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Catharsis, Blitz, August 29th

blitz

Catharsis is playing Blitz in Oslo, Norway with Kollwitz (Facebook and Twitter) and Je Suis Mort, August 29th.

Here’s what the Blitz Booking has to say about it on Facebook:

CATHARSIS!
Bandet som har fått veggene på gamle Blitz til å renne av svette planlegger i disse dager en europaturne, og legger turen til Blitz fredag 29.august!! For de uinnvidde: Catharsis var svært aktive fra starten i 1994 frem til 2002, og har hatt en enorm innflytelse på DIY/hardcorescena verden over. Dette er sinnsykt heftig hardcore epicness fra sinnsykt bra folk som har skjønt at scena er vår og den er hva vi gjør den til – det kommer til å renne svette fra veggene på Blitz igjen!

KOLLWITZ
Norske Kollwitz er mørkt som en vinternatt og seigt som kvae, vakkert mollstemt og drivende intenst – dette er metall uten å være metall, hardcore uten å være hardcore. Dette er rett og slett en fullblodsoppvarmer for kvelden!

JE SUIS MORT
Je Suis Mort, med folk fra This Thing Called Dying, Hombre Malo og Sons of Saturn er de siste på plakaten – dette er kickass groovey hardcore with some kind of loose twist – ryktet sier at de gleder seg noe forferdelig og kommer til å gi alt hva reimer og tøy kan holde for å gjøre dere varme og fornøyde!

80 kr. i døra
20.00

Google Translate will help if you don’t read Norwegian.

I Survived Maryland DeathFest XII

and all I got was this lousy beer koozie… for my co-worker.

I survived MDF!

Seriously, MDF XII was a blast and I bought a lot of records. Highlights included:

  • Coffins – twice in two days!
  • Impaled
  • DropDead
  • Victims
  • At the Gates
  • The Land of Kush
  • War Master
  • Erik and I deciding whether a band was European or American, based on the backs of t-shirts.

europe vs us

I did less documenting this time, I am trying to live in the moment more. But, here are a few pictures I took.

Also, Erik and I got the xebooksx Twitter bot running on his server. Follow it for ridiculous youth crew, straightedge nonsense.

Catharsis in the AV Club

samsara

Jason Heller mentioned Catharsis in last month’s edition of Fear of a Punk Decade – a series where he revisits the punk/hardcore/emo explosion of the ’90s year by year.

Many groups released hardcore albums on the fringe in 1997, from Capitalist Casualties’ scathing A Collection (courtesy of Slap A Ham) to the Southern-fried sludge of Rise And Fall by Damad (which would birth the metal band Kylesa in the coming millennium). But the best of the bunch were Catharsis’ Samsara —a bleak, brutal statement of bestial hardcore— and His Hero Is Gone’s opening one-two punch, Fifteen Counts Of Arson and Monuments To Thieves.

Most of the article is about emo and pop punk bands; Blink 182, Jimmy Eat World, Hot Water Music, etc… But it’s a good read, and a good series too. Check it out.