LATEST ARRIVALS/RESTOCKS: [last update: 14.09.2008] READ: ISOLATION #1 Whoa, another new 'zine from Vienna... this one has interviews with Bitter End, Deal With It, Death Toll Booking, Feeding Time and Nervous Wreck, plus a few decent columns, Haunzs reviewing his favourite 80s thrash metal/crossover records, Martin reviewing some current stuff and some, uh, art. Autumn 2008 English 28 A4 2,- € NO VALUES #1 New 'zine from Vienna, feat. interviews with Brutal Knights & Teenbeat Kicks!, a Feeding Time tour diary, columns and other interesting bits and pieces. Summer 2008 English 24 A4 2,- € LISTEN: 50 LIONS - "Time Is The Enemy" Australian hardcore. 50 Lions' sound is as hard and strong as their work ethic, taking influence from bands like Terror, Blacklisted or early No Warning. 12 songs, gatefold cover. Click to listen. LP Demons Run Amok 2008 10,- € A.Y.S. - "Wreck My Soul" Click to listen. LP Cobra 2008 9,- € BLKOUT! - s/t With both Mental and Justice gone, Australia's Blk Out! provide new hope for the Supertouch-ed generation... click to listen. 7" Suppression 2007 4,- € BREAK THROUGH - s/t Pretty straight-forward European style old school hardcore is what you get on these German kids' debut 7". There are 6 songs on this and every one of them is bursting with an abundance of youth crew-ey, positive energy. Click to listen. 7" BreakXOut 2008 3,50 € CLOAK/DAGGER - "Kamikazes b/w She Cracked" Cloak/Dagger tear through the distinctive guitar fuzz driven track "Kamikazes" off of their 2007 "We Are" full length on the A-side, then a blistering rendition of the Modern Lovers' cut "She Cracked" on the flip. Still out of control, and you've still got a problem. 7" Grave Mistake 2008 4,- € COMMON CAUSE - "The Power To Change" Featuring members of Damage Control, Shipwrecked and Soulfire, Oslo City's Common Cause deliver powerful hardcore with youth crew influences and a touch of melody. Click to listen. LP Powered 2008 10,- € DAMAGE CONTROL - "The Losing End" Recorded before they broke up, these 5 "lost" tracks finally see the light of day. This 7" comes in a 20 pages booklet with lyrics, tons of pics, flyers, a complete list of their shows, etc. Click to listen. 7" Cycle 2008 4,50 € DEAL WITH IT - "End Time Prophecies" Fuck yeah! Click to listen. LP Dead & Gone 2008 10,- € DEAN DIRG - "....Raus!" Europe’s perhaps most energetic band is back with their third full length, a 14 song assault of '80s hardcore blended up with snotty rock‘n’roll and European madness! If you are into bands like Henry Fiat's Open Sore or the Blinds and you haven’t checked out Dean Dirg, you have missed out on something. Click to listen. LP Prügelprinz 2008 9,- € DEEP SLEEP - "Manic Euphoria" Two years, line-up changes, drugs, jail and other assorted misfortunes can't keep a good band down. Baltimore's Deep Sleep are back with a vengeance, this time around firing out 6 more tracks of their brand of seething yet addictive punk rock. Expanding on the early Southern California punk influences of the first record, and adding an extra dosage of All-/Descendents-style weirdness and catchiness to the picture, "Manic Euphoria" shows a distinct evolution from their debut while maintaining all of the elements you grew to love in the first place. 7" Grave Mistake 2008 4,- € DENY EVERYTHING - "Speaking Treason" EP Nice one. 7 new songs on 7 inches... still as Lifetime-/Kid Dynamite-influenced as ever. Click to listen. 7" Yo-Yo 2008 3,50 € DETERMINATION - "If All Else Fails..." Brandnew 3rd 7" of one of Austria's finest and most sincere hardcore bands. Contains 8 tracks of raging hardcore/punk. Click to listen. 7" Capeet et al. 2008 3,50 € DIRECT CONTROL - s/t Originally released on Kangaroo Rec. in 2004 and now repressed by Grave Mistake, Direct Control's classic first vinyl release blazes through 6 tracks of killer early 80s influenced hardcore. Taking queues from the meaner side of that era (think The Fix, CIA, Poison Idea, etc.), this EP captures the attitude and essence of those classic bands almost perfectly with a combination of biting, sarcastic, and spiteful lyrics overtop a non-stop barrage of fast hardcore insanity. 7" Grave Mistake 2008 4,- € DIRTY MONEY / TRAPPED UNDER ICE - Split Trapped Under Ice follow up ‘Stay Cold’ with two new tracks ‘Gemini’ and ‘Death Clock’ whilst Dirty Money present their first new material since the EP with their best tracks yet - ‘Hollow Shell’ and ‘2007 Was A Bad Year’. You can listen to one track each here and here respectively. 7" Dead & Gone 2008 4,- € The FOCUS - s/t 4 songs of melodic, hook-riddled punkrock with with a Hüsker Dü feel from Melbourne, Australia. Click to listen. 7" Edding Rec. & Mafia Fan Club 2008 3,50 € GOLDUST - "Axis" Holy Terror, anyone? 9 new songs plus Goldust's tracks from their split 10" with Blade as bonus. Click to listen. CD True Till Deaf 2008 10,- € GOVERNMENT WARNING - "No Way Out EP" Except for a few local highlights this may well be this distro's all-time best selling release - and deservedly so, I dare to say. In my opinion, Government Warning's debut 7" is definitely among the best hardcore 7"es that came out in the last few years. 6 tracks of completely insane hc/punk, incredibly furious but still catchy... and I LOVE the surf edge of "Blank"! These are copies of the... uh, I'm not even sure... 7th or 8th (!) press with lightgreen cover and pink lyricsheet. 7" No Way 2005 4,- € GRAVE MAKER - "Demolition" Grave Maker hail from the Pacific Northwest, feature members of Figure Four, and are already establishing themselves as one of the hardest-touring bands in hardcore, with North and Central American tours completed before any real releases and an extensive European tour scheduled for 2009. These four friends play heavy, fast hardcore that takes cues from bands like Comeback Kid, Trial and Blue Monday. Click to listen. 7" Copper Lung 2008 4,- € HEARTBREAK KID - "Life Thrills" . Click to listen. CD Rise Or Rust 2008 10,- € INSOMNIO - "Walking On The String EP" Four songs of killer spanish punk for fans of old punk/hc where the song matters a little more than the noise. Catchy as hell, but still hardcore in the way that Reagan Youth, Blitz and Descendents were. Click to listen. 7" No Way 2008 4,- € The ITALIAN STALLION - "Back To Thrashland" 3rd and unfortunately final 7" of this German hc/thrash outfit. Click to listen. 7" Play To Destroy 2007 4,- € LEMURIA - "The First Collection" Vinyl finally in! 18 tracks of super sweet, poppy, female-fronted punkrock in the vein of Discount or early Superchunk. Compiles most of what they recorded so far - their tracks of the split lp w/ Kind Of Like Spitting & split 7" w/ Frame, the s/t and "Art Of The Underground Singles Club" 7"es and their contribution to the "New York vs. New Jersey" compilation. Click for mp3s. LP Yo-Yo 2008 9,- € LIGHTHOUSE - Demo 2008 . Click to listen. Tape self released 2008 3,- € MAKE AN EFFORT - Demo 2008 . Click to listen. CD self released 2008 3,- € MAKE AN EFFORT - Demo 2008 . Click to listen. Tape Capeet 2008 3,- € OUR TIMES - Demo 2007 Buffalo's Our Times carry on where they left with their first demo/7" - 6 songs of mainly fast and furious hardcore that has been described as mixing elements of Lights Out, Righteous Jams and Outbreak... whatever, just click here to listen. Like their previous demo, this is well done for a demo cd - no screenprinted digipak this time, but the printed booklet, inlay and cd (in a jewelcase) make this look really decent. CD self released 2007 3,50 € RHYTHM TO THE MADNESS - "Weltschmerz" Belgium's RTTM take a late '80s/early '90s New York style to their sound, while adding a bit of a groove, bringing to mind bands like Cro-Mags, Motörhead and Bad Brains. Click to listen. LP Powered 2008 10,- € SEED OF PAIN - "Thunder and Consolation" Half a year after the release of their 12" "Power, Corruption and Lies" (title cheekily borrowed from New Order), Seed Of Pain from Lucerne/Switzerland are back with a new EP called "Thunder and Consolation" (title generously donated by New Model Army). Their music is filled with groovy, heavy and progressive hardcore in the vein of Burn, 108, Outspoken and the likes... early 90s vibes and. Seriously, this is decent stuff though I wonder who they'll steal their next record's title from. This 7" comes on heavy black vinyl (70g) and in a handmade silkscreened cover, btw. 7" Cobra 2008 4,- € The SHINING - "The Word Is Fiction" The Shining are fucking awesome and play loud and fast hardcore/thrash. They like BGK and The Accüsed and stuff like that and rip it up live as well as on record. 8 songs on this 7", which comes in a nice gatefold sleeve. Click here to listen. 7" Pick Up et al. 2008 3,50 € The SHINING - s/t Repress of The Shining's debut 7", originally released in 2005. Their sound hasn't changed a lot in those 3 years - and in this case that's a good thing, I'd say - so what you'll get here are another 5 tracks of rabid crossover/thrash. Click here to listen. 7" Pick Up & UPS 2008 3,- € SNIFFING GLUE - "Suburban Suicide, Suburban Violence EP" 4 new ragers. Limited to 300 copies. Click to listen. 7" Search For Fame 2007 4,- € SOCIAL CIRCKLE - "I've Got Afflictions" EP Here we go with Social Circkle's 2nd 7" - this time around, they bring us 4 songs with a faster-tighter feel. Still has the catchy aspects of the "Static Eyes" EP but with even more energy and speed. If you liked "Static Eyes", you'll definitely love this one. This band can really do no wrong (plus, it's on Now Way Rec. who can't do wrong either, so what are you waiting for, punk?) 7" No Way 2008 4,- € SOJOURNER - "Overwhelming" Click to listen. 7" Drastic Actions 2008 3,50 € VERSE - "From Anger And Rage" Click to listen. LP Prügelprinz 2008 10,- € WAKING THE DEAD / The SHINING - "Thrash Attack" If you want to sum up this record in 2 words - then, yes, "thrash attack" will do the trick. WTD rose from the ashes of Skulls And Flames and rip through 13 blasts of thrash reminiscent of "Dealing With It"-era D.R.I. and The Shining's 7 tracks of ultrafast 80s crossover/thrash (including a cover of The Accüsed's "Slow Death") are a perfect match. Click here for WTD or here for The Shining. LP Pick Up & Dead Area 2008 9,- € v/a - "Glory Days" A nifty little 7", compiling some of the finest punk rock bands currently going in the Netherlands... featuring one (exclusive!) track each from Brat Pack, the Real Danger, Tenement Kids and Union Town. 7" Angry Youth 2007 4,- € v/a - "Hardcore Breakout BRD" This compilation LP contains 22 unreleased tracks by 16 great hardcore and punk bands from Germany - A.Y.S., Annotation, Black Friday '29, Bleed Into One, Cheap Thrills, Cobretti, Dean Dirg, Empty Vision, the Italian Stallion, Kingdom, Nothing To Hide, Ritual, Settle The Score, Sirens, Teenage Angst and Watch Out - and comes with a big foldout cover. LP Sandblaster 2008 9,- €