back on track. the summer, the sea side, barbecuing and kicking on the beach with friends ate up all of my free time. and right so! i wasn't really in the mood to sit down at the comp and writing about records at a thirty two degrees celsius, while i could rather take a dive into the northsea. but temperature cooled down a bit here, and so i'm back with a record sitting on my shelf for a very long time. since october last year, if memory serves.
the vinyl in front of me is listed as start a fire records #01. this lovely little d.i.y. record label from germany had put out some great stuff in the past five years (read about them by clicking the 'start a fire' tag below). furthermore 'sink or swim' were the predecessor band of a group now known under the name of wolfxdown. so i didn't have to think much about bidding on this thing on ebay. the sink or swim part is great and if you like wolfxdown, then this will be right up your alley.
in one piece, the other band of the split, plays some similar stuff. angry metallic hardcore. according to discogs, this is their only release and i doubt the band still exists today. this baby is long sold out but you won't have any problems tracking one down via discogs. you can download the whole split from the start a fire website. 1000 copies were made in total. 500 on black vinyl, 100 on clear red vinyl (fifty of that as pre-order edition and another fifty as record release edition) and 400 on clear green vinyl. start a fire records. 2009.
