Today's episode is a bit touch and go as we tiptoe around a possibly controversial individual's contribution to violent screechy hardcore - Hamilton, Ontario's very brief blasters EATING GLASS featuring a number of upside down crosses. Also a brief return to Border Boss content as we inhale the deep salinity of Taco Bell's temporary chicken wings.

Today we leverage all the power two aging goblins can muster to pass final judgement on the work of some sweet teens from 1991 just havin' fun in Virginia Beach... the primordial crossover sounds and otherworldly logo of AS IT STANDS plus continuous Cannibal Corpse chat and if you are at all alarmed to see this title in your feed, it's because we finally changed the name and logo from Border Boss, but don't worry we still have bad diets.

Get ready for the new year by eating 7 or 8 pizzas in one day with Mike and after you do that let's discuss what we assume to be the most obscure and diverse metalcore band who also happen to be labelmates with the chainsmokers.

For our jolly holiday episode we do approximately 3 minutes worth of holiday chat then immediately begin to tease apart the muscle fibers and sinew that hold the viscera inside of this record by the band UNIONSUIT, the musical debut of Hydra Head's Aaron Turner and one of many places you could fail to hide from delta blues in 1997. We also talk about Metallica 7 or 8 times, my bad.

This week Mike and I are unexpectedly furious about dumpster diving and dogs on ropes in 2021 like we were kids again as we speak about the furious hardcore onslaught of POSSIBLY CONNECTICUT'S OWN Breed / Extinction and be sure to include the slash or your page won't load. Bonus hate-listen chat, bonus funk-metal chat, you know... like always.

Mike and I get some things off our chest about SPOTIFY and not the stuff you guys are all getting off your chest about SPOTIFY but different stuff... and then we talk about the very first record Hydra Head Records ever put out - the pioneering noisy metalcore of Wichita's VENT.

In this episode we confront time, the perception of time, the lived experience of time, and the consequences of too-short-a-runtime while listening to the perfectly early 2000s emo of Ruined in a Day. And PEOPLE REALLY WIN WITH 17IC because we bonus-review an EP by listener-submitted Quantum Colossus.

This Thanksgiving we decided to wade into some very difficult waters by introducing tremendous politics to the show during our discussion of Milwaukee's brief hardcore rabblerousers HINGE. We also present a vinyl history obscurity that requires more obscure vinyl knowledge than EVEN WE possess.

This episode, Mike and I debate whether a fast hardcore beat could theoretically count as a blast beat while rating the very unique and very limited output of the pre-Battery melodic hardcore band FAR CRY. Bonus chat about listener Todd's band MOMENTS from scenic Canberra, Australia.

In lieu of an episode this week, we recorded you an entire 7". You might literally be the first person to hear this. What's up?

WOPR - THE GOVERNMENT STINKS

WOPR is Mike and Scot

Lyrics:

SHALL WE PLAY A GAME

Guess Whos in Charge

Your Lifes At Risk

Destroy the Mastermind. Destroy the Operation

Connect Four The Government

Stratego The Military

Stratego The Military

Corporate Hungry Hippos

A Monopoly on Existing

Destroy the Dark Tower. Destroy the Candy Land

Connect Four the Government

Stratego The Military

Stratego The Military

GOD & CUNTRY

You put your faith in the cross

the government owns the cross

the government owns your soul

your pray to the cross but the government preys on you.

You put your faith in the church

The church is corporations

the corporations are your god

you pray to your god but corporations prey on you

DRANO THE SYSTEM

The government is a toilet

and the toilet is clogged

its time to flush the system

we need a fast affordable solution

for the government clog

after 15 to 30 minutes

clogs are substantially dissolved

the government is dissolved

VIRAL LOAD

The Government is the virus

There is no cure

The vaccine of freedom

is only a myth

the virus will spread

when the government spreads its legs

a viral load

blasting you in the face

blasting you in the face

blasting you in the face

FERAL GHOULS

in the year 2077

after a millenia of combat

the world plunged into an abyss

of nuclear fire and radiation

prepare for the future

Feral ghouls roam the wasteland

The reavers rule the ruins

the government has crumbled

replaced by a brotherhood of steel

prepare for the future

HERO SQUAD

The military laces its boots

and puts them on your throat

youre licking those boots

sucking on the laces

the toe cap penetrates you

youre thrusting hard on the eyelets

groping an aglet

youre almost finished

and now youre finished