Versera

"The perfect ending to this piece of shit story" For the unininitiated, since 2013 this is a day to celebrate forlorn discontment, a day where yearning gives way to utter despondence. Every living creature dies alone, and you're no different. There's links to previous entries at the end of all this if you choose to deepen that wound while turning your tears into lube. Cry alone, die alone. Happy Valentine's Day.

Versera was a four-piece screamo band from Southern California that formed in 2022, played a final show in Deecember 2023 and then a "reunion" show in December 2024, who can keep up with any of it anymore. Anyway, this is another band whose name has been floating around for a while, but took me until recently to finally give them a listen (thanks again Jack for the rec). Especially since after All the poems I wrote about you ended, I knew I had my next V-Day entry selection. This is cathartic and dynamic, with highly distorted melancholic frenzies giving way to clean and lean arpeggios. Their LP from last year is also fantastic, amping up the lo-fi chaotic qualities of their debut EP. I still prefer said EP, but really both are worth your time, as is the split with the also-great onewaymirror. For a point of reference, if you're into iwrotehaikus..., Beau Navire, The Spirit Of Versailles, Orchid, or мища, check this out. You'll still be and feel alone, but maybe slightly less so. Don't enjoy.

All the poems I wrote about you (2023)

1. Je Déteste Ton Abscence

2. We Met At A Place We Both Hate

3. Rome Wasn't Built In A Day, But Maybe If They Had Cofee

4. Just Wait Till Summer

5. We Were Oblivious

onewaymirror/Versera (2023)

1. onewaymirror - Pirate Songs/Milo Joins The Army

2. onewaymirror - Frontlines: And The Stories I'll Take To My Grave

3. onewaymirror - Love Is All That Their Weary Hands Could Hold

4. onewaymirror - (Bonus Track) Feels Like A Change

5. Versera - Anakin vs Fogel

6. Versera - Yea Yea Whatever

7. Versera - How's Life In Oaxaca

8. Versera - Shirtless

Calliope (2024)

1. S.F.Y.R.J.E.C.H.E.D

2. Dried Up Flower Bouquets

3. Interlude

4. Full Circle Moments Will Lead Us Back Into Each Other's Lives Sooner Or Later

5. "Chiavlry is not dead..." Prince Rios Remarks

6. Skip To 0:33 If You Hate The Blues

7. Sorry Lincoln

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Previous Installments

 

2013: The Saddest Landscape

2014: iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook

2015: You And I

2016: Love Lost But Not Forgotten

2017: In Loving Memory

2018: Kite Flying Society

2019: The Khayembii Communiqué

2020: Harrison Bergeron

2021: The Last Forty Seconds

2022: The Apoplexy Twist Orchestra

2023: Vowel

2024: Toru Okada

Chain Of Strength

Chain Of Strength are a five-piece straight edge hardcore band from Southern California that began in 1988 and ended in 1991. They've been sporadically playing shows since 2012, so they're semi-active now. Though they were short-lived and only ever put out 11 songs, they're arguably one of most renowned and influential hardcore bands. They put out two 7"'s, which were compiled years later with the addition of another track. The result was 1995's The One Thing That Still Holds True, one of the most blistering, intense, and passionate deliveries ever put to record. That's saying something, considering that the three aforementioned adjectives might as well be hardcore punk's motto. This is as essential as it is classic, so if you haven't heard it yet, get on that. Enjoy.

True Till Death (1989)

1. Just How Much?

2. True Till Death

3. There Is A Difference

4. Never Understand

5. Let Down

6. Best Of Times

What Holds Us Apart (1990)

1. Too Deep Until Now

2. The Space Between

3. Hurts To Ask

4. Through These Eyes

The One Thing That Still Holds True (1995)

1. Impact

2. Too Deep Until Now

3. The Space Between

4. Through These Eyes

5. Hurts To Ask

6. True Till Death

7. Just How Much

8. There Is A Difference

9. Never Understand

10. Let Down

11. Best Of Times

Soul Search

Five-piece NYHC-inspired band from Southern California. Enough said. Enjoy.

Intolerable Weight (2010)

1. Intro

2. Depth

3. Wretch

4. Reasonable Doubts

5. Soul Less

Bury The Blame (2011)

1. Stuck

2. Bury The Blame

3. Me & Mine

4. Nobody's Nothing

The Extermination (2012)

1. Suburban Scum - Beaten From Birth

2. Backtrack - Boiled In My Blood

3. Turnstile - Figure It Out

4. Soul Search - Burning

5. King 9 - No Dreams

America's Hardcore Vol. 2 (2012)

11. In The End

Nothing But A Nightmare (2013)

1. Never See

2. The Scapegoat

3. Slow Burn

4. Nothing But A Nightmare

5. Succumb

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