Although I
would love to report that the musical talent of this group
far surpasses the expectation of insufferable noise implied
by its name, I can’t. The release of Seizure Crypt’s
latest album, Hello, my Name is… Madness has
unfortunately done little to help the band rise above the
generic, discombobulated style their name suggests.
I will say
(just) one good thing; the drums on this album are rather
impressive, particularly tracks such as “The Great Defector”
and “The Deadend.”
However.
With that said, I had a few significant issues with this
album. First of all, the vocals were terrible – Mike SOS’s
muddy style of yelling sentences condensed into
incomprehensible compound words was almost unbearable. The
thing about this observation that made it even more
frustrating was that when I actually took the time to look
up the lyrics, they weren’t half bad. I mean, these guys
have some things to say about the shortcomings of our
present day world. However, whatever message they were
attempting to convey was completely lost in the mess of
sound. I was sorely disappointed in this regard; I think
good lyrics are hard to find these days and appreciate when
a band takes the time to write them. Unfortunately,
Seizure Crypt’s listeners will be unlikely to
receive this message because they just won’t be able to
understand it.
Another
problem I had with this album was the sheer overuse of
cheesy sound effects. Though I’m not a huge fan of these to
begin with, when used subtly they offer hope of actually
adding to the song – though in this case it simply was not
so. Beginning with a bizarre robot voice in the fourth
track, “Herein Lies the Problem,” along with an
unnecessarily frequent reappearance of police siren
recordings throughout the album, there seemed to be no end
to the effects-madness.
I will give
Seizure Crypt some effort points, however:
from what little I have heard of their first album,
City of
New York,
this is quite an improvement – if you can believe it.
However, their sound still falls quite a bit short and will
need some intense work before coming anywhere close to what
could be described as "listenable."
Directly out of
the heart of New York was sent me this CD. The boring
Artwork let expect me nothing all too good, but that was
absolutely unfounded. For immediately tied up me at the
music of Seizure Crypt a feeling, which reminded one me of
the old New York Hardcore volumes. A look at showed served
the information slip of paper then also, that New York
Hardcore old master Fury "Hello My name Is... Madness"
received and produces has. That 8 so emerged are pieces
mighty, cunning and sometimes correctly knallig and
brutally. Next to that mentioned unites good, old NY
Hardcore the volumes of yet elements out of the Metal and
point. And that somewhat freshly and intelligently. The
volume seems it to be fun in any case and to see that once
live somewhere in NY, is certainly a funny experience.
Seeing as how
old school is the new cool with seemingly every second band
doffing their caps to the 80s school of Thrash/Crossover it
comes as no surprise that SEIZURE CRYPT’s sound is also
firmly entrenched in this approach. Which is a great idea in
itself of course, except that “Hello My Name Is… Madness”
comes off as infinitely more amateurish and just plain poor
in places. FUELED BY FIRE or EVILE this is not.
Musically
these guys lean a bit more towards the punk-y side of
Thrash, with the sound as a whole reminding me of the SEX
PISTOLS with a healthy dose of old school hardcore thrown
in. So yes, this is raw and primitive but it is not really
very mosh-worthy either mostly due to the goofy vibe that
hangs over the album. I get the idea these guys didn’t know
whether to rock out or piss about. The production is crappy
(with the drums sounding especially hollow), the vocals are
silly and none of the riffs really elevate the album to a
level of acceptable quality or heaviness. It sort of plods
along for 20 minutes with the odd scream here, the odd drum
solo there and the odd melodic part there. It’s disjointed
and messy, but I suppose that’s the way they intended it to
be – you know, to keep in line with the old school ways.
“The Great Defector” isn’t too bad (it’s one of those Kraut
Thrash type songs – very raw, loud and kinda stupid), while
“Thankless” stands as the best song on offer here, mostly
due to the very uncharacteristic AMON AMARTH-like melodic
break midway through. Skip the rest.
I don’t
really know what SEIZURE CRYPT intended this release to be,
but I didn’t have a whole lot of fun with it. I appreciate
the stripped-down approach but it is always crucial to have
a set of strong riffs underneath all the racket and these
guys simply don’t have them.
If you’re in
the mood for sloppy crossover then give this a listen, but
if you have an ear for Metal with more finesse then I
suggest you stay far away.
Two word review: Seizure Crapt. Okay, that’s a bit glib, but
this disc is simply generic NYC-scene hardcore. It’s not
terrible, but it is in no way of interest. Basically a big
“So what?”
Produced by the
world renowned Don Fury, Hello My Name Is... Madness won't
see the same kind of international recognition beckon for
Seizure Crypt, but nonetheless it could well help it's
creators climb up a few notches on the overpopulated NYHC
ladder. 'The Deadend' sees the five-piece dragging up the
long-forgotten corpse of rap-metal, while the slow, sludgy
riffs of 'Herein The Problem Lies' provides one of the
record's most unforgettable highpoints, before the straight
up bile-infested hardcore 'Thankless' brings us back to more
familiar territory. At the end of its mere eight track
lifespan, it's clear to the listener that when Seizure Crypt
branch out and are prepared to break the mould, they're an
intriguing proposition. But with a few too many by-the-book
offerings littered throughout, Hello My Name Is... Madness
is not quite the triumphant achievement it sporadically
threatens to be.
The first offering from Seizure Crypt was so sloppy and horribly produced, I didn't
bother to review it. So I looked forward to their follow-up
with some trepedation. I can happily say that "Hello, My
Name Is Madness" is much improved in sound and focus, though
I would never say this is a great album. Realizing how
poorly the debut sounded, Seizure Crypt made a wise decision
in recruiting veteran hardcore producer Don Fury to helm
this release. Things sound actually professional this time
around and the guitars have a good crisp crunch to them. The
whole thing sounds a lot tighter.
These guys owe a lot to the classic hardcore of the
mid-80's...that DIY type stuff like Gorilla Biscuits and
Youth of Today. First cut "The Great Defector" is no BS fast
hardcore with plenty of attitude. The vocals take some
getting used to, as melody is a foreign concept to Seizure
Crypt. One vocalist has a nasal, incredibly pissed off whine
well suited to jabbering rants, while the other sounds like
an angry Italian dockworker. Sometimes it works, other
times, it just wears really thin.
"The Deadend" is a very Biohazard sounding pounder with the
singers trading rapid fire rap style vocals. Not bad if you
like this style. "Enigma" is a bit slower and has more of a
metal feel...lots of bile and spite in this tune. Then comes
"Herein The Problem Lies" and things fall apart in a hurry.
Nothing works in this slower cut, which I would call
doomcore with really shit vocals. It's almost unlistenable
towards the end and very sloppy. Take my advice and delete.
From there, things get fast and intense again with the next
three cuts before the album ends with the surprisingly tight
thrash metal of "Eulogy", which seems to promise some things
for the future of Seizure Crypt.
This is still not a top tier disc by any means and it's also
painfully short, but these guys are doing what most young
bands should...forging ahead.
I am not sure why I've been getting so many hardcore /
crossover releases in lately but I'm glad I have. From
releases like Pro-pain to Nine to Vallenbrosa and the other
band reviewed for this issue, Daymares, I've become really
impressed with the genre. It was until I started receiving
good stuff like this that I absolutely despised hardcore.
The very thought of it made me sick. I've never liked punk
and the like (with the exception of Columbus locals Legbone).
I suppose with the listen and liking of this album, I'm now
a solidifed hardcore enjoyer (which still kind of makes me
feel weird to say). I hate metalcore with a passion
still...So i'm not sure why. There are definitely some
quality bands in the genre though.
Seizure Crypt definitely has a sound of their own and its a
unique experience to say the least. It more or less comes
from the shared vocal duties, and the hardass, matter of
fact attitude of the main vocalist. You can just hear the
cockiness in his voice. I mainly love how unorthodox the
band seems to be. Their live show and presence must be
something to witness because I can only imagine the drunken
pit that would ensue from half of this insanity. This music
is like super drunk thrash metal on speed after throwing
solos to the wind and welcoming part hard style rhythms to
the fold. I also found it humorous that the band slowed down
to a Black Sabbath speed for the song Herein the Problem
Lies, but still kept the angry, superpissed intensity up on
vocals. The track is funny, there's no doubt about it.
Whether they meant to be serious or not is beyond me though.
Its obvious all of the human scum on this filthy planet are
the problem they're speaking of though.
The best track on the album by far is Inhuman Nature, a
straight up thrash metal brutal face-crush of fucking death
that absolutely annihilates the mainstream media in this
wonderful little perverse country of ours. It also covers
the way that all of the humans on this planet are so easily
told what is real and what is important through the media.
Let's just all just glue our balls to the boob tube now, who
needs education, the news lies to us but its all we need to
know to keep going on with our daily boring fucked lives and
be happy with that right? Right? Fuck this country and the
people who run it, control it, and reem its dirty little red
white and blue asshole every second of every day.
New York crossover band Seizure Crypt
sounds and looks like a band which should have come out with
the Crumbsuckers and the Cro Mags in the late eighties. It's
surprising to find out that vocalist Tom Reardon and drummer
Doug Williamson formed the band in 2004. They've had
countless line-up changes since then and one previous
release, 2005's City of New York.
Hello My Name is Madness is sure to
gain some attention simply because it was produced by Don
Fury. Fury is best known for his work with Glassjaw,
Agnostic Front, Snapcase, Orange 9mm, and Quicksand- among
countless others. With Seizure Crypt he captures a band with
the energy of that time period in the late eighties and
early nineties when bands had their own distinct sound.
While bands like Municipal Waste and Three Inches Of Blood
are blatantly ripping off eighties thrash/ crossover,
Seizure Crypt take that spirit but make it with their own
sound. Most of Hello My Name is Madness is fast
paced, but one exception is the killer slow pace of "Herein
the Problem Lies."
Hello My Name Is… Madness is
the follow-up to Seizure Crypt’ previous record City of
New York which can be read somewhere else on these
pages.
Twenty-four minutes onslaught in the best speed-punk,
hardcore, punk and metal style is what you get here. It is
divided on eight tracks that reminds me to times of
Biohazard’ Urban Discipline album. Both bands are
coming from the very strong NYC hardcore scene, so maybe
there’s a connection there?!
In the following I’ll shortly just mention most of the
tracks, or at least some of the tracks that made an impact
on me while listening to this hardcore ear-onslaught headed
by a double vocal attack. The opening song “The Great
Defector” is mixing an interesting rhythmic beginning into a
tear-the-room-apart hardcore anthem. A follow-up is “The
Deadend” which kind of mixes rap & metal, not exactly my
taste, but it sure has its moments. “Enigma” is third song
with very intense mood and great atmosphere, being very
‘climatic’ track. Song like “Herein the Problem Lies” is on
the other hand unusually very slow for a band like Seizure
Crypt. Tracks as “Thankless” and “Inhumane Nature” are more
politically orientated and deals with media lies and
corruption following to 9/11 events in this great city.
Main problem and strength at the same time I see in the use
of two singers. It is good because of the brutality and
intensity, but it is bad because in much of the time they
are just screaming randomly. Even after few listenings this
album is hard to judge for me, and to be honest I do not,
unlike so many other critics, view this record to be a step
forward for the band, compared to City of New York,
as I simply don’t see that this quartet is bringing anything
new to the table. Still if you’re punk/hardcore/rap/metal
fan, and if you liked their previous material, you’ll sure
find some interesting moments on this one as well... first
step is to go to
www.seizurecrypt.com or/and
www.316productions.com.
I'm not sure if
Seizure Crypt will
appeal to the average reader on Vampire Magazine, but who
knows. This group plays eighties crossover with some early
nineties tendencies and the emphasis more on hardcore than
metal. On some songs they are fully hardcore. The band uses
two vocalists of which one sounds very old school eighties
and the other a lot like Evan Seinfeld (Biohazard).
I hear a lot of Crumbsuckers, Youth of Today, DRI, Agnostic
Front, Sick of it All, Cro-Mags, Propain and some nineties
Anthrax (the intro to 'The Great Defector') in their music.
Musically there a also a few grooving Biohazard moments
('The Deadend' for instance) to be found but on the whole
Seizure Crypt is either a whole lot faster ('Thankless') or
incredibly doomy ('Herein The Problem Lies'). The vocals
reminding me of Bomb Disneyland on the 'Nail Mary EP' are a
pretty enjoyable detail.
Seizure Crypt sounds much more underground and deliberately
sloppier than your average modern hardcore/crossover band.
The two-way vocals on the chorus of 'Inhuman Nature' even
remind me of some nineties Agathocles punk tunes. Closing
song 'Eulogy' has the most metal orientated moments.
"Hello My Name Is Madness"
has a nice underground feeling. The vocal variation and very
diverse tempi are certainly the highlights of the album but
to be honest it is rather too inconsistent to be memorable.
It’s
always nice when a disc’s name actually renders it useful to
the music presented by a band, and sure enough with Seizure
Crypt’s newest offering entitled Hello, My Name is
. . . Madness, the title reminds me of a psychotic
person introducing himself around in a business meeting.
Yeah, kind of like that . . . anyway, on this eight-song
effort by these New York natives, they incorporate some mosh-pit
induced antics by mixing elements of thrash, metal, and
slight tinges of hardcore. But the thing that does differ
for these guys from some of the others is their sadistic,
alter-ego changing ways that has some of that punk, funk
swagger of Suicidal Tendencies/Faith No More. And while on
paper it may sound like an interesting combination, and it
does provide a few nods of humorous approval, the majority
of the record fails to really captivate. Seizure Crypt does
have a different approach, but with the influx of these
New York
multi-crossing hybrid bands arising, it may be a question of
if they have the chops to keep up and eventually make a name
for themselves, or if they’ve already missed the boat on
this new trend.
This one
took a few spins to grow on me, and there are still moments
that I dont like, but overall the bands varied approach to
hardcore is enjoyable. The album starts out right with a
high speed song with simple riffs and shouted vocals. The
second song tries to be a bit more rhythmic and really it
doesnt work. It sounds like a weak Biohazard to my ears. The
third song continues to be mellower with a melodic approach
before exploding with speed during the end of the song.
Basically the rest of the album continues the trend of
having some fast songs and some more experimental songs
which flirt with different rhythms. I find myself enjoying
the fast songs with the slower songs coming across as being
a bit boring and not as together as the faster moments. The
band almost comes across like a crossover band with the
faster songs. Id love to see them explore that side of the
band more and possibly incorporate the melodic aspect of the
band into speedier songs. At the end of the day though, sure
there are things I dont like about this album but Id rather
hear a band playing hardcore then listen to another band
playing emo or metalcore.
How many
hardcore CDs featuring two singers can I think of that I
really like? Hmmm, after giving it some thought, there is
only one album that comes to mind and that's 'Urban
Discipline' by Biohazard. That's not a good sign. More than
often the two singers sound too much alike or they both just
sing a line when the other is finished, which gets old real
soon. Well, you've guessed it: Seizure Crypt has two
singers. Having two singers makes a band like Biohazard
better, here it makes the band worse. They often sound like
they're just screaming randomly without listening to what
the other does.
They perform their 'magic' over a mix of hardcore and metal,
full of breaks and variations in tempo. This is what makes
Seizure Crypt stand out in all the hardcore releases. For
example, listen to the solo in 'Inhuman Nature', or the
quieter part near the end of 'Enigma'. Yet all this
variation makes the band as a whole sound somewhat
incoherent. After listening to a couple of songs I'm still
not enthusiastic, even though the press sheet says I should
be. 'Herein Lies The problem' is simply to slow to hold on
to the listeners attention. It starts with a slow bass
intro, filled with some drum accents. When the guitar makes
its entrance, you think the song will erupt and get violent
or at least loud. But guess what? It doesn't. Same can be
said of 'Enigma', another mid-tempo song. Still, at times
they know how to make fast hardcore songs, like 'Where The
Bodies Are Buried'. Those are the moments at which I like
this band the most, when they show their hardcore roots,
without the breaks and variations in tempos. That doesn't
happen that often. Ah, well, maybe I'm just a hardcore
puritan and maybe you should listen to this CD if you're
not.
Translated with Gramtrans.
Original language can be found here.
Whether you can call this CD for an album, or an ep, has
to be unsaid, but fact is that Seizure Crypt burns down 8
numbers in just under 25 minutes. The style is punched hard-
Kore, whom our mother made it.. FOR HUN LAVEDE IKKE EN
SKID!!
Nøj it's poor this. The subtitles whom I found on the net,
are childish and complete without fine point. The music is
poorly gambled, and borders on the tone deaf. The cover on
the disk also really is rings. There is actually not
anything on this disk I'll describe as being "non-shit".
I regret really, but it really is unwell. The production,
Don Fury (has stood for), is, town father the best at this
disk. The rest is, in order to use the gradually hackneyed
stereotype: Right to open up and shit in!
Woohoo!! A New
York Hardcore review! Life is swe.... wait a minute.... what
the hell is coming out of my speakers? Oh God, make it stop! In case you
couldn't tell, I do love me some NY Hardcore. But Seizure
Crypt manage to take this glorious genre and twist it into a
couple of guys whinning into a microphone while a "band"
"plays" "music" in the background (kinda like Biohazard but
worse if you can imagine that). I'd love to make a joke
right now about having a seizure while listening to Seizure
Crypt, but my brain still feels numb from the last time I
listened to it. :( -CS Bottom Line:
If you love New York Hardcore, please AVOID THIS ALBUM!!!
Seizure Crypt was formed in 2004 by
co-vocalist/bassist/guitarist Tom Reardon
and drummer Doug Williamson. Together with bassist Ivan
Serge and guitarist Bishop Nazz
Seizure Crypt released ‘Hello, my name is Madness’ in 2007.
Were do I fucking begin with reviewing this album.
It sounds so terribly good, this is hardcore at his best.
Production is a little bit raw, but hey that kind of
production suits the music.
The vocals sound great, the guitar shreds my ears to pieces,
and the drum and bass kept me head banging like a maniac
through the whole album.
Guys keep up the good work, and I hope to hear much more of
you soon.
For people who like bands such as: Hatebreed and Biohazard,
buy this fucking album right now.
Overall opinion: Hardcore like it was supposed to be!
Originally
published Monday 02 April 2007
author awarded score:
73/100
Self
released, 2007
It’s second time for me to listen to a release from New York
based band Seizure Crypt. First it was in a form of their
City of New York a few months ago, and now band is back with
their follow up entitled Hello, My Name is… Madness. This
disc sure isn’t madness, or at least it is controlled
madness. The band is still playing their well established
formula of hardcore/punk albums where all instruments are
pretty good. It is obvious to hear rage, anger in their
music as well as the socially strong lyrics. CD is no longer
than 30 minutes but it is filled with energy and
straight-up-your-face approach much in a 90s New York
hardcore scene. If you’re into the bands such Agnostic
Front, Sick of it All and even Machine Head and early
Biohazard I’m sure you’ll also dig this release.
Okay, it's
official. They've finally run out of badass-sounding names
for hardcore bands. I'm not sure who got the last one; maybe
it was Dillinger Escape Plan, maybe it was Boy Sets Fire,
but in any case, the situation has forced today's hardcore
kids to turn to random word generators in order to develop
monikers for their musical groups (much the way that
spammers create the subject headings for email). Can there
be any other excuse for naming your band "Seizure Crypt?" I
had secretly nurtured hope that the group was in fact
composed entirely of epileptics. Wouldn't that make a hell
of a gimmick? Imagine: the club is packed. The band takes
the stage as the sound of grinding feedback fills the room.
The singer approaches the mike, snarling like a rabid dog
when the drummer begins to unleash his anger on the dual
bass drums. Cue the strobe lights. The entire band collapses
into a fit convulsions as the roadies run out on stage to
fit wallets into their mouths to prevent them from
swallowing their tongues.
Alas, if this is, in fact, the case, neither of the two
press-sheets that Seizure Crypt's publicists sent with the
CD made any mention of it. The only weapon in Seizure
Crypt's arsenal is God-awful hardcore music. And make no
mistake, it is God awful. SC manages to double the
listener's pleasure with, not one, but two lead singers. One
of them sounds kind of like a bargain-bin J. Mann (the
growly guy from Mushroomhead) and the other sounds like a
muppet with brain damage. "Hello..." is less monotonous than
most of the hardcore I've listened to, but what it lacks in
monotony, it more than makes up for in sheer abrasiveness
and musical incompetence. Track 2, "The Deadend" actually
finds the group trying to rap (cringe).
The band makes a stab at social commentary with such
delightful numbers as "Enigma," which targets the priestly
abuse scandal (Hey, anyone remember what I said a few months
back about punk bands speaking out on "controversial" issues
about which there's already a consensus?). The laziness of
the lyrics is rivaled only by the ineptitude of the
delivery, right from the first line, where the singer
punches the meter like a four-year-old reciting Mother
Goose: "I am conFUSED/ExPLAIN this to ME." The song
immediately following is a cutting critique of mankind's
self-destructive impulse. Or something. The thing is, I
don't think that Chris Barnes could sound like a hardass
screaming a line like "Herein is where the problem lies"
(which serves as both title and the chorus), so there's no
way these guys can do it.
The ONLY thing these guys have going for them is a
reasonably competent guitar player, who only really gets to
strut his stuff on the last two tracks "Inhuman Nature" and
"Eulogy," the latter by far the most interesting song on the
whole album. The album was produced by Don Fury, who, having
worked with the likes of Agnostic Front and Sick of It All,
really should have known better. Buy this album only if you
like things that suck.
2 out of 10.
Wow… it has
been some years since I listened to any music like this but
I have to say.. This stuff kicked my ass and I really got
into. 8 tracks in 24 minutes… Pure NYC Hardcore.. done the
way it was by the originators but still fucking cool…
Probably the shortest review I have written in a long time..
but no more words are necessary..
Damn, the first minute of The Great Defector is amazing for the drums.
The blast beats and double bass that are playing in the song are just
out of this world. If I didn't know the guys I would think it was a drum
machine, because no human could possibly go that fast. Unreal. But, it's
a live person, Doug is his name and I think he was the one who sent me
the CD. So now that we have established the drummer is inhuman and a machine.... I
think I like this album best from the stuff I have heard and reviewed
before. A more punk/ thrash/ metal sound to them. Tom and Mike do dual
vocals and they sound pretty decent. The Deadend reminds me of an old
Anthrax or old Biohazard song. Pretty cool hardcore/punk sound with the
vocals going back and forth between them. It kind of reminds me of if
Billy from Biohazard and Scott Ian from Anthrax got together. Good mix
for sure. Music is real good, very heavy. Sounds great and this is a must
listen to CD.
Fueling this
one is a lot of rampant and likely drunken NYHC with a touch
of off-kilter Cleveland scene hatecore, but not without a
bit of noisier non-hardcore influence and a bunch of fuckin’
laughs along the way. Maniac’s staffer Mike SOS shows his
sicko-psycho-facepunch style here, paired with another
vocalist, bloodily counter-spewing maniacal (pun intended)
rants. These henchmen lay vomitous hardcore waste to their
surroundings with a multitude of dangerous styles. With the
mentioned NYHC/Clevo-clan (think No Redeeming Social Value
and Warzone meets Face Value and early Integrity) as a base,
The ‘Crypt incorporate twitchy, in-your-grill hardcore
tactics and psychotic episodes of Today Is The Dayish
animosity in this dick-kick of filthy head trauma… all
captured in full glory by Don Fury (Agnostic Front, Helmet,
H20, Gorilla Biscuits et al). Aw, shut the fuck up and love
it. 8 tracks/23:33. 3:16 Productions, 119-33 6th
Ave. College Point, NY 11356.
Sometimes
you have to wonder what the thought processes are behind
decisions bands make. This starts with the selection of a
band’s name. Now, there isn’t exactly a handbook for this
kind of thing, but one would hope that the band members
apply some general sense of musical nomenclature. For
example, the use of words pertaining to death,
dismemberment, or anything spooooky are usually
reserved for metal bands that fall under the “death metal”
subgenre.
Still paying attention, class? Good, now I can stop
talking like a douche and get to the point. When some random
death metal kid walks into a record store and sees the name
Seizure Crypt plastered on the cover of a CD, he might buy
it thinking he’s getting something along the lines of
Obituary, Carcass, or…wait for it…Death! (Buying records
based on names isn’t really the wisest way to throw one’s
money around, but who knows how the hell the kids are
choosing their music these days).
Now, picture Imaginary Sucker’s surprise when he
listens to the straightforward hardcore that “Hello My Name
is…Madness” serves up. Packing eight tracks into a trim
twenty-four minutes, the album is mostly filled with the
same sort of bruising guitar riffs, barking vocals, and lean
production that mark just about every other hardcore album
being made. The odd twinge of thrash sounds as if the band
is trying to push beyond the confines of hardcore, but
falling just shy. In fact, the best parts of the album are
those that show the range Seizure Crypt is desperately
trying to display. The tastiest bits are not surprisingly
those that fall outside of the rigid standards of hardcore,
like the somewhat sloppy but genuinely cool solo in “Inhuman
Nature” or the melodic ending of closer “Eulogy,” the
album’s strongest track.
One last question: do you like the hardcore vocal stylings that a good friend once referred to as the sound of
“a dying chicken?” I sure hope so, because Seizure Crypt has
not one, but two vocalists belting that clipped,
goofy singing that a lot of people find downright
insufferable. If you aren’t into that kind of thing, “Hello
my name is…Madness” will be fairly impenetrable. If you like
(or can look past) the vocals, you’ll find a spirited, if
basic, album that at the very least won’t waste more than a
half hour of your time. It will be interesting to see if
Seizure Crypt can expand their sound in future releases,
something that “Hello My Name is…Madness” attempts, but
never achieves.
Seizure Crypt is a relatively
new crossover band from the world-renowned cesspool of
hardcore, New York City. Their most recent offering,
Hello...My Name is Madness is eight tracks of volatile
poison spit out with the intensity of an alarmed cobra.
Though the term 'speedcore'
might tend to pop up in related conversations about this
band, you'd really be limiting the band's versatility to a
novelty expression based on tempo. Instead, the speed comes
mostly from the amped-up punk flavorings that characterize
the disc, which never quite reach ballistic speed. Indeed,
the band can be quick, but not at the expense of drawing
attention away from the raw, vicious vocal double whammy of
Tom Reardon and Mike SOS. Hardcore aggression has free reign
over most of this, but the dynamics change up on the
gleefully misanthropic "Herein the Problem Lies", a
human-hating dirge of acidic proportions. Also, listen for
some almost genuine thrash on "Inhuman Nature", an assault
on everyone's favorite whipping boy, the media.
Hardcore is known for being
down-to-earth and honest, so topics also go from the macro
(such as the heated topic of child molestation by clergymen)
to the micro. Case in point: "Where the Bodies are Buried",
Tom's personal journey as a long-time EMS worker on an
ambulance.
Nothing about this
twenty-four minute head-crusher really screams originality,
but it is solid fun for those who follow the classic NYC
sound and don't have much tolerance for frills.
Seizure Crypt are from New
York and they sound like it. Rooted in traditional NY style
hardcore like Sick of It All and Youth of Today, Seizure
Crypt belt out high energy and furious songs. Their dual
vocal attack lends an extra layer of to this assault. One
sounds like Ray Cappo (Youth of Today) and the other sounds
like Paul Bearer (Sheer Terror). Most of the material on
Hello My Name is...Madness is pretty straightforward relying
more on holding your attention with its unbridled intensity
rather than any sort of innovation or originality. In a
rapid fire succession the album's 8 tracks blur by without
any let down in energy level save for maybe the seething and
brooding Enigma whose dark and menacing metal riffing
explodes into a furious dual vocal onslaught. For me though
the album's highlight is the mosh inducing second track The
Deadend with its stomped out pace and clean guitar passage
in the middle. A Big deal is made of the knob work of
famous producer Don Fury who has produced many other
hardcore luminaries like SOIA. But to me it is neither here
nor there and the album either sinks or floats on the
quality of the music. And once again I stress that even
though this album is intense it is far from original. I can
listen to it but it lacks some emotional depth. For the
most part though the strength of the material on this
album's is its ability to translate to a live environment.
I am certain many people would be decapitated by the
unstoppable typhoon of round house kicks and flailing fists
in the pit. If you like above average though unspectacular
NY styled hardcore tinged with metal then Seizure Crypt is
for you.
SEIZURE CRYPT
– “Hello, My Name Is… Madness”
(Independent… AND PROUD!)
Style – NYC
hardcore/punk/thrash |
Origin – Queens, NY |
Dion’s
Review – “Seizure Crypt!”. “SEIZURE CRYPT!”. “SEIZURE
CRYPT!!!”. Just in case you didn’t read the CD cover (or the
CD) before you slipped the disc in the drive, these
accommodating lads give you a good ol’ New York City
Hardcore Role-call to bring in the first track “The Great
Defector“. It was about to piss me off, but then I reminded
myself that I’ve weathered much worse CD intros (not
mentioning any black metal names). This one was short,
sweet, and sample-less.
But with
that said, I have to say that I really like these guys. I
don’t know that I’d personally rush out to buy this album,
but I dig it. It appeals to the punk in me that never got to
grow a mohawk and wear tartan and safety-pins. It appeals to
the hardcore kid in me that never got to sport a baseball
cap and whirlwind-slap people who were whirlwind-slapping
other people in a circle-pit. And it appeals to the musician
in me that would never feel comfortable bringing it back to
the basics that these scene-veterans have done. But while
they sound basic, don’t confuse that with sounding bad, or
boring. They have an awesome hardcore production cheers to
Don Fury (Agnostic Front, Sick Of It All), and with dual
vocalists, they are far from boring. One of ‘em even reminds
me a bit of Exodus’s Paul Baloff (R.I.P.).
So if you
love your punk fast and furious, your hardcore angry and
groovy, and your thrash… well, thrashy, then I highly
recommend “Hello, My Name Is… Madness”. Crank it the next
time you have to whirlwind-slap that guy that’s been on your
sofa all weekend to get him to leave. But remember that
you’ve got to shriek the New York City Hardcore Role-call at
him… “SEIZURE CRYPT!!!”.
SEIZURE
CRYPT - Hello My Name Is... Madness CD (316
Productions)
This
Queens, New York five-piece is a musical blast. They are mad
with energy, and the music is an infectious, metallic
hardcore feral attack, but the vocals are what really do it
for me here. Seizure Crypt began in 2004 and released their
first album, City Of New York, on their own in 2005.
The songs are in the vein of late 80s crossover like S.O.D.
/ M.O.D., Crumbsuckers, and Cryptic Slaughter, with a touch
less metal, and a little more straight-up hardcore. It's got
speed, a few breakdowns, and it holds groove, as the bass is
thick and a good part of the song structures. What I like
most are the tradeoff of vocals. I dig dual vocalists,
especially when they sound different and sing over one
another, whether it's in a gang chant unison, or they're
singing two different phrases against one another. That's
where Seizure Crypt shine. One vocalist is a growler, the
other is a screaming madman, and at times they sing in
chorus, and other times they fight one another for lyrical
space. Recorded by NYC hardcore legend Don Fury, so you know
this has been given the treatment it needs to infect
hardcore-heads around the world - not just in New York.
SEIZURE
CRYPT/Hello My Name Is Madness (316 Productions) This band
is back with another collection of real hardcore, not that
groove metal shit. This is true 100% NY hardcore the way it
should be played. Pissed off, shouted vocals, but not in a
forced tough guy way. Fast metal core like riffs along with
a not so polished production make this a hardcore fan's
delight. Each song I am sure will have mosh pits going nuts
for the right reasons and not the wrong ones. Why this band
isn't on a big indie label is beyond me.
Any metalhead
in their late 30s or so worth their credentials remembers
the whole crossover scene, and the influence of NYHC in that
scene. Bands such as Agnostic Front, The Crumbsuckers and
others were greeted rather warmly by the metal scene and
even led to the development of a few crossover exclusive
labels, now defunct, such as Combat Core Records and Death
Records. By the early 90s, however, grindcore was becoming
established with Napalm Death and Brutal Truth raging ahead,
Corrosion of Conformity changed styles, D.R.I. faded
somewhat into generic thrash, the crossover labels dropped
out of sight, and crossover ceased to be a major influence
as Billy Milano’s M.O.D. antics bored the Hell out of
everybody.
At any rate,
the reason for this short history lesson is the release of
Seizure Crypt’s NYHC debut full-length, “Hello, My Name Is
…Madness”. Pure crossover NYHC coming across as a mix of
Agnostic Front (naturally) and Attitude Adjustment (remember
them?), “Hello, My Name Is… Madness” rips through eight
tracks that veer dangerously close to pure hardcore for my
tastes, but is, nonetheless, evocative of the old crossover
days. Consisting of a wide range of tempos from a slow crush
(which tends to last a bit long) to a pit-inducing gallop, a
dual vocal attack laden with typical hardcore shouts, and
“society is shit” lyrical content, Seizure Crypt has all of
the bread and butter elements of the crossover genre
present.
Now, keep in
mind that all of this has been done before, and there’s
certainly nothing new going on here. Although I had most of
the important crossover albums (still have most of them), I
don’t really miss the disappearance of the genre and pure
hardcore was never my thing. To that end, Seizure Crypt,
although certainly competent, doesn’t really do much for me.
Its hard to put
what Seizure Crypt does into any particular category.
Imagine something like Speed Punk and Hardcorde meets Metal
Sludge. There are some kick ass vox effects in Herein Lies
the Problem and its a great build to the next track,
Thankless. Which is an excellent Punk styled shout along
song. Hello My Name Is.....Madness is a killer disc when you
need something just rock out to.
Queens, NY band
Seizure Crypt has put together their second album, and it’s
a heavy blast of metal, rock and hardcore. With a
two-vocalist attack over a loud rhythm section and capable
guitarist, this is what crossover music should have been
instead of the pure metal crap that bands put out in the
late 80’s. Lyrically this is standard fare, with songs
veering mainly into a “society is fucked” bend. Still, this
is good stuff. Loud, well-played and the production by the
legendary Don Fury is excellent as always. Good stuff all
around.
Goofy thrash
metal meets hardcore punk with a dual vocal attack. They try
to be a little too ‘bad ass’ and just sound like a bunch of
flunkies. New York City hardcore has produced a hell of a
lot more worthwhile acts.
I reviewed an
older release from this band and they return with more metal
core the way it was meant to be played. Pissed off, angry
and no groove to be found. Real shouted hardcore vocals, not
all that stupid muffed singing and no dancy groove parts.
The production is raw and I loved every second of this. This
band just rip and lay the law down with their brand of metal
core. This is not for the weak and if you're into old school
and real hardcore music the way it used to be played, here ya fuckin go.
This group of hardcore had already
sent me several times their demonstration is each time I had zappé without making purposely. This time I could not forget
them. Here that they send first CD EP to me 8 titles
recorded in 2007. Hardcore at the very punk rates/rhythms.
The New Yorkeans balance good hardcore streets with their
small key perso which gives them interest. The 4th title is
heavy with a very heavy flow what makes me think of things
more noise like ED Hall or straightforwardly The Buthole
Surfers. Seizure Crypt badly seems foutre not purists of the
HC and it is with much freedom that they make their music. A
little like front! And then it seems to to me that these
tattooed did not fall from the last rain. All that is good
hardcore urban very violent and direct. This group with the
rage with the belly and if it is not malicious enough one
balances the stereotypes style siren police force to
frighten the beginning of the songs. On the level of the
songs it is balanced in a double song irritated well very
well. One of enter them makes me think a little of Jello
Biaffra. All that is very good and the unit which is super
old school causes one gone up in time not unpleasant.
Chaos
and cacophony have always reigned supreme on efforts from
this New York crossover outfit. With Hello My Name Is
Madness though, fiends Seizure Crypt truly reach the
point of oddity. Featuring eight songs that range from
Cryptic Slaughter-inspired blasts of tinny aggression to
mid-tempo diatribes wandering into almost hardcore
territory, the album is certainly fiery. However, the
overall sentiment is that confusion has taken over. In an
effort to broaden their horizons, the band have elongated
songs, slowed down and infused the occasional dynamic,
“artsy” bridge. This is entirely admirable and works at some
points but it also tends to hamper. Hello My Name Is
Madness is still an album to be proud of, though
long-time fans may be somewhat taken aback. Were the band to
relax and allow each song to grow on its own, they would be
powerful and dominant. As it stands, they’ve over-thought it
and the confusion cuts through like a rusty razorblade.
(3:16)
Seizure Crypt
Hello My Name Is Madness
3:16 Productions
Fate is a cruel mistress. It lets
people sleep-in with fire at their door. It tears apart
lovers and kills goldfish. For this writer, fate has brought
a second Seizure Crypt album in less than a year. Though the
NYC speedcore quartet have made some small steps, they still
rest firmly in the backseat of wrestling-loving, dead
body-poking, gutter-throated America.
As a band, Seizure Crypt have tightened up. It's easy enough
to say that all the notes are (pretty much) in all the right
places, but what remains is a fairly average metal record
that's strangely dated (read: late
eighties), though I suppose this is fair given that's when
anyone other than the hardcore fans cared about speedcore.
Though influences from Fugazi to Celtic Frost are at play
here, there's no interesting adaptation of the blueprints.
Chord progressions decisively jump from minor to minor,
machine-gun drums blast out are little more than
genre-specific talking heads, and the tracks stick true to
their source material, with tracks like "The Deadened,"
"Where the Bodies are Buried," "Inhuman Nature," and closer
"Eulogy" pointing in the obvious direction of the lyrical
content.
That being said, Seizure Crypt's new album is much better
than last years offering. Their two-singer attack layers
barks over growls quite well, considering that is wasn't
even listenable one album before. Even if all this is for is
to spit somewhat archaic material, I still have to say that
Seizure Crypt are bringing a lot more to the table. Though
the band sticks too much into the standard speedcore riffs,
a few scattered bridges and outroes offer some variety,
including an interlude on "Eulogy" that caries a little
'classic rock by way of John Frusciante' balladry to it.
That being said, I still stand by my previous assessment of
the band being "one for the squeegee kids," though their fan
base is sure to grow incrementally as they continue to hone
their sound.
This band is
pretty original, and Hello My Name is...Madness has
a real unpredictable yet fun feel to it. There are a slew of
styles portrayed on this album, and they all sound like the
band is having a good time at every second. I'm a big fan of
the basslines, as they usually set the tone for the rest of
the music.
The duel
vocal attack works pretty well on here, although they can
sometimes sound a bit on the goofy side. I think that their
faster songs work much better than their slower ones
("Thankless" is a great song). A song like "Herein the
Problem Lies" really sounds like the band is reaching, and
the result isn't that great.
I do like
the Don Fury production, which is a step up from their last
release (a basement recording), but still gives them a
hardcore sound. This is an album with its ups and downs, but
it has more ups than downs.
Here’s this week’s [deadthyme] playlist. [deadthyme] is a
radio show that comes on every week from 3 to 6 AM Sunday
night / Monday morning (whichever you prefer to call it)
U.S. Central time on KPFT 90.1 FM in Houston, or you can
listen to it online here:
http://houston.kpft.org/site/PageServer?pagename=listen_live.
Check out the new deadthyme website here:
http://deadthyme.thezombified.com
(where you can find an alphabetical list of every song ever played, playlists, links, etc.)
playlist for 10/1/07:
Artist - Song Title - Album Title
Misfits - Earth A.D. - Earth A.D.
The Black Hand - War Monger - War Monger
Jilted - Dropdead - Beyond Description/ Jilted split ep
DropDead - Awaken Sleeper - DropDead/ Totalitar split ep
Anal Cunt - All Our Fans Are Gay - Defenders of the Hate
Stikky - California Lottery - Where’s My Lunchpail
Poison Idea - Another Place - Learning To Scream 7″ep
Unpersons - A Small Gesture, A Thousand Small Happy
Gestures - Baroness/ Unpersons split
Retching Red - Insomnia - Taking Out a Little Agression:
A Tribute To Agression compilation
Inhuman - Temporary - Rebellion
Enemies - Get Bent - Enemies
Samael - Slaveocracy - Soular Soul
The Pallbearers - Needle In My Brain - Video Nasties
Snobb-Slakt - U.S.A. - Snobb-Slakt 7″ep
Unit 21 - Burn the Days of Time - Brainshred
Violent Arrest - Born On Your Knees - Violent Arrest
12″ep
Napalm Death - Born On Your Knees - Scum
Pretty Little Flower - Black Robe - Pulverizing Lethal
Force
Necroanal - Booger Eating- Gateway Behaviour Leading To
Golden Showers and Scatalogical Ecstasy - Why the Fuck Does Your Shit Taste Like a Combination of My
Grandpa’s Regurgitation and Your Doberman’s Semen
Madball - No Escape - Infiltrate the System
Born/ Dead - Mind Control - Endless War… Repetition
The Endless Blockade - Tar Pit Neanderthal - The Endless
Blockade/ Hatred Surge split 12″ep
What Happens Next? - One and All - The Second Year
Backstabbers, Inc. - Buy That Fucker a Graveyard Dance -
While You Were Sleeping ep
Melt-Banana - Plasma Gate Quest - Bambi’s Dilemma
KMFDM - Tohuvabohu - Tohuvabohu
Bracewar - Wake Up - Juggernaut
Reagan SS - Pests - Universal and Triumphant 12″ep
Gwar - Tune From Da Moon - We Kill Everything
P.B.K. - Worlds Gone Askew - Under My Breath
Dropkick Murphys - Shattered - The Meanest of Times
Funeral Shock - Locked - III 7″ep
America’s Hardcore - Born Prejudice - It Came From
Slimey Valley compilation
Internal Affairs - Reality Check - Deadly Visions 7″ep
Municipal Waste - Septic Detonation - The Art of
Partying
Nora - Famous Last Words - Save Yourself
The Accused - Martha Will - Oh Martha
Nog Watt - Going On - Fear 7″ep
Dog Soldier - Work Ensues - Barking the Dogs of War ep
Enemymine - Nightmare Air - The Ice In Me
Cradle Of Filth - Libertina Grimm - Thornography
Concrete Violin - The End Begins Here - Trikaidekaphobia
Regulations - New Ways - Different Minds 7″ep
Rise Above - Nervous Breakdown - Rise Above
Broken Needle - My Rules - Broken Needle 12″ep
Doomtree - Severed - Down Below
The Hope Conspiracy - Defiant Hearts - Endnote
Imperative Reaction - Rift - Ruined
A Pink Cloud - Vega - Gyogyul 1
Between The Buried And Me - Sun of Nothing - Colors Seizure Crypt - Thankless - Hello My Name Is Madness
Shift - Electrofixx - Totentanz Vol. II compilation
Septic Death - Kichigai - Kichigai 7″ep
Today Is The Day - The Russian Child Porn Ballet - In
the Eyes of God
Plan 9 - Blood - This Is Horrorpunk 2 compilation
Bad Brains - Let There Be Angels (Just Like You) - Build
a Nation
Born For Bliss - Arabia - Arabia single
Born Against - Organ of Hope - Nine Patriotic Hymns For
Children
Hates - Dead Or Alive - New World Oi
Mika Miko - Attitude - 666
Black Market Baby - Youth Crimes - Coulda… Shoulda…
Woulda
Two Witches - Dead Dog’s Howl - Agony of the Undead
Vampires Part II
Horse The Band - Hyperboria - A Natural Death
Baroness - The Birthing - The Red Album
Bark Hard - To Myself - Bark Hard
[deadthyme] is a modern counter-culture music show.
Modern counter-culture music can be defined many different ways, but for this show it’s defined as punk, goth,
industrial, and all the subgenres therein (death rock,
hardcore, industrial noise, grindcore, darkwave, crust, oi!, e.b.m.,
d-beat, gothic metal, straight edge, sound collage, etc.) as
well as other forms ov offbeat music that slip between the
cracks (such as Negativland, Swans, Chrome, Big Black, etc.) and even a little extreme metal.
For more info, comments, requests, or if you want your band
played on the show, e-mail: deadthyme@hotmail.com.
Here’s
this week’s [deadthyme] playlist. [deadthyme] is a radio
show that comes on every week from 3 to 6 AM Sunday
night/ Monday morning (whichever you prefer to call it)
U.S. Central time on KPFT 90.1 FM in Houston, or you can
listen to it online here:
http://houston.kpft.org/site/PageServer?pagename=listen_live.
Check
out the new deadthyme website here:
http://deadthyme.thezombified.com (where you can
find an alphabetical list of every song ever played,
playlists, links, etc.)
playlist for 7/16/07:
Artist - Song Title -
Album Title
Strung
Up - Pay Toll - Strung Up/
Direct Control split 12″ep
Career Suicide - Blink -
Attempted Suicide
Maimed For Life - Just Don’t Know -
Maimed For Life 7″ep
Plaid Retina - Gone Mad - Plaid
Retina 7″ep
Wolfpack - Mist of Morfeus - All
Day Hell
Seizure Crypt - The Great Defector -
Hello My Name Is Madness
Wolf Eyes - Rationed Rot - Human
Animal
The Beginning Of The End - Incestuous Gang
of Terror - Punishment Is Necessary 10″ep
Straight To Your Face - Mark My Words
- Straight To Your Face
Sore Throat - Man’s Hate - Never
Mind the Napalm…
Damage Deposit - Make the Skynerd Stop
- Straight To the Bottom 7″ep
Totalitar - Inspelning Pagar -
Totalitar 7″ep
Hogan’s Heroes - Full On -
Hogan’s Heroes
Econochrist - Bled Dry - Skewed
7″ep
Wisdom In Chains - Living In a Fog -
Class War
Sleeper Cell - Erased - Sleeper
Cell
Signal Lost - Therapy -
Prosthetic Screams
Filth - Scarred For Life - Blatz/
Filth split
Red Harvest - Warthemes - A
Greater Darkness
Unruh - Closed Circuit - Misery
Strengthened Faith
Cephalic Carnage - Let Them Hate So Long As
They Fear - Xenosapien
Bandanos - Justica Da Ruis -
Destruction’s End/ Bandanos split ep
John Wiese - New Wave Dust -
Soft Punk
Terminal State - Wake Up - Sick
7″ep
Hammer Head - Nothing Like You -
Get A Grip/ Hammer Head split
Violent Arrest - War of Nerves -
Violent Arrest 12″ep
Ratos De Porao - O Equivocado -
Homem Inimigo Do Homem
Skrew - Indestructable - Burning
In Water, Drowning In Flame
Severed Head Of State - Sacrament of the
Sick - Power Hazard 12″ep
Social Schism - Masculine Bullshit -
A Conflicting Mass of Media Misinformation
Maggot Sandwich - Sex Sells -
Get Off the Stage
Disrupt - Religion’s a Fraud -
Unrest
Karst - Over Ruled - Vision of
Insane Hope
Tolar - Prayer To a Madman -
Tolar 12″ep
The Dead C - Garage - Future
Artists
Gather - Dollar Signs To the Industry
- Beyond the Ruins
Rancor - Bane - Distinguish
Excrement Of War - Discarded Remains -
The Waste… & the Greed 7″ep
Pleaseant Valley Children - As Good As It
Gets - What the World Needs Now 7″ep
Nux Vomica - The Hiding - The
Uninspired 7″ep
fourteenth “Ep On 3″ (in which I play an entire classic
ep on the 3rd week of each month):
Antidote - “Thou Shalt Not Kill” 7″ep; 1983, Antidote
records
Ministry - The Great Satan (What Would Satan
Do? mix) - Rio Grande Dub Ya
Noothgrush - Dianoga - Failing
Early, Failing Fast
Vectors - Rape the Pope - Diggy
Diggy Dead! compilation
Adrenalin O.D. - Pope On a Rope -
Humongousfungusamongus
L’a'rm - Crucify the Pope -
L’a'rm/ Stanx split
Conquest For Death - War On Children, War of
Children - Front Row Tickets To Armageddon
George Moshington - Fort Sumpter Never Had a
Disco Night - Seventeen Seventy Fuck You!!!
7″ep
U.B.R. - Podrazitev - Corpus
Delecti 7″ep
Deadline - Stolen Youth - Flex
Your Head compilation
Corrosion Of Conformity - Coexist -
Eye For An Eye
Cyness - Kleines Licht -
Skitsystem/ Cyness split 7″ep
Warmth - Brain In the - Leave
Your Wet Brain In the Hot Sun
The 69 Eyes - Angels - Angels
Melt-Banana - Blank Page of the Blind
- Bambi’s Dilemma
Gray Matter - Give Me a Clue -
Food For Thought
The Cravats - Firemen - The Land
of the Giants
Tinfed - Thinwall Turmoil -
Hypersonic-Hyperphonic
Brain Failure - Coming Down To Beijing
- Turn On the Distortion
Cyberaktif - Nothing Stays -
Tenebrae Vision
[deadthyme] is a modern counter-culture music show.
Modern counter-culture music can be defined many
different ways, but for this show it’s defined as punk,
goth, industrial, and all the subgenres therein (death
rock, hardcore, industrial noise, grindcore, darkwave,
crust, oi!, e.b.m., d-beat, gothic metal, straight edge,
sound collage, etc.) as well as other forms ov offbeat
music that slip between the cracks (such as Negativland,
Swans, Chrome, Big Black, etc.) and even a little
extreme metal.
For more info, comments, requests, or if you want your
band played on the show, e-mail:
deadthyme@hotmail.com.
Back to
basics this week, some old songs and some new. If you’re in
a band and want to be included in future shows, feel free to
send
things my way. Thanks as always
for any feedback given to the podcast.
Tracks played:
01. Time To Escape - Wasted Time
(Demo) 02. Seizure Crypt - Where The Bodies Are Buried (Hello, My
Name Is… Madness)
03. Lights Out - Level (Overload)
04. Army Of Jesus - Priest Vomits Blood (Rats In the Walls)
05. Rosemary’s Babies - I’m Gonna Be Sick (Blood Lust)
06. Harpoon Guns - Hey Man (Self-Titled)
07. B.G.K. - Arms Race (A Dutch Feast)
08. Outpatients - Balloon Head (Outpatients)
09. Guttermouth - Encyclopedia Brown (Gorgeous)
10. INDK - Sunday Bombs (Kill Whitey!)
11. Prefects - Escort Girls (Are Amateur Wankers)
12. Warsaw - Warsaw (Warsaw boot)
13. Viletones - Possibilities (Screaming Fist)
14. Eater - Thinkin’ Of The USA (single)
15. Bayonettes - Let It Go (We’re Doomed EP)
16. Tipper’s Gore - Normal By Now (First Four Months)
17. Chronic Sick - Dress Code (Cutest Band In Hardcore)
18. Urban Waste - No Hope (EP)
19. Negative Trend - Mannequin (The Pop Sessions)
20. Teengenerate - Kicked Out Of The Webelos (Get Action)
21. Bad Brains - Jah People (Build a Nation)
22. The Audio Rapists - The Ballad Of Trent Lott
23. Hour of the Wolf - Deaths Coming (Power of the Wolf)
24. Warkrime - Suburban Suicide (Give War a Chance EP)
25. Brutal Knights - Worst City (Pleasure Is All Thine)
26. Yummy Fur - Policeman (single)
27. Hatepinks - My City Is Sick Of Pizza (Tete Malade/Sick
In the Head)
28. Thee Stash - We’re Selling Jeans For the USA (single)
29. The Stooges - Greedy Awful People (The Weirdness)
30. Youth Brigade - Somebody’s Gonna Get (Their Head Kicked
In) (Out Of Print)
Watain - Storm of the Antichrist ( Sworn to the Dark -
Season of Mist)
Vehementer Nos - Dans Le Flot (Vehementer Nos - Osmose)
Sulphur - Two Thousande Years of Plague (Cursed Madness -
Osmose)
Oceans of Sadness - them Bones (Mirror Palace - Oceans of
Sadness)
chris Caffery - Worms (Pins and Needles - Metal Heaven)
Intense - Anger of the Ancients (As Our Army Grows - Napalm)
Shade Empire - Bloodstar (Intoxicate O.S. - DAR)
With Passion - Encryption (What we see When we shut our Eyes
- Earache)
Nox - Darkness Undying (Naxaar - Earache)
Deathbound - Deceiving Shortcuts (We deserve much worse -
DAR)
Leng tch'e - Tightrope Propaganda (Marasmus - Relapse)
Vampire Mooose - Ogdru Jahad (Serenade the Samurai - Rotten)
Alabama Thunderpussy - Void of Harmony (Open fire - Relapse)
Unwritten Law - California Sky (The Hit List - Bodog)
Awesome Snakes - I want a snake (Venom - Crustacean)
Minutes Too Far - Eat Your Heart Out (Let it roll -
Doghouse)
Les Anges - Boys Boys Boys (Boys Boys Boys SCD - Bang!)
