For me KIDS LIKE US helped shape the 00's Florida hardcore sound and left their mark in the southern underground heavy music.
The band's songwritting evolution path lead from a raw pissed hardcore to a more elaborated metallic sound, taking cues from 80's powerful sound of Corrosion Of Conformity and Prong plus chunks of 90's metalcore in the likes of Morning Again and Chokehold, but remaining frills-free throughout it. KLU's Southern flavor also makes presence in a few tracks.
The band's strongest quality for me is the irreverence though, together with the brilliant art from J. Callahan (aka Barf Comics) on albums (and some shirt designs - which I own a few) they set free the imagination and shout about skateboarding, wrecking stuff, false punks, comic books and videogames. Something like Bones Brigade and Blind Justice but soundwise they fall right between their usual touring buds in The Warriors and DTN.
Unfortunaly all the labels behind KLU's releases are goners, making these hard to find, and although this style of hardcore is not trendy anymore between the cool kids, there is something about this band that still appeals: attitude + visual identity.
2003 - Demo
2003 - The 80's Are Dead (Reissued in 2008 by Eulogy)
2004 - Down To Nothing Split (Knife Or Death)
2005 - Outta Control (Eulogy)
2008 - Mongoloids Split (Double Or Nothing)
2009 - Mongoloids Split (Ghetto Josh)
2009 - The Game (Ghetto Josh)
The comic book oriented artwork on the covers and inlays on Outta Control and The Game LPS are so mind-blowing that I scanned (poorly) them for y'all, one of them folds out into a board game, crazy stuff! People are going nuts for a copy of the LP on discogs but you can still find them at Revhq.
As you noticed there are 2 Mongoloids splits with different tracklists, the second one (2009) they cover each other songs, great tunes! The first one (2008) features drawings by Barf Comics and you could pick from Ted Bundy to Count Dracula as the front illustration for your 7" copy.
Note#1: The artwork at the top is a collage from the limited edition of The Game LP for the band's last show LP in 2012 (a reunion took place recently tho) and then added Chun One's sweet art for Ghetto Josh Records.
The band's songwritting evolution path lead from a raw pissed hardcore to a more elaborated metallic sound, taking cues from 80's powerful sound of Corrosion Of Conformity and Prong plus chunks of 90's metalcore in the likes of Morning Again and Chokehold, but remaining frills-free throughout it. KLU's Southern flavor also makes presence in a few tracks.
The band's strongest quality for me is the irreverence though, together with the brilliant art from J. Callahan (aka Barf Comics) on albums (and some shirt designs - which I own a few) they set free the imagination and shout about skateboarding, wrecking stuff, false punks, comic books and videogames. Something like Bones Brigade and Blind Justice but soundwise they fall right between their usual touring buds in The Warriors and DTN.
Unfortunaly all the labels behind KLU's releases are goners, making these hard to find, and although this style of hardcore is not trendy anymore between the cool kids, there is something about this band that still appeals: attitude + visual identity.
2003 - Demo
2003 - The 80's Are Dead (Reissued in 2008 by Eulogy)
2004 - Down To Nothing Split (Knife Or Death)
2005 - Outta Control (Eulogy)
2008 - Mongoloids Split (Double Or Nothing)
2009 - Mongoloids Split (Ghetto Josh)
2009 - The Game (Ghetto Josh)
The comic book oriented artwork on the covers and inlays on Outta Control and The Game LPS are so mind-blowing that I scanned (poorly) them for y'all, one of them folds out into a board game, crazy stuff! People are going nuts for a copy of the LP on discogs but you can still find them at Revhq.
As you noticed there are 2 Mongoloids splits with different tracklists, the second one (2009) they cover each other songs, great tunes! The first one (2008) features drawings by Barf Comics and you could pick from Ted Bundy to Count Dracula as the front illustration for your 7" copy.
Note#1: The artwork at the top is a collage from the limited edition of The Game LP for the band's last show LP in 2012 (a reunion took place recently tho) and then added Chun One's sweet art for Ghetto Josh Records.
Note#2: In the late 90's a norwegian sxe band used the same name Kids Like Us and released one 7inch on Commitment.
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