Radio : EXD 1361 - Sunday November 9, 2025

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This is episode 1361 of EXD and was put together by Andre Zadorozny, Bee Traverse, Christian Overall, Rob Ferraz, and Stephen Perry. On this edition of EXD: 

• Mixed bags with Attention Deficit, RKL, Gastunk 
• New Releases by Black Budget, Flashhorn, Radioactivity, Pill Mill, Beton Arme, Ta2reeban, Cootie Cuties, Refugiadas, Stand Against Fear, No Peeling 
• continued theme on TOHC which includes Youth Youth Youth, Endless Blockade, Direct Action 
• An in depth exploration of the Never Going Away showcase with Gonzalo who is putting the show on 
• Classics with some new releases by the Pre Dayglos band Sikphuxz, Suburban Slag, Max and the Makeups, and the first hardcore band out of Iowa Abscess 
• And a demo feature by Euology out of Montreal featuring former members of Another Oppressive System, Sexface, Warkrusher, Ballast among too many others 

CRUSTY HI CHARGE - 生存 (F.O.A.D.)

Hardcore to check out (Bee) 

ATTENTION DEFICIT - Attention Deficit (Self-released)   

SUDDEN IMPACT - Caught Up (Supreme Echo)  

LIVING DEAD - Burnout (Sex Fiend Abomination) 

RKL - Feelings of Hate (Mystic) 

GASTUNK - Warbird (Dogma) 

New stuff (Rob) 

BLACK BUDGET - Grump (Self-released) 

HEXOFFENDER - I Want Sleaze (Self-released)  

FLESHHORN - Unclean (Self-released) 

RADIOACTIVITY - Why (Secret Mission)

THE RIPTIDES - Hung Up (Self-released) 

Never Going Away showcase (Gonzalo) 

COMMITMENT - Pluto in Aquarius (Self-Released)

Interview with Gonzalo (CIUT)

VERIFY - No Cabal (Self-Released)

TORPOR - Way Out (Self-Released) 

UNREAL - Feeble Mind (Self-Released) 

HUMAN FORM - Lose everything (Self-Released) 

SMUTHER - Broke (Self-Released) 

REGALIA - Black Box (Self-Released)  

DEADBOLT - Pulling Strings (Self-Released) 

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TOHC - Background (Andre) 

YYY - Headline Hunters (TOHC’83) 

ENDLESS BLOCKADE - Clean and Prone/Thick Skin, Transparent Blood/Death To Spies/Pig Life (Survivalist) 

FUCKED UP - Circling The Drain/Generations (Self-Released)

URBAN BLIGHT - Total War (Static Shock)  

SUDDEN IMPACT - Sudden Impact (Supreme Echo) 

DIRECT ACTION - Eat The Rich (TOHC83) 

New Releases and a Teaser (Chris) 

PILL MILL - Limbo (Slow Death / Neon Taste) 

BÉTON ARMÉ - Coup de Foudre (feat. Fizzy), (Self-released)  

RIVAL - Última Trinchera (Self-released) 

TA2REEBAN - اكيد خسران (AWD) 

WICCANS - Veriform (In A Perfect World), (Unlawful Assembly / Drunken Sailor / Stucco)

New Releases (Stephen)  

COOTIE CUTIES - Breakdown Hair Dye Party (Self-Released)

STAND AGAINST FEAR - Parents (Self-Released)

REFUGIADAS - A quem serve a ignorância? (Self-Released) 

NO PEELING - Swift Half (Feel It) 

CLOSED RANKS - Evil Corporate Overlords (Apostate) 

DECADE - More Dumb Born (Phobia) 

Oldies (Stephen) 

SIKPHUXZ - P.O.W. (Supreme Echo)

SUBURBAN SLAG - Look At Yourself (Supreme Echo) 

ACCIDENT ON THE EAST LANCS - Rat Race (Roach)

MAX AND THE MAKEUPS - Poland (Puke ‘n Vomit) 

ABSCESS - This Town (Remix) (Hard Art) 

Demo Feature 

Eulogy out of Montreal in tonight’s demo feature. Chris played them last week. Described on a Varning fest benefit show as Newest king of the Swedish style punk? feat. ex-member of Another Oppressive System, Sexface, Warkrusher, Fatal Flow, After the Bombs, Ballast, Preying Hands, Parasytes, Skull and Bone, Truncheons, Young Blades, Pied-de-Biche  

EULOGY - Torment (Self-Released) 

EULOGY - Erroding (Self-Released) 

EULOGY - Onslaught (Self-Released) 

EULOGY - Parasites (Self-Released) 

EULOGY - Ruins (Self-Released) 

EULOGY - Buried (Self-Released) 

Ska outro 

THE FILTHY RADICALS - Scavenger (Self-Released) 

Radio : EXD 1266 - Sunday August 27, 2023

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On this episode, a focus on new releases. I speak with Mopa Dean from Armed and Hammered about the band. Our demo feature is a metal adjacent band from Sherbrooke called Stillborn.

BAD ANXIETY - Hardcore (Earth Girl)  

Oldies 

BUZZCOCKS - Why Can't I Touch It (United Artists)

999 - Boys in the Gang (Albion)

POINTED STICKS - True Love (Sudden Death)

THE PAYOLAS - China Boys (I.R.S.)

YOUNG CANADIANS - Hawaii (Porterhouse)

New Releases (Chris) 

IGNORANTES - Eso Sería Todo (Self-released) 

RÉGIMEN DE TERROR - Mi Propio Camino (Roachleg / LVEUM)  

AIN’T RIGHT - Television Addict (The Victims) (Pils)  

ACCUSATION - The Difference (Quality Control HQ)  

BRAIN ITCH - An End To All Ends (Self-released) 

DELETÄR - Il Ne Reste Qu’une Ombre (Kick Rock / Destructure / Vox Populi)  

New Releases (Andre) 

WRONG MAN - Wait (Sunday Drive) 

DEAD SOFT - Glimpse (Self-Released) 

STREET JUSTICE - No Cages (Self-Released)

PURE BLISS - The Age of Judgement (Self-Released) 

SPIRITUAL CRAMP - Talkin’ On The Internet (Blue Grape) 

ONE THOUSAND TIMES GOODNIGHT - Rainy Days, Drunk Nights, Big Smiles, Photographs (Self- Released) 

SMUTHER - Enemy (Self-Released) 

LEER - George (Self-released) 

HOT EARTH - A Good Time (Earth Girl) 

Ice Cream Summer (Chris)

TIIKERI - Punk on mun elämä (Open Up and Bleed / Vox Populi)  

HEZ - Apariencias (Discos Enfermos)  

SWORDWIELDER - Weapons of the Dark Ages (Weilding Metal Massacre / Profane Existence)   

ENZYME - No Concern (Hardcore Victim / LVEUM) 

DOGMA - Common Cause (GYO) 

Armed and Hammered Interview

ARMED AND HAMMERED - American Democracy (Coke Dick)  

Interview with Mopa Dean 

ARMED AND HAMMERED - Limbo Leader (En Guard)

Demo Feature 

Stillborn were a band from Sherbrooke, Quebec. They recorded a cassette called "Faible et Damne” back in 2000. There is a great write up on the Mouth of Madness bandcamp page which describes their early influences as Slayer and Death but that there is no direct influence that can be heard. Just a grinding drums, razor sharp riffs, and dual vocal attack. Some of the members currently play in Disembodiment. We are going to try and play as much of this as possible. 

STILL BORN - Vie Normale (Mouth of Madness)

STILL BORN - Métempsycose (Mouth of Madness)

STILL BORN - The Grim Reaper (Mouth of Madness)

STILL BORN - Torturer (Mouth of Madness)

STILL BORN - Tourment (Mouth of Madness)

STILL BORN - Coulé (Mouth of Madness)

STILL BORN - Heart Attack (Mouth of Madness)

Radio : EXD 1233 - Sunday January 1st, 2023

This week's radio program starts off with a tribute to Terry Hall, lead singer from the Specials. We’ll take a look at some of the bands Terry was in before and after the Specials as well as some rare recordings of the Specials. That will be at the top of the show. The rest of the show will continue with our year in review look at 2022. Stephe reviews cassettes, Chris drills down into Canadian cassettes, Rob and Andre round out their year with their favourite releases. Download the show here.

A message to you .... Terry

The most iconic face for Britain’s ska revival - he had that dour look. Terry Hall was in a punk group called Squad. They formed in 1977 and recorded two singles. This is the A side to that first single “Red Alert”. 

SQUAD - Red Alert (Squad) 

Jerry Dammers talked him into joining the Coventry Automatics. He would replace singer Tim Strickland. The Coventry Automatics would become the Specials. The Coventry Automatics were a little slower and more on the reggae side so although there are a lot of songs on here that would become songs for the Specials, the Coventry Automatics were an early stage of the band's development. Here is an example of a song from the first LP. 

THE COVENTRY AUTOMATICS - Concrete Jungle (Receiver) 

THE SPECIALS - Long Shot Kick The Bucket - Liquidator - Skinhead Moonstomp (The Skinhead Symphony In Three Movements) 

A medley of ska classics recorded at the BBC on October 22nd, 1979 referred to as the skinhead symphony in three movements. THE SPECIALS would go on to release three albums and a ton of top 10 singles. So many hits. And after “Ghost Town” Hall left the Specials with Lynval Golding and Neville Staple to form FUN BOY THREE. FUN BOY THREE were described as a deadpan and oddly experimental new wave group and they worked with an all girl group named Bananarama that would have greater success. With this project the band would hit No. 7 with its cover of “Our Lips Are Sealed,” a 1981 hit for the Go-Go’s that Mr. Hall wrote with that band’s Jane Wiedlin, whom he briefly dated. Here's a track from the first LP that features early Banarama 

FUN BOY THREE - It Ain't What You Do (Chrysalis) 

THE COLOURFIELD - Colourfield (Chrysalis) 

THE COLOURFIELD were formed in 1984 and were based on Manchester. They had that jangly pop 60’s sound that the SMITHS were already popularizing. This is where I lost track of Terry Hall but he would go on to play in many bands and even re-join the Specials in 2008 performing with them right up until 2018. We’re going to go out with a song I got to see performed in a farmer’s field in Oakville thanks to the first Police Picnic and I had no idea what I was watching but I knew I loved it. Here's a clip from Much Music that the folks from UXB press posted.....Scroll through it to see the song "Enjoy Yourself". 

THE SPECIALS - Enjoy Yourself (Reprise) (Two-Tone)

Year in review - 2022

Chris - Top 10 demos from the North of Turtle Island; random order

A.T.E.R. - Vidas Perdidas (Self-released)

SMUTHER - Institution (Slow Death)

BLACK DOG - Masters Ruin (Roachleg) 

CROSSHAIRS - Cockroach (Slow Death) 

SUSPEX - Suspected (Greymatter) 

TRENCHRAID - Inhuman System (Slow Death)

G.R.O.S.S. - The Jank (Sewercide) 

VOLTAGE - Wolves of Russia (Slow Death) 

CRISIS PARTY - Exist (Dirt Cult) 

PUFFER - Puppet (Roachleg) 

Top Ten non-Canadian (Rob) 

THE ROUTES - Showroom Dummies (Topsy Turvy)

OSEES - Sacrifice (Castle Face)

1876 - We Will Remain (Self-Released)

LONG KNIFE - If You Want Blood (Beach Impediment / Black Water)

THE STREETWALKIN’ CHEETAHS - Come On And Dance (Rum Bar) 

WEREWOLF JONES - Half Check (Big Neck) 

THE ANOMALYS - Ready to Die (Slovenly) 

THE BATTLEBEATS - Rest in Piss (Big Neck) 

BAD MOJOS - I’m a Sinner (Self-Released) 

THE CHATS - Emperor of the Beach (Bargain Bin)

 

Top 10 of 2022 (Andre)

COMPASSION - Vile Glow (Convulse) 

YAMBAG - Without Sin (Convulse) 

EN LOVE - Wet Cement (Delayed Gratification)

RABBIT - Halo of Flies (Delayed Gratification) 

ZULU - Fakin’ the Funk (You Got Did) (Flatspot) 

LAW OF POWER - Born Into War (Flatspot) 

LAST GASP - Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard (War) 

ROLL CALL - Reaper Inside Your Mind (Bridge Nine) 

CONSEC - Waste of Life (Futile Force) 

PRAISE - All In A Dream (Revelation) 

Top 10 cassettes (Stephe) 

10 CHEAPNESS - Don't Just Bullshit (Stay Punk Music)

09 CRISIS PARTY - Numbers (Dirt Cult) 

08 INFLUX - Leech Life (Self-released)

07 INVERTEBRATES - Down Under (Sorry State) 

06 FAT JOCK - Line Up Eat Shit (Futile Force)

05 HEADCHEESE - I Can't Listen (Slow Death) 

04 PRIME SUSPECT - G.O.M.B. - Panic Disorder (Manic Mantra) 

03 PRIMAL BRAIN - Eat the street - (Self-Released)

02 CONSEC – Wheel of Pain (Futile Force) 

01 MASSDEAD - Human Bargain Bin (Blown Out Media) 

 

OLD - Jerk Off Parade (Self-Released) 

BUTCHER’S LAUGH - Quantified (Slow Death)

BRAIN BAG - Shoot from the Hip (Slow Death) 

DECK PISS - Deck Piss (Self-Released) 

Radio - Sunday September 11th, 2022

The Queen passed away on Thursday, which is the day we are producing this show. So we started off the show with “Monarchy Zoom” by DOOM. On tonight’s show we have some features on the DC band Gray Matter, a label feature on Slow Death Records. A demo feature by a band from Winnipeg called Diefenbaker. Download this week's show here. 

DOOM - Monarchy Zoo (Discipline / Vinyl Japan) 

But getting back to the queen. It was surprisingly hard to find songs about the monarchy given that the Sex Pistols most famous song is “God Save the Queen”. So this first set of material is songs about that starting off with a demo version of that Sex Pistols song recorded in 1977 at Gooseberry Studios. 

SEX PISTOLS - God Save the Queen
THE QUEEN HATERS - Hate the Bloody Queen (SCTV)
RED ALERT - Empire of Crime (No Future) 
RED LONDON - Kill A King (Razor)
CHUMBAWAMBA - Dutiful Servants and Political Masters (Agit Prop)
CRASS - Big A Little A (Crass)
BOB VYLAN - England’s Ending (Venn)

New releases (Chris)
NIGHTFEEDER - Amoral Minority (Self-released)
DOWNWARD - Cruel World (Break the Records)
ZANJEER - Nakhair (Symphony of Destruction)
AUTO - Parasite (LVEUM)
WHITESPADE - Below the Law (Self-Released)

Spotlight on Washington D.C’s Gray Matter (Andre)
GRAY MATTER - Oscar’s Eye (Dischord)
GRAY MATTER - Gray Matter (Dischord)
GRAY MATTER - Take It Back (Dischord)
GRAY MATTER - Head (Dischord)
GRAY MATTER - Bite The Bit (Dischord)
GRAY MATTER - I’ve Just Seen A Face (Dischord)
GRAY MATTER - Drain (Dischord)

MUTATED VOID - Isolate the City (Iron Lung)
FRISK - Puppets and Slaves (Iron Lung) 
SEPTIC DEATH - Quit (Pusmort)
NEOS - E’s (Supreme Echo)
NYC MAYHEM - Not (Radio Raheem)

Slow Death Records (Chris)
We’re taking a look at the current releases from Slow Death Records; out of Kamloops. Slow Death’s focus is on releasing BC punk. Plain and Simple. We’ve done a few interviews with bands and demo features, but this will be a quick listen to all of their current releases from mid December 2021 to date; played in order of release. 

DISPÖSAL - Standard Issue
SMUTHER - Violent Nature
CROSSHAIRS - W. Camo
VOLTAGE - On Your Day of Darkness
TRENCHRAID - Dogmatic Trash 

LAGRIMA - Señal Penumbra (Self-Released)
THE MEFFS - Football (Self-Released) 
CONCRETE LIPSTICK - Kalsarikännit (Root)
BATTALION ZOSKA - Warszawa (Violated)
BRAIN ITCH - Follow No Man (Self-Released)

UK (Chris)
THE ENEMY - Prisoner of War (Fallout)
THE DESTRUCTORS - Khmer Rouge Boogie (Death)
CRASS - The Gasman Cometh (Crass)
REVULSION - Disbelief (Radical Change)
ANIMAL FARM - Model Soldier (Rot)

Demo Feature  
DIEFENBAKER are a youthcrew band from Winnipeg that released a demo in 2011 and another in 2018. Don’t know much about them but we are going to feature their first demo in tonight’s show. 

DIEFENBAKER - Intro (Self-Released)
DIEFENBAKER - JOEL (Self-Released)
DIEFENBAKER - All the time (Self-Released)
DIEFENBAKER - Can’t see me (Self-Released)
DIEFENBAKER - Livin’ (Self-Released)
DIEFENBAKER - Storage Wars (Self-Released)
DIEFENBAKER - Talk (Self-Released)

FIREBURN - Suspect (Closed Casket Activities) 

Radio - Sunday May 22, 2022

On tonight’s Equalizing-X-Distort, we feature some punk music from Sweden that you may not have heard. Torbjörn Rolandsson - from Leper, UX Vileheads - does a scene report feature looking at obscure old Swedish punk, Umea hardcore, and reflecting some Montreal punk back to us. That’s in the second hour of the show. The first hour features a ton of new releases that Chris showcases. Andre does a feature on blacked punk. And I pull together some new oi inspired by a comp from BC titled “British Columbia Bovver”.  And Chris has picked a demo by a band called Smuther who are from Chilliwack. Download the show here. 

CUIR - Prenons De La Drogue (Offside)

BISHOPS GREEN - Empty Streets (Pirates Press) 

TERRORIST GANG - Early Morning Shoplifting (Rebellion / Last Years Youth) 

THE DROWNS - The Working Dead (Pirates Press) 

THE ADICTS - And It Was So (Nuclear Blast / Punk Empire) 

ULTRA SECT - Nation on Fire (Contra / Turn Up the Volume)

New releases

DJINN - Into The Void (Self-Released) 

CROSSHAIRS - Camo (Slow Death) 

BULLS SHITT - The Joke (Quarantined) DISPÖSAL - Coercion (Slow Death) WOODSTOCK 99 - War (Sorry State)

Blackened Punk Set

ISKRA - Traume (Self-Released) 

SORROW - In Solitude (Self-Released) 

LAMENT - Lžice (Pant Y Meddygon) 

HOMESKIN - Fungal Sweets (Self-Released) 

FINAL DOSE - Intro/Can’t Be Saved (Self-Released) 

More new releases
WARKRUSHER - Apostate (PILS) 

GLÖM ALTT - Dödsskuggan (Self Released)  

THE FLEX - Inferno (Static Shock) 

MANIC RIDE - Never Going Back (Quarantined) 

SWAB - Can’t Get Out/Got A Light (Hardcore Victim) 

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Scene Report - Torbjörn Rolandsson 

Torbjorn contacted me around the time that "The Eye" ep had come out. At the time he told me of his plans to coming to McGill to work at the university for a short period of time. We soon hatched a plan to do a radio feature as our scene report guest. We came up with the idea on a set about Sweden, a more focused set on Umea and then a set on Montreal given it was going to be his adopted home. Here is that report.....

SET 1: Sweden - Lesser known Swedish punk

ABKK - Mörker (EFMD)

THE MODERNS - Say Yes (1977 / Hosehead)

ROTTWEILER - I wanna be your friend (Sing Sing)

MINX - Övergivna tårar (Image)
THE LEATHER NUN - Ensam inatt (Industrial)

SET 2: UÅHC - Bands that has six degrees of separation to our host

EXIL - Mercenary (Adult Crash)

LEPER - Suckling Pigs (Kink)

THE VICIOUS - Sanity (Ny Vag / Cage Match Federation / Feral Ward / Missing Link)

WARCHILD - Battlefield Trauma (Black Water / D-Takt ja Råpunk) 

UX VILEHEADS - Waste of Life (Deranged) 

SET 3: Canada/QC 

PORCELAIN FOREHEAD - Human Torch (Corpus Callosum)

THE SEX - Braindead (Demo Fest)

PUFFER - Puppet (Roachleg)

OMEGAS - Disgusting Fun (Hardware / Parts Unknown)

INEPSY - No speed limit for destruction (Feral Ward / Ineptik / Southamerican Holocaust)

Torbjorn mentioned that he is looking for a copy of the "Right Now! - The World Needs A Clear Head" ep by Porcelain Forehead. If you have a copy that you are willing to part with get in touch with us at the show and we will put you in touch with him. For those living in Montreal, some Leper EP's are available at Disque Sonique and Le Nouveau Soundcentral. 

 

Demo Feature 

SMUTHER are from Chilliwack, BC and a release called "Demonstration 37" just came out on Slow Death Records. Here is this recording.

SMUTHER - Die Pig Die (Slow Death)

SMUTHER - Businessman (Slow Death)

SMUTHER - Violent Nature (Slow Death) 

SMUTHER - Institution (Slow Death)