Classic South Florida music still available
Raped Ape: Terminal Reality 30th Anniversary Reissue (2024) CD for $20 (U.S. only, includes postage)
Classic Florida metal, produced by Scott Burns at Morrisound Recording, first released in 1993. The new 14-song CD (from Divebomb Records) features two full remixes of the original six-song EP, plus a never-released bonus track, and a 16-page booklet with liner notes by Burns and more.
• More at RapedApe.net: Preview the songs, get detailed inside info from the band, vintage photos of the recording session, plus more.
Various Artists - South Florida Slammie Awards Vol. 1 (1994) CD just $8 (U.S. only, includes postage)
Rare and classic recordings from 19 of the area's premiere metal, hardcore and alternative artists of the early '90s. Features Malevolent Creation, Nonpoint, Puya, Jack Off Jill, Raped Ape, Radiobaghdad, Load, Tension, and many more.
• More on the Slammie Awards CD: Track listing, CD booklet with photos and full recording details, media coverage, plus the historical significance of key tracks and important bands.
Various Artists - Power From the Vault (1997) CD just $8 (U.S. only, includes postage)
A 20-song collection from some of South Florida's hardest rocking bands of the early 1990s. Features L.U.N.G.S., Raped Ape, Amboog-A-Lard, Quit, Excessive, plus more.
• See details below: Track listing, CD booklet with photos and recording details, plus liner notes.
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Power From the Vault
A compilation of South Florida hard-edged music from the 1990s, released by Conquest Music Group in 1997 featuring 20 songs that were for the most part recorded at Gled Recording Studio in Davie, a big supporter of the local scene.
Included among the eight bands are several that went on to sign and release albums worldwide on independent labels in the subsequent years: L.U.N.G.S., Raped Ape (as Paingod), Excessive (as Crease). Also worth the price of the disc are the rare recordings of underground metal favorites Amboog-A-Lard and influential punk band Quit.
TRACK LISTING
L.U.N.G.S.
1 - Mess Around (clean)
2 - Kick the Can
3 - Mess Around (dirty)
RAPED APE
4 - Easy Way Out
5 - Self Made Man
AMBOOG-A-LARD
6 - The Wounded
7 - Alone
EXCESSIVE
8 - Spiritual Bliss
9 - Bored
10 - Manhole
QUIT
11 - Remember
12 - Did You?
13 - Were Where You?
BONE CHINA
14 - I Think It Works
15 - Aliens
16 - Crystal Carry
IN YOUR FACE
17 - Treading Water
18 - Mother
19 - Monkey
OPPOSITE EARTH
20 - Always Now
Note: The song list on the CD is incorrect. This is the correct version. Tracks 1-10 and 14-19 recorded at Gled Recording (Davie), 1992-1995. Tracks 11-13 and 20 recorded at Morrisound Recording (Tampa), 1993 and 1996.
Florida Punk Archivist: Stream the full CD on YouTube
LINER NOTES
The early '90s was the heyday of the hard-music scene in South Florida. It was a unique time when diverse styles of rock music merged to foster a fertile environment for developing bands. It could be argued that without this "scene," a band like Marilyn Manson would never have been able to develop into the juggernaut it is today. The same scene that spawned Mr. Manson and Jeordie White, aka Twiggy Ramirez (a founding member of Amboog-A-Lard, who are featured on this disc in a latter-day lineup without White), also featured dozens of bands with the same level of talent, if not the same level of showmanship and promotional abilities.
Bone China, In Your Face and Excessive (later known as Crease) represented the influence of South Florida's commercial hard-rock glory days of the '80s, when Saigon Kick ruled the club scene. Quit called it quits before hundreds of other bands jumped on the punk bandwagon. Raped Ape (who later changed its name to Paingod and released an indie label album) and Amboog-A-Lard were the torch-bearers of the "heavy" scene, packing local clubs and grinding out catchy slabs of teeth-rattling metal. Both bands splintered in the mid-'90s, but not before recording the tunes included here at the height of their powers.
Like most of the bands on this disc, L.U.N.G.S., originally known as Collapsing Lungs, are a testament to perseverance in the face of adversity. Dropped by Atlantic Records and undergoing a dizzying array of lineup changes over the years, the band recorded these tunes before signing with Pavement Music. Most of the material on this compilation has never been released on CD and serves as an accurate capsule of a time when local, original rock ruled South Florida.
- Jim Hayward, promoter and founder of the South Florida Slammie Awards and Slammie Productions
