Most of these have download links either in the title or below the text.
EXO has the eerie art punk weirdness of bands like THE MOB or FLOWERS IN THE DUSTBIN but it's about being a bug. It's cool but I don't think I like bugs enough to be super into it. The cassette itself is well put together. The delicate, colorful artwork is pleasing to my eye, and the lyric insert comes on a transparent cardstock, typed out with what appears to be a real typewriter, so there's definitely been a good bit of care and know-how put into this which anyone should appreciate.
WORLD DISORDER - DEMO
ENTOMBED/NIHILIST/BOLT THROWER worship done by punks, ala SKITSYSTEM. The vocals are really sick and the guitars are perfectly hitting that fuzzy, crushing HM-2 Left Hand Path tone. Single-sided J-card, no insert, no frills just 18 minutes of crust metal Swedish style. Really sick band to see live if you get the chance.
PISTON - CAPITAL CRIME
Sublimely executed Oi! hardcore. Automatic 10/10 for using the word "Bowdlerize" in the lyrics for "Spit Your Take." Tough, catchy vocals, gang choruses galore, straightforward lyrics, will have you pumping your fist relentlessly. Clean looking insert despite having a lot of text jammed in there, and the tape sounds great.
Fav track: Integrity
AUTO SEAR - DEMO
Straight GLOOM worship, noisy, relentless pounding sonic obliteration ala DISCLOSE out of Virginia. If you like those bands, if you like DOOM you will like this a lot. If you don't you won't. I do really like how the noise is incorporated on this tape though, it is genuinely harsh and off-putting and it's always lurking. Single-sided J-card with a big folded, heavy lyric insert that has cool art. Attractive little purple tint cassette tape.
Fav track: Killing for America
CICADA - TRUE SELF DESTRUCTION
I feel like people only say CICADA sounds like 80s Italian HC because of the CCM cover they play. They have some of that gross weirdness and frantic guitar playing but the mood matches UNITED MUTATION more to me. The stompy part at the end of track one here also sounds like some late 1980s black metal. Idk, it's just highly uncanny and sinister. Another single-sided J-card here but this time with a small, thin insert. Don't ask your parents to try to read the text on it. The fuzz and murkiness of the tape are good for this band.
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