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

The Assailants - s/t 7" / Hate Machine 7"

Here are the last ones on Violent Reaction. Both by The Assailants, VRR 1 and 5 actually. Violent Reaction was run by the people of The Assailants. The band, with a different line-up, was initially called Violent Reaction.
Both 7"s are a bit different. On the 1st one they had 2 guitarplayers and the songs dealt with their hate for boneheads and the system. On 'Hate Machine', both guitarplayers were replaced by one and the lyrics are more of the silly non-PC kind, not unlike Street Trash. Mike and Drew would later play in Street Trash. The 'Hate Machine' EP have a few different pressings/versions with different artwork. I scanned the sleeves of the normal version and the spraypainted version.
The Assailants also released the 'Modern Technology' CD in 2000, and a split 7" with the Swellbellys in 2002. Never heard those.
There's a 6th release on Violent Reaction by Scattered Fall. Not really a Violent Reaction release as there were some problems between the band members and Ron Ramirez set up a new label 'Deadpan Records' that only did the Scattered Fall 7".



s/t 7" (1999)
1. Unite
2. We Don't Care
3. Senseless Violence
4. No More
5. Baskin Robbins

Hate Machine 7" (2002)
1. Suicide By Jock
2. Bum God
3. Hate Machine
4. Little Indian Girls
5. Untitled

The Assailants

Dona Nobis Pacem - Live 1988

Well here's another live recording of Antwerp band Dona Nobis Pacem. This one was recorded by my friend Vrokker in the 1000 Appeltjes. I think they opened for Extreme Noise Terror and Chaos UK.
Dona Nobis Pacem was an anarcho-punk band with a strong Antisect influence. Unfortunately they never recorded anything officially. There was a plan to do a split album with E.N.E. but that never happened. I think singer/guitarplayer Muffie was also in Brutal Society before.
Vrokker started recording when the 1st song was already happening. The last song is also cut-off due to the tape ending. It was a bis song; but you can hear that one on the other live recording.
The other live recording (from a split tape with Chumbawamba) can be found on No Longer Forgotten Music or Old Fast And Loud.

Sorry, no pix of the band.

Ripped as one long track (I beefed the sound a bit) but here are the song titles:
Coca-Cola
When Reality Stops
Some Love The Animals
If They Only Could Speak
Pornography Of Life
Skeletons Of War
Behind Suffering Lies
Bloodsports
Balled Of Nature (cut)

Dona Nobis Pacem

V/A Bye Bye Ronny! Tape

Here's a tape released to celebrate the end of the Reagan administration. It was also a benefit for the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign.
Mostly UK bands here with one from Germany (Inhuman Conditions) and France (Original Disease). A lot of wellknown names from the late 80's UK scene and a lot of different sounding ones as well. There's even 2 tracks of metal band Paradise Lost included.
Solstice is not the doom metal band, but a postpunk/gothy sounding band which I never heard of before. Also Hedgehogs is a complete mystery to me.
Sound quality differs as some recordings are live.
I've split the file in 2 parts as it is too large to upload as one file.

1. Intro
2. Deviated Instinct - Stormcrow
3. Decadence Within - Back Biter
4. Terrorain - Defiance
5. Anorexia - Police Farce
6. Original Disease - Others
7. Concrete Sox - Product
8. Internal Autonomy - State Of Mind
9. Instigators - The Blood Is On Your Hands
10. Hedgehogs - Criminal Damage
11. Inhuman Conditions - Positive Or Dumb
12. Paradise Lost - Plans Of Desolation
13. Hellbastard - Live As Mortals
14. Insurrection - World Full Of Lies
15. Solstice - Dreaming
16. Matt & The Lads - La Bamba
17. Terrorain - Acid Death Child
18. Shrapnel - Autumn
19. Insurrection - People Are Starving
20. Decadence Within - Self Respect
21. Cowboy Killers - You're Dreaming
22. Anorexia - Obscurity
23. Hellbastard - Death Camp
24. Instigators - Eye To Eye
25. Concrete Sox - Euthanasia
26. Internal Autonomy - Patriotic Destruction
27. City Indians - To Buy Or Not To Buy
28. Paradise Lost - Nuclear Abomination
29. Original Disease - ?!?
30. Spawn Of Beelzebub - The Charge Of The Metal Queen Into Valhalla

Side A

Side B

The Liberats - Disgrace 7"

Another one on Violent Reaction Records. The 3rd one actually.
No info on The Liberats. They play that typical Violent Reaction style of HC/punk with a UK punk vibe. Some songs on this one sound a bit too generic for me.
Released in 2000.

1. We'll Seek Revenge
2. White Mike
3. Lost Soul
4. Our Way
5. As One

Liberats