Bollocks - Demo '94 NEW 7"
NEW 7" SPHC Malaysia, 1994.The scene is popping off! Carburetor Dung, 24 Reasons, Hostile Disgrace, all these exciting bands playing various strains of hardcore. But also, all of them fit some template of the 90s, with mettalic guitar tones, tough breakdowns, it all fits with what's happening around the world: the rise of straight-edge, metalcore, the varying experimentations and fragmentations that happened within DIY punk at that time.Enter The Bollocks first demo. Leather jackets, big spikey mohawk. Simple bouncing pogo songs, rough and raw production with tuneful and catchy melodies. Clearly rooted in the timeless ideas of UK82, this is pure unadulterated PUNK, with all the recklessness and snot attitude and desperate passion of youth. Nothing could be the same after; the template was set, the bar was raised.The demo sent shockwaves around southeast Asia, defining what it means to be punk in Malaysia. Its first vinyl reissue in 1996 on Tian An Men 89 Records became southeast Asia'