FRAMTID interview '05

Next month Framtid will finally release a new lp titled "defeat of civilization". "under the ashes" is the BEST punk/hardcore lp of the 00s' so I'm pretty excited to hear their second full length (well, technically it's a minilp but you got the point). So, I guess it's the best time to reprint a Framtid interview from a few years ago. Taken from teutonic 'zine Dogprints#5. (updated 5/05 w/ better scans)

Deathcrush

I was there, back in the early 90s', when the whole black metal thing exploded. Back in those days my friends and I were all long haired teenagers who were mainly into grindcore and death metal. Around '92/'93 everybody and their grandma started to talk about those crazy satanic metal bands outta norway. Half of my friends suddenly turned into it. I gave it a try for a year or so but it wasn't my thing. Songs were too long, the whole corpse painting thing was (and still is) ridiculous and the right wing attitude of most of those bands was a big no no for me. I was mainly into grindcore and those clowns dressed in black were just a bunch of nazi posers to my young and idealistic eyes. Flash forward to 20 years later and I've learned to enjoy a band even if I don't agree with its attitude. To make a long story short, if I weren't an idealist moron back in the day, now I could own at least the second press of Mayhem "deathcrush" lp on Death Like Silence Productions. I still remember one of my friend buying it at Stiv Valli's (of TVOR fame) New Zabrinskie Point record shop around '93. I still don't like most of the output of that scene. There's only two records out of that scene worth my money: Mayhem "Deathcrush" and Burzum mini lp"Aske".

Last summer I went to visit Norway with my girlfriend. While in Oslo, I visited this great record shop called Tiger Records. Nice place but, like everything in Norway, it was bloody expansive. I didn't even ask if they had OG X-Port Plater records since it would have meant that my holiday was prematurely over in the right moment they would have pulled off an OG Svart Framtid or Bannlyst ep. So I started looking for the recent repress on Back On Black of the two aforementioned black metal classics. Of course I could get them via mailorder but buying them in norway would have been something "special". Plus, as dumb as it sounds, I wanted to take a picture holding them in front of the legendary Fantoft stave church. But at 25€ each I passed. I was pretty sure to score them for way cheaper on the web. Recently I've ended up ordering a copy of "Deathcrush" from amazon and guess what? It costed me exactly 25€...

For such a classic, they did things in the right way at Back On Black HQ: fat gatefold cover, 180 gr. vinyl and a perfect reproduction of the original. I'd prefer to own it on black wax but since it took me 20 years to finally own a copy, I won't complain. This record is perfect under every point of view. The awesome front cover. That weird drum intro. The guitar sound. From the opening riff of "deathcrush" to the blast beats of "pure fucking armageddon", this is a genre defining record under every point of view. How funny is the "no fun, no core, no mosh, no trend" anti-Scott Burns thing? If I remember well, "Aske" had something similar but with Anton La Vey...

T.V.O.R. On Vinyl catalogue from late '80s

Poder, Represion Y Corruption

What do you know about peruvian hardcore/punk from the 80s'? I must admit that, until recently, my knowledge was limited to the Leuzemia lp, the only band that had a vinyl output during their existence, that is basically a stoned peruvian answer to Ramones. Oh yeah, I was forgetting to mention the almighty Ataque Frontal. One of the fiercest and rawest hardcore band I've ever had the pleasure to listen to. They put out only a tape around 1986 that was later repressed on 7" by New Wave Records outta France during 1988. That was it.

Until recently. I've indeed started to dig into that scene to discover some great bands that unfortunately released their material only on the worst format ever: tape. Thanx Quetzalcoatl some people out there care enough to save obscure releases like this from vanishing forever in those stupid magnetic support. Like the Autopsia "Poder, Represion Y Corruption" demo from 1985. Some DIY labels got together around 2008 to make it available again on the best format ever: 7". This is not that different from Ataque Frontal: raw but still catchy, pissed off and politically fueled hardcore in the best south american tradition. Can't ask for more. The sound is quite raw, plus on the first track you can clearly hear that it was ripped directly from a tape that unfortunately was already deteriorating. But that's not a let down. Essential stuff if you dig south american hardcore.