BUILT TO LAST

in the mid 90's i used to see built to last play at the danville grange (RIP) when they'd drive up from san diego for shows, usually with their "brotherhood crew" mates, forced life (who were a much more brutal band featuring tommy engler who went on to form dodgin' bullets, and a very scary looking tall dude whose name i don't know). built to last are straight forward hardcore and from what i know they're still doing their thing. you can check out their myspace here. members went on to form indecision records band over my dead body and boxcar racer. i remember meeting them a few times and they were a nice bunch of dudes. vocalist burt manages the music trader record store in san diego. my favorite record by them by far is still "loyalty and betrayal" which was released on resurrection AD. a great straightforward fast hardcore record with catchy choruses, lots of gang vocals, and tough breakdowns, this became an instant staple for me. at the end of the record they cover "new direction" by gorilla biscuits and the secret track "it's on fire" was commonly requested at shows. i used to bump this all the time in high school though it's now way out of print. luckily for you, i've uploaded it here:

Built To Last - "Loyalty and Betrayal"

i had the unreleased forced life record at one point as well but i guess i lost it. oh well. if i find it i'll edit the post later and add a link to that too.
EDIT: i still haven't been able to track down that record but here's the song they put on the california hardcore comp that nick martinson put out:
Forced Life - "Strength by Sanity"
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welcome to my music blog! - UNDYING

hello everyone!

i've decided to make a blog dedicated solely to sharing my knowledge of music with the world since the topic of music alone would take up way too much space in my regular blog were i to combine it with the other topics of my day-to-day life. i've also decided not to capitalize anything in this blog because i am lazy. i've also realized in the past minute and a half of writing this that in reality only about two people will end up reading this thing anyway but my hope is that i'll have enough cool stuff on here that people will be able to find it should they look for it via google blog search or what have you. for those who don't know, google blog search is a great way to find almost any song or record you've ever wanted. just go to google.com and under the "more" search options link at the top of the page (i.e. web, images, maps, news...), simply scroll down to blogs. what it does is it searches only blogs and the reason it rules is because it's becoming popular to upload songs or even entire albums via rapidshare, megaupload, yousendit, mediafire, etc. and post the link on a blog for the world to enjoy. i realize this contributes to file sharing and pirating music and therefore screws over people like me who make their living off of music but it's still pretty cool and nothing is going to stop it anyway. besides, i've never seen a dime of royalty money and probably never will anyway, so who cares! i probably won't be uploading too many whole discographies or stuff that's still in print or anything like that on here because (thanks to google blog search), most stuff you can find if you look around. i plan on sticking to the more obscure and hard to find stuff that i've acquired over the years.

that being said, i'd like to move on to a band known as undying.

undying were a vegan "drug free" (edit) metalcore group from raleigh, NC, who broke up a few years ago, influenced greatly by the writings of daniel quinn and the musical stylings of bands like my dying bride and day of suffering, adding their own hardcore/thrash twist. if you wish to learn more about their music and what they were about, you can check out their myspace here. it took me a couple years to come around to this band at first but they have long since one of my favorites of the genre. every year there are less and less bands with a message and they were one of the last great ones. sucks they're gone now but you can relive the experience here thanks to teh internetz! here we have their live set from hellfest in 2001:

Undying - "Hellfest 2001"

i didn't record this but this was one of the many times i saw undying live. the quality isn't the best but it's not the worst either. you can tell what's going on and it's not half bad considering it's live and there were probably like 2,000 kids knocking into whoever recorded it regardless of where they were standing hahaha

undying released "this day all gods die" in 1999, and "the whispered lies of angels" in 2000. if anyone would like either of these records, leave a comment on this post and i'll post an upload link. this is a demo track that was circulated online prior to the release of their final record, "at history's end" in 2003. undying broke up in april of 2006.

Undying - "As Above (Demo Version)"

if you'd like me to send/upload material from an artist, just contact me or leave a comment requesting the record(s) you want and i'll upload the link or send you the files.

that's all for now, kiddos... enjoy!

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