Medellin band pics

Lazy post again (no new records, post is too slow because of fuckin' xmas!). Some pics stolen from various sources (a.k.a. the web) of medellin hardcore & metal bands from late 80s to early 90s.

B.S.N.

ATAQUE DE SONIDO

CENSURA (rehearsal)

  

RESTOS DE TRAGEDIA

REENCARNACION

BLASFEMIA (rehearsal)

ANTI CIMEX interview 1993

Late Anti Cimex interview taken from #6 of the legendary Riot'zine from the UK,  released around 1993. Enuff said!!!

Psychoschmatic

When I've recently posted another Warsore interview, I went through all their records I own and I've decided that it's about time to finally complete my Warsore collection. One of the pieces I was missing is their split 10" with Autoritar from krautland. I got a copy when it was released but over the years I've ended up trading or selling it. Terrible mistake. Never sell anything from a band you like. At some point, you'll want it back. If we exclude the uber rare (and honestly, quite useless) split lathe cut with Egrogsid, this is the first proper slab of wax released by these melbourne grinders. Warsore to me is what Agathocles could have been if they didn't released tons of crappy and useless records. Even if this is not their best output (due to a poor mastering, comparing to "open wound" or the later split eps), this is grind/mince at its peak. Raw, simple and direct straight to your face political brutal grindcore. I'm intentionally not mentioning the band on the other side because I didn't like them 19 years ago and my opinion hasn't changed. Recently I've discovered a lot of people hate 10"s. Can't understand this expecially when you got way dumber formats like 5" & 6"....anyhow, I still need their split 7"s with Unholy Grave and Nee! Get in touch if you can help!

Vivere Nell' Incubo

I've already said all I had to say about Wretched "la tua morte non aspetta" 12" here so I'll keep it short this time. Recently I got the opportunity to upgrade my copy with an original first press through a trade with a local record dealer and of course I didn't miss the opportunity. I'm not into owning tons of variation of every single record I like a lot but sometimes you gotta make an exception for something special. Now I'm indeed starting to think about tracking down the transparent wax version of the first press. Then I'll be done I guess. Not very happy about the cover conditions but all the copies I've seen over the years were in similar conditions...

WARSORE interview 1996

Time for another Warsore interview taken from my personal archive. Classic australian grindcore from the 90s. Probably my fave in this genre. This one is taken from Ironia'zine #6 outta spain from 1998. Answers by guitarist Paul. My old band was interviewed in the same issue. Layout is a bit blurry but that's how computerized  layout from the late 90s zines look like! Anyhow, still readable and very informative. RIP Erik & Mark.

Det E'kje Nåkka Artig Længer

When it comes to scandinavia, norwegian hardcore tends to be obscured by their more prolific swedish & finnish counterparts as well as from the legion of local black metal bands of course. If that's not enough, Barn Av Regnbuen seems to be a bit overshadowed by the cult status of other X-Port Plater classics such as Bannlyst or Svart Framtid. Well, at least this little attention kept the price of 1986's B.A.R. debut ep "Det E'kje Nåkka Artig Længer" (that translates to "it's not fun anymore" if I remember well) a bit more reasonable. Nontheless, this stands at the same level as the aforementioned norge classics. Same kind of sound and heavy production but with more peculiar guitar riffs. A very solid release, too bad their flexi from a couple of years later is not that solid (but still worth a listen).

1000 copies pressed on a great looking fold-out cover that has a poster on the other side. My copy came with a small insert with lyrics translated in english but unfortunately I've forgot to include it in the pictures...Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that band's name translate to something like "children of the rainbow" which for some reasons makes me think about T-Rex...

Yesterday Fairytale, Tommorow's Nightmare

If I remember well, my first encounter with Disclose happened around 2001. It was via their split lp with Totalitar. I picked up a copy of that record from a distro at a show, mainly because of the swedish band. Their side didn't impress me a lot. It just seemed to me they were just another boring dis-band like the way too many horrible Discharge clones that were around in the 90s ("dis is getting pathetic", to quote Diskonto). Then, a couple of years later,  I got their "Apocalypse of Death" 12". I immediately sold my soul to Kawakami. To this day it's still my favourite Disclose release. Especially the song "the war dead". It got stuck in my mind with its almost hypnotic repetitiveness. If I'm not wrong, this is where the "dis-bones" era started. Disclose added a more metallic approach (obviously influenced by Broken Bones) to their mix of Discharge & swedish d-beat. Over the year I've learned to enjoy also their earlier catalogue (with "Tragedy" being the peak of their early days), but the "dis-bones" era is still my favourite. Recently LVEUM repressed their last full length "Yesterday Fairytale, Tommorow's Nightmare". It's a collection of re-recorded version of some songs from their later period and it includes a 10 minutes long version of my favourite of their tracks, "wardead". Even if you own the original press, this is worth just for the in depths writing about their ill-fated 2004 US tour with Framtid by Stuart/GOTA (which is the guy who originally released this lp). Probably the very last influential punk band that shaped the last few punk generations and will continue to do it in the future. RIP Kawakami.