“CRYPT OF THE WIZARD are proud to present HEAVY SENTENCE’s highly anticipated debut album, “BANG TO RIGHTS” on vinyl.
Since 2017 HEAVY SENTENCE have been pissing into the eye socket of Heavy Metal’s skeletal past, eating NWOBHM pie-and-chips for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Revving their Motorsickles filled with high octane Motögasoline, this crazed band of miscreants have played raucous live shows across the UK and Europe, remembered by all who attend – except the lads themselves. After two legendary 7”s, at last the debut album BANG TO RIGHTS is ready… just in time to serenade the world as it spins off its axis. These ten tracks are non stop bangers, a blazing Heavy Metal assault destined to be spray painted onto the crumbling walls of history. With shitty sticks HEAVY SENTENCE prod at the flatulent corpses of Thin Lizzy, Demon, Saxon, Heavy Load and Omen, and then kick them with a pair of METALPUNK bovver boots.
A HEAVY SENTENCE is coming your way… ‘Cos you are BANG TO RIGHTS!”
“Denny and Josh from Seattle’s beloved pop-punk band Sicko, along with Julie D from Guest Directors/Chinchilla/etc, with some energetic power pop songs about aging, wasting time, the environment, political bs, and one really fun cover song.“
Mastered at NLBF: Swell Maps “Securicore” on Rather Records / Sounds on Paper.
Released February, 2022
“First-ever official biography of Swell Maps, “Swell Maps 1972-1980” penned by band member and co-founder Jowe Head. Swell Maps were formed in Jowe’s home town of Solihull, England with various school friends in 1972.
The group, also featuring the late Nikki Sudden and Nikki’s brother, the late Epic Soundtracks, along with Phones Sportsman, John Cockrill, and Richard Earl emerged in the late 1970s, and are now known as legendary pioneers of what is now referred to as “alternative rock” or “post-punk” with their blend of punk rock mixed with experimental and psychedelic sounds.
Together they released four 7” singles, the first in 1977 on their own Rather Records and two critically acclaimed albums in a brief but dramatic career, that led to them topping the UK independent charts, and influencing bands such as Sonic Youth, Nirvana, and Blur.
After Swell Maps broke up in 1980, Jowe joined the Television Personalities. Ten years with the TVPs saw Jowe making more influential records, touring Europe regularly, and playing in Japan and the USA.
Today he still regularly releases recordings, solo and with multiple groups, and is the steward of the Swell Maps legacy. In this 155-page biography of the band, Jowe takes us to each members’ formative years and reveals what made them experiment with challenging music and eventually come together to form Swell Maps.
Through his own recollections and utilizing interviews with former members, he explores the early days of the band, and details stories that bring the reader into the inner workings of the band as they traveled through the late 70s cultural scene in Europe. The last section of the book updates the whereabouts of all the key players.
The book includes dozens of full-colour images of band memorabilia from the author’s personal collection, including photos, posters, flyers, artwork, original lyrics, and more. Additionally, a 7” vinyl single is included that features tracks never before released anywhere.
“The first Swell Maps single I bought still to this day gives me a soul scorched buzz’n’rush….The Swell Maps had a lot to do with my upbringing.”—Thurston Moore
“Jowe Head spent time in two of the UK’s coolest underground bands: Swell Maps and Television Personalities…a lovably skewed indie-pop tunesmith.” —Time Out New York
·Contains 7” with six exclusive never-before-released tracks culled from the band and solo member archives.
Tracklisting: 1. *Securicore 2. *Come Upstairs and See My Chemistry Set 3. *Harmony In Your Bathroom 4. **Double Dose 5. ***Elegia part 1 6. ****Votive Offering
*These 3 tracks were edited from a 1977 demo session. Two of the songs have never been released before in any form. **Double Dose – is a 1979 radio jingle, the master tape recently rediscovered ***Elegia part 1 – is an out-take from “Jane From Occupied Europe ” studio sessions. ****Votive Offering – is an experimental home-recording”
Mastered at NLBF: The Disturbed “We Are The Disturbed” on Mad Butcher Classics and Bomb-All Records.
Released: Dec 23, 2021
“The Disturbed were a ripping charged punk band out of Scotland in the mid to late 1980s. Featuring Harvey McGurn, who had fronted one of Scotland’s best UK82 exports in Last Rites, there’s still a huge UK82 sound within the Disturbed’s sound. The lineup was rounded out by several members who would go on to play in some of the most influential Scottish crust bands of the 1990s including Scatha and Sedition. In a lot of ways, the Disturbed can be viewed as a precursor to that scene, although musically there’s only slight hints of the thick crust that was to come. This is a really well done reissue on Bomb All Records out of Germany, and we are pleased to be stocking it..“
“Illegal Leather- Raw Meat LP. Illegal Leather are fronted by the one and only Marco Palumbo AKA Terminal Gagger, lead screamer of the seminal UK punk band the Gaggers. And his uncharacteristic vocals are so immediately recognizable on Illegal Leather’s debut full length ‘Raw Meat’. Marco goes back to his roots, here, playing a similar ferocious hybrid of the guitars gnashing, lewd ‘n crude Punk Rock filth that made the Gaggers such a household name over a decade ago. With slashing guitars, throbbing bass and Marco’s caustic sneering vocals, Terminal Gagger’s vile, apathetic lyrics show his vitriolic silver tongue hasn’t waned with age. Illegal Leather’s muscular melodies and alluringly creative song writing are instantly catchy, and there’s more than enough vocal spit in the mix to satisfy any fans of Marcos previous bands including the Gaggers, Miscalculations, Disco Lepers and La Rabbia. ‘Raw Meat’ delivers a dozen oozing cuts of supercharged, menacing, bulldozer Punk that’s equal parts attitude, aggression and electricity with loud, blaring guitars driven by one of the crudest guitar tones I’ve heard in years. A fantastic slab of totally fucked Punk Rock that’ll sidle up nicely next to your Pagans, Reatards, Electric Eels and Spits records with eye-popping artwork by Terminal Gagger himself. A misanthropic masterpiece from London’s finest including a handy pull-out, lyrics sheet insert to boot.“
“Hot Liqs” is a total god-send. Sixteen new Liquids recordings, making a return to approximately 75% of their songs that have found their way onto cassettes in the past, along with what I believe to be a completely new instrumental, “Howdy”. By now, everybody is already way past-familiar with the Liquid’s splendor, but be prepared to be impressed even further with the majority of these recordings. A number of these tracks have such radical changes that can instantly revitalize year-old material. “Sick Shit”, “Dumb as Fuck”, and “Heart Beats True” are the first few songs with significant changes that come to mind, but a number of other tracks follow suit by further embellishing the already brilliant music through additional chords and hot, hot licks. The Liquids has never sounded so fresh before. It may only have one new song, but this is easily my most favorite Liquids release, hands down. So many gems make a much welcome return, like “I Killed Donald Trump” (now stylized as “I Killed D.T.) and “Permission Slip”. Hell, “Dumb as Fuck” only appeared on their “Live at Mat’s House” cassette, meaning this is the song’s first real appearance on a stand-alone release, as far as I can tell. I think it goes without saying about how good this release is, it’ll be sure to woo anyone who considers themselves a Liquids fan.”
“Put Ears on Yourself is the first in a new 7” single series curated by Art For Blind Records. Each 7” will feature 4 bands from Ireland and the UK and will be housed in a series of limited edition screen printed sleeves designed by emerging artists, designers and illustrators.
The first volume features UK artists Trust Fund, Milk Crimes and Lower Slaughter along with Dublin based garage punk band Sissy. The records are housed in covers designed by Leigh Arthur, Charolotte Ager, Rebecca Bronya, Sinead Young and Edel Doherty and were handprinted in County Leitrim by Pulled.
Trust Fund offer up the track “Splitter”. The track is a lo fi melodic soundtrack to long journeys and features record-mates Milk Crimes on backing vocals.
Trust Fund’s Ellis says of the track: “Splitter was mostly recorded in 2014 — I played guitar and drums, and Stefano played the bass which is why it’s extra fresh. It was going to be the b-side of ‘Cut me out’, but then I guess that song never came out as a single. Then in 2016 the band Milk Crimes came down to my basement and laid some sweet harmonies over it. Ellie left her reduced-price fake meats in our freezer and I was super excited but then they remembered and came back for them and that was a bad time for me. The song is about the ‘splitter’ adapter which means that two or more people can listen to music from one headphone jack. It could be argued that the song is therefore also concerned with the role of technology in mediating human intimacy. It has a sick guitar solo.”
Elsewhere on the 7″, “I’ll be Back Soon” is Leeds based punks Milk Crimes first outing on vinyl after an exciting demo released on cassette by Chunk in early 2016. The song is a promising glimpse of their forthcoming debut album in late 2017.
Dublin/London based Sissy contribute the track “Nice Guy” to the compilation, which is a deliciously snarling piece of garage punk taking aim at those fucking nice guys and is the perfect follow up the bands recent self released 7”.
Rounding off the record is Lower Slaughter’s “Tied Down”. The result is a sound which brilliantly shows the most of Sinead’s very different vocal style and maintains the ingenuity and experimentation which make the band such a breath of fresh air.”
“The unmistakable voice of Rankin’ Roger has returned to the 7″ format, and come back with another classic BEAT single to follow on all those Two-Tone and Go Feet classics: Mirror in The Bathroom, Too Nice To Talk Too, Tears Of A Clown and Stand Down Margaret cemented The Beat at the top of the UK reggae tree along with UB40. A soundtrack to a generation of skanking youth, The Beat are back with a new album due in September called “Bounce” and this is the first single to be taken from it. Backed with a non-album exclusive b-side “On The Road” get ready to get those knees in the air again!”
“Gut drei Jahre nach “Aufschwung” gibt’s ab dem 11.11.2016 endlich den Nachfolger “Anwohner raus!”. Wie gewohnt kommt die Platte mit der patenten Laufzeit von gut 44 Minuten verteilt auf 15 Songs daher. Soviel Mucke passt gerade noch auf eine Vinylscheibe, von der es direkt von den Labels auch eine auf 200 Stück limitierte Edition mit farbigem Plastik und Siebdruckhülle geben wird. Für die 90s Kids gibt’s CDs und für die Millenials beizeiten auch noch alles in digital für umme von Bandcamp.”
