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Man U - The Giraffes (The Giraffes. Razor & Tie Records, 2005)
Again, hyperbole tends to be a bitch, so know that what I have to say about this video I say with 110% earnestness (i.e. each word is its own sentence)!
Greatest. Video. Of. The. Decade!
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![Persistence of Time Session
Vocal tracks and parallel busses for Isaiah’s grimy ass. Went out of my way to make the vocals sound worse (but it’s a good thing when it’s hardcore). Oh, and yeah, I think I am done!
[UPDATE: No. I am not done with this yet. There goes my Past-Self again, doing things without thinking.]](http://20.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kstul5805R1qz9a1do1_500.png)
Persistence of Time Session
Vocal tracks and parallel busses for Isaiah’s grimy ass. Went out of my way to make the vocals sound worse (but it’s a good thing when it’s hardcore). Oh, and yeah, I think I am done!
[UPDATE: No. I am not done with this yet. There goes my Past-Self again, doing things without thinking.]
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Show You No Mercy - Cro-Mags (Before the Quarrel. Crook’d Records, 2000)
Released in 2000, Cro-Mags’ Before the Quarrel was the remastered release of the group’s first demo, originally released within 1985.
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Extreme Metal Hunks
John “Bloodclot” Joseph (Cro-Mags, Bloodclot!, Both Worlds, Mode Of Ignorance, Fearless Vampire Killers)
Hot Because: Honestly…just look at him. Those pipes. And the tattoos (few wear them better). Dude is all beef and ink, but this isn’t some meathead body builder with a discount at American Eagle, this is John “Bloodclot!” Joseph, a man who’d sooner curb stomp a Polo Shirted Jock than share a beer with him. The man looks like the offspring of Henry Rollins and Nathan Fillion (or a dude that looks like Nathan Fillion) and with the all skull crushing power that comes with the genes.
Plus, if you front a band as seminal as Cro-Mags without loosing all your teeth, hair and wasteline by the age of 25 then you’re basically guaranteed underground Playboy status.
Ideal Date: The two of you meet on a highway overpass in the early morning — so early that the sun is just now pealing away the morning shade that was once cast over the highway’s car ladened horizon. You meet for a bike ride, a suggestion of his that he graciously brought up in a manner than in no way sounded like he was insinuating that you could stand to loose a few pounds. He just likes to bike. He’s got a “thing” for it, if you know what I mean (it’s ok if you don’t).
He takes you for a ride across town, which may seem like a somewhat daunting exercise but you make frequent stops at ‘hip’ locations such as the Farmers’ Market, an independent coffee place that you never seen in your life, and well-stoked pawn-shops and thrift stores.
After eating fresh apples while browsing for second-hand short pants and tank-tops the two of you make a final stop at the park for lunch. While snacking on an elaborate organic salad that he made with little to no effort you coyly ask him to rub your legs, having grown soar after attempting to keep up with his Olympian-strength legs, which have grown superhuman abilities from years of hardcore shows and biking.
“I can actually do you one better,” he says. He then briefly touches on his experience with the Hare Krishna and the many techniques that he learned. So instead of rubbing away the pain he has you meditate. Sure, the idea seems silly at first but he is hot enough that you play along, that is until it actually starts to work. With your eyes closed, he slowly takes you through some deep breathing exercises and with the rasp of his husky man-voice easily soothes you into a state of utter relaxation.
After about ten paragraphs of mind melting hallucinations that lead to the opening of your “third eye” that I’m too lazy to write out, you finally come to. The pain in your legs is gone and even the lingering back pain you’ve been experiencing due to work has washed away. Thanks to all the good vibes and zero back-pain you lock eyes with John and stare into them for a solid minute and a half (seriously, I have this all timed out). The two you start making out at this point, because it was going to lead to that either way.
Deal Breaker: This one is a fighter. I highly doubt he’d be the kind to hit a woman (and if he did I should ask what it was that you did to him that forced him to) but he does seem to get in a lot of quarrels with bands members, which leads to a lot of unsustainable projects. If he can’t stay with a band for an extended period of time what makes you think you have the power to keep him?
Next Week: I continue to provide evidence to contradict the fact that I’m not gay.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Influence of Slime - S.O.B (Don’t Be Swindle. Selfish Records, 1987)
Japanese hardcore freaks S.O.B [Sabotage Organized Barbarian] help spred grind by across the Pacific, often being credited as major influence for Napalm Death and as pioneering the whole grind genre along with the likes of American band Repulsion. S.O.B penned a highly spastic form of punk infested by unfortunate “engrish” living in a world of unhinged insanity — a place where Choruses dare not venture for fear of getting curb stomped.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Day Twenty Eight: Targets - Trap them (Seizures in Barren Praise. Deathwish Inc., 2008)
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John Joseph of the Cro-Mags talks about the infamous 1981 Halloween appearance of hardcore band Fear on SNL.
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viaFear on SNL circa 1981! First and only time SNL went hardcore. The reason why this even happened in the first place was because (the story goes…) John Belushi, a fan of Fear (that makes him even cooler in my book) called in some favors and 1981 was one of the weakest years for ratings for the show up until that point, which apparently means it didn’t matter if they tore down the set…
Songs include Beef Bologna, New York’s Alright If You Like Saxophones and Let’s Have A War.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]War Machine - Doom (Hail to Sweden. Pandora’s Box Records, 1995)
Sweden is just fucking amazing. They have some amazing Punk rock but also some down right beastly Crust bands and heavier than thou Death Metal (as well as some beautiful people).
British Crust titans Doom even pinched off the 7” Hail to Sweden back in 1995 as a homage to some really amazing Swedish punk bands — bands that paved the way for the d-beat sound that Doom are sooo well known for. The 7” has the band covering songs from the like Mob 47, Crudity, Agoni and the legendary (and the writers of War Machine) Anti Cimex.
Sweden is a well for some amazing extreme music, I highly recommend that anyone that calls themselves a metal-head or a punk to further educate themselves on the country’s creative output.
(FYL: If you’re wondering why I posted a cover by Doom rather than an actual song by any of the aforementioned bands is because I don’t have digital copies of such bands at this point in time. PLUS I wanted to post a Doom song. I love me some Doom.)
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Pull Out - Death From Above 1979 (You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine. Vice Records, 2004)
“This song is called Pull Out. It’s about the pleasures of monogamous sexual intercourse…”
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