Kisses and Hugs

Okay, so not the power-violence/hardcore 90's band Kisses and Hugs, but apparently another one. This was sent to me, and I really can't find any relevant information for it anywhere. The first song on here is a rougher version of the Birthday Boyz song "pass the courvoisier", which would lead me to believe this is pre-Birthday Boyz or something, but yea zero information out there that I was able to find. You should check it out though, kind of a rougher Birthday Boyz with added violin.  If anyone knows anything about this, please comment!

Kisses and Hugs

The GTC

Super screamy stuff, active early 2000s from somewhere in the NE, maybe Philadelphia.. Kind of has a sound that was a little bit before its time. Just really high intensity and all over the place with trumpets at times. The vocals are pretty off the walls in some spots haha.  Pretty good though. Would definitely recommend a download if you haven't heard.

What I have below is just a collection of their songs. I know for sure that the last 4 songs on it make up a 7inch that they put out. The rest just seems like demos and stuff. The 7inch is definitely higher quality than the rest.

Various Songs

Eyeballz (Days to Streaks)

"California Hardcore screamo supergroup" in the words of another blog that was sharing this. I guess they were originally called Days to Streaks, but ended up changing their name to Eyeballz. Active somewhere in early 2000's, no idea on specifics though.

I originally had this album while ago, but lost it due to a HDD crash. I spent quite a long time looking for it again, and finally got it. Hope you enjoy. Pretty much as said above, screamy hardcore style stuff. Pretty good though. This album includes everything they've released I think, same recordings as another demo thing floating around.

Days in Hell, Nights in California

Unreleased

Blueskiesfade

Very metalcore influenced stuff, active late 90's-early 00's. I believe they're from New Jersey. Pretty much the angstiest stuff ever. I wish I had more relevant information on them. There seems to be a fair bit of live video of them out there, which is pretty interesting. I think this is all they've released?

the untimely construction of a building to jump off

Emotape Compilations

I have no idea who made these, but they used to be passed around soulseek many moons ago. They were definitely a great way to find new music, and much of the stuff on this blog was originally found on these compilations. As for bands on these compilations, it's pretty much a wide variety of bands from all around the world, some popular and some really, really obscure.

I think there was multiple people making these, so the ordering for them never really made much sense. I used to spend a bit of time looking for them back in the day, and this is what I turned up with, so no idea on the missing numbers or if they even exist. Some of the files on a few of these compilations are incomplete, and some comps are missing tracks, so sorry about that, but overall they are fairly complete. Hope you enjoy...

Emotape #2

Emotape #3

Emotape #04

Emotape #0.5

Emotape #5

Emotape #0.6

Emotape #6

Emotape #8

Emotape #9

Emotape #10

Emotape #11

Emotape #12

If It Doesn't Kill You (ifitdoesntkillyou)

From Greenville NC and active 1999-2003. Very 90's metal-tinged emo influenced sound. Check out their last.fm for a better summary about them. I believe this is everything they've released + some unnoficial tracks that were on their myspace. I also will be doing a post in the near future on the more emo sounding late 90's band Hovel that came before ifitdoesntkillyou.

Demo

5 Songs

The Microwave Says to the Pacemaker Comp Song (Includes whole compilation)

Unknown Compilation Song

Hovel

Cold Like December

Active early-mid 2000's and from Easton Pa. It's pretty well produced metal/hardcore influenced stuff. Sounds very much like other bands from the era. Man, I really suck at finding/writing worthwhile information about a lot of these bands, so sorry about that... Anyway here you go, I'm going to guess this is their only release.

oh my god, it's full of stars