This here's a super solid entry into the canon of mid-90s hardcore, featuring a trio of contributions from DC's McTiernan axis (Ashes, Battery, Damnation A.D.), as well as great tracks from Lifetime and Ressurrection, and a song each from Dayspring and Trial By Jury, hailing from Virginia. Rounding this one out is label owner Craig Chapman's band, Soulow; easily the least impressive cut here, but their only recorded output, and tracked by Ken Olden of Damnation A.D./Battery.
It's a nice snapshot of what went down at the
Safari Club in DC, a space that I thought had burned down before I moved to Baltimore, and thus never attended. But I guess I got left off the flier guest list, or it was just more comfortable driving north or west to Allentown or Hagerstown or Easton or Miltown for HC shows.
Hot tip: The Ashes song slams...makes you wonder why they have never gotten the recognition they so wildly deserve.
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