***Eight new destructive Tracks from Tokyo’s CROW, featuring five classic blasts of crushing metallic hardcore with harsh vocals and searing guitar solos, framed by bursts of noise-driven experimentation and end capped by a “Hi-tone” vocal version of the title track. Eye is Crow's first new recording in twelve years. Crow’s origins are in the legendary mid-1980s golden era of Japanese punk, formed in Osaka with an intense influence of guitar driven UK hardcore. They released two seminal Japanese punk records, Who Killed Dove? EP and Last Chaos LP, before going dormant at the end of the 80s. Lead Vocalist CROW reorganized the band in the mid 1990s in Tokyo with new members including guitarist TOMIO from JUNTESS. Tomio's playing added a heavier weight to the band’s sound as their sound became a synthesis of their original Discharge-influenced attack and metallic crust hardcore. The band released several EPs, the classic Bloody Tear album, and toured the West Coast three times. Eye touches on aspects of the band's often experimental 7" EP releases, but is grounded by their classic brutal hardcore sound. Recorded at Noise Room Studios in Tokyo in 2022, mastered for vinyl by DIETRICH SCHOENEMANN at Complete mastering, It Comes with an 11” x 17” insert in a 24 Pt. Board jacket designed by lead vocalist, Crow and was pressed at RTI.
12" $21.95
09/29/2023
***Crow "Who Killed Dove?" was originally issued in Japan on the band's own Crow Records in 1985 and was the Osaka band's first release. Four raw blasts with the rumbling immediacy of classic early UK hardcore delivered with some of the inventive craftsmanship that would come to define Japanese hardcore. Searing guitar drops, walloping bass, crashing cymbals and scowling harsh vocals, The title track is one of the band's signature anthems and this landmark EP is one of those defining cornerstones of 1980s Japanese hardcore. This is the first official issue since the EP's original release. Remastered in 2020 by Anne-Marie Suenram in Berkeley. Comes packaged in an exact replica of the original fold out poster sleeve with a die cut sticker.
7" $9.75
01/06/2023