Jupiter Variation

A short trip in the history of Japanese Hardcore & Punk... Tracklist: Crow - Give Up All Hope GISM - Endless Blockades For The Pussyfooter Life - Ossification Of Coral The Comes - Medium Grave New World - The End Death Side - Crossfire Reality Crisis - Fragments Gauze - 死人に口無し Bastard - The Way To Survive Boris - Anti-Gone #Mixtape #Japan #Hardcore #Punk

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Back in the early 2000s it was the period when Mathcore was the "Toast of the Town" and during that time I was purchasing, mainly via mailorder, anything that had to do with this scene and was released by labels like Hydrahead, Relapse, Ipecac etc. You see in those years such labels were not broadly distributed in the European record stores and ordering using catalogues was the only possible way to purchase their releases. A considerable and (eventually) very respectable part

This is a mixtape that I have been thinking for quite long time doing. The thought process behind it, was to make it a mixtape that my teen self would easily listen to. That meant that I should include no demo versions, no live recordings, no alternate mixes, remixes and so on...Only original classics, the same songs that made me listen to punk and hardcore in the first place. I had fun making this mix, I hope that you can enjoy listening to it as well... You can find my othe

"Everything Lies In Pieces", this quite dramatic and pessimistic title pretty much describes the music content of the debut full-length (they have also released two split-albums) by the German band Kratzer. D-Beat Hardcore with the melodies being their strong point making songs like Staub, Error, Dreck, ...Und Alles Liegt In Scherben the highlights of the album. The "polished" production and the strong metal influences may estrange Crust Punk aficionados and purists however f

BÖNDBREAKR are a hardcore punk/metal quartet from Austin,Texas featuring members from various groups from the local punk/metal scene. After a year of playing lives extensively in Austin area, BÖNDBREAKR are ready to release their first EP which was recorded within a single weekend! The EP contains 6 songs (actually 5, as "bonus" track number 6 is a repetition of all the previous 5...) which sound 80's thrashcore in the vein of bands such as S.O.D., D.R.I., Gothic Slam, Mucky

Citizen Rage are a hardcore band from Calgary and their latest release Black, is the sixth (If I am not mistaken) EP in a series which are all named after a colour. Not having the opportunity to listen to any of their previous releases I am not sure if there is a logical connection or a relevancy between the colour after which each EP is named of and the song/lyric themes themselves. Coming to the music, the EP contains 4 hardcore songs, all played in less than 10 minutes, wh

The post about OXZ provided me the idea to explore deeper the "Japanese" part of my collection and I think that there is no better way to begin this than presenting No Side, the debut album by The Comes a legendary female fronted Hardcore/punk band from Tokyo. Many consider GISM as the quintessential band of the Japanese Hardcore/punk scene however in my opinion nothing can overcome the ferocity and the sheer energy of this album. 11 songs in less than 20 minutes (which actua