BOYSETSFIRE

"the day Sun went out"
Year:  1997
Label:  Equal Vision
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  13
Time:  40 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Emo        Punk







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"after the eulogy"
Year:  2000
Label:  Victory
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  40 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Emo        Punk







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"tomorrow come today"
Year:  2003
Label:  Wind-Up
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  39 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Emo        Punk

Politics and hardcore go together like peaches and cream, and Boy Sets Fire are perhaps the best-loved exponent of politically and socially aware hardcore, bands like Fugazi aside. ‘Tomorrow Come Today’ is their first release through what is essentially a major, but they’re no less pissed off. Exhibit A: ‘Release the Dogs’; you won’t hear a more passionate song about America’s heavy-handed military action post 9/11 ("They’ve got their fingers on the pulse of our mourning with knives poised"). Exhibit B: ‘White Wedding Dress’; a shockingly potent tale of spousal abuse, with the key line, "They never come quite in time to see his fist".

The exhibits come thick and fast, each as righteous in spirit as the next, but ‘Tomorrow Come Today’ falls short of necessity on two fronts. First, there are only so many times you can write the same song, and Boy Sets Fire don’t really seem to have progressed from their last album proper, ‘After the Eulogy’. This leads us directly to the record’s second problem; recent releases by The Rise, Since By Man and Snapcase have proved that hardcore is a rapidly developing genre, no longer afraid to incorporate the extra facets made available by new studio technology. Boy Sets Fire are a very traditional-sounding group who will maintain their substantial fan base with ‘Tomorrow Come Today’, but are unlikely to add to it.

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"the misery index"
Year:  2006
Label:  Burning Heart
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  14
Time:  50 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Emo        Punk







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"while a nation sleeps..."
Year:  2012
Label:  End Hits
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  13
Time:  46 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Emo        Punk

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"idem"
Year:  2015
Label:  End Hits
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  13
Time:  40 min.
Lyrical themes:  social issues, politics
Genre:  rock
Style:        Emo        Punk







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SENSELESS APOCALYPSE

"Senseless stereotyped idea"
Year:  1999
Country:  Japan
City:  Kambara Naka
Label:  HG Fact
Format:  CD
Tracks:  25
Time:  20 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:       Grindcore

The best of the harsh and crazy grindcore, hardcore and punk stuff of SENSELESS APOCALYPSE and one of the best japanese bands in this genre. This album does it all, and is so filthy you need to wash your ears after listening to it. About as harsh and classic as the SENSELESS APOCALYPSE, which was also released sometime during this one. I guess it was just a really good time for fast, simple, direct and ultra-short grindcore. Not dirty like its old demos and ep´s but an album with true good quality sound and quite good technical level. This is enjoy... enjoy japanese killer grindcore!

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DEATH

"...for the whole world to see"
Year:  1977
Country:  US
City:  Detroit
Label:  Drag City
Format:  LP
Tracks:  7
Time:  29 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Punk Rock

DEATH is an african american proto-punk band formed by the brothers Bobby, David and Dannis Hackney in Detroit, Michigan in 1971. Death only released one overlooked 7" single before breaking up in 1977. The band was re-discovered in 2009 when the original 7" record was released on CD leading to reunion shows and the release of other demo material. "...For the Whole World to See" is a collection of songs from a proposed studio album by the American band Death. In 1975 the band entered a studio to record a 12-song album. After refusing to change their group's name, Death was turned away by Clive Davis of Columbia Records. Only seven songs were completed and the album was never released. The surviving songs were released as "...For the Whole World to See" in 2009 by Drag City^. Just prior to and right after the record's release, the songs on "...For the Whole World to See" were performed live by Rough Francis, a band formed by the three sons of Death's original bassist. With the record's critical acclaim and praise from many other musicians, the two surviving members of Death reformed the band with a new guitarist to promote the record themselves. Initial critical response to "...For the Whole World to See" was positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 76, based on 8 reviews^.  Jack White of the White Stripes related his first reaction to the album in a New York Times article: "I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. When I was told the history of the band and what year they recorded this music, it just didn’t make sense. Ahead of punk, and ahead of their time^". The song "You're a Prisoner" was featured in the 2011 film Kill the Irishman.

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