Naturecore - With Love...

NATURECORE - With Love... 12"

Tam was one of my first buddies when I moved to Hollywood. I remember just hanging out at her house with a girl from Conflict, eating spaghetti and just chatting for hours. In all that time, I think I only ever saw Naturecore play once. Seems like they were always in some sort of weird flux. They were great live. I remember her giving me a really great demo tape early on and thinking that they were the most amazing band in California.

Now, I think this record is fine. I like the songs and I can respect the sentiments. I just know that there is a better recording out there somewhere. The vocals aren't as good as the tape I had and the mastering is so totally thin, it sounds like it might have been mastered off of a cassette tape. But I still dig it. The Box is still a strong number and shows how far outside the norm the band were reaching in contrast to other anarcho type bands in So Cal that were their peers like A//Solution or Another Destructive System or even Final Conflict. The fast tracks are tight if you want to you can imagine how powerful this material was live in front of a churning audience of black clad freaks.

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Anti Product - Big Business

Anti Product - Big Business And The Government Are Both The Fucking Same 7"

Track List:

1		War On Nature
2		Be American, Buy American
3		Faceless Numbers
1		Survival Of The Richest
2		Social Neglect
3		To Serve And Protect
4		Inhuman Perceptions

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Antischism - All Their Money Stinks of Death

All Their Money Stinks of Death 7" EP, Manifest Soundworks, 1988

Antischism were an anarchist crust punk band from Columbia, South Carolina. For most of their existence, the band consisted of:

• Scott Cooper (drums, vocals, lyrics)
• Lyz (vocals)
• Kevin Byrd (guitar)
• Matt (bass)

An additional male vocalist named Brent sang on the Still Life LP. Antischism broke up and then reformed in Austin, TX, as Initial State. After Initial State, Kevin went on to play in .fuckingcom (with Lyz) and Guyana Punch Line, he currently performs in Thank God. Scott moved to Savannah, GA, and played in Damad and Karst, and now plays in Chronicle A/D.

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A//Political - Punk Is A Ghetto

[other A//Political albums/reviews/info in past blogs]

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Anti Product - EPs of AP

Anti-Product was a New York State-based crust punk band, formed in 1995, and disbanded in 2002. Their music featured anarchist and other political themes. Anti-Product played for the first time on March 5, 1995 at the Tazmanian Embassy in Binghamton, NY. There were four line-up changes, additions, and substitutions over the years and five tours in the US. We put out two seven inch EPs: one self-release in 1996 and a second EP on Tribal War Records in 1998. Mind Control Records put out the "Iron Columns" 2xLP compilation in 1999 and included a previously unreleased AP song. Later that year, "The Deafening Silence Of Grinding Gears" LP was released by Tribal War Records while we were out on the Primate Freedom Tour with Aus-Rotten, Mark Bruback, Fly and Sarah O'Donell. The LP was also released in Germany by Skuld Releases. That summer Anti-Product also played the semi-notorious "More Than Music Festival" in Columbus, OH dedicated to DIY feminist politics, with the likes of Kill The Man Who Questions, Red Monkey, Bread & Cuircuts, former members of Alofson and many more.
They began incorporating cello into new material in early 2000 and toured the east coast with Submission Hold that summer. A song was included on a Farm Sanctuary benefit compilation put out by the Mountain Cooperative in 2001. They played very few shows those years while most of the band relocated from upstate NY to Philadelphia. In 2002 "The EP's of AP" CD was released by Tribal War Records and included seven inches, comp tracks and a never released EP.

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Links:
Live At The Gilman
Interview
MySpace

A//Political & Counterpoise (split)

This is a good split between two great anarcho-punk bands.












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Endrophobia - Self Titled

ENDROPHOBIA "4 song EP" N.O.#3 A split release with Sound Device. Powerful raw and melodic female vocals mixed with the perfect blend of classic anarcho guitar and overall sound make this release stand out above most side projects. Awesome breakdowns, and guitar leads! For all fans of members former bands: Lost World, Severed Head Of State, Detestation, Resist, Phalanx. Ben Halliburton, his brother Kelly, and Tati(lost World), A classic side project indeed.

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Zero Hour - Zero Hour

I have no info on this band... but they are really good anarcho.

Links:
MySpace









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Severed Head of State - Power Hazard

Severed Head of State return with nine punishing new tracks. Hard driving riffs and angry vocals give this release a real fist pumping intensity. A lot of the songs are more mid tempo in the tradition of mid period Poison Idea and other hardcore punk bands that took some cues from Motorhead. Severed Head of State have been going for ten years now, but are a band with no geographic center and with all members playing in other bands. Guitarist Todd Burdette (Tragdy, His Hero Is Gone, Warcry) delivers some really searing guitar riffs on this LP and the guitar tone is perfect for the style, biting and corrosive like battery acid. Jack Control (World Burns to Death) has always impressed me with his raw and angry vocals and well thought out lyrics. A lot of bands write about the horror of war and man's inhumanity to man just because it's what fits the music. When I read Jack's lyrics I see that he's looking beyond the black and white pictures of war victims in the history books. The atrocities are not the result of one criminal act, but of the recurring process of unrestrained power and authority run amok. The bleak lryics and their focus on oppression and atrocity are a searing reminder that there is much to be done and things will probably get worse before they get any better. I've always though bassist Kelly Halliburton (Masskontroll, Defiance, Clusterbombunit, Resist) had some of the best style in hardcore dropping in some of his crucial Discharoge style "walking" bass fills. Drummer Chris Pfeffer (Signal Lost, Storm the Tower, Scorched Earth Policy) holds it all together with some sick and precise beats. The CD version of this release also contains the Charge Ahead and Fucking Butchery 7"s as bonus tracks.

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A//Political - Planting The Seeds of Revolution

Tracklist:
1) I Am My Own
2) It’s Not About Politics, It’s About Life
3) Sickness
4) Education is Indoctrination
5) Stop Thinking and Pogo
6) Left or Right
7) Obscene Gestures.
8) Freedom?
9) False Sense of Security.
10) Idealized Attraction
11) Free Trade in Death
12) Everything is a Front
13) When…
14) A.P.F

A//Political was active during the mid to late 90s. Their style is similar to that of many "peace punk" bands from the early 1980s and was heavily influenced by anarcho-punk bands like Crass and Conflict. Members were involved in the Crasshole Collective and the Anarcho-Punk Federation (A.P.F.). Many members were in other local punk bands such as Coexist, Flag Fallen and U.S. War Commission. Stas (vocals) also sang for Boston area anarcho-punk band, Krema-1.

A//Political also started the Anarcho-Punk Federation (A.P.

F.), but was stopped short because of political disagreement on key issues between members. The band, along with the Crasshole Collective, produced several communiques^[1] explaining their ideas on peace and anarchy. The band has also produced several other writings on anarchy and their political beliefs.^[2]

The Crasshole Collective also doubled as a record label. While they were mainly responsible for releasing their first album, "Planting the Seeds of Revolution," on tape and their 7" ep, "Propaganda by Deed" they also produced at least two co

mpilation tapes of various politically minded bands and a tape by Flag Fallen. The musical caliber of the comp tapes varied wildly, due to the fact that recording quality or musical talent were not used as filter criteria. Instead, the message of the bands was the focus. Crasshole was also responsible for distributing various nearly impossible to find discographies of lesser known British anarcho-punk bands from the early 80's such as The Alternative.

Crasshole also produced the little known and poorly rec

orded debut album from the now well known folk-punk band Against Me!. Only a handful of the first run were sold.

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A//Political - Propaganda By Deed

A//Political was an anarcho-punk band from Baltimore, Marylan.


Tracklist:
1) Who Will Build the Roads?
2) Propaganda by Deed
3) Love is the Basis...
4) It’s Not About Politics, It’s About Life
5) You Are What You Consume

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Animal Rights Compilations

Animal Right Compilation Vol. 1

Why Must We Die For Your Palate?

Animal Right Compilation Vol. 2
Why Must We Die For Your Science?

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