At my count this is the third and by far the best edition of the complete discography from the almighty Bulldoze, released earlier this year by Trip Machine Laboratories. If you've been living under a rock for the last 10—15 years and remain unaware, the DMS-affiliated Bulldoze had their original run in the early- to mid-90's cranking out crushing metallic hardcore packed with mosh-inducing midpaced grooves and a burly, stomping approach that basically birthed the "beatdown" style for which they and so many bands to follow have become become known—thus having had a fairly significant influence on legions of "toughguy" hardcore acts ever since. Members went on to form Train of Thought, Agents of Man, Terror Zone, and Homicidal, and Bulldoze has reunited for live performances a few times over the years (it's rumored that they're going to play again this year, in fact).
As with the prior issues of this collection, the disc contains their demo, 7", and tracks from the "New York's Hardest" compilation, but now there's a full live set (as opposed to just the four songs that appeared on the last Time Served Records repress of this disc around 2003 or so) recorded at The Wetlands in 1995 (complete with a cover of Breakdown's classic "Sick People" to close things out) for a total of 19 tracks in about 73 minutes. Plus there's an hour-long DVD that includes the aforementioned Wetlands show and another set from the summer of 2005 at CBGB (which they open up with a quick shot of Dmize's "DMS" intro)... all wrapped up in a much tighter and more consistent layout than the pressings that preceded it. Lyrics, flyers, photos, it's all here. I can't imagine what more anyone could ask for...
Growing up, pain was my best friend. Things have changed, for no apparent reason. My heart's turned to ice, don't ask me why. Just stay on your back, and look at the sky...
Bulldoze "Bulldoze"
Bulldoze "Nothing But a Beatdown"
Comments
i had no idea there were three discography CDs out of these guys AND no clue Trip Machine was releasing records again. i still have the demo + 7” from when i saw them years ago. i’ll probably look into buying this for sure. Bulldoze were one of my favorite bands to see (and they played a lot) with Madball, District 9 and Crown of Thornz.
9.24.2007 | By cja
Terror Zone was the shit!
9.24.2007 | By Carlos
Thanx for linking us up! CD is classic. I saw them at superbowl of HC a few years back and it was pure madness.
9.24.2007 | By ems
One of the best bands ever.
9.24.2007 | By xBenx
Word, Ben. Gotta love this package, there’s all that you can ever need from Bulldoze!
9.25.2007 | By markusxKTL
this band tought us that a cymbal stand is a very effective weapon
10.3.2007 | By jay destro
fuck man, so glad i read this post. just found an mp3 of ‘All I Have’ on my PC that I’ve had lying around for a couple of years now. Searched the net for the release name, found your review of the last discography, was like ‘ahhh bet that’s hard to find again now’, clicked back to the MP3 blog and here’s a new disco! what luck haha. hope you solve your net problems soon dude, you write better than most.
11.2.2007 | By Chris