Monday, March 16, 2009

East Coast Assault compilation

The '90s spawned a lot of amazing compilations. I plan to post a bunch of those on this blog, starting with my favorite one, East Coast Assault. If you're into NYHC and/or heavy metallic hardcore in general, this compilation should be right up your alley. Released by Too Damn Hype in the early '90s, it features tracks from a number of bands that would end up becoming household names, such as Converge, Merauder, Life Of Agony, Overcast, Sam Black Church and Starkweather. And pretty much every track on here rules big time.

I got this compilation at the 1994 edition of the Dynamo Open Air festival while browsing the boxes of one of the many (mostly metal-oriented) distro's present. At the time, I was still listening to Life Of Agony's River Runs Red album at least 5 times a day, and when I noticed this compilation featured a track of theirs that wasn't on RRR, it was mine in an instant. Seeing more familiar names on there was just a bonus. The LOA track, Plexiglass Gate, would later appear on a re-release of RRR and also on their 1998-1999 CD.

Too Damn Hype would release 2 more East Coast Assault compilations, ECA 2 being a 2 CD compilation and ECA 3 a 3 CD compilation. They also combined both ECA 1 and ECA 2 compilations as a 3 CD re-release. ECA 2 is pretty decent, tho doesn't come close to the level of the original compilation. I don't have a copy of ECA 3, so I can't comment on it. They also did another stellar comp called Philly Dust Krew, which I might post soon as well.

Anyways, if you like any of the abovementioned bands or heavy hardcore in general, do yourself a favor and check out this compilation!

Update October 2020: Added links to the ECA II 2xCD and ECA III 3xCD here (also updated them on the xSITPx blog).

East Coast Assault compilation
East Coast Assault II compilation CD 1
East Coast Assault II compilation CD 2
East Coast Assault III compilation CD 1
East Coast Assault III compilation CD 2
East Coast Assault III compilation CD 3

16 comments:

@joshuarathbun said...

Do you have East Coast Assault 2?

XhcnoirX said...

I uploaded it on xStuck In The Pastx: http://xstuckinthepastx.blogspot.com/2009/12/east-coast-assault-ii-compilation.html

Unknown said...

ECA 3 was my fav

XhcnoirX said...

I actually received a copy of ECA 3 yesterday and posted it on xSITPx today: http://xstuckinthepastx.blogspot.com/2010/10/east-coast-assault-iii-3xcd.html

Anonymous said...

Please reup assault 2

Anonymous said...

And assault 3 reup also please

Unknown said...

the east coast assault ii + iii linx are down on http://xstuckinthepastx.blogspot.com is it possible to upload those again to xstuckinthepastx or to onexpath? thank you so much!

XhcnoirX said...

Re-upped EC II & III on xSITPx.

Anonymous said...

Please reup

XhcnoirX said...

Re-upped!

Kingofthedickpillyard said...

What ever happened to Dare To Defy

Anonymous said...

Hello! Can anybody upload Life Of Agony's demo named "Death on the BMT"?

Anonymous said...

please reup!

Anonymous said...

please reupload ECA II

XhcnoirX said...

Re-upped all ECA comps on here as well as my posts on xSITPx. Added links to the ECA II & ECA III comps here as well. Enjoy!

devin said...

Please re-up ECA 3.