Kin Without The Blood (Bel) promo (1996)

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Another tape from Steven ‘Stel’ R.’s collection.

After ‘Vais’ Ingrid Martens (vocals), David Jeursen (guitar) & Danny Van Honsté (bass; ex ‘Track’, ex ‘Bad Influence’) started ‘Kin Without The Blood’ with Dave Ligterink on drums (and an extra guitarist). They were based in Antwerp.

David J.: “Our punk roots were still present but there was also more metal, perhaps even nu-metal avant-la-lettre, because we also began to experiment with samples and sub-base sounds e.g., before ‘Korn’ and the likes got known for that. After a few years in that band and having done our radio-programme ‘Shock Report’ on ‘Radio Centraal’ for more than 10 years, we were fed up with the whole scene we were part of, so we quit with the radio ánd the band, and did nothing for a year or so to discover other directions…”

Besides this tape they also covered I Just Wanna Have Something To Do for the CD A Lo-Fi Ramones Tribute – 1, 2, 3, 4 …

Later on Ingrid & David formed ‘Hellsonics’ (a “punky/metal psychobilly” band).

In MRR #171 (Aug. ’97), ‘Holy’ Herwin Dewinter writes: >>’Kin Without The Blood’ hits in the same direction as ‘Vais’ but with a bit more aggression. Though the old UK punk/grind influence remains, it is melted down with their metal sound. New demo out: Blow 971. They’re looking for a record deal.<<

Brob

You surprised me with this – it didn’t seem familiar to me at first. The titles did ring a bell. So I searched my attic and came across it in a box with old tapes. I hadn’t listened to it in over 25 years. It was the first demo we recorded and also the last one that was for sale. If I remember correctly, we recorded it in a rented a chalet in the Ardennes. Marlon Waghemans (‘Jason Rawhead’ bassist) was the producer and the technician was someone from a studio in Aalst. I recall hearing the news about Dutroux being arrested, so the year was 1996… We then recorded for 3 more demos, each with 3 or 4 songs. But these were never released if I remember well.

Danny Van Honsté

Pin Prick (Fra) promo (1987)

tracks: Censuré / Cancer / E2fac2e / Tony / Pléonasme

‘Pin Prick’ was a HC/punk band from Toulouse (southern France). The members were ‘Chriskin’ Christine (drums), ‘Jil Noise’ Claude (bass/vocals), ‘Riffy Fuzz’ Pascal (guitar) & ‘Slinky’ Béa (vocals/guitar). This tape was sent to Steven ‘Stel’ R. to announce the release of their 2nd EP (entitled En-Core) on Panx Productions (1988) – the label founded by Béa(trice) Soulane & Pascal Blain.

Before that they had released a self-titled 7″ (’86) and a demo (’85). They also appeared on a bunch of compilations: Tour De Farce #2 (Florian Schück’s Empty recs/Musical Tragedies, Ger, ’86), Sursaut #1 (Destroy International, Fra, ’86), K7 Trevin (Bla Bla Schmurz, Toulouse, ’87), 1984 The Third (New Wave recs, Paris, ’87), La Nouvelle Fontière…Pas De Frontière (Panx, Toulouse, ’87), etc. etc.

Brob

Because of the emergence of hardcore punk we wanted to form a band. The name refers to the safety-pin symbol of the punk-movement. We used “acuPUNKtural Rock” to describe our music. The first rehearsals began in 1981 and our first concert was early ‘82. The people above are the ones from the last line-up; in the beginning we had a drummer named Bernard (‘Pollux’) but he had to leave for Paris. We continued rehearsing with a drum-machine. When he returned to Toulouse, we used a drum-machine and drums until his final departure in 1984. The band ceased to exist at the end of ‘88 but we’ve always remained friends. Our lyrics (in French) were not particularly political but rather the transcription of a state of mind.

Here’s our complete discography.

Béa

Slinky – Jil Noise – Riffy Fuzz – Pollux – Chriskin

Chriskin – Riffy Fuzz – Jil Noise – Slinky

 

Catharsis (UK) More Fun Than Laughing; demo (1989)

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I already posted the 2nd demo of ‘Catharsis’ (from Middlesbrough): Beyond A Joke. This here is their first, recorded in March ’89. The line-up was identical: Bri(an) Puplett (vocals), Dale Tominson (guitar), Darren Moore (drums) and ‘Riff’ (bass). The music on this one made me think of ‘Excel’ (or ‘D.R.I.’)…

My review in Tilt! #5: <<Funny and political (a bit too sloganesque) lyrics under a varied and powerful HC-thrash sound.<<

Catharsis (UK) 1989

>>Varning För Punk 2<< (Swe) compilation (1983)

(side 1): Es Ist Krieg (“it’s war”) / Påga (pay attention”) – ‘N.O.S.’ *** Onkel Sam / Fred & Anarki (“peace & anarchy”) / What Shall We Do – ‘Avskum’ *** Krigshot (“war threat”) / Snutjävlar (“motherfuckers”) / Mardröm (“nightmare”) – ‘Mob 47’ *** Näsviken / Modepunk – ‘Oi Division’ *** 3e Världskrig (“world war 3”) / Öl (“beer”) – ‘Sötlimpa’ *** Abort The System – ‘Ernst And The Edsholm Rebels’ *** Muotinatsit (“fashion nazis”) / Muotipunk (“fashion punks”) – ‘Rattus’ *** Fucking A Dead Snake / The Punk Was Dead – ‘Disgrace’

(side 2): Röd Eller Blå (“red or blue”) / Politikerförakt (“disdain for politicians”) / Anarki – ‘S.S.H.’ *** Herre & Slav (“master & slave”) / Krig Eller Skiljedom (“war or arbitration”) / Eget Ställe (“own place”) – ‘Asocial’ *** Kameleont (“chameleon”) / Bara Ett Djur (“just an animal”) – ‘6-10 Redlös’ *** Unemployed-83 / Warheroes / Teenage Sluts Sucks / That’s Life – ‘The Bristles’ *** Mänsklighetens Bästa (“best of mankind”) / Sexuellt Annorlunda (“sexually different”) – ‘Svea Svin’ *** Fred På Jorden (“peace on earth”) – ‘Absurd’ *** Pack (“package”) – ‘Fosgen’ *** Slå Emot (“strike/beat”) – ‘Destruktiva Liv’

denna kassett är tillägnad dig som medvetet står för vad lyssnar på och verkligen tacksamt ger det lilla som finns av fred

“this tape is dedicated to those who consciously stand for what you listen to and are truly grateful for what little there is of peace”

 

Dirk Michiels (Punk Etc.) provided this tape…

Compiled by Nicke Boström (Loudness / Pack Produktion) from (at the time) Lulea (Sweden). He did several other compilations (a first Varning För Punk; and later Youthanasia I & II, and Who Dunnit? Peace Not Police – becoming more and more international). This one here is mostly found to be titled Varning För Punk 2  (where ‘N.O.S.’ = ‘Zynthslakt’).

Nicke released the fanzine/magazine (51 issues!!!???) Ett Noll Ett (“one zero one”). In the 90s he compiled Life’s A Joke ‎(a rock/pop sampler) for the label Rainbow Music. Nowadays he runs a film/music-shop named Delicious Goldfish Records.

 

6-10 Redlös/ Sixten Redlös (“drunk/intoxicated/disabled”) (Swe): ‘Hedda’ Henrik Norrsell (bass), ‘Punge’ Johan Lundgren (guitar/vocals), ‘Baron’ Jörgen M. Andersson (vocals), ‘Matte Dunder’ Mats Larsson (drums)

Absurd (Göteborg, Swe): Ari Skyttä (bass), Måns Christensen (guitar/vocals), Peter Magnusson (drums)

Asocial (Hedemora, Swe): ‘Tompa’ Tomas Andersson (bass), ‘Kungen’ Håkan Aspnäs (drums; later ‘Jonken’ Johan Jansson), Mats ‘Svenne’ Svensson (guitar; also Distad fanzine), Tommy Berggren (vocals) [Håkan & Mats did Distad fanzine and Dis-Tapes]

Avskum (“scum”) (Kristinehamn, Swe): ‘Håkan’ Stefan Tyresten (bass), Paro (drums), Nezze (guitar), Gunnar Larsson (vocals)

Destruktiva Liv (“destructive life”) (Sandviken/Gävle, Swe): ‘Uffe’ Ulf West(er)berg (drums; also guitarist of ‘Fosgen’ & ‘Slam’)

Disgrace (?): ???

Ernst And The Edsholm Rebels/ E.A.T.E.R. (Grums, Swe): ‘Bernst Bazoka’ Anders Brännström (bass), Pelle ‘Pisk’ Forsman (drums), Mikael Karlsson (guitar/vocals), ‘Micke Mental’ Mikael Åke Larsson (vocals)

Fosgen (“phosgene”, a chemical weapon) (Gävle, Swe): Jan Fredriksson (guitar/vocals), Tomas Stenbäck (drums), ‘Uffe’ Ulf West(er)berg (guitar; also ‘Slam’), Ullrik Thunman (bass/vocals)

Mob 47 (Stockholm, Swe): ‘Jögge‘ Jörgen Östgård (bass/vocals), ‘Chrille’ Christer Lindholm (drums), Åke Henriksson (guitar/vocals), ‘Mentis’ (vocals)

N.O.S. (?) (Köping, Swe): Claes Pettersson (bass/guitar), Per Granberg (bass/guitar/vocals; also ‘Charta 77’), ‘Tjaboo’ Reinis Petravis-Zarins (drums), ‘Goofy’ Terno Lindeman (guitar/vocals; also ‘Zynthslakt’), Johan Granberg (vocals)

Oi Division (Karlshamn, Swe): Tomas Tummen Pranell (bass), Sammy Nelson (guitar), Hans Piggy’ Olausson (vocals), Johan ‘Löfhög’ Löfberg (guitar), Joakim ‘Jochen’ Ivarsson (drums)

Rattus (Vilppula, Fin): ‘Vellu’ Veli-Pekka Hyvärinen (drums), ‘Tomppa’ Tomi Marjamäki (bass), Jake Marjamäki (guitar/vocals)

Sötlimpa (“sweet bread”) (Mölndal, Swe): ‘Jesus’ Glenn Drejhede (vocals), Hans Johansson (drums), Martin Nilsson (guitar), Raimo Janson (bass)

S.S.H./ Snue Slapp Hjärna (“sluggish brain”) (Ryd, Swe): Anders Larsson ()

Svea Sin (“swedish pigs“) (Bromölla, Swe): Harri Kolari (drums/vocals), Klas/Claes Petersson/ Peter Nilsson (guitar), Flemming Nielsen (bass)

The Bristles (Landskrona, Swe): Mats ‘Lankan’ Landgren (drums), Ingemar Hurtig (bass), ‘Svegis’ Michael Svegbrandt (guitar), Wiking Nilsson/ ‘Puma’ Johan Larsson (vocals; R.I.P.)

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Nicke Boström still has a recordshop or label in Stockholm: Delicious GoldFish Records.

This tape here doesn’t sound the same as what is on YT: yours is better quality but the 1st song is taken from the split-7″ ‘Zynthslakt’/’N.O.S.’. N.O.S. was pre ‘Charta 77’. ‘Zynthslakt’s song is called Es Ist Krieg. Johan Granberg was the singer and his twin-brother Per guitarist (runs Birdnest recs and sang in ‘Charta 77’). The other song is called Röd Eller Blå.

I never heard the band ‘S.S.H.’ before… I think ‘Oi Division’ might have broken up before a big festival in 1982. The guitarist went to ‘Butcher Boys’, a band that had Swedish flags on stage. This was the socalled UK82, oi period. I don’t like oi at all. Lot’s of punx in Sweden became skinheads; there were lots of problems at gigs, fights, chaos. Many old punx are rightwing nowadays. I was robbed in Stockholm in 1981 by the drummer of ‘Boot Boys’ (a white power/skin band). ‘Rövsvett’ have a song now called Äntligen Lite Oi [“finally a little oi”] that I did the music for and Jerker [Persson; singer] wrote the lyrics; he was into the UK82 music (he was a skin, not political, the rest of us where punx)…

Michael ‘Löken’ Karlsson

Wards (USA) Ripped Off In Boston; tape (1987)

(side A): Red / Poison Gas / Miserable / Kill All Dogs / If You Die…

(side B): No More / Preacher Man / God / Pershing Two / Daddy’s A Cop / Your Daddy Beats You

Steven ‘Stel’ R. donated this one.

‘(The) Wards’ are an old punk-rock (“politicized garage punk”) band from Burlington (Vermont); they formed in the late 70s: Tea/Tom Curley (vocals), Bob ‘Beano’ Parker (guitar; R.I.P.), Rick ‘Seman’ Lincoln (drums) and Brian ‘Putt’ Putnam (bass). This tape was recorded in 1984, with Paul ‘Lew’ Allison a.k.a. Ratdog (Rapid Fire zine) doing backing vocals. Rick & ‘Beano’ had been in ‘Nation Of Hate’ before. On another tape (Armed To The Teeth), released in ’85 Eric ‘Loudmouth’ Heise played bass and Mike ‘Firepower’ Bettis did guitar.

Rob Glaser reviewed this in MRR #44 (Jan. ’87): >>Eleven medium to fast paced hardcore numbers featuring exceptional recording quality. Lyrics deal with society, personal problems and the military. Recommended if you’re into East Coast HC.<<

Earlier, MRR #35 (Apr. ’86), Martin Sprouse reviewed Armed To The Teeth: >>Catchy guitar sounds and a straightforward beat form the backbone of this 25-song cassette, which is spliced with several tempo changes and sloppy vocals. At times, it sounds like the singer is half-asleep due to the drowned-out effect that tops his every line, but the lyrics are funny/serious and interesting.<< They already had a couple of EPs out in ’83/84…

Brob

review in Metallised #9

Paul Allison may be one of the most knowledgeable people on the ‘Wards’. I played bass for the band for about 10 months but they by that time they were persona non gratis at every venue in the area, so we only gigged twice – not enough for someone like me who was looking for frequent gigs.

Paul may have done backing vocals on some recordings but you’d have to ask him for details. (His band ‘Rat Dog’s Army’ recorded at Avalon Studios, a tiny little studio I ran in Burlington for a while.) As for who else was in the band, the list was over 100 names long when T. Curley and I started a history of the ‘Wards’ – back when I was playing with them (which must have been 1989 or so). By now the list of past members is probably well past that number.

Rapid Fire magazine

Total Loss (Hol) T.V. Zombies; demo (1990)

(side A): Acid Rain / Radiation Sickness / Dealers Of Drugs / Narrow Minded People

(side B): T.V. Zombies / Mummy, Mummy, Dundee / Attitude

A tape from the collection of ‘Stel’ Steven R.

This was a thrash/crossover band from Hoorn (the town where ‘Indirekt’ & ‘Vernon Walters’ resided). Members of the band were: ‘Peet’ (bass), ‘Scooby’ (drums), Ivar/Ivan (guitar), ‘Mica’ (guitar) and ‘Woody’ Wouter van Miert (vocals).

Beside this tape they had a track on Doctor Ginger: Bloodzit #3 (Bloodzit Tapes) and on Alle 666 Goed (compilation-CD on Displeased recs, ’91).

The contact for the band ‘Merciless Noise’ was on the same address…

From a presentation in the Belgian zine Fear #2 (1990):

>>The intention of founding ‘Total Loss’ was to combine good music with critical lyrics (social, positive!). The first line-up got together 5 months ago. At that time we mainly played punky songs. The song Narrow Minded People dates from that time. Our bassist left due to lyrical and musical differences. (He wanted to play black metal and we definitely didn’t want that!) With the arrival of the second guitarist and the new bassist, the first serious songs were written. Before our current line-up was established our first guitarist left on a voluntarily. (He was in another band and couldn’t cope playing in two bands.) It didn’t take long to look before a replacement was found. The line-up of ‘Total Loss’ currently consists of: Woody (18) – throat / Mica (17) – guitars / Ivan (16) – guitars / Peet (23) – bass / Scooby (15) – drums.

With this line-up we released a demo called T.V. Zombies. After that, Mica left the band and the band started looking for a possible replacement. The music style could be called a mixture of speed, thrash and a touch of hardcore. (The latter can mainly be found in the lyrics that come with the demo!)

The band is are currently working on new songs: In Search For Humanity (Is about the doubts of someone who is looking for humanity.), Silent Hope (Is about one person’s cry against injustice in the world. Yet he has the silent hope that people will one day live in peace with each other.), The Eye (Inspired by the book 1984 by George Orwell and describes a vision of the future of a totalitarian state.), Only In For The Fight (About people who can only solve a conflict through violence.). [The latter appeared on a split-7” released in ’92.]<<

Absurd (Bel) Possessed By Insanity (1989)

(side A): intro / Stupid Lies / Freedom / Why, Tell Me Why

(side B): Possessed By Insanity / Stupidiy Of Mankind

This thrash band from Maasmechelen/Maaseik consisted of John ‘Air’ Soenen (vocals), Patrick ‘Bee’ Bemelmans (bass; R.I.P.), Gunther Maes (guitar), ‘Killer’ Walter Verlaak (guitar) & ‘Spike G. Maniac’ Meulders (drums).

Tilt! #5: >>Fast metal-thrash. Not too exciting. Poor vocals and cliché riffs. The usual lyrics of “we-should-be-political-coz-we-wanna-be-HC”-metals.<<

Fear #1: >>This young formation deliverd a fantastic demo. Their musical style is thrash-metal but with very good lyrics. That’s what I like about a band. Even though the quality of the demo is not that good, I still recommend it.<<

This demo here was recorded when they existed about 4 months. There was another one entitled Oppression Or Murder (4 trax)… And there was talk about releasing an EP but as far as I know that didn’t happen…

Brob

Patrick was my cousin. I replaced John for several gigs. Spike played at Graspop with his cover-band last summer [2023]… ‘Absurd’ rose from the ashes of the band ‘Unashbashed’.

Vital Gerets

L => R: John / Walter / Patrick / ‘Spike’ / Gunther

 

Stack (Ger) demo (1994)

(side A): Armistice / In The Line Of Fire / Void

(side B): Blanker Stahl (“bare/cold steel”) / Natural

‘Stack’ (from Ludwigshafen/Kaiserslautern) was formed December 1993 when Corey von Villiez and Bernd Bohrmann (a couple a that time) wanted to do something different from ‘Abolition’, music-wise. The line-up was: Bernd (screams), Ralf ‘Flowerviolence’ Bock (drums), Chris(tophe) Klimmer (guitar; ex ‘Nyctophobic’), Marcel ‘Croissant’ Hanneman (guitar) and Corey (bass; replaced by a guy for 5 months, a bit later by Michael ‘Bpunk’ Bergweiler). In May ’94 they recorded this demo (white box with a red dot on the back – a ‘slight’ hint to their love for Jap-thrash). Their music would be described as power-violence (“deranged pissed-off blasts of total mayhem that threaten to split the ear”). Some time in ’95 they did recordings for the split-7”s with ‘Seein’Red’ (called Backbone) and ‘Capitalist Casualties’ ‎(both on Equality recs, Corey & Bernd’s label). After these registrations Corey left the band (summer of ‘95) …

In September ‘96 they recorded for the Mondonervaktion 7” in September ‘96 (Corey released it on Equality recs in ‘97). The same sessions served for the Selbstfindungsgruppe 6” (Coalition recs), the split-7” with ‘Carol’ (on Holger Ohst’s label Summersault) and the two songs for the A Tradition Of 7″ compilation (on the US label Fall recs). In January 1998 they entered the studio again to record the songs for the split-7” with ‘Narsaak’ (released by Per Koro). After a 3 weeks tour in the summer of 1998 Marcel left the band and they became a four-piece for a few months before they split up for the first time in November 1998 (due to personal difficulties). In June 1999 they reformed with a new bass-player called Steffen Hinkel (the guitarist of ‘Fear Is The Path To The Dark Side’), Ralf on drums, Chris on guitar and Bernd on vocals. In March 2000 Chris decided to leave the band due to personal reasons. Steffen took over the guitar and Michael returned to bass again. In 2001 The Konkret Lichtgeschwindigkeit 10” – fast blasting manic HC – came out on Bernd’s label Scorched Earth Policy and Ralf’s label Flowerviolence recs. That one was recorded with Chris doing the guitar-tracks.

Review of the demo in my zine Tilt! #8: >>A few days before I saw this band live, I had this terrible dream in which I was the incarnation of the devil; their gig like set me free of the thought I was the evil personified… Once in a while a person needs a brutalisation of their senses like this, to be able to feel human. Music? They call it japcore so… Lyrics? They use their common sense so… From now on Japan (white box/red dot) seems to be located between Ludwigshafen and Kaiserslautern. Essential material!<<

Stompin’ Ground (Sin) Measured By The Richter Scale; tape (1995)

side A & side B

No, not the British ‘Stampin’ Ground’ but ‘Stompin’ Ground’ from Singapore! Can’t remember how I got this tape. Probably the same person that provided the Lion City Hardcore CD (compilation with a bunch of bands from that tiny country). Members were singer Hafidz Samsudin, bassist Syed Mahdzar, drummer Ayong ‘Al Sayf’ and guitarist Suhaimi Subandie. The band actually started in the late 80s and did a demo (Grey) in 1991. A Japanese label released an EP (We Set The Pace) in 1993 and these tracks here on CD (with 2 bonus tracks: Generator & Life). The music was their impression of NYHC. They also covered ‘Minor Threat’s song Betray.

My review in Tilt! #9: >>These guys think they live in N.Y.C. and wanna be the ‘Biohazard’ of the Far-East. Totally unoriginal, still ferocious hatecore to nod your head of. I can understand that if you’re in this just for the music, you’ll like this a lot but I can’t take this serious at all. Go figure: they even have a music publishing company to protect their copyright. Can you be more sold to the music-industry tahn that. DIY has a very weird meaning over there… Lyrics? All the clichés are there; why even bother!?!<<

Corpus Vile (UK) promo (1993)

tracks: Crucified / We Never Learn / Misanthropic / Zombified / Absolute Crust / Mourn The Shadows / Norman

These songs come from a tape featuring two bands based in Bristol (‘Maggot Slayer Overdrive‘ & ‘Corpus Vile’). If I remember well it was a promo for their split-LP released on Mike Foster’s label MCR.

‘Corpus Vile’s music was described as “straightforward metallic crust” & “crust with male gruffy, hoarse & female raspy, raucous vocals”; they got compared with ‘Disaffect’, ‘Embittered’, ‘Excrement Of War’ and ‘Extinction Of Mankind’. The band consisted of ‘Squirm’ (drums), ‘Not So Eerie Von’ (bass), ‘Lardy Christ’ Paul Buck (guitar), Tim ‘Fagash Lil’ (vocals; R.I.P.) & ‘Satan Danzig Hate’ (vocals). Some people originated from Bath and the drummer from Wales.

My review in Tilt! #7: >>C.V. play fast and energetic hardcore with crunchy guitars and angry gruff vocals sometimes exploding in noisy grind.<<