Distress - Demo 1988

I know there's a lot of bands called Distress, but this one is a Belgian HC band from the late 80's.
Don't know a lot about them and I think I never seen 'em live. Guess they played more locally, in the Mol-Geel area. They thank Jakke (then bassplayer of Agathocles, later of The Sexmachines and now in Creature With The Atom Brain) and D.B.C. which stands for Danish Butter Cookies, another HC band from that area.
The tape states 14 tracks, but there's only 12.
Any more info welcome.

1. Intro
2. Religious Suckers
3. Bothered
4. Born To Loose
5. Fuck Reality
6. Had A Tough Day
7. Arseholes
8. Usher
9. Nuclear Nightmare
10. No Solution
11. Hooligans
12. Evil Death

Distress

Deviant Gedrag - Yeah Really Demo 1986

Let's get back to Belgium to post some demo tapes of 80's HC/punk bands.
Here's the one and only demo tape of Deviant Gedrag (Deviant Behaviour) from Wambeek. Their style goes way back to the early punk sound, contrary to the more prevalent HC sound in the mid-80's. Great midtempo punk and strong song material. Recording quality is pretty good as well.
Drummer Dirk now plays in poprockband De Mens.

1. What's Reality
2. Fear
3. War
4. Tell Me
5. Fascist Cops
6. Brainless
7. Problems
8. I Hate Religion

Deviant Gedrag

The Scuzz - Liability 7"

Cool HC punk 7" from this Wisconsin band. Pretty unknown and not that easy to find these days.
'Liability' was released in 1998 on Asinine Records, the label of Asinine Solution. Asinine Solution is better known due to a 7" released on Beer City. Their other 2 7"s were released on Asinine Records of which the 1st is impossible to find. Only 200 copies. So if anyone could find the 'Your Wisconsin Friends' 7", please let me know. Btw, I have a demo/live tape with older stuff of them. Will try to rip and post it later.
Off to The Scuzz. 8 tracks of late 90's HC punk similar to all those Beer City bands from that time.

1. Liability
2. Socially Excepted
3. Dying On The Cross
4. Catheter
5. Drunk As Fuck
6. Democracy Hypocrisy
7. Badge Of Authority
8. All For Confrontation


The Scuzz

Nerves - 13 Styles Strike 7"

2nd release of UK HC punx Nerves. First release was a split 7" with the great Substandard. Substandard's singer is now in Constant State Of Terror. I've even seen Substandard with a complete different line-up on a festival in Nottingham called Rock'n Reggae. But that's a very long time ago. Try to get the discography album.
Don't have much info on Nerves. They play quite fast HC with a strong punk influence. It's not thrash though.
This 7" was the 1st release on Nottingham label Delerict. 2nd one is the 'Back In Rags' 7" of The Slum Gang. Pretty hard to find these days. The Slum Gang had Lloyd on vocals who also sang for Default and also for Concrete Sox on their last euro tour. He's not on any Concrete Sox recordings. I remember the Sox staying at our place before starting their tour. We were passing on spliffs but Lloyd didn't want that 'hippie shit', ha ha. Also got Pug on drums who was in The Losers later on. Met him on my visit in Notts and I remember him to be a very funny guy.
Ok , back to the Nerves. 6 short blasts of punky HC and the 7" is over before you know it.

1. Over & Out
2. Fr-end
3. Dried Up & Dried Out
4. Drink Your Last Drink
5. To The End
6. Sucked In

Nerves

Clusterfux / Up Yours! - On Capitol Hill With Punks And Swill Split LP

Split album on Queen City Punx from 1997 with 2 Denver, Colorado bands, Up Yours! and Clusterfux.
Up Yours! were an uptempo neo-streetpunk band and probably the only band in this style I really like. No posturing like The Casualties and others. Up Yours! 1st output was a split 7" with political punk band Flux Of Disorder on Hazy Morning. After this split album the band did a 7" 'False Flags' and then changed their name to Scapegoat. They only appeared under this monniker on the Colorado comp. album 'A Force To Be Wreckin' With'.
Clusterfux mix punk and metal to create their own style of male/female vocals crusty hardcore. This split album was their 1st vinyl appearance. 2 years later followed the self-titled 12", also on Queen City Punx. The band existed for a very long time and only recently split. The later line-up didn't have the female vocalist anymore and I never heard that stuff. 'Thrash Mongrel' was their 3rd release, a CD-only album on Rodent Popsicle. A series of split 7"s follows in the next years with System Shit, The Last Priority and Apocalyptic Christ. Their last album is called 'Problem/Reaction/Solution' another CD-only release.
11 tracks for Up Yours! and 10 for Clusterfux. I'll post the 1st Clusterfux 12" in time as both releases are limited pressings and hard-to-find.

On Capitol Hill With Punks And Swill

V/A Around The World In 90 Minutes MC

 2nd comp. tape on Smurfpunx. Compiled by Mokka and showing very diverse and international stuff here. Actually, this tape opened my ears for a lot of lesser known international bands, in a time where people still where very UK-oriented.
There's also some bands here which music has to be smuggled across the iron curtain. Remember that this was made during full cold war. Only a few years before the wall should fall. It was very dangerous to smuggle Western music into the Eastblock and vice versa.
On side A we have Toxic Waste (Northern-Ireland), Armatrak (New-Zealand), Bikini (Hungary), 2 Minuta Mržjne (Yugoslavia), FOH (West-Germany), Anti-Dogmatikss (Spain), Funeral Oration (Netherlands), SH Draumur (Iceland), Siekiera (Poland), Nyx Negativ & Bedrövlerz (Sweden) and Lobotomia (Brazil).
Side B contains Ex-Humans (Greece), Butcher (France), The Zero Point (Denmark), Powerage (South-Africa), Saukerle (East-Germany), A.P.P.L.E. (USA), Cani (Italy), Kumikristus (Finland) and Sponky Business (Belgium).

Side A

Side B

Short Fuse - Blow My Fuse 7"

 This 7" was simultaneously released with the Stompede 7" posted below. Another Tokyo HC band on Czech label Badman Records.
Don't know anything about Short Fuse and I think they didn't release anything else. I like this one more than the Stompede 7".

1. Reign Of Blood
2. Restriction
3. Words
4. Sleep
5. Lie-Cycle

Short Fuse

Stompede - s/t 7"

As requested, here's the Stompede 7", a HC band from Tokyo.
Originally released as a double pack with a 7" of Saigan Terror on Pushead's Bacteria Sour label in 2001. This version is the repress in 2002 on Czech label Bad Man.
Bought every Japanese record I could get my hand on back then. Haven't listened to this one for a long time. It's OK but not outstanding.

1. Yo Anny Ta
2. Drunk 48
3. Sic You
4. Stomp The Sunset
5. No God No Man

Stompede