Compilation with Artificial Peace's Outside Looking In LP and Assault & Battery 7". Early DC Hardcore that gets more self-confident and aggressive as it goes on; simple yet powerful music.
In the late summer of 1981, Janelle Brooks started throwing shows in the basement of her parents' house in Potomac, Maryland. Usually these parties would feature five or six bands, who were usually happy to share their gear with each other. Most of their songs were only a minute long, and therefore the sets tended to be really brief. There was a pole in the middle of the carpeted rec-room that everyone danced around, and between bands people hung out all over the house and in the yards. Nobody knew where Janelle's parents were during these throwdowns, but apparently they were ok with it. In September, one of these shows featured the end of three bands: Assault and Battery, Minor Threat, and Red C. Things moved quickly in the punk scene at that point and bands would come and go, so it wasn't a surprise that a new band formed by Pete from Red C along with Mike, Rob and Steve of Assault and Battery played Janelle's next party just three weeks later. Mike's bass drum head had an upside down peace-sign painted on it and the name of the band was Artificial Peace. They were solid and fast and they quickly managed to build one of the largest followings of all of the early bands. They were one of the first DC area bands to play out of town, always making it a point to announce that they were from Bethesda, a city just across the DC line in Maryland. Ian recorded a 19-song demo with them at Inner Ear, and three of those songs appear on the 'Flex Your Head' Sampler. They also released a split 7" with a band called The Exiled on the Fountain of Youth label.
Genre: Hardcore
Year: 1992
Tracklist:
01. mia
02. against the grain
03. uxb
04. no escape, no excuse
05. enlisted man
06. d.j.
07. wild thing
08. war path
09. neighbor
10. watcher
11. spook surf
12. enemy minds
13. dead end
14. this means war
15. artificial peace
16. outside looking in
17. wasteland
18. fixed truth
19. enlisted man
20. world of hate
21. the future - think for yourself
22. dead end
23. someone cares
24. outside looking in
25. frustration
26. against the grain
27. never too old
28. war path
29. dead end
30. danger uxb
31. self destruction
32. evidence
33. i’m watching you
34. evacuate
35. assault & battery
36. force it
37. missing in action
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