Description:
Last year I purchased the remaining stock from a few distros and record stores that closed down. Now I have too many boxes of 7"s. I am offering this lot of 30 EPs at a reduced price. These bands play hardcore, mostly in the style of Ebullition Records releases, with plenty of emo and screamo tendencies.

AFFRONT - Fallen Stars 7" (1999 Phyte Records) Hailing from Washington, D.C. Affront put together their first full-length release. The music is hard and fast but with lots of melody and catchy elements. The songs are very melodic, but Affront never loses their fast aggressive attack. The energy level runs really high, and the singing is shouted with plenty of sing-a-long parts and even the occasional 7 Seconds style oohh and ahhh chorus parts. Catchy.

AMBER INN - Serenity In Hand 7" (1995 Ebullition Records 26) In the early '90s there was a great emotive hardcore band called Sinker. They had a song on the 3/12/93 compilation 7" that came out on Ebullition. When Sinker broke up the members formed two new bands called Amber Inn and Indian Summer. Great '90s emo hardcore. One of the bands that helped to define the genre. Passionate singing and delicate melodies combined with a strong sense of rhythmic energy. Amber Inn hits the highs and the lows with a style that uses volume diversity to great effect. Pulsating and always emotionally charged.

BIRD CALLS & HUMAN HANDS - Split 7" (2011 Art For Blind AFB027 / Eat A Book Records EAB020 / Time As A Color 22) Bird Calls return to the label for a second release after their earlier cassette and we get to work with prolific Birmingham emo/hardcore group Human Hands also. Both bands bring to the table interpretations of modern emo/hardcore but with distinctly different styles. Bird Calls follow in the footsteps of bands such as Tubers and Brainworms whereas Human Hands adopt the more epic and at times truly miserable aesthetic of Mohinder, the Hated etc. Pressing of 350. Includes zine.

BLACK EVEREST - Demo 7" (2011 Time As A Color 15 / Moment Of Collapse Records MOC023) Somewhere between Hardcore, Screamo but also Post-rock and Crust this demo 7" is to class in. Extremely powerful, yet playful and not too fiddly. In between a synthesizer provides a kind of epic atmosphere. (Almost feels like a surrounding spaceship). The four guys from Berlin, Hamburg and Oldenburg manage the balancing act between hard and fast parts and moodful melodies. to find a specific classification is difficult - a too wide-ranging musical spectrum had obviously influence on the five songs. If you cant imagine this, you should get this record and make your own impression.

BREAD AND WATER - Future Memories 7" (2000 Burrito Records 12) Another raging slab of pissed-and-brutal, this time hailing from Dallas dogma destroyers BREAD AND WATER. Six tracks of powerful and passionate hardcore rage that runs heavy in the themes of dissent.

BREAD AND WATER / REASON OF INSANITY - Split 7" (2000 Burrito Records 14) Reason of Insanity Play fast aggressive hardcore without losing that toe tapping quality. The vocals are brutal and harsh, and their artwork is classic cut and paste punk. Bread And Water have political lyrics and they play straight forward hardcore with a bit of melody. Their main vocalist is a woman, and her voice is supplemented by the occasional burst of distorted growling.

CLOUD RAT / AUTARKEIA - Split 7" (2011 IFB Records IFB043) Michigan's Cloud Rat comes prepared with a heavy hammer yet again. These 2 tracks show all the grinding HC fury and venomous pained vocals you know and love, yet both display a dark moody side with the odd driving or black metallish riff to break up the blasts and blown out filth. This is the first release for Autarkeia from Ft. Myers FL. Made up of folks from Jiyuna and Merkit, both sides shine through. Dark, moody emo that goes from calm to gigantic blown out heaviness is fronted with female vocals that range from screamed intensity to haunting beauty. This track focuses on driving heaviness and finishes with a long outro reminiscent of a darker Christie Front Drive.

DEL CIELO / SIN DESIRES MARIE - split 7" (2002 Ed Walters Records ew-013) This is the debut from Del Cielo (ex-Bald Rapunzel), who now have a full-length forthcoming on the Eyeball label, and a split 7" with Kill the Man Who Questions. Colorado's Sin Desires Marie invokes an angular, jarring dissonance cultivated from equal parts Third Sex, Submission Hold and Gang of Four.

ENDEAVOR - Of Equality 7" (Phyte Records) Political hardcore from New Jersey active in the 90s.

FAMILY CURSE - Julia Armant 7" (2011 Drawing Room Records DR00001) Hypnotic art-punk. Psychedelic without being “psych.” Throbbing rhythms. Can a melody be “brutal?” Doom Pop at its finest. Songs about decay, the Old World, war, disease, love and murder. Family Curse leave the beachheads in the sun, content to bask in their own mundane existence. Family Curse believes in the power of the song, that there is still meaning and worth left in metaphor, melody, and message. Family Curse places their trust in the intrinsic mystery of the unseen world. In the shadows, that is where the quest for answers must begin.

FINS - Lawnmower 7" (2012 ObscureMe Records OME008) This Connecticut bunch only formed at the start of the year and this rawness and freshness is an asset to their sound. Fins are not here to mess about and their debut EP (available on 7" or download) doesn't pull any punches, it grabs you by the throat and shakes you into submission. Their music is pure punk fury that merges the simple three-chord, crash-bang-wallop of the late 70s boom with the ferocity and modern edge of current luminaries such as Future Of The Left. If it's diversity you're after then you're barking up the wrong tree. These guys have one sound and they stick to it rigidly on these four tracks. Maybe subsequent releases will see them branch out and experiment more, but 'Lawnmower' is all about raw power and vitality, something they have in spades. Numbered of 300.

FIRE DOWN BELOW - G 7" (2002 Ed Walters Records EW-016) Hardcore from PA. Hand-assembled burnt cover.

THE GREAT CLEARING OFF / THE SOUND OF FAILURE - split 7" (2002 Ed Walters Records #006 / Sea Of Steel vol 2) Sometimes compared to '90s East Bay punk (Filth/Econochrist) mixed with a wide-eyed, idealistic sentimentality (The Hated). The GCO delivers strongly on this follow-up to their debut 7". Musically TSoF molds early Unwound's penchant for chaotic noise with a driving, John Henry West/End of the Line, guitar-driven hardcore. Lyrically, the intensely personal "Horsham Clinic" offfers a less glamorized look at the 'nervous breakdown'/'suicide' chic so popular these days.

HALLRAKER - She 7" (1998 Phyte Records PY-009) Hardcore from Mass.

HEARTSIDE / COSTA'S CAKE HOUSE - The Heartside Is Trapped In Costa's Cake House 7" (1999 Get Up & Go!) COSTA'S CAKE HOUSE from Germany play fast and brutal German-style hardcore like MÖRSER, CAROL, ACHEBORN, or ACME. HEARTSIDE is from Italy and play intense screaming hardcore.

KINJITE 7" (2001 Pop/Counter/Project) German hardcore.

MANRAE - Pacata Hibernia 7" (1995 Ebullition Records 28) Manrae came out of England like a shooting star; blink and they were gone. They released three tracks on the Pacata Hibernia 7" and also one track on the HeartattaCk #10 compilation. The Manrae sound was very reminiscent of Bob Tilton with fantastically moody music and inspired singing. The songs have an almost sad or melancholy feel to them and yet they are alive with a very passionate energy. Emotive hardcore from the mid '90s.

MIO / DUCT HEARTS - Split 7" (2009 Time As A Color 8 / Lala Schallplatten 9) DUCT HEARTS drops a 6-minute opus of dreamy Old Gray-inspired instrumentals with light and fluffy vocals along the line of Elliot’s later material. MIO are an instrumental outfit that rock a beautiful post-rock track not unlike Tomydeepestego and lighter Pelican. Clear orange wax, numbered of 210 copies.

NECKTIES MAKE ME NERVOUS - (I'm The Captain And I'm Telling You) This Ship Is Fucked 7" (2009 Code Of Ethics number 17) Second release from this Portland band that's been compared to everyone from PEDESTRIANS and CRIMPSHRINE to CLEVELAND BOUND DEATH SENTENCE mixed with PALATKA, which apparently means they're simultaneously off-kilter and catchy. It's dirty punk rock with frayed cuffs and paper-cut abrasions. Dual vocals, lyrics that tackle topics as varied as racism, domestic abuse and aging in punk delivered with both venom and thoughfulness. Turquoise wax.

NEWGENICS - Eraser 7" (2005 Hyperrealist HR009) Their second EP with two more songs taken from the same recording session as their debut EP on Level Plane Records. Two rocking punk tunes with influences from Devo to Gang of Four. Features ex-members of Guyana Punch Line and Marion, but this time with vocalist Chris Bickel delivering less venom and bile and more attitude and style. Released as a cooperative release with three other independent labels (Stereonucleosis, Shock Value and Dangerously Small. Each with a different cover, the Hyperrealist version of this 7" is limited to 300 copies.

ORDER - Kickball 7" (2007 Blood Of The Drash BLOOD-006) Noisy hardcore in printed sleeve.

SAKE - The Desert 7" (1997 Hopscotch Records #8) Hardcore punk from Eureka CA.

SPLITTING HEADACHE - The World's My Aim 7" (2007 Chainsaw Safety CS 028) SPLITTING HEADACHE combines the classic elements of West Coast punk /hardcore with the despondent sound of the Midwest early 80s sound. Six new songs about everything that’s not right in this world: and that’s just about everything!

SPIT ACID / STEP INTO NOWHERE - Split 7" (1995 Per Koro PK005) German hardcore bands with an emo influence.

THENCEFORWARD - From Within 7" (1995 Phyte Records 001) Atlanta hardcore similar to ICONOCLAST. Should have been on Ebulltion Records.

THENCEFORWARD - Winner 7" (1995 Phyte Records 3) Atlanta hardcore similar to ICONOCLAST. Should have been on Ebulltion Records.

THIS MACHINE KILLS - On The Move 7" (2000 El Grito 06 / Coalition Records) Fast melodic hardcore from Southern California.

YOUR NEIGHBOR THE LIAR 7" (2011 Time As A Color 14 / Art For Blind 25 / Strictly No Capital Letters SNCL 29) Emo from Scotland. Numbered of 300.

YUSUKE / DELOS - split 7" (2013 React With Protest) Delos is a screamo band from Bremen with people from bands like Louise Cyphre, Gentle Art of Chokin', and Warcoma. The band is very driving and aggressive and features two vocalists. Yusuke is a new 3-piece screamo band from around Illinois. Think of bands like Orbit Cinta Benjamin, Violent Breakfast, The Walls You’ve Built or Louise Cyphre and you know what to expect.Sounds perfectly rough and aggressive…combining really straight-forward emoviolence/screamo parts with cool interlude/intro-sections. Pressing of 500.

V/A - Leave Nothing But Footprints, Take Nothing But Photographs - Chapter I 7" (2011 Time As A Color 16) First installment of the 7" series. A I FOUND MYSELF song from their demo, new & unreleased songs from BAIL and HER BREATH ON GLASS. BAIL's song is spread over both sides of the 7" and perfectly blends the record. With booklet. Numbered of 508.

Item Condition:
The records are all new and unplayed. They have been languishing in distro boxes for years and have some edge wear (especially at the top) and minor corner bends. Price stickers (if any) are on the plastic sleeve, not the cover.

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