Cosmic Hearse

I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that Discharge was the greatest punk band of all time, and possibly the greatest band of all ...

Who is John Hand you ask? Well, he was a young guy from L.A. who just sorta lucked his way into having his picture on one of the greatest a...

A Google search of the words "Pop Cruds" yields a scant 6 results, pretty obscure, eh? The Pop Cruds were an early Florida punk b...

Not the rarest, most obscure band ever, but fuck it. This ep holds more mystery and magic than a whole stack of punk 7 inches with skulls an...

Here's another angry little hardcore record from the '80s. Lansing, Michigan's The Fix named their second ep "Jan's Roo...

The Freeze "Guilty Face" 7 inch ep (1983). If you know it, fine. If you don't, you probably should....really. Here: http://w...

Probably best (and only) known for being the pre-Mayhem band of Per Yngve Ohlin, aka "Dead." Morbid also featured Uffe Cederlund a...

Dr. Know's thrash album, and it is good, really good. Sort of like a punkier Megadeth or a more metallic Cro-Mags. Songs are well arran...

How about some ultra-rare NWOBHM? Here's Nightime Flyer's 1980 single "Out With a Vengeance." The a-side is an upbeat roc...

A lone double-bass drum kit in the woods, very promising indeed. Earl Shilton is a town in England, it is also the alias of Alex Thomas, fo...

The Execute, from Tokyo, were one of the better known and respected Japanese hardcore bands. For me they were always a band I wanted to ...

A couple of Emperor rehearsals from Autumn 1992 here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H6FJ0BEO

Damn. Would you look at that cover? Is that honestly some kind of enraged rape hulk crushing copywright laws under his immense heaviness? J...

Koro is a psychiatric disorder characterized by acute anxiety and a deep-seated fear of shrinkage of the penis and its ultimate retraction i...

Here we have "Fatanarchy On Airtube", the collaborative aural assault from Japan's Hanatarashi (the pre-Boredoms noise group o...

Wigrid is a one-man German black metal band signed to the well-known No Colours label. Wigrid's sole proprietor is Ulfhednir, a farmer l...

Before the midget valets, green m&ms, Sammy Hagar, legal battles, Valerie Betinelli, Jack bottles filled with tea, the US Festival, Gary...

Morbid Opera were a 4 piece punk band from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The band was made up of 3 women and a man. Two of the women, Lisa and L...

Skorpio from Hungary. Ultra hyper percussive funk-prog- hard rock from Eastern Europe. Chunky guitars, cowbells, sing along choruses, crazy...

Xardas is a guy from Lebanon. Xardas does have a few bands, mainly Kafan, but it is this solo endeavor that interests me the most. "Cha...