Episode 103 - Part 2 talking about album releases and other music news from the year 1994 (the ancient times). Special guest: Kyle Williams from Fail You.

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Episode 103 - 1994 in Music Pt2: Burn My Eyes with Natural Ingredients, Dummy - with Kyle W.

This week we IRL check out some hockey and VIRTUAL check out some Sunami. Emboldened by mosh, we openly choose to flaunt the will of god, defying the current dangers of long flimsy suspension bridges to take the Pulaski Skyway right into the guts of NJ. Does the skyway actually take you to Brunswick? What do I look, like Rand McNally? Anyway here's SCARLET LETTER.

Episode 136 - Scarlet Letter

Joe Stanley is the guest on this episode of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace. I had him on very briefly during a This Is Hardcore Festival back in 2017.
This time around, we have a full conversation about what he has been up to as well as his new charity, PERSEVERANCE that supports Veterans. He is a combat veteran himself and has seen his share of conflict. 
Joe is a great guy and I have nothing but the utmost respect for him and what he is doing in order to give back to veterans with PTSD.

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Intro: Phil LoCastro & Joseph A. Cassar
Intro Visuals: Marc Kutik
Edits: Tim Anderson Jr. & Nick Light

Joe Stanley (Perseverance. Veteran. Departed)

Episode 104 - Talking about perception vs reality of the far left, the center, Republicans, Democrats, Trump, Biden, and why we are seriously f**cked no matter who wins in November.

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Episode 104 - Why We're F**ked: The Right, The Center, and The Rest of The DC Circus

This week we get unexpectedly dialed up about Xena Warrior Princess before dialing it down to soberly discuss the late-period youth crew antics of the only band we've ever encountered to feature a prominent BMX theme - Hunterdon County's beloved and clean living sons RAD.

Episode 139 - Rad

Cold Sweat

You can't control me any longer
Pussy

Cold Sweat

Windows locked
Spreading wings cast familiar shadows 
The pity, the illness, forgiveness 
Led away from a closing door 

Skewed perception, thoughts misshapen  
Through glass eyes, staring at a beating  
Kept still by a mouths embrace 
Nerves and skin coming off the nape 

Paper peeling, stale air aging  
Fought sedation, clarity is building
Terror kept me in this place 
That illusion quickly fades as I

I see 
I see
A weaklings face (callout when pinch starts)
Pathetic

A baited hook 
Set atop the basement stairs
On the line, a final feign of love

You were always so strung out 
Bloated bastard, beating down 
We’re still alone: that’s all I want now
Coming down to you (during chug part)
Im showing teeth for the first time 
Teasing frantic limbs 
I’ll have a life that’s all mine 
I see
I see
A weaklings face 
Tendons and bone are pulled apart
Fear drowning in fluid
Tears hold no meaning in bloodshot eyes

Mauled

Smoldering home I found gone and maimed 
Stumbling through steps I can’t retrace 
Far too late, to embrace the memory,
Of pathless fervor,
Of growth unchained
Waiting half dead for springs return 
Bereft of limbs that are black and burned 
Perforations, the orphaned senses 
I long for return every waking day 

Chasing down
A thousand lives 
Force the lie to be truly mine 
Found
Yet unrecognized

Chasing down a thousand lives
Splintered veins 
Entomb any traceable tie 
I’ll die to understand 
Tell me Tell me 

Wrapped in briars my 
Slowly beating heart
Suffers lack of conviction 
With this constant change
I am pulled away 
From the will to be driven 
Further 
Much further 

The sharper eyes behind these words
I can no longer meet their gaze 
I’ll never find what I’m looking for
An ever disfiguring day

Growth Unchained

Tumors break the skin (fast), you’re gone, too late to reach the seed that’s sewn within 
Culture of ingestion 
My thoughtless mind and strengthless body prays that an ending begins 
Yeaaaaaaaa

Infections rage (hold) 
Forced germinating hoard
The lepers lose their faces 
In mass that inches toward//what’s left 

Sifting dirt with my bleeding nails, satisfied 
Another body in the piles of the sterilized 
Eyes burn
Nothing learned; Worshiping (hold)
This world 
Taste your idols anywhere
Convenience turns to insistence
That you must swallow
Everything that’s being fed to you

There’s no courage, no dignity in fate
Only a brutal end that I cannot embrace
Sponsored addictions, welcomed decay 
I’ll escape
So when I’m gone I’ll have left a trace 
Through warping bones 
Through sunken eyes I will carve until I know 
In my rabid final moments 
I’ll see you
Beneath
Beneath me 


Beneath Me

Music and lyrics written by Anthony Paladino (Red)

LYRICS

Did you once even think about the result
What the hell was going on in your head
You’re picking up pieces that don’t exist 
And rapidly losing my interest

Right 
Wrong
Might as well change your song
I see right through the story line
And the proof will show that you are wrong
So now, you’ll stand
Because you think you know all there is to know
So with that in mind I’m taking off
To leave you alone so lost and blind

Now we sit and we laugh about the old times
But I site and I laugh about the present time
We laugh about all of our mistakes
Your mistakes were more little mistakes
You lied

Right 
Wrong
Might as well change your song
I see right through the story line
And the proof will show that you are wrong
So now, you’ll stand
Because you think you know all there is to know
So with that in mind I’m taking off
To leave you alone so lost and blind

Right now!

Right 
Wrong
Might as well change your song
I see right through the story line
And the proof will show that you are wrong
So now, you’ll stand
Fooling none of us
But just yourself
But I’m still pissed because I gave my time
I was a fool to give in all along
So
Right 
Wrong
Right 
Wrong
Right 
Wrong
Right
You were wrong
So wrong
So wrong
So wrong

To Kill For The Good Of The Fight For The Right To Be Right

Right Or Wrong

Music and lyrics written by Anthony Paladino (Red)

LYRICS

Attitude adjustment
Locked out but I’ll get back in
I’ve got to stay in to win
Can’t help but it feels so right
Can’t hurt to give try
Give a try

If I were you I wouldn’t have quit
It’s all my hope that makes you sick
You had your chance you lost it all
How does it feel behind the wall

Attitude adjustment
Ha ha now what is this
You won’t accept my kiss
The bitterness you can’t hide
You’re angry because I’ll always try
Always try

If I were you, I wouldn’t have quit
It’s all my hope that makes you sick
You had your chance you lost it all
How does it feel behind the wall

Attitude adjustment
Ha ha haha
You say we’re different but I know we want the same
You just don’t see my good 
And you put yourself in pain

You make me sick 
I know it could’ve worked out fine 
But now I’ve got to put it on paper
To prove that I was right
Because I have the feeling that I’m right
And I want to show you up
It may sound stupid 
But it just might make your attitude adjust

Sick
You’ll be sick
Sick
You’ll be sick
You’ll be sick
You’ll be sick
You’ll be sick
You’ll be sick

Adjustment

Music and lyrics written by Anthony Paladino (Red)

Ming Watt

Music and lyrics written by Anthony Paladino (Red)

LYRICS

No one will listen
Until it comes down
No one will hear the alternatives 
No hope in the town

Fighting for what?
Talking to walls
If there was a hammer that could break through
Let’s break down these walls

What the hell is going on?
I don’t think you understand
What the hell is going on?
You don’t want to understand
Understand
Understand
Understand

My friend
Our patience
Is running thin
You won’t stop you will violate
And do anything to win
Well hurt is taking it’s toll
And we’re all suffering

I am lucky that I realized why I am
Because through the years
From home
To school
I’ve screamed for a change
Change
Change
Change
A change


What the hell is going on?
You don’t want to understand
Understand
Understand
Understand
Stand 
Stand
Stand 
Stand

Understand
Understand
Understand
Understand

Stand 
Stand
Stand 
Stand

Under!

Understand

Music and lyrics written by Anthony Paladino (Red)

LYRICS

I went to this place last night
The vibe there it just wasn’t right
I was drawn to the image and coating of the scene 
But it doesn’t look like it’s really what it’s supposed to be
Disappointed in what I felt
Maybe out of place 
Looking for different face
I’m not the only one who felt like crap in this place
I guess that is what happens when the monsters get their way
Their way!
Their way!
You want the power, You want the glory
You want us as a shield from the problems that you have 
When we suck into your bullshit story
Time will tell what is right
Right now I see you’re winning all your useless fights
Your worst enemy is the god damn truth
If you’re not too careful, it’s going to creep up on you
On You!
On You!
On You!
Sucker!
You act like your scene is for all of mankind
You alienate those who aren’t your kind, your kind
You want us to follow and have fear of you
Believe me, I’d follow if I felt the truth
The truth, the truth, the truth, the truth
But no you, want fear so, you’re going to get feared by us now
Lookout, Lookout, Lookout because here they come again
Again, again, again.
Lookout I hear them coming
Lookout they’re scary, scary

Lookout the monsters here Fuck you!
Lookout I hear them coming
Lookout they’re scary, scary
Lookout the monsters here Fuck you! You! You!
Lookout I hear them coming
Lookout they’re scary, scary
Lookout the monsters here because here they come
You better look out!

Lookout (Here Come The Monsters)

Music and lyrics written by Anthony Paladino (Red)

LYRICS

Woke up
Glad today
Glad to continue work for my day
When it’s all done my way

Nobody taught me how to function here
I’ve waited so long for it to be clear
So now I have a fight
Until I find my time

What’s that?
You’re all bent
You disapprove of the fact that I must
focus on myself

I think you better back off from this
You’re gonna lose because it’s none of your business
So now begins a fight
Until I find my time

I got to find it

Why don’t you
You focus
On yourself 
cause this will get you nowhere fast

It’s not my fault
That you don’t
Even care to take an interest in yourself

I’m reaching out

Nobody taught me how to function here
I’ve Waited so long for it to be clear
So now I have a fight
Until I find my time

my time
my time
Until I find my time
my time
my time
Until I find…

My Time

This week we gloat, gamble, and gorge on gorditas as a way to bedevil and delay the reaper's scythe of the First Seven Inch Club having to review a fast hardcore record. Oh you like fast hardcore? Well go sick y2k style to New Jersey's fast yung mayors, TEAR IT UP.

Episode 164 - Tear It Up

When I say Bayway... you say...

Motherfuckers, my guest on this episode of The Brooklyn Blast Furnace is JayWay. Singer for Bayway, 25 Ta Life and guitarist for Shattered Realm. He also has a rap project out under the name JayWay 908.
Bayway has quickly caught on with the hardcore scene, and I'm all in as well. I met Jay only a couple months ago in person out on Long Island at a show. We started to bullshit for a few minutes and asked him if he'd be down to come on. We go into that certain moment that we all have that was our turning point headed into the hardcore scene. A couple of his former bands, and eventually the birth of Bayway. He is also the new singer for the legendary 25 Ta Life, so of course, I had to ask how that all came about. A super humble guy who loves and appreciates every aspect of making music and playing liv. He'll be back on the podcast, I'm sure. I hope you all enjoy this. Respect.

BAYWAY MOTHERFUCKER!

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Intro: Phil LoCastro & Joseph A. Cassar 
Intro Visuals: Marc Kutik 
Edits: Tim Anderson Jr. and Nick Light

Jay Way (Bayway. 25 Ta Life. Shattered Realm)

DEMO

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Fart Thrower - The Fentanyl Fold

Two dying old men formerly active in the Albany hardcore scene rate and review obscure metal and hardcore 7" records as the light slowly fades from their eyes. Formerly and occasionally-still known as BORDER BOSS, a Taco Bell appreciation-cast.

I.D.K. is an American hardcore punk band, formed in 1991 in Fairview, New Jersey. The band's lineup consists of founding member Anthony Paladino on lead vocals, Tom Conti on bass guitar, Fabio Amato on drums, and Mike Nappi and Adrian Spoleti on the guitars. After numerous self-releases along with a release on local NJ label Bushleague records, I.D.K. signed with extreme metal powerhouse Earache for the release of their EP “Taking on The Monster“ Earache catalog #MOSH172. Following the completion of their first U.S. tour, they then moved to label The Music Cartel before recording 1998's Til Death Do Us Part full-length. After years of a break from the action, I.D.K. released an ep entitled “To Do What Must Be Done” on their own label. I.D.K. is currently playing shows in the NJ/NY metro area and are working on new music that will be released in 2025.

Upgrade your mind - Hosts Len Carmichael & Gary Muttley talk about music, politics, MMA, pro wrestling and all kinds of pop culture. We will also connect with guests from around world to talk, share experiences and probably make fun of people.     

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