Das Oath and Ampere - 2006 Split

Band : Das Oath and Ampere

Album : Split

Release Year : 2006

Genre : Screamo | Emo Violence | Thrash

Tracklist :

1 Das Oath – The Living End (Jesus And Mary Chain)
2 Das Oath – Tourette's (Nirvana)
3 Das Oath – Wardance (Killing Joke)
4 Das Oath – Feel Like A Man (Negative FX)
5 Ampere – Bit Part In A Bad Movie (Born Against)
6 Ampere – Money Stinks (DRI)
7 Ampere – Conspiring The Go Go (Antioch Arrow)
8 Ampere – The Regulator (Bad Brains)
9 Ampere – Mr. Suit (Wire)

With four destructive tracks from Das Oath and five ragers from Ampere, this album is a head on collision of two of hardcore's noisiest present day innovators. Originally released as a limited LP for their recent East Coast tour together, the vinyl quickly disappeared.

The myth that Das Oath are covering the Offspring on their all-covers split with Ampere is perpetuated. It's not true! Anyone who has the first Killing Joke LP will recognize track 3 on the Das Oath/Ampere split as a cover of Killing Joke's "Wardance." However, since the record came without a track list, someone on vivalavinyl.org decided to play a joke years ago when a thread was started to determine who the covers on the record were originally by, and listed Das Oath's third track as "Why Don't You Get A Job" by The Offspring. Somehow, amazingly, no one caught this joke, and it has been repeated ubiquitously on many different internet sites since. Don't be fooled--Das Oath are not covering The Offspring. If you wish further confirmation, simply listen to the Das Oath song, then watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBm56qSS58Q

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Das Oath - 2004 Das Oath LP

Band : Das Oath

Album : Das Oath LP

Release Year : 2004

Genre : Thrash / Hardcore / Screamo / Fastcore

Tracklist :

1. Kult Starts The (Somew)here
2. Awesome Rape
3. Great News From The South Pole
4. Quiet!: Subtle Pretext Chiming In
5. Leaning Tower Of Pisa Crap
6. Blood Oranges
7. Comatose Life of Wonderment
8. The Great Anything
9. Disney Surgery
10. The Pagen Winter Sale
11. Get out of Your Scene
12. Nobody's Married Me In Years
13. A Biggot Is A Spic
14. Harmonized
15. The Virtue of Elitism
16. Untitled

Das Oath have been controversially tearing up the hardcore scene for years, making themselves to the 'enfants terrible' of their own scene! The band's inception in 2000 started with the selfreleased first single on Youth Attack Records, Gloom Records and Coalition Records, who also recently released a discography CD of all their odd a impossible to find vinyl material up to their debut album. Das Oath have constantly been pushing their own boundaries and their vision on punk, by subverting their art through their record covers and layouts.

The formation of the band should,according the press release, have been impossible, due to the fact half of the band emanates frm New York while the other half comes from the Netherlands, but thankfully Das Oath are here. They are a band that takes hardcore and has fun with it. They sound like they are having a blast writing these songs as they are almost over as fast as it takes you to completely focus your attention on the music. While not quite the 30-second blasts from Napalm Death, there is a lot here to take on board with the tracks flying at a speed that just makes you want to trash your room. I'm sure the studio took a beating on tracks such as Awesome Rape where singer Mark McCoy must have really shredded his vocal chords. Occasionally for me, the spped of the songs can almost make them sound comic, but here there is a real sense of worth. The sound plays alot to the older school of hardcore with nods to bands such as Agnostic Front and The Germs. People complain today that there isn't enough originality in music, but while I agree music needs to progress, there's only a certain amount of progression that can be made over any time period. While there is always respect as bands attempt to embrace the new, you must also expect bands to work within genres and use their influences to create their own sound. Das Oath just writes some great fun and fast hardcore songs that will have you chomping at the bit to get into the pit.


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