Civil Duty - Shit N Piss 7"

OK, here's another one on the Violent Reaction label. The 4th one actually. Expect more of the same hardcore punk with a punky edge, this time from Civil Duty. 7" was released in 2001.
Note: tracks 4 & 5 ripped as one track.

1. Fuck The GOP
2. Dave's Dirty
3. Nothing New
4. The Day I Die
5. What's The Point
6. Dead, White, And Blew

Civil Duty

BTD - Live 03-05-86 Roxy Dendermonde

Here's another contribution by Brob as a complementary post to this gig on Smurfpunx.
One of the early Smurfpunx gigs together with Ack Ack, the comp. tapes label of Kurt Boelens.
Mokka of Smurfpunx released 2 comp. tapes, '24 Love Songs' and 'Around The World In 90 Minutes'. Don't know how many tapes Ack Ack released but you can find one here.
For more on Dutch band BTD and this gig, please visit the Smurfpunx page.
BTD also appear on a 4-band comp. album 'On Our Way to Fools Paradise'.

No tracklist. Almost 19 minutes of fast HC with fun elements.

BTD

Rough Justice - Pink Elephants In Yellow Trees Tape

Got this one from my old time friend Brob, who was a member of the Smurfpunx Collective as a complementary post to his submission on the Smurfpunx blog.
Rough Justice were from Aalst, the place were a lot of Smurfpunx gigs were organized.
Rough Justice played that typical thrashmetal/HC crossover style that was popular in the late 80's. I must admit that I've never been a big fan of the genre but Rough Justice plays this kind of stuff very well.
I remember an all-dayer in Mol, where my old band Chronic Disease had to play with a shitload of now-forgotten crossover bands. Our band and the all-girls melodic punkband Bambix were a bit out of place on that day.
Never seen Rough Justice, but the singer is the brother of someone I know very well (didn't know that!). And for the Dutch-speaking Belgians (don't like to use the word Flemish these days): drummer Joost now plays in De Laatste Showband.

Rough Justice

Intense Youth! - Demo

Pittsburgh hardcore band. This demo tape was recorded in 2002. Got it for free when I ordered one of the The Awakening 7"s released on Behold The Youthquake.
Intense Youth! also released the 'Self Destruct' 7" and a split 7" with Caustic Christ.
Geoff and Andy were later in Fuckedupmess and Andy is also a member of the great Brain Handle.

Scans of the small lyric booklet included.

1. Starting Point
2. Host Vs. Parasite
3. Paper Revolution
4. Intense Youth!
5. The One Thing I Will Never Lose...
6. Field Measurements Of The Thickest Skull
7. These Words Will Be Your Prison

Intense Youth!

V/A Intensive Care Unit LP

Comp. album of Gunma HC bands. Best known is Dooms Day. This comp. was released on For The Deaf, a local label probably run by Dooms Day as the 1st release is a flexi of the band. The other release on For The Deaf is the 'Corruption' comp. LP.
All the bands played together on the Fight It Out gig series, sometimes with guests like Cheeky, So What or Innocents.
Won't say that these are the cream of the crop Japanese HC bands but it's an interesting document of the Gunma scene. Bands include Violent Mohawks, Grace, Gillmore, Dischord, Block Buster and Dooms Day. No extra points for original band names here. I do like Block Buster's title 'Money Makes The Stupid Cops' though.
I think this one was released in 1989/90.

Intensive Care Unit

Black Eyes Club - Demo

Here's a pretty obscure demo tape I could obtain this year. Black Eyes Club was a short-lived HC band of Ontario who were into skating as this tape is a benefit for the Hamilton Skateboard Assembly.
Black Eyes Club have a strong early Hüsker Dü influence. They even cover 'Lifeline' of them.
There were plans for a 7" on Schizophrenic Records but the band already fell apart. Too bad.
Don't know when the tape was recorded but must be the first half of this decade.

1. Pain And Suffering While Watching Solid Gold
2. Father, Son And The Holy Shit
3. $6.85 Is The Real Number Of The Beast
4. Strings Attached
5. Shove Your Fencepost Up Your Ass
6. System, System
7. Thank You Mr. McAllen
8. One Day At The Time
9. Black Eye
10. Lifeline

Black Eyes Club

The End - Revenge 7"

5th release on IM Records, the label of The Faction. This 7" of The End, released in 1986 is actually a solo recording by Adam "Bomb" Segal after the split of The Faction. He produced it himself and even played all instruments.
After this 7" Adam would form a full band. They released the 'If You Still Believe' 12" (1986) and, as The Living End, 'The Picture That Came With The Frame' LP (1988) , both on IM Records as well. 2 tracks of The Living End appear on the IM comp. 'Do You Remember Rock'n'Roll?'.
Only 2 songs here: 'Revenge' and 'No Morals'. Those can be found (re-recorded?) on the 'If You Still Believe' 12" as well.
Couldn't remove all crackling vinyl noise.

The End

Blast (Belgium)

A friend of mine informed me on this unknown and very obscure proto-punk band from Belgium a while ago. They only released one 7" in 1974 with the songs 'Hope' and 'Damned Flame'. Don't know which track is uploaded on Youtube. Check it out!
More info on Blast on Belgian Metal History.