ANCIENT HEADS - For My Brothers

Location: Toronto

Release: Ground Floor Records, 2013

Ancient Heads is here to stay! A new 3 song EP is up and another one is scheduled for 2014 by none other than REACT! Records.

If you act quick you can still grab a copy of this "cassingle" at their online store (comes with moshers's delight zine!).

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Climbin' Aboard Records

Canadian label running for about 3 years now with quite a few records under their belt, 18 to be more precise!! All 100% great white north bands.

Everybody likes free downloads, so don't be shy and scavenge around Climb's file directory (uploaded by themselves of course) and check their full catalogue, including some extra goodies in the "tape rips" folder!

www.climbinaboard.com

climbinaboard.bandcamp.com

A WEEKEND IN DETROIT

Artwork: Burlisaurus

Location: Detroit, US

Release: A Bird Sanctuary Production, 2012

Last week posted some stuff on facebook about the GHOUL GANG Collective, which got some notoriety after their Christmas Tape.

In 2012 they shot a short film about their scene entitled A WEEK IN DETROIT displaying city's lifestyle and music! Fun times and heavy tunes ahead:

To make things more interesting, here's some members of this fine collective that may have passed under your radar:

DETROIT BIRDS - Endangered Species 

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DETROIT DIAMONDS - Demo

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JAILBREAK (Pre-Razzle Dazzle)

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INVADER - Raw Dog

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HAWK I - Demo

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..and of course the GHOUL GANG (split tape w/ Heat Lightning)

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this has been another ghoul gang presentation...

SUPPORT UNDERGROUND CULTURE #3

Records purchased during Clearview Euro Tour '13, wish I had bought more :/

My aim was to purchase records from local bands or labels!! Some of these made the trip with us all the way, up and down! Such a heavy load to bring them in hand, but was worth it right?

I am writing a report of the TOUR, just waiting some pictures to be developed!!

A BRIDGE TO MANY	Weights (Eternalis)
AGENT ATTITUDE	Affliction Days (Monument / Adult Crash)
APPRAISE	They Live We Sleep (Tea Brigade)
ATARI	Ten Years Strong (Prügelprinz / Drastic Actions)
ATTITUDE	We All Go Down Together (Get Outta Town / 1917)
BACKTRACK	Deal With The Devil + Demo (The Limit)
BAD BRAINS	Into The Future (Megaforce)
BANG BROS	Group Therapy (I Drink Milk)
BOUNCING SOULS	Comet (Chunksaah)
COKE BUST	Confined (Refuse)
CORNERED	Fuck Off (The Limit)
CRUMBSUCKERS	Life Of Dreams (Back To Black)
DEAD REPRISE	Dystopia (Monument / Demons Run Amok)
DIG	Socially Disabled (Street Survival)
DIG	Notorious Demo (Street Survival)
DOREN SHAFFER	Groovin' With The Moon Invaders (Grover)
FASTBREAK	Fast Cars, Fast Women (Big Wheel Recreation)
FASTBREAK	Whenever You're Ready (Revelation)
FRESH TRASH	La Jungla (Sell Our Souls)
KEEP RISING	S/T (Black Star Foundation)
HARDSIDE	2009-2011 (Demons Run Amok)
MENTAL OMEGAS	Planet Mental (Lockin' Out) Blasts Of Lunacy (Hardware)
POWER TRIP	S/T (Lockin' Out)
POWER TRIP	Manifest Decimation (Southern Lord)
SLAYER	Undisputed Attitude  *Japanese Reissue*
STAY HUNGRY	S/T (Refuse)
STOP AT NOTHING	Legends Never Die (Positive and Focused)
SUICIDAL TENDENCIES	How Will I Laugh Tomorrow? (Back To Black)
THUG LIFE	Jungle Law (Refuse)
TOXIC SHOCK	Daily Demons (Reflections)
UNION TOWN	S/T (Powered)
WARHOUND	Colder Than Ever (Beatdown Hardwear)

Plus: ONE WILL DO Zine (Barcelona), Powertrip Records Ecobag (great gift, very handy!), HARDCORE HELP Merch and a few other t-shirts (including a gift from Trapped Inside)!

DOWN AND OUTS - Forgotten Streets

Location: Liverpool, UK

Release: Boss Tuneage / All In Vinyl, 2012

Never posted something THIS melodic before, but I am addicted to DOWN AND OUTS latest record. They play genuine street punk, between Bouncing Souls and The Clash!

Was first introduced to them by deceased Dead & Gone Records in mid 00's, used to buy everything they put out.

Forgotten Streets (3rd full-length) goes a step further into production and music writting, top notch stuff here lads. In their bandcamp you can check/download all their discography for free! Also a new split 7" is on the works, possibly to be released this year.

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BLIND JUSTICE - Mischief

Location: New Jersey

Release: Back To Back Records, 2013

Mischief EP is a total blast from start to finish! 6 songs with a Minority Unit feel featuring vocal guests by D.Wood (Down To Nothing) and Ace (Break Away), becoming one of my 2013's top 5 so far!

I must say I was a little skeptic to hear their new material since I got a wrong impression when there were 2 bands named after BLIND JUSTICE, which already pointed out here before, one of them came out as Social Damage.

Back To Back Records is on a striking series of great releases with no signs of stopping, impressive!



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THE DISTANCE - Self Titled CD

Location: Connecticut, US

Release: Red Dawn / Takeover, 2003 (out of print)

The DISTANCE was quite known in US during mid-00's but not because of their early days. They changed from a cool CARRY ON styled hardcore to some melodic emo-ish stuff.

Since this blog is about old school, here's their 4-song Demo produced by Dean Baltulonis (Righteous Jams, Guns Up!, Desperate Measures,..) pressed on 7 inch by Takeover Records and later on mini-CD by Red Dawn Records with 2 extra songs (including a Minor Threat cover). 

In 2004 they moved to Bridge 9 and put out a nice EP entitled "Your Closest Enemies", not as good as the Demo but still worth to check! Then Think Fast! Records made a compilation with all their 7 inch material on CD under a funny title "If You Lived Here You'd Be Home Already", including this Demo which was the reason I bought a copy.

PS: the singer (Jay Reason) was also the frontman at Voice of Reason during late 90's and they are about to release a discography album pretty soon!

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The Useless Song
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Screams... You never breathed
You watched me die DIE!

WORTHLESS TIME!    CHEAPENED LIVES!
Do you remember the day
That you stopped breathing?

GONE TO WASTE - Another Brick

Location: Warburg, Deutschland

Release: Street Survival Records, 2011
Artwork: Chun One

Just a quick post about GONE TO WASTE's new upcoming 7 inch The Ones Who Light The Fire, their fourth installment! Pre-orders started today from PowerTrip Records, here's a teaser:

Meanwhile you can check/download their previous EP "Another Brick" for free!

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[special re-run limited to 80 copies]

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on vacation

Since I started doing this blog never took a whole month vacation and thats the case now!

Will be BACK 25th of August, meanwhile visit

facebook.com/ALLTHINGSOLDSCHOOL

PROCLAMATION - Taken By Force

Location: Boston, USA

Release: Brigde 9 Records, 1999 (out of print)

Taken by Force figures on my top 10 albums of that period! It was also my first B9 record, sixteen songs around 19 minutes, including 2 covers by INFEST and SIEGE!! So you know you're up to, fast and mean HARDcore.

Don't know much about their background but B9 gave the weirdest release note back then, mentioning they were hated and controversial (!) The lyrics are indeed very direct and holds no remorse, packed with sxe pride.

Another interesting aspect here is the artwork's theme chosen: Ash from the Evil Dead series, plus a excerpt from 1990's Total Recall at the end of the CD completes the cool ill concept of the album.

Before this record they put an EP in 1998 also through B9 and some scattered demo songs that can be found in their discography CD "Let The Truth Be Told". But frankly? Taken by Force is their BEST!

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(Let The Turth Be Told - Director's Cut Discography)

"2014 marks the 15th anniversary of Proclamation's Bridge 9 CD, Taken By Force. Drummer Nate Gendron & I decided to make the band's discography available for free download to celebrate the anniversary.

Originally released on CD by Life Sentence Records and then digitally by Hold True, Let The Truth Be Told contained the band's complete output in remixed (B9 releases) & remastered form.

However, we were legally hamstrung on including certain content. The version for free download is the "Director's Cut" of the discography and includes everything as we intended it to be heard. Please feel free to tell anyone who might be interested" - Mark Fields Jan, 2014