First and foremost, before we begin this email - something has come across our desk and we have to issue a correction. It was brought to our attention by our thousands of readers that in our three sentence piece on the Terror Eyes demo in our June 2nd, 2021 newsletter - we neglected to mention an additional members of the band: Dylan “Jones” Tobia (The Fight, Intimidation, Crucify Me, Lethal, Discipline 1139, Provider and more). We understand our mistakes and moving forward, all instances of the write up will reflect this additional information.
We must ask internally: if we expect our peers to hold themselves to the highest journalistic integrity, what does it say about us if we fail to maintain it ourselves?
With that said, continue below for a write up on Survival Unit - another one of our cohorts in the label scene, run by Quinn Adikes and Jason Jenkins of Terror Eyes, an analysis of perhaps a perfect HC interview and more.
SCHEME REPORT:
The music for the ALMIGHTY WATCHING record is done - they’re just waiting for Kyle to go into the stu to finish vocals this upcoming weekend. Once that is all settled up, it’ll go straight to press and we will hopefully have the record in hand before the end of the year. Pressing records during the pandemic era can suck our Fat Nuts. However, you know we stay scheming so we will hopefully be able to get some of the records rushed so the band will have advanced copies sooner than later.
The ALMIGHTY WATCHING two song promo tape will be out shortly after they finish recording. That’ll be up in our store alongside some other shit: shirts? zines? newspapers? funny mixtapes? Who knows what the future holds.
SCH-02 finished recording the prior weekend and will be put to press shortly, there will be more info in due time - it will be an extremely limited release, so keep your eyes peeled to your inboxes if you want the chance to grab a copy.
Finally, we’ll have our full site live in the next couple weeks - expect zine scans, video uploads and whatever other shit we feel like posting.
SCENE REPORT:
This coming weekend is the third Daze popup in scenic Stony Brook, NY. Come through if you’re free, we’ll be there and probably shilling one thing or another.
The debut EKULU 12” was released this past weekend and it’s fuckin dope. Lumpy said that it has parts that sound like TOOL. I have no idea what that means. We’d say go grab a copy but it sold out within a day. Crazy shit and good for them.
Radio Raheem dropped four releases as well: three records (THE WORST, KRIEG KOPF and ANTIDOTE) and one book (Better Never Than Late, documenting early USHC flyers from the midwest). As the reigning kings of represses / archival releases, you know it will be high quality content. Can’t wait to get my copies to pour through.
KYLE’s PLAYLIST:
ANOTHER WALL - Live At The Nightbreed (right now)
ALMIGHTY WATCHING - Marty Sings The Hits
NO FOR AN ANSWER - You Laugh
STAGES IN FAITH - Delside + William Tell off the Fuzzbrain comp.
THE MOVIELIFE - This Time Next Year
ABSOLUTION - Discography
PUSHBUTTON WARFARE / BLOODBATH - Discography (again)
ALBIN’s PLAYLIST:
SILENT MAJORITY - You Would Love To Know
EKULU - Unscrew My Head
ANASAZI - Attic Noise
ALL DUE RESPECT - Demo
SEAWEED - Spanaway
THE CARDIGANS - Life
SUBTERFUGE - Our Own Terms
Listen to these songs and others here:
Survival Unit is Dylan and Jenkins tape (for now?) label that I forced myself into. Long Island has always been a hub for hardcore. The scene here is huge. Local shows will pull 150+ kids. Lots of bands getting recognized on the national level.
Personally, I fuck with pretty much any hardcore that’s good regardless of style, but my true shit has always been stuff that leans more towards the original sound. Bands that are more on the punk side. There’s been a renaissance of hardcore punk over the past decade, but it’s by and large missed Long Island. I’d blame this on the youth’s lack of exposure. Not their fault, really. Those bands only ever play NYC, and there haven’t been any bands in that vein for them to play with here since Kill Your Idols (crucial to my formative years and responsible for my taste in hardcore) broke up. We want to expose Long Island kids to this stuff, and make it a hub for hardcore punk again just like it is for the heavier bands.
So far we’ve only put out our own bands (first press of the Lethal demo is sold out, we still have Terror Eyes tapes), but are looking to expand. If you have a band that you think would make sense, I implore you to send recordings to SurvivalUnit51631@Gmail.com.
- Quinn (1/3rd of Survival Unit)
I came across this online interview with Richie Krutch (Wisdom In Chains, Krutch, Mushmouth, PAHC) a couple months ago and have figured that it's time to crack open this time capsule of Realness and spread the gospel.
Everything about this interview is perfect: The interviewer asking the right mix of real and funny questions, the godfather of PA Hardcore just dropping perfect quotable answers, the color scheme that's hard to read (reminding me of the East Coast Hardcore website) and the fact that it is hosted on tripod.com sums up that you know you're about to read some dope, old school shit.
My favorite question from the interview is right off the jump: "HOW MANY PEOPLE DID WE HAVE TO BEAT UP TO BE LABELED A TOUGH GUY BAND?" in which Richie breaks it down for all of the PAHXC-webzine readership.