Release: Tension Building Records, 1997
Age of Quarantine, day # 16 - Tremendous demo by these Morrisville, PA underdogs. First released as a cassette (265 copies) by the also Pennsylvanian Tension Building Fanzine then made broadly available by german-based Crucial Response Records with roughly 4 thousand copies in 7 inch format!
OVER THE LINE, as it was told, came together when 5 friends got siked while visiting FLOORPUNCH rehearsing in a studio back in 1996. Attending shows by the likes of Hands Tied and Ten Yard Fight they quickly developed their own sound and a few months later were sharing the stage with the same bands. They picked their name from a TURNING POINT song, another reference that consolidates their YOUTHCREW revival status.
The demo was then finally recorded early on in 1997 at the Signal Sound Studios, the one responsible for recording many other local hardcore and punk outlets including some oldschool revival favorites like Rain On The Parade, Rancor and Edgewise.
The band quit the same year the demo tape was released, out by a fanzine who also put out the illest THE TIME IS NOW compilation. In 1999 Crucial Response got this 6-song tape and released 5 songs on a 7 inch and used the remaining song on the compilation FOR THE SAKE OF DEDICATION. According to this interview, the bandmembers (and many others) disliked the whole new art and layout a lot, including merch and whatnot, even it was just a posthumous release.
On an attempt to change this situation, of what they really thought was the real representation of the band, 2 of the dudes decided to give a go on unreleased songs written after the demo was re-released. A new record came to fruition thanks to Tim McMahon and Livewire Records who backed-up the project and put out a new 4-song EP entitled "THE WEIGHT" in 2008.
My contribution to this was to re-do THE DEMO artwork based on the tape's drawing (done by a guy named Bucket) and put all 6 songs back together as it was, originally. As for the new EP I just found 2 songs from it, unfortunately, as many kids never heard these songs or weren't even aware it existed! I also tried to gather as much image material related to OVER THE LINE and TENSION BUILDING Fanzine as possible.
PURCHASE 7"/MERCH
OVER THE LINE, as it was told, came together when 5 friends got siked while visiting FLOORPUNCH rehearsing in a studio back in 1996. Attending shows by the likes of Hands Tied and Ten Yard Fight they quickly developed their own sound and a few months later were sharing the stage with the same bands. They picked their name from a TURNING POINT song, another reference that consolidates their YOUTHCREW revival status.
The demo was then finally recorded early on in 1997 at the Signal Sound Studios, the one responsible for recording many other local hardcore and punk outlets including some oldschool revival favorites like Rain On The Parade, Rancor and Edgewise.
The band quit the same year the demo tape was released, out by a fanzine who also put out the illest THE TIME IS NOW compilation. In 1999 Crucial Response got this 6-song tape and released 5 songs on a 7 inch and used the remaining song on the compilation FOR THE SAKE OF DEDICATION. According to this interview, the bandmembers (and many others) disliked the whole new art and layout a lot, including merch and whatnot, even it was just a posthumous release.
On an attempt to change this situation, of what they really thought was the real representation of the band, 2 of the dudes decided to give a go on unreleased songs written after the demo was re-released. A new record came to fruition thanks to Tim McMahon and Livewire Records who backed-up the project and put out a new 4-song EP entitled "THE WEIGHT" in 2008.
My contribution to this was to re-do THE DEMO artwork based on the tape's drawing (done by a guy named Bucket) and put all 6 songs back together as it was, originally. As for the new EP I just found 2 songs from it, unfortunately, as many kids never heard these songs or weren't even aware it existed! I also tried to gather as much image material related to OVER THE LINE and TENSION BUILDING Fanzine as possible.
PURCHASE 7"/MERCH
DOWNLOAD contains:
1997 - Over The Line Cassette (Tension Building Records)
2008 - The Weight 7" (Livewire Records) *incomplete*
Bonus: Tension Building Fanzine - issue number one
CREDITS: Hardcore Demo, Tony Viers, Tomas Andersson, xStuck In The Pastx and Double Cross Webzine.
1997 - Over The Line Cassette (Tension Building Records)
2008 - The Weight 7" (Livewire Records) *incomplete*
Bonus: Tension Building Fanzine - issue number one
CREDITS: Hardcore Demo, Tony Viers, Tomas Andersson, xStuck In The Pastx and Double Cross Webzine.
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