Brutal Assault "Screaming Venges Demo"

Florida hardcore post #3. Jacksonville's own Brutal Assault.

With some of us here at PNP growing up in the 80's hardcore movement and/or punk rock scene, I was fortunate enough to be bestowed the honor of spending some of my pre-teen and teenage years in Florida, and being lucky enough to catch bands like Minor Threat, the Bad Brains, Black Flag, Butthole Surfers, Meatmen, Hated Youth, Government Issue, Circle Jerks, Gangreen, Dr. Know, Agnostic Front, Nuclear Assault, Death, Roach Motel, The Necros, Exploited, Husker Du, Scream, Fear etc...etc...etc... Some of these bands played in front of about 20 people due to the overwhelming moral majority vote for Jimmy Buffett and the Save The Manatee foundation. As Henry Rollins depicts in one of his books, Florida had one of the most violent hardcore scenes in the world. One that would bring national attention via Court TV. Rollins would eventually stop touring there with the Rollins Band, and the Circle Jerks stopped shows numerous times and in time stopped touring there as well. The same goes for so many other national acts due to the overwhelming violence in Florida. Some venues got shut down and others just went out of business and/or lost their licenses, and of course some went on to become very successful. And we all know what happened to South Beach... And what does this have to do with Brutal Assault you say? Other than they were one of many great bands from the 80's that were creating an essential soundtrack for kids like me, for no good goddamn reason other than to make a bunch of noise and to fucking maybe get on stage one day and get in the fucking pit. Well, they were from Northern Florida and this is one of the demo tapes that I had in my closet amongst hundreds of other demos from back in the day. The only artwork was a xerox of handwritten song titles, and the name of the demo, which were all misspelled. Doesn't get much more punk rock than that.


File Under: Backwoods Southern Fried Hardcore

Tracklist:

1) Zoom
2) Band Waggon
3) School
4) Shut Up
5) Provem Wrong
6) Your Gonna Die
7) Lier
8) Bullshit
9) Screw
10) Anarachist
11) Why
12) Sick
13) Serious Shit
14) Weekend Worrier


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