DEVARISHI RECORDS
The Fusion of YOUTH CREW Records and the HOUSE OF DEVARISHI spawned a Banger in late 2018!
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DVR001: BETTER THAN A THOUSAND 'Value Driven' LP, 2018
Better Than a Thousand was essentially a side project that, like many such projects in the Hardcore Punk scene, eventually took on a life of its own. The group's genesis lay in the creative duo of guitarist/songwriter Graham Land and drummer Ken Olden, a Washington, D.C.-area straight-edge kid who played guitar for the Straight-Edge revival outfit Battery and the decidedly metal Damnation AD. The two of them desired to craft a body of songs that recalled the spirit of the bygone "Youth Crew" era of positive-thinking espousing, fast-paced moving, sing-a-long inducing hardcore. They made a bunch of songs and thought, "who better to sing on this than Ray Cappo?" Cappo had virtually led the genre through it's previous incarnation, fronting Straight-Edge flag wavers Youth of Today, before disbanding the group to devote his life to being a Hare Krishna monk, forming Shelter. Shelter played Hardcore music for a time, but had by that point evolved into something much slicker and more commercial, so Cappo jumped at the chance to revisit his past barking-vocal style. He enthusiastically laid down all of his parts in two days, in a bedroom studio setup. His voice can even be heard getting noticeably hoarse by the end of Just One, Better Than a Thousand's debut album, released in July 1997 through Revelation Records. The group began touring when it could, between its members full-time projects' schedules. They even released a second album, Value Driven, in the late '90s, before quietly dissolving.
LineUp: Ray Cappo / Ken Olden / Jeff Neuman / Graham Land
DEVARISHI RECORDS Pressing Info:
300 orange, 200 green Vinyl LP - SOLD OUT
Testpresses: 10
Remastered by Ken Olden, April 2018
Produced by Dharmavit Das
Photos by Mark Beemer
Layout by Christopher Holdt
TRACKLIST:
DEMAND INDEPENDENCE
BORN TO GIVE
SELF WORTH
POISON IN YOUR BRAIN
I’LL NOT RESIST
CRISIS OF MAN
ONCE AGAIN
LIKE THE WIND
POWER WITHIN
TRANSFORMATION
WE MUST BELIEVE
WHAT ARE WE COMPETING FOR (Bonus Track)
TWELVE
50 Bundles:
Orange Vinyl LP + T-Shirt - SOLD OUT
DVR002: ONE SIDED WAR ‚The Sum of Days' LP, 2019
During the ‚Youth Crew Revival‘ of 1997 when bands like FLOORPUNCH, BETTER THAN A THOUSAND, TEN YARD FIGHT and IN MY EYES were in their heydays, Matt Warnke of BOLD and Chris Daley started ONE SIDED WAR to leave their mark on that era. Patrick Tracey from CITIZENS ARREST joined in and soon after they put out their mini CD on Ryan Hoffmans’ (CHAIN OF STRENGTH) Label AMBASSADOR RECORDS.
After their Debut Tim Brooks of BOLD and Andy Guida of SUPERTOUCH joined the band and together they recorded four new songs that never got released.
Twenty years later they finally see the light of day!
LineUp: Matt Warnke / Chris Daley / Tim Brooks / Patrick Tracey / Andy Guida
DEVARISHI RECORDS Pressing Info:
200 blue, 200 yellow Vinyl LP
Testpresses: 15
Remastered by Carlo Altobelli, March 2019
Produced by Dharmavit Das
Photos by Chris Daley
Design & Layout by Jon A.Gaasland
TRACKLIST:
Looking For Answers
Roulette Mind
What I See
Mind Games
No Roots
Ancient History
Dead Dreams
Here’s A Story
Death On The Installment Plan
All I Hear Is Lies
22 Bundles:
Yellow Vinyl LP + T-Shirt
DVR003: 108 ‚Curse of Instinct' 12", 2020
Formed in 1991 by Vic DiCara (Vraja Kishor dasa) 108 was designed to put Krishna Consciousness in the center of their music. Joined by Rob Fish (Rasaraja dasa, ex singer of Release and Ressurection), Tim Cohen (Trivikrama dasa) and Kate O Eight (Keli Lalita devi dasi) 108 became the pioneers of the so-called Krishna-core movement of the early 90ies along with bands like Shelter, Refuse To Fall and Prema. All bands were under the roof of Equal Vision Records.
108 created a straight-up hardcore with metallic, crushing breaks and angry riffs. The unique 108 sound is intense, melancholic, chaotic, tender, dramatic and earth-shattering at the same time.
108 always had an ‚aggressive‘ approach towards spirituality for they never sugarcoated their understanding of the universal truth. 108 declared war on the ego as an essence for true revolution!
Originally released in 1996, ’Curse of Instinct’ was recorded at Salad Days Studio, engineered by Brian McTernan by then already a household name in the Hardcore Community. The 12“EP is containing three 108 songs, a Bad Brains (‚Coptic Times‘) and a Black Flag (‚The Bars‘) Cover.
Robert Fish: vocals
Vic DiCara: guitars
Tim Cohen: bass
Matt Cross: drums
200 solid yellow, exclusive to Revelation Records
100 orange translucent/black marble, exclusive to Reality Records
100 transparent blue marble, exclusive to the House of Devarishi
100 solid red
Curse of Instinct
Coptic Times
Blood
Pyro Stoke
The Bars
