Focal Point

Neglected 7"
It's no small secret that I don't like anything about "Christian hardcore" whatsoever, and yet, I loved Focal Point. Before they dropped that great record on Solid State/Tooth and Nail, this 7" came out on Life Sentence in 1996. Good ol heavy 90s hardcore is well represented by the music these guys wrote. It's sad that they went onto such awful bands like Training For Utopia and Demonhunter.
http://www.mediafire.com/?z3eli79dceb27sf

EDIT: Link has been re-upped

Unbroken

Live In Dagenham 7"
I really think/hope that these guys don't need any kind of introduction. The word I always heard about this bootleg was that Rob, Unbroken's bass player, was the one that actually put this out. The 3 tracks on here clearly come from a soundboard recording, and I would love to be able to hear the rest of it.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/lt5pbd

Brother's Keeper - Forever Neverending

Im gonna go on record right here and now...I love the Keeper. Brother's Keeper were always some of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet and Im happy to say that I everytime I see Mike Ski he gives me a big hug and everytime I speak to EMS he always has nothing but positive things to say. These are the people that I am glad to have met through my time spent in the hardcore scene. This shirt was printed for the release of "Forever Never Ending" which is a compilation of early material, B-sides, and comp tracks. I remember seeing someone wearing this on tour when my old band played the Westcott in Syracuse with Brother's Keeper. I got in touch with EMS and asked if they still had any...they didnt but he sent me this from his personal collection (again why I love the guys in Brother's Keeper). Through the years I was able to tour with them, play their CD release show for Fantasy Killer and release a record through SA Mob. I will always love the Keeper and the people who were associated with it.

Motive

A Doctrine Of Scripted Torture 7"
These guys reunited last year, and played a show, but unfortunately I couldn't make it out to it. Motive hailed from Long Island, and impressed me heavily with this first 7". This came out on Exit Records in 1997, and I'd say that Exit was a great label at the time, releasing the likes of Indecision, Sons Of Abraham, Milhouse, Motive and more. Definitely give these mp3s a good spin, because I damn near wore out this record listening to it so much over the years.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jguu3f

Absone / Decontaminate

Absone / Decontaminate 7"
I got a request for this one. Absone play the late 90s style of Euro vegan metalcore, and they do it quite well. I never managed to pick up any of their other stuff, so if you happen to have their mcd in mp3 format, please hit me up! Decontaminate were Dan Gump's band after Excessive Force, but don't expect tons of chug and gang vocals here.
http://www.mediafire.com/?1mthu2mmnmi

Strife - Arms Of The Few

This one came int he mail today. Strife...when they were still straight edge. My favorite part of the whole situation was when they said they were "never a straight edge band". Well my shirt says otherwise...either way, still listen to all their material regularly. This is from the One Truth era and its in pretty good shape...why don't more bands print live pictures on the back of their shirts anymore?

Chokehold - the demos

This Whole World Is An Addiction [demo '91]
This really seems to be the holy grail of Chokehold recordings. I've been after this thing for well 12 years, and in that time, I've only seen two copies. Recently though, I was finally able to acquire one with some money and some old Dead Unknown merch that I had sitting in my basement. This is Chokehold at their earliest, and it's a great listen 17 years later. And in case you don't know, you can simply click on any of these cover images on my blog in order to see/save them at the bigger size that I upload them at.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/46cs7o

More Than Ever [demo '92]
Sure, these tracks appear on the Prison Of Hope cd that Conquer The World put out, but here they are straight from the demo tape source. This definitely marked a much heavier and angrier turn for Chokehold.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/44se8d

Buried Alive - Zero Tolerance Ripoff

Buried Alive is still my favorite Scott Vogel band. This is the "Fighting Irish" design that was a ripoff of the Zero Tolerance design.

Soulstice

Dark Hour 7"

Syracuse, NY sure was a hotbed of vegan straight edge bands in the mid 90s. This 7" from Soulstice easily sits up there with the likes of Earth Crisis, Green Rage and Canon. You know what the 90s had lots of, and that I really miss a lot? Divebombs...yes, FUCKING DIVEBOMBS!!! For the love of everything I hold sacred, someone please bring back divebombs! These guys also put out a full length that I'll probably get around to ripping sometime soon, but in the meantime, enjoy these 3 songs of xvx chug.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ct3zzv

Chokehold - early 7 inches

Some of Chokehold's earliest output:

Life Goes On
Arm's Reach Records
http://www.sendspace.com/file/gdhnpl

Split 7" w/Crisis Of Faith
Grinding Edge Records
http://www.mediafire.com/?om4wdijrmyi