Ice Age - Dead Kings

Ice Age is a band from my home town of Smithtown NY. They have members from Backup Plan, This is Hell, and Subterfuge. Backup Plan was one of my favorite bands from the late 90s and early 2000s. So when I heard that both Jeff and Chris were involved in this band, I just knew for sure it would be great. Another interesting thing about this band was Rick was playing guitar. And back around the same time he played guitar in another great local band called Her Last Words. He plays guitar in This is Hell, but that's a newer band. Ice Age is like a 10 year old match made in heaven.

Think Fast! Records , the same label that put out This is Hell's album Weight of the World, just released Ice Age's full length called Dead Kings. I think this is their first release. Maybe they did a demo, but I'm not really sure. Chris(drummer) is an old friend of mine from when he played in another local band named Anterrabae. I saw him back in march at a bar and he told me he was doing this band, but I didn't really research till I heard they were putting out the full length on Think Fast. So as soon as it went up for pre-order, I was on top of it. One cool thing about Think Fast is their prices are usually incredible. I mean where else can you get a brand new piece of colored vinyl for 8 bucks? It's really obvious that these guys just love putting out music, and the money is really not that important. Get the music out, get your money back, maybe make a couple of bucks if you're lucky, but really just support and do what you love. Now that's what it's really all about. So the record came in the other day and it's looking great.

One awesome thing about this release is if you pre-ordered it, it came with a silk screened print #ed and signed by the screener. The photo on this print was done by a friend of mine Wendi Schoenfeld. A talented photographer, that unfortunately happens to be a mets fan...hey, we're not all perfect.

The other color Think Fast pressed was a 50/50 black and red. You know these types of color pressings usually cost a lot, and that just makes the 8$ price tag even more amazing.


If you want to pick up this release you can do so in the Think Fast webstore. I suggest you give it a shot.

A Lot of Danzig

So about 2 weeks ago there was this lot of 5 Danzig shirts on ebay. It really didn't give that great of a description of each shirt, so I figured I'd put in a decent bid and if I grabbed it cool. Truthfully I wasn't that crazy about the lot cause they were 3 XL T-Shirts and 2 XL long sleeves. I can wear the long sleeves, but not the T-Shirts. I did think I could give my brother one for his birthday, cause he wears XL, which was a good bonus. So I dropped a bid in of like 70 bucks and wouldn't you know it, I won it for $32! Sweet deal, but I didn't know exactly how sweet it was.....feel that anticipation? Yeah it's awesome. OK let's take a look shall we?

I'll go in order from least to greatest. First let's start out with this circle of snakes T-Shirt. Now when I looked at the picture of the lot, I actually thought this was one of the long sleeve shirts. So I was pleasantly surprised when I opened the box and saw that it was a T-Shirt. Why? Cause it isn't too great of a shirt. Maybe I'll wear it to sleep in or something.

Next up I'll go with another T-Shirt. This one I knew about. I wasn't exactly sure what was written on the back, but I knew the era. 1996. And that's the only reason I put it second on this list and not first. Cause it's older.

Shirt numero 3. This one is also unwearable cause of the 3/4 sleeves, but still cool, and semi rare. I actually saw this shirt go for like 35 a few weeks ago. Turns out the seller considered this one of the long sleeve shirts...damn, that sucked.

The second best shirt of the lot, or what I will call number 4, is actually a shirt I already have. It's the Satan's Child tour long sleeve from 99. But I have it in Large, and with a long sleeve shirt, I usually wear XL. But lately I've been losing weight. In fact I haven't weighed this little since high school. So the large fit decently, but I was still excited for the XL cause you never know with XL long sleeves. They could be huge, or they could be a little bigger than the large. Well this one was perfect! I think I would have paid 32 bucks just for this shirt.

And the last shirt, the one I gave to Tom, was easily the best shirt of the bunch. Not only was it the oldest, but also the most legit. This is the classic Danzig Skull tee licensed by Brockum. They did this particular one in 1994. In 1995 they also did this same shirt, but the Danzig on the back was written in red. That's the last time Brockum did a Danzig shirt. This shirt, in this condition which happens to be great, could probably bring 35-40 bucks.

So all in all I got a great deal on this lot. For 42 bucks shipped, I picked up over a $100 worth of shirts. And I was able to grab a birthday present for my bro which he says he loves.

On a side note, I'd like to thank Napoleon for lending me his bed to take these pictures. It was very helpful.

MIICCCHHHAAAA!!!!!

OK let's make this a weekend of blog posts. I'm going to be sitting at this computer the whole weekend anyway, so why not just throw in a bunch of blog posts. I'll try and limit the Danzig shirt posts to just one gigantic one. So much insane danzig related stuff came in it's just stupid. ok lets get started...

Integrity's Those Who Fear Tomorrow from 93 got repressed by Crime Scene Merch. I still can't believe I got the most limited version considering I ordered way late, and there was only 200 pressed. This is the rarest one correct? Well either way I'm pretty happy. CSM did an excellent job on this release.

The gatefold has this cool painting on the inside. Was this on the original? Never had the original pressing of this thing.



This is my favorite Integrity record. No doubt about it. I don't think I can get into the new Integrity. But this record I've been playing for 15 years. Never gets old. Good way to get the juices flowing at work. Gets me in the mood to yell at people. Love that.

Danzig III How The Pink Kills It

Been a while since I posted. Definitely need to step it up. Got big things working so I'm slacking a bit. But I'll make it happen. Let's start with this incredible shirt that came in the mail today.

Danzig - How the Gods Kill tour shirt. What a sick looking shirt. I mean damn, this thing is so nice. It's extremely tough to find a shirt that's this old and still in good enough shape to wear. This is one of them that's good enough.

That print is totally mint too.

Something very cool happened with this shirt. In the auction they didn't have a pic of the back. Now I knew this was a tour shirt, but I wasn't sure if it had all the dates on it as well. So when I got it, I was pretty damn happy.

Something of note on a personal level. Tom and I made the decision to give it one more year in the current place. We got something big working for LP. I didn't think we were going to attempt another monster addition to this site but it seems as though we are. When I have more info I will post it here.

Also since I have like a million prints, I've started to hang them up in this place. Maybe I do a post showing everything I have up. Could be fun. OK later.

Explosivo! - ...if the Devil Had a Guitar

About a month ago I heard that Mike from Dead Broke Records, a small label here on LI, wanted to release an album called Explosivo! If the devil had a guitar. This album was recorded about 10 years ago and just got buried. Explosivo then broke up and the members formed bands like Iron Chic, Small Arms Dealer, and The Devil Himself. Well for a while Tom and I have really wanted to contribute and help out the LI scene with a small label that released LI bands. Unfortunately, we really don't have the time to run our own label. While it seems easy to just "start a label!" it's a rather frustrating process that can really consume a lot of your life. And I have no life to spare right now. So instead we decided to just seek out projects that we like from labels/bands on LI that are looking for a little help with promotion or money. Well Mike was using Kickstarter for this project, so I thought maybe he needed some help. I know it's tough to press a 10 year old album, from a band that broke up, and basically never heard of when they were around ahha. Seemed like this was the perfect opportunity to help out a buddy of mine and start the ball rolling on the "supporting LI from the inside" project. So I contacted Mike, told him we could go half, and blingo! Explosivo - If the Devil Had a Guitar was a go. It's going to be a pretty limited vinyl release. Not sure of the number right now. Maybe 250-350. 1 color and 1 black I think. Handmade covers and artwork like only DBR can do. Should be very fun. I'm really excited to see it happen.

I have a full stream of this album up on the Limited Pressing homepage if you'd like to listen. The band sounds something like Iron Chic or Latterman. If you're familiar with this genre of music, which is basically modern pop punk, I think you'll be impressed by how long ago this album was recorded, and how new the style sounds. A lot of bands now a days are using that Chuck Ragan type of vocals. But this was 10 years ago. Very ahead of their time. So give it a shop if you got a few minutes. Thanks a lot!

Danzig Prints and a Trip to CT

Yesterday Tom, Brian, Napoleon, and I took a little trip to Redscroll Records in New Haven CT. This is a great shop that I've only been to once before. They have tons of vinyl there and they really concentrate on Punk and Hardcore. The reason I took the long drive up there though(3 hours) was not the vinyl. It was because Brian told me that they got a ton of framed prints in recently 6 of which I was told were Danzig related. So I did some research and decided that the price they were asking, and the prints/posters they had available, made the trip worth it. Plus they just opened up a Sonic down the road from there. That's the reason everyone else decided they wanted to come with me btw.

So let's take a look at what I picked up. First one I grabbed was this Danzig II 12" x 12" Cardboard promotional print released in 1990.

Basically this is just the front of the vinyl jacket from Danzig II, but if you look closely, the matting and framing that was done to it makes it look pretty incredible. It's a 16 x 16 frame with 2 ply matting(red and black).

Next is a 12 x 12 cardboard promo from the Danzig - Satan's Child album, aka Danzig 6:66 released in 1999.

While this album is not one of my favorites, I do like the design and the print looks great framed. It also has 3 ply matting, Black, light green, and red.

Looks like the print needs to be adjusted a little. I'll have to fix that.

The third one is a 12 x 12 cardboard print released in 1994 for promotion of the Danzig 4p album. Now what's interesting about this one is it's not the album cover artwork which is the Danzig skull above Danzig spelled out in some old german medieval language. Instead of that they used the Skull Yang logo that's on the inside of the album, which was designed by comic book artist Michael Kaluta. For some reason redscroll believed this was done by Pushead. I don't think Pushead did anything for Danzig. Either way though it's really an awesome logo design.

Another cool part about this print is there's a back design to it as well. It's just a simple black and white Danzig 4p logo like the one of my long sleeve.


This one has 3 ply matting as well.

And lastly is my favorite pick up. This is a promotional poster for Danzig III, aka How the Gods Kill, released back in 92. Now the cardboard promo for this album was 12x12, just like the others, that's why I'm pretty sure it's a poster. I haven't opened it yet, but I'm about 99% sure.


Pretty great size too at 16" x 30". I also love the purple which they've used throughout the promotional process for this album. And of course the Giger dagger is totally sick. If you read my How the Gods Kill tour long sleeve post, you know I'm a huge fan of this design. This poster looks a little wavy in the picture. In reality though it's barely noticeable. The flash on the camera accents the small wave in the poster...hmmm you know what, this proves without opening it, that it's a poster. Well at least that's settled.


So I think I picked up some really cool framed prints for my place in october. I'm starting to feel like my place is going to be a shrine to Danzig though. I may have to even this out with some hardcore/punk memorabilia. Not exactly sure what though.

There's one more part of this trip that I'd like to talk about. Sonic Drive In. Now I've only been to this place twice before. Both times with Tom and Napoleon. This time we brought Brian who had never been there. I was real excited to get one of those toasted bacon cheeseburgers. When I got there though, I was just hoping I'd be able to order my food before they closed! Turns out the grand opening was THAT day. How about this for a line!?

#17 - On the Might of Princes - Where You Are....

On the Might of Princes - Where You Are and Where You Want To Be

Released by Traffic Violation Records in 2002

This album took me a few years to really fall for. I think in 2002 I was a pretty jaded and pissed dude. I didn't like who I was. And I didn't like who everyone else was becoming. I was totally stuck. When this album came out, and the album that came out shortly before this one, Thursday - Full Collapse, I was like, "Seriously? This is what we're doing now?" Do I blame myself for thinking that closed minded shit? Nah, not really. I was a product of my surroundings. And all I surrounded myself with was Exit/Wreck-age. There was a stretch of about 5 or 6 years where I had the same 12 disks in my car cd changer. They never moved. And 1-3 were Silent Majority. Once I realized that the 90s were over, say around 2004 haha, I really started to love a bunch of albums I missed. Where You Are, and Where You Want To Be is definitely on that list with Thursday - Full Collapse. I'm not saying it's on the same level as FC. Don't get me wrong here, Full Collapse is basically and all time great album. It's probably the greatest album of its genre. But I reacted the same way to it. I misunderstood it in the same way. This whole screamo genre got my nuts all twisted up. If only someone would have picked a better name! Now a days I can like bands like I Robot, or Saetia. I can listen to them and enjoy them. I've learned to understand them better. But this album is different. This is more toward the Full Collapse side of Emo/Screamo or whatever you want to call it. That's the side I've really learned to love and appreciate.

Lets talk about this album's spot on the list. I think this definitely could have been higher on someone else's LI list. Someone that started to go to shows in say 2000 maybe. Like I said, it hit me at a weird time. And I think this definitely gets in my Top 10 of the last 10 years. Probably top 5. Something else that's interesting to think about...what would have happened if they took either the 2 hardest songs out or the two slowest songs out, rearranged the remaining songs, and then put this LP out as an 8 song full length instead of a 10? I believe this change would've created a more fluent of an album. It seems like right now you get sort of derailed when you go from Old Wives Tale to An Allusion of Italy. It's more noticeable on CD for sure. On vinyl, after you listen to the charged up A side, it's easier to take a step back before you flip to B and listen to An Allusion of Italy. With a cd though there's no flip. You just go right from rocking the fuck out, to banjos for days.

I'm not speaking for anyone when I say this but you got to wonder if the shit they got for going to Revelation affected their writing. Sirens was a decent album, but it's nothing like this one. Did they try too hard? Did they want to prove something? People were cursing their future left and right when they went to Rev. Like Revs some giant label or something. It's a total joke. In my world, when you went to Revelation Records, you were a fucking hero. You DIDN'T sellout. You stayed true. These people out there think going to Rev was like going to TVT or some shit. Now that would have been selling out. TVT is a graveyard for goatees and earrings.

#16 is in the works.