Deathwish - Hardcore Guy 7"

Archival '86 recordings from Boston Hardcore Punk group. Nice music, interesting cover art I guess? More on Deathwish... 

Deathwish was a Boston Hardcore band that first got together in late 1983. The band recorded a demo at Radiobeat in December of 1983 with this lineup. Just after these recording sessions, future Slapshot member Jordan Wood joined the band.

The tracks recorded at the Radiobeat where never released. However, in 1989 the Armory Arms label release three of the tracks on a bootleg 7" single .
Lost & Found Records also "reissued" the 7" single no less than three times. First in 1992 and a second time as a coda on The Abused's "Loud & Clear" CD.
Finally, the 7" single featured on the backside of a bootleg with another Boston band, called Siege .
Amazingly, on all these releases, the personnel information remained intact .

Shortly after the band finished the first recording, they got into some different sounds. The first stuff was straight-up Hardcore, as inspired by the "This Is Boston, Not LA" record that was all the rage at the time . However, once they discovered Descendents and Dag Nasty, they wanted to explore the power pop sound and they wrote new tunes and went back into the studio . Chris was replaced by Dan Estebrook, Jordan Wood took over the bass and Bobby went to guitar .

This new stuff was still pretty heavy, but it had more of a melodic component and the song structures expended, as did their lengths. Dan Estebrook was also a very clever guy, and his lyrics added a nice layer of sophistication. This recording was never released and unfortunately suffered from the bad ears of an inexperienced recording engineer at a place called Euphoria Sound. - Allmusic.com