We Are The Youth

"Fools follow rules, but this is not a game..."

Everyone who knows me a little better actually should know that there are probably two hardcore bands which I put above every other shitgroup. First there is Judge, second there is Burn. While Judge got me because they were one of the first real hard (and by "hard" I mean, in fact "hard") bands around with emotional and personal lyrics, Burn always will have a place in my heart as a band that stood out of the masses like no other band at that time did.

While coming out of the same scene Judge, YOT and many others came from, the band knew how to put hardcore on some next, higher level. With the release of their first self-titled 4-song ep on Revelation Records they showed that progression is possible within such a small, sometimes ignorant scene. Burn took a completlely different path than others did.

Until that day, I personally think that no other band could mess with Burn the way they made and played their songs. Of course, a lot has changed and a thousand of bands existed or still exist that are technically on a higher level, but the thing that made Burn special is, that they still were a hardcore band. It wasn't just a band where everyone wanted to show their skills, they still got short and fast songs with the energy of punk and hardcore... progressive hardcore!

By chance a found some videos of one of their later on following reunion shows. Check them out. Seems like not a lot of people did really care about them, but still the band went nuts and played well. On the second guitar we have Vic 108/Beyond/Shelter. Man, Vic and Gavin, two of the most interesting guitarplayers in the history of hardcore in one band! ...Oh and check out Chaka's speech in the beginning of "New Morality". Yes, I love Burn. Good Night!
SHALL BE JUDGED

NEW MORALITY

GODHEAD

OUT OF TIME

Winter Tour Report Part I

Finally I managed to make my first blog-entry in 2008. As you might know, Seed Of Pain went on tour during christmas holiday together with Fall Apart. I took my time to put up a little tour-report. Here it is:

FUCK CHRISTMAS - PRAISE SATAN TOUR 07 PART 1

Dec 21 Zug, Switzerland


After getting our van ready and loading in our stuff (which took us about a whole day) we arrived at the venue. Of course not on time. Fedi, the promoter of the show inmediately made us feel welcome when we drove our van to the venue by showing us his grimmy face and his nice italian middle finger... AND cooking awesome food for us. Let's talk about the show. The event was called "X-Mas Mosh Festival", other bands playing were Born From Pain, No Turning Back and a few moshy swiss bands. We really did NOT fit in to the bill, but nevermind. We had our fun. I guess, we played okay and to my suprise a lot of people were actually watching us with their cute New Era Caps on.

After SOP, Fall Apart followed up. I personally think, that this was the best set of them I have witnessed yet. The crowd-response was cool, people sang along and I even found myself trying out what it's like to be stagediving. (Dear readers, stagediving is still no good, since that night my back hurts constantly.)

After the show, we went back to Lucerne to our homes and families.

Dec 22, Winterthur, Switzerland

This show was in a nice, small squat. SOP and FA were the only bands playing, still a lot of people actually showed up. That's no big surprise, since Fall Apart got a lot of strange friends from Winterthur. They all showed up, drank beer and danced to silly and/or bad music. The atmosphere was completly different from the day before, way more familiar. Thomas from Germany showed up with our 12inches, so this was kind of our record release show. We had a hell of a luck, cause the 12inches should have already arrived the day before, but DHL somehow fucked that up. Whatever, we were damn happy to have the records with us for the tour.

After the show we slept at the venue, while all the crusties and anachrists made a HUGE party downstairs( H-U-G-E). Sadly without us, cause the day after we had to get up early. Vienna was our next destination.

Dec 23, Vienna, Austria

We didn't get much sleep. We got up at something like 6 o' clock in the morning and when we wanted to load our stuff into the van, we realised that the already infamous after-show-party was still going on. We had to explain to everyone, why we were ALREADY leaving and that it was nothing personal and so on. It was quite funny. But we didn't have any time to waste. Travelling from Winterthur to Vienna takes some time.

While being on the road, we listened to the song "The Decline" from NOFX over and over again. Good song.

We managed to arrive more than on time in Vienna at the Arena. Pascal FA had the nice idea of going to the famous Vegetasia Restaurant, too bad that we found ourselves after a 30 minutes walk in the cold in front of a closed restaurant. After saying FUCK YOU to the opening times that restaurant has in our own way, we walked back to the venue.

Again, SOP was the opening act of the evening. From the beginning on I had some strange problems with my amp. The sound was desasterous on stage and I guess not much better in front of it. I can't even say if we played bad, it just sounded crappy anyway. However, people showed up and watched us, which I think isn't always like that! So, thank you Vienna. Next time, it'll be better.

After FA, Losing X Streak played and the Vienna Crew went completly insane. People were moshing and singing along. They made LXS feel really welcome. To be honest, I didn't really dig their music, however I fully enjoyed their Cro-Mags covers. Meanwhile, Adi FA went to the hospital to check, what's up with his foot. We already feared that we had to cancel the following shows, but happily after a while he returned with the news, that the doctors didn't find anything.

Since everyone was tired from the short night before and the long drive we decided to go to sleep as soon as we could. I fell asleep soon after I read "FUCK DMS" written by Rick Ta Life on the bedroom wall of the venue. "Fuck Rick Ta Life" I whispered back.