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Unlike most people, I was fortunate enough to grow up in a city that had an 80s European hardcore punk store about ten minutes from my house. Bob Suren was the name of the guy who ran it, Sound Idea Distribution. He hosted local shows, gave us mix tapes and whatnot. I remember being in 10th grade and he gave me a Septic Death mix tape. ANYWAY.

He put out a compilation called "Really Fast Vol. 1-3," which was the first three records in a longer series put out by a Swedish label called Really Fast Records in 1983. I believe that there were 10 in the entire series.

Anyway, I just found this recently and I am STOKED. Does anyone else on here like that stuff? I mean, not just Fast Product post-punk because its edgy, but European hardcore, grind, etc?

― Cameron Octigan (cameron octigan), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

HI DERE.

Love Anti Cimex, Mob 47, Avskum etc. You should check out the Varning For Punk compilations if you like this stuff.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, exactly. That's the stuff!

Rattus, Raw Power, Totalitar ... too many good European hardcore bands to list!

― Cameron Octigan (cameron octigan), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Tons of great D-beat stuff if you like grindage. Wolfbrigade!

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 1 January 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah I was gonna say Rattus then remembered they're Finnish!

http://www.7inchpunk.com is a good mp3 blog for this stuff, also has tons of rare Japanese hardcore and various other obscurities. Bit hit and miss, a lot of it is pretty generic, but it's worth trawling through.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

scandihoovian bands looooooooooooved discharge. but then so did swedish metal bands. i guess everyone did, really. but they ran with that shit.

what about the refused? do you like them?

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I met a Swedish guy at ATP a few weeks ago who told me to listen to Refused. Have got as far as downloading The Shape Of Punk To Come but haven't listened to it yet.

There is some great Discharge-rip off stuff from Scandinavia. Seems like Japan took more influence from Chaos UK and Disorder - bands like Confuse really took that style to extremes!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

the easy thing to do is go to a band like huvudtvatt's myspace page, listen to their stuff and then just visit all of their friend's pages like mob 47 and the like :

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=135780633

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

nisses notter were awesome. they were, like, ten years old:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=78421489

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

so, yeah, if you know how to record stuff off of myspace than you could have a 5000 track comp made in a jiffy.

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Rattus is Finnish, it's true.

Raw Power is Italian, too.

I just meant in general, so many good European hardcore bands. Although the Really Fast comps are specifically Swedish.

Wolfbrigade! Good call. BUT. ALSO. Wolfpack. So fucking awesome.

― Cameron Octigan (cameron octigan), Monday, 1 January 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

bump

― Cameron Octigan (cameron octigan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 01:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I LIKE AVSKUM and that's about all i know from swedeland. recrucified by the system is awesome to the point that i'm even curious about the "gothic/metal" stuff they said they did.

― GAWD PVNCH (yournullfame), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 02:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Avskum are so raw on that album, I love it. Never heard their other stuff.

I forgot about Raped Teenagers, that's another great Swedish 80s HC band.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link

DS13 are maybe my favourite Swedish band ever, they need to be bigged up here

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Hah oops yeah I completely forgot about DS13, I was only thinking of 80s bands for some reason! Get No-one Will Thank You When You're Dead and Killed By The Kids and you've got pretty much everything you need by them.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Later-era Refused really only barely sounds like the other bands mentioned here, but good god is that "Shape of Punk..." album awesome.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Tiki Theater Xymposium), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Fantasy is overrated
Conformity's the norm
We're Sunday morning Einsteins
Waiting for Discharge to reform...

― adam beales (pye poudre), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Funeral Oration, suckas!!

― Colin M (All names have been taken), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Refused are not good. Stop believing fucking lies

― jw (ex machina), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Refused were fucking genius. Stop spreading lies.

― Marty (Marty Innerlogic), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Refused were an emo precursor shit rock band on Epitaph (emo in the MTV, half-metal, half-pop sense

indeed, DS-13. fuh sho. although, colonel poo, as much as i agree with you on other things you've said on here ... "Vad Vet Vi Om Kriget?" is an essential DS-13 record as well.

― Cameron Octigan (cameron octigan), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Refused were never pop. Go listen to Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent.

― Marty (Marty Innerlogic), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy New Year:

http://www.derekerdman.com/ilovemilkshakes/march2005/swedish_hardcore/swedish_hardcore.htm

― Derek Erdmander (Derek Erdmander), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 02:58 (seventeen years ago) link

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