ALL FOR ONE - Discography (1988-1989)

Location: New York City

Release: Vitality Records, 1989

Age of Quarantine, day # 341 - Straight from the vault, ALL FOR ONE hailing from Brooklyn, NY and their discography "1988-1989", consisting of one cassette demo and one 7" EP.

For those who weren't around at that time will probably know them from the NEW BREED TAPE Compilation, as they were later added in the 2011 vinyl re-edition featuring 2 tracks Rise Up and Return, both taken from their '89 EP A New Way Of Expression.

Guitar player Richie D. (aka SHOE) was a local graffiti artist and his work can be seen in many flyers, cover arts (e.g. X-Marks The Spot 7") and tags spread through NYC walls, including on the cover photo of the New Breed Tape. Freddy Alva also picked him to be featured on his iconic book Urban Styles.

I honestly don't know who came up with this discography (including the artwork) otherwise it would be nearly impossible to get hold of the 8-song demo, if you know please get in touch to give proper credit!

Fun note: Vitality Records is somewhat of a mystery to me but in recent years Powered Records from Belgium did one of those famous "homage/rip-offs" (a common practice in the hardcore community) using the same label art.

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THE DIVIDING LINE - Edge Day 2020

Location: New Jersey, USA

Release: Self-Released, 2020

Age of Quarantine, day # 334 - New Age Records has quite a few exciting releases to be out in 2021, one of them is most definetely the Owe You Nothing 12" by THE DIVING LINE.

Their 2017 demo already left one hell of a good impression and in the following year the EP Turn My Back On The World just confirmed they are the real deal, Jersadelphiaware Youth Crew represented! Last year they dropped a 3-song Promo (with 2 great covers) and as you can hear in the track Glory Hound they are even faster and tight as a unit, bands like Floorpunch, Focused Minds and Rated X came to mind.

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For the Youth Crew maniacs out there, today's bonus are about 2 other great projects that THE DIVING LINE members are/were involved with: 

Outlast - Demo (2009, Life To Live Records)

Outlast - Take Control (2010, Bottled Up Records)

Outlast - Outlast EP (2011, Harvcore Records)

New Heart - Time Is Runnig Out (2015, Blood & Ink Records)

New Heart - Feel The Change (2018, Blood & Ink Records)

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TERROR ZONE - Lord Of Wrath

Location: New York, USA

Release: Eyeball Records, 1995

Age of Quarantine, day # 328 - TERROR ZONE, a very short lived project started by KevOne right after they called it quits with BULLDOZE, the beatdown originators.

The biggest difference between the 2 bands is probably the lyrics, from a tough guy/violent stance to a more introspective and Krishna-oriented view, most likely due to Kev's incarceration, which definitely can add other perspectives in someone's life.

Lord Of Wrath was first released as a 2-song EP in '95 by a label that later sellout to mainstream music, then in '96 the German label Gain Ground released the full output of TERROR ZONE, including those 2 songs, under the name Self Realization: A True Lesson In Hard Core which kicks off with a powerful mean intro. Too bad they only pulled off 5 songs before breaking up.

These bands are probably not new to many folks out there as they have a certain following, for download I got my hands on the best rips available. The Bulldoze 7" tracks sounds way different from the discography CD version, it's faster and more raw. 

 

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Terror Zone - Self Realization.. CD (Gain Ground, 1996)

Bulldoze - Remember Who's Strong 7" (Hardway, 1994)

FACE FIRST - Demo II

Location: Boston, USA

Release: Self-Released, 2021

Age of Quarantine, day # 320 - First real post of 2021, starting the year with ya FACE FIRST! Whatever this year brings us, give 'em thrash, at least is what these dudes are doing, barely the year began and they've dropped this nuke, their second demo with 6 face-ripping tracks.

First demo came out 4 years ago so they got room to grow and this is what they did, the sound now is undeniably more tight with plenty of neck-breaking riffs and mosh parts to step in, time to face the blade! 

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