CAUSTIC EMINENCEAnother Day, Another DollarCling Recordings1996 For those youth group punk rawk kids whose exposure to punk in the 1990s was mostly found on Tooth & Nail Records, chances are they've never came across punk and hardcore punk without having to search outside of the comfort zone of the local Christian bookstore. No shade, just…
CAUSE FOR REBELLIONThe Emperor Is Naked: Live At The Meat LockerThumper Punk Records2018 Cause For Rebellion is a SoCal based hardcore band, one of those with such kinetic energy that you begin sweating profusely just by listening passively to their music. And that's pretty much all of the information I have on this band. Their…
GRACE & THIEVESShepherd Of The Wolves EPIndependent2013 Out of Salem, Oregon, came a band that went by the name Grace & Thieves. Or, Grace And Thieves, as the Googles likes to chide me over. Formed in 1999, they are self-described as a heavy, neurotic fast kind of hardcore punk…or, "like giant sandpaper fingernails across an…
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The UNDECIDEDThe UndecidedTooth & Nail Records1999 The Undecided were a Pop Punk band from Canada. They released a cassette only demo in 1995, and a couple of albums in 1996 before landing on Tooth & Nail Records , releasing their self-titled album in 1999. My background with The Undecided was much like any pop punk…
A COMMON GOALFor God And CountryThumper Punk Records2012 For God And Country was Massachusetts punk band A Common Goal's first release, an EP that was put out by Thumper Punk Records in 2012. This is, of course, the second review of A Common Goal on this blog (well, third if you count the split I…
SPLITSplit DecisionThumper Punk Records2014 Split releases are great. They're not as congested as your standard "various artists" samplers and collections, usually featuring a grip of songs from a small handful of like-minded bands. Perfect for punk, hardcore and grindcore bands, and pretty cheap to produce for DIY and independent labels. Anyway, we're looking at the…
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PINK DAFFODILSListlessSofa Records1997 Pink Daffodils was a hardcore band with some punk and emo influences that formed in 1995 in Philadelphia, through about 1999. According to Discogs, they released a couple of EPs before disbanding, with the vocalist and guitarist going on to form Red And Gold. Listless was their first EP, released on the…
VARIOUS ARTISTSSparkler Vol. 1Spark Recordings1997 A bit of backstory on this particular release: when this came out in 1997 in the record store I was hanging out at, I noted that this was released on Spark Recordings. However, a year later, when I began seeing it being held at the more corporate Christian Bookstores, the…
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