Artist: Various
Album: The World Itself Is A Bad Dream
Release: 2009
Label: Drugged Conscience
Tracklist:
1. Nazi Dust - Exhaustion
2. Nazi Dust - Impulse Control
3. Panzram - ...Life Deals Another Hand
4. Dead Stare - Nailed Shut
5. Dead Stare - Red Handed
6. Duress - Allergic To Hope
7. Bad Year - Sleep
8. Rational Animals - Games And Fun
Florida's Drugged Conscience yet again drops some treats on the kids with this short tape compilation entitled The World Itself Is A Bad Dream, which featuring both bands from Florida and other equally-depressing states. The main draw of this tape is the first two tracks featuring Nazi Dust from Tampa. I found their demo to be very solid, but lacking a certain something. The band was still fresh and still didn't seem to have gelled yet, but I not only still enjoyed it, but could tell something great was on the horizon. These two songs (which I believe will be re-recorded for their upcoming 7") are superior to their past material, showing the band doing what it does great: playing hardcore that deviates slightly from the standard sound, yet, fortunately, still has one foot firmly planted in no-frills, fast, straight edge hardcore.
It would be unfair of me to continue to rave about Nazi Dust's contribution to this tape when the rest of it is excellent, as well. Rounding out the A-side are Panzram (members of Merkit) and Dead Stare. The former is an excellent two-piece playing jagged, yet heavy hardcore. I very much enjoyed their demo tape and this song is no different. Dead Stare contributes two songs in under 30-seconds, doing the No Comment powerviolence-thing quite well, even if it is 2009.
On the flipside, we have a song from Duress from Chicago who are one of many incredible hardcore bands that have been popping up in the Windy City in the past few years. It's fast. It's hard. It's straight edge. Bad Year is the band I had never heard of on the tape and while the song is pretty good, I find it to be the least memorable of the songs here, though the blame for that is just as much on the other bands as it is theirs. The tape concludes with a song from the late-era Black Flag-worship of Rational Animals from Rochester, NY. From hearing this and their 7", I can say that this band rules. Will asked me if they could hop on at a show at my place in the absence of Nomos, and, while never having heard them, it was a great call. Even their belligerently drunk singer who rubbed every single person in the crowd the wrong way couldn't stop me from enjoying their set, even if it was a little long. Still, their song "Games And Fun" might be my favorite song on this tape, if not tied with the Nazi Dust jams.
Anyway, there's a lot to enjoy here and Drugged Conscience has yet again come through with an excellent tape release. Chris was nice enough to provide for us the best quality rip of this tape, so be sure to download this, as I've only heard a tape rip floating around out there.
Download Here
-Adam
Album: The World Itself Is A Bad Dream
Release: 2009
Label: Drugged Conscience
Tracklist:
1. Nazi Dust - Exhaustion
2. Nazi Dust - Impulse Control
3. Panzram - ...Life Deals Another Hand
4. Dead Stare - Nailed Shut
5. Dead Stare - Red Handed
6. Duress - Allergic To Hope
7. Bad Year - Sleep
8. Rational Animals - Games And Fun
Florida's Drugged Conscience yet again drops some treats on the kids with this short tape compilation entitled The World Itself Is A Bad Dream, which featuring both bands from Florida and other equally-depressing states. The main draw of this tape is the first two tracks featuring Nazi Dust from Tampa. I found their demo to be very solid, but lacking a certain something. The band was still fresh and still didn't seem to have gelled yet, but I not only still enjoyed it, but could tell something great was on the horizon. These two songs (which I believe will be re-recorded for their upcoming 7") are superior to their past material, showing the band doing what it does great: playing hardcore that deviates slightly from the standard sound, yet, fortunately, still has one foot firmly planted in no-frills, fast, straight edge hardcore.
It would be unfair of me to continue to rave about Nazi Dust's contribution to this tape when the rest of it is excellent, as well. Rounding out the A-side are Panzram (members of Merkit) and Dead Stare. The former is an excellent two-piece playing jagged, yet heavy hardcore. I very much enjoyed their demo tape and this song is no different. Dead Stare contributes two songs in under 30-seconds, doing the No Comment powerviolence-thing quite well, even if it is 2009.
On the flipside, we have a song from Duress from Chicago who are one of many incredible hardcore bands that have been popping up in the Windy City in the past few years. It's fast. It's hard. It's straight edge. Bad Year is the band I had never heard of on the tape and while the song is pretty good, I find it to be the least memorable of the songs here, though the blame for that is just as much on the other bands as it is theirs. The tape concludes with a song from the late-era Black Flag-worship of Rational Animals from Rochester, NY. From hearing this and their 7", I can say that this band rules. Will asked me if they could hop on at a show at my place in the absence of Nomos, and, while never having heard them, it was a great call. Even their belligerently drunk singer who rubbed every single person in the crowd the wrong way couldn't stop me from enjoying their set, even if it was a little long. Still, their song "Games And Fun" might be my favorite song on this tape, if not tied with the Nazi Dust jams.
Anyway, there's a lot to enjoy here and Drugged Conscience has yet again come through with an excellent tape release. Chris was nice enough to provide for us the best quality rip of this tape, so be sure to download this, as I've only heard a tape rip floating around out there.
Download Here
-Adam
13 comments:
Thanks for one-upping me ICDT
for my official response, please refer to this:
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o121/izko_90/wrestling%20gifs/th_X-Pac.gif
oh, and thanks for going to the trouble of ripping it in the first place!
Pretty sick having that RA track on there, it's a great song from a great EP.
Rational Animals are fucking great!
fyi, Merkit are not dead.
i didn't mean to imply they were. fixed! thanks
-Adam
been listening to this every day, so good. makes me miss florida
I want to hear the rational animals tracks. Not into previous stuff, bad sounding mixes, vocals WAY too loud.
Hey Nina, are you in the Coop yet? Or like Russia or something?
COLMAN CONFUSED NINA FOR SARA. LOL.
-Adam
i wiped my ass with this tape bitch
Great stuff!
http://funeralstench.blogspot.com
ROTCORE ROTCORE ROTCORE ROTCORE
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