Published at: 04:08 pm - Sunday August 02 2009
I’ve been digging in the crate again… This time I have 3 demos from two important Hungarian bands, Dawncore and Burning Inside.
Budapest’s Dawncore were more metal influenced than their contemporaries, especially those from Savaria Colonia. They outlasted them too, staying active until 2002.
Dawncore-SoulburnerTimes.zip (44.44MB)
Also from Budapest, Burning Inside’s approach was more punk than metal. They [...]
Published at: 03:06 pm - Sunday June 07 2009
Back in 1997, my band was touring Europe and played a show in eastern Hungary. We weren’t expecting much; it seemed poorly organized, we had confusing directions (looking back, I blame language and cultural barriers), it was in a small town in an Eastern Bloc country. Little did we know, unlike the rest of Europe, [...]
Published at: 05:05 pm - Sunday May 31 2009
Here are some more demo tapes I dug up.
Brooklyn, NY’s Indecision were going through a line-up change in 1998 so Artie Phillie re-recorded vocals for a few songs from their Most Precious Blood album.Indecision-1998demo.zip (21.76MB)
Skycamefalling were from Long Island. I’m not sure how I ended up with this demo, but I’m glad I did. After [...]
Published at: 02:05 pm - Saturday May 30 2009
I recently dug up a crate of cassette tapes -remember those?- from under my bed and found a small stack of demos from bands I had either seen or befriended, including a rather large amount of Hungarian hardcore. As I rip them I’ll post them here. So consider this the first installment of several.
Undying were [...]
Published at: 11:11 pm - Tuesday November 18 2008
Okay, I have this guilty pleasure. It’s called bands that Scott Vogel sings for. There I said it. Yeah, he’s got a few screws loose, and he fronts tough-guy hardcore bands, a genre that usually bores me to tears (No really, my old band used to improvise better songs at sound checks than most [...]