Burning Collateral

Last year I picked up the Collateral 7 inch from Scheme Records. I bought it on a whim and was pleasantly surprised. It's a really good straight forward hardcore record, so when I heard it mentioned on the 185 Miles South podcast that Collateral had a new split this year with Burning Lord, I quickly tracked down who was releasing it and preordered it.

Each band does three songs here, two new ones along with each of them doing a cover from the other band's demo. The songs from Collateral are good... a nice continuation of the rough and fast hardcore sound that they were doing with the 7 inch... but Burning Lord really surprised me. I guess that I was expecting it to have a really agressive metallic hardcore sound that leans heavy into the metal, but this is actually good. I can pin down what they sound like... musically maybe they have a bit of Best Wishes era Cro-Mags... I don't know, I just really enjoy these three songs a lot.

Tribe Dream did an exlusive "celtic green" splatter pattern that was limited to 100, so I grabbed that one.

Collateral Scheme

Last year, Scheme Records released the Wreckage 7 inch, Self In All, and I managed to miss out on both colored vinyl options. I love that record and don't want to settle for the black vinyl, so I've been waiting for one to show up on Discogs. I'm still here, 10 months later, still waiting empty handed. So when I was looking at the Scheme webstore again recently, bitter about missing that Wreckage record, and saw that they had a colored vinyl 7 inch from a band named Collateral, I bought it to heal old wounds.

I'd never even heard of Collateral, but Scheme seems like a hot new label, so I was interested to see what else they may be pushing... and with the description stating for fans of Straight Ahead, Outburst and Step Forward, they definitely had my attention.

This is a great hardcore record. 7 songs in 10 minutes... it comes in hard and fast and doesn't overstay its welcome. It's kind of perfect for right now.

Second press on green vinyl and limited to 250.