Livin' In The 80s: 80s Hardcore On Bandcamp

Mad At The World Records NYC Not sure about this label, as they seem to have lost their website. They were doing some vinyl reissues of older NYHC, but seem to have folded up shop. They do still have some classics available on digital though, including: Major Conflict - Sounds Like 1983: Ripping nYHC from 1983 Nihilistics - S/T: Brutal first album from the kings of negativity Urban Waste - Police Brutality - One of the best in early NYHC, reissued here simply as ‘Urban Waste’, the label gave this a 12” release with some great urban style label art. Additionally, they also reissued Token Entry’s crucial debut, and a comp album of tracks by New Jersey’s excellent Sand In The Face, so you maybe can hunt those down on discogs or something. Link: https://madattheworldrecords.bandcamp.com/music

Autistic Cattle Shattered Cattle SRA Records A stylistically varied release that mixes early 80s hardcore, punk, post-punk, etc. These tracks were meant to come out in 1982, but was only recently released. This is a great document of the bands brief tenure, and it would have been interesting to see where they went with future releases. I have the digital, but a CD and vinyl were pressed as well. Another winner from SRA. Link: https://srarecords.bandcamp.com/album/shattered-cattle

TMA What’s For Dinner/ Beach Party 2000 Left For Dead Records 2020 Sporting the same tightness and energy as the first Zero Boys record, this Jersey outfit rips out of the gate with straight up snotty buzzsaw hardcore with the requisite flourishes of Jersey humor on their first full length release, ‘What’s For Dinner’. ‘Beach Party 2000’ kicks in on track 22, and shows the band cleaning up the production a bit, adding a bit of metal and melody and mid paced power that still sounds great to me, showing some songwriting maturity and riffage. There are a few extra tracks on here, and the set ends with their unreleased 7” that came out around the same time as ‘What’s for Dinner’ and has that hardcore sound. A band that should have perhaps been bigger, but we at least have this great discog to dig into. Link: https://tmamusic1.bandcamp.com/album/whats-for-dinner-beach-party-2000-super-deluxe-reissue-with-bonus-just-desserts-ep