guilty - demo 7"

boy, summer is showing its relentless face in northern germany right now. thirty-five degrees celcius the day and the temperature doesn't drop under twenty degrees the night. tiny movements are exhausting and i really need to go to the beach and throw my tortured body in the sea. while at work these days i sometimes wish i was at the northernmost place of sweden with comfortable fifteen degrees celcius. what a convenient transition to the band of today's topic. guilty from sweden.

in 2011 this band gave us their second release in the form of a self titled 7" via different labels worldwide. six feet under fom the states, carry the weight from the uk and green menace from sweden. it was featured on different vinyl blogs, you all love and regulary visit. i put up a copy of the sfu records pressing and back then i saved their first demo on my mental want list. it took me two years to obtain this record.

a discogs offering came my way and was too good to ignore it. the musical part on this plastic platter is pretty good. i think it's a bit nicer than the self-titled effort. while i was looking for some tunes to link it to this post, i came across the information that the band broke up last year. a shame that is. here is the link to their bandcamp page with the opportunity to download the demo for free. 250 copies on my opague orange vinyl and another 250 on black. green menace records. 2010.

per koro pt. 2/2: guilty s/t 7"

guilty 7"
guilty are some dudes from sweden playing hardcore with a thrash metal edge to it. they were on my radar for quite some time and just like with the carrier buying this record was long overdue. i saw this record for the first time at the six feet under records big cartel and was kind of drawn to it because of its great cover art. looks pretty apocalyptic.

the four songs on it are all pretty solid. not brilliant but no outage as well. you can listen to that whole thing on their bandcamp page. in my search for pressing information i came across some mysterious stuff. this record was a triple release by six feet under records from the us, carry the weight records from the uk and green menace records from sweden. they all pressed different coloured versions.

discogs says the following: green menace has a blue and white swirl version of 300 copies. carry the weight comes around with an orange w/ black splatter version of 200 copies. plus ctw also did 100 on black. finally six feet under pressed 100 on red/white/orange tri-colour vinyl and 200 on my blue w/ black swirl vinyl. so according to discogs it's 300 of each label. that makes 900 copies in total. strangely discogs says there are 1000 copies. so where are the remaining 100? another source, dead format, states that sfu rec. made 400 copies but all on tri-colour vinyl which i know for sure looking at my copy isn't true. then i thought i should pay six feet under records a visit to solve this. the label gives me the information that they made 400 copies with 300 copies of the blue w/ black swirl vinyl. secret unlocked!

six feet under records. 2011.