Radio : EXD 1224 - Sunday, October 30th, 2022

Welcome to Equalizing-X-Distort for the night before Hallowe’en, so most if not all of tonight’s show has a tie in to tomorrow. Near the end Andre does a beatdown feature. And a Kamloops band named HEADCHEESE will be tonight's demo feature. Download the show here. 

THE FERTILIZED EGGS - Trick Or Treat Smell My Feet (Dirtbag Distro)  

Dirtbag Distro Halloween Mixtape #3 Highlights (Chris)

HAZMAT & THE TOXIC WASTERS - Graveyard Shift 

SKOTOS - Concealed Carry 

PARADISE TAX - Sneaker Wave  

STEREO JOY - Dionysus  

ORRENDO SUBOTNIK - Peso Morto 

 

Dirtbag Distro Halloween Mixtape #3 Highlights Part 2 

TOTAL SHAM - Bloodsucker  

BILLIAM - It’s Spooky 3  

GHOST BEEF - Mutants Run This Town  

DUMPSTER RATS - Monster Mash  

SILICONE HEARTBEAT - Slime City 

Emissions Hallowe'en (Dave Stevenson) 

LONG KNIFE - Scum (Black Water / Beach Impediment) 

YDI - Haunted House (Southern Lord) 

THE PROWL - Wicked Annabella (Self-Released) 

CRUCIFUCKS - You Give Me The Creeps (Alternative Tentacles) 

GHOUL - Proud To Be Creepsylvanian (Tank Crimes) 

DIE KREUZEN - Halloween (Touch and Go) 

PART 1 - Black Mass (Pusmort) 

BATTALION OF SAINTS - I Wanna Make You Scream (Taang) 

M.O.D. - Man of Your Dreams (Caroline) 

POISON IDEA - Getting The Fear (American Leather) 

Toronto post punk (Stephe) 

NASH THE SLASH - Blind Windows (Cut Throat)

TBA - Through My Fingers (Smash) 

JOLLY TAMBOURINE MAN - Sweater in Sri Lanka (Assembly Language) 

MARK MALIBU AND THE WASAGAS - Wasaga Showdown (Boppa Do Down) 

NEON ROME - The Magical Summer of 85 (New Rose)

Rob’s set 

THE SOFT BOYS - Wading Through A Ventilator (Delorean)

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY - Release the Bats (4AD / Missing Link)

UNWOUND - Murder Movies (Kill Rock Stars)

BORN AGAINST - Well Fed Fuck (Vermiform)

SHOTMAKER - Drown (GAS Religion)

Vancouver new wave (Stephe) 

THE BRAINEATERS - I, Braineater (Wrong World)

ZELLOTS - Vampire Love (Supreme Echo) 

FEMALE HANDS - Stop All Biology (Quintessence) 

UJ3RK5 - Booty Dread (Quintessence) 

SI MONKEY - Get Rigid (Friends) 

Beatdown set (Andre) 

BULLDOZE - The Truth (Self-Released) 

NEXT STEP UP - Karma (Gain Ground) 

IRATE - Awakenings (Self-Released) 

WORLD DEMISE - Can’t Relate (Flatspot) 

SWEAR TO GOD - Six Feet Deep (Self-Released) 

SUNAMI - Feds Watchin’ (Creator-Destructor) 

Demo Feature 

Headcheese are a band from Kamloops that we heard a few weeks back in one of Chris’ sets. They have a full length out on Neon Taste. On the label’s site they have tagged their release with comparisons to White Pigs and Brutal Knights.

HEADCHEESE - I Can’t Win (Slow Death) 

HEADCHEESE - Loss Prevention (Slow Death) 

HEADCHEESE - I Wanna Be Special (Forces) (Slow Death)

Flyer - Saturday, October 29th, 2022

 

Flyer - Friday, October 28th, 2022

 

Radio : EXD 1223 - Sunday, October 23rd, 2022

On tonight’s show, we have a feature interview with Echthros - a power electronics band. We spoke with Jesse from Fort McKay about his new release “God is Love” which is about first nations genocide. Rob has a set of spooky themed music to get people in the mood for Hallowe’en. Andre built a set around the Drain show that happened last weekend. And Chris has a feature on stench and a new releases segment which is where we start. Download the show here.

STRETCH MARKS - Who's in Charge (Head Butt / Sounds Escaping) 

New (Chris) 

SPAM CALLER - Tough Break (Self-released) 

SPORE - Stability (Not For The Weak!!!)  

THE FERTILIZED EGGS - Goblin Torment (Dirtbag Distro) 

TODD KILLINGS AND THE CONTRACTS - Private Eye (Slow Death)  

CHURCHGOERS - Dislocate (Static Shock)  

RIGOROUS INSTITUTIONS - Tempt Fate… And Win! (Symphony of Destruction)  

ROCKY AND THE SWEDEN - Bakugeki Blaze (Relapse) 

Spooky theme (Rob) 

SCREAMING FOR EMILY - The Love (Scared Bones)

THE LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH - Pretty Baby Scream (Remedy)

45 GRAVE - Party Time (Enigma)

GAS HUFFER - Where Wolfmen Lurk (Empty)

THE REVILLOS - Voodoo 2 (Cherry Red) 

Crust (Chris) 

DECADE - The Return (Black Konflik, Insane Society, Monolith, Audacious Madness, Distroy, Headnoise and Black Against Night Records) 

FATUM - Ghoul (Black Konflik, Insane Society, Monolith, Audacious Madness, Distroy, Headnoise and Black Against Night Records) 

ATER - Mentes Violentas (Self-released) 

COLLAPSED - Lost Tribes (Self-released / Phobia) 

SWORDWIELDER - Savage Execution (Profane Existence / Hardcore Hell / Deleted) 

INSTINCT OF SURVIVAL - Mental Cold War (Headnoise) 

Drain show @ Velvet & Reminder Records mini-feature (Andre) 

DRAIN - California Cursed (Self-Released) 

KOYO - Dreaming in A Wasteland (The Coming Strife) 

WILD SIDE - Nothing Held Back (Self-Released) 

THE BASTARDS - Impossibilities (Reminder) 

THE LIMIT - My World at Night (Reminder) 

Interview Echthros (Stephe)

A power electronics artist from Calgary just came out with a new release on Iron Lung Records called “God is Love”. We got a chance to speak with Jesse Fortier, the artist known as Echthros about the new release. 

ECHTHROS – Wendigo Spirit (Iron Lung) 

ECHTHROS – Interview (CIUT) 

ECHTHROS – No Truth No Reconciliation (Iron Lung) 

ECHTHROS – Interview (CIUT)

ECHTHROS – Three Sisters (Ghosts) (Iron Lung) 

Radio : EXD 1222 - Sunday, October 16th, 2022

On episode 1222 of EXD, Chris celebrates one year with the show by looking back at punk that has come out in Canada this year. Andre does a show review of Ceremony from two weeks back and offers a mid show demo feature by Rabbit from Brooklyn. Rob offers up a show preview for Long Knife playing here next month. This episode has a set of covers, a set of re-issues/archival releases, and a demo feature by DECK PISS from Hamilton. But up first we dig into a couple of sets of new releases. Download the show here. 

BISHOPS GREEN - Working Poor (Pirates Press) 

 

New releases (Stephe)

CRAN - Famine (Une Vie Pour Rein?) 

THE UGLIES - Fuckhead Records (UGL Media) 

LOST LEGION - Tonite (Longshot Music)

AUTO - Dog eat dog society (La Vida Es Un Mus) 

ARMA X - Heavy Straight Edge (Quality Control HQ) 

New releases (Chris) 

ALIEN NOSEJOB - Beatles Vs. Stones (Anti Fade / Total Punk) 

HÖG - Ready For The End (Dust Up) 

CLUTTERED - Take Me Away (Self-released) 

DISTHROAT - Collision of Vision (Self-released) 

FARCE - Survive Thru Hell (Sistema Mortal) 

André 

Ceremony show form two weeks ago set and Rabbit demo spotlight 

CEREMONY - A Blight on Mental Health (Bridge 9) 

CEREMONY - Further I Was (Relapse) 

SPY - Exceptional American (Self-Released) 

RAZE - 1000 Words (Self-Released)

ONLY GOD FORGIVES - Office Song (Self-Released) 

RABBIT - Mace (Self-Released) 

RABBIT - Heavy Love (Self-Released) 

RABBIT - Ghost Dog (Self-Released) 

RABBIT - Pagliacci (Self-Released)  

NEEDLE - Sonic Terrorism (To Live a Lie) 

PRIME SUSPECT - G.O.M.B. - Panic Disorder (Self-Released) 

STARK RAVING MAD - Piss on You (Just 4 Fun / )

SEEIN RED - Dream (Self-Released) 

80HD - Hog Wild (Self-Released) 

Show preview (Rob)

LONG KNIFE - Curb Stomp Earth (Beach Impediment) 

IMPLODERS - Shoot To Kill (Neon Taste) 

ANXIOUS PLEASERS - You Talk Too Much (Neon Taste) 

BANDA DESTRUIDA - Traves°a (Beer City)  

PAGANS - Street Where Nobody Lives (Crypt) 

Re-issues (Stephe)

YLEISET SYYT - Sininen hekuma (La Vida Es Un Mus) 

NO IDEA - Parasit (Just 4 Fun / Beer City) 

CYMEON X - Potential Friends (Refuse) 

THE NOSTRILS - Welfare State (Supreme Echo) 

LATCH KEY KIDS - We Can Survive 

Fack to the Buture (Chris)

With 2022 coming winding down, let’s take a trip through time back to the year 2021. And, have a listen to some of the best (in house) releases. 

CHAIN WHIP - Two Step To Hell (Neon Taste) 

LANGUID - Apocalyptic Scars (D-Takt ja Råpunk) 

TOTAL NADA - En Deuda (Discos Enfermos) 

BOOTLICKER - Conventional Life (Static Shock / Neon Taste) 

PHANE - The Structure (Phobia / Blood Spattered Jacket) 

BRAIN ITCH - Dragging The Flag (Self-released) 

Covers set (Stephe)

DEADLY WEAPONS - We Know You Suck (Lipstick)  

BUTT HOLE REBELLION - Police On My Back (Signal Sound Systems) 

BOMBSHELL ROCKS - State of Emergency (Hellcat) 

THE BUS STATION LOONIES - Where's Captain Kirk (Campary / Ruptured Ambitions) 

THE WATERHEADS - Spoiled Brats (Self-released)

NOT THE ONES - All Cut Up (Wanda) 

PET UFO - Chess Club (Double Deuce) 

SLUTS FOR HIRE - La-La-La (Flipside)

TUNIC - Reward of Nothing (Artoffact) 

Demo Feature

DECK PISS are a band from Hamilton that I learned about on the last show that Grant did. So I thought we would feature them in our demo feature because they are so good. They are putting on the Fully Crazed show in Hamilton on Thursday October 27th at Doors Taco Joint and Metal bar 

DECK PISS - Shifty Dave (Self-Released) 

DECK PISS - Knock Knock (Self-Released) 

DECK PISS - Mansions (Self-Released) 

DECK PISS - Fast AF (Burnout) (Self-Released) 

DECK PISS - Deck Piss (The Song) (Self-Released) 

DECK PISS - Sheepshit (Self-Released) 

DECK PISS - My Generation (Again) (Self-Released) 

DECK PISS - Spit (Self-Released)

Radio : EXD 1221 - Sunday, October 9th, 2022

For this week's show, we have a few sets of new material featuring the likes of T.S. Warspite, Nosferatu, Spray Bullet, Pink Leather Jacket, R.A.M.B.O., East My Fear, and Brigada Flores Magon. We have a feature on early UK Crust with bands like DOOM, Sedition, ENT. A feature on garage core with bands like Busy Signals, The Uglies and Disco Volante. A feature on Mind Violence from the east coast. Some lesser known oldies – Sovjet War, Banned from Chicago, the Scam, R.I.P. and in our demo feature is a garage inspired hardcore band from Vancouver called Brain Bag. You can download the show here. 

T.S. WARSPITE - Slum Landlord (Quality Control HQ) 

New (Chris) 

NOSFERATU - No Flags Fly Here (B.L.A.P. / Unlawful Assembly / Roachleg / Sound Grotesca / P.M.T.) 

BAREBONES - 表裏 (KICK OUT) (Break the Records) 

HEADCHEESE - Big Plans (Slow Death)

HATEHUG - Nihilism Orgy (SubZine)  

STRAY BULLET - Factory (Adult Crash / Not For the Weak) 

PUCKER UP - Brink of Extinction (Self-Released) 

Garage core set (Stephe) 

GEL - Freak (Atomic Action / Crew Cuts) 

DISCO VOLANTE - Get Your Kicks (DVC)

THE UGLIES - Make Punk Great Again (No Patience) 

TEEN CRUD COMBO - Beaver County Population - Nick (Deranged)

THE BUSY SIGNALS - Love and Dust (Douchemaster) 

Rob 

PINK LEATHER JACKETS - Sixteen Forties (Self-Released)

OUTPATIENT - You’re So Cool (Dirt Cult/Dead Broke) 

CHEAP FREAKS - I’m Coming Home (Big Neck) 

THE DUMPIES - Commotion (Drunk Dial) 

HAMBONE SKINNY - Trash Can (Rum Bar) 

UK Crust (Chris) 

DOOM - Terminal Filth Wimpcore Killer (Vinyl Japan) 

PROPHECY OF DOOM - Rancid Oracle? (Deaf) 

SEDITION - Authority (Reel to Real / Flat Earth) 

EXTREME NOISE TERROR - Knee Deep in Shit (Vinyl Japan) 

EXTINCTION OF MANKIND - Brain Dead (Ruin Nation / Skuld)

H-BLOCK 101 - Aunty Pauline (Mad Butcher) 

GRADE 2 - Graveyard Island (Hellcat) 

THE OWEN GUNS - Rent (Riot / Golden Robot) 

CANI - Guai A Voi! (Dischi Storti) 

WHITE NOISE - BBC-UTV (Spit)

Mind Violence feature (André) 

Demo and s/t EP. Band was from St. John's. They released their demo in 2015 and the s/t EP in 2016 on Weak Link Records. 

MIND VIOLENCE - Let Them Take It/Control (Weak Link)

MIND VIOLENCE - Destiny (Weak Link) 

MIND VIOLENCE - Mind Violence (Weak Link) 

MIND VIOLENCE - Tragic Fiction (Weak Link) 

MIND VIOLENCE - Blinded By Belief (Weak Link) 

MIND VIOLENCE - Bloodpact (Weak Link) 

MIND VIOLENCE - Smoke Screen (Weak Link) 

MIND VIOLENCE - Scratch The Surface (Weak Link) 

MIND VIOLENCE - Dominoes Fall (Weak Link) 

New releases (Stephe) 

R.A.M.B.O. - Defy Extinction (Relapse) 

ABRASION - Politiks (Shitresist) 

EAT MY FEAR - All Oppression is Connected (Refuse) 

BRIGADA FLORES MAGON - Eux Contre Nous (Rebel Time) 

A.K.O.B. - Pogo Blues 

Oldies (Stephe) 

THE SCAM - All By Myself (Ax/ction) 

SOVJET WAR - It Became A Problem (Anything But)

BANNED FROM CHICAGO - Enema (Alona’s Dream) 

R.I.P. - Policia NO (Basati Diskak) 

CIRCLE ONE - Destroy Exxon (Smoke Seven) 

Demo Feature

BRAIN BAG is a garage inspired punk band from Vancouver and their demo was just released on Slow Death. 

BRAIN BAG - Old Dog (Slow Death) 

BRAIN BAG - Punching Bag Brain (Slow Death) 

BRAIN BAG - Shoot From The Hip (Slow Death) 

BRAIN BAG - Don’t Get Along (Slow Death) 

BRAIN BAG - Death Van (Slow Death) 

BRAIN BAG - Banking On Instinct (Slow Death) 

HENRY FIAT'S OPEN SORE - Don Wanna Meets The FBI (Push Button)

SHORTFUZE - Burn the Streets (Self-Released)

DROPKICK MURPHYS - Ten Times More (Dummy Luck Music) 

Flyer - Saturday October 8th, 2022

 

Radio : EXD 1220 - Sunday, October 2nd, 2022

It’s fest week on EXD. A deep dive into Varning, and the rest of the best at Riot Fest. A look at tributes to the Clash. And a demo feature for one of the rarest anarchist punk demoes recently made available recently by Sealed Records – Dominant Patri. Download the show here.

RUDE HI FI AND THE LICKSHOTS - I Fought The Law (Golden Singles)

Varning highlights (Chris) 

Last weekend was the 14th edition of A Varning From Montréal. If you’re not familiar, Varning is a three day festival with local and international bands that (typically) happens annually in Montréal. This set is a highlight of some of the local talent. 

 

DURS COEURS - Château De Cartes (Dure Réalité / Runstate)   
MALDITA - Debilidad (Cursed Blessings)   
BLEMISH - You Look Like A Cop (Not For the Weak) 
LANGUID - Delivered to Die (D-Takt & Råpunk)   

PHANE - Protecting Your Filth (Phobia)   

ABSOLUT - Desecrate (Self-released)  

THE MOOR - Wasted Time (Self-released)  

SEXFACE - Village Life (Distort Reality)   

FORCE MAJEURE - Victime (Double Turn)   

ASILE - Un Mond À L’enveres (Rust and Machine)  

MUECO - Ideation (Fuzzed Atrocities) 

WARKRUSHER - Endless Night (Self-released)  

COLLAPSED - Man/Wars (Self-released / Phobia / Bullwhip)    

TOTAL NADA - Regulados (Discos Enfermos)   

BÉTON ARMÉ - Hypocrite (Shoom / Primator Crew)   

UZU - Len Astaslima لن أستسلم (Self-released)  

BRUTALIZE - Technology (Self-released)  

DOGMA - Up And Coming (Grow Your Own)   

CIGGIE AND THE DARTS - Overdraft (Tetryon Tapes)   

DESPERATE TIMES - A.C.A.F.B. (Self-released)  

PUFFER - Wicked Boys (Roachleg)  

FRACTURED - Dead Awake (Self-released)  

 

Clash Tribute (Stephe)

Found a bunch of Clash tribute compilations so I went through a few and put together a set of bands from these comps. 

 

CRASS - Intro (Released Emotions) 

THE SINISTERS - Clampdown (Dwell) 

FACE TO FACE - Tommy Gun (Lion’s Pride) 

FANG - White Riot (Karma / Chord) 

MICKEY FITZ (The Business) - Clash City Rockers (Cleopatra) 

THE STRUMMERS - Complete Control (Sony) 

Riot Fest Best of Part 2 (Andre) 

MADBALL - Get Out (Roadrunner) 

7 SECONDS - No Authority (Alternative Tentacles) 

SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE - Seven (Sub Pop) 

THE GET UP KIDS - Don’t Hate Me (Doghouse) 

BAD RELIGION - Pity (Epitaph) 

ALEXISONFIRE - Pulmonary Archery (Distort) 

ONE STEP CLOSER - Introspect (Self-Released) 

New releases (Chris) 

PUNITIVE DAMAGE - Drawn Lines (Atomic Action)

SPIT! - Judas Kiss (Suck Glue Boy)  

BEŁKOT - Dziękuję aktywistom (Self-released)  

HACKER - Human Commerce (Self-released / Harcore Victim)   

MIRAGE - Mondo Transparente (Roachleg) 

SPECIAL FORCES - Money (Boner) 

THE OVERPRIVILEDGED - Internet Killed The Video Star (Self-Released) 

SHATTERED BADGE - Wagon Wheel 

POWERBOMB - Bang Bang! (Self-Released)

FORESIGHT - Reflection (Refuse) 

 

Demo Feature 

On September 30th, Sealed records reissued a super rare 3 track demo by the peace punk outfit Dominant Patri. Part of the Luton scene with bands like Karma Sutra, this demo was released in June 1983; Dominant Patri playing less than 15 gigs during their brief existence. Now reissued as a single sided 12”.

DOMINANT PATRI - Heroes Glory (Sealed)

DOMINANT PATRI - Experiment (Sealed)

DOMINANT PATRI - Death of Thomas (Sealed)