VA - No T.O.

Year: 2008
Label: Schizophrenic Records

Tracks:

1. Stef And The Studs - We Don't Need The English (The Bags cover)
2. Career Suicide - Disneyland (The Eyes cover)
3. Stef And The Studs - Too Much Junk (The Alleycats cover)
4. The Dangerloves - Los Angeles (X cover)
5. The Brown Knuckler - Down At The Laundrymat (Black Randy cover)
6. Legion 666 - No God (The Germs cover)

Trust Schizophrenic to put out the coolest and most patriotic Toronto hardcore records. This one's a single sided 12" as an homage to the Yes L.A. comp, limited to 300 copies. The other side of the record features awesome printed artwork.

VA - No Bullshit Vol.1

Year: 2006
Label: No Way Records

Tracks:

1. Career Suicide - No Bullshit
2. Bad Dirty Hate - ?????
3. Government Warning - See The Truth

4. Strung Up - D.M.S./Bent Out Of Shape
5. Direct Control - Fake

A very good start to an awesome series of comp 7"s, showcasing snotty 2000's hardcore at its absolute finest. 1000 first and second pressings, with 800 on black and 200 on grey for both. Test press is limited to 30, 27 with a orange sleeve, and 3 hand-numbered ones with a white sleeve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VZgo8igCaU

VA - Mass Confusion Hardcore Compilation

Year: 2007?

Label: Big Dreams

Tracks:

1. Expired Youth - Win Or Lose

2. Urban Blight - Get A Clue

3. Raining Bricks - You've Got Some Nerve

4. Terminal State - Amphetamine Nightmare

5. 86 Mentality - Chemical Threat

6. Left Hand Path - 20 Mile Marker

Cool 7" comp that came with an issue The Bug Hurt fanzine from somewhere in Illinois, featuring two of Toronto's best, and also 86 Mentality! Limited to 500 copies on red wax.

VA - Generations: A Hardcore Compilation

Year: 2005
Label: Revelation Records

Tracks:

1. Go It Alone - The Late Shift
2. Lights Out - Never Stop
3. Lion Of Judah - They Won't Get Me
4. Blacklisted - Divorced
5. Iron Boots - Bizarre
6. Iron Boots - Locked In Sight
7. Keep It Up - Zero Tolerance
8. Snake Eyes - DC
9. Robot Whales - We Think We're Moving

10. Internal Affairs - City Of Angels
11. Sinking Ships - Turn My Headphones Up
12. Righteous Jams - The Fight/Your Game
13. Down To Nothing - I Will Win
14. Cold World - Stop Snitchin'
15. Mind Eraser - World Unfolds
16. Mind Eraser - Brought Back To Life
17. Fucked Up - Dropout
18. Mental - The Evils

This is a very strange comp. Put out by Revelation Records, Generations is a mid-2000's brocore comp that also happens to feature Toronto darlings Fucked Up, and not-powerviolence champions, Mind Eraser. Comp also gets points for featuring a track by St. Catharines legends, Keep It Up, and I think this is their only vinyl release. Fucked Up also calls Terminal State a bunch of posers in the insert. Rude. This is limited to 550 on red, and then some on blue. I think the blue one might be rarer, as I've never come across it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpurVsAdkVo

VA - Fuck The Commonwealth: 22 Bands From Ontario And BC That Hate The Queen!

Year: 1994
Label: Fans Of Bad Productions Records

Tracks:

1. Kops For Christ - Xmas
2. Ignatz - Will It Ever End
3. Blundermen - 309 & Beyond
4. Dirty Bird - Swingback
5. Mr. Nobody - Linda's Nightmare
6. Wad - Bad Day
7. Blowhard - Beyond Hope
8. Hockey Teeth - Don't Belong
9. Minnow - Drizzle
10. Whatever - Astra
11. The Queen Haters - I Hate The Bloody Queen

12. Nothing To Lose - Going Nowhere
13. Insult To Injury - Sorehead
14. Benchwarmer - Death Of Punk Rock
15. The Uniks - Sickboy
16. Giblet - Carousel
17. M Blanket - Innyourooms
18. Dunderheads - Deceiver
19. Black Kronstadt - Take Aim
20. Goatboy - No To Elections, Yes To Peoples' War/She Is Not A Fuck
21. Splatterboys - S-Pride
22. Mexican Power Authority - Illiterates/U.F.O./Butcharts Gardens

This 90's comp is probably the best display of 90's Toronto hardcore that exists on vinyl. Sadly, it also showcases the mediocrity of most of the bands. Hockey Teeth's excellent Beyond Hope off of their 7" was a exception for me, but there's not too much here to keep one interested in anything beyond a history lesson. Limited to 500 copies.

VA - Counter Culture International Benefit Comp.

Year: 1999
Label: Coalition Records

Tracks:

1. The Swarm - Guilt Parade
2. End 32 - Lawan
3. End 32 - Demokrasi Mati
3. End 32 - Militer

4. Slang - I Don't Ever Lay Down Arms
5. Slang - [*]
6. DS 13 - Work Buy
7. DS 13 - Another Religion

Late 90's benefit comp with a killer track by The Swarm. Also pressed on white vinyl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SRDUGogIQQ

VA - City Limits: Down And Out In Montreal And Toronto

Year: 2011
Label: High Anxiety Records

Tracks:

1. Career Suicide - Delusional
2. Bad Choice - Angry Americans
3. Purity Control - Sex Life
4. Snakepit - Justice
5. Mature Situations - Yoga Predator
6. Mad Men - ODIA
7. School Jerks - N/A
8. Brutal Knights - Bad Choice
9. Molested Youth - Genetic Jackhammer
10. Urban Blight - False Truths
11. Total Trash - Violence
12. Burning Love - Mess

13. Slobs - Outlier
14. Foreign Bodies - Downtown Fun
15. Inepsy - Fast Way To Die
16. Castevets - Good Riddance
17. Vile Intent - Jumper
18. Naughty Girls - Left In The Dark
19. Dead Wife - Choke
20. Brazen Hell - Corrosion
21. Bogus Cause - Blame Yourself
22. Unruled - Iraq Attack
23. Omegas - Social Slasher

 Cool comp featuring more or less the entirety of the Toronto and Montreal hardcore scenes at the time. The comp was released at a transitional period in TOHC and half the bands on the comp had broken up by the time it was released. Still, great stuff. I believe this was limited to 500 copies.

Youth Youth Youth - Sin EP

Year: 1983
Label: Fringe Product

Tracks:

1. Philosophy
2. Greed
3. Fire In The Rain

4. Wanderlust
5. White Reggae
6. Sinistre
7. Headline Hunters

Arguably the best TOHC record put out in the '80s, as well as one of the oldest. Don't know the pressing info but copies of this now go for a pretty penny. I think this record is more sought after than it is rare though. Cool shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCs6ESfuPmw

Young Lions - Bonus 7"

Year: 2009
Label: Schizophrenic Records

Tracks:

1. Freedom Fighter

2. Pray For Julie

This is the bonus 7" that came with Schizophrenic's excellent release of Young Lion's unreleased material. Like the LP, the mixes are a bit off, but the songs shred, and the packaging is remarkable. 100 of these are on coloured vinyl and come with an obi strip and a sticker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDw1xAuNlKI

Young Lions - 1982-1984 From The Vaults

Year: 2009
Label: Schizophrenic Records

Tracks:

1. United
2. Young Amerikkka
3. National Security
4. We Wanna Riot
5. Shithole
6. Rick Kid
7. Guns And Children

8. Things Are Gonna Change
9. One Brick At A Time
10. Goodnight Belfast
11. Bloodless
12. Defy The State
13. Made In England (YYY cover)
14. Royal Killers

 Trust the fine folks at Schizophrenic Records to make the coolest and most painstakingly diehard "diehard edition" of any record. This brilliant release features 100 LPs with 14 lost tracks on gorgeous coloured wax, another 3 on a bonus 7", a Young Lions sticker, magnet, zine, silkscreened art, and an extra screened and hand-numbered alternate cover. Jesus. The mixes on the record aren't too great, but the Young Lions' great songs make up for this, paving a fine bridge between '77 punk and early hardcore. Awesome release, awesome packaging.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkfsBhdt0bQ

Violent Minds - We Are Nothing

Year: 2007
Label: Deranged Records

Tracks:

1. Total Control
2. Smash Their World
3. We Are Nothing
4. Left Behind

5. A.D.D. Stole My Brain
6. Scared Of Life
7. Deceiver
8. Come Turn Me On

Another release by Violent Minds following their brief stint as a TOHC act. 200 copies on clear vinyl and another bunch of black.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsEgqy71KMU

Violent Minds - S/T 7"

Year: 2003, 2007
Label: My War Records, Deranged Records

Tracks:

1. Know It All
2. Bloodsucker
3. Death Bed
4. I Don't Care

5. Fatal Blow
6. Go To War
7. Drop Out
8. Violent Minds

Violent Minds' first record and tone of their two (the other being Riot) as a Toronto hardcore band. Cool band, cool 7". Deranged repressed this in 2007 on black and pink vinyl and I think there's a limited blue variant of the first press.

Violent Minds - Riot EP

Year: 2004
Label: Parts Unknown Records

Tracks:

1. Riot

2. Search And Destroy
3. D.N.Y.R.

Awesome, awesome 7" by Violent Minds. I'm pretty sure that this is their last record as a Toronto-based band. It is good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NInQbdZijyY

Violent Minds - Just Kicked In

Year: 2007
Label: Deranged Records

Tracks:

1. No Heart
2. Another Day

3. Gone For Good
4. Just Kicked In

This 7" features Violent Minds after they were a Toronto-based band. Still a decent 7", although the artwork is pretty awful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ZQb_Lk9cI

Never Healed/Violent Minds - Armoury Of Fearless Truth Against Whispering Rumour

Year: 2006
Label: Spiderghost Press Gang, Vexed Records

Tracks:

1. Never Healed - The March
2. Never Healed - War All The Time

3. Violent Minds - Take The Money (And Run)
4. Violent Minds - Silent Panic

Technically, by the time this record came out, Violent Minds were no longer a Toronto-based band. The group photo on the back is also stupid and goofy looking. Regardless, some pretty excellent hardcore on both sides.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CG36eC86t0

Total Trash/Mighty Atom split

Year: 2011
Label: A Mountain Far, Buzz Records

Tracks:

1. Total Trash - Freedom
2. Total Trash - No Freedom

3. Mighty Atom - Words
4. Mighty Atom - Stratification
5. Mighty Atom - Hollow Eyes

Split between Total Trash and noisy K/W punks, Mighty Atom, put out on two local labels. Can't really say anything about this objectively except that it's a considerably weird release for Buzz, A Mountain Far, and Total Trash. The record is limited to 300 copies on marble vinyl with 20 alternate covers whose pictures will be posted soon. There's also 4 test presses.http://amountainfar.bandcamp.com/album/mighty-atom-total-trash

Urban Blight - S/T

Year: 2005
Label: Deranged Records

Tracks:

1. Urban Blight

2. Not Like You
3. Slow Death

This record definitely showcases Urban Blight at an earlier, more primitive stage of the band. This being said, their mosh inducing riffs still remain intact. Slow Death is kind of a funny song considering how militantly straight edge its lyrics are and the fact that the band is no longer entirely straight edge.

Urban Blight - Total War

Year: 2011
Label: Static Shock Records

Tracks:

1. Your Abuse
2. No Time
3. Total War

4. Social Order
5. Absolute Control

 The most recent Urban Blight release, featuring some excellent new tracks. Limited to 155 first pressings on red vinyl and another 384 on black, second press of 338 on black vinyl and a third pressing of 235 on white vinyl.

 The sleeve is also a gnarly foldout poster.

http://staticshockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/total-war

Urban Blight - More Reality

Year: 2009, 2010
Label: Slasher Records

Tracks:

1. Toxic City
2. More Reality
3. Cut Back
4. No Direction
5. Fake Attitudes

6. Blight Makes Right
7. Get A Clue
8. Enough
9. Leech
10. What Can Be Done

 Undoubtedly, one the the greatest Toronto hardcore records of all time. Urban Blight plays old school hardcore influenced by early Boston and NYHC done right. Every track on this record is an absolute ripper, and the first pressing came with a super cool hip-hop maxi influenced sleeve limited to 525 copies on black vinyl and 100 copies on gold vinyl (pictured here) for the record release edition of the record. Slasher also did a Euro pressing of this record with different art, and on clear blue vinyl with silver labels limited to 300. I believe 20 tests presses exist from the first pressing of this record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34yoUeFRtJo