S.T.F.U. Demo 2009

OK this is the 1st recording by my Barcelona based band 'Shut The Fuck Up'. It was recorded in our practice space on two mikes and mixed by guitarist Paul, the vocals were done a little later in our friend Rich's studio in London. I'm loving this recording because its really caputred our energy. OK the line up is, me on vocals, Paul Symes (ex of Dead Inside/Bullet Union) on guitar, Camisa (ex Gulag) on Bass and Pepe (of Kids Pantera/ C_U_R_A_S_A_N ) on drums. If you want a cassette copy of this get in contact with us through our myspace, or better still print out the sleeve and make you and your friends some copies. The tracks are 'Facistionesta' , '60/40', I'll Fuckin Sink You' & 'Dead Mans Plate'. The lyrics are about about usual shit like my hate of 'Vice' reading fashion punks, Hating your job or just hating jobs in general, Ex's and doing stuff that you hate doing but still doing it anyway. OK thats enough talk now listen. STFU Demo

Shackle Me Not - 2nd Demo

OK here's the second demo by 'Shackle Me Not' aka 'Shit Muck & Nails',we didn't really do a lot with this I think we maybe gave away 20 or so copies with various different sleeves we would knock together on the day of a gig. We did have a really nice bit of artwork drawn for us by the amazing tattooist 'Horikhan'. I'll stick it up when I find it. I cant really remember but SMN were together around 2003 to 2005 with just Karl on vocals with me joining on seconds vocals when 'Wives Of Seth' split.
As I said this is the 2nd demo but actually the 3rd recording by SMN. As we did a split CD with 'Deathskulls' inbetween demo's. Its was recorded by some really stoned guy in a shed somewhere near Southend. SMN was all over by the end of 2005 as we had a little trouble with the 'Back Boot'.
Here's a little potted history taken from Myspace
"This band came out of the ashes of the Fens when the marsh made us stink like cunts, the downside was karl who after singing in shite screamo band ( he was the shite bit, the others were quite good)in the mid 1990's decided that he would swap all his emo manilla envelope 7" s for big l's devil son 12", joined by Darrel Skinner (Burn All Flags, The Leif Ericsson, Karva, Poindexter) aka 'back boot' on second guitar. then Bloody Kev (Raging Speedhorn, Hard To Swallow, Hellvis, Dead Inside), the daughter of Bloody Joyce, . Mucky, Stringbean and Tea Boy were the yung uns (under thirty) and collected stool samples from the public toilets in Boston hospital. fingers in too many pies, hearts in too many places, not enough time, it was fun, see you in the next band".
The picture is of 'Back Boot' caged and our bassist Jamie.
OK get SMN 2nd Demo here.

Wives Of Seth/Death Skulls 7" 2004 (+ 1)

Here's the 7" as promised on an earlier post. This was released in 2004. A split label release on Atrocity Exhibition/Burial Records.
There were 100 pressed on black vinyl with heavy brown card sleeves and 220 on black vinyl with white sleeves (some sleeves have fake blood spatters) .
I never really liked this recording as I hated the vocals but many people seemed to love it and I can't knock the awesome playing by the rest of the guys. Give it a listen let me know what you think.
I've also included 'Death Of Seth' which was a different version of 'Daughters Of Re' from the demo, it came out on the 'Bitter Days Ahead' Comp CD on 'Ghost City Records'. There's a really nice keyboard intro inspired by DIO's Holy Diver.
I'll maybe stick up the Deathskulls tracks when I've had a word with them to get permission.

Get WOS 7" here.

Get Death Of Seth here.

Helvis - Genocider 7" 1998

Wow! what can I say about this record?. It's just sounds totally sick, it's loud. raw, sloppy and sounds like it's been recorded in a dustbin but thats what make it great. This is the 1st release by Helvis it was recorded in Sept 1998 which is a couple of years before I joined full time. The line up here is Chris Marygold bass (later guitar), Steve Watson guitar (he went on to form the awesome Ravens Creed), Stu Toolin guitar, Kev Frost from Varukers on drums and Dorian Walters on vocals (who later went onto the insane Black Eye Riot). This is the only recording by this line up as it fell apart at a gig thats gone down in Nottingham punk folklore known as 'The Six Minutes Of Shame'. My band Sixhundredandsixtysixdead were in support that night so I had the pleasure to witness this shambolic event, Great stuff! O Yeah me and Marvin sing back ups on this. It came out on Weird Records in 1998. If you like it, I've just seen 6 copies for sale on ebay now.

A beautiful moment from the '6 Minutes Of Shame' above.
Get Genocider here.

Hard To Swallow - Live In Leeds 10" 1999

OK here it is as promised. The 'Live In Leeds' 10" released on Karl from Canvas label Contrition Records. This was recorded at The Fenton pub in Leeds on 22nd Feb 1999. No Rolling Stones mobile recording unit here ,this was done on a mini-disc Walkman by Kalv Piper stood on the bar at the back. I remember this night well as it was our friend/merc/photo guy Bobby Vimto's birthday and he knocked himself unconscious whilst being a drunken fool. Great night! but unfortunately no pictures from the gig for the sleeve.

Ah yes the sleeve, we thought we should make it look nice to trick people into buying such a shit recording ha! ha!. But either way it looked great with its Who/Heresy rip off outer 12" sleeve then the AC/DC 10"sleeve inside. I think 502 were pressed on green vinyl and 27 on green and black vinyl like the picture below. There is also more 'Wicker Man' stuff here, from the vinyl labels to the stupid samples on the recording, obviously added at a later date. The whole thing was put together at Thumb Studio in Nottingham, which is where the bonus track was recorded a total piss take involving a few of HTS with Chris Neary and Paul Inger getting involved as well. Big thanks to Chris Ashworth for ripping this for me.

Its ripped as side a and side b.

Tracks Side A - Wicker Man intro/AC/DC intro/Hard To Swallow/Only A Glimpse of.../Pillblind/Needle Deep/Eyespot/Wicker Man outro closed groove.

Side B - Chainstich/Barricade/Melted/Strapped intro/Bonus Track/Wicker Man.

Get HTS Live 10" here.

HARD TO SWALLOW almost everything.

I was gonna post up all the HARD TO SWALLOW stuff but it seems I've been beaten to it. So check out the Underclass/HTS split , Manfat/HTS split and 'Protected' Lp here, there all nice copies from the vinyl. Which is great because the 'Protected' Lp was remastered and sounded much fatter than the CD. Thanks to Fugitive Equilibrium for that and being an awesome blog.

Lil at Household Name Records tells he has a few copies of the 'Protected' vinyl left, so if you enjoyed the download please support his label and try and pick one up here.

You can check out Canvas/HTS split, Demo and comp tracks here. at 99 Miles of bad blogs.

When I buy a mp3 deck I'll upload the HTS 'Live in Leeds' 10" and I'll try and get around to finding some nice live/practice versions of the unrecorded songs. So keep checking.

OK heres the version of 'Hard to Swallow' that was on 'Decade of Dissidence Worst of the 1in12 Club vol14/15' CD. Its the same except its got a nice sample from 'Nuts In May' at the start.

download here.

Dead Inside - unreleased split 7" 2001

These 2 songs were originally due for a split 7" with either Kids Near Water or Dukes Of Nothing , alas it was never to be. Both were re-recorded in shorter versions for the 'No4' lp a little later.
Unreleased 7" download

Ray Reardon Youth - UK Snooker Violence Demo 2006

Some time after Wives Of Seth split a few of us hooked up with Mad John of Deathskulls. These are the only tracks ever recorded and they never really saw the light of day as the band was only together about 8 months. (2 songs made it onto the 'Hardcore Superstars' comp CD on the Never Healed label)

UKSV download

Wives Of Seth - Demo 2003

Here's the 2003 demo by Wives of Seth. Based in London this short lived band featured ex members of Hard To Swallow,Tribute and Soon The Darkness among other UK hardcore types. I personally think these tracks here are far superior to the split 7" we did with Deathskulls a year later. Which I'll upload some other time.

The samples are of Don Logan from the movie 'Sexy Beast'.


Check it out

WOS demo download