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Aspirin Feast
12+ albums
punkhardcorenoise punkpunk rockthrashcore
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Aspirin Feast were an early 90s hardcore band from Seattle, Washington. Fast, political somewhere between crust and power-violence. Released: How Do You Call The Cops On The Cops ep (6x songs on Piss Poor Products in 1990) Police Beat ep (7x songs on Urban Alert in 1992) & split 7" with Chicken (2x songs from their 1990 demo put out on Outcast Records in 1997) The band split up in 1992. Guitar player Tim and bassplayer Jim started Chicken. Jim does vocals in this band. Mike and Joe started Laceration. Also, played (among others) a show in december of 1989 (or 1990?) with Date Rape, Last Gasp, and Dumt at Brooklake Hall in Federal Way. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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# Aspirin Feast This Seattle band distilled early-90s hardcore into something genuinely urgent: economical songwriting that never sacrifices intensity for brevity, paired with lyrics addressing state violence and systemic power with specificity rather than slogans. What distinguishes them is their restraint—operating in the space between crust's atmospheric weight and power-violence's chaos, they achieved maximum impact through minimal means. Their discography, scattered across small-run releases and later compilations, rewards close listening; these are songs engineered to lodge themselves in memory. The band's brief existence (1989–1992) and subsequent members' work in related projects suggests a particular moment when Seattle's underground was genuinely
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