Iron Lung Mixtape I

Iron Lung Records recently put together this mixtape of bands and friends of the label, 20 bands with 1 unreleased track each. Like any good mixtape this has a really diverse collection of songs on it. The stand outs for me are the tracks from Slices, Solutions, Cold Sweat, Walls and Mind Eraser but if you've been reading this blog for a while that would come as no surprise. This was worth buying for the unreleased Cold Sweat track alone, it's a live recording of them covering Black Flag's "I've Heard It Before". Of course the Iron Lung track rules but at 15 seconds long you could almost miss it if you weren't paying attention.

Iron Lung Records have a stack of new releases coming out that I can't wait to hear. Unfortunately if you haven't already got this one, you missed out. All 500 copies sold out pretty quick. You can of course listen to the whole tape below or download from Terminal Escape.

  v/a- Iron Lung Mixtape I Side A by Iron Lung Records

  v/a- Iron Lung Mixtape I Side B by Iron Lung Records

Mentally Challenged

Here's some 7"s I scored off ebay. I'm pretty sure this is the guitarist from Mind Eraser's band and possibly the drummer too, though it sounds nothing like that band. It's more of a noisy chaotic hardcore punk sound. Really weird stuff. There's some songs up on their myspace if you want to check them out.

Mentally Challenged - Doctors Lawyers Cops + Priests 7"
No idea on the pressing info for this. Doesn't seem to be on a label so maybe it was self released. The B- side is a cover of The Misfits "Bloodfeast".

Mentally Challenged - Disappeared b/w Surveillance 7"

Released on Deer Healer Records and limited to 300 copies.

I've been trying to collect all the Dear Healer singles and now all I need is that damn Dry Rot one. Whoever runs that label has great taste in music.