Ironside. "Ecstatic Ritual" CD. Who's got it?
Posted on Sunday, July 20th, 2008 @ 9:16 pm » permalinkI just discovered this band this morning thanks to Am I Mean? (by way of Zen and the Art of Face Punching), who described it dead on the fucking money as "the UK's answer to Mayday". Then I did some searching and learned that they had a semi-discography CD called "Ecstatic Ritual" out on Lifeforce Records way back when, but it's out of print and apparently hard as shit to find now. Yet I must have it. How the hell I never heard of this band before today is inconceivable to me. Just… wrong. If anyone has this CD and can hit me up with quality mp3's… please. Please. Thank you.
July 21st, 2008 @ 4:54 am
http://www.xconditionedx.blogspot.com/
I found the link here but it's currently unavailable.
July 21st, 2008 @ 6:38 am
Yeah, I found that too, but sadly I think "unavailable" means "gone".
July 21st, 2008 @ 8:23 am
I have it Andrew, i'll upload it later. These guys were my second favourite band (to integ, of course) in the 90's. The ironside vocalist/sometime guitarist Arms currently plays guitar in The Horror with ex-Voorhees dudes. Only saw these guys the other week with Negative Approach and they were smart.
July 21st, 2008 @ 2:13 pm
thanks for the link connect!
I missed this one over at Am I Mean?… Will have to check it based on your glowing review.
July 24th, 2008 @ 3:07 am
where is the album POI? :)
July 24th, 2008 @ 4:23 am
Carlos, I'm going to do a proper post on Ironside in the near future. I'm still trying to track down the two songs from their final 7", and once I do, I'll get everything up here with a write-up on the band (which I'm somewhat in the midst of putting together already). Keep an eye out!
July 24th, 2008 @ 1:16 pm
Great! Can't wait. I must find this CD somewhere. It's really killing me that there is so much great (old) band I don't know.
July 25th, 2008 @ 6:18 am
Now we just need a Mayday thread and i'll be content!
July 25th, 2008 @ 7:04 pm
Andrew, for some reasons I can´t upload anything from my notebook. it terminates the connection everytime I try to upload the 2nd IRONSIDE 7"! I´ll send you the link as soon as I figured out why I can´t upload anything or as soon as I got my pc fixed!
July 28th, 2008 @ 4:09 am
got their "damn your bloody eyes" 7" in '95, played it on 33rpm: too slow, impossibly heavy. turned to 45rpm, but it actually IS 33rpm!
"these raging shadows
that follow my despair
attack my very structure
already so beyond repair
this picture perfect
eyes glazed in hollow tombs
like a crippled fetus
encased in a healthy womb"
("a woman")
July 28th, 2008 @ 8:20 am
I had the same issue when I first got hold of the Winter LP, Into darkness. I must've played the whole of side A on 45, still thinking FUCK THIS IS SOME SLOW SHIT RIGHT HERE.
August 3rd, 2008 @ 8:31 am
thought you might be interested in some follow-up info on Ironside, what the former members are up to:
Arms (singer) went on to play guitar for Voorhees and now plays guitar in The Horror
Nick (drums) sang for Unborn (also in Lifeforce records), played in various Sore Throat line-ups, played in Cracked Cop Skulls (with Napalm Death and Ripcord members i believe)
Doug (bass) went on to form Iron Monkey who did some records for Earache. Last time I saw him he was managing bands like Funeral For A Friend and Raging Speedhorn, or someone like that
Jim (guitar) went on to form Iron Monkey with Doug as well as the amazing Hard To Swalow. He now plays in Geriatric Unit with members of Heresy
Tom (guitar) played for Baby Harp Seal (Fugazi/ Hoover type stuff) who also recorded for Subjugation (Ironside's first home), relocated to Germany and played with Battle Royale (toured US in 05) and now in Cold War (Deep Six records)
August 3rd, 2008 @ 1:04 pm
Iron Monkey
6 6 6
!!!!!
August 5th, 2008 @ 9:30 am
ironside, unborn, voorhees, cracked cop skulls, the horror, geriatric unit, … man does guys are a reference for great music! speaking of which (great music not guys) does anyone can tell me what the almighty Kito have released (they were around in the days from ironside)?
cheers from belgium
August 6th, 2008 @ 7:16 am
Dude, Kito were fucking awesome. Intense as fuck live. Trap them And Kill Them.
August 27th, 2008 @ 11:41 am
Kito put out, as far as i can remember:
-1 song on the "consolidation" 7" comp on Armed With Anger
-"Johnson, Mary" 7" on Armed With Anger
-split 7" with Austrian bank Konstrukt, cant remember the label
-1 track on the "nothing new" 7" comp on Armed With Anger/ Kwyjibo
-"s/t" LP on Flat Earth records
the early stuff is crazy Citizens Arrest/ Infest/ Celtic Frost influenced stuff and with various line-up changes the band went more in the direction of Hell No and DC sounding bands.
i was lucky enough to be a member of both Kito and Ironside, ha!