Armed and Hammered - Split w/ Suckerpunch

Year: 1993

Label: Self-Released

Tracks:

Armed and Hammered side:
1. Tragic Story
2. Crad Kilodney Was Innocent
3. Beans On Toast

Suckerpunch side:
4. Witch Doctor
5. Smack

This might be Armed and Hammered’s best release. Three tracks of unrelenting, fast hardcore. Armed and Hammered gets extra points for the ultimate puke punk art of all time, the second song, which sounds exactly like The Adolescents’ “I Hate Children”, and the hilarious ska part of the third song. Suckerpunch was a psychobilly band who I think might have been local. They also did a split with Born Against which makes no sense to me. Cool tunes if you’re one of those dweebs who are into roller derbies and 50’s B movies, I guess.

http://armedandhammered.bandcamp.com/track/tragic-story

Armed and Hammered - Split w/ Oppressed Logic

Year: 1995

Label: Ransom Note

Tracks:

Oppressed Logic side:
1. Reality at 10:00
2. Tension
3. Found In A Ditch

Armed and Hammered side:
4. Rat Poison
5. Movement In The Treeline

More fast, drunken hardcore from Toronto’s best mid-90’s drunk punx. This time on a split 7” with Oakland, California’s Oppressed Logic. Oppressed Logic’s side of this sounds like bad teenage puke punk. Armed and Hammered wins. Hooray for Toronto. Every copy of this record I’ve encountered has been pressed on clear vinyl but apparently there are some on black?

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

Armed and Hammered - More Punk Rock Than You

Year: 1996

Label: Subvert & Deny

Tracks:

1. Hate
2. Pills


3. Victims
4. Punk Rock

Armed and Hammered was a band started in 1989 by a bunch of Kensington Market punks who hung out with the BFG posse. Unlike BFG, Armed and Hammered were actually pretty good. The songs are standard fast drunk punk in the vein of a lot of other Canadian bands at the time who drank too much and wrote punk songs. Armed and Hammered is certainly in the upper tier of 90’s Toronto bands though, and was probably the most prolific band of their time, releasing a CD, a 7” EP, and two 7” splits.

http://armedandhammered.bandcamp.com/track/pills