Origin of M tour poster and video

Burai Core Release 01 - Origin of M 12"

I'm taking the plunge back into the label game after a ten year break.  First up is the debut 12" from Origin of M.  Hiroshima City Hardcore style, featuring Mr. Guy from Gudon, Cavemen and the man behind Bloodsucker Records.  Needless to say, raging stuff with its own sound.  This is the first time on vinyl for the first CD originally released by Under The Surface.  All new artwork by the master Sugi.  They will be playing Chaos In Tejas and touring through the midwest, hitting the east and west coasts before flying home.  Also look for the second CD on Straight Up, it smokes.

June 4th Chaos in Tejas at Emo's with Doom,Kriegshog,Isterismo,Spazm 151 and Wild//Trive
June 5th Chaos in Tejas
June 6th Denton,TX at Rubber Gloves w/ the Slowmotions,Crazy Spirit,Perdition and Wild//Tribe 
June 7th St Louis,MO at Cranky Yellow
June 8th Milwaukee,WI at the Doghouse (2438 N Bremen) w/ See You In Hell,Lotus Fucker and Protestant 
June 9th Chicago,IL w/ See You In Hell and Lotus Fucker
June 10th Detroit,MI at the Shelter w/ Nightbringer 
June 11th Cleveland,OH at Now That's Class
June 12th Pittsburgh,PA w/ Nightbringer 
June 13th Richmond,VA at Strange Matter w/ Parasytic and Aghast
June 14th Baltimore,MD at the Barclay House w/ See You In Hell,xBrainiax and Lotus Fucker
June 15th Philadelphia,PA at the Millcreek Tavern 
June 16th Boston,MA
June 17th Brooklyn,NYC
June 18th Portland,OR at the Know w/ the Slowmotions,Crazy Spirit and P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S
June 19th Portland,OR w/ the Slowmotions and Burning Leather

Nightbringer new singles preview

Here are the A-sides to the next two Nightbringer singles.  31st and Michigan will be released by Deer Healer, and Fight Like Hell will be released by... me!  31st should be out in May, and FLH will follow after that.

Bastard / Paintbox / Super Frisky !!!

It isn't uncommon in the most productive scenes to find the same people involved in multiple projects, and the Japanese hardcore scene is no exception.

Using BASTARD as a starting point...

vocalist Tokurow is now in FIGHT BACK (with Iron Fist Tatsushima from CROW, GISM, DIE YOU BASTARD!, etc)

guitarist Zigyaku was in GUDON and SYSTEMATIC DEATH and went on to form JUDGEMENT

bassist Iizawa went on to JUDGEMENT, BUZZY 大和町バンド, and is now in RANGE AND THE DIRTY HOSPITAL and 鉄アレイ (Tetsu Arrey).

Zigyaku and Iizawa both played on OGREISH ORGANISM recordings with Pill from LIP CREAM. 

drummer Koba (aka Masaaki Sweden) was in SYSTEMATIC DEATH, DISARM, went on to ROCKY & THE SWEDEN, and is now in RYDEEN and SYSTEMATIC DEATH (if not more).

Bastard "No Hope In Here" official discography CD  $29.50

Fight Back/Hazard "Realities of Hardcore Punk" CD  $10.25

Gudon "Early Years" CD  $10.25

Systematic Death "Systema 6" 12"  $10

Systematic Death / See You In Hell 7"  $8.50

Judgement "Just Be" 7"  $5.50

Range & The Dirty Hospital CD  $11

鉄アレイ "14All All41" CD  $10

Ogreish Organism "鬼" CD  $31

Ogreish Organism "偽物の時間" CD  $31

Ogreish Organism "4th Pill" CD  $15

Rydeen "AAAA" CD  $11

SUPER FRISKY is a relatively new band, their CD just came out, really great, the first thing to come to mind is a mix of the Comes (for the female vocals) and Motorhead-ish Japanese punk hardcore.

SUPER FRISKY

vocalist Yoko from AKUTARE

guitarist Keiro from AKUTARE, 鉄アレイ, and formerly EXTINCT GOVERNMENT

bassist Sakura from JUDGEMENT and SCREAMING HOG

drummer Kaki from 鉄アレイ

WATERBED is

vocalist Jhajha from LIP CREAM and JUDGEMENT

guitarist 宇賀秀樹(MADORDEATH) 

bassist Ali (Deep Count)

drummer Kaki from 鉄アレイ

Super Frisky "For Buddy" CD  $28

鉄アレイ "14All All41" CD  $10

Judgement "Just Be" 7"  $5.50

Waterbed CD  $7.50

Lip Cream II DVD  $30.50

Lip Cream VII DVD  $30.50

all nine Lip Cream DVDs, poster, stickers special:  $250   --last set--

Lip Cream "Trash Til Death" CD  $27.50

Lip Cream "9 Shocking Terror" CD  $24

And that's just to start.  Add in the Death Side family tree and it seems to touch nearly every top tier Tokyo band by some degree of relation.

I should note that the Lip Cream complete DVD set is the last one I have and I don't intend to break it up.  I do a have some extra copies of the second and seventh DVDs to sell separately (two of the best in the series).  I have very limited copies of a lot of these things, particularly the Bastard, Super Frisky, Gudon, and Waterbed CDs, and I'm down to my last couple Lip Cream CDs as well.

And the Paintbox DVD is finally here!  31 songs from multiple shows, 146 minutes.  The opening clip is literally stunning, with the band in their early days playing 炎 from the first single, looking like reclusive hippie wizards conjuring their otherworldly sound...  Just awesome.  The DVD goes through the rest of their career, including their trip to the US, the later shows with Akira from Continental Kids singing (while Mune was incarcerated) and ending with their final tour with Osamu from ALLIANCE playing guitar after Chelsea passed away.  Includes a booklet listing every show they played.  There's a lot here, including vacation footage from the US trip, I haven't even had the chance to really dig into it yet.  Worth every penny.  Limited copies, of course...  I'm also down to the last copies of the "Trip Trance, Traveling" CD, these are the first press in a gatefold cover (the repress was in a standard jewel case).

Paintbox "Anarchy, Madness & Love" DVD  $28

Paintbox "Relicts" 12"  $11.25

Paintbox "Trip Trance & Traveling" CD  $22.50

Paintbox "Trip Trance & Traveling" 2xLP  $19

Paintbox "炎/砂漠" 7"  $45
Paintbox "The Door/Provided Railroad" 7"  $55

v/a Burning Spirits 2004-2005 DVD  $24.50

Slowmotions at Chaos in Tejas and west coast tour!

Chaos in Tejas invariably brings a batch of Japanese bands to the US, and while the full line up hasn't been completely announced yet, the Slowmotions will be coming over for it and to do some shows on the west coast.  I've seen them twice, fantastic band.  Definitely a favorite and a nice break from the Motorhead/bands that sound like Motorhead that I listen to 90% of the time.  I really think these are some of the best punk songs being written these days. 

June 2nd Chaos in Tejas

June 3rd Chaos in Tejas

June 4th Chaos in Tejas

June 5th Chaos in Tejas

June 6th Dallas,TX

June 7th OFF

June 8th Phoenix,AZ

June 9th Los Angeles,CA

June 10th Orange County,CA

June 11th Bakersfield,CA

June 12th San Jose,CA

June 13th Oakland,CA

June 14th San Francisco,CA

June 15th Sacramento,CA

June 16th Arcata,CA

June 17th Seattle,WA

June 18th Portland,OR w/ Origin of [M]

June 19th Portland,OR w/ Origin of [M]

from the Burning Spirits 2006-2007 DVD

from the Dead Heat Disco 05 VHS

the Slowmotions/Burning Leather 7"  $6.25

the Slowmotions "Mystery Action" 7"  $8.75

the Slowmotions "ダイオルを回せ！" CD  $6

the Slowmotions "マケロベ / Yes, Future!!" 7"  $15

v/a Burning Spirits 2006-2007 DVD  $32

Winter Update

I took it a bit easy this fall with the distro, mostly as I was saving up to release a 12" by...  Well, more on that later, tthe distro is going to expand into a label this spring.  I'm only planning to release one record at a time to roll the money from one to the next.  I'll announce the first one in the coming weeks when the artwork is completed by Sugi, who has done innumerable classic Japanese record covers, shirts, and flier designs.  So to catch up, I went to Japan for a week at the end of November.  Good trip, arrived and got to hang out with Slowmotions and FUK guys at the end of their tour, saw Forward, Zone, and 鉄アレイ (Tetsu Arrey) at EarthDOM (phenomenal show from all three bands, Forward with their new drummer playing a mix of early songs and four new ones, Zone making a rare Tokyo appearance, and 鉄アレイ not missing a note with the recent addition of Keiro (Akutare/Super Frisky) on guitar), and then things came to a wretched halt when I woke up the next morning and proceeded to throw up for 24 hours from a stomach virus.  Went to the hospital to make sure I wasn't getting dehydrated and then slept all day, meaning I missed the Burning Leather tour final with AI, Slowmotions, Forward, GATES and Nanox.  Squeezed in a whopping 30 minutes of record shopping the next day, took care of some other stuff and then went across the country to Hiroshima where I met Guy san (Bloodsucker Records, Origin of M).  Got to see Origin of M practice (killer), got some good stuff at Guy's store Misery, and hung out at Dumb Records (cool Ramones/garage punk record label, coffee shop and bar).  Woke up early the next morning to take the shinkansen back across the country and flew home the next day.  The trip was way too short, I felt like I barely had any time in Tokyo and wish I could have hung out longer in Hiroshima.

But I did bring back a few things, namely recent Bloodsucker releases and a few old 7"s.  First up is the Fight Back/Hazard split CD.  Hazard are long running Tokyo punks, maybe you know them from the split with Extinct Government or the recent full length CD, and they now have Eiji (ex DSB) drumming for them.  Raw recording, turn it up and destroy your speakers.  Fight Back is the return of Tokurow, ex Bastard vocalist, with Iron Fist Tatsushima (Die You Bastard!, Crow, GISM etc) drumming.  Crushing D beat/thrash hardcore, almost Swedish sounding.  

Next up from Bloodsucker is the debut ep from Waterbed.  Mellow sounds from the drummer from  鉄アレイ and the singer from Lip Cream.  I only got a few copies for people who are willing to take a chance on something unexpected, and Guy san gave me some screened patches that I'll include with them.  

I also got a handful of the last copies of the Gudon "Early Years" CD and some stickers to go with them.  This is all the insane early noise core that wasn't included on the discography on Bloodsucker and Partners In Crime, both demos and the flexi.  

Also the third Crossface CD, the Veihaiz CD (burly hardcore), both Persevere 7"s (UK punk style) and some other odds and ends. The first Nightbringer 7" came out in November, and the second one will hopefully be out by the end of winter.  Nightbringer 7" is on colored vinyl.

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Also new is the No Problem/Doomsday Hour CD on Under the Surface.  Doomsday Hour are from California, ex Star Strangled Bastards, and No Problem are the original bassist from Paintbox and the singer from Geshpenst and Sticks In Throat.  Got a few copies of the Nightmare "Bloodsucker Years" CD, crucial material from the 7"s and comp after the first LP and before the CD on Dan Doh.  Definitely some of my favorite stuff from them.

Long Overdue Update

Time for the first proper distro update in around three months.  The main reason is I spent just about every free night in April and May recording with Nightbringer.  We've been doing live track sessions of four or five songs at a time for the last year at Bottom of the Lake in Toledo and finally wrapped that up, so it was time to do the overdubs.  We had what I think is the best guitar and bass sound I've ever gotten, so we wanted to get everything done in one go.  I kept imagining I could get a couple songs done in a night, but it rarely worked out that way.  So 17 songs later (not including the brand new songs we demo'd for ourselves to work on), it's finally done.  Now we're going to take those songs in batches and do vocals and mix.  The second 7" on Deer Healer is getting done first, followed by two songs for an American/Canadian hc comp on Schizophrenic and a song for the Detroit covers comp on Spider Cuddler.  We should have test presses of the first 7" (on High Anxiety) as soon as Chris rolls back through town with Burning Love (one of my favorite North American bands going, if I may say so), so look for the real thing in a month or so.

Oh!  And we made new shirts.  We ran out of medium shirts in the black design (but we still have YL, S, L, and XL), so we made a new design in medium only (actually there are 4 larges too) and in a dozen different colors.  Just specify size and color when ordering.  Has "Fight Like Hell" on the sleeve and the NB/FLH hawk on the front.  

Fight Like Hell is the series of shows Len from Nightbringer and I have started putting on at the Shelter in Detroit.  Inspired by the Japanese Burning Spirits, Smash Your Chains, etc shows, we're trying to have one great show a month with an emphasis on local area bands to try and really get things moving in Detroit again.  The time is right, there are a lot of good bands and a lot of people doing the work to support the scene, so things seem ready to break out.  The first show was June 5th with Slang from Sapporo, Mind Eraser, Nightbringer, Final Assault and Disconnected and despite a torrential rain storm halfway through (that actually had water running down the entry steps to the Shelter) went very well.  There haven't been hardcore shows at the Shelter in years, so its very cool to be doing things there again.

But enough about me, on to the records...

The Alliance 12" was released on CD with an extra song.  I also picked up an inexpensive copies of the Blood Spit Nights discography, Portland's noise core outfit from a couple years back, the Slowmotions CD (the first four singles and a bonus track, same as the Partners In Crime LP.  A personal favorite), and the Bonescratch CD, which is an older HG Fact release, Born Against worship, oddly enough.

In the Japanese influenced department, we have the new Burial 12" and the Lotus Fucker 12".  Lotus Fucker just completed a tour with the Wankys from England and we had the pleasure of playing with them at Michigan Meltdown in Grand Rapids.  Total noise assault.  Burial have really come into their own and remind me a bit of a more metallic Talk Is Poison now.

Also pictured is the Systematic Death/See You In Hell 7", released for their European tour.  Bit of warning, two of the Systema songs are on the new LP and the other is a re-recording of an older classic.  Still worth it to get more SYIH material.  Glue it to the Crow/SYIH split and you can have a SYIH 7" or a Systema/Crow split.

I restocked a couple of the Lip Cream DVDs, so I have one complete set available and a few copies of the ACC and Lip Cream Only volumes.  At the same time I picked up the recent represses of the Ogreish Organism CDs on Pill's Oni label.  Ogreish Organism was Pill's project after Lip Cream.  He sang and played drums, Minoru from Lip Cream played bass on most of it, and Zigyaku (Bastard/Judgment) and Chelsea (Death Side/Paintbox) alternately played guitar.  Hardcore as you'd expect, with some of the Chelsea material getting a little more out there, but mostly kept together by heavy riffing and Pill's growling shout.

And last but far from least, I picked up the recent Crow represses on Prank.  The Neurotic Organization 7" is finally available again, Bloody Tear gets a red cover and is remastered, and Beating of the Wings of Destruction has been redone as a gorgeous picture disk.  That last one was gone in the blink of an eye the first time around, so I'd suggest getting it while you can.  One side is one crushing dirge and the other has four fast rippers.  The mysterious LP in the middle of the picture is the 解剖室 LP (Kaiboushitsu/Autopsy Suite).  Rumored to have Crow members involved (definitely sounds like it when he breaks from Gastunk/gothish singing into a howling yell), limited to 700 copies on 180g red vinyl.  Great record and very expensive.  (Sold out!)

And I picked up copies of the recent Paintbox 12"s, the Clown picture disk...  Check the list and see!