STAND HARD RECORDS - Discography

Age of Quarantine, day # 243 - Another early 00's (or so) US full label discography or in this case, semi-full. The situation here is that STANDHARD RECORDS was as DIY as you could get, from extremely limited 7" EPs to handmade cassette releases, it became pretty hard to track down everything they put out. STAND HARD served more as an outlet to promote their friend's bands as opposed to a more traditional label with webstore, street team, merch and whatnot.

It all started in 1996 with Jesse Standhard and Neal St. Clair, both playing in the Connecticut sxe band TENFOLD and their EP Vengeance Will Be Ours... which was the label's first release (or second, lol). The fun aspect about STAND HARD is that their history is entangled with other more estabilished hardcore labels since day one. From there TENFOLD went to BRIDGE 9 RECORDS to become their first ever release, two years later the same happened to RIGHT BRIGADE, the band Jesse was the frontman.

They also put stuff out by FOLLOW THROUGH another Connecticut mainstay Jesse took part playing bass after they did the 1996's Not This Time EP and shortly before that a demo cassette version was also released.

To close up the label's first chapter, still in the late 90's, they got to work with FASTBREAK and IN MY EYES, both ending up on Relevation Records. The Fastbreak release was a weird one, comprised of soon-to-be compilation tracks, since I couldn't find the audio files for it I put together those comp tracks. The In My Eyes demo cassette was a game-changer as we all know by now, one hell of a demo!

In the new millenium STAND HARD remained as a launch base for a few more but crucial early 00's US hardcore acts, working with bands that later closed deals with labels such as LOCKIN' OUT, TRIPLE-B and PAINKILLER RECORDS. Two infamous bootleg tapes came out from that era, the LOUD AND CLEAR USA (aka Step Foward) Promo Cassette and the FREE SPIRIT / NO TOLERANCE Split Demo. The first one I didn't even found an image for it what to say about audio rips.

After that we sail in uncharted waters, the complete continuity of the STAND HARD RECORDS releases can't be found anywhere, not until the mid 2010's when Jesse started to run Boston's EDGE DAY FEST. From there a bunch of promo tapes started to pop up, issued by bands performing in those fests, DIY style.

DOWNLOAD I contains:

1996 - FASTBREAK - Where It Lies 7"

1996 - TENFOLD - Vengeance Will Be Ours... 7"

1996 - FOLLOW THROUGH - Not This Time 7"

1997 - IN MY EYES - Cassette Demo

1998 - RIGHT BRIGADE - Demo

1999 - RIGHT BRIGADE - Clevo Sucks 7"

1999 - THE EXPLOSION - Demo EP

2001 - INVASION - Face Up To It!

2001 - STOP AND THINK - Boston Straightedge

DOWNLOAD II contains:

2008 - FREE SPIRIT / NO TOLERANCE - Split Demo

2014 - BURST OF RAGE - Edge Day Sampler

2014 -THROUGH THESE EYES - Promo Tape

2014 - TODD'S WAR - Your Mistake Demo

2015 - NEW VISION - Promo

2015 - SPIRIT OF YOUTH - Edge Day Demo

2016 - LABELED - Demo