***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
***Paintbox's Earthball Sports Tournament LP was the Tokyo band's second album, issued in 2000 on CD-only on the Legendary HG FACT label. Remarkable in that guitarist Chelsea, formerly of DEATHSIDE, completed the creative song writing for these 14 tracks shortly after their debut album Singing Shouting Crying. This is one of Paintbox's most aggressive hardcore records, but still featuring their masterful musicianship, catchy song writing, Vocalist Mune ( ex- SCREAMING HOG) intense growling vocals and underlinings of the expansive influences that would later propel their final album Trip Trance & Travelling. Prank reissued this album in 2008 and it sold out near immediately, and we're proud to finally reissue the album in a deluxe limited edition, pressed from the original metal work but re-plated and Pressed at RTI for better fidelity, with two color labels and an a heavy weight tip-on Gatefold sleeve. Includes a die cut paintbox sticker and insert.
LP $21.95
08/25/2023
***Sweden’s Legendary D-Beat Band AVSKUM return with their first new album since 2008, En Annan Värld Ar Möjlig (Another World Is Possible). Their fifth album has 17 new tracks of rage-filled D-beat hardcore supporting Indigenous rights, self-determination and attacking Fascism, Militarism, Misogyny and political corruption. Avskum’s sound has it’s roots in their 1982 origins at the earliest stages of Swedish hardcore punk, with harshly screamed vocals and quick blasting songs, underlined over the ensuing decades by a rock driven heaviness with searing guitar solos, thundering bass lines and rampaging drum attack. Recorded by KENKO at Communichaos Studios, the album features guest vocals from TOMPA from AT THE GATES & DISFEAR, TB from ASOCIAL & UNCURBED, and MATTIS from MAKABERT FYND. With two stunning cover illustrations by JORAN BARLOW to hammer home their vision of empowerment and resistance.. Avskum will tour the U.S. Midwest and the West Coast in September 2023 with Resistant Culture. No Export to Europe.
LP $19.15
07/21/2023
MP3 $9.90
07/21/2023
FLAC $11.99
07/21/2023
***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
***BACK IN PRINT!!! Rampaging D-beat hardcore punk, Stockholm’s TOTALITÄR are one of the longest running and most renowned classic Swedish hardcore bands from the 1980’s, with almost twenty releases since their beginnings in 1985. Respected for their challenging political lyrics, Integrity and continual inventive spins on a brutal and straightforward formula of rock-driven, blasting hardcore. After a series of Farewell shows in Sweden and in the U.S. in 2003, TOTALITÄR decided to do one final recording and album- Vi Ar Eliten (We are the Elite) which features seventeen rock-hard tracks. A combustive steamroller of their trademark desperate angry vocals, pounding rhythm section and searing guitar leads, their third full length album is one of their finest. Mastered at Fantasy Studios. This repress is true to the original pressing, 1500 Pressed at RTI on Red, Orange or white vinyl from the original Plates mastered in 2007 by George Horn. Packaged in heavy weight Stoughton gatefold tip-on Sleeves.
LP $22.50
09/09/2022
***Originally released in 1994 by Photographer Murray Bowles and Filth Bassist Lenny Johnson’s collaborative East Bay Menace label, this split combined two of New Mexico’s fiercest hardcore bands on one split LP. East Bay Transplants from Santa Fe, New Mexico GRIMPLE’s sound had become more harsh, caustic and acidic, retaining strong songwriting of their debut LP but shedding some of their pop sensibilities for quick metallic riffing. Their brother band, Santa Fe’s LOGICAL NONSENSE had also begun to leans heavier, creatively arranged songs which front harsh guttural vocals and brutal crushing riffs pointing to the sound of their raging follow up LP’s on Alternative Tentacles, and their influences of Extreme Noise Terror, Naplam Death and Neurosis. This album has not been repressed since it’s original pressing in 1994. It was been remixed by NOAH LANDIS from Neurosis / Christ On Parade and re-mastered by BOB WESTON at Chicago Mastering Service. The packaging is true to the original but has been painstakingly recreated with slight upgrades, including a new 11x22” insert with band photos and lyrics. The CD version features a 16-page booklet.
LP $19.50
05/13/2022
CD $11.00
05/13/2022
***BACK IN PRINT AGAIN!!! The latest in a series of reissues of Oakland-via-New Mexico hardcore attackers GRIMPLE's 1993 Up Your Ass album. A vicious mesh of top-notch melodic punk and sing-along flavors with extremely caustic thrash hardcore sounds cut from the original plates.
LP $18.50
11/12/2021
CD $10.00
11/12/2021
***REISSUED!!! Sweden’s TOTALITÄR originated from small town Hudiksvall in the mid-'80s silver age of Swedish Hardcore punk, releasing a few EPs and touring the UK before disbanding in 1990. In 1994 the band reunited with new drummer, JALLO from NO SECURITY, to record what is arguably one of the best Swedish hardcore punk albums ever made, Sin Egen Motstandare “One’s own enemy”. Like any great punk record, it’s a stark reaction to the world around them with poignant, relevant lyrics but served as marker for the elevation to what would become Totalitär's trademark sound—quick, raging blasts of riveting d-beat hardcore drawing influence from classic Discharge and early Swedish hardcore, but distilled to remarkable, catchy simplicity that masked incredible ingenuity within it’s straight forward template. Their prolific recording saw them record another two LPs, two split LPs, ten 7-inch EPs and split EPs, until a final live performance in 2003 at Pointless fest in Philadelphia saw the members dispersed to play in too many bands to count: MEANWHILE, DISSEKERAD, KRIG I HUDIK, INSTITUTION, KRIGSHOT, MAKABERT FYND, KATASTROF, KRIGSHOT, KVOTERINGEN, HUMANT BLOD and more. Originally released as a CD-only release on the Finn Record label, Sin Egen Motståndare was originally released on vinyl by Prank in 1997 and again in a remastered version in 2003. This edition is from the original 2003 metal work but pressed at RTI and presented in a stoughton tip-on sleeve with insert. Both the music and the message remain a vital inspiration, who’s influence has only grown...
LP $17.75
05/21/2021
CD $9.75
09/18/2020
***A remastered reissue of the second blazing album from eighteen-year blasting Swedish hardcore favorites TOTALITAR. Classic Second LP, NiMåste Bort! translates loosely to "You've gotta go!", Totalitar mark racist, sexist and capitalist modes of thought, dysfunctional politicians and useless media, cynicism and the dull mechanical wearing on people's lives on the "To go" list! A frenzied wall of guitar driven thrash with gutteral shouts and pulverizing drums, Totalitar's sound was cut from the influence of classic D-beat and Swedish hardcore, but with time has become one of the genre's cornerstones. Ni Måste Bort! was originally released on Sweden's FINN records label in the mid 1990s, and reissued originally by Prank in the early 2000s. Repressed for the first time in almost two decades, from the original mother plates brightened with new metal plating and pressing at RTI. The re-imagined cover art by John Yates of Stealworks (Allied Records, Punchline magazine) has been augmented with Metallic ink printing on a Stoughton Tip On Sleeve.
LP $17.75
05/21/2021
CD $9.75
05/21/2021
***BACK IN PRINT!!! The infamous split EP from two of the longest-running thermonuclear hardcore groups on the planet. Providence, Rhode Island's furious political scorchers DROPDEAD unleash six tracks of their most savage material to date, while Sweden's uncompromising TOTALITAR torches three tracks of garagey, Discharge-esque blastdown. New edition of 625 copies on colored vinyl.
CD $3.50
06/20/2005
7" $6.30
09/18/2020
***BACK IN STOCK!!! LIFE'S BLOOD were a legendary short lived band from New York City. Formed in 1987, The band played 20 shows and recorded two radio shows, a demo at Don Fury, one 7-inch, "Defiance," released on Combined Effort Records and appeared on the seminal New Breed tape comp in 1988. In these short 14 months as a band they left an indelible mark on the history of hardcore punk, as their sharp, earnest, and challenging lyrics backed with remarkably sturdy, dissonant and distorted hardcore songs emerged at a time where the focus of underground hardcore had been blurred by commercialism, crossover and violence. Hardcore A.D. 1988 collects 27 songs from their Defiance EP, demo tape, compilation tracks, their posthumous split EP with Sticks And Stones, WFMU and WNYU recordings and live tracks, Members went on to play in BORN AGAINST, MENACE DEMENT, SINKING BODY, MEN'S RECOVERY PROJECT COLLAPSE and MY RIFLE. Features new liner notes from guitarist ADAM NATHANSON, extensive band notes compiled by bassist NEIL BURKE and a ton of photos and flyers. The LP comes in a Stoughton tip-on gatefold with a 11x22" insert and download card. The CD version comes with a 16 page booklet.
LP $17.75
05/12/2017
CD $11.25
05/12/2017
MC $7.00
05/12/2017
***Devastation In The Void Is the legendary Sapporo Japan's band's seventh album, an 11-song destructive mix of pummeling Japanese hardcore, pounding New York hardcore breakdowns and metallic thrashing with political lyrics. A more direct album than their previous Prank Releases, it's still sunk deep with heavy riffage, hard vocal attack and crushing rhythms. Comes in a thick sleeve with a 11"x22" color insert with lyrics in Japanese and English. First pressing limited to 512 copies.
LP $14.50
05/27/2016
***Blasting urgency with the song-driven edge of early ‘80s so-cal hardcore mixed at top speed with the brash edges of ‘90s East Bay punk, this second EP on Prank by Oakland's REPLICA features six tracks of powerful hardcore underlined with undeniable catchiness. Fueled by lighting-quick drumming, pummeling bass lines, ripping riffs, and snarling vocals, Beast EP was recorded at the end of the tour they did last year with Japan's Completed Exposition and it features songs that have long been staples of the band's live set. The EP was recorded at Earhammer by GREG WILKINSON and features a deluxe cover with multiple illustrations by local artist JON CARLING. Replica will tour the East Coast in late June / early July.
7" $6.75
07/08/2014
***Sapporo, Japan's SLANG’s sixth LP may be the most definitive expressions of the bands long journey as part of and evolution within the history of Japanese hardcore. Starting in the late 1980s as a classic sounding Japanese hardcore band, Slang’s sound became heavily influenced in the 1990s by NYHC like Agnostic Front, Madball and slower breakdowns as a means for impact, In the 2000s the band embraced more metallic influences and slowly began to seam all of it together,: the tough, growling vocals, the slow, crushing breakdowns, raging guitar leads, lightening fast hardcore charge. Their previous two albums The Immortal Sin and Life Made Me Hardcore began the road to this, but Glory Outshines Doom goes to another level of combining all these elements to create an intense, dark, completely and totally brutal record, crashing barriers between punk, metal and hardcore. Issued on CD by Pizza Of Death, this is its first appearance on vinyl and comes in a heavy weight sleeve with full color inner sleeve and labels.
LP $12.00
11/12/2013
***The debut 7" EP From the San Francisco Bay Area's REPLICA is fueled by searing guitar, fast blasting drum beats, sturdy tough bass lines and brash, raw vocals. Five tracks that thread many different hardcore influences and sounds—from the metallic thrash and high energy of current Brazillian hardcore to a raw straight forward punk attack like early LA proto-hardcore or East Bay punk to the wild unpredictability of ‘90s thrash, to make a unique whole. Members from DUCK AND COVER, INFECT, and NO STATIK, these tracks were recorded in 2012 at The Dutch Oven by CRAIGUMS and mastered at George Horn Mastering. Replica are a scene constant in Bay Area and will appear at this Year's Chaos in Tejas festival. Thick vinyl, foldover sleeve and first press comes with a vinyl sticker.
7" $6.30
04/23/2013
***A chaotic swirl blasting at extreme velocity, the San Francisco Bay Area's NO STATIK's debut 10-song LP is a torrent of rapid fire drum attack, searing guitar leads and harsh vocals. No Statik’s sound draws from the fast, chaotic hardcore sound of the 1990s as the band's long pedigree maps DIY hardcore scene of the last two decades—members previously played in SCROTUM GRINDER, MOMENTO MORI, IMPETUS INTER, LOOK BACK AND LAUGH, DESTROY!, ARTIMUS PYLE, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?, END OF THE CENTURY PARTY, MURDER SUICIDE-PACT, JUD JUD, FUCKFACE, CONQUEST FOR DEATH, and SCHOLASTIC DETH—but combines diverse elements of all those past, present and future sounds to ignite another level of sonic mayhem. Bleak lyrics frame this outing, as the single track A-side has the band again experimenting with ambient near horror movie soundtrack type eerieness. Recorded at Earhammer and Mastered by GEORGE HORN.
LP $12.00
08/07/2012
***Explosive hardcore from Nagoya, Japan REALITY CRISIS take harsh dual vocals that scream, shout, and powerfully punch atop bombastic hardcore, fuel it with titanic pounding build-ups and blast everything into raging hardcore songs that strike an intensely pointed balance between straight forward thrashing and a descent into noisy chaos. This new LP features re-recordings of older tracks from the band's various deleted EPs and compilation tracks, completely re-recorded and remastered by the band's current line up. Their third domestic US Release in addition to an appearance on Prank's US press of the Nagoya City Hardcore compilation LP, Reality Crisis will return to the US for their second time and first appearance at Austin's Chaos in Tejas Festival this May. Split release with Japan's MCR label.
LP $11.00
07/31/2012
***THE BORN UGLYS is a new band from GREG VALENCIA, guitarist and sometimes vocalist in GRIMPLE, ELDOPA1332 and WATCH THEM DIE and returns to the melodic roots of early ‘90s New Mexico Hardcore like early Grimple, the earliest, melodic Logical Nonsense recordings or the punkier moments of the classic early ‘90s Lookout catalog like Filth, Crimpshrine or Blatz. JASON NIPPLES from CROSS STITCHED EYES, THE ENEMYS and ALARIC Joins on drums and DUTCH From Prank's wildest new Mexico Export, WORD SALAD joins on bass, so there's still an abrasive blasting hardcore edge and a searing solo or three. Four tracks, including a cover of an unreleased Logical Nonsense track. First pressing of 380 copies on red vinyl.
7" $4.50
02/28/2012
***Raging hardcore from the SF Bay area, NO STATIK's Debut 12-inch takes a straight forward ‘80s hardcore charge and detonates it with bursts of chaotic ‘90s hardcore rapid fire drumming, leaving guitar leads to sear and squeal out of the chaos as brutal vocals dredged in nailed-down dark, pointed lyrics. Six inventive blasts of thick, stop, start and rampage are on the A-side and the B-side is the title track, an experimental track that weaves the band's hardcore attack in and out of an ambient and rhythmic soundscape. Vocalist RUBY was previously in MOMENTO MORI and SCROTUM GRINDER. Guitarist MARK was in LOOK BACK AND LAUGH and DESTROY!. Drummer B was in SCHOLASTIC DETH and END OF THE CENTURY PARTY. Bassist ROBERT was in ARTIMUS PYLE, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? and is in CONQUEST FOR DEATH. The band previously released a debut 7-inch on Iron Lung, which sold through two pressings in a matter of weeks.
12" $11.00
02/15/2011
***The Bay Area's DESOLATION return! Blasting metallic hardcore fusing the melodic influence of Japanese "Burning Spirits" hardcore with straight forward attack of US thrash and the dark tone of European Crust. Desolation went on hiatus shortly after their self-tilted prank debut LP of 2005, but return with a new vocalist and three new tracks. Fusing influences of the members previous and current bands-BORN/DEAD, ABRUPT, STRUNG UP, SCURVY DOGS with a marked inspiration from Japanese hardcore with relentless upbeat energy and searing leads, these are the fastest Desolation tracks yet, but still retain the complex song writing and bleak feel of their previous releases. Cover features new artwork by Japanese artist SUGI.
7" $4.90
04/13/2010
***REISSUED ON VINYL!!! Thirteen tracks recorded live on CHRIST ON PARADE’ 2007 West Coast tour on KFJC radio, this represents the set the "all original members" band played on both their West coast and European tours featuring classic tracks from all eras of the band, with original vocalist BARRIE picking up some of the second vocal duties of the later material. It was remixed from it's original broadcast, mastered by George Horn Mastering and comes complete with an "Evil Live" styled record jacket and insert. The band’s reunions, including a recent successful one of Japan, have been marked by dedication to presenting the band as they are and were—the equipment and the sound, attack and intent are not falsely "updated" or "modernized," and while this record does peek through a lighter side of the band in between tracks, it's very true to their original records and will stoke out both old and new fans. New clear vinyl pressing. On Tour Now!!!
LP $10.50
11/02/2009
CD $11.25
11/02/2009