Thursday 29 April 2021

猿芝居 (Sarushibai) ‎– 日陰者の憂鬱 - 12″ LP - dark blue vinyl.


  Superb LP, really into these guys - 100 copies only on blue vinyl with OBI and lyric sheet.  https://saru481.bandcamp.com/album/--7

Sarushibai - The Melancholy of the Social Outcasts - LP.
Somewhere along the way, the world of DIY punk became extremely codified. A lot of the current punk enjoyed by myself and everybody else is very paint-by-the-numbers, genre-specific, self-referential. Play like THIS, sound like THAT, ideas that are easily identified and collectively understood.

But punk wasn't always this way. And I think Sarushibai prove that even now, it doesn't necessarily have to be. Sarushibai has the spirit of adventurousness and the willingness to take chances that I associate with ADK Records bands like The Stalin and Aburadako, LSD and Kikeiji, or with early American punk like Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Dangerhouse Records. For me, Sarushibai harken back to a time when punk was more about "attitude" and its expression was more free and individualistic, and not set with so much regimented formality.
Clearly The Stalin and Kikeiji are starting points, but Sarushibai create their own journey through loneliness and sadness, inferiority and abnormality, weaving in a variety of instruments and influences to create a unique experience that still resonates as PUNK. Because what is punk if not music for outcasts?
1. 沼の側 (Bottomless Swamp Side) 01:33
2. 偽言の森 (The Forest of Lies) 01:08
3. 半透明 (Semi-Transparent) 01:43
4. 終わりを探す (Find the End) 02:00
5. 嘘八百 (Full of Lies) 02:25
6. 劣情 (Inferiority) 03:00
7. 倒錯 (Perversion) 04:10
8. 歪曲した風景 (Distorted Landscape) 03:19
9. 他は要らない (Don't Want Anything Else) 02:22
10. 縛ラレル(密室問答ミックス) (Strapped Down) 00:56
11. 優しい洗脳 (Gentle Brainwashing) 05:39
12. 夜明ケハ未ダカ? (Is It Dawn Yet?) 04:57

SNOT – Snot Greatest Hits 12″ - LP


 Limited strictly to 103 hand numbered copies

Hardcore punk band from Gunma, Japan, formed in 1993.
SNOT come from Gunma and play Japanese hardcore punk.
This album has total 13 songs. All 5 songs from the “BRAIN OF CHAOS II” , 2 songs from the DEMO 2020 and 6 old songs greatly re-recorded for this record! Office Drunk Radio released a slightly different CD version in Japan.

1 Unite and Resist
2 Debris Of The State
3 Brain Of Chaos II
4th Punks In The Beach
5 Station for Dead
6th No fear
7th 不明 な 行 方
8th Opening
9 Last right
10 fake
11 DDDD
12th Let's Start A Riot !!
13th SNOT

Forward ‎– Future Troops - LP - ltd purple vinyl /200.


 LP version limited to 200 copies only, hand-numbered. Comes with obi and insert with lyrics in Japanese and English. All copies on deep purple vinyl.
Japanese hardcore punk band with members of Death Side and Insane Youth.
Featuring ten new tracks on a single disc, the release is the band’s first LP in six years and only their fourth in a storied twenty-two year career of state-of-the-art, nitro-fueled Japanese hardcore. Established in 1996 from the ashes of the much revered Death Side, vocalist Ishiya and bassist You formed FORWARD, along with members of Insane Youth and more. Building upon the teachings of UK metal-punk legends Discharge, Forward’s unique “intelligent savage” approach to hardcore was and is decidedly their own, nodding at the work of Poison Idea, Anti-Cimex and others while forging an ironclad path strictly through word of mouth, DIY gigs and underground channels. Future Troops is a taut and explosive collection of tracks that spin yarns of police brutality, calls for peace, rumors of war, injustice, the effects of the Tokyo Olympics and more in a compact and tense 25 minutes of vitriol. You’ve never heard anything as furious as “A.C.A.B.,” you won’t be able to unclench your fist after “Tokyo Orympic,” “Hatered Union” or “Piece of Peace,” and the world won’t soon forget Future Troops.

1 Apathy Kills People
2 A.C.A.B.
3 Must Be Mad
4 Hatred Union
5 Nasty Justice
6 True Freedom
7 Piece Of Piece
8 Mother Fucker Japan
9 Our World Our Own
10 Tokyo Olympic
11 In The Chaos
12 Future Troops 

XERO FICTION - POP OVERDOSE! - 12" yellow vinyl 100/Japan.


 Japan issue with OBI - limited to 100 copies only, full colour sleeve with OBI designed by Larva Minami.
A1 Believe In My Way
A2 The Voice
A3 Round And Round
A4 Over The Thousand Night
A5 Seventeen (Remix Ver.)
A6 Maiking The New World
B7 One By One
B8 Inst.
B9 I Want You Back
B10 Remember You…
B11 Silent Story (Remix Ver.)
B12 You & I

Saturday 24 April 2021

Visible Fucker / Stinkers - Chiba Trash split Punk CD

2 bands from Chiba, Japan playing Swankys style punk rock.

Along with The MARGAReTS Visible Fucker led the new generation of punk in Chiba in the early 90's inspiring bands like the C&C after the late 80's hardcore boom led by Kyojinbyo, Parasite and G-10.
Taking inspiration from classic 70's UK punk rock and the Kyushu punk scene Visible Fucker played snotty punk that sounds like a mix of the noisier The Very Best Of Hero era Swankys and the later garage inspired 70's sound of the Swankys - Swank Dinner LP.
Visible Fucker were active for just 4 years and recorded 2 demo tapes and appeared on 2 compilation CDs a total of 15 tracks all of which are included on this CD. A few years later vocalist Kasai formed Stinkers who picked up where Visible Fucker left off and took it to the next level, they were an under the radar band who recorded just 2 demos, both are included on this CD. 26 tracks in total in a jewel case with liner notes by former bassist Kichi Vader and loads of pics and flyers.

Fans of The Swankys, Spunky Boys, Slicks, Sex Pistols, the C&C and The MARGAReTS take note.

Wednesday 14 April 2021

STAGNATION - Violent Noize Sunset Beach Party / Live at Enoshima Oppa-La - DVD - Japan.


 limited to  250 copies only.

Live video of the distribution donation GIG held on the stage of Oppa-La in Enoshima, Kanagawa Prefecture is made into a DVD! 42 minutes of NOIZE not MUSIC that destroys the refreshing scenery of Enoshima. Includes a crosstalk interview with Oppa-La store manager Tsuyoshi Wada as a bonus video (translated into English). With 2 types of 25mm tin badges / 250 sheets press. Supervised / photographed by Teppei Miki (FYNAL Tokyo), who is a close-up of the recent Tokyo live scene,

MALIMPLIKI - Libervola - 7" EP Japan.


 Malimpliki - Libervola (free will) 7" - Female hardcore punk band from Tokyo with lyrics sung in Esperanto. TOTAL NOIZE MANGEL CRUSHER.

Screaming for freedom and liberation in Esperanto language.
They agitate about our anxiety and discontent of this society.
This title "libervola" means "Free Intention" stands for who they are.
Hope and Peace, total ferocious mangel crusheeeaarrrhhh!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w-B5lkhPY0
A1 Libereco De Elekto
A2 Se Lento Estas Monto
A3 Enuiga Normo
B1 Felico
B2 Minimund Kultura Vivo

END RESULT / HELLFIRE - 7" EP - Japan.

Japan issue comes with a separate sleeve by Jacky crust war. 

American d-beat hardcore / raw punk band from Los Angeles, California.

THE USA / LA / CA d-beat crusher disaster, which has released discography CDs from Split 7 "ep with LAST SURVIVORS and Break the records, and is gaining recognition in Japan! From the US anarcho thrash of the Iconoclasm-Crucifix lineage so far, to a new frontier that has exploded following the Japanese D-bombraid such as Framtid and Kriegshog. A superb American new generation that gives a flash of light and anger to the current situation where unprecedented situations occur!

 blitzcore.bigcartel.com

A1 HellFire

A2 Society's Failure

A3 Control

B1 Agony

B2 Cycle Of Pain

B3 Total Annihilation