Resist Records

My man Down Under, Dan, is keeping busy hooking me up with music from Australia, mostly bands I probably wouldn’t have discovered on my own. This is a bunch of throwback records all the way to the mid 2000s. 

The first record is the debut LP by Blkout, Total Depravity, originally released in 2009. If I’d seen the cover somewhere in a store or online, I’d have never checked out the band to honest. I know, I know, don’t judge a record by its cover, but I’m just being honest. The music is actually pretty good though. Good, stompy hardcore that would have been fun to watch live I guess. 

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Next up is the s.t. 10” by God So Loved The World, apparently a Christian hardcore band from Adelaide. I dig the music, hardcore with some slower rock elements here and there, but I don’t really need to hear about people being born again.

In the 90s and early 2000s Christian hardcore was an actual thing, but I’m wondering if there are any bands that openly identify that way out there nowadays. I’m pretty sure there must be some, because hardcore is more diverse and open-minded than ever, but I can‘t think of any. 

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When I opened the parcel from Dan and saw this record, I thought for sure that he’d sent me a record - unbeknownst of course - that I already had in my collection. I definitely knew the cover and the name and it just looks like a record I would have picked up in 2007 when it was released. After checking my list and double checking my 7”s, I had to face the fact that my memory had simply played a trick on me. It must have been one of those records I always meant to pick up, but never did. Well, thanks to Dan I finally own a copy. The music is exactly what I want from hardcore from the mid 2000s and even though the vocals are very much of the time as well, the high pitch is a little too much for me these days. 

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