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Hello and welcome to another edition of the Sorry State newsletter! Sorry we didn’t get a newsletter out last week. After doing our big year-end roundup for the previous newsletter, I was totally fried. May or may not have had a mini nervous breakdown early in the week, but never mind that… we’re back in gear this week with a ton of cool new stuff to share with you. Like this new Dissekerad LP, which is a fucking ripper if I’ve ever heard one. It doesn’t stop there, either, so read on for all the info!
January 20 2022
Dissekerad: Inre Strid 12” (Desolate Records) God damn, the new Dissekerad is a scorcher! This Swedish hardcore band, which features Poffen from Totalitär on vocals, released their first record back in 2013 and has continued pounding out 7”s and 12”s ever since, with new records appearing at a frequency that belies their brilliance. This new one, Inre Strid, might be the crown jewel, or maybe it’s the one I’m most excited about it right now because it’s fresh to my ears… either way, it’s a ripper! There are a lot of bands in the world who attempt this style of Swedish mängel (I might even be in one…), but Dissekerad’s take is just perfect, traditional with the furious d-beats and sinister riffing you expect from the style, but with enough flourish and personality that you know it’s them from the first note. I like that Dissekerad isn’t afraid to mix in a little metal, with a midrange-y guitar tone, a lot of fast tremolo picking, and the occasional wild guitar solo, but there’s none of metal’s grandiosity… everything serves the relentless, bashing rhythms. While highlights abound, my favorite moment is the straight up bonkers riff that drives “Idioter,” a hideous barrage of slides and pull-offs that perfectly combines savagery and precision. Inre Strid is all fire, though, and a must-hear for anyone who likes their hardcore mean and nasty.
Coming Soon
We have a few things that are on the horizon for the Sorry State label, but not quite ready for a full-on announcement, so here’s a quick tease. We have about half of a fresh pressing of Golpe’s album in-house now, but we’re waiting for more poster inserts to be printed before we can put them up for sale. There are two versions, both on color vinyl and one limited to 100 copies, so watch for that to go on sale soon. We also have test pressings for a couple of upcoming releases for Invalid and Hüstler. Hopefully we can get those approved for a late winter / early spring release. And besides that we have a few tape releases that are at the duplicator or just ready to be sent off. It’s looking like 2022 will be Sorry State’s busiest year yet as a label, so I hope all of you are down to come along on the journey.
Since we took last week off, we have a couple of hardcore knockouts to share with you. We’re in Sweden for one, and Italy for the other. Both feature one record I love and one record I need to spend more time with, so I’ll control my usual impulse to tell you my opinion on these match-ups.
Cast your vote in the next edition of Hardcore Knockouts on our Instagram stories next Tuesday!
My pick from Sorry State’s Discogs listings this week is the Bad Reputation 7” by Annihilation Time. I know most people ride for II as the ultimate Annihilation Time record, but I always loved the band’s two 7” EPs. This EP sounded so fresh when it came out, their first with Jimmy on vocals and the first to lean into the rock and roll influences that would come to dominate their sound. This one still sounds great to me today.
Remember, you can always combine your order from Sorry State’s Discogs site with your order from our webstore and save on shipping!
- Karma Sutra: Be Cruel With Your Past… 12” (Sealed Records)
- Torso: Sono Pronto A Morire 12” (Sorry State)
- Game: Legerdemain 12” (Quality Control HQ)
- Home Front: Think of the Lie 12” (La Vida Es Un Mus)
- The Chisel: Retaliation 12” (La Vida Es Un Mus)
- Reckoning Force: Broken State 12” (Not for the Weak Records)
- Asylum: Is This the Price? 7” (Sealed Records)
- Tempter: S/T 12” (Quality Control HQ)
- Tower 7: Peace on Earth? 12” (Roach Leg Records)
- Anti-Cimex: The 7” EPs Collection 7” box set (Sonarize Records)
It’s been a few weeks since we gave you a chart of the best-selling releases at Sorry State, and there’s been a shake-up in the rankings since we last checked in.
Neon Taste Records has a few new items for us this week. If you liked that Imploders 7” they released (it was one of Seth’s picks for his favorites of the year), the band just released a new live on the radio tape that features a handful of new tracks. There’s also a fresh repress of the killer Bootlicker LP, this time on purple vinyl.
From Unlawful Assembly we just got in a repress of the Alambrada 7” (I saw this on a lot of year-end lists) and a new 7” from Fashion Change. Quantities on both are very limited, so scoop them quick!
Drunken Sailor Records has two new ones for us: a new LP from Atlanta’s Näg and a 7” from Melbourne’s Mr. Teenage.
Invertebrates is a new Richmond band featuring a bunch of Sorry State family, including two members of Public Acid. We’re down to our last couple of copies of this tape, but if you miss out, you can watch for a repress of the tape on Sorry State in the coming months!
We just got in a heap of releases from Loopy Scoop Tapes, including several releases from house band Zhoop.
Necro Heads from Pittsburgh have a new 7” and it is a total shredder… classic, early 80s-style hardcore.
We just got the new issue of Destroy Everything, a punk-related art zine curated by Winston Smith, designer of the classic Dead Kennedys album sleeves. It’s a full-color mag and a total visual feast!
One of my favorite current bands, Personal Damage, has a new cassette out and it shreds! FFO of Circle Jerks and Angry Samoans.
Static Shock brings us a three-song cassette from the new Berlin-based band Glaas. Dense, compelling music that rides the line between punk and post-punk.
Two North Carolina classics, Corrosion of Conformity’s Animosity and Technocracy albums, have official represses on Metal Blade. We hate the high prices on these, but the music is untouchable. And the Technocracy reissue features the bonus tracks with Mike Dean on vocals, which are some of my favorite COC recordings.
And finally, the new issue of My War zine is out now, featuring interviews with a bunch of folks including Ian Mackeye and ME, Daniel from Sorry State. A logical pairing, right?