, and I don't know much about Brigade O.D.'s releases except the track on Preko Zidova Nacionalizama I Rata comp. 7" and Smash The Army Before They Smash You! tape. I remember meeting singer Darko with his wife and kids on Monte Paradiso festival in Pula just before he went to London and I believe that was the end of the band. I hope I'm wrong.
This was co-op release of 4 Italian and one of Croatian, French, Slovenian and Japanese labels. I think this was released in 1999, but it could be 2000 too. I'm not sure. There's also Brigade O.D./Pizda Materna split 7" that I've never seen with different songs than on LP released on Calavera from France.

Released: 1999
Label: ZAS Autoproduzioni
Size: 70 MB

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01. Brigade O.D. - No Control
02. Brigade O.D. - Live Your Life
03. Brigade O.D. - No More
04. Brigade O.D. - Real Dull
05. Brigade O.D. - What's Wrong With You
06. Brigade O.D. - Better World
07. Brigade O.D. - That Girl
08. Brigade O.D. - Double Play
09. Brigade O.D. - Intense
10. Pizda Materna - Izgubljeno Življenje
11. Pizda Materna - Skok V Prazno
12. Pizda Materna - Usoda Človeštva
13. Pizda Materna - Karaoke Punk

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Doom "Live In Japan" 7"

I can't believe that this is my first Doom post as I guess that they'd be my first post if all this this blogging thing existed some 15 years ago during my Doom craze (I guess that there are a lot more people reading this that caught the same).
Anyway, after posting live LP yestarday I remembered one live record that I used to listen quite a lot. This is recording from their gig in "Antiknock" in Tokyo that happened on 29/4/1992. First pressing had black and blue cover and second had black and white ones.
The record that starts off with Black Sabbath song gets my attention alright. Now I'll go and listen to it again and so should you.

Released: 1992
Label: Ecocentric Records
Size: 31 MB

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01. Symptom Of The Universe / Life Lock
02. Slave To Convention
03. Worthless Nothing
04. Exploitation
05. Black Monday
06. A Dream To Come True
07. Days Go By

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VA "Egg-Mangel" LP

Since I'll be watching gigs on the coast really soon, I thought that live LP post should fit just fine. I'm not such a big fan of live records, but this one is really good. Summer lazyness has really kicked in, so this post is it's product. I've split the records in five pieces - one per band because I coldn't be arsed to split them into tracks and haven't even tried to write anything, so I just OCRd text by Jan of Your Own Jailer Records who made this record (and the gig). Here it goes:
It was a very hot summerday the 15th of June 1986 when the people dressed in black came strolling across the fields towards my home, which also were the place for the gig, the Eggeby Farm. Some were extremely warm in their crust attributes; leather jackets, leather pants and boots. And so the general mood was more apathetic than usual, it was so fucking hot. There wasn't particularly many people seen in this position which were rather unexpected since that was still usual back in those days. Everyone knew that it was a drugfree gig, since we had written that on the postes, so many people thought it was no idea going to the show if they couldn't drink. Not even the free admission could make people think about the music instead of the booze. I had been given a large sum of money, measured in punk standards, 5000 SEK for the sound system and 5000 SEK for bandcosts.
The whole thing was recorded on two channels through the mixing console on ordinary cassettes. Some of the songs were brand new so I had to write the bands to get all the correct songtitles. One year later it was released as a 98 minute comp. tape, made in about 250 copys.
I still think that the recording has great value because of it's exeptionally good sound qality. Also, some of the songs haven't even been released on vinyl or CD, so I thought that I'd release the shit on a record before the tapes got to demagnetized.
With the aid of a good equalizer, compressor and a good two-channel tape recorder I sat down to edit and master the shit. Through the good tape-compression that is available on analogue taperecorders the sound of some songs went out real good. I edited the whole concert which I now have on 1/4" analogue tapes. I have been cutting very much in the recording to get rid of as much "audience talk" as possible. I've thought this way, how fucking interesting is loads of Swedish talk about the beautiful weather, the drummers ass-sweat and Fredda Holmgren to Mr Kawakami in Japan or Bruno in Belgium? (Ok, some guys in Australia or Dan in Minneapolis might enjoy some Swedish shouts from the audience or talk between the songs, for use in some recording or just to learn some new words for a lyric or something.) I've thought that it is the music that is interesting. Sadly some of the "live feling" got lost after all the cuts (KRUNCH made it themselves by the way, they did not have any pauses between the songs). However, I've tried to put in as much music as possible without affecting the sound quality.
Jan "Jutte" Jutila

Released: 1995
Label: Your Own Jailer Records
Size: 104 MB

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Svart Parad

Nukleärt Hot
Köttvägrare
Avskaffa Alla Jobb
Samhället & Staten
Utslagen
Det Sista Kriget

Krunch

Tro Hopp & Kärlek
Lagerquist
Slask
Plantage
Jag Är Inte
Fabrik
Kraft

Disarm

Tänk På Döden
Vägra
Fosterland
Från Slakt Till Makt

Rövsvett

Machopunk
Rik Skit
Skjut En Baptist
Kaffe
Världskrig III
Jag Hatar Mitt Jobb
Jesus Var En Tomte
Jehovas Vittnen

Raped Teenagers

Sveriges Utveckling
Bedövad
OS
Tomma Ord
Introgubbar
Granquist

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Internal Autonomy "Inquiry" LP

First of all I have to say that this is not my rip and I've put it here because someone said that it is no longer available on Hardcore Braindeath blog (true, and it looks that all the posts from it are unavailable) where I've found it and linked in my last Internal Autonomy post. Since there's not much info on the band on the web and someone asked for this album two weeks ago I've decided to put it here. It'd be a shame for this to be lost for new listeners since peace punk can be so unoriginal and boring and this is not either one. You can find tiny bit more info on the band in the last post and now go get this.
Thanks to Mike of All Go No Slow! for sending the picture of the LP cover.

Released: 1990
Label: Recordrom Records
Size: 64 MB

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01. Trapped
02. LSD
03. Poor Little Rich Girls
04. The Uprising
05. Breakout
06. On Your Marx
07. Feminine Duty
08. On The Edge
09. The Inquiry
10. Sing Or Swim
11. Celebration
12. Awayday To Auschwitz

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