Showing posts with label The Endless Blockade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Endless Blockade. Show all posts

Thursday, November 13, 2014

The Endless Blockade - PHTEB

Year: 2011
Label: SuperFi Records

Tracks:
Pig Heart Transplant side:
1. Intro
2. Finished
3. Done

The Endless Blockade side:
1. Qabalistic Zero
2. Your Curse

Split between a Pig Heart Transplant, a Bay Area noise group and the greatest powerviolence band ever from Toronto. I think the Endless Blockade’s side is way cooler just by virtue of their incorporation of harsh noise into their super riffy jams. 500 of these were pressed, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0BcpexUj1Q

The Endless Blockade - Come Friendly Bombs

Year: 2006 (Dada Drumming & I Deal pressing), 2008 (Fatalist pressing)
Label: Dada Drumming, I Deal Records, Fatalist

Tracks:


1. Pimp Killer

2. Face The Yawnbringer
3. Therapy Through Violence
4. Prohibitions Failure
5. 2 A.M. Grab Bag

6. Cyber Stabbed In The Virtual Back

7. Colombian Education
8. I Don't Give A Fuck About You
9. Bourgeois Homeless Bullshit
10. The Endless Blockade
11. Dead End

The first time I saw The Endless Blockade, I was in high school, didn’t know what powerviolence is, and almost shit my pants. In addition to being one of the most authentic new powerviolence bands, The Endless Blockade added extra terror from their bizarre occultish lyricism and imagery. This early 7” by the band is less indicative of what was to come aesthetically and lyrically in the band’s career and more closely resembles the band’s first record, Turn Illness Into a Weapon. Regardless, this 7” is one of the best example’s of the band’s relentless and horrifying brutality despite its over the top length for a 7”. The first press of this consisted of 1000 copies, 300 of which were pressed on clear vinyl with red splatter, and 700 of which were on black vinyl. The second press was out of 400 or 500 copies with different art. I’ve heard different accounts of how these were done. I was under the impression that 100 of these had the coloured art that is pictured and that the rest had black and white art, however, there may also be an additional hand-numbered tour edition out of 100. I’m not sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8ulwEviDi4

Monday, May 7, 2012

The Endless Blockade/Warzone Womyn split

Year: 2006
Label: 625 Thrashcore Records

Tracks:

1. Warzone Womyn - G-9
2. Warzone Womyn - Chucking Meat
3. Warzone Womyn - Welcome Home
4. Warzone Womyn - This Bike Is A Car
5. Warzone Womyn - Magma Digestor
6. Warzone Womyn - Shit Where You Sleep
7. Warzone Womyn - Hippy Camp
8. Warzone Womyn - Cobblestone Stomach
9. Warzone Womyn - Warzone Womyn
10. Warzone Womyn - Nails On A Chalkboard
11. Warzone Womyn - Mercury Treatment
12. Warzone Womyn - Swarming Science
13. Warzone Womyn - Drug Mule

14. The Endless Blockade - Island
15. The Endless Blockade - The Endless Blockade

I really like the art on this split. There's another version of this limited to 100 copies on orange wax with an alternate cover.



The Endless Blockade - Split w/ Wadge

Year: 2010
Label: Regurgitated Semen Records

Tracks:

1. The Endless Blockade - Pest Control
2. The Endless Blockade - Fetal Position
3. The Endless Blockade - Sleeping With The Dead
4. The Endless Blockade - The Endless Blockade
5. The Endless Blockade - Tomorrow's Ghettos
6. The Endless Blockade - I Pcr
7. The Endless Blockade - Marrow

8. Wadge - Fiery Rivers of Kilauea
9. Wadge - Vera's White Sands
10. Wadge - Leahi


After hearing about Boyd Rice’s tiki obsession, I didn’t know how much further the tiki aesthetic could go in the punk circuit. Enter Wadge, Canada’s main purveyors of tiki-grind. This is an excellent split. Wadge’s side is interesting and weird as hell without being stupid, and The Endless Blockade rips it apart in a way that only a band of that caliber could. The only thing terrible about this split is the name of the label that put it out. Only in Germany, I guess. This record was originally pressed on black vinyl and repressed on orange translucent vinyl. 50 copies with an alternate cover exist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRUFEM-4IHY

The Endless Blockade/Unearthly Trance split

Year: 2010
Label: Chrome Peeler Records

Tracks:

1. Unearthly Trance - Blind Driving Through The Ghost Mountains

2. The Endless Blockade - One Handed Christ Destroyer
3. The Endless Blockade - Clean And Prone
4. The Endless Blockade - N Ray
5. The Endless Blockade - Blank Page
6. The Endless Blockade - Kali Yuga Jugend
7. The Endless Blockade - Asphalt
8. The Endless Blockade - The Endless Blockade
9. The Endless Blockade - I Just Kill
10. The Endless Blockade - Tower Of Silence

Another excellent split 12" featuring the Endless Blockade, this time with some doom provided by Long Island's Unearthly Trance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6rKy1NuYmI




The Endless Blockade - Turn Illness Into A Weapon

Year: 2005
Label: SuperFi Records

Tracks:

1. Fuck The 51st
2. Dummies For Role Models
3. Descent Into The Eternal Paradigm Of Brutality
4. Death Ritual
5. Bad Taste
6. Happy Families
7. Black Economy
8. Haymaker vs Manowar

9. Bleak Outlook
10. Barely Legal
11. Timebomb
12. Ulrike Meinhoff's Brain
13. Demographics
14. The Endless Blockade
15. Mothra



 The first Endless Blockade Record. Limited to 1030 copies with a rare silkscreened tour cover out of 45 or 50.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFS6-2z83_g


The Endless Blockade/Shank - Fed Up/Number

Year: 2008
Label: Schizophrenic Records

Tracks:

1. The Endless Blockade - Fed Up (Judge cover)

2. Shank - Number (Citizen's Arrest cover)



Here’s an interesting release. The Endless Blockade does a Judge cover on one side while Shank does a Citizen’s Arrest cover on the other. This is the shortest duration of music The Endless Blockade has ever put on vinyl. 300 copies exist, 200 of which are on black vinyl, with an extra 100 mail order copies on white vinyl with spray painted additional art, and an extra 7” spray painted with art on both sides. Nobody does overboard on their releases like Schizophrenic and it couldn’t make me happier.

The Endless Blockade - Primitive

Year: 2008
Label: 20 Buck Spin

Tracks:

1. Angra Mainyu
2. Irrationalism Liberalles
3. Raised By Wolves
4. Death To Spies
5. Pig Life
6. Perfection
7. The Stain
8. Thick Skin. Transparent Blood
9. Like Partridges
10. The Endless Blockade
11. 93 93/93
12. Path
13. Do Not Resuscitate

Throw out Christ and bring back Thor. I would argue (and I know that many agree with me) that Primitive features The Endless Blockade at their best, writing violently thought-provoking music and lyrics. This is also my favorite powerviolence record of all time. Jello Biafra sings The Endless Blockade on this record and the record comes with a Rasputin poster. There's also 100 copies of a limited sleeve which I wish I had. Nuff said.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXT72f-jk5w


The Endless Blockade/Hatred Surge split

Year: 2008
Label: Schizophrenic Records

Tracks:

1. The Endless Blockade - Abraxas
2. The Endless Blockade - When There's Nothing Left To Lose
3. The Endless Blockade - Doctor Stockwell
4. The Endless Blockade - Tarpit Neanderthals
5. The Endless Blockade - Dawn Man
6. The Endless Blockade - Pathologised
7. The Endless Blockade - Don't Voice Your Opinion
8. The Endless Blockade - Big City Nights
9. The Endless Blockade - The Endless Blockade
10. The Endless Blockade - Hex
11. The Endless Blockade - 091006

12. Hatred Surge - Splir Personality
13. Hatred Surge - Gag Reflex
14. Hatred Surge - Respect
15. Hatred Surge - Unanswered
16. Hatred Surge - Jaws Of Life
17. Hatred Surge - Addict
18. Hatred Surge - Society Sucker (Agnostic Front cover)
19. Hatred Surge - Surge Of Hatred
20. Hatred Surge - Casket



Awesome, awesome split. Definitely a memorable release for both The Endless Blockade as well as Hatred Surge (who do the coolest Agnostic Front cover). Schizophrenic went did lots of cool shit for this release, including a red and black vinyl variant of this record (pictured on the left) with alternate artwork, limited to 100 copies. There are also variants on grey and clear, with blood spatter, and a white and black coloured one.

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

The Endless Blockade/The Bastard Noise - The Red List

Year: 2010
Label: Deep Six Records

Tracks:

1. The Bastard Noise - Fallen Species
2. The Bastard Noise - Movement Two
3. The Bastard Noise - Mutant World Of Shame
4. The Bastard Noise -  Manphibian

5. The Endless Blockade - Deuteronomy




Not my favorite Endless Blockade release, but still very cool. The Bastard Noise plays instruments on this  record, sounding impressively similar to Man Is The Bastard. First press on black vinyl, with 100  on mail order red vinyl. Second press on orange. Comes with an insert and a rad looking poster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14sfYBTjvrs

The Endless Blockade - Demo

Year: 2008
Label: Fuck Yoga Records

Tracks:

1. Black Economy
2. 2 AM Grab Bag
3. Colombian Education
4. Face The Yawnbringer
5. Prohibition's Failure
6. Therapy Through Violence

7. Mothra


The Endless Blockade's demo on wax. Terrifying powerviolence. Hand-numbered on an obi strip out of 430, with a special alternate version numbered out of 80.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aEIsKwMMR4