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Top five bestsellers at Celebrated Summer Records, Towson MD. By Tony Pence, owner.
1. THE VICIOUS, Alienated CD/LP
These Swedes use razor-sharp guitars and amazing melodies to create instantly catchy punk that’s amazingly bleak and as desperate as the end of a noose.
2. COFFINS, The Other Side of Blasphemy CD
Japanese doom/death/sludge that sounds like the end of the world at the burning hand of flowing lava. I’m not even kidding.
3. GOVERNMENT WARNING, No Moderation CD/LP
Fast as hell without being a blur, catchy and memorable without being poppy and hardcore as you can get without being moronic or thuggish. This is a perfect continuation of the best ‘80s hardcore had to offer.
4. HERESY, Face up to It reissue LP/CD
In the ’80s these Brits took early US hardcore and sped it up 1000 times, grew crazy dreadlocks and put pure energy into playing live with the likes of Napalm Death and Larm. A perfect hardcore record.
5. THE ERGS, Upstairs Downstairs CD/LP
New Jersey gave us Adrenalin OD and now this: Amazing pop-punk that owes more to ALL and the Minutemen then to The Ramones, yet still has perfect choruses and all the broken-hearted lyrics you need. They are so good that they have a jazz record, a hardcore record and a country record all coming out this year on top of this rager.