We walk into the Long Island Hardcore Record Store and head straight past all your boring obvious melodic choices to select the rarest and possibly strangest LIHC record of them all. Shrieks, stomps, space-outs and more. Join us as we collect the unique sounds of Scapegrace.

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First Seven Inch Club - Episode 18 - Scapegrace

This week we finally decide to author a Manual of Style for anyone looking to become a top flight hardcore lyricist. We also spend some time unpacking the unsettling eruption of bands worshipping a single scene from The Outsiders. Get ready to X up again with internet-mysterious straightedge newschoolers DAYSGONE.

First Seven Inch Club - Episode 17 - Daysgone

This week we see how we feel about some comparatively lighter fare from a Long Island band with on a puzzling band name journey - later known as Rahim. Will this art punk awaken the hidden Milemarker fans within us?

First Seven Inch Club - Episode 16 - Radio Raheem

Today we get to know a band who seamlessly blend elements of death metal and crust with some very serious grievances with jesus christ and all the shit he has going on. A whole genre lost in time like tears in rain.

First Seven Inch Club - Episode 15 - Tho Ko Losi

Today we probe into the mysteries of a clandestine masked band operating in the late 90s dutch youth crew scene. We find connections that will blow your mind. Commitment Records masked recording artists X-MEN plus very brief Don Johnson chat. Not much, I assure you. Just a touch.

First Seven Inch Club - Episode 14 - X-Men

This week we bend the rules just a li'l bit to cover a band who were better known for a 12" than this 7" but hey, it's our show. Michigan screamy hardcore legends with a troublesome name will make you think twice about being a capitalist war monger.

First Seven Inch Club - Episode 13 - Jihad

This week we wade into controversial territory by discussing an era of music we are not entirely equipped to discuss... 2002's self titled record by (possibly) New Hampshire's The:Enclitic, chaotic screamy grind who found their way onto the absolutely legendary roster of Deep Six Records.

First Seven Inch Club - Episode 12 - The:Enclitic

This week we cut very close to the bone by discussing a record that is literally precious and essential to one member of the team - 1993's "Numb" by the bicoastal debatably screamo band CAMPAIgN. Please be sure to check our youtube and instagram for scans of the many... many... included pages.

First Seven Inch Club - Episode 11 - CAMPAIgN

This week we abstain from all substances to interrogate the Cleveland Straight Edge in the form of NAMES FOR GRAVES, a very tough to research band who brought a li'l poetry to their stance against party poisons and sellouts. Will you mosh? NOT SURE!

First Seven Inch Club - Episode 10 - Names for Graves

This week bring you one of the earliest releases from the label we keep bringing up without context - Admiral "Revolving and Loading", the second record ever released on Ebullition. Dark truths about each member of the First Seven Inch Club will be revealed. Bet!

First Seven Inch Club - Episode 9 - Admiral

This week we dig up a crusty, murky artifact from smack dab in the middle of several sprawling and impressive discography... REDRUM featuring members of Municipal Waste, Grief, Burnt By The Sun, Hemlock, Cattlepress, dude there's too many... Dave Witte is in the band and he's been in every band even your band. Dude...

First Seven Inch Club Episode 8 - Redrum

This week we are sitting down to think about sex crimes and their after effects with two scene-famous legends flexing their metal muscles on a 7" that may or may not have an alternate version containing a drum count off. Rare!!

First Seven Inch Club - Episode 7 - God Forgot

Today we tempt fate by taking on a lesser known record from a hardcore-famous person's discography.... COUNTDOWN TO OBLIVION featuring members of The Swarm, Left for Dead, Brutal Knights, One Blood, and every other band of the great white north besides Sloan.

First Seven Inch Club - Episode 6 - Countdown to Oblivion

We conclude our first Connecticut Cycle with very locally influential dose of official mosh and I'm talking like the jun jun jun jun mosh that you probably thought you were kidding about but this is NO JOKE. It is time to suffer in the crumbling blood of decay with DIVIDED BY HATE.

First Seven Inch Club - Episode 5 - Divided By Hate

This week we dust off another artifact of Mike's yung hardcore journey - Thenceforward "From Within" on Phyte Records. This canary walked into the coalmine of early metalcore and didn't quite survive, but will it's dying screams echo into future ears? Only our amorphous rating system can decide.

First Seven Inch Club - Episode 4 - thenceforward

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