This Is Hell Demo

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This Is Hell Demo
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EP by This Is Hell
Released 2004
Genre Hardcore punk
Length6:45
Label Run For Cover, Broken Glasses
This Is Hell chronology
This Is Hell Demo
(2004)
This Is Hell EP
(2005)

This Is Hell Demo was the very first physical release of songs recorded by hardcore punk band This Is Hell. The album was untitled and released on both CD and 7" vinyl formats, also in Europe on Broken Glasses Records (distributed by NO PANIC! Records now). All formats are out of print and difficult to find. The song "Wreck Your Life" was later released on a label sampler cd from Trustkill, the label that This Is Hell later signed to and released their debut full length "Sundowning," but not before a stint on State On Mind Recordings who released their self-titled EP. On that same song, the opening line of the lyric includes the band's name, and was possibly the inspiration for the name. The lyric reads: "Brandon put it best when he told me 'this is hell,' wiser words have never been said." [1]

Hardcore punk Subgenre of punk rock

Hardcore punk is a punk rock music genre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s. It is generally faster, harder, and more aggressive than other forms of punk rock. Its roots can be traced to earlier punk scenes in San Francisco and Southern California which arose as a reaction against the still predominant hippie cultural climate of the time. It was also inspired by New York punk rock and early proto-punk. New York punk had a harder-edged sound than its San Francisco counterpart, featuring anti-art expressions of masculine anger, energy, and subversive humor. Hardcore punk generally disavows commercialism, the established music industry and "anything similar to the characteristics of mainstream rock" and often addresses social and political topics with "confrontational, politically-charged lyrics."

This Is Hell (band) American hardcore punk band

This Is Hell are an American hardcore punk band from Long Island, New York. The band is known for extensive touring and high energy concerts. To date, the band has released five studio albums and five EPs.

Contents

It received positive reviews from at least one source, [2] and they played over 200 shows in one year in support of this demo. [3]

Track listing

  1. "Wreck Your Life" – 2:07
  2. "Heaven Sent, Hell Bound" – 1:30
  3. "Double Grave" – 1:22
  4. "Dearest Midge" – 1:52

Personnel

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Bass guitar Electric bass instrument

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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