Friday, October 27, 2006

Groundwork - Today We Will Not Be Invisble Nor Silent



Groundwork played a terrifying brand of hardcore in the early to mid 90's only to practically dissolve unnoticed in the Arizona sun. Members went on to form the politically agressive 400 years and the anti-religious Absinthe. Groundwork had one of the most gratingly, bone crushing version of hardcore that exisited at that time. I have yet to hear a band besides Absinthe that had that same chaotic appeal mixed with the teeth grinding crunch and eerie dynamic that they had perfected. Multiple screaming throat tearing vocals didnt do much to settle the chaos, but this band was about pushing ahead and steamrolling with their oppressive evil crunch. This is a milestone to those who were into hardcore in the mid-nineties and have recently gained some attention due to the revival of alot of mid 90's hardcore. This record was released on Bloodlink Records and features the full length album of the same title and all their 7" releases. This might be out of print, so this is the place to come for you Groundwork fix.

8 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Crazy, I was just talking to someone about these guys yesterday.

6:23 PM  
Blogger adam75 said...

bizarre. i just posted a groundwork track on my blog after watching american hardcore. i always thought they were really good, and regretted not seeing them when they were still around. awesome blog, by the way.

10:40 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dayum, takin me back to my patch wearin days.

9:28 AM  
Blogger blend77 said...

this one was a great one...i think i threw away the cover artwork...it was scratching the cd...hmm.

1:29 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hell yeah. Good stuff. This is definitely my new favourite mp3 blog on the internet.

2:19 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nice post interesting to see what 400 years were up to before hand; I just got their albums yesterday after 4 or 5 years without listening to them... ...And found out that whoever taped Suture & Other Songs for me back then did it at half the speed on the record player! It's definitely not the same experience then...
Thanks a thousand times for your blog best place around along with Earwacks.

7:33 AM  
Blogger blend77 said...

i am big fan of earwacks..

thanks for the good words!

i am trying to get absinthe uploaded, but its on vinyl. its the singer from groundworks band...they were short lived, but pretty ferocious...

12:51 PM  
Blogger jAy @ jApAn said...

oh jesusfuck. thanks for posting this. i had to pull out my old cd and listen again... forgotten how insane this stuff was. great live show too. I was a big fan of 400 Years also.

7:48 PM  

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