Distort X Lockdown
class warfare and cult hardcore
This is an extract from an upcoming book compiling all the better parts from Distort mag.
You can read more from the series below.
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DISTORT #58 (2021): This issue of Distort is about class warfare and cult hardcore.
The damage of 2 years of lockdown! I will never forgive. I will never forget. If you lived through it you’ll understand. Constant police harassment, soldiers door-knocking to make sure you’re home, curfews and the disintegration of the mental and physical health of an entire city. So many random acts of hostility and street beef. I listened to a lot of really unhealthy hardcore in this time. Hail YDI.
Bryony Beynon The Spiral Times wrote a piece about Ian Bone and the origins of Class War in the UK. I also interviewed Prostate, Oily Boys, Perspex and Sam Ryser (Crazy Spirit / Dripper World).
The internet does not exist in the hardcore of the future.
This is one of the only issues I still have in print, order here.
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This is an extract from a book compiling all the better parts from Distort mag. You can read more from the series below. Foundation subscribers to the Reverse Evolution substack get a lifetime sub to the Distort PDF Archive, or you can purchase that separately here:
Distort Archives: #7 2005 - Integrity, Abraxas Annihilation, Anton Szandor Lavey
Distort Archives: #8 2005 - h100's, Top Ten Unreleased HC records
Distort Archives: #9 Chris Colohan re: Left For Dead / Japanese hardcore rumourmill
Distort Archives: #10-12 10: Interview with Luke Dolan re: Arms Reach / writing on Schism Fanzine and racial politics and hardcore. 11: Masstrauma / Regulations / Thought Criminals / writing on 60's punk, Warning Fanzine, Peter Laughner, Hassan-I-Sabbah 12: Annihilation Time / Formaldehyde Junkies / World Burns To Death / Pisschrist tour photo diary
Distort Archives: #13-14 13: Extortion / The Mormons / Bill Bondsmen / Voices Wake Us / Cardiac Arrest / Out Cold 14: Cold Sweat / Subversion / The State / Distroy / bullshit on Black Flag
Distort Archives: #15-16 #15: Sex/Vid, Voorhees, Smash N Grab, Disclose / GISM collector scum guide by Spider. #16: Fucked Up / Writing on Clockcleaner, Draft Dodger, Poison Idea lyrics
Distort Archives: #17 Gag Reflex, Homostupids, Puncture Wound, Darvocets... and a couple lost notes on Darby Crash
Distort Archives: #18 (Straightjacket Nation US Tour Diary / Interviews with Condominium, Brain Handle
Distort Archives (#19, 21): #19 - Interviews with Lebenden Toten, Blank Stare, Homosexual Tourists, Napalm Hearts / a Hardcore 2008 rundown / RIP Ron Asheton and Lux Interior *** #21 (2009) - Interviews with Sex/Vid, Shock Values (Split with RATCHARGE fanzine)
Distort Archives: #22 (2009), #23 (2010) #22: Writing on the Christian hardcore of Dry Rot / loads of reviews #23: Interviews with Waste Management, Watery Love, Wasted Time / writing on Straightjacket Nation tour of SE Asia (Indo, Malaysia, Singapore)
Distort Archives #24 (2010) – KVLT SKRAPYARD - Ephemera related to AMDI PETERSENS ARME / ROKY ERICKSON/ LIPCREAM / VINNIE STIGMA / STOP AND THINK / NEGATIVE APPROACH / LARISSA STRICKLAND / THE STALIN / CRAIG SETARI / CHEETAH CHROME MOTHERFUCKERS / DISCHARGE / FLESH EATERS / SEX/VID
Distort Archives #26 (2010) Rikk Agnew
Distort Archives #28 (2010), #31 (2011) - #28: Royal Headache, Lou Barlow, Born Bad, Scarcity Of Tanks, Criminal Damage, Video Disease, No Tolerance, Rival Mob, Home Blitz #31: interview with Iron Curtain, Poikkeus / writing on Flesh World, Inmates, FU's, Black Flag, Condominium, Crazy Spirit, Nightprowler, Waste Management, Sweet Tooth, Royal Headache, William S Burroughs, Dennis Hopper, Siltbreeze, Pisschrist
Distort Archives: #32 (2010) & #33 (2010) h100's / Integrity / Left For Dead / Formaldehyde Junkies / Mormons / Lebenden Toten / Sex Vid / Fucked Up
Distort Archives: #36 (2011) Naked On The Vague / Crazy Spirit / Negative Guest List / Puffy Areolas / Rival Mob / Mike Rep / Billy Bao / Boston Strangler, etc.
Distort Archives: #37 (2013) - Interviews with: Eddy Current Suppression Ring / Brainwashed Youth / Lakes / Bloodclot Faggots / the Inmates / Stab / Negative Guest List Writing on: The Stains / the Kinks / Folded Shirt / Iron Age / Degreaser / Kriegshog / Artificial Peace
Distort Archives: #38 (2013) - Writing on Mugger / Ilegal / CCR / Rule of Thirds / Peste / Absurdo / Holy Terror (Gehenna / Catharsis / Inside Front) / Ausmuteants / Discipline Mag / Low Life / Peacebreakers
Distort Archives: #41 (2013) - Featuring interviews with The Hunches, Night Prowler and Aaron Aspinwall. Writing on Harry Crews, Repairs, Lost Domain, Waste Management, Factorymen, Jackman, Harald Grosskopf, Whores, Inservibles, Vile Gash, Schizophasia, Bits of Shit, Salvation, No Balls.
DISTORT Archives #42 (2013) - Features interviews with Omegas, The Throb, Beastianity, Red Red Krovvy, Drew Gates and NS Mayhem. Writing on E.M. Cioran, Justin Fuller, Oily Boys, Wet Cloth, Soma Coma, Hyperspace Vision, Croation Amor, LR, X-TG / Throbbing Gristle, Lakes, The Clean, Constant Mongrel, U202, Destruction Unit.
Distort Archives #43 (2014) - Dribble / Gutter Gods, Lakes, Puce Mary, Oily Boys, Low Life, Vanessa Amara, Lucy Cliche, Prolife and author S.T. Lore.
Distort Archives #44 (2014) - Dribble / Gutter Gods, Jon Roffe, HTRK, Constant Mongrel, Loke Rahbek, Ray Brassier and Jock Club.
Distort Archives #46 (2014) - Crisis
Distort Archives #47 (2014) - Brando's Island, Justin K Fuller, Moon Rituals, Jess Johnson, YDI, Glue, Blotter, Puce Mary, Culo, Martyr Privates, Goosebumps
Distort Archives #48 (2015) “A tribute to Al Montfort, Snake, who has spent the last decade playing in some of Melbourne's most active underground bands - Straightjacket Nation, The UV Race, Total Control, Dick Diver, East Link and Lower Plenty.”
Distort Archives #51, 52 (2017) Melbourne (Jim McCullough/Civic), Sydney (Orion, Royal Headache, Crime Spree, Nasho, Fatalitas, Bb & The Blips) Queensland (Comrad Xero, Pious Faults, Sex Drive)
Distort Archives #53 (2018) A 20K word poem / spoken word in Tokyo with Iceage, writing on Deathside, David Bowie, Down&Out, Milk Music/Mystic100's
Distort Archives #54 (2019) Distort Cleveland
Distort Archives #55 (2019) Total Control lyrics