Yeah, a couple months have passed and | am back with new issue of & my newsletter again. This issue is introducing to the UK scene again, | know the previous one was about British D.I.Y. hardcore/punk scene as well, but | have met another great folks/bands/labels so I've decided to Fee write something more about country where | live ..... ie = by the way it's a lot of news on our label Dead Heroes Bros as weil. We AE put out another three DHB releases such as one of the best current 3 Czech fast-core with tons of thrash metal riffs Lahar on split EP w/cult thrash gangsters from Amsterdam The Shining, new tunes of ultra -—fast-core/grind violence with female voc Lycanthrophy split EP w/great brutal Californian {ex Makai band} Black Hole of Calcutta and actually very hot split EP of polish old school grind/fast-core band Suffering Mind {soon first full-length 12"LP that will be released by 625thrash.com in the states and awesome 4-way split LP w/Phobia, Magrudergrind & Audio Kollapse on Blastphemey records} on split EP w/Wojtyla. Another three releases are coming soon or later. The Black Market Fetus records is recorded and the artwork for their cover-side has been in the process. The Radiolokator guys are actually making new tunes for this - split LP project and first fulliength 12"LP Sheevayoga should be out probably in summer 2010. DHB records should probably be supporting one-mere record such as The Afternoon Gentlemen / OSK split EP. Both bands are absolutly great, so hopefully it's going to be happened.

| E Hot news - Common Enemy "Living the Dream” euro vinyi 12°LP i version out now {we have extremely limited copies} $i =.. if you want/can help me with another issues of Slap it Down, don't f hesitate to contact me for more details via DHB e-mail or myspace se profile. I'll be glad for any help. $ i | wouid like to dedicate this issue to all the guys who spent some of

their free time to write something for this issue such as Roddy & Black sister band; Mez & Valhalla Pacifists band, Grace, Steve & Ripping

rash, Nath & Whole in the Head band, Stu & Joe Pesci band, Harry &

Torn Apart band, Chris & Beginning of the End band, Jeff & Hallo Bastards band. Smith & The Afternoon Gentlemen band & Hit Time records, Noel & Lesson no.1, Myles & Jesus Bruiser band, Budger & J.B. band & Bastard Squad collective.

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UK HARDCORE/PUNK BANDS GUIDE

{heavy screaming violence/thrash/grindcore in vein of Void/Orchid/Black Sabbath from Nottingham}

releases: they have a split EP w/Kamikazze & Taint, split 10" w/Jinn, full-length EP, Discography CD vol.1 2001-2005, Army of Flying Robots “Life is Cheap” LP

contact: http:/iwww.myspace.com/armyofflyingrobots MOLOCH

{heavy nasty sludge w/sound close to Eyehategod, Grief, Iron Monkey or Dystopia f with Army of flying robots/Braindead members from Nottingham} fs releases: Moloch self titled 10", Moloch/Thou (US) split LP on Feast of Tentacles

out soon: v/a Sludge Stranglers comp, CD on Choking Hazard records, Moloch on Vendetta Records (Ger.}, split EP w/Corpus Dei & Closure, West-Goss! wiThou in June 2010. $

contact: www.myspace.com/molochscum WAR ALL THE TIME

{raging thrash distorted biast-core like Dropdead w/Boxed in, Doom, Heath Hazard, Kito, Minute Manifesto, Suffer members from Leeds, for fans of Totalitar/Discharge/Motorhead/Poison idea} releases: War ail the time / Whole in the head split 7"EP on Crime Scene, spiit EP w/The Horror on Zandor rec., War all the time LP on Yellow Dog rec., two re-editio discography CDs in Mexico and SE Asia.

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GERIATRIC UNIT

{bald, fast, loud angry hardcore veterans from Nottingham w/Heresy, Hard to Swallow, Iron Monkey members from Nottingham, sound like Dropdead} releases: Geriatric Unit "Nuclear Accidents" 12°/CD, "Kill the Pose" japanese press CD, 2x full-length EP, Life half over 12"/CD EP out now Boss Tuneage rec., "Distance and Damage” new LP}, Japan tour September 2010!

contact: www.myspace.com/geriatricunit

— ROT IN HELL

{this’s one of my the most favourite UK band, absolutly brutal dark hardcore/thrash madness in vein of From Ashes Rise {new records of FAR, mainly Iron Halo song by Rot in Heil}, integrity, Tragedy} releases: ‘Sin Of Malice’ demo EP, split EP w/Hordes , “Millenial Psychosis” EP {split w/Braindead}, "The Works of Fate” split EP - a celebration of the Marquis De Sade w/The Process on Feast of Tentacles, discography CD/LP on Grot rec. /A389, "As Pearls Before Swine” new LP on Deathwish rec.

contact: www.myspace.com/rotinheliband

WARBOYS

{skate power-violence hailing, infest meets Crossed Out brutality from Leeds} releases: split Cd-r w/The Afternoon Gentlemen, “too drunk to skate” EP, out soon: split EPs w/Skiplickers {uk} and OSK {canada}

contact www. myspace.com/mrswarboys JOE PESCI

{ultra thrash/power-violence/grind-core hailing from Newcastle w/sound like Yacopsae} releases: SylvesterStaline/JoePesci split CD-R, Joe Pesci "Taking Bricks to the Face" EP, After the Last Sky/Lycanthrophy/From the Ashes/Joe Pesci 4-way split LP. out soon: Joe Pesci/A Den Of Robbers split 7°ep on TVG Records, Joe Pesci/F.U.B.A.R split 5", Joe Pesci "Faster Than Superman” CD on Bones Brigade Rec., Joe Pesci/The Afternoon Gentiemen/SMG/Falien World 4-way split CD on The Horror Of Rec.

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contact: Wwww.myspace.com/joepesci666 = ¥ BURNING THE PROSPECT {R.1.P.}

{d-beat/crust mayhem distortion full of Swedish/Portland influence from Boston wireally awesome sound} releases: via Ghost City comp., via Hardcore vs Hunting 7°ep, Burning The

Prospect/Silence split 7"ep, "Fires in Their Cities" 7"ep, v/a Heathen Skateboards comp. on Force Fed, "No Great Design" new LP on Feto rec., split EPs w/Valhalla

Pacifists and Bacchus. contact: www.myspace.com/wetheaccursed

Va E KRUPSKAYA f ‘ eee > i Aree d A {ultra fast power-violnce/grindcore devastation w/strong political attitude from Stoke-on-Trent}} releases: split EPs w/Yattai, Bombarde, Wojczech, Black Sister, Trendy Bartard. “Clouds over Pripyat" CD, "Symbiosis through decay” full-length EP, etc ... most of records are coming with absolutly AWESOME design.

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contact: www.myspace.com/krupskayaforever, www. krupskayaband.co.uk : TEPNY =w Ry : wr :

INN {R.1.P.} s, and {brutal thrashy power-violence/grind w/Ebota/One by one/Generic/Thirty Seconds Until/Break it Up members from far North of England - Newcastle} Í releases: Army of flying robots/Jinn split 10", Jinn s/t CD on SuperFi rec., JINN/The Suicide Handbook split 12"LP, Ebola/Jinn split LP, ete..

contact: www.myspace.com/jinnoffline % “w oe a j ” AFTER THE LAST SKY {awesome black metal grind-core darkness from Staffordshire} releases: After the Last Sky/Inert split CD/EP on Ignore This rec., After the Last Sky/Lycanthrophy/From the Ashes/Joe Pesci 4-way split LP on Circus of the Macabre =

rec., ‘And This Is Progress?’ LP, split EP w/Satan {Pol}. via Too Short To Handle#3 Compilation LP. soon: new LP/CD WAS We.

; oat www.afterthelastsky.co.uk w- HAMMERS WA. AN A

{crushing dark d-beat thrash hardcore w/The Secret, Dreams are free members from

Manchester, for fans of Cursed/His Hero Is Gone/Tragedy/Catharsis} :

Torn Apart grew from the ashes of recently formed, and even more recently releases: Hammers ‘Year One’ 12 tracks cassette, Hammers/Jesus of Spazzareth — == a% separated, terrible Leeds band ‘Lost Sight.’ Three members of which felt cheated split EP, Hammers EP, soon/later: Hammers new 10°/CD, Alpinist/Hammers split at 5 that LS had split up for reasons they weren't entirely sure of. In light of this, a new LP. Dolcim/ Hammers split EP, The Infarto Sheisse!/Hammers split EP, Crocus / band was created in mid ene ede of i of a Kyle Murray with vocal duty, i Hammers split EP Hammers LP on Alerta Antifascista - $ p Richard Lander being a ‘tasteful’ drummer, Sam Grahame playing guitar and then , f e non. DA Harry Layzell introduced on Bass to complete the line up. y contaci; www:myspace.com/hammers®25

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The band then practiced in basements around Leeds for a few months practicing the same 5 or 6 songs over and over until we decided we were tight enough to record a demo in August. In a basement in Leeds a 4 song demo was recorded for cheap and a

band name was given, Torn Apart. The demo’s were shabby, slow and rough but the teen angst could be heard through out, although Harry was 17 and the only teenager at the time he had written the songs and this was the source of the teen angst.

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> {an excellent international fast thrash hardcore destuction wiVoorhees, Waik the Plank, Extortion, The Collapse members based in London}

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Torn Apart played their first two shows in Hull thanks to Harry’s good friend Emily who releases: debut 12"LP on RSR and CD version on Trial & Terror records. $ has, to this date, done many a favour for the band. The reception was good but band rt wom ç s. AT waa a ii members couldn't help but feel disappointed with their own performances despite the : j \i ; contact: www.myspace.com/meatiockerhc } ej

audience’s reaction and feedback. For the next month and a half Torn Apart practiced Y: si > k= så relentlessly and focused on becoming a faster, angrier hardcore band in the vain of ps) THE HORROR \ LX | x a ba ss = = Š.

7 > wiVoorhees, Imbalance members from Leeds} > Se Fi releases: The Horror "First blood" 10" 1+1. part, The Horror "The Fear The i in late November Torn a aP ; Terror The Horror” LP, split EP w/War All The Time, new CD “Spoils of `

Apart went and recorded 12 | p : z War" on Grot's records and viny! version on Zandor Records. Songs with James Atkinson ; e e ammen e m me a. A {ex Voorhees, current k i contact: www myspace.comithetukkinnorror A w Horrori Gentleman's i ; ; z -> i ti I F: "A * ~ m % Pistols/Sex Maniacs, all the i x : st RY JESUS OF SPAZZARITH E best bands really) in ep 7 DUu ais a i = ae ‘a — > a Bradford. The end result Fee * T 3 {twin vox d-beat hardcore thrash from Nottingham, sound close to Poison + was much better than the a aos : idea/Dischange/Disfear style} original demo but, alas, was [| p ee 7 EA A S fee releases: split EPs w/Hammers, | am Colosus, and split CD w/The Atrocity/

still not up to much. Exhibit/ Magpyes/ Horror/ Spectrahawk,

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but Richard traight : : ; E E m 3, Rese - somone sm o 3 | sdae the first to break edge : - 4a E PAN NO 4 A Anl BLACK SISTER WNA a, $

was Kyle who, after peer Oe - ; pressure from the rest of -o Ce? a. an {old school thrash metal w/frontman of Atomgevitter from Scotland} the band, started smoking, Ha : 4 te BS releases: demo 2007, split EPs w/Gama Bomb on Problem? rec, w/Unholy shortly followed by o 5 Mee we Ni Grave on Problem? rec., w/Krupskaya on Problem? rec/ignore this records,

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; contact: www.myspace.com/blacksisterthrash

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Sam who just started — AG ~ m comer ee Getting hi oh Huk codd : = 5 ihyper active skate’80 core w/sound like Circle Jerks from Liverpool} compose himself well under oe ; TR er releases: demo, s/t debut EP, out soon: Stay Thirsty's second EP, split EP the circumstances. wir Miyagi from Portugal

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L? 4 7 & ‘DEAD IN THE WOODS Kyle quits via text. cade om e

taking on the main vocal duties as well as bass and Sam taking Harry’s backing {gloomy sludge-metal w/Army of flying robots members from Nottingham, a crash of 2 vocals. They played a shortened set as they had never practiced as a 3 piece and, with His Hero is Gone/Neurosis} releases: Dead In The Woods/Dietpilis split tape, split 15 their new faster sound, played their best show yet. 12"Ip wiLeicester’s Diet Pills. q

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{fast & furious thrash crust-punk w/strong vegan/anarchist/straight edge attitude from London} releases: Uprising Demo 2007 CD, 3-way split w/Spectra Hawk & Soro CD on Headwrecker Dis., Hello Bastards demo 2008 CD, Hello Bastards 7"ep on Never Healed Rec., tape on Kawaii Records. 4-way split LP on KBD wiAnxiety Attack, Only Fumes & Corpses, The Afternoon Gentlemen, new EP on

Tadpole/Opiate .. TS A SS MR r SRE CREST eT Re contact: xhellobastardsx@hotmail.com, www.myspace.comi/hellobastardsxxx

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{sludge crust punk heaviness w/Deviated Instinct, Eyehategod, Chaos UK, Varukers, MyWar, Extinction of Mankind members from Norwich} è 3 track demo...hopefully coming out as a split with (rjevolution of a sun on Underground Movement. ‘SOS CE Sa

contact: www.myspace.com/neglectuk y scagpagenennagy Mr p ‘ym wan AEA HUMAN RACE {RIP}

r first home gig with Sick-fuckin’-O at The Packhorse in Leeds,

The night before ou Unsure what to do Torn Apart play as a three piece with Harry

{agresive hardcore/punk in vein of Agnostic Front/Ringworm from Cardiff City} releases: demo 2008 tape contact: www.myspace.com/thehumanracehe i A KUA rp b wh

For the next month or so Torn Apart were a three piece. playing 2 shows in January as such. The first with The Shitty Limits. Brain Dead and Mob Rules at the Fenton in Leeds and the second with loads of terrible bands and Ringworm in Newcastle. Torn Apart somehow ended up playing at midnight on a Sunday and headlined over Ringworm to a crowd of 12. max. The promoter was an idiot and decided to put about 9 bands on one Sunday for the Ringworm show and let them play for as long as they want.

Come February Torm Apart sought out a fourth as Harry decided he would happily take over on main vocals if they could find another bass player. They did. As a result they decided to go back to Bradford and re-record the vocals over the music that we already had because the songs were intended for a 7” but with Kyle no longer in the band it was decided he shouldn't be the one singing on any future releases. They went into the studio and re did the vocals with Harry singing and the rest contributing to back up vocals on a couple of songs. These recordings were much better, it was at this time the band realised that Kyle wasn't a good singer... he was terrible at timing and got all the words wrong. Harry proved to be a much stronger vocalist.

The new 4 piece line up played 2 shows, both at the 1in12 Club in Bradford, the first was Deal With it's first show after splitting up months before, the reception was generally good, but nothing fantastic. The second show was with legendary power violence band Capitalist

Casualties, for this show Torn Apart how a few new songs that were faster, heavier and more hate filled than ever. it was their best show to date getting a warm reception from the crowd and every member pleased with the outcome.

Torn Apart then went into the studio for a third time to re record some songs completely for an EP. They recorded 7 songs, some old, some new, all furious. The recordings were what the band had wanted for months and wili be out on a 7” through Grot Records shortly.

The band then kicked out the bass player for musical and personal reasons and found another almost straight away, Aidan Braybrooke, a close friend of the band who was into their sound and jumped at the chance to play. This is the current line up.

, Torn Apart have gone on to write more songs and have worked on their ‘sound’, trying to make g their newer stuff go down a more infest/Hard To Swaliow/Crossed Out route and have become a ; truly misanthropic power house that is surely a force to be reckoned with. The 7” recently

described as “This angry bunch of Leeds youths. In the vain of Voorhees + Drop Dead. Fast, abrasive and in your face. Watch this space!” the upcoming EP is an eagerly awaited release and will hopefully be the beginning of much more hate filled releases to come...

sit EP out on Grot Records out now, plans to tour the UK around Christmas & to record a split around early 2016.

WHOLE IN THE HEAD

{awesome d-beat thrashy crust w/Minute Manifesto, Haywire, No Substance & ae Chineapopie Punx members from Southhampton, Dropdead styie} = releases: split EP w/War ail the time, new EP "Reclaim your future” on i Tadpoie/Opiate rec., 6-way comp. EP, 4-way split LP w/Anxiety Attack, Only i Fumes and Helio Bastards on KBD records

contact: www.myspace.com/tornapartuk & blackmorton@hotmail.co.uk

contact: nath@wholeinthehead.co.uk, www.wholeinthehead.co.uk

{grind metai crust obliteration wex member of Filthpact from Aberdeen, Scotland} releases: 4 tracks demo 2008, 5 tracks demo EP, out soon: split EPs w/Xaros and

Afgrunc, via Tribute To Nasum - LP/CD on Power it up, v/a European Fastness comp. CD, Plans for 2010 already include: Commencing writing for album No.2 ‘Dha (Two)": A trip overseas scheduled for Obscene Extreme Festival (Pardubice, Czech Republic) in July and a Finnish mini-tour in September

contact) www.myspace.com/abiach SKIPLICKERS

(total d-beat cider punk destruction wimembers of Bickie’s Cab from Sheffieid}

releases: Drunk Forever debut 7"ep, out soon: split EP w/Warboys contact: www.myspace.com/skiplickers AFTER THE MASSACRE ei

fa reisas jit LP wiBlack Blood World {norway}. After the Massacre "a future y discarded to the bonepits” CD on SOA rec.,

{tunefui harsh metalic c w great female vox from London, ex Give up all hope} Fas T TEJ OR INKIN BAS TARDS 1 1

s releases. 12°LP will be released by Scream and Active Rebellion. aos

Joe Pesci came together around the start of 2007, was abit of mess to be honest + 7 Fuck That pretty much fell apart after coming back from playing 2 dates in Europe, THE AFTERNOON GENTLEMEN due to ae of things, mostly because a our cunt driver (FUCK YOU CLIFF). a , SEA Fuck That played with Birdflesh and Syivester Staline in Leeds and one of our _ {ultra fast grind-core/power-violence band from Headingley} guitarist's got his guitar stolen. So when we were searching for a replace, Mr releases: TAG “No Messin about Style" 7"EP, TAG/Khunnt split 7"ep, TAG/Warboys Drumachine Speakman, offered the services of Ex Spasticated Razor Masturbator ja Es asiness' 5 way split CD, The Afternoon Gentlemen debut guitarist Mr Wasteform Barter. So 3 of us from Fuck That turned up to practise, the The Afternoon Gentlemen/Barbarians split tape, split EPs with OSK rest didnt. So, Stu - Vocals, Mike - Bass, Rich - Drums, Dan - Guitar, the people who from Canada and SU19b from Japan made the effort, decided to start a new band, at the first practise, 10 songs were contact: www.myspace.com/theafternoongentiemen written. Later that evening we headed to the bar and drank loads of old rosie cider,

and decided on the name, then i puked up everywhere in my bathroom, which GIVE UP ALL HOPE ; : ; sealed the deal. Our first gig was with From The Ashes(rip) from Sweden, After the Last Sky and R Ba TE Mariposa. We played sort of fast, we thought iy was pretty quick at the time, the gig { ming d-beat crust mayhem fron = speed leet TEPE te ng ee $ OAN hep apes atten aie CD ct Antimaster. Give was also the celebration of out 4 way split with Lycanthrophy!!From The Ashes : Se ee reg Se Te ein ; i and After the Last Sky. The songs on this split sucked so bad, recorded at our -~ Up All Hope/Death From Above split tour EP, etc . seconded practice contact: www.myspace.com/giveupallhope The Following montns where spent doing pretty much nothing, as Dan lives in MOBY DICK Glasgow, Scotland, Me and Mike Newcastle, England and Rich Leeds England. : Every now and again we would practic/play a gig and talk about maybe recording. {fuck the bass Midlands grindcore - Stoke-on-Trent} About a year later we actually recorded something properly, unlike for the LP, for reieases: Moby-Dick/Ding Dong Dead split CD on Power Negi rec. our self released CDr with Syivester Staline, also our own EP, Takin Bricks to the

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NARCOTICS UNIT

{dirty power-violence from Leicester} releases: out soon: split 7"ep w/Swedish Flatpack Disaster, v/a comp CDr from Unity & Strength Records.

DEATHSKULLS

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contact: www.myspace.com/deathskulls

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IRONCLAD

{intensive mosh hardcore close to Right Brigade/Frostbite from South Wales} releases: demo tape, v/a “Kingdom of Fear” 7°, along with Crime Wave (RIP), Gramercy Riffs (RIP), Cold Snap, Reality (RIP) and Mob Rules, new debut 7"ep

out on Dead and Gone Records, soon: split EP w/Never Again. '

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- Leeds

releases: Reth - Precursors to Extinction CD originally self released / picked up by Anticulture Records. free download.

contact: www.myspace.com/reth

THE KEEP {brutal metal hardcore madness from Cardiff - South Wales} 2 releases: demo 2006, self titled 7” on Titan Heist rec., out later: debut 12°LP ee contact: www.myspace.com/bunchofingrates |

MOB RULES ; :

{brutal harsh power violence like a Citizens Arrest/Man is the bastard/infest and the early Earache Records catalogue Terrorizer from Leeds} releases: “The Donor" EP on SuperFi/Zandor a out soon: split EP wilreland's Crowd

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contact: http:/imobrulesband. blogspot.com/

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FACEL VEGA

: oe . aT {intense welsh hardore punk like Rites of Spring w/members of State Run/Threat == Nothing Positive Records with Wormrot - AWESOME BAND, a split with those i from Porthea le H ie it 12°LP E belgian arseholes A Den of Robbers on TVG Records. Split Cd with Onanizer Manifesto from Porthcawl} releases: Harhour/Facel Vega split 12°LP,

coming out of Mexico, and hopefully some more killer gigs! contact: www.myspace.comifacely E

Joe Pesci introduced by Stuy Demaio P - more great UK bands: www.myspace.com/mouthhe {MOUTH}, Ml + alia {CLOSUR

preven www.myspace.com/bonestormhc {(BONESTROM et ——7— BLACK SISTER {Scotland} & STEP ON IT {Hungary} $

"Total Thrash Invasion tour 2009” |

www.problemrecords.co.uk

i TOTAL T H R ASH INVASION Friday 22nd May -The Lower Deck, Dublin ; d As we'd arrived late on Thursday night and proceeded to to drink till well Je. TOUR 09 after day break it was hangovers all round today as we shuffled into the TA rehearsal room this afternoon. Since the rest of the boys in Black Sister live po teas in Budapest this was the first time we'd played together in 11 months but = ae after a few more beers we had a 15 minute set together and the bones of a +

we,

new song written for our trip to the studio later in the tour, alright! The gig at the Lower Deck was well attended and the kids banged their little heads,

ON FE mission accomplished. ae Saturday 23rd May - A Night In The Sticks Alldayer, Wexford

Day three on the pop and it was beginning to take its toll on me, we played 3rd or 4th today to about 10 or 15 people and | felt like | was gonna die from exhaustion for the entire skull splitting 15 mins of our set. later on | gota

: : qusto BLK ASYER m asti ü 0 really bad dose of the skitters, just what ya want at a festival with 1 toilet, |

only Scotland went to sleep with the honest belief | was gonna shit myself in my sleep.

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MAY23 - WEXFORD A NIGHT IN THE STICKS

MAY2S - GALWAY SALLY LONGS

MAY26 - BELFAST Woke up in a tent with no outer sheet, covered in dew, next to a snoring SCOTLAND German crusty, but i hadn't shat my pants - result! hung out and drank some

MAY 25 - ABERDEEN TUNNELS tins at the festival site for a bit then went to the beach before crashing outin : MAY29 « INVERNESS MARKET BAR the tents again at a quiet bonfire party.

MAY 30 - ELGIN NEW ELGIN HALL 2 CESS ARI SR

MAYS] - EDINBURGH HENRYS CELLAR BAR

JUNOZ - GLASGOW CREFF Monday 25th May - Sally Longs, Galway

its a hell of a drive today but Sean our driver does the bis, we even manage to get in some sight-seeing on the way, castles, cliffs and green fields, its ireland right? The gig is rocking with plenty of fists in the air and Daniel the promoter looks after us

well, a real gent!

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Tuesday 26th May - The Pavilion, Belfast A

Another hell drive, but a great gig despite there being bugger all folk there, everyone who is there has a great time, the support band wretch were especially rocking, sludgy black metal crust, several ticks in the correct boxes. finish the evening off

nicely with a Saxon/Rainbow party at me mate Luke's gaff, what a star!

Wednesday 27th May - studio, Glasgow

Wake up fully clothed with a mouth like carpet, good start! Laci manages to leave the beers we bought for the ferry to Scotland in our taxi so we make 1 tin of double dutch last 6 thirsty boys for § hours, bad times! once we get to Glasgow we go to Tommy and James from Atomgevitters studio to lay down some new tunes we've been working on then crash out back at Tommy's several tins of Tennants the wrong side of sober later.

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Thursday 28th May - the Tunnels, Aberdeen

Another early start for what should be a relatively short haul but since our driver is an hour late then we miss the right turn off the motorway and we end up drinking coffee and eating penguins for nearly an hour at me mams gaff we make it to Aberdeen with just enough time to stuff some squat siop down our necks and jump on the stage. Tonight is our first gig with Gusto Mastivo the self styled slurry loving crusty transit bandits fae up north and much carry on is had by all during their set, setting the bar for the next few days!

eT: SSE a Friday 29th May - The Market Bar, Inverness ,

After a liquid breakfast we pile into the vans and head with Gusto boys to go Nessie hunting at Loch Ness. | decide my search might be more fruitful if i get in and have a swim about, all i succeed in doing is getting bloody cold. | was certain tonight's gig

would be crap but by the time Step On It were putting a cap on the evening almost the

entire bar, drunk regulars included was either thrashing about like mad or up on their seat clapping along, did | mention this bar was about the size of a pencil-case?

Comedy highlight of the evening was Laci trying to order some coca cola in the chippy

before the gig, his eastern European accent implying that he would not only like the

guy at the counters ‘coke but the piazza chef's as well, fucking classic! zs

| Í d “Saturday 30th May - New Elgin Hall, Elgin

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UK HARDCORE/PUNK LABELS GUIDE

CIRCUS OF THE MACABRE RECORDS

{one of my favourite UK label owned by Matt from After the last Sky band, fast-core/blast/grind-core specialized from Stoke-on-Trent} releases: After The Last Sky "And This ls Progress?” LP, Lycanthrophy/Saywhy? split LP, After the Last Sky/Lycanthrophy/From the Ashes/Joe Pesci 4-way split LP, Filthpact (RIP)/Atomgevitter split LP, After The Last Sky/Inert split CD, Satan/After the last sky split EP, etc. out soon: Lycanthrophy full-length LP

contact: www.myspace.com/cotmrecs

6 AM RECODS / DISTROS

{small D.Y. fast-core/grind-core label from Midlands} releases: Lycanthrophy/Joe Pesci/After the Last Sky/From the Ashes 4-way split LP, Fagen aig | Why?

split LP, After The Last Sky - Is This Progress? LP, Krupskaya “Clouds Over Pripyat” CD, Krupskaya "Symbiosis hrough Decay" EP. soon: Kupaka no Bastard split 7"ep, Take it Back/Santa Cruz 7"ep, Trendy Bastard discography CD, Krupskaya/Bombarde Split 7"ep.

CAT & OWL RECORDS contact: www.myspace.com/6am7am

{D.LY. fast hardcore/thrash label of Jen & Adam from Leeds, my favourite couple} releases: Warboys "too drunk to skate” EP, Valhalla Pacifists/Prumysiova Smit split LP, TAG EP!

contact: www.myspace.com/catandowl = BEEFY RECORDS {great power-violence/grind-core label from Leeds} releases: Warboys "too drunk to skate” EP, Cad/Beton split LP, The Afternoon Gentlemen EP.

contact: http://beefyrecords.bigcartel.com/, www.myspace.com/xbeefyrecordsx

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. releases: Thousandswilidie/Psychofagist split CD, Ador/Blower split CD, Yattai/ Krupskaya (TIIN MOD INI ay OK) 7 <

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split EP, coming soon: Magnicide/Elitist split 7"ep, Wormrot/Joe Pesci 7’ep, Thousandswilldie/Shimetsu split CD, 54R full length - 777.

FEAST OF TENTACLES RECORDS

{excellent sludge/power-violence/thrash label based in Nottingham set up by Chris Braddock} releases: Army of Flying Robots/Kamikazee split EP, Braindead - Priest Killer EP, Braindead/Rot in Hell split EP, Army of Flying Robots “Life is Cheap” LP, Moloch - st 10”, Rue - st LP, Thou 70", Rot in hell/The Process split EP, Cough “Sigillum Luciferi" 2xLP, Gruel 2xLP, Pollution LP, Thou/ Mohoram Atta split LP soon: The Process - Rosekreutz LP, Thou/Moloch split LP, Moloch/Corpus Dei split EP, Sick Fuckin O/Torn Apart split EP, Rot in Hell/Horders split EP, Closure EP. contact: www.myspace.com/feastoftentacles

IGNORE THIS RECORDS

{independant crust/thrash/grind-core D.1.Y. label from Stoke-on-Trent} releases: Fuck the Propaganda 7"ep, Sick Terror/Fuck hate Propaganda split EP, After the last sky/inert split CD, Acao Direta “Entre a Bencao..." LP, Kismet HC s/t 10”, Krupskaya CD, Krupskaya full EP, Krupskaya split EPs w/Black Sister, Trendy Bastards, etc ....

contact: www.myspace.com/ignorethisrecords ZANDOR RECORDS

{another my top favourite UK label, skate or die motherfuckers! from Leed} releases: In the Clear “Leave this city in flames” LP, Voorhees "Spilling Blood Without

Reason” LP, The Horror/War all the time split EP, Self Destruct "All My Friends are Dead” EP, Cold Ones "Stay Thirsty” EP, The Horror "Spoils Of War" LP, Patient Zero/Hrydjuverk split EP

contact: www.myspace.com/zandorrecords FETO RECORDS

{technical grind-core/metal-crust label set up by Shane Embury (Napaim Death/lock up/Brujeria) and Mick Kenney (Anaal Nathrakh/Mistress/Exploder) releases: Cripple Bastards "Variante alla Morte” CD, Burning the Prospect “No Great Design CD, Nekkrosis "Technotic Subversion” CD, Fukpig "Spewings from a selfish nation” CD, Anaali Nathrakh "Hell is empty” gatefold LP, Anaal Nathrakh "When fire rains down” CD, etc.. out soon: Eehale "Blind" CD, Repvbiika "Amerika Vendetta” CD, Anaal Nathrakh "In the constellation” LP, soon: Fukpig “Belief is the death.. CD

Helio Bastards are a multinational [Brazil, Argentina, Poland, Israel and Germany]vegan SxE thrash/crust/power-violence band from London UK. Although the bands’ name comes from the title of the classic Lifetime LP, the Lifetime influence ends there! influences from Charles Bronson to Drop Dead are prominent within their music, with each song an intense wall of noise, with driving guitar riffs and d-beat and blast beat drumming. Dual

vocals add to the chaos with male guttural vocals vying for prominence with contact: www,feto-records.com, www.myspace.com/fetorecordsrock

harsh female vocals. Each song is a blistering attack on capitalism, consumerism and apathy as well as pushing forward the message of SULTANS OF SWING RECORDS anarchism and liberation of animals, humans and the earth. —e re Selby “Black Earth” CDr, Unicorn Love bagar At The panel Social Club” VEGAN RA CDr, DuckStab discography CDr, De Selby "A day off work” CDr, Atomgevitter G ISM FOR TOTAL LIBE TION THONON, EP, whe Accumulators - frie Arti & ese : ; ; ACCUMU S - CRYPTOGA IC NESSTHET! : Hello Bastards are a vegan band and strongly support the animal liberation : ; ' ; ; apo up , í movement. We believe in the liberation of all species, whether that means humans out soon: Drainland/Cradie is Casket split LP, Bavarian Drill “lathe cut" EP, Pupilar

or animals. To us there is no difference and we do not place emphasis on one lathe cut" EP

struggle over that of another, to us ali liberation struggles are equal and feel that a contact: www.myspace.com/sultansofswingrecords holistic approach means a thorough and consistent standard of ethics. RIGHT TO REFURE RECORDS

igrind-core/crust/blast-core label from Leeds} releases: Silence/Burning The Prospect split 7"ep, Burning The Prospect “Fires in Their Cities” 7°ep, Jinn s/t CD, Patient Zero/Flick Knives and Splinters split 7"ep, After The Last Sky “And This is Progress?" LP, Valhalla Pacifists/Burning The Prospect split 7"ep,...

contact: www. myspace.com/righttorefuse

TADPOLE RECORDS

{D.1.¥. punk/hardcore/noise label's based in Brighton} releases: Whole in the head EP, Fail of Efrafa LP, Seein Red / Mihoen 10”, Burning Times 2nd EP, Jettatura LP, Blood Stereo LP, Malicious Disfigurement EP, Polly Shang Kuan Band LP, Aradia EP, Burnt Cross / A.U.K split CD ete, Violent Arrest - “Minute manifestos” LP, soon: Parasite 10", Whole in the head 2nd EP

contact: www.myspace.com/tadpolerecords OPIATE RECORDS

{great D.1.Y. hardcore/punk label fram Brighton} : releases: Orwell Nation demo, Kriegstanz 10", The Last Mile 7“ep, Makiladoras 12°Ip, Staathaat 12"ip, Whole in the Head 7"ep, Seein'Red/Mihoen 10", Bunt Cross 7"ep

WHAT WE DO IS SECTER RECORDS

{great hardcore/fast-core/punk label from Guildford} releases: Iron Lung/The Process split tour 7"ep, The Motherfuckers/Worker and Parasite split 7"ep, Brain Dead/Crash The Pose split 7"ep, Fighting Shit “Tuned For Thrash" 7“ep, Jets Vs. Sharks "These Tired Monuments” 12°LP

STRAIGHT EDGE contact! www. myspace.com/whatwedoissecretpunkrockrecords Members of Hello Bastards have been involved in the hardcore punk community for | RIPPING THRASH RECORDS | many years. Throughout this time every member of the band has retained straight RIPPING THRASH RECORDS edge ethics. We feel that straight edge is an important part of liberating yourself {absolutly fair hardcore/punk-rock label owned by Steve from Burton-on-Trent} from the addictions of society. We understand the history and the importance of the releases: Fuck hate Propaganda/Sick Terror split 7"EP, Acao Direta “Entre A Straight edge movement, which is why we sometimes feel so disillusioned with the Bencao E O Caos" LP Atomgevitter/Filthpact split LP Krupskaya “Cisuds Ovet current state of the scene. To us being straight edge is not about drinking Coca Pripyat” CD, Poundflesh/Rejected split CD

Cola, wearing Nike’s or eating meat, it was never about this but seems to have

morphed into some Capitalist consumerist subculture, and this was never its contact: www.rippingthrash.com, www.myspace.com/mrrippingthrash intention. Because of this, we have written a song called “Straight Edge is Dead,

you are Next”. This song is not to criticize straight edge people, rather what straight ALL AGES RECORDS edge has become.

{is an independent Punk & Hardcore record shop in Camden, London. We i POLITICS specialise in punk, hardcore, anarcho, psychobilly, garage punk and everything in i between. We stock CDs, Vinyl, Picture Discs, DVDs, T-shirts, Fanzines, Books, Hello Bastards exists for the sole purpose of spreading a political message. If it Badges & Patches and much much more} were not for this we would not be a band. We do not like to label ourselves after any post address: ALL AGES REC., 27A Pratt Street, Camden Town, London NW1 political movement, however, for the sake of argument; we feel that anarchism is OBG, tel: 0207 267 0303

the most natural and innate movement which exists. contact: shop@aliagesrecords.com, www.allagesrecords.com

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GROT RECORDS

{new aggresive heavy thrash punk label set up by James from Horror band based in Leeds} releases: The Horror "Spoils of War" CD, Rot In Hell "Hallways of the Always” CD, Torn Apart debut EP, Voorhees "Spilling Blood Without Reason" LP - reissue, soon: The Sex Maniacs new LP/CD

NEVER HEALED RECORDS

{an interesting hardcore & punk & brutal label based in Southend} releases: Flyblown/Disclose - "In Chaos We Trust" split EP, Deathskulls "The Real Deal" CD, Give Up All Hope - "Nowhere To Hide From Yourself’ EP, Deathskulls/Armed Response Unit split EP, Just Fucking Die "I'm Not Posi, You're Not Crucial" CDEP, Helio Bastards s/t EP, Hang The Bastard “Raw Sorcery" CDEP, out soon: Spectra Hawk/Spat On split EP, v/a "Negative Reinforcement" comp. 12"lp, Bastard Lovechild EP, Rot in Hell 10”.

contact: www.myspace.com/emocuntgetfucked

ACTIVE REBELLION RECORDS

{active anarcho crust punk label/distribution/tour company owned by Irena from Northwest} releases: Burnt Cross “What Hope Tomorrow?" EP, National Disasters “And it Begins” CD, Atomgevitter - Hiroshemo EP, Beginning of the End - if You're Going Through Hell... Keep Going LP, Burnt Cross - in Nature We Trust EP, The Afternoon Gentlemen EP, War//Plague EP,

Oi Polloi - SS Politician CD contact: www.activerebellion.com

DEAD END RECORDS

. {another great hardcore-punk D.I.Y. label} releases: Diehards/Grebs "Work Together” Split CD, Diehards "Open Your Mind” EP, Just Fucking Die..."i'm Not Posi, You're No Crucial” CD, Grave Maker "Bury Me At Sea" LP, Brutality Will Prevail "Forgotten Soul" LP, Hang The Bastard "Raw Sorcery” CD. coming soon: Sioux "the dark side of the sun” LP, Frustration EP, Rip it Up EP

HIT TIME RECORDS

_ {mostly tape hadcore/punk/thrash D.LY. label set up by Smith - T.A.G. band} releases: Yul Brynner - Demonstration 1 tape, Arah Kiri - Sakaiyon EP tape, Crowhurst demo tape, Hammers - Year One tape, Never Again - Repulsed cassette tape, xAbolitionx/Hang the Bastard split EP, Never Again EP, Mondo Gecko - Discog tape, Mind Trap/Never Again - split EP, plans: Closure/Torn Apart/Mouth/ Bonestorm 4-way gatefold 2xEP

CARRY THE WEIGHT RECORDS

brutal hardcore-metal/punk label from Newbury, Berkshire - South of UK} releases: Cold Snap/Cornered split EP, Wayfarer "The days gone down in the west" LP, Never Again "Pressure" EP, Said and Done “Weight Of The World" EP, Abolition "In The Grasp Of Tyrants” EP, plans: Rot in hell/Wayfarer split EP, Hard Way EP, lronciad/Never Again split EP.

contact: www.myspace.com/carrytheweightrecords

__. . LESSON NO.1

cardiff - south wales

Lesson No.1 is a promotional entity based in Cardiff, Wales. it has existed since 2004 and may technically exist for evermore, even if the two people (Noel and Adam) that currently operate it grow tired of promoting music for some hypothetical reason. We don’t really have any schedule that we keep to in terms of how often we put stuff on, nor any specific need to keep our hand in as it were; so yeah, look out for the last tree on earth being turned into paper to make a batch of our flyers {which are immediately dropped on the floor), when we revive the name 30 years on.

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OUR MUSIC

Music is the vehicle that we use to express our ideas and

emotions. Music without a message means nothing to us.

Most of the times, our music is fast, sometimes slow and

heavy and all the screams and shouts are directed more to your brain than your ears.

RELEASES *

Our first 7” has been finally released through Never Healed

Records. If you want a copy, just send us a message and we will find a way to arrange something. The price of the 7” is £3.50 including postage costs in the UK and £4 (also including the

postage costs) for anywhere in Europe. We are also posting 7”’s

anywhere in the world, so if you want a copy, send us a message.

PayPal can be used to pay for it. You also can find our 7" at All

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Since then we have done what | count as 81 shows. This includes the three future shows we have booked at the time of writing, the ones before we came up with the name, some collaborative ones (with people like FORECAST, LOOSE, WE HEART RECORDS and SWN) and the pop quizzes we did back in 2006-07 until people got bored and not enough of them turned up (an empty show can be x GAPEENING at: fun still but an empty pop quiz is little use to anyone}. | guess ! oe a ae pig ar laa eee z : am pretty proud of that. A bunch of promoters, of both the ‘DIY’ ALL HAMPERING AY: Le pob, i e r! and ‘aspirational’ type, have come and gone in south Wales in this Se rerperr time. In many cases | suspect they either got bored of the : shitwork you have to do to get any sort of fun out of it at the end, or were over-ambitious and ended up out of pocket. When we threatened to go down an avenue that would obviously be ruinous financially, booking a few too many nights at once that were ina style that people just didn’t care about round here, we moved away from it. Over the years we have definitely taken a loss on the whole thing, which is fine — this isn't a business, nor could it ever be in this incarnation — but we're both broke all the time and we can't be starry-eyed about what we can front the cash money for. Lesson No.1 has never been presented as a non-profit organization or anything; rather, it just tends to put on styles of music that clearly aren’t going to make a profit.

Although | tend to prefer smaller venues in terms of watching bands, where you can actually be close to the music and have a sense of interaction, two of my favourite Lesson No.1 shows were two of the biggest: LIGHTNING BOLT (May 2006), which had over 300 people in I think, and SILVER JEWS (July 2006), which had about 200. Both of those were in the Point, a cool ex-church venue in Cardiff Bay which is currently closed. They were great not for any financial reasons {not that they were in SS . any way big moneyspinners) but because the headlining bands -o were totally chill dudes who were very easy to talk to and + : genuinely ed to be in the place. It might not sound like much Ciwb IFor Bach

but you can bet your ass there are a ton of garbage bands on June ath. 7 30pm ES

the ‘indie’ ‘circuit’ that are five times as arrogant with 10% of the talent, excitement or experience. We don't tend to put on

many of the Barfly circuit type bands, although we don’t have anything set in stone about what bands we host. Our tastes tend to veer to stuff that is DIY and self-evidently separated

from mainstream channels, | guess. More mainstream stuff is generally catered for in Cardiff, so there’s not much point in

rushing to put it on ourselves in any case.

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ALA WAPHENING AF BBIFALO, WENTAOR MALE, CAMDESE Other great shows: COACHWHIPS in Dempseys pub, March ob at aa eat aoa Bete tree aae eee 2005; DURACELL in the same pub, July 2005 (this somehow AK ADRE AA ANAR M MERE MER DERE E caught the hype bug and soid out, to our amazement; it sucked pikenerare inienn dapan aa having to turn people away though}; the best of three gigs THEUSAISAMONSTER played for us was in September 2005, with DJ SCOTCH EGG (awesome value every time we put him on, which is quite a few times now) and CONSUMER ELECTRONICS (Philip Best from WHITEHOUSE) also on the bill: BARONESS and TORCHE being insanely loud in Buffalo in October 2006, a bit before both of them got a kind of royalty status with the beardo metal types; WOLF EYES in April 2007 {my favourite comment after this was “I had no idea what was going on,” by a girl who was a contestant on the programme ‘Paris Hilton’s British Best Friend’ last year), WHITE MICE effectively adding themselves to a bill with one day’s notice in November 2007 and playing an insane and awesome set; QUI bringing.the majesty of David fuckin’ Yow to Cardiff, Dec 2007; and the 2008 and 2009 shows we've done for LOVVERS who are one of my favourite bands to come out of the UK in a good few years.

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if you go to http://lessonnumberone.blogspot.com/ you can see whatever our latest show is on the front page, and an archive of all our shows going back to November 2004. You can email us about shows from the site if you like. We don't Heese = : Ri Ses promise we'll put you on, although we'll try and email you gehen te : el tee back, or put you in the direction of someone who might be 3 H able to help/more suitabie.

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started in 2004 at York University.

The University's annual ‘Battle of the Bands’

contest had caught the eye of Barthur and Smith, who had just

met and become friends through the mutual cultivation of various bad habits. The plan was simple - quickly form an obnoxious grindcore band in time to enter the Battle of the Bands competition and thus ensure that harsh blasting noise was fairly represented in the face of a wishy-washy indie rock milieu on campus. This way we could discover new friends amongst the student populous who were similarly obsessed with raucous music, cricket, and drinking, and in the process alienate and disgust anyone who didn’t share our foolish tendencies.

Gathering together a group of friends with a shared interest in grind/punk/siudge and brain-cell destruction (most of whom had never played in a band before), the legendary cricket-core group LBW was formed; a 6-piece grind band bedecked in full whites and cricketing regalia, playing brutal, noisy sub-one-minute compositions with a lyrical focus on the ancient and venerable British game (it must also be said that these compositions were played with all the skill and finesse of an over-weight amateur Sunday-league tail-end batsmen). Miraculously, the nascent grind combo won over the hearts and minds of York students, leading to the improbable spectacle of the band playing their 3rd ever gig to a sold out 400+ crowd at the B.O.B final. Needless to say, by the end of LBW’s twenty-minute set at Langwith College that crowd had dwindled to around 20 head-banging loons. Mission accomplished.

Over the course of the next year LBW played several gigs in York, introducing new elements to the cricket theme such as mid-set breaks for tea and cake to be served to the audience, and developing a rather Tuffnel-esque penchant for debauchery along the way. Alas, LBW had a lively but brief innings, leaving behind just one release (‘The ist Innings’ CD-R) compiling live recordings and the original ‘Caught in the crease’ and 'Bashcore’ demos. Band members went on to such disparate pastures as secondary school teaching, living in South Korea, full-time parenting, and provincial drug-dealing. However, the remaining core of the rhythm section (Barthur, Smith, and Bear) relocated to Leeds in late 2006, and by 2007 The Afternoon Gentlemen was formed. Notorious local throat-shredder, beer-guzzler and grind-monger Rich, already a friend of the band, joined on vocals to complete the line-up, and so The Afternoon Gentiemen continued from where LBW had left off, albeit with a slimmed-down line-up and a new band theme of vagrancy, alcoholism and homelessness replacing the previous obsession with Cricket (‘Afternoon Gentlemen’ being a euphemism for tramps or drunkards).

Early efforts from T.A.G continued the patented messy-but-eclectic LBW style of death/grind/doom/metal, but by 2007 the sound had become slightly more coherent and stripped down. After a string of gigs TAG's debut was released by the summer of that year, a split CD-R with fellow Leeds power-violence fiends Warboys, recorded in the basement and self-released. Shortly after this original guitarist Bear relocated to his hometown Bradley and Warboys bassist Mick (aka Oily Groico) stepped in on guitar. By the end of 2007 Groico had quickly found his feet and after more local gigging the Afternoon Gentlemen unleashed a second split with obscure cult Doom abomination Khunnt, quickly followed by the 'No messin’ about style’ EP, again both home-recorded self-released CD-R’s, in

keeping with the bands DIY ethic. These releases cemented the band's sound, which had developed into an eccentric mix of old school grind, slow sludgy sections, and strong power-violence and crust/hardcore influences.

Since then T.A.G have played live over 100 times, with bands such as Capitalist Casualties, Brutal Truth, Sylvester Staline, Gentle Art of Choking, A Den of Robbers, Cold War, Krap Nek, Strong as Ten, Oi Polloi and many more. In 2008 Keep Screaming records released a 30-track pro-tape containing the first 3 CD-R releases plus live tracks and songs from the UK Death feast comp. Also

available is the recent 'European Fastness’ 5-way split CD, featuring 9 tracks from The Afternoon Gentlemen, plus music by Ocksen, Ablach, Xaros, and A Den of Robbers, and the self-released ‘Afterdoom’ EP, a specially packaged limited 3-track doom CD.

In March 2009 the band went to a ‘proper’ studio (Silent City) for the first time to record the debut 7" EP ‘Pissed Again’ (16 tracks). Easily the band's best recording yet, this should be out by the end of the year through Keep Screaming, Beefy, Cat and Owl, Undisiessed, and Divergent Series records. Also keep your eyes peeled for the Gents playing a few live shows with Insect Warfare and Spoonful of Vicodin in the UK later this year.

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Though the sweet looking cover suggests gore-grind, The Horror play straight up old-school hardcore, sounding more like Black Flag than your teenage Black Flag covers band. The tried and tested mix of D-beats and tired-sounding-bloke shouts is interspersed with bursts of way too loud major-scale soloing. Like a hardcore Status Quo, this stuff would have sounded retro 25 years ago.

However, the lack of ideas on display often actually works to The Horror's advantage. While everything will sound familiar to anyone who's ever heard a record, the lack of scenester fashioncore bullshit is pretty refreshing, as is the relentlessness with which they blast though this set. Only one song, the closing title track, exceeds 3 minutes, most fall short of 2. Much of the best material appears in the middle of the album. “Status Hiatus”, “Spurn” and “The Menace”are particularly ass-smashing. “Waiting for a sign” varies the pace a little, alternately galloping and lunging menacingly. There are enough dynamic shifts in their assault to keep things interesting throughout. The lyrics are usual hardcore fare, all about society and war and stuff. | didn’t pay too much attention but I'm fairly sure no medieval warriors or dragons are mentioned.

The production is shiny enough to be clear but crusty enough to sound like something dug out of the back of the SST sofa. Old punks and hardcore fans with symmetrical hair cuts will lap this up. Folks less Rollins-tolerant may find it makes them want to grow their hair, drink beers and listen to songs about wizards. I'm somewhere in between mostly. While not my usual cup of tea, The Horror's blasting energy is infectious.

ROT IN HELL "Hallways Of The Always" CD

Rot in Hell also have somewhat misleading artwork. | was expecting black metal (maybe because I’m a trendy douche) but again we're in hardcore territory. Rot in Hell are heavier on the squeegieys than their label-mates. The production is often crispier and more in the red than The Horror, if inconsistently so. This is not surprising as the album is a collection of 7“s and newer stuffs.

While still having both feet firmly in hardcore there's a heavy dose of Converge-style cross-over metalz thrown in, and perhaps a wee death metal influence too. 2-parter “The Barrens - Cholothrax” is particular metallic. Luckily Rot in Hell never stray into metal-core territory; there are no sideways haircuts or youth-sized t-shirts here.

The vocals bark and snarl pleasingly, especially in the second half (seemingly the newer stuff). 4 of these tracks are covers - “The Promise” (Ringworm), “Kingdom of Heaven (Integrity), “Final Word" {Meanstreak} and best of all “Chunks” (Last Rights). All of these rule, especially Chunks, if not quite to the same extent as the Dinosaur Jr version. The best tracks, such as "Iron Halo” and “Black Omega”, see the hardcore and metal influences jell into tight and ferocious blasts, the latter sounding almost like early Mastodon. "Skincrawl" is even better, dropping the tempo into sludgier, almost Kylesa-like territory.

The odd floaty psychedelic section, such as the intro and outro to “Dyonisian", breaks up the ferocity momentarily. j The only real misstep is“Psionic Annihilation” which starts strong like a bad-ass Converge out-take but shits the bed with a boring-as-tits lame solo wig-out, which lasts twice as long as the good bit of the song, then fades out

; and comes back in again for no reason. Similarly confusing is the closing initially acoustic track “Now, Today, Tomorrow, and Always” I guess that’s the Converge influence again. Whereas Converge might slap a similar track at the start or in the middle to emphasise the brutality of the rest of the set, shoving this strange stoned busker ina cave jam at the end is a curious choice. Even odder is the fact that the closing half of this 8 minute track is just electronic noise and samples. Many folks will probably decide to hit stop and repeat at this point. | however, Salute them for closing a slamming hardcore album with some crap jams and annoying noise. Both cds are solid slaps of meaty slam damage. Recommended and, for £4 a pop, they are a Grafenwalder of a bargain too. {Grot records, Leeds, http:/iwww.myspace.com/grotrecords} {reviews written by Linus}

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OCKSEN. The standout element here is the vocal delivery; it's demented. The vocalist bellows in a disturbed fashion i

over the band- who churn out a crusty kind of grind with emphasis on power chord led rhythm and an obvious love

for that old-school grind snare sound. To me this band seem more Japanese-Hardcore in their approach, and that's }

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XAROS. | first heard Xaros on their excellent split with the now defunct {i think) Rising Terror (with whom I have had $

the pleasure of gigging} and these tunes continue in that vein: throbbing, desperate sounding aggression that wraps ( itself in a hugely distorted mix that sounds as terrifying and it does killer. Plus they lump in some sweet-ass power

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A DEN OF ROBBERS. ADOR open up with tight-sounding drums blasting out very nicely. They combine this with a ak

vocal and guitar style that is almost post-hardcore; by which | mean droney/siudgey chords and a yearning |

pinched-throat yelp. It's not only original but also well thought out, which is always to be lauded in grind. Personally

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THE AFTERNOON GENTLEMEN. Having just reviewed their 7" I'm not going to say much other than these tracks }

basically reinforce my opinions. Which are good. So there. i

ABLACH. I've gigged with this band once and love everything about them. There's nothing grimmer than some i

pissed-off Scotsmen and they really pump it out here, offering up a filthy sounding bag of tunes. The drums blast,

the riffs crush and the vocalists stamp about the metaphorical place like metaphorical men metaphorically possessed. Ablach combine sludge and grind really successfully, to the point where one must think about it to 7 realize that's what is going on. ONE HUNDRED STARS. ;

www.myspace.com/theafternoongentiemen {The Afternoon Gentlemen} ; www.myspace.com/dallasgrindcore {Xaros} } www.myspace.com/ocksencore {Ocksen} www.myspace.com/adenofrobbers {A Den of Robbers} \

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The perplexingly monickered ‘The Afternoon Gentlemen‘ serve up a tasty plate of infectious slammin’ grind. This release is loaded with plenty of hooky riffs and the ubiquitous grindcore screaming and grunting- featuring an wy especially effective high pitched squeel- but as we all know the true measure of a grind release are the blasts, which 1 TAG have in spades. They mix it up with some choice breakdowns that occasionally veer all the way down to doom be

tempos. Before the next biast kicks in anyway. Perhaps my favorite thing about this release is the tough-sounding f man-rant vocals that put this reviewer in mind of Aaorepnobic Nosebleed, which is about as high compliment | j could pay. i The production is tight and the sound well-balanced between the bassy guitars and shrill screeching, infact it's possibly too smooth in places, but that doesn't stop it being pretty awesome and over too quickly. :

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sound originating from the old school 80's/90's Czech thrash-metal bands such as Kryptor, Debustrol, Torr or Arakain. The band gathers members of very active Czech metal-thrash/ grind bands LAHAR, GRIDE and AVENGER. artwork by {Jumaliaka Metal Artist}

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We are a 4-piece political punk band from Bristol, UK, who play kind of crusty/anarcho with some noodly bits in and lyrics about little things like how the environment is getting totally fucked while consumer capitalism and apathy hold sway, ‘politics’ rules our lives through ee the Apartheid in Palestine/israel, fascism in black metal, etc. We've played and organised a lot of gigs, often benefits for various activist groups that reflect the politics of members of the band.

The band started in early 2006. Andy had been trying to start a band for a while (he'd done the hard part and found a drummer, Matt) but despite trying loads of promising punk musicians he was running out of options. He saw Badger had a CRASS tattoo at a free party and so talked him into learning bass and managed to recruit Other Andy to play guitar. They wanted a 2nd guitarist so after trying everyone else ob < asked me (Myles) coz | was mates with Matt. We practised in Other Andy’s basement and started gigging in summer 2006 (i.e far too early, which Bristol has never forgiven us forl). It was all pretty ropey with crap songs that we could never remember when we sobered up and people frequently missing practice and, after some fucking shit performances up and down the country, Other Andy decided that as a talented musician he had better things to do than play in a crap anarcho band and left in June ‘07.

He was right so there were no hard feelings. This was actually a bit of a blessing as we realised we needed to sort our shit out and by the end of the year we were in pretty good shape as a four-piece. Badger decided that as we'd managed to attract no fans at all in the UK it was time to conquer Europe and booked a week in Germany, Holland and Belgium for April ‘08. We needed a driver with a van and Andy said he knew someone in Leeds who drove bands around so we contacted Talla to drive us on tour. Although some of us had seen her in her previous band we didn’t actually know her and she’d only seen us once (a shite early incarnation}, but after the 1st gig of the tour she asked if she could do some singing. We taught her a different song each day of the tour in sound check and by the time we got back she'd Joined the band and decided to move to Bristol. This 5-piece line up lasted about a year,

including a tour of Scotland with DISKELMA which was fucking amazing, until Talia decided that life in JESUS BRUISER wasn’t for her and returned to the frozen North of Engiand.

in an unconnected move we'd decided that we needed 2 guitarists again if we were going become the self-indulgent prog-crust wankers we now dreamt of being. We approached Alexis, a Greek guitar god who played in local band BELLADONNA (now known as MY NEW LOW) and had come to our attention by actually —- to gigs and saying he liked what we were doing. We trained him up fast and played some gigs in May/June 2009 finishing with a weekend we were invited over to in Holland playing Amsterdam and Groningen which was cool and very messy. Alexis then went back to Greece to recuperate from the new J.B lifestyle for the summer but returned and we started gigging hard as a

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in late November 2009 after a string of gigs we with the final Andy, leaving Myles, Alexi and Badger to take up full responsibility for vocal duties, the logic being the more idiots screeching into microphones the more effective the masking of instrumental ineptitude.

We've got a 6 track 10” that is out now (email us to arrange getting a copy, or if you’re in Bristol on Saturday between 14am-2pm try the Kebele infoshop ~ 14 Robertson Road, Easton, BS5 6JY). it’s been a total nightmare to do: we recorded it in October 2008 (with Talia but before Alexis), took ages to mix it, didn’t like that mix so took months waiting to get it remixed. It was originally going to be released as a split 12” with DISKELMA but we took so long they decided to release their tracks separately. So we released it ourselves and fortunately some lovely people in France offered to help us because they liked what we were doing, particularly the fact that we were anti-Myspace.

We've now recorded some new songs with the new line up that should be out as a split LP with the epic WAR COMA from Manchester that’s due out early 2010 (in time for our next European tour in April — watch the website), and also have songs recorded for a split 7” in the future as well.

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Named after french Symbolist set from the 1800's decadent Rimbaud, Rimbaud Records ga eleasing fucked up sounds The Killing Spree from Belfast, Ireland.

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Rimbaud records strives to release music on the boundaries of intelligent sound, and releases by Bracket.Retards.Bracket {Fucked up noise industrial punk from Dublin), Hey Colossus(heavy heavy), Violent Breakfast (italian punk/screamo) are testement to an innovative and varied spirit at the heart of the label. We got the chance to release Protestant ‘the hate the hollow! lp which took the hardcore up a notch - fury being the name of the game here. This was followed by one hell of a tornado in the Kursk/Lycanthrophy split 7inch.I nearly cried my fucking eyes out with happenness when i heard these two bands were joining forces on the ONCE record.Lycanthrophy were in my record collection for years through their previous record releases via Insane Society Records - i like it fast and hard, and Lycanthrophy always made my head spin. Kursk, as those who know them already can tell you, are one hell of a tight, fast and wierd hardcore band - fresh and exciting and heavy as hell. The label was now reaching its aim set out at the start.

The latest releases on the label comes via Gary Suicidal Kids Commando and Thou. Gary Suicidal Kids Commando are basically what Envy would have been like if they hadn't gone all soft and shitty on Temperary Residence Records and had gotten more vast and heavy - you like Neurosis and full on epic punk? Then you'll like this french unit ALOT.

Thou come from Louisiana, USA -~- they have been one of the most talked about bands since whoever is talked about alot(?)...and they're recent Irish/UK tour proved why.Dedicated to playing heavy hardcore sludge, touring and releasing amazing records on serious labels such as Level Plane/Southern Lord/Feast of Tentacles - they go for the gut while tearing away everything you previously thought you knew about heavy music.The ifinch is pretty much sold out - keep an eye out at various distros maybe.

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Atomçk formed in the early part of 2006 , not long after Linus and Luke's respective previous bands had collapsed due to people either moving away or being too old and/ or retarded. We wanted to do some kind of extreme metal project that combined bits and pieces (synths/ harsh noise) that we were already know for using with heavy metal guitars and screaming; without any kind of blueprint for what this should sound like a programme of “research” (i.e. deciding which other bands to rip off) indicated we would be 78% suited for some kind of grindcore enterprise.

Bearing this in mind the new band began writing a lot of Agoraphobic Nosebleed style hyperfast supershort songs; all the while imagining this rubbish would wind up as a short term diversion.

Then came iots of gigs.

A few years, several DIY albums and many shows later Atomck decided to ditch the machine drum and train up a living drummer (Hibakusha veteran Marzena}; simultaneously losing their novelty appeal and unique selling point in one last fateful gamble at being considered a real band.

Or to put it more sensibly here's local high-level enforcer Noel Gardner:

Atomck are a trio from South Wales {and Bristol, and the Czech Republic) who, since 2006, have made fast and intense and scarcely comprehensible music, before going out and performing it to audiences in whichever venues will accommodate them. Some magazines reviews have a bit that says FOR FANS OF: and then some bands. If you are a reviewer, or hold some other position that might compel you to write fancypants sentences about music for an inspecific public, you can steal these with no threat of repercussion from me: Agoraphobic Nosebleed, The Locust, Man ts The Bastard, Coalesce, Today Is The Day, Slayer, Pig Destroyer. Grind and sludge and neo-noisecore and unabashed thrash guitar wail and electronics.

LINUS: vocals, machines. LUKE: guitars, machines. MARZENA: drums Atomck UK tour in June 2010!

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BURNING THE PROSPECT : split 7“EP

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young biood of Czech fast thrashing HC SMD{[usa], Third Death [usa] Pennsylvania with sound like Holier Than in vein of Demon System 13 and & Still Strong [cz] Thou or Crispus Attucks. vs.South Area’ Regurgitate band as well 7 aE, italian fast spaggetti tornado, mixture of

Life's Half / Negative Approach style of RADIOLOKATOR hardcore with modem thrashin crossover BLACK MARKET FETUS with excellent guitar riffs.

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