Children Of God/Bréag Naofa - split 7"

 Children Of God: Formed in California with ex-members of Graf Orlock and Seven Generations originally as a Sludgey Powerviolence band before transitioning into atmospheric Post-Metal.

Bréag Naofa: Neocrust from Seattle, Washington.

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突撃戦車 - Change The Future 7"

 突撃戦車 (or Totsugeki Sensya if you're gaijin) is a Raw D-Beat band from Gunma, Japan formed in the mid-90's. 

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I first became aware of them after hearing a track from their Chain Of Tragedy EP which I found on a blog around that time. Because that was the only EP of theirs I was aware of, I thought they only had one EP. I found this 7" at the Notting Hill record exchange, which I remember thanks to keeping the sticker on the plastic shealth which someone lovingly wrote the correct kanji on.

I'm glad I kept that, otherwise I would have mixed this up with finding a copy of Slang's Sapporo City Hardcore 7" in a shop in Tilburg one year when Roadburn happened to coincide with Record Store Day. I didn't realise that this was a different EP until after roughly ten years of having it in my collection when I finally noticed that this had different artwork and song titles to the one that I had downloaded.

Plasma - Mua Et Voi Omistaa tape

 Hardcore Punk from Helsinki, Finland.

EDIT: I made a rip of this last Summer before it was made available digitally online.  Buy the MP3's directly from the band you cheap fucks.

Scarecrow - Sjätte Massutdöendet Når Norden! tape

D-Beat Raw Punx from Raleigh, North Carolina.  The three songs on side A will appear on a future release, side B are all cover songs.  Given how squeamish Bandcamp has been about allowing bands to put out cover songs since being taken over by Boomkat, I doubt that there will be a proper digital release for this.

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Human Junk - Demo tape

 I had a rip of this I got off another blog from years ago but it was really quiet and tinny sound so I made my own.  Human Junk was a Powerviolence band from Broadstairs, Kent in the style of Hellnation featuring Sam Richardson who ran Keep Screaming Records and previously played drums in Ripped To Shreds as well as drums and co-vocals with Luke Overin (who would go onto front Never Again) in Face Of Death.  I used to go see Human Junk loads, especially in the practice space run by the guitarist and drummer from Harrowed when they were still based in Cliftonville near Margate.  After Human Junk ended Sam went onto do Wedding, Post-Hardcore with Chris from Kind Eyes, the short lived Indiemo Pax Indigo and a couple of low-fi Indie bands, also with Chris The Silvery Moon and Help Yourself.

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Fucked Up - Huge New Her 7"

 Toronto's Fucked Up continuing the "Hardcore Punk that's also palatable to Indie Rock fans" subgenre.

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Crucifix - Nineteen Eighty-Four 7"

 Crucifix were an Anarcho Punk band from Berkeley, California.  They hold the distinction of being the only US band to release a LP on Crass' Corpus Christi label.  There's a fun story were they made a pilgrimage to England to camp on the lawn of the Crass communal house outside of London.  Source for this rip is the 2018 Kustomized Records reissue.

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