Violent Future - Demo

Year: 2012
Label: Painkiller Records

Tracks:

1. Goon Life
2. Government Takedown
3. Bloody Victims

4. Violent Future
5. Life Sucker
6. Fatal Reality

Originally released on a tape, this is Violent Future's material. This is tough, catchy mid-paced hardcore punk that evokes earlier Toronto bands like Bad Choice and Urban Blight. Good stuff. 201 copies of this were on solid red vinyl, and 305 of them were on black. The colour of the inserts corresponds to the vinyl.

https://violentfuture.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2012

VCR - Greatest Hits

Year: 2014
Label: Barfbag Records

Tracks:

1. Beer Shit Night/Pizza Party
2. Tooth Faced Motherfuckers
3. One Trick Dog

4. Fake Freaks (Fuck Off)
5. Bugs Bugs Bugs/Slap Your Mammy

VCR is a maniac synth driven psych punk band that has emerged from the bizarro younger punk scene in Toronto in the last few years. At this point in the game, the band has so many hits that it would hard to determine exactly what their "greatest hits" are, but this is an excellent 7" with very cool art. Mine is a record release edition limited to 30 copies, all on different coloured sleeves, but I'll post the regular edition as soon as I buy one. I believe a number of these are pressed on clear vinyl, while mine is on black. This is also the first record on Barfbag Records, which has replaced the former Labelled Records as the new Stuck In The City record label. Expect cool things.

https://vcr-toronto.bandcamp.com/album/greatest-hits-7

Total Trash - S/T 7"

Year: 2012
Label: Deranged Records

Tracks:

1. Josef K.
2. Opiates

3. Hollow Eyes
4. The Last Man

This 7" was in the works for what seemed like years, and looking back on it, a book could probably be written about the mishaps that occurred during its conception. To say the least, the cover that was used was not what was intended for this record, and neither was the mix. There's nothing I can objectively write about this record except that some people dug it and others (namely MRR) hated it. It's a hardcore punk record made by a bunch of wannabe intellectual young punkers that were fresh out of high school. 400 copies if this bad boy were pressed. There were about 8 or 10 test presses, and you can see one here. 25 of those suckers had the Alexandre Kojeve record release sleeve, and another 20 or 30 or so had a tour sleeve that I'll post sometime soon.

https://derangedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/total-trash

Teen Crud Combo - Suck It

Year: 2000
Label: Black Lung Records

Tracks:

1. Suck It
2. Beaver County (Pop: Nick)

3. Wash Dish
4. Awful Brothers Night

If Doge was turned into dude who was the singer of a punk band, that dude would be Nick Flanagan. Here is the earliest of Flanagan's pre-Brutal Knights shenanigans on wax, although this 7" doesn't even come with an insert or lyric sheet. The LP has all of these songs, plus other ones and lyrics so it's probably a better buy.

S.H.I.T. - Collective Unconsciousness

Year: 2014

Label: Iron Lung Records

Tracks:

1. Collective Unconsciousness

2. Masochism

3. Nobody Knows Anybody

4. The Stimulator

What can be said about S.H.I.T. in 2014 that hasn't already been said ? S.H.I.T. is a recent Toronto hardcore supergroup comprised of members of Violent Future, Molested Youth, Urban Blight, Purity Control, Owl Eyes, and Eating Glass. Greg, who plays guitar in S.H.I.T. is also responsible for Stuck In The City which puts on the majority of punk and hardcore shows in the city. Over the last two years, S.H.I.T. have been the most active hardcore band in Toronto, releasing 3 7"s in 2014 alone, and founding their own show space, S.H.I.B.G.B.'s. The tunes themselves are also ferocious, lightning fast suckers with those deliciously delayed vocals that sound like they're coming somewhere from outer space that we've all come to love. This is the 1st S.H.I.T. 7" and 1000 copies of this were initially pressed: 800 on black, 75 on purple, 125 on blue. A second pressing of this is on grey vinyl.

http://whatwedoissecrete.bandcamp.com/album/collective-unconsciousness-7

S.H.I.T. - Feeding Time

Year: 2014
Label: Static Shock Records

Tracks:

1. Feeding Time

2. Private Lies

This new single by Toronto's supergroup to end all supergroup's features an excellent rerecording of their unofficial anthem from the band's demo, as well as a ripping new track on the B-side. 200 copies of this were pressed on yellow vinyl and sold at some of the band's shows as well as for mail order.

http://whatwedoissecrete.bandcamp.com/album/feeding-time-7

Purity Control - Coping

Year: 2012
Label: High Anxiety Records, No Idea Records

Tracks:

1. Holy Hell
2. Walking Distance
3. Remote Viewing

4. Bedroom Eyes
5. Bite Marks
6. Separation Anxiety

The other Purity Control 7" released in 2012, after the band became more of a hardcore band and less of a powerviolence band. This is my less favourite amongst the two 7"s. Limited to 550 copies: 400 on black, and 150 on white. Obviously I got the one on white.

http://puritycontrolhc.bandcamp.com/album/coping

Purity Control - Adjusting

Year: 2012

Label: Self-Released

Tracks:

1. Dear Life

2. Insect Politics

3. Swallowing

4. Light Pollution

5. Mock Suicide

6. Gag Order

Here's the one of two 7"s Purity Control released in 2012, shortly before they broke up. Purity Control started off around 2009 as the lone powerviolence band in Toronto's USHC-ridden scene. Their first demo is still one of my favourite powerviolence demos ever, and their second demo is equally impressive. Following the first two demos, the band changed the lineup pretty significantly, and became more of a hardcore band as opposed to doing more straight forward powerviolence. The band's two 7"s reflect this later sound and were disappointing to those who were into the band's earlier sound more. This is still a solid 7" though, and is limited to 313 copies, with another test press version limited to 45 and sold at the record release show (pictured on the right).

http://puritycontrolhc.bandcamp.com/album/adjusting

No Warning - Resurrection Of The Wolf

Year: 2014
Label: Bad Actors Inc.

Tracks:

1. Resurrection Of The Wolf

2. Bloodsucker

"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in."
 - Michael Corleone

In an effort to raise some dough for a former bandmate in need, No Warning got in the studio again for one last time to record this ripper of a single. Limited to 500 copies with no variants, and sold out the day it was released, first online and then at a pop up shop in Toronto. If you think these guys lost any of their power over the years, you thought wrong.

http://resurrectionofthewolf.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldabNfylo0M

No Warning - S/T

Year: 2001
Label: Martyr Records

Tracks:

1. A Day In The Life
2. Too Much To Blame
3. My World

4. Take It Or Leave It
5. Almost There
6. Wrong Again

The style of hardcore that people have come to associate with New York in the 90s has become decidedly ubiquitous in recent years. Even in a city like Toronto, which has been known for its unabashed worship of no bullshit 80s USHC since the early 2000s, hundreds of 905'ers with long sleeve tees, X's on hands, and serious mosh moves flock to bigger shows to get their hardcore for hardcore on.

Enter 1998 when this style of hardcore was practically unheard of, and a bunch of punk ass brats from the (b)east end of Toronto called No Warning began fucking shit up on a grandiose scale, starting fights, flirting with racist jokes, and turning the word "BUST" into a mosher's call to arms. Released in 2001, No Warning's first 7" (their only one until this year, actually) still holds up more than ever and is a powerful display of how this band ultimately created a paradigm shift in hardcore. 350 copies of this were pressed on black vinyl with blue labels, and 100 (or maybe 106?) were pressed on purple vinyl with blue labels. There's also 150 copies of the black vinyl with blue labels with a "Underdog" weekend tour sleeve that is hand-numbered on the inside of the sleeve. 400 copies are also on black vinyl with blue labels and have an alternate cover for another tour. Finally, a second pressing on black vinyl with red labels exists, and there's 200 copies on white vinyl with red labels. Life's a bitch, suck it up, buy this 7", don't fuck it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J1Fip76xLM

Kremlin - Will You Feed Me?

Year: 2012, 2013
Label: Hardware Records

Tracks:

1. Rot
2. Anti Septic
3. Destruction Mindless

4. Will You Feed Me?
5. Forced March

Kremlin has become kind of a legend in Toronto in the North American hardcore scene more broadly both because of their incredible musicianship, and because like any band of a similarly legendary tier, they finished before they even started. The band, composed of members of Molested Youth and School Jerks, started in 2011, and put out two demos that year of devastating, skeletal hardcore that sounded like a perfect cross between USHC and Swedish d-beat. In 2012, this gem of a 7" came on on Germany's excellent Hardware Records, with 410 copies pressed on black vinyl, and another 110 pressed on white vinyl, each numbered with a stamp on the inside of the sleeve. Will You Feed Me? is an interesting release, as it signifies a departure from the sound on Kremlin's demos which was decidedly restrained and minimal toward a noisy and characteristically uncontrollable raw punk sound. Following this release, Kremlin released an LP, and certainly their most bizarre release, the Last Last EP cassette, which featured two heartstoppingly brilliant instrumental jams that sounded more akin to Hüsker Dü than the Shitlickers, and broke up at the same show the EP was sold at. Will You Feed Me? was reissued in 2013 and 200 more copies were pressed on white vinyl. Do yourself a favour and buy this record.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YtAxA3WGdY

Hacksaw - S/T

Year: 1998

Label: The Great American Steak Religion

Tracks:

1. Kick It
2. I Lied To Myself

3. Without Living
4. A Million Times









This is the first Hacksaw record, and is substantially better than the rest of their stuff. This sounds a little less like boring stoner rock, and a little more like Fugazi. Over all, not a bad record, and worth picking up if you see it in a dollar bin and want to know what Jon Sharron (of Brutal Knights, Hassler, Chokehold, etc.) was doing circa 1998. My copy of this notes that it is #169/400 for a 1998 tour, but I don't know if this is a special tour edition of if all of them have hand-numbered dust sleeves, as 400 is a big old number of records to hand-number, especially for a band that was never too huge. It also has some picture pasted on the B-side label. I've tried to find info on this but have not been successful.


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

Fucked Up - No Epiphany

Year: 2009

Label: Matador Records

Tracks:

1. No Epiphany (Album Version)

2. No Epiphany (No Age Remix)

No Epiphany wasn't really one of my favourite tracks off The Chemistry of Common Life but here it is on two sides of a single, one of which was mixed by the dudes in No Age. 3000 copies of this were pressed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYKpi-8QxwE

Hassler - S/T EP

Year: 2012

Label: Schizophrenic Records

Tracks:

1. Asphyxiate
2. Nothing For Nothing
3. Beatdown

4. Pig Pen
5. Enlightened
6. Innocent

Don't hassle the Hassler, sucka. Hassler's a new enough TOHC supergroup featuring dudes from Reprobates, School Jerks, Brutal Knights, Bad Skin, etc. Their first EP is probably my favourite release of theirs. It sounds like fast, pissed off, no bullshit hardcore because it is fast, pissed off, no bullshit hardcore. Schizophrenic pressed 100 of these on white vinyl with an extra sleeve with different art. The rest are on black with only one sleeve.

http://hasslertoronto.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-ep

Hassler - Amorality EP

Year: 2013

Label: Beach Impediment Records

Tracks:

1. Amoral
2. Trainwreck
3. Retaliation

4. Escape
5. Apathy

Hassler is a newish Toronto supergroup comprised of former members of School Jerks, Reprobates, Brutal Knights, Bad Skin, and other Toronto bands that ruled. Following the formula of the 1st 7", this is no bullshit, unrelenting hardcore. 100 copies of the first press were done on clear green vinyl, and all of them have black and white centre labels while the second press has red and white centre labels.

http://hasslertoronto.bandcamp.com/album/amorality-ep

Hacksaw - Wasted Summer Blues

Year: 2002

Label: Broken Glass Records

Tracks:

1. Wasted Summer

2. Lonely Lines

Sorta a cruddy rock n roll record featuring Jon Sharron before he started kicking our asses with the Brutal Knights. This single sounds like Burning Love if your dad played in it.

Hacksaw/Mercury The Winged Messenger - She's Got My Back/Minions Of Goat Christ

Year: 2001

Label: Global Symphonic

Tracks:

Hacksaw side:
1. She's Got My Back

Mercury The Winged Messenger side:
2. Minions Of Goat Christ

Here's some split Hacksaw did with a band that I know nothing about. Hacksaw was a band in the late-90s and early 2000s that played some kind of rock n roll somewhere between stoner rock, dad rock, and the Goo Goo Dolls. Jon Sharron from Brutal Knights/Hassler/Chokehold/everything also used to play in this. Not very highly recommended.

Fucked Up - Two Snakes

Year: 2006 (Unlabelled Euro tour version), 2009 (German, Japanese, and Greek editions)

Label: Self-released (2006 English pressing & 2009 German pressing), HG Fact (2009 Japanese pressing), Fucked Up Records (Greek pressing), Εξωτικός Παροξυσμός (Greek pressing)









Tracks:

1. Two Snakes (Part 1)

2. Two Snakes (Part 2)

A Brilliant single off of Fucked Up's magnum opus, Hidden Worlds done on two sides of a 7" à la Baiting The Public. Fucked Up pressed 300 of these in 2006 for a 2007 Euro tour with Two Snakes in English on the cover but a German lyric sheet. This one had a large hole while I think all of the later pressings had the small hole. Confusingly enough, three years later, they self-released 250 copies of this with the purplish art on the Japanese pressing and included the German translation of Two Snakes on the cover (Zwei Schlangen). 200 of these had a screenprint cover and 50 had  a paper cover. The same year, HG Fact also pressed a Japanese pressing limited to 350 copies, and Fucked Up teamed up with Εξωτικός Παροξυσμός in Greece (which was not yet a label) to self-release the Greek Two Snakes (Δύο Φίδια) on Fucked Up Records. I've had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking vinyl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfnqX2yL-aY

Fucked Up - ??????????? Fake 7" ????????????

Year: 2006
Label: Fucked Up Records

Tracks:

1. Baiting

2. The Public

Here's a weird one. Being the mysterious guys we all know and love, Fucked Up pressed 250 copies of the Baiting the Public single with a labels that read "Epics in Minutes" and "Search for the Words" on the A-side and B-side, respectively. They then took a hundred of so of these suckas and pasted labels from the Litany 7" on them, and put them in photocopied sleeves for the Dangerous Fumes 7" prior to that 7" even coming out.

Fucked Up/Hard Skin - Toronto FC/1-2-3/New Age

Year: 2007

Label: No Future Records

Fucked Up side:

1. Toronto FC

Hard Skin side:

2. 1-2-3

3. New Age

Another killer Fucked Up track, this time on a split with fake UK Oi! Legends and professional wankers Hard Skin, who perform some killer covers of The Professionals’ 1-2-3, and Blitz’ New Age. 350 of these suckers were pressed, with 50 of them in a glossy hard cover, and 300 of them in a matte fold over cover (pictured), and given out at a show in London in 2007 making this one of the harder to find FU records.