RIPCORD - The Damage Is Done (Reissue w/ 16-page booklet) - LP - Vinyl [AUG 15]

LP - Black Vinyl (2025 Repress). All tracks mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air. The record comes with a 16 page booklet. Layout by Will Kinser

Reissue of the debut RIPCORD flexi The Damage Is Done, that was originally released on their own Raging Records in 1986 for just 50p. This was there right at the start of mid 80’s UK hardcore along with HERESY, CHAOS UK and EXTREME NOISE TERROR. Spread over nine tracks, RIPCORD absolute rage with a mix of US hardcore and dirty UK82 style punk. The cardboard box drum sound gives the recording a timeless feel, as the band rip, pull and thrash. It’s raw, loose and unhinged UK hardcore at its finest.

On the Side 1 you get the entire Flexi plus an unreleased version of Blind Eye which was recorded for a compilation that never happened and Single Ticket To Hell from the Manic Ears and Children of the Revolution Records DIGGING IN THE WATER compilation from 1987. Side 2 features a mixing desk live set recorded at the Captains Cabin, Weston Super Mare, 3rd May 1986. Originally released as part of their VHS on MCR-UK.

All tracks mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air. The record comes with a 16 page booklet. Layout by Will Kinser.

• FFO: Discharge, GBH, Chaos UK, early-Napalm Death.

Tracklist: 

1. Furder
2. Empty Faces
3. Armchair Critic
4. Thatchula
5. Eve Of The End
6. Single Ticket To Hell
7. State Of Emergency
8. Kiss Of Death
9. Lies. Lies. Lies.
10. Blind Eye
11. Single Ticket to Hell
12. Furder (Live)
13. 3 Minutes to 12 (Live)
14. Why Do Starving Kids Die? (Live)
15. Kiss Of Death (Live)
16. Thatchula (Live)
17. Lies. Lies. Lies. (Live)
18. State Of Emergency (Live)
19. Blind Eye (Live)
20. Crush Apartheid (Live)