First Seven Inch Club (AKA Border Boss)

This week we finally decide to author a Manual of Style for anyone looking to become a top flight hardcore lyricist. We also spend some time unpacking the unsettling eruption of bands worshipping a single scene from The Outsiders. Get ready to X up again with internet-mysterious straightedge newschoolers DAYSGONE.

This week we see how we feel about some comparatively lighter fare from a Long Island band with on a puzzling band name journey - later known as Rahim. Will this art punk awaken the hidden Milemarker fans within us?

Today we get to know a band who seamlessly blend elements of death metal and crust with some very serious grievances with jesus christ and all the shit he has going on. A whole genre lost in time like tears in rain.

Today we probe into the mysteries of a clandestine masked band operating in the late 90s dutch youth crew scene. We find connections that will blow your mind. Commitment Records masked recording artists X-MEN plus very brief Don Johnson chat. Not much, I assure you. Just a touch.

This week we bend the rules just a li'l bit to cover a band who were better known for a 12" than this 7" but hey, it's our show. Michigan screamy hardcore legends with a troublesome name will make you think twice about being a capitalist war monger.

This week we wade into controversial territory by discussing an era of music we are not entirely equipped to discuss... 2002's self titled record by (possibly) New Hampshire's The:Enclitic, chaotic screamy grind who found their way onto the absolutely legendary roster of Deep Six Records.

This week we cut very close to the bone by discussing a record that is literally precious and essential to one member of the team - 1993's "Numb" by the bicoastal debatably screamo band CAMPAIgN. Please be sure to check our youtube and instagram for scans of the many... many... included pages.

This week we abstain from all substances to interrogate the Cleveland Straight Edge in the form of NAMES FOR GRAVES, a very tough to research band who brought a li'l poetry to their stance against party poisons and sellouts. Will you mosh? NOT SURE!

This week bring you one of the earliest releases from the label we keep bringing up without context - Admiral "Revolving and Loading", the second record ever released on Ebullition. Dark truths about each member of the First Seven Inch Club will be revealed. Bet!

This week we dig up a crusty, murky artifact from smack dab in the middle of several sprawling and impressive discography... REDRUM featuring members of Municipal Waste, Grief, Burnt By The Sun, Hemlock, Cattlepress, dude there's too many... Dave Witte is in the band and he's been in every band even your band. Dude...

This week we are sitting down to think about sex crimes and their after effects with two scene-famous legends flexing their metal muscles on a 7" that may or may not have an alternate version containing a drum count off. Rare!!

Today we tempt fate by taking on a lesser known record from a hardcore-famous person's discography.... COUNTDOWN TO OBLIVION featuring members of The Swarm, Left for Dead, Brutal Knights, One Blood, and every other band of the great white north besides Sloan.

We conclude our first Connecticut Cycle with very locally influential dose of official mosh and I'm talking like the jun jun jun jun mosh that you probably thought you were kidding about but this is NO JOKE. It is time to suffer in the crumbling blood of decay with DIVIDED BY HATE.

This week we dust off another artifact of Mike's yung hardcore journey - Thenceforward "From Within" on Phyte Records. This canary walked into the coalmine of early metalcore and didn't quite survive, but will it's dying screams echo into future ears? Only our amorphous rating system can decide.

Together we journey through a deep spiritual obligation Mike felt about a record that he is provably the first and only person to have ever purchased online. Industrial-ish angry metal frozen in time, cursed to forever be locked in the non-memory of people who experience Connecticut in 1994.

We discuss the Time's Up 7 inch "Discernment" on Chainsaw Safety records. This mathy metalcore amuse bouche contains at least one possibly two members of the band Burnt By The Sun when they were just wee babbies.

Mike and Scot soft launch a bold new project. Join the First Seven Inch Club as we analyze music that didn't make it too much further than one 7" record. In this episode, we tackle the 6th release Hydra Head records ever put out - Age of Reason.

We return because the boss of Taco Bell did Zoom humor. Plus the return of a very special segment. Warm yourself on our hot takes about Weekend Nachos and Bloodlet. I'm sure there was more!!

An episode from March, roughly a week before things POPPED OFF, so we discuss covid with very cavalier language and then tell you about fast food stuff you do not remember because it was the old world. We fill our holes with Pallbearer, Husker Du, UFO, and Pro-Pain PLUS we launch a piece of official merch now that the podcast is barely alive. CHECK BORDERBOSS.RIP FOR DETAILS.

LOST EPISODE: We recorded this months ago then gave up but here it is. We chat about things we were missing during the pandemic circa May 2020 then charge directly into the main event - an All Holes Filled strictly about bands and musical projects featuring well known wrestlers.

We delete an episode to bring you a special dispatch from the same awful reality you are currently inhabiting. We predict the restaurants least likely to survive this setback and then chill out with some Animal Collective, open a pit way the fuck up with Disembodied, then drop out of life with Uncle Acid AND Acid Bath, totally unplanned I swear.

We discuss thermogenic cocktails, loopholes for imprisoning rich people, rubber eggs, and get to the bottom of fast food desserts. We fill holes with Suicide, Nitzer Ebb, Orville Peck, and Jimi Hendrix.

We discuss the tragedy of the Taco Bell in Kodiak, Alaska then think long and hard about the Papadilla, the Buffalo chicken, the sexual french taco and McMillions before filling our holes with My Bloody Valentine, Talk Talk, Black Flah and My Dying Bride

We enter the 27 Club by mixing stimulants and depressants then discuss a wrestling theme that's close to home, food made from electricity, internet food reviewers, tiny tacos, pig heads, then discuss Bon Iver, Janes Addiction, Morbid Angel and POWER TRIP.

We for some reason talk about Star Wars and then talk about presidents HOUSING corn dogs and turkey legs and cast our ballot except we recorded it months ago before the NYT made everything super dumb so who knows... anyway we discuss Quasimoto "The Unseen", Cop Shoot Cop "Ask Questions Later", Clutch "Transnational Speedway League" and Fishbone "The Reality of My Surroundings" and my haunted blood...