Foundation Vinyl Newsletter

Welcome

Hello and welcome to the latest Foundation Vinyl newsletter!  Sunday night, I popped down to New Cross to catch Bent Blue and Major Pain.  Both bands hail from California and are exponents of a brand of melodic hardcore that consistently thrives on the West Coast, but is, perhaps, a little out of vogue over here at the moment.  This, perhaps, accounted for a relatively light, if enthusiastic, crowd, which was a pity as both bands are touring with excellent debut albums – So Much Seething and Intent respectively – in tow.  But those who did brave the lashing rain and bitter wind were treated to a fine show.

Bent Blue’s sound is woven through with a sensibility that draws on both Revolution Summer and mid-1990s alternative rock inspirations with relish.  And full marks to their vocalist for managing to wear a quilted winter jacket for almost the entirety of their high energy set.  Clearly a man in love with the English winter.  This was followed, after an impressively swift soundcheck, by an absolute bulldozer of a set from Major Pain.  Their style is leaner, more metallic in inclination, with a thoroughly satisfying rhythmic synchronicity between drums and vocals.  Not a bad Sunday evening at all.

And so what do we have lined up this week?  We have four cracking featured new arrivals.  We kick things off in Bogota with the darkly melodic, Histeria, from 1186.  We then head to Göteborg, while retaining a Colombian focus, courtesy of X2000 on the discordantly spectral Gótico Tropical.  Next, we make the short trip down to Copenhagen and the thoroughly welcome return of The War Goes On with their third full-length, Death Wish.  We round things off in style in Milan with the first vinyl pressing of Golpe’s debut EP, Subisci. Conformati. Rassegnati.

We also have a short feature taking a look at Haram’s influential 2017 album, – بس ربحت, خسرت = When You Have Won, You Have Lost.  The album has just been repressed by La Vida Es Un Mus Discos and the piece draws on an excellent article by Max Easton of Barely Human exploring the background to the band.

As always, we also have an updated London gig listing, with shows this week from Adult (14/02) and Negative Gears (15/02).  We end with a quick rundown on some of the fine records heading our way in the near future, including next week’s Iron Lung Records special, featuring new releases from Atomic Prey, Gaoled, Ignorance, Paprika, and Rotary Club!

Featured New Arrivals

Histeria by 1186 / Gótico Tropical by X2000 / Subisci. Conformati. Rassegnati. by Golpe / Death Wish by The War Goes On (clockwise)

1186Histeria

12 Inch

‘Estamos condenados a los gritos perdidos, el camino oculto al pasado oscuro, como los trenes atraviesan las ciudades, y huye la gente de todas sus verdades’ (Ataque Sistemático) ‘We are condemned to lost screams, the hidden path to the dark past, as trains cross the cities, and people flee from all their truths’ (Systematic Attack)

Hailing from Bogota, 1186 have emerged from the city’s Rat Trap punk collective, which incubated the likes of Muro, Alamabrada, and Ataque Zero.  Indeed, the band share their vocalist with the latter, as well as building their sound around a similar kernel of darkly melodic hardcore punk on this their debut release, Histeria (Hysteria).

1186 then skilfully amplify these melancholic inclinations, conjuring a darkly gothic atmosphere that draws in equal measure on both death rock and anarcho-punk sensibilities.  The cymbal awash rhythm section locks in with vigorous precision, while the powerful clean sung Spanish vocals are utterly forlorn as they explore an inescapable sense of society’s systemic failure through tales of grinding day-to-day slow violence, prison riots, and environmental degradation.

The key to Histeria’s enticing aura though lies in the inherently mournful yet undeniably vibrant guitar.  The unfurling melodies are darkly captivating, the wildly inventive solos even more so.  Personal highlights are, perhaps, the surging Ataque Sistemático, the frenetically escalating Hoy (Today), and the dramatically see-sawing Encerrados (Locked).

‘La mercancía devora la carne, la esencia devasta, Capitalismo es gore’ (Morbo y Fascinación) ‘The commodity devours the flesh, the essence devastates, Capitalism is gore’ (Morbidity And Fascination)

Gótico Tropical (Tropical Gothic) is X2000’s debut full-length following on from their 2020 self-titled debut 7-inch.  It plunges the listener into the bloodied history of the Colombian vocalist’s home country, ‘the land of tropical gothic’ as evoked by the band’s liner notes.  Exploring the notion of ‘gore capitalism’, the Göteborg-based band plunge the listener into a web of violence that spans state sanctioned murder to criminal cartels, and from colonial legacies to neoliberal economic exploitation.

Rabidly blackened anarcho-punk inspired Spanish vocals are unremittingly urgent, while the primitive drums call back to the classic pounding rhythms of 1980s’ Latin American punk.  Discordant melody flares amid the relentless abrasiveness of the chorus-saturated guitar.  A deeply unsettling atmosphere spectrally unfurls and is, perhaps, best exemplified by the desperation drenched El Linaje (The Lineage) and the primeval anxiety of Azul Culpa (Blue Guilt).  And the meaning of X2000?  A high-speed Swedish railway apparently, but one that is taking you straight to the heart of darkness.

‘When all is swept under the rug, When everything of value seems to be abandoned, Left to rust, Kids are managed with drugs, A nightmare vision of a future and of a people, Without trust’ (Without Trust)

Copenhagen’s The War Goes On return with their third full-length, Death Wish, and continue to hone the bleakly melodic, fiercely catchy hardcore punk that defined their 2016 self-titled debut and 2020’s Assisted Armageddon.  The band tautly braid their innate, contagious sense of melody with an unshakeable shroud of melancholy.  An air of powerless anger and bitter resignation pervades, as if in recognition that as bad as things are now, they are very unlikely to be getting better any time soon.  Still fighting but knowing that the war is all but lost.

Each of the tracks is adroitly assembled, equal parts polished craft and agitated grit, as the propulsive rhythm section underpins the insidiously enveloping guitars and gruff, gravelly vocals. The rhythmically compelling Knife’s Edge, the ominously forlorn cornerstone riff of The Fear, and the euphoric fervour of The Good Ship Murder are particularly powerful cuts.  The album also includes the desolate title track from the band’s 2022 EP, Discount Hope, which is no bad thing at all, as it’s an absolute banger.

As you find yourself singing along with the undeniably infectious choruses, it is easy to forget the rather more sobering lyrical themes that explore the relentless atomisation of late-stage capitalism.  Death Wish is an album that deftly draws on the pop sensibility of say Social Distortion and infuses it with the rather more bittersweet impulses of late 1980s’ / early 1990s’ UK punk. Dark melodies for desperate times.

‘Le masse in rivolta, l’orrore è sovrano, il terrore al potere. Ma nessuna vittima. Censura e consenso, progresso e reazione, il terrore al potere’ (Golpe) / ‘The masses in revolt, horror is sovereign, terror in power. But no victims. Censorship and consensus, progress and reaction, terror in power’ (Coup)

Golpe are the one-person recording project of Tadzio Pederzolli (formerly Holy and Komplott).  The Milan-based project expands to a fully formed band for touring purposes, which Golpe do pretty relentlessly.  Subisci. Conformati. Rassegnati. (Suffer. Conform. Resign.) was, in fact, the band’s debut cassette-only release in 2019, preceding the band’s 2021 full-length, La Colpa È Solo Tua (It’s All Your Fault), and it has now been given a first vinyl pressing.

The fundamentals of Golpe’s fiercely bristling, d-beat fuelled hardcore are already firmly in place, as groove orientated, metallic leaning riffage is underpinned by a relentlessly pounding rhythm section and leavened by flashing, squalling solos.  Meanwhile, the burly, guttural Italian vocals begin to explore the anarchist framing that runs through the band’s recordings, central to which is the cumulative power of our own individual actions to drive social change.

The first five tracks are taken from the original recordings, with the stomping fury of Non Piegarti (Don’t Bend Over) a particular stand out.  The sixth track is freshly recorded and is a scorching medley of four songs from seminal Italian hardcore acts, Wretched, Indigesti, The EU’s Arse, and Nabat.

The War On The Other

– بس ربحت, خسرت = When You Have Won, You Have Lost by Haram and Barely Human’s Dispatches From An Underground Music Anti-History: 2014-2024

‘Every second, They told me Terrorist, Big, scared, Still alone, They hit me, with what they thought, who did they think I was?’ (Not A Terrorist, Haram)

I first encountered Haram (Forbidden) at Static Shock Weekend V in 2017 and it’s fair to say they made quite the impression.  Their primitively pulsating, rapidly swirling hardcore sent the crowd into gyrating convulsions, while their vocalist, Nader, matched the velocity of this reaction with his own wild contortions.  All while rhythmically snarling in Arabic and clad in a black bandana, white toga skirt, and boots.  A bold visage designed to provoke and to confront.

We, of course, live in the age of the provocateur, but it was clear from the offset that there was real substance, both musically and ideologically, fuelling Haram’s challenge.  The song themes from their 2017 debut full-length, – بس ربحت, خسرت = When You Have Won, You Have Lost, provided a clear insight to the issues that the band were seeking to tackle, not least on American Police and Not A Terrorist.  This was to be further emphasised on their 2019 EP, Where Were You On 9/11?

But it wasn’t until I recently read a thoroughly engaging essay in an anthology of Max Easton’s Barely Human fanzine writing, Dispatches From An Underground Music Anti-History: 2014-2024, that the personal history that shaped Haram came into clearer perspective.  The piece takes us through Nader’s early life story, his parents arriving in New York, as immigrants from Lebanon in New York, and his upbringing that bridged a conservative Muslim home and an equally rigid Catholic education.  Inevitably, the horror of 9/11, and the subsequent responses to it were to dramatically reshape the family’s life.  Indeed, young Nader was questioned at school as to the whereabouts and activities of his parents – his father was attending Ground Zero as a member of the first emergency response team as he was quizzed.

The dynamics of Nader’s family with their wider local community were irretrievably altered, a shift that led to a growing sense of isolation and saw Nader struggling to forge his own identity.  New York’s hardcore community was to provide a lifeline, and in 2015, Haram were formed.  The band released their debut EP, شو بتشوف؟ (What Do You See?), a year later.  The band were touring the Midwest when Nader started to receive calls from furious family members who had found themselves being questioned by the FBI regarding Nader’s activities with Haram.  Members of The Joint Terrorism Task Force visited him on his return and started to question him on the meaning of the band’s lyrics.  It soon became clear that they had not even sought to translate them before investigating.  The case was soon closed, the harm already done.

The recent reissue of Haram’s sole full-length release by La Vida Es Un Mus Discos is a timely one in the context of a world where systematic othering, social division, and radicalisation are being almost relentlessly cultivated by political opportunists, religious extremists, and economic grifters alike.  And the music? Don’t worry you won’t be disappointed.  Densely rhythmic drums and limber bass-lines lock-in with Nader’s barking invocation, giving room for the guitar to explore more abstract expressions amid the pounding onslaught, before unleashing spiralling solos.  Revisiting the album afresh, it is notably more melodic and expansive than I would have recalled, with Eye For An Eye and Your President, Not A President landing with particular velocity.

Haram’s music represents an important phase in hardcore’s social evolution and, as Max succinctly puts it, ‘a struggle for peace and identity, spoken through the sonic language of contemporary hardcore punk’.

– بس ربحت, خسرت = When You Have Won by Haram is in stock now here.

Many thanks to Max Easton (www.barelyhuman.info) for allowing me to draw on his essay.  Definitely check out his latest Barely Human anthology, Dispatches From An Underground Music Anti-History: 2014-2024, which includes the full Haram essay and a wealth of punk related music writing.  It can be found in the UK at the Good Press (www.goodpress.co.uk) workers co-operative bookshop in Glasgow.

Shows And Tours

Damage Is Done 4.5 at New River Studios on 7th March and Colour Factory on 8th March

This section lays no claims to being a definitive listing!  It is simply gigs coming up in London that catch my eye and that I think people who read this newsletter might be interested in.  I will always try and highlight where a show forms part of a wider UK tour.

February

14th  Adult, Spike Hellis, Sacred Skin (Corsica Studios / UK Tour)

15th  Negative Gears, Grazia, Rubber, Life Forms (New River Studios / UK Tour)

22nd  Cosey Mueller, Stingray, Labrys, Moist Crevice, Spine Portal (The George Tavern)

22nd  Vultur, Deathfiend plus more (Helgi’s)

24th  Love Letter, Heavy Hex, Hell Can Wait, Supernova (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

March

1st  Zeropolis, Lacquer, Static Palm (Mascara Bar)

5th  Touche Amore, Trauma Ray, Chalk Hands (Electric Ballroom / UK Tour)

7th  Damage Is Done 4.5 Weekender featuring Chain Cult, The Consequence, Direct Threat, Second Death, Total Con, and Traidora (New River Studios)

7th  Delivery, Fruit Tones plus more (Moth Club / UK Tour)

7th  Napalm Death, Crowbar, Full Of Hell, Brat (Brixton Electric)

8th  Damage Is Done 4.5 Weekender featuring Blade, Cannonball, Cold Decay, Collateral, Dominate, The Flex, Forced Humility, Grand Scheme, King Street, Life Of One, Real Domain, Straight To Hell, Temple Guard (Colour Factory)

8th  Misantropic, Nujorvik, Wreathe, System Of Slaves, Traidora (New Cross Inn)

16th  Ignorance, Victim Unit, Mincer, Sublux, Dead Name  (New River Studios / UK Tour)

20th  Haywire, Mindless, Real Domain, Power Failure (New Cross Inn)

27th  Bad Breeding, Scab, Middleman, Catastrophe (The Lexington / UK Tour)

30th Cœur À L’Index, Middleman, Secrecy (The Waiting Room)

April

15th  Thou, pageninetynine, Moloch (Scala / UK Tour)

17th  Death By Stereo, Counterpunch plus more (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

19th  Disaffect, Haavat, Leashed, Catastrophe (New Cross Inn)

20th  Comeback Kid, Shooting Daggers, Last Wishes (The Dome)

23rd  Blind Girls, Stress Positions , As Living Arrows, I’m Sorry Emil (Moor Beer Vaults / UK Tour)

25th  Final Dose, Läbrys, Ekstasis (Helgi’s)

May

3rd  Condor, Tramadol, Hitmen, The Dogs (The Shacklewell Arms)

17th  Boom Boom Kid, Traidora, plus more (The Shacklewell Arms / UK Tour)

19th  Time Heist, Uncertainty, Equals What? (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

20th  Whores, Help, Ritual Error (New Cross Inn)

June

3rd  Ultras, Xiao, Aku (New Cross Inn)

14th  P.A.I.N, Hiatus, Zero Again plus more (New Cross Inn)

July

5th  All Out War plus support (New Cross Inn)

19th  Gel, Anxious, Chastity (The Dome / UK Tour)

October

30th  Godflesh plus support (Scala)

Coming Soon

Atomic Prey By Atomic Prey

18/02

Atomic Prey ‘Atomic Prey’ 12-inch (Iron Lung)

Gaoled ‘Bestial Hardcore’ 12-inch (Iron Lung)

Ignorance ‘Nothing Changed’ 7-inch (Iron Lung)

Invertebrates ‘Sick To Survive’ 12-inch (Beach Impediment / Restock)

Life / Destruct ‘To Stop The Conflict’ 12-inch (Desolate / Restock)

Muro ‘Nuevo Dogma’ 12-inch (Fuerza Ingobernable / Restock)

Paprika ‘Paprika’ 7-inch (Iron Lung)

Rotary Club ‘Sphere Of Service’ 12-inch (Iron Lung)

Suffocating Madness ‘Unrelenting Forced Psychosis’ 12-inch (Toxic State / Restock)

Late February

Benzin ‘Treibjagd’ 12-inch (Static Age)

Deletär ‘Self-Titled II’ 12-inch (Kick Rock)

Frenzy ‘Beyond The Edge Of Madness’ 12-inch (Distort Reality)

Gossip Collar ‘Spinning Silk For Parasites’ 12-inch (No Norms)

Punitive Damage ‘Hate Training’ 12-inch (Convulse)

S.O.H ‘Cost To Live’ 12-inch (No Norms)

Syndrome 81 ‘Chant De Ruines’ 12-inch (Kick Rock)

The Legion Of Parasites ‘Undesirable Guests’ 12-inch (General Speech)

Wet Specimens ‘Dying In A Dream’ 7-inch (No Norms)

Vaxine / The Last Survivors ‘Split’ 7-inch (General Speech)

Early March

Bad Breeding ‘Blood Manifest’ 7-inch (Standard Processes)

Bleached Cross / The True Faith ‘Columns Of Impenetrable Light’ 12-inch (Protagonist / Restock)

Corrective Measure ‘Not For You, Not For Anyone’ 12-inch (Refuse)

Groundwork ‘Today We Will Not Be Invisible Nor Silent’ 12-inch (Protagonist)

Haunted Horses ‘Dweller’ 12-inch (Three One G)

Judy And The Jerks ‘Total Jerks’ 12-inch (Refuse / 2nd Press)

Laura Agnusdei ‘Flowers Are Blooming In Antarctica’ 12-inch (Maple Death)

Languid ‘Shove Their System Up Their Ass’ 12-inch (D-Takt)

Mob 47 ‘Tills Du Dör’ 12-inch (D-Takt)

Point Of No Return ‘The Language Of Refusal’ 12-inch (Refuse)

Post Regiment ‘Post Regiment’ 12-inch (Refuse / 2nd Press)

Spiritkiller ‘Spiritkiller’ 12-inch (Protagonist)

Tv Dust ‘Transition’ 12-inch (Maple Death)

Foundation Vinyl Newsletter

Welcome

Hello and welcome to the latest Foundation Vinyl newsletter!  We kick off this week with two cracking new releases from the ever splendid Quality Control HQ – the densely rhythmic Wrzask from Träume and the crossover ferocity of Pest Control on Year Of The Pest.

Next, we pop across the Channel for three fresh French arrivals.  First up, we have a new melodic hardcore project from members of Syndrome 81, Fine Equipe, with their debut release, Moral D’Acier.  Then, we turn to the finely crafted melodic punk of Faux Départ’s self-titled EP, before closing with the melancholic punk-meets-power pop of Litige on their 7-inch, 2 Dégres.

As always, we also have an updated London gig listing.  This includes just announced dates from Zeropolis (01/03), Cœur À L’Index (30/03), Comeback Kid (20/04), Tramadol (03/05), Hiatus (14/06), Gel (19/07), and Godflesh (30/10).  We round things up with a quick rundown on some of the fine records heading our way in the near future, including next week’s new arrivals from 1186, Golpe, Haram, The War Goes On, and X2000, with an Iron Lung Records special to follow the week after that.

Featured New Arrivals

Wrzask by Träume / Year Of The Pest by Pest Control / Faux Départ by Faux Départ / Moral D’Acier by Fine Equipe / 2 Dégres by Litige (clockwise)

TräumeWrzask

12 Inch

‘Czujesz to gdy mnie tam nie ma, Widzisz gdy światło gaśnie,Oba brzegi coraz bardziej odległe, Ciężka fala pochłania,Odpływam, znikam’ (Ostre Przedmioty) ‘You feel it when I’m not there, You see it when the light goes out, Both shores more and more distant, A heavy wave swallows, I float away, disappear’ (Sharp Objects)

I had the good fortune to catch Träume’s (Trauma) rollicking set at last year’s Damage Is Done and it had rather whetted my appetite for this, their debut album, Wrzask (Scream).  And from the darkly pulsing synth intro to the opening track Pieśń W. (Song Of W), I sensed that my anticipation had not been misplaced.

The Warsaw band’s foundations are rooted very much in the shapeshifting cadence of their rhythm section that dextrously recalibrates from the jittery anxious to the fluently propulsive.  This is eagerly matched by the vocals, which emerge as a densely rhythmic incantation, a tribal chant seemingly perpetually caught between impassioned exclamation and urgent question.  The intrinsic intensity of this intoxicating partnership gives freer rein to the guitar, which veers from locking into a robust matching groove and unfurling sinewy, melancholic melodies of a more post-punk hue.

Meanwhile, the Polish lyrics render a forbidding dreamscape of loneliness, dashed ambitions, and dark impulses.  Each song seeps unerringly into the next ensuring that Träume don’t relax their grasp on your no doubt juddering, contorting movement for even the merest moment.  Personal stand out tracks amid this sonic possession are the hauntingly entrancing Kraina Snów (Dreamland) and the desperately insistent Tylko Przez Chwilę (Just For A Moment).

‘Oh god, I can’t believe, This PMC, Is taking over me, I’m lost, Not whole, Just another victim of their mind control’ (P.M.C.)

Pest Control are back with another exuberant slab of crossover thrash as they follow-up their excellent 2023 debut LP, Don’t Test The Pest.  As the Leeds band sweep seamlessly from thrashing fury to passages of groove-laden intensity, each of their hallmark traits is vividly ignited.  Waves of crisply muscular riffage and wildly spiralling solos are propelled by a spryly fluid rhythm section that injects the swinging bounce unequivocally demanded by this genre.

The rasping vocals lock in with a compelling rhythmic synchronicity as they playfully evoke dystopian imagery of parasitical invasion and infestation to explore rather more sobering themes of anxiety and isolation in the technocratic age.  The band’s hardcore pedigree is evident throughout the four tracks, each tautly constructed for maximum velocity.  Personal highlights are the bridging riff into the title track’s bruising breakdown, the suitably contagious chorus to P.M.C. (Parasitic Mind Control), and the raw cry of ‘It’s time to say goodbye’ fuelling the searing solo on the crushing closer, Good Grief.

‘Et j’aimerais qu’enfin disparaissent ces souffrances. Et j’aimerais qu’enfin cessent toutes ces maltraitances. Rejoins les rangs de la cause, rejoins les rangs du changement’ (Sans Souffrance Ajoutee) ‘I would like this suffering to finally disappear, And I would like all this abuse to finally stop, Join the ranks of the cause, Join the ranks of change’ (Without Added Suffering)

Fine Equipe (Fine Team), who feature members of Syndrome 81 and Grisaille, are not a straight edge band themselves, but their music is an explicit tribute to the straight edge bands who helped to shape their own initial ethical and intellectual engagement with hardcore.  This I’m sure will provoke a shared recognition among many of us, including those of us who have never shared this specific commitment.

Of course, the musical expression of straight edge bands is a decidedly broad one.  The starting point for Moral D’Acier (Steel Morale) can, perhaps, be narrowed down to both the mid-1980s’ originators of the youth crew sound, and the wave of more melodically inclined bands who reanimated it during the early to mid-2000s.  There is always a danger when a band, no matter how musically talented, seek to pay homage to a specific genre.  It can lack the fire of authenticity, inadvertently dissolve into pale pastiche.  But there are no such concerns here – Fine Equipe absolutely nail it.

Across the five tracks, the swaying bass lines, emotionally cathartic peaks, and impassioned group vocals are delivered with a high voltage vigour.  Shades of Go It Alone and The First Step are subtly conjured, but this is a blistering record in its own right.  And, with Fine Equipe’s own musical pedigree, it is little surprise that they prove notably adept at lacing their onslaught with darkly enticing melody.  Meanwhile, the French vocals tackle themes of collective action, animal rights, and the fight for personal growth.  So, dust off your two-step because Fine Equipe mean business.

‘Gazer, matraquer : c’est l’esprit français, Régner avec autorité: l’esprit français, Un jour, on détruira tout l’esprit français’ / ‘To gas, to club: it’s the French spirit, To reign with authority: the French spirit, One day, we will destroy the whole French spirit’ (Anti-France)

Hailing from Lyon, Faux Départ (False Start) return with their first release since 2020’s full length, Vie Ordinaire (Ordinary Life) and it is an absolute treat.  Every element, from the brightly sharp guitar to the briskly buoyant rhythms, by way of the energetically layered vocals, is expertly woven together as the cleanly enunciated French vocals explore surveillance capitalism, the rise of authoritarian populism, and the travails of the middle-aged punk.

The first two tracks brim with a jauntily upbeat energy and an utterly infectious pop sensibility, the flaring organs of Si Tu Disparis (If You Disappear) and the melody fuelled climax to Drone hitting home with invigorating vitality.  Things take a rather more feverish turn on the flip side.  Both tracks are faster, notably more agitated, with the darkly swirling Anti-France feeding into the raucously bittersweet closer, Toujours Lá (Always There).  Faux Départ is a consummate lesson in deftly crafted melodic punk.

‘Quand je mets ma tête dans mes mains, je revois un bout de ton sourire, tu crois que c’est ça au fond les humains, paumés pour le meilleur et pour le pire’ (2 Dégres) ‘When I put my head in my hands, I see a bit of your smile again, you think that’s what humans are deep down, lost for better and for worse’ (2 Degrees)

Litige (Dispute) are following up their 2020 full-length, En Eaux Troubles (In Troubled Waters) with a new three-track 7-inch.  The Lyon band, who include Deletär’s vocalist on guitar, continue to deliver darkly melancholic punk liberally laced with a buoyant power pop energy.  Brightly melodic guitar and a lock-step rhythm section set the tone.

But it is the clean sung yet vibrantly expressive French vocals that take centre stage as they explore themes of time, memory, and inertia in the face of climate change.  The three tracks knit together perfectly with the plaintively understated 2 Dégres and the more stridently jaunty Ça Reviendra (It Will Come Back) proving particularly persuasive.

Shows And Tours

Cosey Mueller and Stingray at The George Tavern on Saturday 22nd February

This section lays no claims to being a definitive listing!  It is simply gigs coming up in London that catch my eye and that I think people who read this newsletter might be interested in.  I will always try and highlight where a show forms part of a wider UK tour.

February

6th  Grief Ritual, Calligram, Harrowed, Worn Out (The Black Heart)

7th  The Lunacy Of Flowers, Fiscal Harm, Rabbitfoot (The George Tavern)

7th  Holy Tongue meets Shackleton / Iggor Cavalera (Number 90)

8th  Surowica, Daughter, State Sanctioned Violence (The Bird’s Nest)

9th  Bent Blue, Major Pain , Without Love, Chainlink, Swear Down (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

14th  Adult, Spike Hellis, Sacred Skin (Corsica Studios / UK Tour)

15th  Negative Gears, Grazia, Rubber, Life Forms (New River Studios / UK Tour)

22nd  Cosey Mueller, Stingray, Labrys, Moist Crevice, Spine Portal (The George Tavern)

22nd  Vultur, Deathfiend plus more (Helgi’s)

24th  Love Letter, Heavy Hex, Hell Can Wait, Supernova (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

March

1st  Zeropolis, Lacquer, Static Palm (Mascara Bar)

5th  Touche Amore, Trauma Ray, Chalk Hands (Electric Ballroom / UK Tour)

7th  Damage Is Done 4.5 Weekender featuring Chain Cult, The Consequence, Direct Threat, Second Death, Total Con, and Traidora (New River Studios)

7th  Delivery, Fruit Tones plus more (Moth Club / UK Tour)

8th  Damage Is Done 4.5 Weekender featuring Blade, Cannonball, Cold Decay, Collateral, Dominate, The Flex, Forced Humility, Grand Scheme, King Street, Life Of One, Real Domain, Straight To Hell, Temple Guard (Colour Factory)

8th  Misantropic, Nujorvik, Wreathe, System Of Slaves, Traidora (New Cross Inn)

16th  Ignorance plus support (New River Studios / UK Tour)

27th  Bad Breeding, Scab, Middleman, Catastrophe (The Lexington / UK Tour)

30th Cœur À L’Index, Middleman, Secrecy (The Waiting Room)

April

15th  Thou, pageninetynine, Moloch (Scala / UK Tour)

17th  Death By Stereo, Counterpunch plus more (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

19th  Disaffect, Haavat plus more (New Cross Inn)

20th  Comeback Kid, Shooting Daggers, Last Wishes (The Dome)

23rd  Blind Girls, Stress Positions plus support (Moor Beer Vaults / UK Tour)

May

3rd  Condor, Tramadol, Hitmen, The Dogs (The Shacklewell Arms)

17th  Boom Boom Kid, Traidora, plus more (The Shacklewell Arms / UK Tour)

19th  Time Heist plus support (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

20th  Whores, Help plus more (New Cross Inn)

June

3rd  Ultras, Xiao, Aku (New Cross Inn)

14th  P.A.I.N, Hiatus, Zero Again plus more (New Cross Inn)

July

5th  All Out War plus support (New Cross Inn)

19th  Gel, Anxious, Chastity (The Dome / UK Tour)

October

30th  Godflesh plus support (Scala)

Coming Soon

Histeria by 1186

11/02

1186 ‘Histeria’ 12-inch (Drunken Sailor)

Golpe ‘Subisci. Conformati. Rassegnati.’ 7-inch (Static Shock)

Haram ‘– بس ربحت, خسرت When You Have Won, You Have Lost’ 12-inch (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos / 2nd Press)

The War Goes On ‘Death Wish’ 12-inch (Hasiok)

X2000 ‘Gótico Tropical’ 12-inch (Symphony Of Destruction)

18/02

Atomic Prey ‘Atomic Prey’ 12-inch (Iron Lung)

Gaoled ‘Bestial Hardcore’ 12-inch (Iron Lung)

Ignorance ‘Nothing Changed’ 7-inch (Iron Lung)

Paprika ‘Paprika’ 7-inch (Iron Lung)

Rotary Club ‘Sphere Of Service’ 12-inch (Iron Lung)

Late February

Benzin ‘Treibjagd’ 12-inch (Static Age)

Deletär ‘Self-Titled II’ 12-inch (Kick Rock)

Frenzy ‘Beyond The Edge Of Madness’ 12-inch (Distort Reality)

Invertebrates ‘Sick To Survive’ 12-inch (Beach Impediment / Restock)

Life / Destruct ‘To Stop The Conflict’ 12-inch (Desolate / Restock)

Muro ‘Nuevo Dogma’ 12-inch (Fuerza Ingobernable / Restock)

Punitive Damage ‘Hate Training’ 12-inch (Convulse)

Suffocating Madness ‘Unrelenting Forced Psychosis’ 12-inch (Toxic State / Restock)

Syndrome 81 ‘Chant De Ruines’ 12-inch (Kick Rock)

The Legion Of Parasites ‘Undesirable Guests’ 12-inch (General Speech)

Vaxine / The Last Survivors ‘Split’ 7-inch (General Speech)

March

Bad Breeding ‘Blood Manifest’ 7-inch (Standard Processes)

Bleached Cross / The True Faith ‘Columns Of Impenetrable Light’ 12-inch (Protagonist / Restock)

Corrective Measure ‘Not For You, Not For Anyone’ 12-inch (Refuse)

Groundwork ‘Today We Will Not Be Invisible Nor Silent’ 12-inch (Protagonist)

Haunted Horses ‘Dweller’ 12-inch (Three One G)

Judy And The Jerks ‘Total Jerks’ 12-inch (Refuse / 2nd Press)

Laura Agnusdei ‘Flowers Are Blooming In Antarctica’ 12-inch (Maple Death)

Point Of No Return ‘The Language Of Refusal’ 12-inch (Refuse)

Post Regiment ‘Post Regiment’ 12-inch (Refuse / 2nd Press)

Spiritkiller ‘Spiritkiller’ 12-inch (Protagonist)

Tv Dust ‘Transition’ 12-inch (Maple Death)

Foundation Vinyl Newsletter

Welcome

Hello and welcome to the latest Foundation Vinyl newsletter!  It was great to get along to New River Studios on Friday for my first gig of the year.  It proved to be a stormer.  Second Death and Hellscape kicked things off in style.  The former all densely percussive, bristling intensity yet offering a touch more room to breathe than you might expect from their excellent self-titled debut LP.  Conversely, Hellscape’s guitars were notably more muscular than you might have anticipated, and their haunting melodicism took on an intriguingly psychedelic edge.  It was my first chance to see Tormented Imp down from the Pennines and they brought the show to a suitably thunderous finale – a raw, thrashing whirlwind of chaos.

And so what do we have lined up?  This week we are all about Mendeku Diskak, a DIY label based in the Basque Country, who have been releasing a fine array of hardcore punk for just shy of a decade now.  First up, there are four new releases.  We have the bleakly stirring debut LP from Enyor, Catalunya En Blanc I Negre, and the darkly melodic return of Impotentie with Zonder Title Deze Keer. We also have the surf-tinged post-punk of Zikin on Bala Galdua Zure Buru Galduan and the fierce self-titled debut 7-inch from Forced Humility.  Then, we have two new discographies – the darkly metallic Years In Permafrost: Recordings 2021-2024 courtesy of Killing Frost and More War, which brings together Armor’s two releases to date.

As always, we also have an updated London gig listing.  This includes line-up details for March’s Damage Is Done 4.5, which is being held in solidarity with the event founder, Ola from Quality Control HQ.  Plus there are just announced dates from Bad Breeding (27/03) and All Out War (05/07).

We round things off with a quick run down on some of the fine records heading our way in the near future, including next week’s new arrivals from Faux Départ, Fine Equipe, Pest Control, and Träume!

Featured New Arrivals

Bala Galdua Zure Buru Galduan by Zikin / Years In Permafrost: Recordings 2021-2024 by Killing Frost / Catalunya En Blanc I Negre by Enyor / More War by Armor / Forced Humility by Forced Humility / Zonder Title Deze Keer by Impotentie (clockwise)

‘I malgrat tot encara queda esperança, Que els fets ofeguin les paraules, Bufa fort el vent que empenta a aquells qui avancen, Trepitgen fort les seves passes’ (Abraça’m Fins Que Cremi La Generalitat) ‘And despite everything there is still hope, That the deeds drown out the words, The wind blows hard that pushes those who advance, They tread hard on their steps’ (Hug Me Until The Generalitat Burns)

Enyor is Catalan for longing and serves as the perfect embodiment of the spirit that fires the band’s debut album, Catalunya En Blanc I Negre (Catalonia In Black And White). The warmly hazy guitar tones elicit thoughts of bleakly melodic early 1990s’ UK punk, which are blended with burlier UK82 rhythms, and stirring, emotionally charged choruses.

The hoarse vocals explore themes of memory, nurturing Catalan cultural identity, and the cross-section of both with the region’s deep-seated anarchist traditions.  The result is a vividly evoked sense of place and our interaction with the natural landscape.

From the fiercely rousing Ferides (Wounds) and Apreta Els Punys (Clench Your Fists) to the more reflective Tinc Una Bèstia Dintre Meu (I Have A Beast Inside Me) and (A) Ultrança (To The End) , it is an album that smoulders with fury and swells with cathartic reverie in equal measure.  The album also includes a reimagined Catalan language cover of Negative Approach’s Preparats Per Lluitar (Ready To Fight).

But this is no exercise in nostalgia or wallowing in defeated melancholy.  Rather, it is an exploration of how demands from the both the past and the sought-after future can be harnessed to pursue change in the present and ensure that we do not settle into a resigned acceptance of the status quo.

‘Niemand leeft, als niemand geeft, En niemand geeft, als niemand heft, Niemand leeft hier lang genoeg, Niemand vecht terug!’ (De Wereld Draait) ‘No one lives if no one gives, And no one gives if no one has, No one lives here long enough, No one fights back!’ (The World Is Turning)

Montreal-based Impotentie return with their second full-length and continue to hone their thoroughly distinctive, darkly melodic punk.  Musically, this feels like the band’s most fully realised release yet as they weave intriguingly inventive arrangements around the lightly fuzzed guitar that drenches the album in a sombre yet infectious melodicism.  This is, perhaps, best exemplified by Nat Vuile Land (Wet Dirty Land), while flourishes of additional texture are added with everything from gregorian-style chanting on In De Koolmijn (In The Coal Mine) to flaring organs on the woozy Wijken (Neighbourhoods).

Gruff Flemish vocals and catchy choruses remain central, with guest backing vocal appearances from fellow Montreal bands, Puffer and Béton Armé, as well Terre Nevue from Brussels, adding vocal heft to proceedings.  And, indeed, Brussels remains central to the Impotentie’s lyrical focus due to the Belgian origins of their vocalist.  The band’s debut album, Leopold II Is Niet Dood Genoeg (Leopald II Is Not Dead Enough) explored Leopold’s savage colonial legacy in Congo, with the title gaining popular usage during Belgian BLM protests that specifically targeted the many public monuments still dedicated to his bloody reign.

However, the anger that fuelled this focus has now morphed into a growing sense of resignation at the lack of meaningful progress in Belgium addressing this dark passage in its history, directly tackled on Die Staan Daar Nog (They Are Still Standing There), coupled with horror at the wider rise of the far-right.  The title of this release, Zonder Title Deze Keer (No Title This Time), reflects this unease.  The album ends with the chanted call ‘Wij blijven gaan’ (‘We keep going’), a recognition that no matter how bleak things may look, the fight continues.

‘Violence and hatred runs in the family, I am drowning in this hostility, My resentment towards this world, Now echoes through your suffering’ (Wilkman’s War)

As its full title implies, Years In Permafrost, brings together all of Killing Frost’s recorded output since the band formed.  This includes the band’s debut demo, 2021’s Declaration Of W.W., and 2023’s self-titled 7-inch EP, plus a 2024 compilation track, and two brand new tracks recorded specifically for this discography.

Hailing from Helsinki, and featuring members of Foreseen and Yleiset Syyt, Killing Frost forge a brutal fusion of sludge fuelled doom with monolithic slabs of fiercely groove laden riffage.  This visceral onslaught brings to mind a rawer, more hardcore inclined interpretation of Tower Of Spite-era Cerebral Fix.  Soaring NWOBHM inspired solos, swirling swells of dungeon synth, haunting choral backing vocals, and splendidly timed death metal grunts are all inventively integrated into the venomous battery.

The gutturally roared vocals call upon bleakly allusive imagery of frozen arctic darkness to explore the ongoing personal battle to escape the numbing childhood legacies of violence and isolation.  Sweeping from the swaggering Cross Of Mourning to the searing Wilkman’s War II, by way of the more mournfully introspective Killing Frost, this is a collection of pulverising intensity.

ArmorMore War

12 Inch

‘Paranoid circus machine, maintain control through monotony, smiling ear to ear, blissful in your deceit, mass psychosis, menticide’ (En Mass)

More War is a compilation that brings together both of Armor’s previous releases, 2019’s Some Kind Of War 7-inch, and last year’s Afraid Of What’s To Come 12-inch. Hailing from Tallahassee, Armor’s core sound is rooted in unhinged, cymbal awash d-beat.  This is then overlain with a much more fuzzed out groove that is in turn melded with stomping start-stop dynamics, and a healthy penchant for breakdowns of the most bruising hue.

Across the ten tracks, the burly, growled vocals examine themes of the surveillance state, the dehumanising repercussions of military service, and our unerring ability to build our own self-imposed constraints.  Stand out moments are, perhaps, the barging ferocity of Fraud, the innately swinging Fodder, and the more expansive yet still utterly bludgeoning Proper Treatment.

‘And it’s turning me into something, I could never stand behind, Jaded and out of touch, But still looking for my reason to fight’ (Through The Dark)

Forced Humility may hail from Finland, but their core sound is rooted in a fiercely raw interpretation of mid-1980s East Coast US hardcore.  The lacerating guitars are underpinned by a notably supple rhythm section, while the rugged vocals tackle themes of resentment, a suffocating lack of direction, and seeking to break free from the chains of a dysfunctional upbringing.

But while Forced Humility’s formative influences are clear on this, their debut four-track EP, equally the band are not constrained by the traditions of what went before.  They unashamedly unleash sonorous anthemic choruses and feral solos amid their otherwise lean, stripped back barrage.  Personal highlights are the powerfully rhythmic Through The Dark and the utterly contagious Withering Spirit.

‘Aurrian daukaunaz konturatezen gara, Ez ikusijenak eixten bajolku bizija. Zuk sinistu, komeni jatzuna, Zuk sinistu, entzun nahi dozuna’ (Zuk Sinistu) ‘We realize what’s ahead of us, but we don’t see it anymore.  You believe it, it’s a good idea, You believe what you want to hear’ (You Believe)

Zikin (Dirty) hail from Lekeitio in the Basque Country and Bala Galdua Zure Buru Galduan (A Lost Bullet In Your Lost Mind) is their second full-length, and follow-up to 2022’s Zementua Armosaten (Cement Armosaten).  A taut, sinewy garage punk energy continues to underpin their surf tinged guitars, which are in turn interlaced with dark flourishes of death rock melodicism.

Meanwhile, the clipped, urgent Basque vocals explore themes of self-deception and lethargy in the face of our current predicaments.  The rollicking opener Diktaduru Mentala (Mental Dictatorship), the raucously surging Zuk Sinistu, and the more off-kilter Marmoletan Itxota (Marbles In The Sky) hit home with particular vigour.

Shows And Tours

Negative Gears play New River Studios on Saturday 15th February

This section lays no claims to being a definitive listing!  It is simply gigs coming up in London that catch my eye and that I think people who read this newsletter might be interested in.  I will always try and highlight where a show forms part of a wider UK tour.

1st February Trail Of Lies, T.S. Warspite, No Relief, Impunity, Violent Offence (Downstairs at The Dome)

6th February Grief Ritual, Calligram, Harrowed, Worn Out (The Black Heart)

7th February The Lunacy Of Flowers, Fiscal Harm, Rabbitfoot (The George Tavern)

7th February Holy Tongue meets Shackleton / Iggor Cavalera (Number 90)

8th February Surowica, Daughter, State Sanctioned Violence (The Bird’s Nest)

9th February Bent Blue, Major Pain , Without Love, Chainlink, Swear Down (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

14th February Adult, Spike Hellis, Sacred Skin (Corsica Studios / UK Tour)

15th February Negative Gears, Grazia, Rubber, Life Forms (New River Studios / UK Tour)

22nd February Cosey Mueller, Stingray, Labrys, Moist Crevice, Spine Portal (The George Tavern)

22nd February Vultur, Deathfiend plus more (Helgi’s)

24th February Love Letter, Heavy Hex, Hell Can Wait, Supernova (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

5th March Touche Amore, Trauma Ray, Chalk Hands (Electric Ballroom / UK Tour)

7th March Damage Is Done 4.5 Weekender featuring Chain Cult, The Consequence, Direct Threat, Second Death, Total Con, and Traidora (New River Studios)

7th March Delivery, Fruit Tones plus more (Moth Club / UK Tour)

8th March Damage Is Done 4.5 Weekender featuring Blade, Cannonball, Cold Decay, Collateral, Dominate, The Flex, Forced Humility, Grand Scheme, King Street, Life Of One, Real Domain, Straight To Hell, Temple Guard (Colour Factory)

8th March Misantropic, Nujorvik, Wreathe, System Of Slaves, Traidora (New Cross Inn)

16th March Ignorance plus support (New River Studios / UK Tour)

27th March Bad Breeding, Scab, Middleman, Catastrophe (The Lexington / UK Tour)

15th April Thou, pageninetynine, Moloch (Scala / UK Tour)

17th April Death By Stereo, Counterpunch plus more (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

19th April Disaffect, Haavat plus more (New Cross Inn)

23rd April Blind Girls, Stress Positions plus support (Moor Beer Vaults / UK Tour)

17th May Boom Boom Kid, Traidora, plus more (The Shacklewell Arms / UK Tour)

19th May Time Heist plus support (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

20th May Whores, Help plus more (New Cross Inn)

5th July All Out War plus support (New Cross Inn)

Coming Soon

Wrzask by Träume

Next Week (04/02)

Faux Départ ‘EP’ 7-inch (Mutant)

Fine Equipe ‘Moral D’Acier’ 10-inch (Offside)

Pest Control ‘Year Of The Pest’ 12-inch (Quality Control HQ)

Träume ‘Wrzask’ 12-inch (Quality Control HQ)

Early February

1186 ‘Histeria’ 12-inch (Drunken Sailor)

Atomic Prey ‘Atomic Prey’ 12-inch (Iron Lung)

Gaoled ‘Bestial Hardcore’ 12-inch (Iron Lung)

Golpe ‘Subisci. Conformati. Rassegnati.’ 7-inch (Static Shock)

Haram ‘– بس ربحت, خسرت When You Have Won, You Have Lost‘ 12-inch (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos / 2nd Press)

Ignorance ‘Nothing Changed’ 7-inch (Iron Lung)

Litige ‘2 dégres b/w Je Crie & Ca Reviendra’ 7-inch (Echo Canyon)

Paprika ‘Paprika’ 7-inch (Iron Lung)

Rotary Club ‘Sphere Of Service’ 12-inch (Iron Lung)

The War Goes On ‘Death Wish’ 12-inch (Hasiok)

X2000 ‘Gótico Tropical’ 12-inch (Symphony Of Destruction)

Late February

Benzin ‘Treibjagd’ 12-inch (Static Age)

Invertebrates ‘Sick To Survive’ 12-inch (Beach Impediment / Restock)

Laura Agnusdei ‘Flowers Are Blooming In Antarctica’ 12-inch (Maple Death)

Muro ‘Nuevo Dogma’ 12-inch (Fuerza Ingobernable / Restock)

Punitive Damage ‘Hate Training’ 12-inch (Convulse)

Suffocating Madness ‘Unrelenting Forced Psychosis’ 12-inch (Toxic State / Restock)

Tv Dust ‘Transition’ 12-inch (Maple Death)

Vaxine / The Last Survivors ‘Split’ 7-inch (General Speech)

Early March

Bad Breeding ‘Blood Manifest’ 7-inch (Standard Processes)

Bleached Cross / The True Faith ‘Columns Of Impenetrable Light’ 12-inch (Protagonist / Restock)

Corrective Measure ‘Not For You, Not For Anyone’ 12-inch (Refuse)

Groundwork ‘Today We Will Not Be Invisible Nor Silent’ 12-inch (Protagonist)

Haunted Horses ‘Dweller’ 12-inch (Three One G)

Judy And The Jerks ‘Total Jerks’ 12-inch (Refuse / 2nd Press)

Point Of No Return ‘The Language Of Refusal’ 12-inch (Refuse)

Spiritkiller ‘Spiritkiller’ 12-inch (Protagonist)

 

Foundation Vinyl Newsletter

Welcome

Hello and welcome to the latest Foundation Vinyl newsletter!  We have four featured new arrivals to get stuck into.

First up, two new releases from 11PM Records – the intoxicating Big Upsetter from Faze and the languidly raw Land Of Opportunity / Storm The Beach courtesy of The Losers. Then, we have the venomous return of Prey with Loathing on Doom And Gloom, before concluding in style with God’s Only Option Now by G.O.O.N. on Convulse Records.

As always, we have an updated London gig listing, including Stress Positions joining the Blind Girls tour (23/04) and a great bill this Friday (24/01) at New River Studios, featuring Second Death and Hellscape. Plus there is a quick run down on some of the fine records heading our way in the near future, including next week’s Mendeku Diskak special with new releases from Armor, Enyor, Forced Humility, Impotentie, Killing Frost, and Zikin.

Rêve Électrique by Faucheuse / In Un Mondo Senza Violenza by Rogo / Gerran Bizi Gara by Gurs / La Scelta É Tua by Inferno Personale (clockwise)

Finally, a quick heads up that a cracking haul of restocks has just landed from Symphony Of Destruction, including the latest releases from Faucheuse (Rêve Électrique), Gurs (Gerran Bizi Gara), Inferno Personale (La Scelta É Tua), and Rogo (In Un Mondo Senza Violenza)!

Featured New Arrivals

God’s Only Option Now by G.O.O.N. / Land Of Opportunity (including Storm The Beach) by The Losers / Loathing by Prey / Big Upsetter by Faze (clockwise)

‘I wanna do the best, To do the best I can, But everything I hold, Melts in my hands, But if I stare too long, It all turns just turns to sand’ (Wanna Be Good)

I must admit that I fell in a rather big way for Faze’s 2021 debut 7-inch, Content.  And I was just getting to the point where I feared that it might prove to be the Montreal band’s solitary, if rather splendid, statement.  But I needn’t have worried, as they are back with a new 12-inch, Big Upsetter, and it has most assuredly been worth the wait.

Faze’s defining virtues are the ability to infuse their avowedly hardcore punk base with a myriad of trippy psychedelic-meets-noise rock influences.  These flares of invention are woven into the very fabric of their sound and lend the hypnotic, contagiously relentless riffage an intoxicating, hedonistic headiness.  When combined with their equally unerring focus on building each track towards an almost rapturous climax, Faze transport us to somewhere entirely unexpected.

And Big Upsetter is undoubtedly an album that brims with an innate swing courtesy of a rhythm section that is as bouncingly sprightly as it is fiercely pounding.  Meanwhile, the echo drenched vocals conjure a surrealist tapestry of modern-day frustration as if through a loudhailer, perfectly amplifying the euphoric, otherworldly energy that permeates the six tracks.  The closest proxy I can think of would be the child of an unholy union between S.H.I.T and The Drin.

And amid this groove-laden intensity, stand-out moments abound – from the unhinged velocity of opener Célébration and the cathartic, hi-hat fuelled solo of Wanna Be Good, to the squalling brass finale to the title track.  And, if you’re not soon bellowing out the chorus to the throbbing bass propelled Who Does Your Daddy Sell His Guns To?, you are better person than I.  Who knew bliss could be so bruising?

‘Welcome to the city nobody’s from, Lots of people have money and others have none, Don’t let the disparity get into your head’ (Land Of Opportunity)

Hailing from San Francisco, The Losers unleashed both their debut 7-inch and full-length, You Win, We Lose, in 2023 and are now back with a fresh 12-inch.  It combines two brand new five-track EPs, Land Of Opportunity and Storm The Beach, the latter of which was originally a cassette only release.  The band’s core sound reaches back to the West Coast hardcore punk of the early to mid-1980s (think, perhaps, early D.R.I’s rather louche, more atavistic sibling), before they inject it with their own snotty, contemporary vitality.

An organic looseness permeates the band’s rapid-fire barrage, melodic flourishes and reckless blues fuelled solos flaring through the languidly raw aesthetic.  As both EPs were recorded last year, there is satisfying coherency across the album with the bleakly discordant SF Decay, rabid California Dukha, and the two fiercely fluid title tracks hitting home with particular vigour.

The rhythmically sneering vocals drip with unrestrained disdain, occasionally taking a breath to fleetingly segue into semi-spoken word diatribes.  The greed, gentrification, and inequality that have come to define the band’s home city, and the exhausting battle to survive in the face of such a distorted environment, form the coruscating lyrical focus.

PreyLoathing

12 Inch

‘Greedy, why you don’t you get back to work, They say it’s all that your worth, And you’re making things worse’ (Ingrate)

Prey return with their second full-length, Loathing, an uncompromising, venomous battery in keeping with their 2023 debut, Unsafe.  The emphasis remains on taut, lean, furiously fast hardcore as they unleash 14 tracks in as many minutes.  The trio, who feature members of Pi$$er and The Shitty Limits, shed almost every adornment in pursuit of honing their sound to its absolute key essentials.  Their velocity is only heightened by the darkly flaring melodies and deftly deployed slab-like eruptions, as, perhaps, best exemplified by Street Scraper, ‘Til It Snaps, and Cannon Fodder.

This whiplash fusillade proves the perfect foundation for the band’s feral, savagely interchanging, three-pronged vocal assault.  Lyrically, the band take aim at the corrosive forces shaping modern day Britain and their dehumanising consequences.  A seething narrative that ranges from the hyper-capitalist architecture ravaging our cities on Street Scraper (‘Decadence on show, Built of those below’) to continued entrenched misogyny on A Woman (‘I’m less than anything…But also too much’), by way of soul-sapping workplaces on Hacks (‘Tip of the cap and slap on the back’).  All rounded off with some nifty collage artwork and a rather natty lyrics booklet.

‘3 melted candles, And you’re out of time, Poisoned flower, On the vine, Cut down, Punished, I become something more free’ (Blessed And Punished)

Midwest hardcore has an admirable habit of evolving in its own quite distinctive directions, a tradition proudly upheld by G.O.O.N. on this, their second full-length and follow-up to 2019’s Natural Evil.  It is an album that positively bristles with a nervously instinctual energy.  It swings almost incessantly between discordantly chaotic hardcore and swells of cosmic-tinged melodicism.

But its defining feature is, perhaps, the band’s ability to maintain a remorseless sense of groove throughout these oscillations.  The key to this dynamic is the band’s strident, resonant bass lines. These inject a consistently swaggering thrust, while the guitar weaves its intriguing interlacing of the burly and the psychedelic.

This juxtaposition is also reflected in the vocals – the delivery is snarled and urgent, while the lyrics contrastingly evoke a hazy montage of absurdist imagery and fractured dreamscapes.  Highlights include the bludgeoning fury of Black Egg and the frenzied Nobody’s Calling.  The album also features a sweeping cover of 1971’s Do It by experimental London rockers Pink Fairies.

Shows And Tours

Tormented Imp at New River Studios this Friday (24/01)

This section lays no claims to being a definitive listing!  It is simply gigs coming up in London that catch my eye and that I think people who read this newsletter might be interested in.  I will always try and highlight where a show forms part of a wider

24th January Tormented Imp, Hellscape, Sublux, Second Death (New River Studios)

1st February Trail Of Lies, T.S. Warspite, No Relief, Impunity, Violent Offence (Downstairs at The Dome)

6th February Grief Ritual, Calligram, Harrowed, Worn Out (The Black Heart)

7th February The Lunacy Of Flowers, Fiscal Harm, Rabbitfoot (The George Tavern)

7th February Holy Tongue meets Shackleton / Iggor Cavalera (Number 90)

8th February Surowica, Daughter, State Sanctioned Violence (The Bird’s Nest)

9th February Bent Blue, Major Pain , Without Love, Chainlink, Swear Down (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

14th February Adult, Spike Hellis, Sacred Skin (Corsica Studios / UK Tour)

15th February Negative Gears, Grazia, Rubber, Life Forms (New River Studios / UK Tour)

22nd February Cosey Mueller, Stingray, Labrys, Moist Crevice, Spine Portal (The George Tavern)

22nd February Vultur, Deathfiend plus more (Helgi’s)

24th February Love Letter, Heavy Hex, Hell Can Wait, Supernova (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

5th March Touche Amore, Trauma Ray, Chalk Hands (Electric Ballroom)

7th March Delivery, Fruit Tones plus more (Moth Club / UK Tour)

8th March Misantropic, Nujorvik, Wreathe, System Of Slaves, Traidora (New Cross Inn)

8th March Grand Scheme, Collateral plus more (tbc / UK Tour)

16th March Ignorance plus support (New River Studios / UK Tour)

15th April Thou, pageninetynine, Moloch (Scala / UK Tour)

19th April Disaffect, Haavat plus more (New Cross Inn)

23rd April Blind Girls, Stress Positions plus support (Moor Beer Vaults / UK Tour)

17th May Boom Boom Kid, Traidora, plus more (The Shacklewell Arms / UK Tour)

19th May Time Heist plus support (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

Coming Soon

Zonder Titel Deze Keer by Impotentie

Next Week

Armor ‘More War’ 12-inch (Mendeku Diskak)

Enyor ‘Catalunya En Blanc I Negre’ 12-inch (Mendeku Diskak)

Forced Humility ‘Forced Humility’ 7-inch (Mendeku Diskak)

Impotentie ‘Zonder Titel Deze Keer’ 12-inch (Mendeku Diskak)

Killing Frost ‘Years In Permafrost: Recordings 2021-2024’ 12-inch (Mendeku Diskak)

Zikin ‘Bala Galdua Zure Buru Galduan’ 12-inch (Mendeku Diskak)

Late January / Early February

Atomic Prey ‘Atomic Prey’ 12-inch (Iron Lung)

Faux Départ ‘EP’ 7-inch (Mutant)

Fine Equipe ‘Moral D’Acier’ 10-inch (Offside)

Gaoled ‘Bestial Hardcore’ 12-inch (Iron Lung)

Golpe ‘Subisci. Conformati. Rassegnati.’ 7-inch (Static Shock)

Ignorance ‘Nothing Changed’ 7-inch (Iron Lung)

Litige ‘2 dégres b/w Je Crie & Ca Reviendra’ 7-inch (Echo Canyon)

Paprika ‘Paprika’ 7-inch (Iron Lung)

Pest Control ‘Year Of The Pest’ 12-inch (Quality Control HQ)

Rotary Club ‘Sphere Of Service’ 12-inch (Iron Lung)

The War Goes On ‘Death Wish’ 12-inch (Hasiok)

Träume ‘Wrzask’ 12-inch (Quality Control HQ)

X2000 ‘Gótico Tropical’ 12-inch (Symphony Of Destruction)

Late February

Benin ‘Treibjagd’ 12-inch (Static Age)

Corrective Measure ‘Not For You, Not For Anyone’ 12-inch (Refuse)

Invertebrates ‘Sick To Survive’ 12-inch (Beach Impediment / Restock)

Judy And The Jerks ‘Total Jerks’ 12-inch (Refuse / 2nd Press)

Laura Agnusdei ‘Flowers Are Blooming In Antarctica’ 12-inch (Maple Death)

Point Of No Return ‘The Language Of Refusal’ 12-inch (Refuse)

Suffocating Madness ‘Unrelenting Forced Psychosis’ 12-inch (Toxic State / Restock)

Tv Dust ‘Transition’ 12-inch (Maple Death)

Early March

Bleached Cross / The True Faith ‘Columns Of Impenetrable Light’ 12-inch (Protagonist / Restock)

Haunted Horses ‘Dweller’ 12-inch (Three One G)

Groundwork ‘Today We Will Not Be Invisible Nor Silent’ 12-inch (Protagonist)

Spiritkiller ‘Spiritkiller’ 12-inch (Protagonist)

Foundation Vinyl Newsletter

Welcome

Hello and welcome to the latest Foundation Vinyl newsletter!  To gets things started, we have write-ups on four cracking new arrivals.

First up, two debut full-lengths – Unrelenting Forced Psychosis from Suffocating Madness on Toxic State and Parte from Lasso on Sorry State. Then, a generation spanning split, To Stop The Conflict, courtesy of Life and Destruct on Desolate Records and we round things off in style with the latest 12-inch from Iris Paralysis, Dormant Visions, on Hieb & Stich.

Next, before we get too deep into the new year, I thought it would be timely to take look back at some of the music that defined my 2024 in A Year In Ten Records.

As always, we have an updated London gig listing, including a just announced Cosey Mueller / Stingray show (22/02) – quite the double header! Plus there is a quick run down on some of the cracking records heading our way in the near future, including next week’s new arrivals from Faze, G.O.O.N., Prey, and The Losers.

Featured New Arrivals

Dormant Visions by Iris Paralysis / Unrelenting Forced Psychosis by Suffocating Madness / Parte by Lasso / To Stop The Conflict by Life and Destruct (clockwise)

‘Social lobotomy of the masses, Don’t dare to think there are no answers, We are powerless, If we are divided, Get off your arses, The suffocation is madness’ (Imposed Restrictions)

Seeking an antidote to the bleak greyness of early January? Then look no further than this utterly feral slab courtesy of New York’s Suffocating Madness.  Featuring members of Savage Pleasure, Anti-Machine, and Nurse, to name but a few, this is the band’s debut album following-up on their 2021 self-titled EP.

Blown-out guitars, squalling solos, and a pounding rhythm section unleash a thoroughly uncompromising battery of thrash fuelled metallic d-beat.  But this barrage is anything but monochrome.  The band are not averse to letting their more brutal groove-laden riffs breathe, such as on Slaughter and Reality, or conjuring rhythms of infectious, swaggering intensity, most notably, perhaps, on Burn and the aptly titled Wankers.

The raw, rasping vocals meanwhile launch a searing indictment of our society’s distorted priorities and one that resists with every fibre the notion that there is no alternative.  Entrenched economic inequality, religious intolerance, and the rise, indeed institutional acceptance, of the far-right are all tackled with a fierce directness before the visceral, yet unifying climax of Their Legacy Shall Die.  The album also includes a bruising cover of Thermonuclear Devastation Of The Planet by 1980s’ Bristol thrash metal pioneers Onslaught.

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‘Escrevo frases apagadas, Nego o empenho das memórias, Algum olhar é capaz de mudar o rumo da história? Um quarto tomado por imagens, Mostrando onde eu devo estar’ (Rio Frio) ‘I write erased phrases, I deny the commitment of memories, Is any look capable of changing the course of history? A room filled with images, Showing where I should be’ (Cold River)

Lasso, who hail from Salvador in Brazil, have evolved in an admirably old school spirit.  Three 7-inch EPs and relentless touring have laid the impeccable groundwork, and it is bearing rather rich fruit now that they have turned attention to their debut full-length, Parte (Portion).

That the 14 tracks whip through in a blistering 17 minutes will reassure that we are not talking about a radical reinvention here.  But rather the relentless honing and finessing of the band’s trademark sound.  The emphasis remains very much on dense, precise, frenetically fast hardcore, laced throughout with an understated deathrock sensibility.  The progression emerges through the sheer dexterity of Lasso’s musicianship, the subtle accents, textural shifts, and flares of melody that they fluidly braid into the remorseless rapid-fire fusillade.

Lyrically, the concerns reflect the tense, anxious energy of the band’s delivery – cryptically allusive, rooted in a fragmented, uneasy sense of ill-defined dread.  Personal stand-out moments include the shimmering, serpentine Enquanto Descana, Carrega A Pedra (While Resting, Carry The Stone), the off-kilter frenzy of De Onde Vejo (From Where I See), and the absolutely stomping closer Ilha De Silêncio (Island Of Silence).

Tokyo’s Life and Richmond, Virginia’s Destruct are both purveyors of darkly metallic crust, the former one of the founding creators of the genre over thirty years ago, the latter at the forefront of the contemporary wave of bands taking it forward.  And while both bands are exploring similar sonic terrains, they both bring quite distinct interpretations to bear.

Nature exists not only as a resource for humans, co-existence is what saves both sides, we humans are not special’ (Losing Biodiversity, Life)

Life focus on unleashing an almost elemental wall of noise.  Heavily distorted guitars, cleaner bass, roared vocals, and almost crumpled sounding, cymbal drenched drums are barbarously fused.  And just when it feels as if this savage bombardment may overwhelm, the band prove unerringly adept at offering just a glimpse of respite – surges of groove laden riffage, bass and drum fuelled eruptions, and frenetic solos. Personal highlights among their five tracks are the rampaging opener Don’t Give Up Hope and the absolutely rabid title track.

‘Loss makes the road to now, where death sings in the wind, dream of peaceful tomorrow, love and hope instead’ (We Survive, Destruct)

Destruct deliver six tracks that match this fierce velocity, but with each of its elements more singularly delineated.  I would hesitate to call them more restrained, it is rather that their sound is, perhaps, a more consciously disciplined one.  The vocals remain guttural, the drums a touch less primitive and equally awash with cymbal.  The guitars are, however, more discernibly front and centre, the riffs unfurling in menacing waves, interspersed with searing metallic solos.  The escalating violence of Endured and the crushing final track We Survive perfectly embody this brutal intensity.

The lyrical preoccupations of both bands – the wastefulness of war, environmental degradation, social oppression – form a similar unifying cohesion across the album.  Life favour a direct call-to-action, Destruct lean into a more bleakly poetic imagery.  A powerful, generation spanning split.

Iris Paralysis speaks to a condition when the pupil fails to respond to external stimulation.  And while it may at times feel like we are similarly paralysed in the face of a world slowly eating itself, Dormant Visions will soon stir you from your horrified stupor.

Iris Paralysis are an English / German synth duo, featuring Marco Palumbo of Zuletzt on vocals and Tobo Schazmann marshalling the electronics.  Dormant Visions, their third full-length, playfully weaves together cold wave and post-punk influences into a bleakly dystopian, yet infectiously danceable soundscape.

The darkly pulsing synths, underpinned by coldly clinical percussion, tease out swells of recurring melancholic melody, the skittering electronic effects fuelling a growing sense of unease across the seven tracks.  Meanwhile, the enigmatically detached, deftly layered vocals deploy the power of repetition to potent effect as they evoke a society being relentlessly drawn into the predatory thralls of technocracy and surveillance capitalism.

From the futuristic slow burn of Non-Registering Body to the insidiously catchy Trapped Within A Dreamscape by way of the pulsating austerity of Paraffin Sky, Iris Paralysis inexorably lure you into their enticingly ambiguous embrace.

A Year In Ten Records

Highlights of 2024

Before we get sucked too deep into the twists and turns of 2025, I thought it would be timely to have a quick look back on what was a pretty spectacular year in terms of new music.  I must admit I find the notion of league tables rather unhelpful in anything but a sporting context.  So, perhaps, think of this more as a roughly chronological review of a year through the lens of ten records that helped shape it for me personally.

Someone Else’s Dance by Canal Irreal / The Land Is Not An Idle God by Wreathe / Heel Of The Next b/w Physical God by Flower (clockwise)

The year kicked off in style with the new Flower EP, Heel Of The Next b/w Physical God.  There are some who claim that the 7-inch is the perfect format for hardcore.  Not a view I’ve ever concurred with to be honest as they typically feel more like an appetite wetter to tantalise than the full meal.  But no such reservations here.  Just the two songs, but what a two songs.  Venomously rhythmic vocals sneered in conjunction with wave upon wave of searing metallic riffage.  My appetite is fully sated.

Canal Irreal followed with their second full-length Someone Else’s Dance, which is an absolute belter.  Blending darkly melodic post-punk with a bristling hardcore attitude, the Chicago band serve up, perhaps, the singularly most contagious album of the year.  The crystalline, almost brittle, riffs quite simply steal your breath away and your body will soon be possessed by the innate need to move in a way that you didn’t know that you were even capable of.

Then, The Land Is Not An Idle God, the debut album from Wreathe landed with crushing relish.  Featuring four members of Morrow, Wreathe are in many ways a simultaneously stripped back yet more muscular interpretation of that band.  The soaring melancholic melodicism is countered by a fiercely defiant anger in a vividly realised fusion of emotional crust and vocalist Alex CF’s allegorical fiction, which explores the deterioration of our relationship with nature and the corrosive impact of individualism.

See The World On Fire by The Ar-Kaics / Contempt by Bad Breeding / Abattoir by Subdued (clockwise)

The next-in-line though was a bit of a surprise if I’m honest.  The Ar-Kaics earlier output comprised of some well-executed garage punk, but it just wasn’t my particular thing.  But when I checked out their new album, I was blown away by their evolving direction.  See The World On Fire is an album imbued with a surging sense of the dramatic and saturated in a sombre Southern Gothic atmosphere that is equal parts rollicking and haunting.  An unexpected treat.

I was then back in more familiar territory with the much anticipated return of Bad Breeding.  Now, not many hardcore bands last five albums, even fewer reach new heights with their fifth.  But Contempt sees the band in utterly rampant form.  A seething yet precisely constructed denunciation of the distorted priorities that are bringing our society to its knees and all entwined with their most discordant, brutal, and skilfully crafted onslaught yet.

And the anarcho-punk fuelled riches did not end there, as Subdued promptly weighed in with Abattoir.  Their blistering new material had been well flagged during their wave of early year shows and it certainly didn’t disappoint.  The bleakly ominous atmosphere is one of bitter fury at what has preceded, and an existential dread that yet worse is to follow, all brilliantly evoked by an utterly inspired guitar attack – dense, complex, almost unremittingly fast.

Moraliser by Negative Gears / Società Mentale by Festa Del Perdono / Delirik by Freak Genes / Nuevo Dogma by Muro (clockwise)

Then came a change of pace with the debut 7-inch, Società Mentale, from Festa Del Perdono, featuring members of Spirito Del Lupo and Porta D’Or.  Hypnotically rhythmic Italian vocals are intertwined with an otherworldly tapestry of guitar and electronically programmed flaring organs and punchy brass that transport you somewhere entirely unexpected.  A hazily dream-like yet urgently gripping EP.

I don’t think I will provoke much dispute with the notion that the Australian hardcore scene appears to be absolutely thriving at the moment.  The stand-out release for me was the debut album, Moraliser, from Negative Gears.  A thoroughly potent blend of ineffably catchy post-punk with brilliantly acerbic, anarcho fashioned vocals that sardonically dismantle the false ‘common sense’ defining our lives.  They hit the UK next month – not to be missed.

And then landed another leftfield delight.  Now, I’ve been enjoying the electronic evolution of Freak Genes, but nothing had quite prepared me for their latest release, Delirik.  This is a genuinely mind-bending album, one that seems to incessantly shift shape.  It segues from dancefloor euphoria to the jarringly percussive by way of darkly enticing choruses, and from the reflective to the bombastic, all with a disorientating ease.  It is unsettling and challenging in all the right ways.

Finally, my year reached a satisfying finale when I managed to land a healthy stock for the distro (now all gone I’m afraid) of Muro’s new album, Nuevo Dogma.  Muro’s strength has always been their ability to inject their recorded output with the explosive energy of their live performance, and by leaning a touch further into their metallic inclinations, this feels an even more vividly instinctual album.  One that revels in the relentless push-pull between dissonance and melody, the primal and the progressive.  And, of course, all in the context of the band’s compelling political narrative and lived DIY ethos.

So, there you go.  A year in ten records.  I think it’s fair to say that it wasn’t a bad one at all!

Shows And Tours

Adult at Corsica Studios on 14th February

This section lays no claims to being a definitive listing!  It is simply gigs coming up in London that catch my eye and that I think people who read this newsletter might be interested in.  I will always try and highlight where a show forms part of a wider

17th January Diaz Brothers, Soulscraper, The Charlemagnes (Hope & Anchor)

17th January Reality Unfolds Weekender featuring Wristmeetrazor, Dry Socket, Long Goodbye, Vicarage, Hour Of Reprisal, Closed Hands (New Cross Inn)

18th January Reality Unfolds Weekender featuring Ringworm, Bitter Wood, Broken Vow, Malignant, No Relief, Impunity, Imposter plus many more (New Cross Inn)

19th January Reality Unfolds Weekender featuring Stormo, Sorcerer, Shooting Daggers, Perp Walk, Hidden Mothers plus many more (New Cross Inn)

23rd January One Step Closer, Dynamite, Life Of One, Uzumaki (New River Studios / Sold Out)

1st February Trail Of Lies, T.S. Warspite, No Relief, Impunity, Violent Offence (Downstairs at The Dome)

6th February Grief Ritual, Calligram, Harrowed, Worn Out (The Black Heart)

7th February The Lunacy Of Flowers, Fiscal Harm, Rabbitfoot (The George Tavern)

8th February Surowica, Daughter, State Sanctioned Violence (The Bird’s Nest)

9th February Bent Blue, Major Pain , Without Love, Chainlink, Swear Down (New Cross Inn)

14th February Adult, Spike Hellis, Sacred Skin (Corsica Studios / UK Tour)

15th February Negative Gears, Grazia, Rubber, Life Forms (New River Studios / UK Tour)

22nd February Cosey Mueller, Stingray, Labrys, Moist Crevice, Spine Portal (The George Tavern)

22nd February Vultur, Deathfiend plus more (Helgi’s)

24th February Love Letter, Heavy Hex, Hell Can Wait, Supernova (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

5th March Touche Amore, Trauma Ray (Electric Ballroom)

8th March Delivery, Fruit Tones plus more (Moth Club)

8th March Misantropic, Nujorvik, Wreathe, System Of Slaves, Traidora (New Cross Inn)

16th March Ignorance plus support (New River Studios / UK Tour)

15th April Thou, pageninetynine, Moloch (Scala)

19th April Disaffect, Haavat plus more (New Cross Inn)

23rd April Blind Girls plus support (Moor Beer Vaults)

17th May Boom Boom Kid, Traidora, plus more (The Shacklewell Arms)

19th May Time Heist plus support (New Cross Inn)

Coming Soon

Big Upsetter by Faze lands next week

Next Week

Faze ‘Big Upsetter’ 12-inch (11PM)

G.O.O.N ‘God’s Only Option Now’ 12-inch (Convulse)

Prey ‘Loathing’ 12-inch (Doom And Gloom)

The Losers ‘Land Of Opportunity’ 12-inch (11PM)

Late January / Early February

Armor ‘More War’ 12-inch (Mendeku Diskak)

Atomic Prey ‘Atomic Prey’ 12-inch (Iron Lung)

Enyor ‘Catalunya En Blanc I Negre’ 12-inch (Mendeku Diskak)

EVA ‘II’ 7-inch (Chicken Attack)

Faux Départ ‘EP’ 7-inch (Mutant)

Forced Humility ‘Forced Humility’ 7-inch (Mendeku Diskak)

Gaoled ‘Bestial Hardcore’ 12-inch (Iron Lung)

Golpe ‘Subisci. Conformati. Rassegnati.’ 7-inch (Static Shock)

Ignorance ‘Nothing Changed’ 7-inch (Iron Lung)

Impotentie ‘Zonder Titel Deze Keer’ 12-inch (Mendeku Diskak)

Killing Frost ‘Years In Permafrost: Recordings 2021-2024’ 12-inch (Mendeku Diskak)

Litige ‘2 dégres b/w Je Crie & Ca Reviendra’ 7-inch (Echo Canyon)

Paprika ‘Paprika’ 7-inch (Iron Lung)

Pest Control ‘Year Of The Pest’ 12-inch (Quality Control HQ)

Rotary Club ‘Sphere Of Service’ 12-inch (Iron Lung)

The War Goes On ‘Death Wish’ 12-inch (Hasiok)

Träume ‘Wrzask’ 12-inch (Quality Control HQ)

X2000 ‘Gótico Tropical’ 12-inch (Symphony Of Destruction)

Zikin ‘Bala Galdua Zure Buru Galduan’ 12-inch (Mendeku Diskak)

Late February

Benin ‘Treibjagd’ 12-inch (Static Age)

Corrective Measure ‘Not For You, Not For Anyone’ 12-inch (Refuse)

Judy And The Jerks ‘Total Jerks’ 12-inch (Refuse / 2nd Press)

Laura Agnusdei ‘Flowers Are Blooming In Antarctica’ 12-inch (Maple Death)

Point Of No Return ‘The Language Of Refusal’ 12-inch (Refuse)

Tv Dust ‘Transition’ 12-inch (Maple Death)

 

 

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