Top 100 Of The Nineties: By The Grace Of God-For The Love Of Indie Rock 7″
By admin on Mar. 2, 2006.
By The Grace Of God
For The Love Of Indie Rock 7”
Victory Records
1996
I remember Victory sending out a newsletter sometime in 1996, probably the summer, about their new releases. The usual garbage like Snapcase and Earth Crisis had new releases, the One Life Crew controversy was covered, and there was an announcement about a new band called By The Grace Of God. This band was supposed to have members of Endpoint and apparently had recently played their first show, playing three songs and a Judge cover. At the time of course crap like Snapcase was huge, real hardcore bands like Devoid Of Faith and Floorpunch were starting to gain momentum, so hearing dudes from Endpoint were doing a band that covered Judge was a good thing.
I got the 7” shortly after. I was pretty floored by it. It sounded, by the time period’s standards, pretty “modern” but was still hardcore and a definite return to the older Endpoint style. Throw in a cover of fucking Plastic Bomb on the CD and I knew this band was good.
I saw them live twice. One at Manville Elks Lodge with the scab version of Deadguy & C.R.. The other time was of course at the infamous show in Yardley PA. I actually missed the whole thing! Our friends in the band Rad opened the show but then Saves The Day was playing so I walked down to the Wawa at the end of the street. By the time I had come back everything had happened. Whoops.
By The Grace Of God would go on to record another record for Victory and then one more record on a smaller label. Members of this band have gone on to be in Black Cross, Good Riddance, and Elliot.
Here is an mp3 of Fissures.
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Top 100 Of The Nineties: Endpoint-In A Time Of Hate
By admin on Feb. 6, 2006.
Endpoint
In A Time Of Hate LP
Conversion Records
1991
This is a personal choice. When I was a young punk Model was put on a mix tape for me (turned out said mix tape maker just copied the east coast side of the Voice of 1000’s compilation and said it was a mix) and I loved it a lot. In A Time Of Hate, the LP the song comes from, is a great record of slightly metallic youth crew hardcore with great lyrics about the environment, straight edge, and drunk driving. I’ve always had a soft stop for this one and probably listened to it a lot more in my teens than I did “classic” bands like Bold or Youth of Today.
Endpoint’s later records go from decent to pretty bad in my opinion. They got some chances and got pretty mellow as the years went on. They’d also do a cover of that stupid Rick Springfield song Jesse’s Girl which would haunt my high school years, but let’s tell that story another time. If you like Endpoint I’m sure you already have these records.
This record is out of print as far as I can tell. I’m shocked it hasn’t been reissued by anyone. The Louisville Hardcore wiki page has more information.
Here is an mp3 of Model.
These songs are posted for sample purposes. I post them so that people can be turned on to cool music and hopefully return the favor for someone else. Each mp3 will be up for one week and then will be taken down. please support the bands and labels by buying these records and checking them out when they play your town. DIY hardcore punk bands deserve your support as an alternative to Clear Channel/MTV/RIAA nonsense.
If you are the artist or copyright holder for this song and would like it removed please email me and it will be removed in a timely manner.
Members of this band went on to be in Black Cross and By The Grace Of God.
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