#scott helland

PEAK AMERICAN HARDCORE PUNK -- SOME OF THE FASTEST MUSIC OF ITS TIME, AND FOR ALL TIME.

PIC(S) INFO: Mega spotlight on previously unseen pics of speed-obsessed/proto-fastcore thrashers, DEEP WOUND, performing live at Bangs Community Center, Amherst, MA, USA. 📸: Lisa Putignano (absolutely no love for bassist Scott Helland, though! Where's the bass player?!).

Westfield, Massachusetts hardcore punk.

Guitarmy of One - The Wave Files - "spy rock surf noir", worth it for the song titles alone

DEEP WOUND RELEASE THEIR SELF-TITLED 7" 40 YEARS AGO THIS YEAR.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a record advert for DEEP WOUND's 9-song debut 7" vinyl EP, released under the Radiobeat label in 1983.

"I did this one. Another influence not mentioned much; Elvis Presley."

-- J MASCIS (drummer & co-founder of DW) on their Elvis record ad

"...ONE OF THOSE CLASSIC OBSCURE HARDCORE BANDS THAT BLEW AWAY MOST OF THEIR PEERS AT THE TIME..."

"...but for some unknown reason, went unnoticed."

PICS INFO: Spotlight on a record review for "Hardcore Outcasts Revisited 82'84," a two-disc compilation album by Western Massachusetts hardcore punk/crossover thrash band, OUTPATIENTS, published in "Flipside" punk magazine in 1995.

DIS-FATHERS TEE SPOTTED IN THE WILDS OF WEST MASS HARDCORE.

PIC INFO: Part 2 of 2 -- Spotlight on OUTPATIENTS bassist Scott Helland (rocking a DISCHARGE tee), perfoming live at Greenfield Grange Hall, Greenfield, MA, jumpin’ and crushin’ with the Hondo bass guitar, on May 14, 1983.

But did Scott purposely wear his DISCHARGE tee because he knew he'd be supporting a full-on discore act that day, or what? Because there are clearly CRUCIFIX members featured in this shot, and the 'FIX headlined that same gig (see flyer).

Dis nightmare still @$!*%#& continues!!