#another wall

Pressing Stats Pressing #:  1st Color: Green Black Qty Pressed:  ??? Additional Info:  N/A

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Globe

Hectic

In Time

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So in the mid 90s, the hardcore scene saw a reinventing so to speak.  In the 80s you had your hardcore punk (Black Flag, Minor Threat, Bad Brains etc.) your street type hardcore (Agnostic Front, Warzone), that whole youth crew movement (see Revelation Records 2-20) and for the most part that was it.  In the 90s you saw a consistent delivery of those sub genres however things started to happen.  Alot of those 80s bands began to expand their horizons.  Some went towards becoming much more metal, others went the emo direction, post hardcore exploded, tough guy hardcore bands made a name for themselves and melodic hardcore stood up as a thing.  Personally, I hate subgenres, they are often redundant.  Just take a look at all the nonsense out there nowadays.  Throw out an adjective and put “core” behind it and boom a new subgenre.  Anyways, Another Wall was a short lived band out of CT that went the more melodic route that I often reminds me of bands like Shelter, Prema, and Four Walls Falling.  The breakdowns are still there, the passion is as well and yes they are hardcore even though many may choose to argue at points.  In any event, this 7″ deserves a listen.  It really shouldnt be buried in a collection or in the dollar bin at a dollar store.  Another Wall was a band that fell through the cracks and deserve more attention.  Very typical 90s HC and that is a good thing.

Doghouse was one of those labels back in the day that had its own personality regardless of the release.  What i mean by that is that certain bands, scenes, labels have that sound like the Epitaph sound or the Clevo scene, Doghouse had that look.  They could have released a Cannibal Corpse LP and it would have that Doghouse look to it with no gore or corpses to be found.  Very artistic, 90′s emo approach etc.  Many were turned off by it cuz it wasnt punk enough, but I always like it.  I loved the label until the late 90s when they went towards a much more corporate approach but that was their right.  In many ways, Doghouse inspired many other labels to do the same such a Initial Records and Immigrant Sun just to name a couple.  The Another Wall 7″ is pretty representative of that approach.

Pressing Stats

Pressing #: 2nd

Color:  Black

Qty Pressed:  300

Additional Info: Other Pressing Available

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Concrete Forms

Corporate Burning

Brave New World Order

Sticking with the theme that's stuck to the streets of New York City for all you weather obsessed humans, let's let the synths throb and the vocals hush with the track "Winter" from Brooklyn's Tiers. Then after you fall in love with the song and feel all romantic and shit, go HERE and buy the vinyl. 

Why should you feel a little warm arrow pierce your heart when you hear this? Because Tiers are a couple that synth out together, in the tradition of Chris and Cosey, Jeff and Jane Hudson, and for two people to get along and create music together--one of the most stressful things on earth--you know they're legit. You've heard the track by now, so I don't need to explain to you all the nuances that separate Tiers from the aforementioned acts, but I can tell you that no one from those bands was in Connecticut hardcore band Another Wall, save the half of Tiers named Glenn Maryansky. 

Maryansky's had a long run in New York City, playing drums for several great bands including Antarctica (fitting for a 9 degree day), Blacklist, and Cult of Youth, along with designing several record sleeves, many of which are probably nested in your collection right now. But the first time I saw him play was in the '90s hardcore band Another Wall, who--like many hardcore bands at the time--seemed to be added to every flyer in the Northeast, but seldom actually played said show.

This is not the fault of the band, it's usually the gung-ho teenage promoter who would leave a voice message on the cassette tape recorder attached to someone's landline (it was the '90s remember), asking if a band could play as he's pasting their logo onto a flyer, sans confirmation. Of course I ended up seeing Another Wall several times, bought their 7" and demo, and ran into Maryansky years later in New York City, but the meeting wasn't completely conventional .

"I'm only lying to myself, I'm hiding from what is REEE-HEEELL!!!" I shouted from the entrance of Library Bar on Avenue A, on an early aughts night. I noticed two silhouettes lurching down the street, steam coming from their mouths as they lugged records, one pushing a bicycle. Having a keen eye for familiar faces, I recognized them as brothers, the Brian and Glenn Maryansky, brothers who had played together in Another Wall.

My quote was from their song "Breaking Out," which I knew from a compilation 7" titled 1992 Hardcore. It was late, chilly, and dark, and we were all a bit buzzed, but the bros came to a halt, hearing the chant from a hardcore song they'd penned some decade earlier. 

The rest is a bit foggy, but I'm fairly sure we exchanged that gaze you give other hardcore cats you knew 10 years or so prior, when they were more gaunt from Veganism and their faces reflected less living. We chatted a bit about "stuff" and then we were both on our way. Later--most likely at a foggy Wierd party where Maryansky often DJed--we'd recall the run in and talk about the minutia of hardcore and whatever else was going on.