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Splitting Headache-Night Terrors

By admin on Sep. 10, 2010.

Splitting Headache
Night Terrors LP
Collapse Records

A bunch of friends in this band, so I might be a tad partisan in this review (although that’s never stopped me from shredding records before), but this is one of the better records of the second half of the past decade. Former members of Tear It Up, Full Speed Ahead, and others continue to mature that style, blending it with Damaged era Black Flag to make a highly enjoyable album. I am pretty sure a few members of Splitting Headache live in different parts of the country, so catch them if you can when they do play out.

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The Good Book-Demo 2006

By admin on Apr. 4, 2007.

The Good Book
Demo 2006

This band has apparently already broken up, but this demo fucking rages hard. The Jersey Shore pedigree here is impressive: members have spent time in bands as varied as Ensign, Full Speed Ahead, Human Remains, S.O.V., and Tear It Up. In fact 3/5 of Full Speed Ahead were in this band. The five songs on this CD sound a lot like a median between Tear It Up (where vocalist Dave Ackerman spent time in before this band) and Full Speed Ahead. Fast, right to the point, hardcore in the vein of Bl’ast!, Black Flag and other early eighties classics. Back in the days of Full Speed Ahead a song with a mosh part as hard as the one in No Encore would have had kids from the shore killing each other.

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Signifying Nothing Episode Twenty One

By admin on Oct. 9, 2006.

Signifying Nothing Episode Twenty One

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Playlist
Rest In Pieces-Toys R Us
The Melvins-The Way Of The World (Flipper Cover)

Scapegoat-Wrench
Direct Control-World War Three
H 100′s-Ain’t Too Young To Die

Deadguy-Running With Scissors
Deadguy-Embryo

Deadguy-Druid
Deadguy-Die With Your Mask On

No Hope For The Kids-Secret Police
Jello Biafra & The Melvins-Yuppie Cadillac
Crucifix-Another Mouth To Feed
Tear It Up-Number One Wish
Razor Blades-Plastic Messiah

Think I Care-Burn
The Misfits-London Dungeon
The Klan-Cover Girls
Straight Ahead-Point Of View
Battalion Of Saints-Too Much Fun

Pearls & Brass-The Face Of God
Struggle For Pride-Wake Up To The Nightmare
Breakfast-El Burrito’s #2
Pisschrist-Infected

False Liberty-Unity
Neos-Churchgoer’s Motive
Floorpunch-What’s Right
Sick Of It All-Just Lies
Infest-Three Or Nothing

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Splitting Headache

By admin on May. 26, 2006.

Splitting Headache
S/T EP
Collapse Records

Splitting Headache are a great new band from the shore featuring members of Tear It Up and Full Speed Ahead. If you like those bands, you will love Splitting Headache as this is a continuation of what was previously established in those bands. I especially dig the multiple lifted Suicidal Tendencies riffs in School Of Life Drop Out. Once these guys have another record out I think people are really going to take note because having heard some newer material I have to say it is an even stronger statement than this record. I know this review is pretty short, but this record is that good that it doesn’t really need an hyperbole or grandiose statements. Get this and support Collapse Records!

Recently Hardware Media also reviewed this one.

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The Gatecrashers-…Are A Bunch Of Mother Fuckers

By admin on Nov. 16, 2005.

The Gatecrashers
…Are A Bunch of Mother Fuckers LP
Parts Unknown Records

The Gatecrashers are a band I have enjoyed previously but never really paid a ton of attention to. I do remember being amused by their piss take on Break Down The Walls on a previous record. This LP reminds me a lot of New Jersey’s own already classic band Tear It Up. Musically, it is well done but just does not grab me the way that bands like Tear It Up do. If you dig this style, check this record out though.

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