Radio : EXD 1340 - Sunday June 15, 2025

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This is episode 1340 of EXD. On this episode

• a feature interview with No Policy an early hardcore band from Montreal. No Policy was best known for the song News or Propaganda that appeared on the Primitive Air Raid comp. To locals they were known for a lot more
• a Top 10 for the Month of May which includes releases by Terror Advocate, Destruxion America, Inmates, No Sector, and Hez
• new releases by Truth of all Death., Pyrex (Brooklyn), Who Pays (Brooklyn), Puffer (Montreal), Pearl, Body World, and Stabber (Norway), and 
• a Psycho-billy set inspired by a band from Kingston named Screamin’ Sins

This episode was put together by Andre Zadorozny, Bee Traverse, Christian Overall, Rebecca Sevrin, Rob Ferraz and Stephen Perry. 

FUCK GEEZ - Ice Age Is Here (MCR)  

Top 10 - May 2025 (Bee) 

MALAISE - Mortal Coil (Desolate) 

MANTRACKER - IV (Open Veins) 

FUCKIN LOVERS - I don’t Care (General Speech) 

INMATES - Role of God (Iron Lung) 

NO SECTOR - No Jobs (Razored Raw/RIP Peace) 

HEZ - See Through Their Lies (Crucifix cover) (Discos Enfermos + many more) 

TERROR ADVOCATE - Sick of It (Sex Fiend Abomination) 

PRAY TO BE SAVED - Guillotine (Sex Fiend Abomination)  

DESTRUXION AMERICA - Mierda Policia (Unlawful Assembly) 

TOTAL NADA - Deseo la muerte (11PM/Discos Enfermos) 

Psycho-billy (Rob) 

SCREAMIN’ SINS - Curse on You (Self-released)  

TALL BOYS - Take A Walk 

THE CRAMPS - Under The Wires 

THE ORSON FAMILY - River of Desire 

New Releases and Teasers (Christian) 

T.O.A.D. - Capitalist Calamity (Sonic bath / Give Praise / Suicide of a Species / Poached / 4th Ave / Grindfather / Horrible Existence / Nippon Death Industry)  

PYREX - Menace (LVEUM)   

PURE TERROR - Majnoon مجنون (Toxic State)   

WHO PAYS - Sectarian Violence (11PM)    

PUFFER - Gimme The Bone (Roachleg / Static Shock)    

Mostly New (Andre) 

PEARL - Party (Self-Released)   

BODY WORLD - Behind The Wall (Self-Released) 

PEACE TALKS - Instigate (Chaos & Chill/Cruel Noise)  

STABBER - Repeat Offender (Self-Released) 

QUE LINDO - The Sun Stutters (Urge Records)  

PSYCH-WAR - Ripping Inferno (Agipunk/Archaic)

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NO POLICY interview (Stephen) 

The idea for this interview started by accident with me coming across a demo from a little known early hardcore band out of Montreal. I asked a question about them on a Montreal hardcore page on facebook and the response was immediate and emphatic. The guitarist Rebecca Sevrin reached out. I would learn that she plays in Frightwig and does design work for some big names in California. Rebecca talks about the band, their songs, the penguin logo, the early Montreal hardcore scene. We start off with their contribution to the Primitive Air Raid comp. 

NO POLICY - News or Propaganda (Psyche) 

Interview with Rebecca from No Policy (CIUT) 

NO POLICY - So It Goes (Bluurg) 

Interview with Rebecca from No Policy (CIUT) 

NO POLICY - Confusion Frustration Depression (Bluurg) 

Interview with Rebecca from No Policy (CIUT)

NO POLICY - Swamp Pig (Bluurg) 

Interview with Rebecca from No Policy (CIUT) 

NO POLICY - Pass Me My Skate (I'm Leaving Town) 

Interview with Rebecca from No Policy (CIUT) 

THE DAMNED - Fan Club 

Interview with Rebecca from No Policy (CIUT) 

NO POLICY - Hyper Reality 

Interview with Rebecca from No Policy (CIUT)

THE DAMNED - Grimly Fiendish (MCA)

Radio : EXD 1335 - Sunday May 11, 2025

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This is episode 1335 of EXD. This episode was put together by Andre Zadorozny, Bee Traverse, Christian Overall, Rob Ferraz, and Stephen Perry. On this edition of EXD: 

• A tribute to 1981 featuring DOA, The Exploited, and Zero Boys
• American demos featuring Strikeforce and the Dividing Line 
• Crust / D-Beat featuring Dirt, Languid, and Disturd 
• New Releases featuring Cimterium, Gutter, Grind shaft, Reagan Youth, Propagandhi, and Street Code 
• OGs of Montreal Hardcore featuring Genetic Control, SCUM, Fair Warning, Asexuals, Unruled, and No Policy 
• Canadian punk featuring Lobotomite, Years of Lead, Bureaucrats, DOA, and Tyranna 
• Featuring the demo of Pill Mill out of Kamloops / Kelowna  

DESMILE - セルフィッシュ (MCR) 

1981 (Rob) 
DOA - Fucked Up Baby (Friends) 
THE EXPLOITED - Royalty (Secret)
WASTED YOUTH - Fuck Authority (ICI Sanoblast)
DAYGLO ABORTIONS - Black Sabbath (Sharpe / Sorry State)
ZERO BOYS - Livin' In The 80's (Nimrod)

Crust / D-beat (Bee)
DIRT - Mother (Skuld Releases)
LANGUID - Faceless Terror (Self-released) 
CONTAGIUM - Traced Away (Total End Records)
SYSTEM FUCKER - Absolutely Unshaken Strong Mind (Black Konflik) 
DISTURD - Scum System Fear (Self-released) 

American Demo’s (Andre)
SELF INTEREST - Outta Time (Delayed Gratification) 
STRIKEFORCE - Your Fate (Fortress)  
GRID - The Pact (Delayed Gratification)  
OVERLOAD - Cash Grab (From Within)  
THE DIVIDING LINE - Insane (New Age)  

New Releases and Teasers (Chris) 
CIMITERIUM - Stench and Death (Phobia / Black Against Night) 
DESTRUXION AMERICA - Entre Valle y Desierto (Unlawful Assembly / Planeta Destrozado / D4MT)  
GUTTER - Evicted (Symphony of Destruction)  
GRIND SHAFT - Babylon Forest (Break the Records)   
PROBLEM - Violence On The Metro (Mendeku Diskak / Under the Gun)  

New Releases (Stephen)
STREET CODE - This Nightmare (Insurgence) 
REAGAN YOUTH - Idle Hands (Cleopatra)
PROPAGANDHI - Vampires Are Real (Epitaph / Manitoba Film & Music) 
FORX - Safe Supply (Pils) 
ACID CROSS - Mistwraith (Self-Released)

Canadian (Andre)
ABRUPT DECAY - Castigate (Self-Released) 
SISTEMA DE MUERTE - Vendepatrias (Self-Released)  
LOBOTOMITE - Hive Mind (Maladroit Recordings) 
TYPEFACE - Cycles of Violence (SO2)
YEARS OF LEAD - Vengeance (Self-Released) 

Crate Digging (Stephen)
CHIN-CHIN - We Don't Wanna Be Prisoners (Farmer / Mississippi) 
TYRANNA - Test Tube Babies (Rave Up)
BUREAUCRATS - The Game
FLASH MONGRELS - Good Time Dole Line (Queen Mum) 
THE PUNKLES - I Saw Her Standing There (Wolverine / Bitzcore) 

Montreal Hardcore (Stephen)
FAIR WARNING - You are the scene (Self-Released)
ASEXUALS - Thrash Zone (Psyche Industries)
GENETIC CONTROL - Suburban Life (Generic / Returned to Analog)
NO POLICY - Hyper Reality (Self-Released) 
UNRULED - Lost Cause (Self-Released / Schizophrenic)
S.C.U.M. - Exit Death (Psyche Industries)

Demo Feature
PILL MILL are from Kamloops / Kelowna. This cassette was released May 2nd on Slow Death.

PILL MILL - Trimming the Fat-Authority (Slow Death)
PILL MILL - Dead Minds (Slow Death)
PILL MILL - Yuppy Farm (Slow Death)

THE VILLAINS - Urban Skins (Skinhead)

Radio - Sunday, August 15th, 2021

   

Tonight’s show starts out with a critique of the Tokyo Olympics by a band from Japan. Highlights for the rest of the show include a cover of DEVO, brand new CONTROL FREAKS, classic Montreal hardcore (NO POLICY, FAIR WARNING, and ASEXUALS), and some acapella straight edge. WARFARE STATE from Brockville are tonight’s demo feature. Download the show here.

FORWARD - Tokyo Olympics (540 / Break the Records / Japan Support Ltd / Todo Destruido)

THE NAZI DOGS - Mongoloid (Self-Released) 

F-X - Slag (Southern) 

THE MEKONS - What Are We Going To Do Tonight (Virgin / Superior Viaduct) 

LAUGHIN' NOSE - Switch Style (Let’s Rock) 

DOORS & FOURS - Feeling Dead (Self-Released) 

BRAD MANNERS - Bury Me as Far From Them As Possible (Self-Released) 

NEEDLES // PINS - Of Things Best Left to Chance (Dirt Cult) 

WORDPLAY - 8.5 (Self-Released) 

THE LIVING END - Bloody Mary (Self-Released) 

MENTIRA - Desmotivacion (Iron Lung) 

MURO - Sedicion (Adult Crash) 

PUS - Eres Una Pose (Self-Released) 

S.H.I.T. - Hidden in Eternity (Iron Lung) 

G.I.S.M. - Choke (Beast Arts / Dorma / Relapse) 

THE CONTROL FREAKS - Don’t Trust (Dirty Water) 

THE RIP-OFFS - Zodiac (Pure Filth / Rip Off) 

THE ROUTES - Broken Goods (Action Weekend / Bickerton) 

BOG UGLY - I've Seen It Vomit (Toadstool)
F-MODELS - It's Not Right (T.M.I.) 

NO POLICY - News or Propaganda (Psyche) 

FAIR WARNING - Blood on the Bumper (F.W.) 

ASEXUALS - 3 Chord Politics (First Strike) 

HYPE - Superpowers (Reuben Kincaide) 

CHRONIC SUBMISSION - Nuclear Threat (Schizophrenic / NRK) 

RMBLR - Move Over (Wanda / Spaghetty Town) 

RADIO REJECTS - Biff Tannen (Self-Released) 

VAMPIRE LEZBOS - So What (Ed Gein Productions) 

SON OF BRONTO - Corporate Nations (Self-Released) 

THE ALMIGHTY TRIGGER HAPPY - Died Trying (Bad Taste / Fearless) 

SENDO FOGO - Brazil Debacle (Self-Released) 

CHINPIRA - Never Give Up Never Say Die (F.O.A.D.) 

KOMA - Impossible Altar (La Vida Es Un Mus) 

EKULU - Pick Your Fight (Cash Only) 

JUD JUD - X Tune Down Song X (Lost Frog) 

Demo Feature 

WARFARE STATE were from Ottawa. They featured Katie Whitaker who I would go on to be in a band with called Countdown to Oblivion. Katie would go on to play in Brutal Knights and Legion666 and Pete Beudoin would go on to play in Born Dead Icons and more recently Dekoder. This band would go on to have a split with Nema from Ann Arbor, Michigan. This is a ten song demo they recorded in 1995. 

WARFARE STATE - Mon Pays (Self-Released) 

WARFARE STATE - J’ai Donc Je Suis (Self-Released) 

WARFARE STATE - Privilege (Self-Released) 

WARFARE STATE - Pavlov (Self-Released) 

WARFARE STATE - Human or Not (Self-Released) 

WARFARE STATE - Mockery (Self-Released) 

WARFARE STATE - Infection (Self-Released) 

WARFARE STATE - How Many (Self-Released) 

WARFARE STATE - One Nation (Self-Released) 

WARFARE STATE - Earth (Self-Released) 

MAD MEN - Wax World (Self-Released)

Radio - Sunday, July 21st, 2013

Genetic Control were a hardcore band from Montreal around between 1983 and 1985. They were one of Canada's best hardcore bands which is evidenced in how sought after the "First Impressions" single is today. Many tributes have been paid to the band one of which was the bootlegged dedication record to Tim Yohannon which contained the song "Love Rat" by the band. In fact I think one of the reason's why "Primitive Air Raid" is so good is because of their song "Suburban Life" which in my opinion is the best song on the compilation. The band is now scattered across the country, but every few years they get together to play amd for some big name people. They opened for Flag at this year's NXNE and I was able to speak to the two Robs who play guitar and Doug-O on bass (Saturday June 15th). We spoke about their songs, their recordings, the sows they played, the bands they played with, the scene and their beloved practise space known as the Bleury Beach Club or the BBC for short. The interview was long and thanks to Eric Betlam for cleaning up the audio quality and spending a couple of hours with me cutting it down so that we could fit in the openng song "1984" and some brief underlying recordings by the band. This band deserves a re-issue and maybe a collected discography but here is a bit of their story.

GENETIC CONTROL - 1984 (Generic)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
S.C.U.M. - Home away from home (Psyche)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview
FAIR WARNING - You are the Scene (Self-Released)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - I'm Eighteen (Unreleased)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - Big Takeover (Unreleased)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - Love Rat (Generic)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - Brave New World (Generic)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - 1984 (Generic)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - First Impressions (Unreleased)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - Urban Cowboy (Generic)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - Licence to Kill (Unreleased)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - Gilligan's Island (Unreleased)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - Meet Billy (Unreleased)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - Rockin with Seka (Unreleased)
GENETIC CONTROL - Interview (CIUT)
GENETIC CONTROL - Subruban Life (Generic)

Sunday, January 24, 2010

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KRUNCHIES - You Put the U in Useless (Southkore)

RESIST CONTROL - Kill the News (Self-Released)

EVERYTHING FALLS APART – Young Explorers (Self-Released)

ANCHOR – Perspective (Refuse)

GOVERNMENT FLU - Shut Your Mouth (Refuse)

RATIONAL ANIMALS - Everybody's Cool Friend (Feral Kid)

NUNFUCKERS - Be Yourself (Still Thinking)

YOUTH OF TODAY - We Just Might (Positive Force)

MOVING TARGETS - Changing Your Mind (Conflict/Radio Beat)

CRIMPSHRINE - Summertime (Lookout)

CHRIST ON A CRUTCH - Off Target (Dischord)

BILLY BRAGG – Garageland

LARS FREDERICKSON AND THE BASTARDS – To have and Have Not (Hellcat)

7 SECONDS – Wartime (Bootleg)

DOA – Waiting for You (Friends)

BRUTAL KNIGHTS – Fake Youth (Deranged)

SHORT FUSE – You already stank yesterday (Assault)

SNIFFING GLUE – Nothing to Regret (Assault)

NAZI DUST – Impulse Control

KSM 50 -

UBER - Crisis (Sell Our Souls)

FIX ME - Pacto (Sell Our Souls)

PRIMATES - Villancico (Thought Crime)

MALIN HEADS - Wargame (Thought Crime)

NO POLICY - Hyper Reality (Self-Released)

CHOKEHOLD - Anchor (Conquer the World)

BORN AGAINST - Nine Years Later (Kill Rock Stars)

STEEL POLE BATHTUB - Christina (Boner)

ERIC'S TRIP - Sunlight (Sub Pop)

DEVIL DOGS - Once Around the Block (Sympathy For the Record Industry)

TRUE COLOURS – No Way to Live (New Breed)

WARZONE – Under 18 (Unreleased)

ABOMINATION – Red Storm Rising (Self-Released)

DEAD END – Subversive Fool (Self-Released)

LEEWAY – On the Outside (Profile)

ANGELHAIR – Second Cousin

BLITZ – Criminal Damage

BONESTORM -

Demo Feature

STAY YOUNG - Intro (Self-Released)

STAY YOUNG - There is a Need (Self-Released)

STAY YOUNG - Too Much Regret (Self-Released)

STAY YOUNG - Stand Up (Self-Released)

STAY YOUNG - Proud (Self-Released)

Flyer - Friday March 27, 1987

Flyer - Free the Five

This must have been a benfit show in Montreal for the Squamish Five.

Flyer - Thursday August 9, 1985

Flyer - Saturday April 6, 1985

MRR Review - No Policy "Mtl HC" cassette

Tim Yohannon wrote this review for MRR of the No Policy cassette. This appeared in issue #23, which came out in March 1985. Click on image to enlarge it to a readable size.

No Policy cassette

No Policy were from Montreal and featured Ron on vocals, Rebecca on guitar, Denis on bass, and Mike on drums. The songs on here are:

1. Merchants of Death

2. First Strike Last Strike

3. Business Man Special

4. News or Propaganda

5. Confusion Frustration Depression

6. On Your Christian Soldiers

7. Pass Me My Skate (I'm Leaving Town)

8. Hyper Reality

9. Bye Bye Bye

10. And So It Goes

11. Swamp Pig

Flyer - Friday November 23, 1984

The Concordia radio station sponsors this show in Montreal with the Dub Rifles from Winnipeg.

V/A "Primitive Air Raid" LP

Primitive Air Raid is the first record of it's kind in Montreal. It is a random sample of Montreal's unrecorded underground. A few alternative bands made the record, but largely this represented the underground. the scene in Montreal has been alive for years. S.C.U.M. was asked to particpate but had difficulties retreiving their recording so they missed the deadline. Violent Meals went to Europe and forgot to leave their tape. Porcelain Forehead were from Ottawa and Direct Action were from Toronto. Both bands played a benefit show for the comp and as a result were added to this comp. This classic comp was the first release by Psyche Records who would go on to produce a number of other releases mostly of Montreal bands.

Jeff Bale reviewed the comp in MRR as "An excellent cross-section of Montreal-area bands, most of which haven't released any vinyl before. From the thrash of DIRECT ACTION and NO POLICY to the chunky pop-punk of the NILS to AMERICAN DEVICES' weird, rockin' stuff to fast punk by GENETIC CONTROL, the ABSURDS, and FAIR WARNING to the garage punk of PORCELAIN FOREHEAD to MORBID FIRE's experimental garage thrash, this album provides listening enjoyment. The only musical letdowns are art- damaged numbers by ≠ and IAGO NEON. The ASEXUALS, on the other hand, provide the lyrical low-point with their imbecilic pro-contra chant; their line "political morons without a fucking clue" must be autobiographical, since they apparently know nothing about Nicaragua, American foreign policy, or the circle-A which they employ in their moniker." (from Maximum Rocknroll #19, November 1984)

The songs on here are:

1. Asexuals - Contra-Rebels

2. Fair Warning - Six O'Clock Blues

3. Fair Warning - Open Your Eyes

4. Vomit and the Zits - Suicide

5. Vomit and the Zits - What the Hell

6. Porcelain Forehead - Cold Steak

7. Absurds - Moral Feedback

8. Absurds - Futur's Nature

9. Genetic Control - Suburban Life

10. Direct Action - Hate Generation

11. American Devices - Spontaneous Combustion

12. The Nils - Call of the Wild

13. Red Shift - Underflesh

14. Iago Neon - Preliterate Robot

15. Morbid Fiesta - Le Nul Parfait

16. No Policy - News or Propaganda

17. Does not Equal - Emotion 9

MRR Review - Various Artists "Primitive Air Raid" LP

Jeff Bale wrote this review for MRR of the Montreal comp. This appeared in issue #19, which came out in November 1984. Click on image to enlarge it to a readable size.

Flyer - Friday October 12, 1984

The Stretch Marks play in Montreal.

Flyer - Monday March 12, 1984

Here is the flyer for this first show. Below is a schedule for Hardcore Monday Night.

Flyer - Saturday March 10, 1984

Scene Report - Montreal / BC Scene report

The Montreal scene report is well written and talks about the origins of punk in Montreal and then gets into the curent scene back in 1984 which featured Unruled, S.C.U.M., the Nils, the Discords, Vomit and the Zits, No Policy, and Fair warning among others. The BC scene report talks about the "Bloodied But Unbowed" release and "General Strike" as being recent releases for DOA. There was also a Youth Youth Youth ad for the "Sin" 12". Click on the images to enlarge them to a readable size.

Flyer - Friday, December 9, 1983

Flyer - Saturday October 1, 1983