***BACK IN STOCK!!! PURE HELL's Noise Addiction was recorded in 1978 and remained unreleased until 2006, quickly going out of print. Back in print with updated cover art. A long lost and forgotten slice of first wave American punk. The album is a tour de force of fierce rocking punk n roll with amazing guitar ferocity and slamming rhythms. At times it almost borders on proto-hardcore, it's easy to hear why a band like the Bad Brains would cite them as an influence and why this essential album lives up to the hype and while they may be described as America's first black punk band we feel this is one of America's best first punk albums. Pure Hell started out on the streets of Philadelphia in 1974 known as a PRETTY POISON, a fierce rock n roll band that played louder and faster than anyone in town inspired by the likes of the Stones, Iggy, Bowie, Alice Cooper and Hendrix. After reading about the Rock n Roll goings on in the Big Apple in pages of Rock Scene and Cream magazine. Sometime in 1975 they decided to move to New York City. Once they settled into the infamous Chelsea Hotel, they become friends with the New York Dolls and started playing around at all the hot clubs such as Max’s Kansas City and Mother’s. All the while becoming one of the hottest and best live bands in the burgeoning NYC Punk scene. While on a 1978 UK Tour they released...
LP $24.45
07/08/2022
RSD 2017 - STILL AVAILABLE!!!In The Red and 2.13.61 are proud to announce this co-release for Record Store Day 2017! Pure Hell – The 1975 Acetate Side A - Wild One Side B - Courageous Cat Recorded at Magnagraphics Enterprise Studio NYC 1975 Kenny "Stinker" Gordon - Vocals + bass on Wild One Michael "Spider" Sanders - Percussion. Preston "Chipper" Morris - Guitars Lenny "Steal" Boles - Bass These tracks are two of six that were recorded in the session. The other titles are Pretty Poison, I'm Crawling, Rot in the Doghouse and Cosmic Love. The session was cut onto three two song acetates, in the A and B side order above. This single is the audio carefully transferred from the actual acetate, the only one we have been able to find so far. I have loved this band for nearly 40 years. The chance to team up with Kenny, Larry and Mike to bring this to you is beyond exciting. Long live Pure Hell. – Henry Rollins At the time we were unaware that a whole new trend to be coined 'Punk Rock' would evolve as it did. I'm amazed that this acetate resurfaced after being lost along with the other two, and that Henry, and Larry at In The Red Records would be the ones to illuminate it in the 21st century! - Kenny Gordon
7" $9.75
04/22/2017