Caned from Pg
ing up for a humungus end of sum-
mer issue-keep your eyes on guard
for it or write 8951 SW 53rd Street,
Cooper City, FL 33328... Freedom
Of Expression looks different with an
all new and improved format, but the
material is still the same: cool, down-
home interviews and record
reviews-latest ish has Government
Issue, R.I.P., Psycho and more, (RD
1. Box 422, Northampton, PA
18067). Shows, shows and more
shows: the Ritz was the place to be
in New York, when they had a killer,
metal showcase featuring Cheetah
Chrome Mother Fuckers, Nuclear
Assault, Samhain, DOA and Celtic
Frost. If you could hear after all that
you weren't where the action
was!.. Equally as hot were Rat at
Rat R and Damage at the Pyramid
Club and DOA repeated their in-
tensity in Philadelphia the same.
week on a bill with Serial Killers,
Skulls and Corrosion Of Conformi
ty (who are headed back into the
studio shortly)...Philadelphia-
based Dead Spot's new bass player
has been pulling their sound
together. They are currently rework-
ing a demo tape. It's got the rowdie
raucousness and energy of Anti-
Nowhere League, with a few twists,
and is worth checking into: P.O. Box
17028, Philadelphia, PA 19105.
F.O.D. have cancelled their tour with
no current plans for a new one.
Scram have also cancelled their
tour. Samhain is currently
negotiating a deal in Japan for
distribution of realeases in that
country-could a visit be in order
soon? New Jersey's metal
heavies, Krank, have announced
their alliance to Metal Blade Records.
The band has played a great deal in
the northeastern area and opened
for a lot of national acts. Look for the
album, entitled Hideous to be releas
ed soon. More on R.E.M.'s Peter
Buck, who's been busy as a bee pro-
ducing release after release: you can
hear the fruits of his latest efforts, a
new album by The Feelies (releas-
ed on Coyote Records, PO Box 112,
Uptown Hoboken, NJ) which is real
lively and twangy- DC's Hyaal
(formerly called Sport-Turned-
Spectacle) have a new 6-song EP
out on Fountain Of Youth Records
called (appropriately enough)
Hyaal-the band incorporates
folkish touches with a hardish
edge. Despite the fact that New
York's Absolute Grey is in limbo,
they have released a cassette, Live
At CBGB's, which captures what the
band is all about Imagine R.E.M.
gone.doom and gloom for starters,
then add in some original touches, or
maybe Joy Division with a touch of
country. Strange but true...The
Crumbsuckers (from NY) are pois-
ed to release their first album-they
have a sound that's been compared
to their buddies Agnostic Front.
Look for the release, called Life Of
Dreams to be released through Com
bat/Important. Want to check out
the best heavy metal around with no
fuss? Check Bullets, a compilation of
nine bands, featuring one track from
each of their forthcoming, or already
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released, albums on Combat or
Combatcore. Names like Mega-
death, Abbatoir. Helstar, Agent
Steel, Dark Angel, Agnostic Front,
Crumbsuckers, Impaler and
Possessed. You can't go wrong??
...Already out and hot to the touch
is Impaler's release, If We Had
Brains We'd Be Dangerous, which
was produced by Husker Du's Bob
Mould. It features a stinging cover of
The Stooges hit "Search and
Destroy" Detroit, Michigan's
PowerMad debut with Boot Camp,
featuring five songs that blast
ahead at blistering full-throttle
energy How do you get to listen
to 56 great hardcore and metal
bands from all over the world without
leaving home? Easy-get yourself
three rad tapes from ROIR Casset-
tes: The Wild Bunch (featuring 18
heavy metal bands), New York Trash
(with 11 hard-hitting hardcore
bands), and World Class Punk
(featuring 27 bands from 25 coun-
tries, as diverse as Brazil, Denmark,
Czechoslovakia, Hungary and
Poland)...And if you write to ROIR
(611 Broadway, Suite 725, New
York, NY 10012) and mention this
column, they'll send you a free
catalogue of all their other available
releases. One important note: these
releases aren't available on vinyl-
what you hear is what you get, and
you can't get it anywhere else.
New Jersey's been a hotbed of ac-
tivity (no-not the nuclear kind) with
a bevy of releases: check out the
brand new one from Pleased Youth
called Dangerous Choo-Choo-it's a
good thing that all those doom-
sayers, who cry "punk is dead,"
never got to this band-because
they've put out an album that proves
it ain't so, with hard-hitting punk rock
rhythms and great thrash
chords. The Skulls' release,
Dress Up And Die, is a ripping offer-
ing of rock with metal twists and
buzz-saw guitar work over pounding
beats and rhythms...Bedlam
unleash total craziness on their Lost
In Space album, which has a great
cover of the TV show theme song. All
of these are available from Buy Our
Records, Box 363, Vauxhall, NJ
07088. What do you get when you
throw together "one of DC's oldest
punks" along with a former member
of The Untouchables and Youth
Brigade, a former member of
Graphic Shadows, a featured artist
on the Bouncing Babies compilation
and a talented and beautiful singer?
Madhouse, of course-DC's
punk/pop-pop/punk band that's rais
ing eyebrows and lots of listeners
with their new release on Fountain Of
Youth Records. It's a follow-up to
their debut 12"on the same label and
leaves you waiting for still more, write
Fountain Of Youth, 5710 Durbin
Road, Bethesda, MD 20817.Bye
bye bass player Stryper's Tim
Gaines has departed after 2 years
with the band. Matt Hurich, former-
ly bass player for Leatherwolf, will
be replacing him...The Effigies,
from Chicago, are hitting the road, as
well as pushing their new release,
Ink New from Iceland's Erdan-
musik: Nunnurust/Nunjunk by
Tony "Adolescent" Cadena,
of the raucous
Adolescents.
Gunni-a musical gamut of sounds,
melodies and effects. For a copy, or
for other releases; contact Althols-
vegur 30A, 200 Kopavogur, Iceland
Something else to give you
listening experiences beyond the
usual: Insane Music Contact, 2
Grand Rue, B-6190 Trazengnies,
Belgium, c/o Alain Neffe, has a stack
of cassettes from bands all over the
world making different types of ex-
perimental and off-the-wall music
that'll shake your senses up a
bit.
ASO
that has ex-members of Cramps'
fav's, The Sickidz and Mother May
I have an album coming out in two
months. The Poor Girls, another
Philly band, are in the studio work-
ing on a follow-up to their debut
album, The Poor Girls. They are also
looking for dates to get out and play.
so if you've got an interest, drop
them a line at 4610 Chester Avenue,
Phila PA 19146. Mr. Mehta,
have signed with Fundamental
Records to release a 12" in the up-
coming months Ruin, The John-
sons and Anvil Bitch also have
releases that should be out by the
time you read this. Ruin's Lp (called
Fiat Lux) is on Meta Meta Records,
(315) 561-9027-(215) 925-4975. The
Johnsons have their release on
Fever Records and Anvil Bitch are
on New Renessaince Records (in ad-
dition to the release of their album
Rise). To Offend, the band, will
also be on a New Renessaince com-
pilation album of heavy metal
bands Balls, that no-nonsense
outfit with a beat, plans to release a
4-song tape...Baltimore's Grey
March are anxiously awaiting the
release of their vinyl which is due out
any day Lovers of eclectic,
Who says the only thing live to
come out of New York anymore is on
TV on a Saturday night? CBGB's, the
long-lived punk club on the Bowery
in the Lower East Side, announced
the debut of their Off The Board
series: cassettes recorded live on 16
tracks at CBGBS. The first release
contains bands like Rude Buddah,
Connotations, Jupiter Jets and
Ludichrist-releases for later in-
clude Damage, Ed Gein's Car and
Jing/Chemical Wedding (a double).
If you'd like to order one or more of
these, send a note to CBGB & OM
FUG 315 Bowery, NY, NY
10003 86, from Georgia, have
released a new album and are get-
ting ready to hit the road
soon...Philly's Das Yahoos a band
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