Aktiv Dödshjälp-En tid av smärta och förnedring (2005)

Aktiv Dödshjälp is a blackened crust band from Finspång, Sweden, they formed around 2004 and their first demo was Allt Hopp e Ute, En tid av smärta och förnedring is their second demo, recorded in '05 and released by Chased by Fear. Their discog includes a promo cd(2004), a split ep with Slaktattack (2005,Evigt Lidande Productions) and the 4:48 cd (2007,Halvfabrikat Records)
Aktiv Dödshjälp means active euthanasia and their music is a lethal sonic weapon: En tid av smärta och förnedring is a six track cd-r and delivers nine minutes of Bombstrike and Skitsystem's crustcore mixed with the swedish death metal of At the Gates. Vocals are hight pitched screeches and brutal, metal riffs appear here and there, songs move mostly in fast pace, sound is dissent. Brutal as fuck. In 2007 Halvkass Produktion re-released En tid av.. with new artwork, remixed tracks and a new opening intro.
thats the rant, now get it, merry Crustmas to everyone

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Eminent Scum-demo 2009

These guys and girl come from Oslo, Norway. They started out winter 2008 as a black metal band called Discunt with Adi (bass), Erling (guitar-vox) and Mathias (drumz), they soon figured slow paced black metal was boring and under diffuse circumstances Sean was taken in on drums, thus changing the beat to vicious hardcore punk. Soon the need for a sovereign singer arose, and May was recruited to the band, proving to be an kick ass asset! Then the name was changed, songs were made, beer was drank and here it is; Eminent Scum...
This is a fresh new demo and despite they started as a black metal band there are not any black metal hints here: The six tracks they deliver is a raw piece of angry anarcho-hardcore in the vein of Armistice with shouted female vocals, hard pounding rhythm section full of energy and guitar riffs full of wrath. Tracks are short and hardly last over two minutes each, May sings in English, there are some male backing vocals, the sound is raw and unmixed but still delivers the wrath. Nice effort full of power and energy, wait for more by them

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En el Abismo-demo 2008

Heavy as fuck and emotional crust with metal influences: En el Abismo come from the state of Yucatán, Mexico and this is their three track demo recorded in 2008. I don't know anything about them, their myspace has some text in Spanish but no any information about them and announces the release of a split cd with National Disasters, if you come from Mexico don't hesitate to write some shit and enlighten us
The demo consists of three tracks that last about twenty two minutes, the structure of each song is complicated, there are many parts and acoustic intros are followed by metallic riffs with dark melodies that have a depressive feeling in mid pace tempos that vary all the time from slower to a bit faster and back to slow or acoustic etc. Vocals are screamed , rhythm section makes great work, bass and drums have clear sound while the sound quality is very good. This is a crust journey into the realms of Fall of Efrafa, really excellent demo, i hope they will deliver some more recordings

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Deadfall-demo 2001

Deadfall was born in 2001 in San Francisco/Oakland and released a couple of ep's and appeared in several compilations. This is their five track demo recorded in 2001 and delivers raw old school hardcore in the vein of Poison Idea, Minor Threat ect and not much different to the tunes Deadfall are known for. Now they seem to called it a day, Six Weeks Rec.s released their discography in Mass Descruction cd, some of their old releases are available in Tankcrimes
That was the short fart, now go get it

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Shaid-Demo CD 2008

Shaid is a five member assembly,coming from the French city of Nancy,Lorraine.This is their demo recording,self released on a CD format with two cover versions.Now this isnt the usual stuff frenchies would do,so i'd say that you shouldn't expect excellence from this guys,but hey,you got to appreciate some grind crust every now and then.This is Disrupt mixed with Massgrave with some small PV dirts on the tunes.This 9 track demo was released in 2008,and is being followed by a new LP release put out this year,played in the same manner with a bit sharper sound.Weed smokers and grinders wearing Doom patches on their jacket will enjoi this playing in the background while having a morning beer!! French kissing!

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Abysmal Fornikate-Demo 2009 (highly recomented)

Yeah!this is the perfect blending of Fall of Effrafa with Schifosi and From Ashes Rise! Abysmal Fornikate is a five piece act (four guys and one girl), they come from Malaysia and deliver an amazing blending of Fall of Effrafa's emotional parts with the melodies of Tragedy, Remains of the Day and the likes. They formed in 2008 and sometime in the end of year/beginning of '09 they recorded two lenghty songs that last for about fifteen minutes, these tracks were released in February '09 (during the DIY femme fest gig in Malaysia) in a limited to only 50 copies demo. I can't find words to describe this, this is a hidden treasure and much better than what you should expect: Acoustic and slow emotional parts are followed by faster crust outbreaks with gloomy melodies and screamed vocals, and then the band slows down the beat for another emotional part and then speeds on and on. Despite the six and eight minutes of each song the result is not boring at all: Guitar riffs and dark melodies and rhythm changes make it really interesting. The sound quality is dissent and appopriate but the band was not satisfied with it and decided not to print more copies of the demo.
Check their myspace and their blog, both tracks (re-recorded) plus four new songs will appear in their next release

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Discrumt-Gnosis (cdr,2008)

Discrumt hail from from Pennsylvania, USA and Gnosis is a cd-r released in 2008, they formed in 2005 and their discog is Refusing To Conform To Your Norms ep (2006), Gnosis (2008) and Ornithic (2009), they also appeared in a couple of compilations.
Gnosis delivers ten tracks of a raw blending of 80's anarcho-punk with a few crustpunk elements. There is this 80's punk feeling in guitar's raw sound, the rhythm section creates emotional backbone for each song and bass and drums rule all the time with a trace of experimental punk, the sound quality is dissent anda bit raw, the shouted vocals have a haunting feeling and lyrics move in the same pessimistic pathway


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Nagasaki Nightmare-Demo 2004

This is DIY dark crust from Italy: Nagasaki Nightmare formed around 2004 and this is a '04 recording delivering four tracks of dark and emotional crust. The sound is raw and harsh, actually these tracks come from a rehearsal recording so there is no space for bad review or whatever since the bad sound quality doesn't allow the band to reveal the real abilities. never mind, give it a listening, two demo tracks appear in their split lp w Contrasto (2006), they also have a split lp with Blunt


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Asocial Terror Fabrication-Demo Tape 2009

Asocial Terror Fabrication is a 4 piece crasher crust outfit coming from,where else,but Japan.Formed around 2007,the band now consists of people who previously have played,or still are,playing in acts as Exclude,Abysstyx,and Krossa.Think you know what can you expect by people who play crust in the empire of the sun,this is Doom worship thing with Sore Throat mixed in the way,and add the flavour that,Life,maybe has.Final word is i think,you can add this demo tape alongside Isterismo and Kriegshog.This is theyre selfreleased demo tape with 5 tracks on it,put out this year,and if you want to score coppies of this,it's been distributed by Damaging Noise records in the states.So the verdict on this is,if you are a nervous guy as much as i am,you will,find this demo quite amusing and enjoyable.Puncture youre eardrums!!

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Heads and Heads-st one sided 12"

This is not a demo but one sided 12" offered for free by the band: Heads and Heads is a four piece act from Barcelona, Spain, they deliver melodic crust and include members of Das Plague. They have a split ep with El Eje del Mal and they are going to release a 4 way split lp with I Had Plans (Portugal), Plague Sermon (UK) and Last Days of a Kamikaze (Italy).
the st lp was released by a co-operation of labels (La Agonia de Vivir (Spain), Dance Tonight Records (Gemany), Le Cri Devot (France) Hombre Bueno Discos(Spain) and delivers five tracks and about 10 minutes of melodic crust very close to the Das Plague stuff: The guitar sound is slightly cleaner, there are slower acoustic parts, dark melodies everywhere and screamed vocals. Lyrics are in Spanish but there is translation in English in their myshit.

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Projek Babi-demo 2009

This is raw D-beat from Indonesia: There is no much information on their myspace, members come from Jakarta, Banden and Bandung, they formed in 2009, they adore Disclose and Japanese noise crust but they believe Discharge were lame and bored shit. The demo was recorded sometime this year, it brings four short tracks that last for about four minutes and deliver absolute Disclose worship. That says it all and its needless to say anything else, go get some raw shit

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Kriegshog-cover songs demo tape

This is raging D-beat from the land of rising sun:Kriegshog hail from Tokyo, Japan, they formed a few years ago, they have a five track demo tape (2007) and a few 7" under their belt: Hardcore hell 7" (Hardcore Survives and re-released on Heart Fist) and splits with Dog Soldier (HG Fact) and Deathtribe (In Crust we Trash), all releases came out during 2008 and recieved good reviews. This is a two track tape released by Hardcore Survives in 2007 and consisting of two covers (Iconoclast and the Asexual) played the way Kriegshog deliver their D-beat noise: Thrashy, violent, raw and noisy hardcore inferno with screamed/shouted angry vocals. No need to say anything, get it!

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Invasión-Demo

This is the demo recording of the spanish punk outfit Invasion,which is done live i think,and is really awfull(that's why i uploaded the same tracks,but with a better recording).Better to let you people out there know this before you give this spanish d beat punkhardcore inferno a try.Now what's to know about this band is that nowdays theyre called destino final.Name changing probably occured as a result of member changing,though,music vise,it's preety much the same thing they always have played,hc punk with lots of discharge in it,but in a noisy and mean kinda way.I also need to mention that there's reverbed vocals,that gives the anger that comes out of the tunes,that extra kick in the back,just enough to get you into that whirlwind of distortion.Now a brief band history,the band is formed around 2004,same year this demo recording was made,3 years later,they release the first LP on la vida es un mus records,which contains these same tracks plus few more,and a bit more refined sound,year after they did another release,La Caza(the hunt) 12'',which after,the name is Destino Final.Enough word mollesting from me,noisiest thing to come out of spain since the civil war!!

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Disempower-demo 2007

Disempower are some D-beat freaks from San Antonio,TX, and this is their four track demo recorded in 2007. I don't know anything about them, actually i don't know if they still exist as a band, their myspace seems abandoned and there's no any information on the web, in their myspace they announce (in March '08) the release of a cd-r called "The Atrocity & Nightmare".
Anyway, this demo delivers four tracks of fast paced and raging D-beat/crust full of energy, the sound is raw and noisy, vocals are angry and shouted with a Japanese flavor. Framtid, World Burns to Death, Death Side, Defector, Discharge and Anti Cimex are some of the bands mentioned in their myshit as influences and thats the kind of noise they deliver.

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Deathrats-Demo/7'' st

Female fronted hardcore punk band hailing from Washington,DC,thats Deathrats.And im not really sure how much this is the demo these guys and a girl released or it's the 7'',which was put out by to live a lie records,but anyway,its uploaded,so its all yours.Still,this is not really crust or anything,except maybe that in track 1 theres some mellodic part,like neocrust bands have,but other than that,these guys play fast trashy hardcore,cause of the vocals imagine it as some sort of cross between life's halt and i object,though a bit more raw than those two anyway.You can check out their review in MRR zine here,and check the bands blog here,in case you want to score coppies of this.So,feminist and activist like lyrics inside,and a hardcore missile in your home.Have fun!

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