Taking Sides: Faith vs. Void

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I am listening to the Faith/Void/Faith reissue. I will let you know.

Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Friday, 31 January 2003 01:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Neither! S.O.A.!!!!

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 31 January 2003 01:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck S.O.A!!! THE TEEN IDLES!&@(*!&@*(!

More seriously:
Faith are kind of boring, generic DC sounding punk/guitar-rock/"emo" junk. Void were crazy, noisy, and definitely a huge influence on more modern punk/hardcore. I also enjoy Void more. However, there were some awesome bands on the Faith axis--Embrace and Ignition specifically.

Ian Johnson, Friday, 31 January 2003 02:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I've played the Faith side about once ever.

Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 31 January 2003 03:57 (twenty-three years ago)

VOID VOID VOID VOID VOID. also, VOID.

your null fame (yournullfame), Friday, 31 January 2003 07:16 (twenty-three years ago)

yea, Void!

Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Friday, 31 January 2003 13:10 (twenty-three years ago)

faith is great but probably void.

simon 803 (simon 803), Friday, 31 January 2003 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Void. They're amazing.

die9o (dhadis), Friday, 31 January 2003 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

oh come on, there's no question. the faith, especially on that record, are nothing but a historical blip, essentially replaceable by any number of contemporary bands. (production is shit, too.) notable namely for the way they suggest the nascent template of bands with absolutely NO distinguishing characteristics whatsoever - and that was actually kinda the point.

void, on the other hand, are blistering and evil on that record. "i'm so fucking... filled with hate!" something something, "it's time to die you're next!"... yeah, i haven't gotten that song out of my head since the first time i heard it. classic.

i picked up a void 7" on blue vinyl or something a few years back, some reissue, and was actually a bit disappointed. "time to die" may have been a fluke, ok, but accidental or no, it was like a window onto the godhead...

philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Friday, 31 January 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I heard that Void got really metal... true?

Also, Faith is THAT bad.

Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Friday, 31 January 2003 18:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I actually like that Void demo 7", but the production (and yeah, ferocity) on their side of the split leaves that single in the dust. Their songs on Flex Your Head are phenomenal, too.

Void supposedly got really weird-metal later on. I've never heard the album they recorded for Touch & Go, but that label's been promising to finally release it one of these days. (Almost twenty years after it was recorded...)

Friends have owned bootleg tapes of that metal album in the past, and say it's pretty disappointing but is interesting and worth hearing. Hopefully it's better than that final No Trend album that Touch & Go was smart enough to pass on.

die9o (dhadis), Friday, 31 January 2003 19:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Does Void have anything released after the split? Describe.

Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Friday, 31 January 2003 19:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think they do. Their live footage is pretty incredible, though, if you can track it down (there's something on that Dischord boxset).

die9o (dhadis), Friday, 31 January 2003 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

Who Are You?

Should I stop searching for something as good as this and just let it lie?

I'm feeling lazy and I am old - gimme some good 'modern' Hardcore as good as this.

Aw no - not that ultra compressed shit.

C'mon!!!???

Fer Ark, Saturday, 8 March 2008 00:40 (eighteen years ago)

You could try some of these, I dunno about anything new as good as Void, but these are all good recent HC:

Career Suicide
Knife Fight
Mind Eraser
Fucked Up
Poison Idea - Latest Will And Testament

Colonel Poo, Saturday, 8 March 2008 00:46 (eighteen years ago)

Fucked Up - dig em at least for their psycho prog take and the band names - Mustard Gas? Concentration Camp? Large Lad?. Missed em in Leeds too.

Poison Idea????? Thought they'd all passed away. Or fallen through the stage. Sorry. Kings of Punk.

Will try the rest Colonel. Cheers

Fer Ark, Saturday, 8 March 2008 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

Pig Champion just died yeah, but they managed to squeeze out an album just prior, and it's pretty good. Although perhaps not up to Pick Your King/Kings of Punk/Feel The Darkness standards.

Colonel Poo, Saturday, 8 March 2008 00:53 (eighteen years ago)

I thought of another one - Gauze just released a new album, their 1st in about 10 years I think - "get on rhythm of the poverty extortion". That kicks ass, but it would, it's Gauze!

Colonel Poo, Saturday, 8 March 2008 23:45 (eighteen years ago)

only good fucked up songs are "circling the drain" and "police"

31g, Sunday, 9 March 2008 00:53 (eighteen years ago)


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