the last of the batch i took home with me was the edgewise 10" "silent rage". when i spotted it at andrä record store, the name edgewise rang a distant bell in the back of my head and so i pulled it from the racks to take a quick listen. i expected some nineties hardcore and boy, what i got was just that. this is as nineties hardcore as it gets. after the first song, i knew i had a new addtion to the collection here.
this u.s. band from philadelphia had an eight year run throughout the very late eighties and the nineties releasing a cassette demo, a 7" and two full length records. my 10" is an expanded re-release of their "silent rage" 7" from 1990 on smorgasbord records. german label gain ground records from dortmund handled this output. the label re-vised the artwork completely, not very much to its advantage, if you ask me.
the green face on the left is pretty pixelated and why the hell chosing that blue, red, yellow, green colour scheme anyway? the shot of the two band members on the back cover looks strange as well. don't know if the singer wears a mask or if that effect was some kind of blur by the camera or if the gain ground guys altered it for this release. anyway, the music counts and it is lovely chugga chugga hardcore. always good in my book. 1.500 copies made on clear orange vinyl. gain ground records. 1995.
