Hell Comes to Your House

TheBradMiller, who curates the excellent & erstwhile pretty esoteric/industrial album blog Because God Told Me to Do It, posted this amazing 1981 compilation of LA and Long Beach hardcore and goth on Valentine’s day this year.

I had this on tape and couldn’t stop playing it, both because of the quality and variety of the material and how it was sequenced. You had the Anglophile poolhall punk of Social D.; Red Cross finding their glam; the imaginatively named Modern Warfare, Secret Hate and Conservatives throwing all kindsa arrangemental monkeywrenches into the gears of hardcore; the quality goth punk of 45 Grave, Christian Death, and the Super Heroines; and the great art-punk of 1000 Flowers and Rhino 39 (this comp might also hold the record for bands with numbers in their names).

Go get it!