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Still kind of rolling with the 90’s here, at least for a minute… A message board I post on ended up having a huge thread of “cool HC from the 90’s” kinda focusing on forgotten/hard to get releases and at some point it just degenerated into anything decent that doesn’t get a lot of face time nowadays. Eventually conversation turned to Devoid of Faith, which had me busting a bunch of their stuff out of my collection over the past couple days. Pretty much every DOF record is good, and with the exception of one split, they can all be had for like $2-$7. It’s actually kind of surprising how little interest in them there is right now, and I hope at some point the interest returns because revisiting has been a treat. I guess if you mixed up some classic New York stuff like Citizen’s Arrest, Agnostic Front (V.I.P. era), Life’s Blood, Born Against (1st 7″), Trip 6, and Nausea (demo era), you’d start to get an idea where they were coming from (although DOF was from Albany NY not NYC) — just pounding stuff with good tempo changes.

There are two particularly collectible records by Devoid of Faith, both issued on Pushead’s Bacteria Sour Label in the 90s. This is one of them, a 10″ album called Purpose: Lost, issued in a number of only 222 copies. It has since been repressed on a different label with alternate artwork but this version is still desirable to some collectors, and one of the best recordings by the band. If you’ve never heard them I suggest checking out their songs from the split with 9 Shocks Terror, the repress of this 10″, their earlier self titled lp issue as a 10″ and 12″, the Slow Motion Enslavement 7″, or the Denial By Machinery 7″. All of these are first rate and pressed in large quantities making them easy to find cheaply.

So besides a couple more less interesting 90’s releases, this seller also has a good smattering of 80’s classics, that are already canonized into the hall of fame. A clipped corner copy of This Is Boston Not L.A. which you might be able to obtain for cheap, a Pusmort pressing of Poison Idea’s Kings Of Punk (it’s missing the sticker and poster though FYI), Finnish standard: Rattus “WC Rajhtaa” 12″(with Pushead art on the sleeve, making this the most Pus-heavy post ever), basically everything here is worth your interest. The Crude SS - Who’ll Survive 7″is a serious jam right up in the upper echelon of Swedish classics, and also one of the first from there to get heavy exposure in the USA, and before you ask “how?”, just re-read this post again and look for a reoccurring name: Pushead. Well at least in part anyway, due to his inclusion of Crude SS on his Cleanse the Bacteria compilation.