Not Your Scene

Tag: 1996

  • Acme – …To Reduce The Choir To One Soloist (1996)

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    Bobby D.
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    This thing doesn’t play nice. Acme’s …To Reduce the Choir to One Soloist, just out on Edison Records, isn’t here to win over the crowd. It’s here to annihilate it. This record is a bomb—detonated and still ringing in your ears days after you drop the needle. It’s violent, raw, and intentionally ugly, like a…

  • Ascension – The Years Of Fire (1996)

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    Bobby D.
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    Cleveland’s underground just delivered another crushing blow to anyone stupid enough to think Ohio hardcore peaked with Integrity. While everyone’s jerking off to the latest Victory Records bullshit, Ascension has been quietly perfecting the art of controlled chaos in the same basements that spawned Confront and Face Value. Don’t underestimate Cleveland’s current crop of bands…