More obscure speaker-wrath from the golden closet of Phil / Imminent Destruction Records. His words below, and not my art to the side this time (Olivier Ledroit, an exceptionally skilled comic artist)."Bakushinchi - 'Stand Alone' 1st Demo (Year?)
3 tracks of raging hardcore from this Japanese band, I really dig this. There's not much to go on from the tape itself, other than weird lava lamp style artwork with the word 'Stink' written on it and a tiny insert that shows punks with skeleton faces. I know nothing about this band other than these songs rock."
"Microfilm - 'Wrist Cut' Demo (2004)
4 track demo tape that comes with an insert and is hand numbered from 100 copies originally, then crossed out to read 300 so I guess they decided to press more copies in the end. Straight up thrash hardcore from Japan. Nothing mindblowing but better than average for this style. I think they also appeared on one of the Dan-Doh compilations too. The first 3 songs are all in one upload as they were too tricky to separate, the 4th and last song is a bit longer than the rest, and annoyingly is on the b-side of the tape."
"Mucus - Unreleased Tracks 1990-1996 (2002)
Little known Japanese Grindcore band who appeared on the MCR comp 'This Is The Life - Vol.2'
This is a CD collection of their work...unreleased apparently! Definitely on the punk side of grind rather than all out blast beats / growling. Another band lost to the mists of time."
"Crucified Junk - 'Maria' CDEP (1997)
4 track CD only release from this Japanese Hardcore band. The band put out a handful of other releases on Blood Sucker Records that are quite hard to track down now, including a split 7" with Bandit. Kind of an overlooked band I think, no doubt there's a discography in the works somewhere.
Metallic hardcore with mega crisp, thumping drums, they're at their best when they speed things up. Which thankfully they often do."
"V/A - East Style CD (1994)
4 band compilation released in 1994 on PMA Records, which I think was owned by a member of Rose Rose (seeing as loads of their releases are on this label). There's actually 17 songs on this cd, even though the download will show 14. This is because the 4 One Trap songs are all in one. Quite a rare compilation these days, with Rose Rose still playing a fairly hardcore sounds at this point. Still not a patch on their early stuff though, which reminds me, I should upload their 8" too, as that's the one everyone seems to say they don't have / are looking for. Best band on this for me is KGS, another underrated band I think, as i've not heard anything by them I didn't like. Although the Extinct Government songs are pretty cool here too."
