Samstag, 11. Januar 2014

harms way - no gods, no masters 7"

for the first time i checked this band out in last year's september, i believe. it was because of an ebay auction i was watching, for the album 'isolation'. i really liked it and wanted to check out more of their discography. so the obvious place where i thought i might find some more harms way stuff was, again, ebay. i was really happy to find a copy of their 'no gods, no masters' 7" released before 'isolation' dropped in 2011. 
i was quite surprised to pay something around 15€. doesn't seem too high, i know, but i don't think that there are that much people here in germany who know them, plus it's a second press copy. the songs on this piece of plastic are very good. heavy and dark metallic hardcore with a singer who sounds like a barking rottweiler. check the song 'king'. at the end you can here a sample of 'american psycho'. i mean, that's cool but i can recall at least three other bands that used this or another line for their songs. doesn't seem too imaginative anymore. 
this 7" was released in 2010 and came out on closed casket activities. closed casket made three pressings by now, with the latest having appeared in 2013. as mentioned before, my copy is of the second press. 150 on clear w/ red/white/blue splatter and 516 copies on yellow w/ hot pink splatter. for detailed information about the other pressings you can have a look at the closed casket web side. 2010.