A Very Punk Spring

I've been flicking through a lot of my old punk albums of late. Here's some choice cuts.

Ignite - Scarred For Life
Ignite fall in to the "they deserve so much more respect" category. They wrote songs to inspire unity and friendship within the hardcore community whilst venting personal demons and their influence has been seen in a number of recent hardcore favorites, most notably pre major label AFI.

Ignite - Slow
Ignite - Shade

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Capitalist Casualties - Subdivisions In Ruin
In the last five or so years, there have been few punk bands that have really impressed me. F-Minus was one, The Icarus Line was another and rounding off that little list of bands is Capitalist Casualties. Fast, violent and rebellious. Just the way it was always supposed to be. It's hard to look down on a band who are this convicted to keeping a defiled and buried genre to have some level of relevance.

Capitalist Casualties - Litigation
Capitalist Casualties - Polar Desert
Capitalist Casualties - Wreckage Renown

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Conflict - There's No Power Without Control
Conflict were a prominent band in the late 70s/early 80s UK anarcho punk scene. Their band's name became synonymous with riots, violence and general minor revolt around the UK to the point where they were banned from playing anywhere on the country's shores. How strange then, that we would see Conflict still together many decades later and in 2003, unleashing one of their finest albums yet?

Conflict - I'm Starving
Conflict - Now You've Put Your Foot In It

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Void - Faith/Void Split
I can't really claim to know a lot about Void. I know they were together for a very short period in the early 80s and released this split LP with labelmates Faith. Being from DC in the early 80s, they obviously owe some of their sound to local heroes such as Minor Threat and Bad Brains but Void are still a pretty decent exercise in fast, clever hardcore.

Void - Who Are You
Void - Ask Them Why

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