Various Artists
What Is Crust? What Is Melo-Core? Be Different Hardcore?
Vinyl Japan
1998 CD
Not sure why I own this. As in, I have no idea how it ended up in my collection.
I also have NO idea what the hell the title is supposed to mean, but yeah, this is Japanese. It's an hour-long collection of 90s Japanese punk and crust tracks. This type of music is really hit-or-miss for me (mostly miss) and what do you know, most of this is terrible. Just noisy fuzzy DIY bad on purpose basement show punk with no memorable hooks or melodies. The best track comes from Disclose, famous Discharge rip-off D-beat band, though "best" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I looked up some of these other bands on Discogs and RateYourMusic and they have no credits outside of this compilation lmao.
Released exclusively on CD, on a label called "Vinyl Japan" -- which was based out of London. There's a picture of Hitler in the CD booklet.
Rating: 1.5/5
Reviewed: 11/16/25