Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Reach The Sky - Self Titled (1997)


This is the release that started it all.  Reach The Sky then went on to release 7 more records on various labels before their premature break up in 2002.  RTS were driven by passion, emotion, and energy which were all very present in every song.  These guys are legends of the Boston hardcore scene that will surely live on forever.  Enjoy.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Comeback Kid - Strike Anywhere - American Nightmare

Track listing:
1 - Lost Glories
2 - Lying In Sand Again
3 - A Letter Sent South
4 - Twenty Three
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Reach The Sky - Open Roads and Broken Dreams (1998)


For almost half a decade Reach The Sky simply owned Boston hardcore. They were a uniquely invigorating pillar in the contemporary hardcore scene. Uplifting and honorable, intelligent and emotional, their brand of positive hardcore fused with stand up ethics was nothing short of awe inspiring. They found a way to rise above the sometimes stagnating worlds of punk and hardcore by combining the best of both worlds with sweeping melodies, and unforgettable choruses. Reach The Sky "Open Roads And Broken Dreams" CD Reissue was released on Deathwish in 2002.  Reach The Sky also released numerous albums on the Victory label before finally disbanding in late 2002.  Members of the band later went on to play in: Stand Accused, Bane, and Rise Against.  This is the 2002 re-release from Deathwish.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Comeback Kid - Strike Anywhere - American Nightmare

Track listing:
1 -  Catch The Last Train
2 - The Miles Before Us
3 - World Stands Still
4 - Before Too Long
5 - As The Sun Fell On Summer
6 - My Last Known Address
7 - April Showers
8 - Spring
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Reach The Sky - Split w With One Intent (1998)


This EP features 2 tracks by both bands and was originally released in 1998 on Back Ta Basics Records.  Enjoy.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Comeback Kid - Strike Anywhere - American Nightmare

Track listing:
1 - With One Intent - Complete Failure
2 - With One Intent - Justice For Sale
3 - Reach The Sky - Last Glories
4 - Reach The Sky - My Last Known Address
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Reach The Sky - Everybody's Hero (1999)


Everybody's Hero is Reach The Sky's EP single that was released just before So Far From Home.  4 tracks released by Victory Records.  A must have for any RTS collector. 

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Comeback Kid - Strike Anywhere - American Nightmare

Track listing:
1 - The Chase Is On
2 - Seems Like Forever
3 - First Few Days
4 - Everybody's Hero
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Reach The Sky - So Far From Home (1999)


Based on the principle that hardcore is driven by emotion, Boston's REACH THE SKY utilize and harness universal feelings of experience, loss, regret, and achievement to bolster a melodic, yet aggressive brand of hardcore. Thirteen songs that blaze with a cross-genre appeal certain to get the attention of old schoolers and emo-kids alike.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Comeback Kid - Strike Anywhere - American Nightmare

Track listing:
1 -  Maybe Next Year
2 - So Far From Home
3 - The Chase Is On
4 - She Really Loved You
5 - In My Defense
6 - World Stands Still
7 - At Your Doorstep
8 - Seems Like Forever
9 - Sometimes The Things You Say
10 - First Few Days
11 - Tonight
12 - Everybody's Hero
13 - Lost Glories
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Reach The Sky - Split W Buried Alive (2000)


The EP known as Boston - Buffalo Express.  This EP was originally released by Indecision Records in 2000 and features 2 tracks by both of these amazing bands. 

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Comeback Kid - Strike Anywhere - American Nightmare

Track listing:
1 -  Buried Alive - Another Day Closer To Death
2 - Buried Alive - Our Time Is At Hand
3 - Reach The Sky - Let Us Be Damned
4 - Reach The Sky - Stars Lead The Way
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Reach The Sky - Friends, Lies, And The End Of The World (2001)


Boston's REACH THE SKY are back with their sophomore album on Victory. Full of hooks, sing a long choruses and their signature hardcore style, this release is RTS most accessible album to date.

 Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Comeback Kid - Strike Anywhere - American Nightmare

Track listing:
1 -  Let Us Be Damned
2 - This Sadness
3 - The Crowded Streets of Boston
4 - A Year And A Smile
5 - Raincheck
6 - The Truth So Familiar
7 - Stealing My Soul
8 - Goodbye And Goodluck
9 - Wherever You Go
10 - Sunday Morning Awake
11 - My Updated Epitaph
12 - Stars Lead The Way
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Reach The Sky - The Transient Hearts (2002)


Boston's Reach The Sky decided to end their time together after the release of The Transient Hearts.  Transient Hearts was released by Victory Records in 2002.  RIP. 

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Comeback Kid - Strike Anywhere - American Nightmare

Track listing:
1 - The Gift of Stern Angels
2 - Homesick Confession
3 - His Hour Upon The Stage
4 - Everlasting Voices
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Friday, December 20, 2013

Guttermouth - The Album Formerly Known As Full Length LP (1996)

Full Length LP is the debut album by the Huntington Beach, California punk rock band Guttermouth, released in 1991 by Dr. Strange Records. It introduced the band's style of fast, abrasive punk rock with tongue-in-cheek humor and sarcastic lyrics. The album was originally released as an LP but was repackaged the following year as a CD including tracks from the band's first 2 EPs Puke and Balls, as well as the previously unreleased tracks "Malted Vomit" and "Ghost." It was re-released again in 1996 by Nitro Records under the title The Album Formerly Known as Full Length LP.
The album proved to be a success for the band, expanding their fan base and giving them opportunities to play shows all over southern California alongside other popular punk rock bands. An animated music video was made for the song “1, 2, 3…Slam!” and played on local punk rock and skateboarding video programs. Many of the songs from Full Length would remain staples in the band's live set throughout their career.

Status: Active
Contact: website
Rock if you like: The Vandals - NOFX - The Nobodys

Track listing:
1 - Race Track
2 - No More
3 - Jack La Lanne
4 - Where Was I
5 - Old Glory
6 - I'm Punk
7 - Mr. Barbeque
8 - Bruce Lee Vs. The Kiss Army
9 - Chicken Box
10 - Carp
11 - Toilet
12 - Oats
13 - 1,2,3... Slam!
14 - I Used To Be 20
15 - Reggae Man
16 - Chicken Box (again)
17 -  Just A Fuck
18 - Hypocrite
19 - Marco-Polo
20 - Under My Skin
21 - Gas Out
22 - No Such Thing
23 - Malted Vomit
24 - Ghost
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Guttermouth - Friendly People (1994)


Friendly People is the second album by the Huntington Beach, California punk rock band Guttermouth, released in 1994 by Nitro Records. It was the first release for the label, which was founded by Dexter Holland of The Offspring. The album continued the band's style of fast, abrasive punk rock with tongue-in-cheek humor and sarcastic lyrics.

Status: Active
Contact: website
Rock if you like: The Vandals - NOFX - The Nobodys

Track listing:
1 - End On 9
2 - Derek
3 - Jamie's Petting Zoo
4 - Bullshit
5 - P.C.
6 - Disneyland
7 - Can't We All Just Get Along?
8 - Veggicide
9 - Chaps My Hide
10 - What's Gone Wrong?
11 - Your Late
12 - Summer's Over
13 - Asshole
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Guttermouth - Teri Yakimoto


Teri Yakimoto is the third album by the Huntington Beach, California punk rock band Guttermouth, released in 1996 by Nitro Records. It was their first album with bass player Steve Rapp and continued the band's style of fast, abrasive punk rock with tongue-in-cheek humor and sarcastic lyrics. This time, however, the band experimented with more melody and pop influence. By all accounts the recording process was plagued with problems, and at one point most of the recordings were scrapped and re-recorded with a new producer. A music video was filmed for the song “Whiskey” and the album became the band's only to reach the Billboard Heatseakers chart, reaching #33.

Status: Active
Contact: website
Rock if you like: The Vandals - NOFX - The Nobodys

Track listing:
1 - Use Your Mind
2 - Trinket Trading, Tick Toting, Toothless, Tired Tramps...or the 7 T's
3 - Generous Portions
4 - A Day At The Office
5 - Teri Yakimoto
6 - Whiskey
7 - Lock Down
8 - God's Kingdom
9 - Mark's Ark
10 - Room For Improvement
11 - Casserole of Life
12 - Thought Provoking Sonic Device
13 - I Saw The Light
14 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
15 - Under The Sea
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Guttermouth - Musical Monkey (1997)


Musical Monkey is the fourth album by the Huntington Beach, California punk rock band Guttermouth, released in 1997 by Nitro Records. The album continued the band's style of fast, abrasive punk rock with tongue-in-cheek humor and sarcastic lyrics. Several songs from the album would remain staples in the band's live set throughout the rest of their career, and many fans and critics view it alongside their first album Full Length as among their best recordings.

Status: Active
Contact: website
Rock if you like: The Vandals - NOFX - The Nobodys

 Track listing:
1 - What's The Big Deal?
2 - Lucky The Donkey
3 - Big Pink Dress
4 - Do The Hustle
5 - Good Friday
6 - Bakers Dozen
7 - Abort Mission
8 - Corpse Rotting In Hell
9 - Lipstick
10 - When Hell Freezes Over
11 - S.D.F.B.
12 - What If?
13 - Perfect World
14 - Gold
15 - Musical Monkey
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Guttermouth - Gorgeous (1999)


Gorgeous is the sixth album by the Huntington Beach, California punk rock band Guttermouth, released in 1999 by Nitro Records. It was the band's most aggressive album to date, due in part to a lineup change: bass player Steve Rapp had left the group and drummer James Nunn had taken over his position, making room for new drummer Ty Smith (credited here as T. Bradford). It would also be the band's last album for Nitro, as they moved to Epitaph Records the following year.

Status: Active
Contact: website
Rock if you like: The Vandals - NOFX - The Nobodys

Track listing:
1 -  Hit Machine
2 - Encyclopedia Brown
3 - Con Especial
4 - Viva America
5 - Diamond Studded Bumble Bee
6 - A Date With Destiny
7 - The Dreaded Sea Lice Have Come Aboard
8 - A Nice Place To Visit?
9 - Food Storage
10 - I Have A Dream
11 - BBB
12 - High Balls
13 - Intro
14 - Power Up
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Guttermouth - Covered With Ants (2001)


For over ten years now Guttermouth have brought their raunchy brand of mayhem to an ever-growing audience of snotty punk kids across the globe. Collectively, the members of Guttermouth have been arrested, shot at, threatened, burned and banned from Canada. They have given their all to the high art of punk rock and with the release of Covered With Ants, Guttermouth is the band that just keeps giving a little more.

Status: Active
Contact: website
Rock if you like: The Vandals - NOFX - The Nobodys

Track listing:
1 - That's Life
2 - Can I Borrow Some Ambition?
3 - Secure Horizons
4 - She's Got The Look
5 - Looking Good Is All That Matters
6 - I'm Destroying The World
7 - Chug-A-Lug Night
8 - What You Like About Me
9 - I Won't See You In The Pit
10 - Black Enforcers
11 - Cram It Up Your Ass
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Guttermouth - Gusto (2002)


The alpha dogs of party punk are back and about as obedient as a rabid dingo. So cover your crotch, hide your children and get ready to roll over and play dead because the boys from O.C. are off the leash and ready to leave a number 2 in your favorite easy chair. This time around Guttermouth goes for the "Gusto" with 14 savory bite sized nuggets that will lead you to obey they're every command. The time is now to leave a surprise on your neighbor's ears and their lawn, so do it with Guttermouth and do it with "Gusto".

Status: Active
Contact: website
Rock if you like: The Vandals - NOFX - The Nobodys

 Track listing:
1 - Camp Fire Girl #62
2 - Scholarship Punk
3 - Gusto
4 - Vacation
5 - Contagious
6 - Pee In The Shower
7 - Walk of Shame
8 - My Town
9 - Contribution
10 - Foot-Long
11 - Looking Out For #1
12 - Twins
13 - My Girlfriend
14 - Lemon Water
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Guttermouth - Eat Your Face (2004)

The 8th full length from So Cals tongue-n-cheek punk rock superheros.  Eat Your Face is 14 tracks and was released in 2004 on Epitaph Records.

Status: Active
Contact: website
Rock if you like: The Vandals - NOFX - The Nobodys

Track listing:
1 - Party of 2
2- Surf's Up Asshole
3 - Octopus Hairpiece
4 - Wasted Lives
5 - The Next Faux Mowheekon
6 - Treason
7 - Second DUI
8 - My Neighbors Baby
9 - West Side
10 - Nraaa
11 - Toilet Stall Humor
12 - Ticket To Quebec
13 - Hot Dog To The Head
14 - Untitled
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Guttermouth - Shave The Planet (2006)


The word "punk" is thrown around a lot these days and unfortunately, it's been misrepresented in every way, shape, and form. Then there's California's Guttermouth, the true definition of punk rock: loud, fast, and truly offensive. This is their tenth album. Their infamous tongue-in-cheek humor and hyper songs remain poignant to the times today; lambasting the politicians, the scenesters, and even their own audience.

Status: Active
Contact: website
Rock if you like: The Vandals - NOFX - The Nobodys

Track listing:
1 - Shave The Planet
2 - Capitalizing From Plump Mistakes
3 - My Chemical Imbalance
4 - Flacidism
5 - Primate Camp
6 - The 23 Things That Rhyme With Darby Crash
7 - "Mark" The Chubby Chaser/ Newport Sweater Fat
8 - What Then
9 - God, Steve McQueen "The Work Song"
10 - Upside Down Space Cockroach
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Eyelid - Bleeding Through (1996)


Eyelid's amazing first release.  3 tracks released in 96 from so cal hardcore legends.  Enjoy.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Kiss It Goodbye - Adamantium - Undertow


Track listing:
1 - Abami
2 - Changeless
3 - Bleeding Through
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Eyelid - ...Days Infected (1996)


Eyelids 2nd release on Ammunition Records offers up 6 tracks heart felt emotional and artistic hardcore.  You know them, you'll love this.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Kiss It Goodbye - Adamantium - Undertow


Track listing:
1 - Statues
2 - Despair Runs Deep
3- Abami
4 - Second Savior
5 -What Lies BetweenUs
6 - Changeless
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Eyelid - Conflict's Invitation (1999)

The follow up EP to Eyelids amazing first full length.  Loud, Angry, and Emotional describe the sound that Eyelid execute to perfection.  You like If It Kills?  You'll love this. Because we want the world, and we want it on fire.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Kiss It Goodbye - Adamantium - Undertow


Track listing:
1 - Conflicts Invitation
2 - Invention of Hope
3 - The Analytical Hit
4 - Pyro's Opinion
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Torn Apart - Self Titled (1997)

The first Self Titled release from the Baltimore legends.  Get this shit ASAP, so you can lie to your friends about how "old school" you are. 

Status: Inactive
Rock If You Like: For The Love Of - Prayer For Cleansing - Love Lost But Not Forgotten


Track listing:
1 -  Self Loathing
2 - Kill
3 - Set Everything On Fire
4 - Claustrophobia
5 - False Hope
6 - Alone
7 - Kill Wemon
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Torn Apart - Nothing Is Permanent... (1997)


A hard-rock-hitting furnace blast of super-technical hella-core from Baltimore's most pissed. A ten-song bodybreak of ferocious metal onslaught and churning h.c.-obliteration produced by BRIAN McTERNAN. Worth dying for.

Status: Inactive
Rock If You Like: For The Love Of - Prayer For Cleansing - Love Lost But Not Forgotten

Track listing:
1 - Running Out
2 - Of The Circle
3 - I Gained Nothing
4 - Burned Again
5 - Realization
6 - Free Myself
7 - No Tomorrow
8 - Maybe I...
9 - Just Sit Back
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XfilesX - NBC Mayhem (2002)


XfilesX - NBC Mayhem is 10 songs of brutal straight edge powerviolence.  This was the release that started it all.  Enjoy.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Charles Bronson - Backstabbers Inc. - Spazz

Track listing:
1 - Drown In My Own Puke
2 - I'm Not Your Boy Next Down, I'm An Evil Psycho
3 - Crucial Zekes On Kidnapped
4 - Brain Fart
5 - Don't Ask
6 - Chubby Chaser
7 - Real Edgemen Hate Jesus
8 - The Thing About Edge Breakers Is...
9 - The College Life Is The Life For Me
10 - You'd Better Roll On Outta Here
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XfilesX - Beaten Straight (2002)


XfilesX - Beaten Straight is their 2nd release consisting of 12 tracks of the pure pissed off agro straight edge powerviolence you love. 

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Charles Bronson - Backstabbers Inc. - Spazz


Track listing:
1 - 02 Cents
2 - Modstomper
3 - Then What Do You Smoke Guy?
4 - Revenge of the Hardcore Nerds
5  - Please Break Up Before You Embarrass Us All
6 - Don't Get Too Comfortable
7 - Mike Vallely's Got My Back
8 - Dirty Dancing
9 - X Up or Shut Up
10 - The Grateful Shred
11 - Take Off Your Pants And Varsity Jacket
12 - Bonus
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XfilesX - Excruciation (2004)


Pure aggressive hardcore; short and to the point, and a classic record in waiting. Nihilism and Straight Edge go together like flies and shit - that’s where XFilesX are coming from.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Charles Bronson - Backstabbers Inc. - Spazz

Track listing:
01. Swallow Your Tongue
02. Head On A Stick
03. Testify
04. Murdering The Hog
05. Jesus Fish Out Of Water
06. Noise
07. I Hate What I Dont Understand
08. The Odd Couple
09. A Cozy Treat
10. Those Nails, How They Rust...
11. Blast From The Past
12. STD
13. Excruciation
14. I Wish I Was Worse
15. Fuck Em
16. Ay, Guy
17. Crazy
18. God Fearing
19. Unemployment
20. Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
21. Falling Down
22. Wreck Yourself
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