"Where is Dave Vanian?"

he has the range

Nobody understands the bond between a girl and the emo bands she listened to in secret when she was 13

BUSINESS CARD FROM VIVIENNE WESTWOOD & MALCOLM MCCLAREN'S SEX STORE (1970s)

an interview with Richard hell in punk magazine!

Lowkey the best early punk bands of the 70s

The Damned, Richard Hell and the Void Oidz, the slits, blondie, the clash, the stoooges

I am right you are wrong

Illustration done for Answering Machine by The Replacements

This was the drawing that got me to start doing digital art & design for myself more often. I did it while still in college while bored one night, typically I was too drained from my design classes to ever consider touching my laptop at home if it wasn’t to just do homework, but for the sake of boredom, I did. It was a ton of laying stuff out, making up perspective for the phone I had in my head, there’s one single line that’s off, and it bothers me… but not enough to go back change the drawing and redo everything I had to do to get it where you can see it now.

Please reblog for science! Answer honestly and don't hassle anyone, no shame allowed!

Back to punk.

[Album of the day] Poison Ruin - H​ä​rvest

Philadelphia, PA // 2023

[Genres*] punk: blackened punk, crust punk, goth punk, political punk, early punk

[Themes] fantasy feudalism

[FFO] the Misfits, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[Thoughts] There is a lot to be said about the content of this album, but the blurb from Relapse Records (attached below) says it better than I could. The instrumentation is fantastic across the board, and the melodies have that infectious, punky drive without relying on punchy mixing. Opting for the muted, black metal style really worked for this album, and I can't wait to hear more from Poison Ruin.

*Trying my very hardest on these tags, but living in Minneapolis has given this metalhead a serious case of Crust Punk Imposter Syndrome. If you listened to H​ä​rvest and think I'm a fucking idiot, let me know how you'd classify the album.

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From the band/label: [Relapse Records]

Philadelphia Punks POISON RUIN make their Relapse Records debut with their new album, Harvest! Evoking a rich tapestry of ice-caked forests, peasant revolts, and silent knights, POISON RUIN stab at the pulsing heart of what it means to live under the permanent midnight of contemporary life. With Harvest, the band aligns their sonic palette to their godless, medieval-inflected aesthetic symbolism, creating a record which strikes with an assured sense of blackened harmony. “I’ve always found fantasy tropes to be incredibly evocative,” vocalist Mac Kennedy notes, “that said, even though they are a set of symbols that seem to speak to most people of our generation, they are often either apolitical or co-opted for incredibly backwards politics.” Kennedy reworks fantasy imagery as a series of totems for the downtrodden, stripping it of its escapist tendencies and retooling it as a rich metaphor for the collective struggle over our shared reality: “Instead of knights in shining armor and dragons, it’s a peasant revolt,” Kennedy explains, “I’m all for protest songs, but with this band I’ve found that sometimes your message can reach a greater audience if you imbue it with a certain interactive, almost magical realist element.” The title track invokes images of feudal peasants, tithes, and money-hungry lords, sounding the horn of labor with the rallying cry, “Isn’t this our harvest? Isn’t this our feast to share?” Tales of the undead rising to take revenge upon those who have unknowingly wronged them spin out like pleasantly cathartic folktales (“Resurrection II”), while other tracks address the profound beauty and spirit of those making ends meet in the forsaken ends of POISON RUIN’s hometown of Philadelphia (“Blighted Quarter”). The band stares into the abyss of modern living with a sober and empathetic outlook, portraying our cracked reality as a complex and difficult to parse miasma of competing desires. With Harvest, POISON RUIN have constructed a richly chilling fable out of modern living. Their tale is as lurid as it is seductive, as much a promising fantasy as it is a dreary portrait of reality itself. 

“DDR, Terrorstaat, wir haben deine Scheiße satt”

“GDR, terror state, we’ve had enough of your shit”

he's so 🥰🖤

The Nuns

"Wild"

from the album The Nuns, 1980

San Francisco synthpunk band from the early days