Congress
The creators of the trademark Edge-Metal sound, the H8000 scene is renowned for. They made many influential and genre defining records such as “Euridium” and “Blackened Persistance”. Josh Fury was the brain behind the band and wrote most of the music and words for the band. Good Life Recordings was their label during the 90’s.
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H8000 Book
Last week I went to Kortrijk in the south of West-Flanders to see the reunion show of Liar and Sektor, they both played amazing sets, more on that later. It was also the date of launch of the H8000 Book which they sold there in two versions. The book and…
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Angry With The Sun
Angry With The Sun is the album when Congress were in their most popular phase. And logically the scene where they came from was also at it’s peak. It was in the year of 1998 when Good Life Recordings released this full length. “Not only Edge-Metal kids danced to this…
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Josh Fury of Congress: Part II
Second part of the interview with Josh Fury. All about the music and lyrics of the Blackened Persistance LP. Discussed song by song and word by word.
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Josh Fury of Congress: Part I
The first part of the interview done with Josh Fury of Congress. The Edge-Metal pioneers from West-Flanders, Belgium. It’s about his days before Congress, the Congress demo and the “Euridium” 7 inch.
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Reconquered (Part 2)
Still hunting down H8000 Hardcore rarities, part 2. The Thor-cover of Liar’s ‘Death Row Earth’ and Congress’ 1996 release, ‘The Other Cheek’.
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Congress & Liar Test Press
Test pressing of the most logical split in the Belgian scene, the one between Congress and Liar.
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VA H8000 Compilation Volume One LP
Info about this 1998 H8000 hardcore sampler. Came out when the scene was at the peak of it’s expansion.
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Congress "Euridium" 7 inch reflections
The ‘Euridium’ release of Congress was groundbreaking. There was no school in K-Town (Kortrijk) where there were school kids that weren’t into Congress. Every K-town school had kids that were into Congress at that time. At least that is what someone of my age and from the area told me…
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Wheel Of Progress It’s Alive 7 inch
Wheel Of Progress was an important band that is considered to have produced the embryonic sound of Edge-Metal. That’s a statement that can be defied by many authors of the history of Hardcore and Punk. This is why I choose not to oppress this statement but let you hear it…
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