Slugfest - Music To Dance To [demo 1992]

Something tells me that this post isn't really going to need much of an introduction. I've always heard that Slugfest put out three demo tapes during their time together. This post contains a 320k rip of one of them, and I'm always still on the hunt for the other two. I battled lots of tape hiss on this one, and it's still present, but reduced from where it was.

Slugfest - Music To Dance To...

[demo 1992]

https://www.mediafire.com/?avsd5d2er6uh54z/

Despair - 2xLP discography available for pre-order!

Pre-orders for the double LP Despair discography "Four Years Of Decay" will be going live at 3pm est/12pm pst today (3/18/17) through Safe Inside Records. 

Safe Inside has cooked up all kinds of cool stuff to coincide with this release, including shirts/hoodies and the chance to win test presses and original t-shirts with every pre-order.

Check it out over at Safe Inside Records.

And if you haven't heard of Safe Inside yet, they're a new label being operated by two former members of San Diego stalwarts, Built To Last.

Slugfest - Reunion Show 4/26/97 Buffalo, NY

Here's video of Slugfest's full set from their one and only reunion show on 4/26/97 at the Showplace Theater in Buffalo, NY.

flyer from: 94 Feet To Glory

Against All Hope 1993 Self Titled Cassette

 While waiting in line at a local thrash/ death metal show in the winter on 1990, I bought a 7” by local Buffalo, NY hardcore band Against All Hope. I thought it was pretty cool and listened to it quite a bit over the coming months. The following summer of '91, I finally was able to catch them live and they were WAY better than that 7”. The line up I saw at that show had Jay Galvin on bass and Scott Vogel on drums, both of whom were also in Slugfest. Over the next few years, I saw them many, many more times and once their line up solidified they got even better.

In 1993 Against All Hope released my favorite material by them, their Self Titled cassette; they were on the more speedy, melodic side of hardcore, especially for Buffalo, mixing in some Dag Nasty style to their brand of 'core. Long gone were Jay and Scott, but oddly enough both Flipowitz and Tim Patterson from AAH also went on to be in Slugfest. This is a really great demo and includes a cover of Once I Cry by Uniform Choice. 

Against All Hope 1993 Self Titled Cassette 

Despair / Spawn split 7"

This split 7" with Despair and Spawn came out back in 1997, and it features two Despair songs that would later be re-recorded for the Kill EP on Initial Records.

Despair / Spawn split 7"

[Marchthrough Records - 1997]

http://www.mediafire.com/?esrxw4b80u8xet0

I was originally going to rip the Despair / New Day Rising split 7" as well, but the Despair songs are taken directly from the demo recording, and the New Day Rising song can be found on their discography CD that Eulogy put out.

Despair

I'm definitely one of those guys that misses the old days of Scott Vogel bands, so here's a 2fer of Despair, the post Slugfest/pre-Buried Alive band.Demo '95
According to the liner notes, Despair went into the studio and recorded 7 songs in January of 1995. Their 3 favorite songs went to the 7" on Treadwater Records, and the other 4 ended up on this demo tape.
http://www.mediafire.com/?g5888sowkhdjr39

Live & Killing in Europe '97
This tape doesn't give any indication as to the actual date it was recorded, but from listening to it, I've gathered that it was recorded in Hamburg, Germany. There are 10 songs on here of a soundboard quality, including a Judge cover.

http://www.mediafire.com/?q45655a6l4d0an2