Bootlicker - The Great Scandinavian Feast 7"

 D-Beat influenced Hardcore Punk from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada sharing members with White Collar. To celibrate their tour of Scandinavia they recorded this covers EP of songs by Svart Framtid, Bannlyst, Missbrukarna, Shitlickers, Lama, Pohjasakka, Enola Gay & War Of Destruction. All the lyrics have been translated into English with the exception of the Shitlickers song, which was in English to begin with.

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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.