Foundation Vinyl Newsletter

Welcome

Hello and welcome to this week’s Foundation Vinyl newsletter! Plenty to get stuck into this week:

  • Featured New Arrivals from Mutant Strain, Golpe, and Woodstock 99 plus a Savageheads restock
  • Fictitious Afterlives, featuring By The Grace Of God, Die Young, and Franz Nicolay
  • Shows and Tours, including new dates from Stiff Meds and Venomous Concept
  • Coming Soon, with some cracking co-releases between Sabotage and Black Water Records

And also just a quick thank you to everyone who was able to snap up a record or two over the past two weeks to support the Fisher FC fundraiser on behalf of Time & Talents.  We were able to donate £100 and the appeal overall raised £834.

Featured New Arrivals

La Colpa È Solo Tua by Golpe / Service To Your Country by Savageheads / Woodstock 99 by Woodstock 99 / Murder Of Crows by Mutant Strain (clockwise)

‘Why do we lend so much of ourselves to a broken plan?  Why do we live ever bending, ever breaking?’ (Tethered)

North Carolina’s Mutant Strain return with their second full-length release and things have gotten, if that were possible, even more intense.  A well-drilled rhythm section locks into a strident groove, while the guitars unfurl dense, relentless waves of riffage, and manically rasped, but not unnuanced, vocals impart a sense of breathlessly unhinged chaos.  The emphasis here is on compressed, explosive speed, but not at the expense of properly crafted songwriting.  Songs seep into each other whilst each retaining their own distinctive shape, from the visceral gut-punch of Carolinian Jawbreaker to the more expansive, infectious eruption of Words Fall.

‘La morte é sempre piú vicina, e se è giunta l’ora chiediti il perché, solo ora ti chiedi perché?’ (Il Tuo Futuro) ‘Death is closer and closer, if the time has come, ask yourself why, only now you are wondering why?’ (Your Future)

This is the third pressing of Golpe’s 2021 debut LP.  Hailing from Milan, Golpe is for recording purposes the solo project of Tadzio Pederzolli (formerly Holy and Komplott), with an expanded band for touring.  Musically, Golpe favour mid-paced d-beat infused hardcore that bristles with fierce intent, displaying an impressive synchronicity between the Italian vocals and instrumentation.  Lyrically, the album is a call for people to engage critically with the world around us – to understand that all of our actions have consequences, and that there is cumulative power in the impact of our individual decisions.

A welcome reissue of Woodstock 99’s self-titled, four-track EP following the success of their 2022 debut full-length, Super Gremlin.

Cleveland’s Woodstock 99 pulse with an atavistic heart that positively relishes the absurdities of the human condition. The more psychedelic flourishes of Super Gremlin are only flirted with here, but the base of surging, anarchic hardcore punk and blues-fuelled solos is already firmly in place.  The lyrical preoccupation with the art of pickling and fermenting surprises less than it might with most bands.

‘The wolves no longer need to wear the sheep’s clothing anymore, the rich can serve the rich’ (Heads Of State)

Rasping vocals are spat out venomously as blisteringly infectious UK82 inspired riffage throws down the gauntlet and it is all held in lockstep by a rigorously disciplined yet inherently fluid rhythm section.  An album that literally grabs you by the throat from the outset and never relents as it rabidly explores themes of media folk devils, political corruption, police violence, and military service.  Imagine Suffer-era Bad Religion with the aggression dialled up and the melody stripped back, and you have as good a yardstick as any.

Fictitious Afterlives

Chosen Path by Die Young / Above Fear by By The Grace Of God / New River by Franz Nicolay (clockwise)

As I was writing last week’s Dark Myths, Venomous Realities, which explored Alex CF’s (Fall of Efrafa, Carnist, Morrow, and Wreathe) The Book of Venym: An Egalitarian Demonology, on which Wreathe’s forthcoming debut LP is based, I got to thinking of other hardcore and punk band members who have gone on to publish fictional works.

There is always a flow of memoirs and biographies that are at least hardcore punk adjacent, but the majority that I have delved into have been somewhat sterile affairs.  Tour diaries have proven rather more fertile.  Broken Summers (2004) by Henry Rollins details both his campaigning on behalf of the Memphis Three and a Rollins Band world tour between 2001 and 2003.  Despite having read it nearly twenty years ago, it remains a book still surprisingly firmly etched in my mind.  Not so much the specific details, but rather the atmosphere it evoked – a sheer relentlessness that felt an authentic, unvarnished insight into Rollins’ persona.

Forays into fiction, however, are rather rarer.  But three other examples did come to mind, each quite different to the other, and Alex CF’s work.  The first is by Franz Nicolay.  Nicolay played in the rather splendid World Inferno/Friendship Society, and then The Hold Steady, before heading out as a solo artist.  He now has a fine series of exuberant, wryly observed folk-punk albums under his belt, most recently New River.  As it happens, he also wrote perhaps my favourite tour diary, The Humourless Ladies of Border Control (2016), which I touched on in Trains, Ferries, and Water Fountains.  It is a thoroughly engaging exploration of touring Central and Eastern Europe, and his insights from Ukraine are now even more affecting.

After this, he published his first novel, Someone Should Pay For Your Pain (2021), which explores the life of a touring musician, from the days of being in a local scene punk band to becoming a solo artist. A brief flirtation with breakthrough success evaporates before the protagonist locks into a relentless touring schedule of seemingly ever-diminishing returns.  Of course, Nicolay knows aspects of this journey very well, but he also has the skill as a writer to bring it vigorously to life. The novel deftly renders the solitude of life on the road, poignantly insightful, but also laced with a delightfully dark humour.

The second novel is Cane Field (2019) by Daniel Austin.  Musically, Austin (then Daniel Albaugh) is best known as the front person for the politically charged metallic hardcore band, Die Young, who to me have always represented the sonic embodiment of the feral offspring of Catharsis and Trial. They were initially active from 2002 to 2009, including the release of the fiercely visceral 2007 full-length, Graven Images, before reforming in 2013, with the ensuing releases, such as Chosen Path and No Illusions, no less ferocious.  Renowned for their utterly relentless touring schedule during their first phase, the band is still active, but understandably rather less intensively so.

Austin has also published three poetry anthologies, but Cane Field is his only novel to date, and it tells the story of young man from the suburbs of Houston trying to get to grips with the world and the disappointments of his youth.  Not unusually for a debut novel, you again sense a strong autobiographical inspiration that also draws on Austin’s many years on the road with Die Young.  While I must admit that it didn’t entirely capture me, it is clearly a thoroughly sincere and heartfelt work, and one that convincingly depicts the emotional upheaval and uncertainties of entering adulthood.

The final of our novels is The City, Awake (2016) by Duncan Barlow, the third of four he has published.  Barlow is guitarist with By The Grace Of God (BTGOG), and prior to that Endpoint and Guilt, as well as a university lecturer in English.  BTGOG, who coincidentally also popped up in Trains, Ferries and Water Fountains, are a politically strident band hailing from Louisville, who have honed a blistering blend of surging melodic hardcore and socially thought-provoking lyrical concerns.  They released two searing LPs – Perspective and Three Steps To A Better Democracy – and the For The Love of Indie Rock EP between 1996 and 1999, before returning with 2018’s bristling Above Fear 12-inch.

The City, Awake is essentially a noir thriller reimagined through the prism of five lookalikes, who each wake up in their respective hotel rooms with no memory, and a cryptic note in their pocket.  We follow their responses to their predicament, which both mirror and interlink with each other.  In the wrong hands, there is much that could go wrong with an experimental structure of this type.  Barlow, however, manages it so adroitly that those pitfalls become its strength, and a thoroughly satisfying rhythm emerges as the layers of plot are revealed.  His pared, punchy yet lyrical prose also works effectively to conjure a darkly dystopian setting.

By definition, hardcore and punk music demands lyrically that often quite complex themes be distilled to their very essence, capable of being clearly expressed in two-to-three-minute blasts of intensity.  Not simplified, but certainly honed to their leanest form, yet in a way that effectively primes engagement with the ideas being explored.  Writing no doubt allows such ideas and themes to be examined in a more expansive and incremental form, which poses its own distinctive opportunities and challenges.  And, in each case, it is intriguing to see musicians who have brought significant pleasure begin to deploy their creative energies through an alternative medium.

www.daniel-austin.com

www.duncanbbarlow.com

www.franznicolay.com

Cane Field by Daniel Austin / Someone Should Pay For Your Pain by Franz Nicolay / The City, Awake by Duncan Barlow (left to right)

Shows And Tours

Another Subculture’s 10th Birthday Weekender, 24th-25th November 2023

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.

24th November Bob Mould plus support (The Garage / UK Tour)

24th November Another Subculture Weekender (Spanners / Hellish Torment, Moist Crevice, PC World, Rubber, Skitter)

25th November Another Subculture Weekender (Ivy House / including Gimic, Hygeine, Morreadoras, Plastics, Sniffany & The Nits)

5th December Militarie Gun, Spiritual Cramp plus more (The Dome)

8th December Portrayal of Guilt, Street Grease, Death Goals (Moth Club)

9th December The Grey, Aeir, Under The Ashes (The Bird’s Nest)

10th December Short Fuse, Caged, Depravity plus more (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

13th December Helmet plus support (The Dome)

14th December Jesus Piece, Stiff Meds plus more (Oslo / UK Tour)

16th December Knuckledust, Last Orders, Living Martyr plus more (Black Heart)

12th-14th January Reality Unfolds Fest (New Cross Inn / including Fuming Mouth, Genocide Pact, Iron Deficiency plus many more)

13th January Venomous Concept plus support (Downstairs at The Dome)

18th January Samiam, Sam Russo, Uzumaki (New Cross Inn)

27th January Pizzatramp, Rash Decision, Rank plus more (New Cross Inn)

5th February Mutually Assured Destruction plus support (New Cross Inn)

24th February Fiddlehead, MS Paint, Wrong Man (The Garage / UK Tour)

29th February – 3rd March Damage Is Done 4 (Various Venues / including Framtid, Fugitive, Quarantine, Illusions, The Annihilated, Fairytale, The Flex, Instructor, Pest Control, Rat Cage, Subdued plus many more to be announced with ticket details on 3rd December)

9th March Opium Lord, Torpor, Jotnarr, Harrowed (New Cross Inn)

Coming Soon

Reaching For Eternity by Daydream

Cut Piece ‘Self-Titled’ 7-inch (Sabotage/Black Water)

Daydream ‘Reaching For Eternity’ 12-inch (Sabotage/Black Water)

Long Knife ‘Curb Stomp Earth’ 12-inch (Sabotage/Black Water)

Syndrome 81 ‘Prisons Imaginaires’ 12-inch (Sabotage/Black Water)

Foundation Vinyl Newsletter

Welcome

Hello and welcome to this week’s Foundation Vinyl newsletter! We have a stacked line-up to enjoy:

  • Featured New Arrivals from Enemy, ConSec, Lethal, and Grand Scheme
  • Dark Myths, Venomous Realities, featuring Wreathe
  • Fisher FC Time and Talents Fundraiser
  • Shows and Tours, including the latest on next March’s Damage Is Done 4
  • Coming Soon, including some great new releases from Sorry State Records

Featured New Arrivals

Maladjusted by Enemy / Wheel Of Pain by ConSec / Lethal’s Hardcore Hit Parade by Lethal / Numbers Game by Grand Scheme (clockwise)

EnemyMaladjusted

12 Inch LP

‘Morals for the masses, your views, ideals, flavor of the weak…validate your urban fear, social fad, moral gag’ (Compromise)

Enemy hail from Los Angeles and deal in straight-up US hardcore that bristles with unrestrained intensity on this, their debut LP.  The album kicks off with swirling saxophone before crashing into its ferocious stride.  A rampantly fluid rhythm section is at the heart of Enemy’s sound forging a pulsating partnership with the burly vocals, while affording the guitars scope for flourishes of melodic invention.  The lyrics address economic exploitation on Unprecedented / Zero Sum Game (‘Unprecedented for who? A system designed to kill’) and Killing Wage (‘Digging my own grave, living on a killing wage’) as well as police brutality on Barricade Brigade.  Tracks such as Self-Abuse (‘I slam my head, I slam my fist, always worse for wear’) and Remorse/Less (‘Am I the punchline that never spoke?) explore more personal themes of self-doubt.  Great sketched cover art as well.

ConSecWheel Of Pain

12 Inch LP

‘This new human condition must be dealt with, or is it too late? All thoughts guided by artificial truths, built to sell, and force fear upon us’ (Powder Keg)

ConSec’s debut LP is defined by frenetic yet skilfully crafted hardcore.  Based in Athens, Georgia, the band fuse searing, high-octane pace with groove-laden breakdowns, rasping vocals with punchy group backing, to fiercely infectious effect.  Opener Powder Keg sets the tone in terms of the album’s lyrical focus on systemic socio-economic oppression and the need to resist.  Frustration-fuelled rage powerfully reinforces these themes on tracks such as Meat Shield (‘My whole life and everyone I see, has been forged with a shield made of meat’), Quick To Forget (‘Must be nice to be so naïve, and to think they’re just gonna change’), and the closing title track, Wheel Of Pain (‘I’ve had it with the goddamn grind fuelling these parasites’).  Welcome to the Wheel of Pain?  You’re already strapped to it.

‘Working for nothing, and living for less, pointless life, never getting rest, I’m already dead, a pig slowly bled’ (When Will I Sleep?)

This is no frills US hardcore played with fierce precision and relentless aggression.  New York’s Lethal have no time for even a hint of self-indulgence – this is hardcore honed down to its absolute core essentials.  Played with impressive lock-step discipline, surging riffs, and a bludgeoning rhythm section provide the perfect foil to raw vocals dripping with desperate urgency.  Swaggering breakdowns on More & More and How Will I Sleep? provide temporary respite from the rabid, nihilistic onslaught.

‘Driven by envy, I want to feel true contentment or something real, I have it all, it feels so cold’ (Will To Live)

Eight songs in nine minutes gives you an idea of the velocity of this release, but that is only part of the story.  This a passionately executed take – with added blast beats – on youth crew orientated hardcore. A rawer interpretation mind and one that is injected with a satisfyingly sincere aggression.  Flashes of Grand Scheme’s early 2000s’ fellow Washington DC predecessors, The First Step, come to mind, but blended with the burlier, more combative sound of say Blue Monday or Keep It Clear.  Lyrically, the themes are around personal development and share a certain positivity with those same musical inspirations.

Dark Myths, Venomous Realities

Wreathe’s forthcoming debut LP, The Land Is Not An Idle God, is based on ‘The Book Of Venym: An Egalitarian Demonology’ by Alex CF

Last week, we announced a pre-order for the debut LP from Wreathe, The Land Is Not An Idle God.  Wreathe are a new crust hardcore band from London featuring members of Fall of Efrafa, Morrow, and Aboricidio.  Musically, the band build vigorously on the foundations of those three bands – roared, often layered, frequently call-and-response vocals, entwined in raucous tandem with towering melancholic riffage and a thunderous rhythm section.  A palpable rage courses through the sonic onslaught, but one that is matched with a defiant optimism that, collectively, all is not lost.

‘But in the burgeoning fruit of democracy, we find a parasite that craves all, seizes all…it will spread that rot until all are consumed.’

Lyrically, the album follows the path of Fall of Efrafa and Morrow in also being a concept album, a theme I wrote about a little while back in A Pessimist In Search of Dystopia.  This album’s source material is a work of fiction written by vocalist Alex CF, The Book of Venym: An Egalitarian Demonology, and I thought it would be interesting to explore its ideas in a little more detail.  In some senses, it is a difficult book to categorise in that, while it creates its world in remarkable detail, not all of its philosophical thoughts are explicitly explained.  Rather, it seeks to prime further reflection and interpretation around its central concepts.  The language itself is a mixture of prose and verse (and sometimes something somewhere in-between), which positions the narrator as perhaps living in the late 19th century.  It is written almost as a stream of consciousness, as the narrator grapples with visions of humanity’s fate, conjuring images of the writer feverishly writing down their thoughts late at night by lamp, as if gripped by some spectral force.

‘To see the other as a foot stall to stand upon, to starve us of teaching so that our reasoning is impeded?’

The thrust of the narrator’s visions are focused on how humanity is becoming divorced from the natural word that gave birth to it, driven both by the consequences of human evolution and its own innate sense of superiority.  These dreams introduce us to the philosophy and invocation of a pantheon of pagan nature deities, known as The Increscent, who represent the act of becoming greater than oneself, and who will be provoked to action by humanity’s behaviour.  I will leave the specifics of the world of The Increscent for individual readers to dive into, but I would like to specifically explore the wider themes that the book seeks to address through the creation of this world.  I can’t claim to be a huge reader of fantasy, but while it can often function as a form of escapism, mythologies can also be a powerful way of examining issues from alternative perspectives and escaping the strictures of polarised contemporary debates.

‘The Beast, the great Enemy knows no other course of action, and its tentacles wriggle where none are watching.  They will grow, coil into new patterns, new interpretations of the same strategies.  Divide and conquer, divide and conquer’.

On my reading, The Book of Venym has three overarching themes.  The first we have already touched on, namely humanity’s increasing dislocation from the natural world.  Traced through the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions to the future of the narrator’s visions and our present, the narrator maps how our interaction with nature has morphed from a form of mutual reciprocity into seeking to harness nature for purposes of exploitation and extraction.  These processes irrevocably damage nature, inhibiting the necessary processes of renewal.  This first theme feeds into the second, which is how just as greed has ruptured humanity’s relationship with nature, so it has corrupted its relationship with itself.  An ideological hegemony has been forged that privileges a creed of rampant individualism over that of the collective, valorising the ‘free market’ at the expense of the social good.  A society distorted to the benefit of corporate interests and profit.  This in turn gives rise to the third theme, which is a culture that is fuelled by a distrust of the ‘other’.  As economic inequality is exacerbated and public infrastructure degraded by these warped priorities, so people’s insecurity sows the need to blame someone, often the already most marginalised, to reconcile what is happening.  So, this is a tale not of conspiracy, but of how governing rationalities saturate a society’s thinking and shape its perception of itself.

‘We must reclaim our sense of egalitarianism…We cannot rest until all are seen, all are listened to, and all are heard’.

And the book’s rallying cry to address this cycle is for a rebirth of egalitarianism.  In other words, a recognition of the power of community and the realisation that working together for the collective good has the potential to be far more powerful than the forces arrayed against.  Importantly, this notion of egalitarianism appears cognisant of the need to recognise the intersections of both economic and social identities, which have become increasingly disconnected in the public discourse.  As such, exploring, in rather different ways, some of the ideas examined when discussing the brilliant new Habak / Lagrimas split LP in Hardcore Is Where The Home Is.

The Book of Venym is a beautifully illustrated, relatively slender book.  But it is a work rich in detail and layers that I suspect will reveal themselves in new ways as it is revisited.  So, I hope my initial reading does justice to some of the ideas and concepts that are being teased out.  Anyway, for those of you who like your crushing riffs partnered with lyrical ideas of equivalent heft, The Land Is Not An Idle God should hit that sweet spot very nicely indeed.

The Land Is Not An Idle God is up for pre-order now at www.foundationvinyl.com.  This is the European pressing from Alerta Antifascista Records.  The North American pressing is being handled by Persistent Vision Records.  You can listen to the album at www.wreathepunx.bandcamp.com and you can find The Book of Venym: An Egalitarian Demonology at www.artofalexcf.com.  All quotes are taken from The Book of Venym.

Fisher FC Time And Talents Fundraiser

We are supporting Fisher FC’s Community Day fundraising appeal on behalf of South London charity, Time and Talents

Fisher FC, Bermondsey’s supporter-owned and volunteer-run non-league football club, are hosting their annual Community Day this Saturday (18th November) versus Whitstable Town.

The club are dedicating their fundraising efforts to support local South London charity, Time and Talents.  We would like to do our bit to support the appeal, so we will be donating 10% of all sales (bar shipping costs) between 2nd and 16th November (ends tomorrow!).

So, if there’s a record you’ve had your eye on for a little while, now is the time to make it happen!

And if you live in London and enjoy your football, but are tired of extortionate prices, plastic seats, and bad beer, get your yourself down to the Fish for the game.  Fisher will be donating £1 for each paying spectator to Time & Talents, as well as running a fund-raising half-time raffle on their behalf.

Shows And Tours

Chain Whip at New River Studios, Sunday 19th November

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.

18th November Axegrinder, Civilised Society?, Zero Again plus more (New Cross Inn)

19th November Chain Whip, Johnny Throttle, Shade (New River Studios / UK Tour)

21st November Slapshot, Death Before Dishonor plus more (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

24th November Bob Mould plus support (The Garage / UK Tour)

24th November Another Subculture Weekender (Spanners / Hellish Torment, Moist Crevice, PC World, Rubber, Skitter)

25th November Another Subculture Weekender (Ivy House / including Gimic, Hygeine, Morreadoras, Plastics, Sniffany & The Nits)

8th December Portrayal of Guilt, Street Grease, Death Goals (Moth Club)

9th December The Grey, Aeir, Under The Ashes (The Bird’s Nest)

10th December Short Fuse, Caged, Depravity, plus more (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

13th December Helmet plus support (The Dome)

14th December Jesus Piece plus support (Oslo)

12th-14th January Reality Unfolds Fest (New Cross Inn / including Fuming Mouth, Genocide Pact, Iron Deficiency plus many more)

18th January Samiam, Sam Russo, Uzumaki (New Cross Inn)

5th February Mutually Assured Destruction plus support (New Cross Inn)

24th February Fiddlehead, MS Paint, Wrong Man (The Garage / UK Tour)

29th February – 3rd March Damage Is Done 4 (Various Venues / including Framtid, Fugitive, Quarantine, Illusions, The Annihilated, Fairytale, The Flex, Instructor, Pest Control, Rat Cage, Subdued plus many more to be announced with ticket details on 3rd December)

9th March Opium Lord, Torpor, Jotnarr, Harrowed (New Cross Inn)

Coming Soon

Murder Of Crows by Mutant Strain

Golpe ‘La Colpa È Solo Tua’ 12-inch (Sorry State)

Mutant Strain ‘Murder of Crows’ 12-inch (Sorry Sate)

Woodstock 99 ‘Self-Titled’ 7-inch (Sorry State)

Foundation Vinyl Newsletter

Welcome

Hello and welcome to this week’s Foundation Vinyl newsletter!  A packed edition this week, so let’s get stuck in right way:

  • Featured New Arrivals from Closet Witch, Mazandaran, Möney, and Fredag den 13:e
  • Synth Resistance Is Futile, featuring Home Front and Subdued
  • Wreathe Pre-Order: The Land Is Not An Idle God
  • Fisher FC Time and Talents Fundraiser
  • Shows and Tours, including further news on the Damage Is Done 4 line-up
  • Coming Soon, including some great new releases from Discos Enfermos, 11PM, Not For The Weak, Phobia, and Sorry State

Featured New Arrivals

‘Say what is felt, still no respect for what is spoken, hearing what is wanted, human error, are we only filled with greed?’ (My Words Are Sacred)

A thoroughly welcome return from Iowa’s Closet Witch, some three years on from their four-way split release with Racetraitor, Neckbeard Deathcamp, and Haggathorn.  And what a return it is.  Closet Witch deal in brutal hardcore-infused grindcore and this LP sees them in monstrous form.  Chiaroscuro is a technique used in art and film to create depth by focusing on how extremes of shade interact with a single source of light, and Closet Witch have forged their own unique sonic realisation of the concept.

Viscerally harsh vocals synch in vicious tandem with an utterly brutal rhythm section.  The guitars weave rather more independently through the carnage, and when they lock-in with the wider band, Closet Witch coalesce into a force of unbridled intensity.  The lyrics are darkly allusive, almost allegorical in places, spanning personal trauma and loss as well as the more explicitly political.  Guest vocalist appearances include Full of Hell’s Dylan Walker on My Words Are Sacred.

‘Estranged, Torn away, Bearing the weight of shame, Alienate and displace, Force to retreat in regret’ (Estranged)

Mazandaran (Devil’s Land) is at the heart of Persian mythology and the band (that includes Pat Hassan of Repentance on guitar / vocals) comprises members of London’s Iranian diaspora.  Lyrically, they transpose figures from this mythology to illuminate the current struggles of the Iranian people in the face of theocratic oppression.  Musically, the band draw their inspiration from Japanese hardcore with gruff vocals, metallic-tinged guitars, and a surging rhythm section.  Their rage is palpable as they recognise the bravery of those challenging the regime and experience the frustrations of the exiled.  It is a beautifully packaged release as well.

MöneyPunk Demo

7 Inch EP

Bristol’s Möney take their vinyl bow on this six-track EP and do so with their own very distinctive blend of surf-infused post-punk, an essentially mellow yet undeniably strident expression of anger.

Strummed, reverb drenched guitars, chunky bass lines, and languidly fluid drumming lay the band’s sonic template, underpinned throughout by a hazy sense of melancholy.  From this starting point, the band veer from the otherworldly leaning surf-punk of opener, Run Away, to the achingly beautiful post-punk of the Spanish language, La Culpa.  Vocals range from the repetitive detachment of Out of Control and the more robust expressions of Not Alienate to the almost, but not quite, raucous closer, Full of Lies.

Gothenburg’s Fredag den 13:e return in vigorous form with their fifth full-length, Mänskliga Gränstillstånd (Human Border States), of blackened d-beat infused crust.

The band take the writings of Swedish academic, Lena Gerholm on manifestations of psychosis as their starting point.  Bleakly apocalyptic imagery is deployed to explore how late-stage capitalism hollows out the individual human condition and is driving wider society ever closer to catastrophe.  Roared vocals, soaring melancholic guitars, and a galloping rhythm section form the sonic foundation, but it is the sheer exuberant energy of the execution that seizes the attention, most notably on Våldsmonopol (Monopoly of Violence) and Du Lever En Lögn (You’re Living A Lie).

Synth Resistance Is Futile

Think Of The Lie by Home Front / Glass Blocks by Optic Sink / Over The Hills And Far Away by Subdued / Becoming Undone by Adult / Tangled In Transition by Tulips

So, a couple of weekends back, I was confronted with something of a dilemma, with two very enticing gigs on the Friday (Stingray / T.S. Warspite) and Saturday (Home Front / Subdued).  Back-to-backs are quite difficult to engineer these days (yep, Londoner complaining about there being too many great gigs to go to…), so a choice was going to have to be made.  All things being equal, I would most probably have leaned towards catching Stingray on the back of their quite brilliant new LP, Fortress Britain, but then the flyer language caught my eye: Fancy Dress Mandatory.  And if there is one thing that I hold a deep, unyielding aversion to beyond all things, it is fancy dress.  Decision made, and let’s face it Home Front and Subdued is no bad back-up is it?

Anyway, I got down to New River Studios (loving the new layout), unfortunately, just as Rifle concluded their set but was well ensconced by the time Subdued hit the stage.  Now you would be unlikely to claim that Subdued have quite the stage presence of some of their more energetic peers, but every time I have caught them over the last year, the sheer intensity of their bristling anarcho-punk delivery has gone up yet another impressive notch.  Central to this I suspect is their guitarist (who was also in the fabulous Permission) who never fails to conjure a seemingly instinctual onslaught that is equal parts subtlety and ferocity, fiercely disciplined yet also boldly pushing the limits.

And so, to the headliners, Home Front.  Now I must confess that I can sometimes be rather slow in adopting new forms of instrumentation into my punk palette.  I remember feeling rather uneasy when first entranced by the shuddering drum machines of the early industrial pioneers of Godflesh and Pitchshifter, a sense that took me some years to fully shed.  And while for some reason a spot of violin or cello never worried, the appearance of keyboards was rarely welcomed.  It just didn’t seem to fit, well, with my preconceptions anyway.  Because let’s face it, how is a keyboard more ‘artificial’ than an electric guitar and a battery of effects pedals?  Although to be fair, my earliest encounters with synths in hardcore punk often seemed a touch inorganic, flirting with an idea, rather than exploring it with conviction.

However, the sheer weight of great new electronic-led punk that has been released over the past few years has undeniably swept away any last vestiges of reluctance on my part.  Indeed, the term synth-punk feels increasingly reductive (although it is a shorthand I will no doubt continue to employ liberally!) bearing in mind the diversity of where this form of punk is being taken – from the dance-orientated dark wave of Adult’s Becoming Undone (2022) and the elegiac beauty of Tulips’ Tangled In Transition (2023), to the wonderfully understated textures of Optic Sink’s Glass Blocks (2023), that has seeped irresistibly into a position of almost constant rotation on my turntable.

But the release that perhaps terminally broke the dam for me was Home Front’s cracking debut LP, Think Of The Lie (2021).  I found its euphoric melancholy pretty hard to resist as they took some vivid 1980s’ influences from The Cure to Echo And The Bunnymen via The Eurythmics and reanimated them with a vibrant electronic punk twist.  And this year’s Games of Power took things into even more expansive directions.

And Home Front’s recipe is also particularly well suited to the live setting, which can pose challenges to some of the more electronic-orientated bands.  Firstly, their sound is imbued with a punk energy and sheer danceability that translates well to the stage.  Secondly, keyboardist / drummer Clint Frazier sheds his instruments to take on the role of frontperson, and clearly revels in doing so, ensuring a pronounced physicality to the band’s performance.  And, finally, the touring band (Home Front record as a duo) are not only accomplished musicians, but clearly throw themselves into proceedings with impressive abandon from the pounding drummer and sweat-drenched keyboardist to the swirling bassist, who spent a considerable portion of the night swamped in the stage’s cobweb decorations.

Well, it proved quite the show and thankfully, for this miserable killjoy at least, there was barely any fancy dress on display at all…

Wreathe Pre-Order: The Land Is Not An Idle God

Wreathe’s debut LP, The Land Is Not An Idle God, is available for pre-order from our store from today.

We are delighted to announce a pre-order for the European pressing from Alerta Antifascista Records of Wreathe’s debut album, The Land Is Not An Idle God.  It is available to pre-order from our store from today and is expected to ship in late February 2024.  Persistent Vision Records are handling the North American pressing and release.

Featuring members of Fall of Efrafa, Morrow, and Arboricidio, this is the debut LP from London’s Wreathe.  Roared, often layered, call-and-response vocals interplay with towering melancholic crust riffage and a thunderous rhythm section to deliver a sonic battery of invigorating, defiant intensity.  The album’s lyrics are based on vocalist Alex CF’s book, The Book of Venym: An Egalitarian Demonology.  This is a fictional exploration of the philosophy and invocation of a pantheon of pagan nature deities, known as the Increscent, ‘a battle cry for the much-beleaguered idea of compassion above self-interest and bigotry’.  Guest vocalist appearance from Autarch’s Jamie Pratt.

Fisher FC Time and Talents Fundraiser

Foundation Vinyl are supporting Fisher FC’s Community Day fundraising appeal on behalf of South London charity, Time and Talents

Fisher FC, Bermondsey’s supporter-owned and volunteer-run non-league football club, are hosting their annual Community Day on Saturday 18th November versus Whitstable Town.

The club are dedicating their fundraising efforts to support local South London charity, Time and Talents.  We would like to do our bit to support the appeal, so we will be donating 10% of all sales (bar shipping costs) between 2nd and 16th November.

So, if there’s a record you’ve had your eye on for a little while, now is the time to make it happen!

And if you live in London and enjoy your football, but are tired of extortionate prices, plastic seats, and bad beer, get your yourself down to the Fish for the game.  Fisher will be donating £1 for each paying spectator to Time and Talents, as well as running a fund-raising half-time raffle on their behalf.

Thanks to everyone who has been able to support so far!

Shows and Tours

Damage Is Done 4, 29th February – 3rd March 2024

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.

9th November Rifle, Mindless, Catholic Block (The George Tavern / UK Tour)

9th November Jonah Matranga plus support (The Slaughtered Lamb / UK Tour)

11th November Diaz Brothers, Toronto Blessings, The Charlamagnes, Dinosaur Skull (Hope & Anchor / UK Tour)

12th November Filth Is Eternal, Death Goals, How Long You Been Driving, Closed Hands (New Cross Inn)

13th November Madball, Ironed Out, Rash Decision, False Reality (The Underworld / UK Tour)

18th November Axegrinder, Civilised Society?, Zero Again plus more (New Cross Inn)

19th November Chain Whip, Johnny Throttle, Shade (New River Studios / UK Tour)

21st November Slapshot, Death Before Dishonor plus more (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

24th November Bob Mould plus support (The Garage / UK Tour)

24th November Another Subculture Weekender (Spanners / Hellish Torment, Moist Crevice, PC World, Rubber, Skitter)

25th November Another Subculture Weekender (Ivy House / including Gimic, Hygeine, Morreadoras, Plastics, Sniffany & The Nits)

8th December Portrayal of Guilt, Street Grease, Death Goals (Moth Club)

9th December The Grey, Aeir, Under The Ashes (The Bird’s Nest)

13th December Helmet plus support (The Dome)

14th December Jesus Piece plus support (Oslo)

12th-14th January Reality Unfolds Fest (New Cross Inn / including Fuming Mouth, Genocide Pact, Iron Deficiency plus many more)

18th January Samiam, Sam Russo, Uzumaki (New Cross Inn)

5th February Mutually Assured Destruction plus support (New Cross Inn)

24th February Fiddlehead, MS Paint, Wrong Man (The Garage / UK Tour)

29th February – 3rd March Damage Is Done 4 (Various Venues / including Framtid, Fugitive, Quarantine, Illusions, The Annihilated, Fairytale, The Flex, Instructor, Pest Control, Rat Cage, Subdued plus many more to be announced with ticket details on 3rd December)

9th March Opium Lord, Torpor, Jotnarr, Harrowed (New Cross Inn)

Coming Soon

Wheel Of Pain by Consec

Cimiterium ‘Self-Titled’ 7-inch (Phobia)

Consec ‘Wheel of Pain’ 12-inch (Not For The Weak)

Enemy ‘Maladjusted’ 12-inch (11PM)

Golpe ‘La Colpa È Solo Tua’ 12-inch (Sorry State)

Grand Scheme ‘Numbers Game’ 7-inch (11PM)

Hez ‘Panamaniacs’ 12-inch (Discos Enfermos)

Kinetic Orbital Strike ‘Self-Titled’ 7-inch (Phobia)

Lethal ‘Lethal’s Hardcore Hit Parade’ 7-inch (11PM)

Mutant Strain ‘Murder of Crows’ 12-inch (Sorry Sate)

Woodstock 99 ‘Self-Titled’ 7-inch (Sorry State)

Foundation Vinyl Newsletter

Welcome

Hello and welcome to this week’s Foundation Vinyl newsletter!  Lots of cracking new music to discuss this week plus news of a charity fundraiser we hope you may be able to support:

  • Featured New Arrivals, including the Destruct / Dissekerad / Rat Cage / Scarecrow split Screaming Death LP plus new releases from Stiff Meds and Total Nada as well as a Hellnation reissue
  • Footballing Fish and Community DIY
  • Shows and Tours
  • Coming Soon, including some great new releases from Circus Of The Macabre, Discos Enfermos, 11PM, Not For The Weak, Phobia, Quality Control HQ, and Sorry State

Featured New Arrivals

Four of the best contemporary exponents of Swedish-inspired hardcore contribute four new tracks each to this split LP.  Shared musical inspirations distinctively reimagined, and collective lyrical preoccupations of social inequality, environmental catastrophe, and military adventurism imbue the release with a powerful cohesion.

The LP opens with Virginia’s Destruct and anyone who has enjoyed their blistering recent full-length, Cries the Mocking Mother Nature, will know exactly what to expect.  Fiercely honed metallic crust, the velocity of which verges on the unhinged as they unleash a searing set, with opener Omnicide setting a rampant standard.  Next up are North Carolina’s Scarecrow, who inject proceedings with a more pronounced hardcore swagger.  Desperate vocals surge over choppy riffage and a ferocious rhythm section, reaching an incendiary crescendo on closer Space Race.

Side B sees Sweden’s Disserkerad kick things off and the ferocity does not relent for one moment.  Lying somewhere between the LP’s two opening bands, they unleash a harshly distorted assault of merciless precision that culminates in the crushing Mot Vänster.  Sheffield’s Rat Cage then close out proceedings in the utterly rampaging style defined by their recent full-length, Savage Visions.  This is brutally claustrophobic hardcore punk with reckless, blues-infused solos offering only fleeting respite.  These final tracks are relentless in their savagery, yet also undeniably infectious as exemplified by Twist of the Vice.

Stiff Meds are a truly visceral live band and so the question is whether they can capture that wild fury on this their debut full-length, Tales From The Slab?  And rest assured, they most certainly do.

London’s Stiff Meds deal in barbarous power violence-infused fastcore that brilliantly juxta positions utterly rapid-fire hardcore with breakdowns of crushing velocity.  Bile-drenched vocals are snarled in synchronicity with a sonic barrage that is defined as much by its impressively lock-step discipline as it is by its savagery.  Lyrical themes of everyday frustration are nihilistically explored through the macabre lens of the mortuary and death.  Twelve songs in fourteen minutes speaks to the ferocity of the assault but such is the skill on display that individual songs are not swamped by the relentless aggression.  Side B is an excellent fourteen-song live recording of their March 2023 Liverpool show and features songs from each of their earlier demos, including 2021’s Exciting Violence.

Total NadaII

7 Inch EP

‘Comienza el día con el pie izquierdo, El peso de tu mente va a romperte el cuello’ El Peso (‘Start the day on the wrong foot, The weight of your mind is going to break your neck’ The Weight)

Based in Montreal, and featuring members of both Primer Regimen and Bosque Rojo, Total Nada return with their second seven-track EP, II.  Continuing to draw inspiration from 1980s’ Latin American and European hardcore, the band successfully fuse both into a vivid reimagining.  Rapid-fire, raucous Spanish language vocals, reflecting the band’s Colombian heritage, interplay with razor-sharp guitars and a pulsatingly fluid rhythm section to lacerating effect.  Lyrical themes span from the challenges of everyday life to political corruption in Colombia.

HellnationColonized

12 Inch LP

‘We worship the hypocrisy in the land of coke and money, where freedom is based on productivity, we’re taught to believe there is dignity in greed’ (Lied To)

Hellnation hailed from Kentucky and were active from 1988 to 2010.  This is a remastered 30-year anniversary reissue of their 1993 debut full-length, Colonized.  The band dealt in blistering blast beats and sludge-fuelled breakdowns that blurred the lines between fastcore and grindcore.  Harsh shrieked vocals are underpinned by an intense aural onslaught rooted in a fusion of whirlwind fast drums and more groove-laden riffage.  Politically charged lyrics are shaped by their anarchist framing as themes of economic exploitation, police militarisation, and misogyny are examined.  The original track listing is complemented by three bonus live tracks.

Footballing Fish & Community DIY

Foundation Vinyl are supporting Fisher FC’s Community Day fundraising appeal on behalf of South London charity, Time & Talents

Football, like music, is best done DIY.  It can act as a hugely positive force for empowering communities at a time when much professional sport can seem like simply another vehicle for fiancialised excess.  And you don’t get much more DIY than Bermondsey’s Fisher FC – a wholly supporter-owned, volunteer-run mutual society.

The club was founded in 2009, when its predecessor Fisher Athletic went bankrupt, with supporters determined to rebuild their club as a community enterprise.  Initially exiled to play in Dulwich, Fisher secured a return to Bermondsey and Rotherhithe in 2016 at the St Paul’s Sports Ground.  Since then, the Fish have gone from strength to strength, and are now firmly embedded back in their local community, including providing junior football for 200-plus kids from age 5 up to 18.

Each year, the club hosts an annual Community Day, which is this year being held on Saturday 18th November at the match versus Whitstable Town.  The club are dedicating their efforts to raising money for local charity Time & Talents that has been working to strengthen and support neighbourhood ties in the local area for over 100 years, having initially been founded in the 1870s to challenge the gender status quo.

We would like to do our bit to support.  So, 10% of all our sales (bar shipping costs) from tomorrow (Thursday 2nd November) until Thursday 16th November will be donated to Time & Talents via the club fundraising appeal.

So, if there’s a record you’ve had your eye on for a little while, now is the time to make it happen!

And if you live in London and enjoy your football, but are tired of extortionate prices, plastic seats, and bad beer, get your yourself down to the Fish for the game.  Fisher will be donating £1 for each paying spectator to Time & Talents, as well as running a fund-raising half-time raffle on their behalf.

Fisher FC’s Community Day on Saturday 18th November 2023

Shows and Tours

Diaz Brothers at the Hope & Anchor, 11th November

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.

3rd November Last Wishes, Splitknuckle,  Dynamite, False Reality plus more (New River Studios)

4th November Pest Control, Hellbound, T.S. Warspite, Stiff Meds, Layback plus more  (MOT / SOLD OUT)

9th November Jonah Matranga plus support (The Slaughtered Lamb / UK Tour)

11th November Diaz Brothers, Toronto Blessings, The Charlamagnes, Dinosaur Skull (Hope & Anchor / UK Tour)

12th November Filth Is Eternal, Death Goals, How Long You Been Driving, Closed Hands (New Cross Inn)

13th November Madball, Ironed Out, Rash Decision, False Reality (The Underworld / UK Tour)

18th November Axegrinder, Civilised Society?, Zero Again plus more (New Cross Inn)

19th November Chain Whip, Johnny Throttle, Shade (New River Studios / UK Tour)

21st November Slapshot, Death Before Dishonor plus more (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

24th November Bob Mould plus support (The Garage / UK Tour)

24th November Another Subculture Weekender (Spanners / Hellish Torment, Moist Crevice, PC World, Rubber, Skitter)

25th November Another Subculture Weekender (Ivy House / including Gimic, Hygeine, Morreadoras, Plastics, Sniffany & The Nits)

8th December Portrayal of Guilt, Street Grease, Death Goals (Moth Club)

9th December The Grey, Aeir, Under The Ashes (The Bird’s Nest)

13th December Helmet plus support (The Dome)

14th December Jesus Piece plus support (Oslo)

12th-14th January Reality Unfolds Fest (New Cross Inn / including Fuming Mouth, Genocide Pact, Iron Deficiency plus many more)

18th January Samiam, Sam Russo, Uzumaki (New Cross Inn)

5th February Mutually Assured Destruction plus support (New Cross Inn)

24th February Fiddlehead, MS Paint, Wrong Man (The Garage / UK Tour)

1st – 3rd March Damage Is Done IV (Various Venues / including Fugitive, Quarantine, and Illusions plus many more to be announced)

9th March Opium Lord, Torpor, Jotnarr, Harrowed (New Cross Inn)

Coming Soon

Chiaroscuro by Closet Witch

Cimiterium ‘Self-Titled’ 7-inch (Phobia)

Closet Witch ‘Chiaroscuro’ 12-inch (Circle Of The Macabre)

Consec ‘Wheel of Pain’ 12-inch (Not For The Weak)

Enemy ‘Maladjusted’ 12-inch (11PM)

Fredag Den 13:e ‘Mänskliga Gränstillstånd’ 12-inch (Phobia)

Golpe ‘La Colpa È Solo Tua’ 12-inch (Sorry State)

Grand Scheme ‘Numbers Game’ 7-inch (11PM)

Hez ‘Panamaniacs’ 12-inch (Discos Enfermos)

Kinetic Orbital Strike ‘Self-Titled’ 7-inch (Phobia)

Lethal ‘Lethal’s Hardcore Hit Parade’ 7-inch (11PM)

Mazandaran ‘Self-Titled’ 7-inch (Quality Control HQ)

Möney ‘Punk Demo’ 7-inch (Discos Enfermos)

Mutant Strain ‘Murder of Crows’ 12-inch (Sorry Sate)

Woodstock 99 ‘Self-Titled’ 7-inch (Sorry State)

Foundation Vinyl Newsletter

Welcome

Hello and welcome to this week’s Foundation Vinyl newsletter!  No blog this week (the demands of half-term and all that), but we still have plenty of great new music to get stuck into:

  • Featured New Arrivals from Astio, Hellshock, Katarsi, Life Scars, and Mock Execution
  • Shows and Tours, including two great line-ups at New River Studios this weekend, featuring Stingray / T.S. Warspite (Friday) and Home Front / Subdued (Saturday)
  • Coming Soon, including some cracking new releases from Discos Enfermos, 11PM, Not For The Weak, Phobia, Quality Control HQ, and Sorry State

Featured New Arrivals

AstioBocche Stanche

12 Inch LP

‘Abbattere ponti costruire gabbie, È più facile, proficuo, collettivismo individuale, esplorazione passive’ Inverno (‘Break down bridges, build cages, It’s easier, more profitable, Individual collectivism, passive exploration’ Winter)

Hailing from Trento in northern Italy, Astio’s debut LP Bocche Stanche (Tired Mouths) bristles with intent.  Semi-shouted, anarcho-punk style vocals interplay with tautly angular guitars.  Flourishes of discordant saxophone amplify the darkly alluring post-punk melodies that are underpinned by a surging, urgent rhythm section.  Lyrics sung in Italian explore how the contemporary blurring of reality breeds lethargy and inaction in the face of economic exploitation and impending environmental catastrophe.  The B-side of this single-side 12-inch is a red and white screen print of the cover artwork.

HellshockHellshock

12 Inch LP

‘Continuity absurd as they bait and switch your mind, with your best interests clearly denied, But they seem to mimic them to your eyes – you’re a sundry to use and despise’ (Echopraxia)

Portland’s Hellshock return with their fourth full-length, some fourteen years on from They Wait For You Still, and it sees the band unleash a vividly realised progression of their trademark metallic crust.  The base characteristics remain firmly in place – roared vocals, crushingly monolithic crust riffage, and a fiercely brutal rhythm section.  New dynamics at play include densely layered, mournfully dissonant melodies and soaring guitar solos that lean more towards NWOBHM than the more thrash inclined eruptions of the past.  Darkly apocalyptic imagery defines the lyrics, which explore themes of political deception and personal self-delusion.

KatarsiKatarsi

12 Inch LP

‘Izan behar gineraren amets-gaizto bat baino ez gara, ta hobeto sentitzeko besteen gainean jartzen gara’ Alienazioaren Seme-Alabak (‘We are no more than a bad dream of what we were supposed to be, and to feel better we walk all over the rest’ Children of Alienation)

Katarsi is a one-person project from Bilbao that takes as its starting point infectious, almost euphoric, synths and fuses them with the rhythms of driving melodic punk – think Syndrome 81 infused Home Front with an additional certain raw vigour akin to Miss Espana.  Basque lyrics darkly juxta position themes of economic atomisation, social alienation, and personal self-doubt with the joyously upbeat sonic delivery.

‘Gdy jedyną sluszną prawdę ustala wladza, ceną za smodzielne myślenie jest więzienie, Gdy o twoim domu decyduje fanatyk, domem staje się obca ziemia’ Pękni​ę​te Serca (‘When authorities create the only truth, the price of free thinking is imprisonment, When a fanatic decides about your home, it becomes a foreign land’ Broken Hearts)

Longstanding Polish punks Life Scars return with their fourth full-length, P​ę​kni​ę​te Serca (Broken Hearts).  The band continue to hone their blend of high-energy melodic punk and soaring melancholic crust.  Punchy Polish vocals are contrastingly complemented by raucously layered backing vocals and solemn spoken word passages as the band explore themes of environmental degradation, a woman’s right to choose, animal rights, and the stoking of fear by populist politicians.

Chicago’s Mock Execution are back with a relentlessly fierce five-track EP follow-up to last year’s debut full-length, Killed By Mock Execution.

A thunderous low-end rhythm section lays the band’s slab-like foundations, while dual flanged-out guitars unleash waves of burly, pugnacious metallic riffs.  Frantic, snarled vocals then interplay with at times psychedelic leaning melodic leads to powerful effect.  Lyrical themes range across the role of the mass media (Media Junkies), to the stultifying impact of the current political consensus (Defiant Pose), and how they feed rampant economic inequality (Space Invaders) fuelling bitter social conflict (Circle of Madness).

Shows and Tours

This Friday at New River Studios (27/10)

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.

26th October World Peace, Xiao, Trading Hands plus more (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

27th October Cuero, Stingray, T.S. Warspite, Turbo, Catastrophe (New River Studios / Halloween Fancy Dress)

28th October Home Front, Subdued, Rifle (New River Studios / UK Tour)

9th November Jonah Matranga plus support (The Slaughtered Lamb / UK Tour)

11th November Diaz Brothers, Toronto Blessings, The Charlamagnes, Dinosaur Skull (Hope & Anchor / UK Tour)

12th November Filth Is Eternal, Death Goals, How Long You Been Driving, Closed Hands (New Cross Inn)

13th November Madball, Ironed Out, Rash Decision, False Reality (The Underworld / UK Tour)

18th November Axegrinder, Civilised Society?, Zero Again plus more (New Cross Inn)

19th November Chain Whip, Johnny Throttle, Shade (New River Studios / UK Tour)

21st November Slapshot, Death Before Dishonor plus more (New Cross Inn / UK Tour)

24th November Bob Mould plus support (The Garage / UK Tour)

24th November Another Subculture Weekender (Spanners / Churchgoers, Hellish Torment, PC World, Rubber, Skitter)

25th November Another Subculture Weekender (Ivy House / including Gimic, Hygeine, Morreadoras, Plastics, Sniffany & The Nits)

9th December The Grey, Aeir, Under The Ashes (The Bird’s Nest)

12th-14th January Reality Unfolds Fest (New Cross Inn / including Fuming Mouth, Genocide Pact, Iron Deficiency plus many more)

18th January Samiam plus support (New Cross Inn)

5th February Mutually Assured Destruction plus support (New Cross Inn)

24th February Fiddlehead, MS Paint, Wrong Man (The Garage / UK Tour)

1st – 3rd March Damage Is Done IV (Various Venues / including Fugitive, Quarantine, and Illusions plus many more to be announced)

Coming Soon

Screaming Death (Four-Way Split LP – Destruct, Dissekerad, Rat Cage, Scarecrow)

Cimiterium ‘Self-Titled’ 7-inch (Phobia)

Consec ‘Wheel of Pain’ 12-inch (Not For The Weak)

Destruct / Dissekerad / Rat Cage / Scarecrow ‘Screaming Death’  12-inch (Skrammel)

Enemy ‘Maladjusted’ 12-inch (11PM)

Fredag Den 13:e ‘Mänskliga Gränstillstånd’ 12-inch (Phobia)

Grand Scheme ‘Numbers Game’ 7-inch (11PM)

Hez ‘Panamaniacs’ 12-inch (Discos Enfermos)

Kinetic Orbital Strike ‘Self-Titled’ 7-inch (Phobia)

Lethal ‘Lethal’s Hardcore Hit Parade’ 7-inch (11PM)

Mazandaran ‘Self-Titled’ 7-inch (Quality Control HQ)

Möney ‘Punk Demo’ 7-inch (Discos Enfermos)

Mutant Strain ‘Murder of Crows’ 12-inch (Sorry Sate)

Stiff Meds ‘Tales From The Slab’ 12-inch (Quality Control HQ)

Total Nada ‘II’ 7-inch (Discos Enfermos)

Woodstock 99 ‘Self-Titled’ 7-inch (Sorry State)

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