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The early 00’s were a fine time to be hanging around hardcore shows in the Massachusetts area. Plenty of shows going on, new demos, new records; good times through and through. XfilesX were a mainstay in the area at the time. As much shit as they got for having a dumb name, you really couldn’t deny if you were there that they delivered live. This is a test press of their 2nd 7″, NBC Mayhem, for sale,which is really when they started to come into their own live and on record. There was a split from this time too, and it was followed by a 1-sided 12″ which is just an absolute crusher. Files kind of stood on their own at the time as far as Infest descended hardcore went, because just no one else (besides Think I Care for a little while) was doing it. Certain labels now churning out dozens of records in this vein like so many flapjacks at ihop were busy releasing either really bad shit-grind, or even worse “bandanna-core”.