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3.20.2013

BAD BRAINS

"idem"
Year: 1982
Country: US
City: Washington
Label: Roir
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 16
Time: 36 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Hardcore Reggae

BAD BRAINS is the first full-length studio album recorded by BAD BRAINS. It was originally released on cassette only, but has since been re-released by ROIR on both CD and vinyl. When the album was recorded in 1981 and released finally in 1982, fans and critics alike were stunned to learn that the musicians behind this album – one of the fastest albums of all time upon its release – were African-American Rastafarians who also were skilled at reggae. The album was a crucial step in the formation of hardcore punk and the eventual fusion of hard rock and reggae adopted later by bands like Sublime, Fishbone, and 311. Many of the album's tracks were re-recorded for their 1983 follow-up, "Rock for Light". "Rock for Light" did not contain re-recordings of "Don't Need It", "The Regulator", "Jah Calling", "Leaving Babylon", "Pay to Cum", "I Luv Jah" and "Intro". In-Effect Records released a CD version with the same track listing titled "Attitude" The ROIR Sessions in 1991. We are in front of an Essential album of the whole hardcore punk history. A true Masterpiece which can to sound from fast and agressive hardcore to extreme slow reggae and even dub. There is no doubt the little Washington DC scene has given us very good gems

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"Rock for the light"
Year: 1983
Label: Caroline
Format: CD , LP
Tracks: 20
Time: 28 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Hardcore Reggae

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"I against I"
Year: 1986
Label: SST
Format: CD , LP
Tracks: 10
Time: 30 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Hardcore Reggae

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"Quickness"

Year: 1989
Label: Caroline

Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 12
Time: 36 min.

Genre: rock
Style: Hardcore Reggae

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"rise"
Year: 1993
Label: Universal
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 14
Time: 50 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Hardcore Reggae

BAD BRAINS is an american hardcore punk band formed in Washington DC in 1977. They are widely regarded as among the pioneers of hardcore punk. though the band's members objected to this term to describe their music. They are also an adept reggae and dub band, while later recordings featured elements of other genres like funk, heavy metal, hip hop and soul. BAD BRAINS are followers of the Rastafari movement. Originally formed as a jazz fusion ensemble under the name "Mind Power". Bad Brains developed a very fast and intense punk-rock sound which came to be labeled "hardcore", and was often played faster and more emphatically than the music of many of their peers. The unique factor of the band's music was the fact that they played more complex rhythms than other hardcore punk bands, also adapting non-punk style guitar riffs and solos into their songs. Personally I think Bad Brains are the best U.S. hardcore punk band of the early '80s. Both musically, as regards points, have much higher quality than the pioneers of the genre such assumptions: Minor Threat, Black Flag or MDC. Maybe just Dead Kennedys to beat Bad Brains. This album "Rise", for example, pass unnoticed by most people and I think is very original, creative and has a great quality level. Not just for the good reggae / punk mix of the band, but also to incorporate some funk, fussion and alternative rock influences in its music.

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"God of love"
Year: 1995
Label: Maverick
Format: CD , LP
Tracks: 12
Time: 48 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Hardcore Reggae

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"I & I survived remixed"

Year: 2002

Country: US

City: Washington

Label: Reggae Lounge

Format: CD , LP

Tracks: 12

Time: 55 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Dub Reggae

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"build a nation"
Year: 2007
Label: Megaforce
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 14
Time: 38 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Hardcore Reggae

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"into the future"

Year: 2012
Country: US

Label: MegaForce
Format: CD, LP

Tracks: 13

Time: 39 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Hardcore Reggae

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LESHAR

"Победа"

Year: 2013

Country: Russia

Label: no

Format: 2 x CD

Tracks: 19

Time: 70 minutes

Genre: rock

Style: NeoFolk, NeoClassical, Death-Metal

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3.18.2013

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3.07.2013

UNSEEN TERROR

"Human error"
Year: 1987
Country: UK
City: Birmingham
Label: Earache
Format: CD
Tracks: 20
Time: 30 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Grindcore

To set the record straight - The band was not named after the S.O.B track "Unseen Terror". This song from S.O.B came quite a while later. The band was actually named after Mitch was listening to the hardcore band Septic Death. Here is the story. The song "Terrorain" by this classic band has the lyric "Unseen Death - Terrorain". The Chernobyl disaster was very fresh in the minds of many at the time, and Mitch thought of the term "Unseen Terror", as the radiation in the air around the area of the disaster was invisible. It was literally an unseen terror. This short-lived, but highly influential group was founded in early 1986 by singer/guitarist Mitch Dickinson and Shane Embury. (Re: The album cover - They were later joined very briefly by Pete Giles (Harmony as One, Scalplock) on bass during the summer of 1987). Mitch and Shane wrote many songs together as a two piece band during mid 1986. These rehearsal tapes were distributed on an international level via the tape trading network of the time. These tapes caught the attention of Digby Pearson who later founded Earache Records. In the meantime, the band were invited to contribute two tracks to the compilation LP Diminished Responsibility, a 1987 Thrash compilation album, he group landed a record contract at Earache Records. The album Human Error was recorded by Mitch Dickinson and Shane Embury as a two piece band during September 1987. After their debut-album, Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris joined the band as singer. By then, Giles was no longer a member of the group as he did not really fit in. The band were invited to a recording session for BBC Radio One legend John Peel, and a one-off performance in Nottingham with bassist Wayne Aston. Incidentally, Wayne Aston did not appear on the Peel sessions recordings.
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3.03.2013

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STRANGLERS

"rattus norvegicus"
Year: 1977
Label: United Artists
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 12
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Post Punk

The Stranglers are a rock music group, formed on September 11, 1974 in Guildford, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. They were originally called The Guildford Stranglers and operated from an off-licence in the town. They also based themselves in the nearby village of Chiddingfold for a while. They began as a sinister sounding, hard-edged pub rock group, but eventually branched out to explore other styles of music. The Stranglers were, beginning in 1976, tangentially associated with punk rock, due in part to their opening for The Ramones’ first British tour. The Stranglers were also associated with new wave music as well as gothic rock, but their idiosyncratic approach never fit completely within a musical genre.

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