Thrash Metal Magazine-where it all started..

I think I was 13 years old, may have even been 12. The grocery store in my shithole little town had a magazine called Thrash Metal. Liking metal and wanting to find more bands that sounded like Anthrax and Metallica either me or my little brother bought it. Yes, there were features on metal bands, but what I remember most were features on bands like Agnostic Front and Excel. There was also a small feature on this band called Bl'ast!. All of these bands seemed very intriguing and I was curious what the difference between this "hardcore" music and speed metal was. Anyways, here's Bl'ast's first lp Power of Expression. You probably already have it but if you don't do yourself a favor and get it. They do "damaged" era black flag almost as well as black flag did it, intense jams, occasional long songs, little train that could drumming. You get the deal.

http://www.mediafire.com/?jgmjdnmdgtm

OK?

OK? was a newer band ('08-'10) from California that played Anarcho/Peace Punk in the vein of Dirt/Crass (as if it weren't totally obvious from the artwork). I don't really have much to offer as far as info is concerned since i don't really know much about them other than they share members with Crime Desire, rarely played shows and to my knowledge they only released these 2 singles on Life's A Rape Records out of California.

Oh, and they (along with fellow Californians, Surrender) do one of the best jobs I've heard in years at pulling off the whole Crass Records sound.


(Sorry about the varying volume of these mp3s, i didn't rip them, but i had several rips of them and tried to use the best quality ones)

Enjoy.

1990s dance party.

A trip back to yesteryear with the great It's For Life compilation. What we have here is Lifetime before they decided to be a pop punk band, One of my alltime fave edge bands, Ressurection (sic) and a who's who of 90s east and west coast edge bands such as Mouthpiece, Strife, mean season, flagman-you get the idea. My favorite songs on this are the songs "submerged" by Reveal and the Ressurection live version of "why?" but if you're into this style, it's an all around good compilation and a pretty good representation of the era and subgenre when sxe hardcore was in it's early adult years. So check it out (or don't).

http://www.mediafire.com/?5gh6xbjs5hdzpu3