Povertybomb - "Cove Strife"

Here is the first full length from Povertybomb. They hail from Kingsport and surrounding areas of Northeast Tennessee, and they play detuned, abrasive, heavy, and blackened d-beat. Features members of The Scams, D.R.M., The Business Machines, and more fuckin' bands than i can think of now. This cd is raw as fuck. You can visit their facebook and they also have a bandcamp page where you can order this directly from them on cd or cassette (the cassette killed my car speakers haha). Raging, ferocious crust that could only come from the mountains of Northeast Tennessee.

Thanks A Billion, Eastman

Nerve Endings - "Living Minimally"

I am making up for four years of lost time tonight. Here is the first full length from Bristol TN/VA's own Nerve Endings. Comparisons can be made to such bands as Black Flag, The Jesus Lizard, etc, but that would be missing the point. The point is is that these guys fucking rule. They put on great live shows, this cd kills, and they are terrific guys to boot. I love this cd, and i hope that you all enjoy it too. Check out their facebook page and grab a copy of this for yourself, and if they play around where you live, make sure you go see them. They MIGHT play some Black Flag covers if you're lucky, and even if they don't, you'll still be lucky that you got to see such a damn good band.

Nerve Endings - Living Minimally

Yog Sothoth - "Mythos Warfare"

Here is my band's first full length cd (which is available from us directly or through our facebook). It was recorded in the summer of 2015 and mixed throughout the cold northeast Tennessee winter of '15-'16. We're pretty proud of it. Those of you who listened to the early demos will find the production quality is better, but it is still violent black metal punk.

Yog Sothoth - "Mythos Warfare"

Manic Scum - "Better Left Undead"

From the hills and polluted industrial wastelands of northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia comes the debut ep from Manic Scum. Stalwart watchers of this blog may recall hearing these songs before, and you would be right. Manic Scum was started by Alex Depew and Neal Williams, who both were in Mental Shock with Dave Killebrew and myself, where these songs originated. Truth be told, the songs "Blood Junkies", and "Haunt Of Fear" were both written by me, and I also wrote the music to "Entombed For Eternity". The songs pretty much are the same as the older, very grimly produced (ok, no production at all) versions, which can be found here. If you already enjoy the Mental Shock versions of these songs, however, you will find subtle little changes in the executions of riffs, drum patterns, etc, and as a collaborator on these songs I have to admit that these versions are THE representations of how sick the M.S. stuff could have been. The recording is very brutal, everything is in your face and waiting to rip it off.  Fans of bands like Repulsion, Napalm Death, Autopsy, and most grind/death freaks will find something to like in these 11 and a half minutes.

Give Them Lead!

Mannequin Hollowcaust - "Over Her Dead Body"

Mannequin Hollowcaust is my good friend Patrik, who has been involved in various local musical endeavors over the years, and this tape is a short little two song excursion into his world: noise, cults, serial killers, and just plain scariness. Track one is the title track, and it was recorded on July 27th, 2010, on the grave of Lizzie Borden, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Track two was recorded live in Blacksburg, Virginia, during the same tour. Patrik has been gigging under the M.H. moniker for a while now and sometimes I don't think he gets enough respect and credit where credit is due, but the dude is a staple of whatever little "scene" this area may have, and I intend to give him props. This tape was released by his own tape label, Head Destroyer Tapes. Hopefully sometime soon he will bequeath me a motherload of M.H. and other stuff, which I will then gladly share with you. If you are interested in older bands he was associated with, go here, as both bands in that post feature Patrik. If you like what you hear I'm sure he wouldn't mind you letting him know, and his contact info is included in the .rar file.

Mannequin Hollowcaust - "Over Her Dead Body"

Desolate Anguish - "Trainwreck Sessions" Demo

Here is a six song demo from Desolate Anguish, a two piece black/doom/punk band from Knoxville. These dudes played with my band Hex Hammer last night in Johnson City, and I thought they were great. This is six tracks of primitive, dirgy, punk influenced black doom metal that (in my mind) brought comparisons to Hellhammer and early Graveland (without the NSBM connotations). These guys ripped it up last night. This is raw, nasty, grimy, filthy, repugnant, with no pretense of production, just hateful scraping guitar, torn throat vocals, and very punk drumming. I think it fucking rules. If these guys play around yr area, make sure to check them out. Visit their website and ask for a copy of this cd demo, they give them away for free.

Desolate Anguish - "Trainwreck Sessions" Demo

The Malignmen - "Southgate Sessions" 7"

Here is the second 7" from Knoxville's own Malignmen (first one is here), released by themselves on Plague Records, and as I remember available only to members of their mailing list. I have no clue how many of these were pressed or anything. A reader of this blog in the early days of the Northeast Tennessee Punk and Metal Archives sent me this record, since my copy of it (originally bought through the mailing list) was long gone. It was recorded by the band with a "borrowed four track in their practice space" and according to them, "this record's got balls"...whether or not that's true is up to the listener. I like it, the songs "Villain" and "The Closest Encounter" being the standouts. Once again, not the best rip in the world, but I can't find this anywhere else online.

The Malignmen - "Southgate Sessions" 7"

Fucked Over - 2011 Demo

Here are some raw as fuck punk songs that I recorded at various times, by myself. I used a portable tape deck to record the drums, then played that tape through a stereo, then recorded the guitar and vocals over the drums onto another tape. I just had some songs in me that I had to get out and no band to use them for. Nobody wants to play punk rock in this town, I think it's true. Anyways, there is twelve songs in under 14 minutes, influenced by bands like Death Side, B.G.K., Anti-Cimex, Discharge, Impact, and others, and intentionally raw, noisy, and fucked up sounding. I'm happy with how it turned out, and I hope you like it too. This was recorded on tape and converted to mp3....I have no copies of this tape available yet. If you would like a copy of it, just put it on a cd and boom, you've got a copy.

Fucked Over - 2011 Demo

Austin Vomit - Various Compilation 2000 -2010

Here are 31 tracks recorded by my friend, the late Austin Goins, and various friends and bands he had played with over the past 10 years. I'm putting this up as a memorial to him and his talent. No one wrote perverted pop punk tracks like he did. Up above is his hand written track list that he made when he was over here at my house, the last time I saw him alive. tracks 1-13 are the last tracks he recorded with his band Death Adder Day Care.

I miss you, brother.

austin and me in simpler times.........

Various Austin Vomit Compilation

The Skudz - "Think For Yrself"

In the mid 90's, Knoxville, Tennessee, a scant 90 minutes away from where I live, was a hotbed of punk rock bands. There were The Malignmen, who's first 7" was posted here, there was K.P.D. (and if anyone out there has any of their recordings, if there are any, please let me know!!), and there were these guys, probably my favorite of the bunch, even though I never got to see them while they were around, and only upon moving to Knoxville in 2000 did I hear this record. This record is something I've wanted to add to the Northeast Tennessee Punk And Metal Archives since I decided to start archiving the shit in the first place. What we have here is 18 sloppy yet fun punk songs in 28 minutes, including a cover of The Dicks' "Hate The Police". I would almost venture that The Dicks were one of the major inspirations for this band, as they use the same guitar sound, that jangly sound that we all love. The cover was from a Calvin Klein ad that got C.K. in a lot of trouble, apparently...and my guess at the hand scrawled "FUCK K.P.D." at the top of the cover is that it's not only a jab at the Knoxville Police Department but also the band of the same name. I could be wrong on that last count.

I recommend this HIGHLY, as to my knowledge The Skudz were the only band from this region that actually released an LP. They also released a 7" entitled "Kill Whitey" and I will be putting that up soon also. But for now, enjoy this slice of mid 90's Northeast Tennessee punk fucking rock! And if there's anyone from The Skudz who comes across this, I hope that your glad to see someone cared enough about this record to try to preserve it and spread it around, because it is fucking great, and more people (from Tennessee or not) need to hear it, and I hope that you drop me a line!

Once again, this was converted from a tape of the LP, so the sound quality might not be the best, but it's fucking punk rock, so who cares?

The Skudz - "Think For Yrself"

Plan 9 - '98 Demo

Here's the story:

In middle school I started listening to punk rock and getting into the whole subculture of it. I started a shitty band in 8th grade, we played 2 shows in our year and a half existence(?) and called it quits. This was around the time I started high school, where I met two older dudes (they could drive!) who were into Misfits/Danzig, Motorhead, Black Flag, etc...it was natural that we start a band.

Plan 9 was born.

The initial incarnation was David Stacy on vocals, Daniel Dyck on guitars (it's pronounced like LIKE), yours truly on bass, and 12 year old drummer Marcus Durham. We learned some Misfits and Queers songs, wrote some originals, and generally pissed off Marcus' parents. I do believe that his mother to this day still dislikes me for purposefully setting my hand on fire in her living room, but that's besides the point. We would practice in his garage, the covers of songs were horrible (whole solo part of "Some Kinda Hate" missing, I recall), and the originals, while not rousing punk anthems by any means, were at least better than the Korn/Deftones spew that almost every other band in this area was playing at this time. We played some good shows, the first time I ever played a show out of state was with this band (and there's a tape of this but you'll never hear it), and we were young punks having fun, starting trouble, and playing shitty music. Which brings me to this tape. What you are about to hear is our ONLY recorded output, a two song demo tape that cost us $475 to record. It was released by us in very small quantities, I think only about 25-30 tapes were made. We gave them out at shows, to friends, put some on consignment in local music stores, and they all disappeared. Even I had lost my copy of it, the original master tape (but I still have the actual reel it was recorded on).......

I thought that this tape was lost to me forever.

Then a record store re-opened in Johnson City over a year ago, and a friend of mine who worked there was going through tapes from the old store, when lo and behold, there it was, one of the copies I took to them on consignment. It was given to Marcus, but since he was not on this recording (a drummer by the name of Danny Roberts is), he gave it to me, and now here it is, for you, the lost Plan 9 demo. Two tracks in under 4 minutes, very simple punk.

I thought about waxing poetic about this and the dreams of my youth and punk rock aspirations and so forth, but decided against it. It's just two damn songs of mid tempo teenage aggression fueled punk rock. So this post is for David S., Daniel D., Marcus D., Danny R., Sarah E. from Las Vegas who played 2nd guitar for us for a little while, I hope you're doing great in whatever direction life has put you in, and for all those who were around at this time.

Misfits of the Lost Generation

Curse Of The Magi - 2005 Demo

Here is a demo from unheard local band Curse Of The Magi, which existed briefly during 04-05 and features members who were in bands like Ikkabod and Cheapskate, which is about what this sounds like. If you haven't heard either of those bands, I have posted them elsewhere on this blog. A very odd amalgamation of pop punk and Maiden-esque metal, which definitely sounded different from anything else going on around here at the time. Half of this band joined up with me and formed Deeds Of Midwinter, which also was short-lived but played a bit and do have some recordings which I might post up here someday.

Thunder Brings The Storm

The Ghoultones - "Voices From The Grave"

Here are The Ghoultones, a band that operated out of Bristol, TN/VA and played horror tinged ska-punk. I saw these guys and played with these guys a lot in the late 90's. They seemed to play all the time around this area in 97-99, but various line-up changes eventually killed them. Members of this band also turned up in another bristol band, the more street punk Blue Light Casualties. I really don't know if these songs constituted a demo or not, but I found them off of some guy in Spain on Soulseek one day and figured they needed to go on here as a document of the various styles of punk rock that was around this area at the time. If you remember these guys, you know what to expect. If horror punk mixed with ska sounds up your alley, then you might dig this.

The Ghoultones - Voices From The Grave

Golden Arm - "Times Are Tight"

It's been a while since I've posted any local/regional music, so here is northeast Tennessee's very own Golden Arm with their 4 song, 2009 cassette, "Times Are Tight". It is pretty heavy hardcore.

Not really much to say today, just check this out. I hope you like it. It is still available from the band, so check out their myspace for more info.

Golden Arm - "Times Are Tight"

Yog Sothoth - "Alien Tongues" Demo 2010

Yog Sothoth is my black metal project. i posted the first demo from 2006 here last year. here is the new one. this one is just guitar, drums, and vocals, no overdubs, all "live", one take, direct to tape. it is 6 tracks of appalachian black metal inspired by Darkthrone, Ulver, Mutiilation, and of course, the stories of H.P. Lovecraft. I'm actually quite proud of how this tape turned out.

it is available from me, with packaging(tape cover above), on tape or cd-r. if you would like one, please contact me.

a big thank you to Adam Brewer, he of Globsters fame, for converting this tape into a digital format. i prefer the tape, but maybe thats just me.

Yog Sothoth - Alien Tongues Demo

Axehandle Mountain - 2010 Demo

Here is a brand new, not yet released demo from northeast TN's own Axehandle Mountain, featuring members of The Scams. They play pretty crushing crust/hardcore in the Tragedy/H.H.I.G./Scandinavian vein that you're bound to like. this band plays live around this area, so be sure to check them out live.

Axehandle Mountain - 2010 Demo

Gettysburg - '97 Demo tape

Gettysburg was a short lived hardcore band from Johnson City, TN. they played hardcore that i'd compare favorably to bands like Mohinder, Heroin, first Angel Hair 7", and other acts on Gravity Records. Members went on to form Next To Of Course America God I Love You. There was once some 'zine that came with a compilation that had 2 of the Gettysburg tracks on this demo, along with songs by Spazz and other bands. any info on that?

anyways, i think this demo is awesome. features soundclips from the film "Gettysburg" (what were you expecting?).

Gettysburg - '97 Demo

Mental Shock - '09 Demo

Here is Mental Shock's 2009 demo. Mental Shock was a short lived band, playing 3-4 shows and recording this as our only legacy. M.S. was dave doing vocals, alex on guitar, neal on bass, and me on drums. this band was short lived because it was hard to practice, me and alex live in kingsport, dave in johnson city, and neal lived in virginia, which was where our practice space was also, and it was just hard to make the commute all the time. but here is this, 10 tracks, one instrumental, and one napalm death cover, as Mental Shock's lasting legacy.

we also recorded 3 songs in a studio but we STILL haven't gotten these from the guy who recorded them....if we ever get those i'll post them up here also. but for now.....

Mental Shock - Demo '09

Dissociative Rhythm Madness - Demo 2009

Here is the demo from northeast tennessee's own Dissociative Rhythm Madness, or D.R.M. for short. it contains 6 heavy crust numbers. this band is sadly broken up now. they played around town and around northeast tn for a while, but only lasted maybe less than a year. i'm pretty sure this is their only recorded output. features members of the scams, mind sludge, mental shock, and axehandle mountain.

Let The Roots Rise Up!!

Koro - 7''

Where would the Northeast Tennessee Punk Rock "scene" be without this, the best punk record to ever come out of TN, and arguably one of the greatest punk records to come from anywhere, ever. Just imagine, you, living in northeast tn in the early 80's and walking into a bar or somewhere in knoxville and seeing these 5 dudes destroying the place with their fast, tight, and absolutely awesome hardcore assault. jesus christ, what a band. this ep and the "speed kills" 12" are still available from Sorry State Records so i suggest using yr hard earned money to get them. until then, ladies and gentlemen, i give you without further ado, the 40th post on Scummified, a total legendary classic, and a natural inclusion to the Northeast Tennessee Punk And Metal Archives, the Koro "700 Club" 7" E.P.