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Aside from test pressings and whatnot, this is the rarest H-100’s item that I know of the Dismantle 7″ on clear vinyl w/ a clear cover. Supposedly there’s 25 that are numbered and another 25, like this one that aren’t numbered. Ignorant, raw, and violent as fuck, the H-100’s rep has grown and grown since their brief existence, and the members have gone on to be in almost every subsequent hardcore/punk band from Cleveland worth caring about. As I’ve said in a previous Inmates entry, this is practically the only thing from the mid-90s in the USA that actually still matters. While everyone else was into who knows what (Screeching Weasel? Submission Hold? Outspoken?) these demented boys were rabidly devouring and regurgitating the best thrashing hardcore from Japan (Systematic Death - who they later covered, Gauze, The Comes, etc.) and chasing it with the self destructive hi-jinks (and sounds) of some of the most classic and low-brow American bands (Poison Idea, Battalion Of Saints, the Nihilistics). Oh there was also copious amounts of drug abuse and violent live shows I’ve only heard about involving various projectiles, weapons, and general misanthropic activity. I mean this is how legends are made, you do something cool, you mix it with something crazy, and then you break up. I believe in total there were something like 15 H-100’s shows over a couple years, maybe someone can confirm this in the comments section.
Dismantle remains my favorite, and their most collectible record, self released on Bloodclot Records with a graphic of a giant syringe stuck in a dude’s back on the front and tracks with titles like “Gonna Knock Your Teeth Out”, “Ain’t Too Young To Die”, and “Panic Attack” it really doesn’t leave much to the listener’s imagination. So many bands kick a specific image on their records, they sing about politics they have no involvement in, or personal ideals no human being could live up to, in other words they stretch the truth and lie. Well reader, here is a record that tells the truth. It tells it like it is. Every word, and every sound is the truth. The violence and depravity and buzzsaw guitars and skull bash drums - it’s not fake. Even the recording itself is just as direct and truthful. There’s no absurd over production or studio trickery, nor is there any excess distortion or noise pumped into the mix to make it sound “more raw”. You just hear 4 men getting sweaty in a room together making noise for themselves and anyone else who might “get it”.
“I was born/so now I suffer…”
great record
i need a numbered one
and apparently there are only about 20-25 with “pay no more than $3.50!” on the cover
great write up..
i think the key thing you addressed is that the violence in the music isn’t calculated or artificial… it’s truly riot music
forget the danger and wildness of the live shows.. just listening to the music lets you know that these aren’t content and cheerful guys pretending to be upset over something to get cred as a hardcore band
fuck all that tough moshy bullshit…this is TRUE VIOLENCE
Where did you hear that number for the $3.50 sleeve? I’ve only ever seen 2 copies.
Maybe Wedge can shed some light…
cmon murray everyone knows porcell’s taut muscular pythons would strangle these cleveland posers… didn’t you see his naked myspace pics?
i forget where i heard it
but the story i heard was that it was on the first screen for the covers and that broke after the first however many were screen
can someone give me a complete H100s discography, including the Coalition Records (that are apparently are bootlegs?! What’s the story?). I know there are still a lot of H100s EPs to be found in the sales bin of the local shitty distro.
That Coalition pressing isnt a bootleg cos those guys still have the master reel, Im pretty sure they ripped h100s off though…
im sure others will know better but i could have sworn i remember the bloodclot info being something like this:
1st pr: big hole, 100 red w/ red cover; bunch (400?) black vinyl , some covers have red ink instead of black , w or w/o the “pay no more than…” text. within the last year ive seen 2 copies on ebay with that text so theres probably more out there…
2nd pr: small hole, 100 clear, some w/ reg covers, some with acetate cover; bunch on black
Official pressing info from the label…
DNA 04:H100s “s/t” EP (1995)
# 1st press (big hole): 6 defective test presses; 3 accepted test presses
400 black vinyl image (some copies have “Pay no more than $3.50″ on the front, but the screen got clogged and further copies were printed without that)
100 red vinyl, red sleeve (numbered inside sleeve and on dust jacket)
# 2nd press (small hole): 400 black vinyl
Approx. 50 copies got screened with red ink instead of black
100 clear vinyl: 50 in normal sleeves, 25 in “Vanishing Signs” sleeve, 25 in clear “Cidercore Never Die” sleeve
Also I have a first press on black that has the cover art screened backwards on the inside of the sleeve.
Anyone know what the story is with Dark Empire almost pressing “Dismantle”, Ive heard there are test pressings of it from DE?
the pressing info from cm above is correct. thats something taken directly from a request for discography info i emailed to Dave Hyde about 5 years ago. if anyone cares, actual release date was 22 march 1995 (at least thats what i have written on one of the accepted test pressings). the 1st pressing has quite a few sleeves with the graphics backwards on the inside of the sleeve. this was not planned. all copies of this ep are hand-screened, and some got stacked on eachother before the vinyl ink was dry, so some reversed images occured on some copies.
we, as a band, refuse to accept the Coalition pressing as anything BUT a bootleg. too many problems.(i just deleted my freshly typed list of problems with these idiots for the sake of not becoming a bitchy-ass message board cry-baby. those who need to know how much Coalition completely FUCKED us already know the story…)
SYG/Needle In Your Ass will have ths ep out soon as a nearly-exact 12″ replica, mastered from the original 2-track analog master (entire session is included= more songs), with an enlarged version of the original 7″ graphics. the only graphic changes are going to be the label info on the back of the sleeve. its not a bootleg, either. i presonally handled the vinyl mastering, and SYG is Chris Ruiner’s label and hes sharing the pressing with the Australian Needle In Your Ass label. so far, theres a 12″ reference lacquer, 2 1-sided production plates, and some unplayably warped test pressings in existence. those will be re-done & the production run will then follow.
oh yeah. as far as i know, there were never any plans for this to ever be released thru dark empire. my only guess is that dwid was trying to string erba along with promises of a big record deal during the 5 minutes they were civil to eachother back then, so he figured if he said it was gonna be on his label, then eventually it would. i wouldve never allowed it to happen if it was ever discussed, and it never was. ever.