Review - Countdown to Oblivion LP

This is a review for my old band's discography that just came out. A389 released the LP and MRR wrote the review for this in the July issue (#350) of MRR.

Radio - Sunday, June 27, 2010

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BEHIND ENEMY LINES – Murder at the G-8 Summit (Tribal War)

MDC – Dead Cops / America’s So Straight (R Radical)
SUBHUMANS – Inquisition Day (Alternative Tentacles)
DISCHARGE – Fight Back (Captain Oi)
BAD RELIGION – Politics (Epitaph)
DEAD KENNEDYS – Riot (Alternative Tentacles)
CONFLICT – The Ungovernable Force (Mortarhate)

BLATZ - Fuk Shit Up (Lookout)
AGAINST ME - Baby, I'm an Anarchist (No Idea)
FIFTEEN - Resolution (Lookout)
BORN AGAINST - Resist Control (Kill Rock Stars)
SAINTE CATHERINES - Fuck G20, Go V8

BANANANARCHY - B-A-N-A-NARCHY (Self-Released)
DOA - Smash The State (Sudden Death)
PROPAGANDHI - Resisting Tyrannical Government (Fat Wreck)
GOVERNMENT ISSUE - Anarchy Is Dead (Dischord)
BLACK FLAG - Spray Paint (SST)

COUNTDOWN TO OBLIVION – Spray P.E.C. (Self-Released)
AK 47 – Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win (Reason)
SEEIN’ RED – The End of the World as We Know It (Peculio Discos)
CHRONIC SUBMISSION – Cops Ain’t Tops (Self-Released)
REPROBATES – Abandoned City (Self-Released)

CHOKING VICTIM - Apple Pie + Police State (Tent City)
YOUNG PIONEERS - We March (Vermiform)
RANDY - Proletarian Hop (Burning Heart/Epitaph)
AGNOSTIC FRONT - Blind Justice (Combat)

RIOT 99 - Destroy The City (Longshot)
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (Rhino/Elektra)
JERSEY - Class War (Raw Energy)
THE CLASH - Know Your Rights (Bootleg)
MADBALL - Revolt (Ferret)
FUCKED UP - Police (Deranged)

NAPALM HEARTS – Freedom is (Self-Released)
NAPALM HEARTS – Out in the Cold (Self-Released)
NAPALM HEARTS – Blockade (Self-Released)
NAPALM HEARTS – All This and More (Self-Released)
NAPALM HEARTS – No Reply (Self-Released)
NAPALM HEARTS – Had Enough (Self-Released)
NAPALM HEARTS – Expletive Deleted (Self-Released)
NAPALM HEARTS – Guilty by Association (Self-Released)

THE REBEL SPELL – Rebels Sing (Clandestine DIY Collective)
THE FALLOUT – Quebec City (Longshot Music)

Radio - Sunday, March 14, 2010

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ARTICLES OF FAITH – I’ve Got Mine

POINTED STICKS – By Your Side (Northern Electric)
THE KRUNCHIES – Deflated (Southkore)
THE CRACK – Don’t Just Sit There (Daily)
DSB – Reject, Denied, Refuse (Vex)
STATE – Puppet State (Punks Before profits)
COMMITMENT CREW – We Are Nothing (Crucial Response)
INSURANCE RISK – I Want More (Crucial Rsponse)
MALINHERS – Hoax (Thought Crime)
P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S. - P.R.O.B.L.E.M. (Tombstone)
BROKEN NEEDLE – Bring Out Your Dead (Lengua Armada)

AC DC – Rocker (Atlantic)
BLACK FLAG – Black Coffee (SST)
BEYOND POSSESSION – Hard Times (Death)
DRI – Argument Then War (Beer City)
GOOD CLEAN FUN – In Defense of All Life (Equal Vision)

THE BATBOYS – OK Blue Jays (Freedom)
FUCKED UP – Police (Deranged)
PROPAGANDHI – Pigs Will Pay (Fat Wrechords)
COUNTDOWN TO OBLIVION – Four Alarm Fire at Lockport Gambino Ford (Ugly Pop)
THE SMUGGLERS – Trouble (RNR)
THE CLASH – 1-2 Crush on you (Epic)

G.I.S.M. – Endless Blockade for the Pussyfooter (New Red Archive)
CRO-MAGS – We Gotta know (Bootleg)
HENRIETTA COLLINS – Drive By Shootiong (Texas Hotel)
MDC – Who’s the terrorist Now (R Radical)
NO FX – The Idiots Have Taken Over (Epitaph)

ECONOCHRIST – Treadmill (Ebullition)
CHINO HORDE – Natural (File 13)
RED 40 – The Outsiders (Landmark)
SCREAM – Fight / American Justice (Dischord)
RIP OFFS – Zodiac (Pure filth)

IN TIME – Daily Commute (Self-Released)
IN TIME – Genocide (Self-Released)
IN TIME – Keep it Together (Self-Released)
IN TIME – Road (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, August 2, 2009

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STEF AND THE STUDS - We Don’t Need the English (Schizophrenic)

ABLE DANGER - Beef on Weck (Feral Kid)
NO TIME LEFT - Rapid Transit to Nowhere (625 Productions)
RUNNING FOR COVER - Collapse / On Nature / Worldview (625 Productions)
THEY LIVE - Game Over (625 Productions)
COUNTDOWN TO OBLIVION - Four Alarm Fire at Lockport Gambino Ford (Ugly Pop)

SCHOLASTIC DETH - Cheetos (625 Productions)
HOMOSTUPIDS - Apeshit (Parts Unknown)
86 MENTALITY - Terror boys (Grave Mistake)
xBxRx - Pigs Wear Blue (Polyvinyl)
LIFE LONG TRAGEDY - Hey Death (Deathwish)

DEEP SLEEP - Let Go (Grave Mistake)
DRUNK DRIVER - Secret Eater
BOYS CLUB - Gotta Get Right

ULTIMO RESORTE - Violencia (La Vida es un Mus)
GRB - Lo que hace el dinero (Tralla)
SUBTERRANEAN KIDS - Mucho Tiempo (Tralla)
ANTI-DOGMATIKSS - Olimpisme (Tralla)
DESTINO FINAL - Volver (La Vida es un Mus)

HAZARDOUS WASTE - Fed Up (Schizophrenic)
MICRO EDGE - United We Skate (Self-Released)
SUDDEN IMPACT - Freaked Out (Marquee)
FAIR WARNING - Skating (Sonik’s Chicken Shrimp)
BEYOND POSSESSION - Skater’s Life (Melodiya)

PSYCHED TO DIE - New Hampshire Man’s Quandry (Firestarter / Grave Mistake)
URBAN UNREST - Nothing For Me (Rabbit’s Foot)
DISCO ASSAULT - My Fate (Schizophrenic)
SCHOOL JERKS - Nothing Else (Riff Raff)
NO SLOGAN - Killed By Gentrification (Desobediencia)

THE ZERO BOYS - Dingy Bars Suck (Secretly Canadian)
CAUSTIC DEFIANCE - Tell Me why
F.U.’s - Civil Defense (Lost and Found)
LIFE SENTENCE - Problems (Legends of Hardcore)
BLANK STARE - Words are Loud (Refuse)

Demo Feature
RAH - The Truth (Labelled)
RAH - Keep Walking (Labelled)
RAH - Not Now, Not Ever (Labelled)
RAH - Good Intentions (Labelled)
RAH - Change (Labelled)
RAH - All I Know (Labelled)
RAH - Think Again (Labelled)
RAH - It Won’t Last (Labelled)

Sunday, April 1, 2007

SEX PISTOLS - EMI (Warner Brothers)

SCREECHING WEASEL - Oscar Mayer Weiner (Underdog)
ADRENALIN O.D. - Brady Bunch (Grand Theft Audio)
BEDLAM - Flintstones (Buy Our Records)
GOOD CLEAN FUN - loserdotcom (Phyte)
R.A.M.B.O. - What Doesn't Kill Us Makes us Mosh Harder (625 Productions)
TH'INBRED - Postive song (Bonzen)
THE HICKOIDS - Williamanza (Toxic Shock)
BORN AGAINST - A Whopper of a Tale (Vermiform)
HANSON BROTHERS - Get Right Back (Mint)
DOA - Takin Care of Business (Unreleased)

CONFLICT - They Said That ..... (Mortarhate)
BEHIND ENEMY LINES - Gluttons of Priviledge (Profane Existence)
THE PIST - Ideas are bulletproof (Elevator)
RKL - Feelings of Hate (Mystic)
HAPPY BASTARDS - Femme Fatale (Profane Existence)
APPALACHIAN TERROR UNIT - Enslaved (Profane Existence)
NAUSEA - Godless (Black Noize)

MADIDO RESPIRO - I Don't Want to Die (Self-Released)
PEGGIO PUNX - Solitudine (S.O.A.)
DEAD KENNEDYS - Terminal Preppie / Trust Your Mechanic (Alternative Tentacles)
MORTAL COMBAT CD - The Challenge (Thrash Steady Syndicate)

JIBARA - Envy ? (HG Fact)
IMPERIAL LEATHER - Medium Vacuum (MCR Company)
TERMINAL STATE - Wake Up (Deranged)
DANGERLOVES - Lip Smart (Self-Released)
THE METAL EDDIES - All Girl Band (No Vinyl)

COUNTDOWN TO OBLIVION - I'll Do Anything (Self-Released)
GBH - Church of the Truly Warped (Captain Oi!)
DRONGOS FOR EUROPE – Children of Apathy (Punk Shit)
ONE WAY SYSTEM – Guilty (G.M.M.)
VARUKERS - No Hope of a Future (Captain Oi!)
CLASHDOGS - 9 (MCR Company)

Top 10 for March 2006
COBRA NOIR - Walled In (Chainsaw Safety)
SOCIAL CIRCKLE - USSA (No Way)
ARMAGEDOM - Viganca (Hate)
LA PIOVRA - Danni Collaterali (Punks Before Profits)
FORCED MARCH - Wasted Existence (Self-Released)
AFTER THE MASSACRE – War of Hatred (S.O.A.)
AFFLUENTE - l'insieme Formale del Vissuto (S.O.A.)
CARDIAC ARREST - Fat Lord (No Way)
WARKRIME - No More (No Way)
WORLD BURNS TO DEATH - Excrement of the Gods (Hardcore Holocaust)

Demo Feature
CRIMINAL INTENT - Criminal Intent (Self-Released)
CRIMINAL INTENT - Boring Life (Self-Released)
CRIMINAL INTENT - Depressed (Self-Released)
CRIMINAL INTENT - Suicide (Self-Released)
CRIMINAL INTENT - Police (Self-Released)
CRIMINAL INTENT - I Can't Take This (Self-Released)
CRIMINAL INTENT - Deceived (Self-Released)

MRR Interview - Countdown to Oblivion

Gord Dufresne from Deranged Records did an interview with Countdown to Oblivion back in 2000. The interview appeared in the September 2000 issue of MRR, #208. Back issues of this issue of MRR are still available at http://maximumrocknroll.com/back-issues/.

Countdown to Oblivion / They Live split ep

This split ep came out in the spring of 2000. PS 2000 did the recording and Noah Mintz did the mixing. These are mostly new songs from the demo. The songs on here are:

1. More Dead Kennedys (a.k.a. Single Bullshit Theory)

2. Poster Children for Family Values

3. Four Alarm Fire at Lockport Gambino Ford

Countdown to Oblivion / They Live "Starting Fires" ep

This was the limited edition covers that came out with "Starting Fires" split ep with They Live. The back cover is a tribute to Youth Youth Youth and represented the Toronto side. The Peace bridge cover represents the Buffalo side for They Live.  I think there was only 15 copies of this one in circulation and the limited part only represents the cover.

Countdown to Oblivion "Brain Surgery for Beginners" ep

This was my second band. I was one of the singers along with Chris Colohon who did this between the Swarm and the Cursed. He brought in R.J. on guitar and Jaime Towns who had just moved back to the city after leaving Anti-Flag. But we wanted Jaime because Teen Crud Combo were such an awesome band and Jaime wanted to play in a man-core band. I was already working with Katie who was our guitarist and Bubby who was our drummer. Katie rocked the Slayer riffs and Bubby dropped a blinding pace beat. Gord from Deranged saw us at a show that we played in a warehouse he was living at with Yannick of Feral Ward Records. Gord was just starting up a label called deranged and wanted to reklease soem material from the demo. We went into Signal to Noise and brought in Patrick Scott from Chicago who did sound at the Fireside Bowl to record us. This was recorded on December 4, 1999 but was released in 2000. Bill Corbett did the artwork for us. Bill did a show for us in Kitchener on Good Friday and the artwork was incredible in a style that was being developed out of Gainesville at the time and graced the Combatwoundedveteran covers. Bill had moved to Gainesville to learn the style and agreed to make our first cover for us. I think it turned out amazinginly and took him hours if not days to do. The songs on here are:

1. The Way It Is

2. Take It Apart

3. Spray P.E.C.

4. The Fest Sex I Never Had

Countdown to Oblivion "All Out Gord" ep

This is the limited press of the "Brain Surgery for beginners" ep. Deranged made 50 test pressings of the single to have ready for a show we played with Earth Crisis. Ryan made the cover as a play on Earth Crisis's "All Out War", but we made the tribute more relevant to the label which was Deranged Records and Gord DuFresne who runs the label. Gord's head is put on all the characters of the "All Out War" artwork.

Flyer - Friday March 17, 2000

Flyer - Friday April 2, 1999

Bill Corbett did this show. It was awesome especially given that the show was on good Friday and the title of the show calls into question the myth of christiniaty. Bill would come to do artwork for our ep on Deranged. Chris was able to get Teen Crud on the bill and we driove up together. I remember rocking out to Slayer and realizing that's where Katie ripped the riffs for "I'll Do Anything" from.

Flyer - Friday January 29, 1999

Danko performed with Countdown covering Youth of Today's "Flame Still Burns", Minor Threat's "In My Eyes", and Negative Approach's "Can't Tell No One".