By the Flames by Thunderhoof

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In 2012, I was living in Saint Augustine, and despite all of my plans, seemed to be without a band. That is, I was without a band that I could count on to play shows and practice regularly. Thunderhoof was a two piece, drum and bass metal group, and they were my friends. I asked if they'd let me play guitar with them, and they were down. Some of the songs on this tape are older jams of theirs, and others were co-written with me. There are thrashy parts and doomy parts, all recorded in the storage unit I shared with Westley Durden. These tapes were duplicated in my room, and I lazer printed the sleeves. Honestly, I think the tapes are probably too punk for Thunderhoof's fanbase. We didn't sell a lot of them.

Purpose Defeated by Super Famicom

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In response to my attitudues on Endless Fervor, I tried to 'live the life'. Work hard, play hard, and do what your friends are doing, and it made me really depressed again. So I poured all of my time into making Stone Wings, and the soundtrack. Also during that time, I wrote this album, Purpose Defeated. It was goth and emo in, to me, all the right, unexpected ways. I made the kind of album I would want to hear, because I finally had the equipment and the space to do it. I never set out to write music that was folk punk, except for The Bottom's "Folk Punk Bash". Still, I played acoustic guitar and some of my songs were punk, especially in attitude. I hoped with this album, nobody would again call Super Famicom folk punk.

The Titular Tape by Dildozer

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In 2013 I was still setting up punk shows, and needed a punk band to play those shows. So I started Dildozer with Westley and Treymon. The idea was to, while acknowledging the rules of political correctness, proceed to make the meanest, nastiest, snottiest pop punk music. I wanted to make music like Carcass, but pop punk. The thing about political correctness is that, the rules of being correct are always changing. So I doubt all of these songs are very p.c. anymore. By the time you read this, it might in fact be very wrong to shame people for breaking their phones or using good hygene. Oh well. These tapes were duplicated and imprinted professionally, and packaged in sleeves I printed at home.

Stone Wings OST by Super Famicom

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Released in 2013, this was a pretty fun tape to make. It's a collection of mostly instrumentals to provide background music for my first completed computer game, Stone Wings. The game is playable, but I wouldn't recommend it. However, I think the soundtrack is worth hearing. I used a yamaha 4-track to, for the first time, record my drums with 3 microphones. The guitars and bass were recorded into my computer, through a boss gt-50 pedal. There are also some keyboards and flute things. The tape was dubbed at home, onto some tapes I think I found somewhere. They sound fine. The O-Cards were printed with my Brother lazer jet, in the cheapest (punkest) way possible.

Endless Fervor by Super Famicom

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With the sadness of Punishing the Faithful behind me, I moved back to Saint Augustine and played the most prestigious show of my career, 2012's plan-it-x fest. In my own life, for the first time, I was able to make the money I needed to buy better gear. I was feeling very positive about the world, and my life in it. With my first drum kit in tow, I recorded this tape, meant to save the world with radical punk idealism. Written and recorded in 2012, this tape was released in 2013 on my friend Chris Eugene's tape label, Ghost Friend Records. I don't know if it's still a thing or not.