What Feeds The Fire | Set Me Free (Collection)

I already make a post on my What Feeds The Fire collection. This was the first item on this blog early in the year, but this was in french and I don't really was satisfied by the pictures. So, I decided to make a new article on one of my favourite 7" collection with a lot of new pictures.

You probably know What Feeds The Fire ?! This was a amazing band with future members of Verse and Soul Control, including Verse's singer Sean Murphy. As a consequence, they really sounded like Verse's debut album.

WFTF's discography is pretty small : a self released Demo Tape, an EP and a participation to a compilation. The EP was named Set Me Free and this is what we going to talk about right now. Anchor Records released that stuff in 2001.

Anchor was the first label created by Aram of Champion / Betrayed before he started the famous React ! Records. Later, Stillborn Records - label of Jamey Jasta from Hatebreed - re-released Set Me Free on CD with a couple of songs more than the 7".

Okay, so let's go ! Obviously, we start with the Test Press. In fact, there is two different Test Press limited to 8 copies each. The first Test Press was rejected and sold with a special "Pay For Crap" cover.

I got the second version, the good one ! Vinyl is a classic Test Press disc from Erika, so black with yellow label. The cover is the same than the regular edition but the gilt of the title is red.

Then, this is the Regular edition with the classic silver gilt cover. The design is amazing because you can open the cover like a matchbox ! Inside, the insert looks like a couple of match and you can see a scraper on the back cover. "What Feeds The Fire", you know ?!

I got the less rare edition on Black vinyl with big hole out of 700 copies. There also exist two other regular editions : Clear (with printed label) and White.

Next, it's the Preorder edition with an alternative silkscreened cover. Vinyl is Clear with blank and handnumebered label.

I got the n° 2 of 120.

This cover is also amazing because you can open her in three part. So cool !

I don't know a lot of thing about the next edition. She seems to be out of only 5 copies on White vinyl with the Red cover of the Test Press. It was the rarest edition of this 7" but I don't know what the fuck with that...

Vinyl is the classic White with no particularity.

There is the Hellfest 2002 edition with an alternative cover. It seems to be out of 50 copies on classic White vinyl but with a little funny thing : a price tag with a date "7 6-02" on the label.

This is not the date of the festival, because it was on 12 to 14 jully. It was the date of the Record Release show. In my opinion, the band used some copies left after the show for the Hellfest.

Another specifities is the sticker on the innersleeve.

So, things gonna be a little more complicated with the Record Release edition. We have the White vinyl with price tag "7 6-02" and a sticker on the inner sleeve. The sticker is different than the Hellfest edition but it seems some people got this one with their fest's copie.

This edition haven't cover because the covers isn't ready for the show with the Cro-Mags on 6 jully 2002. I don't know how many exist. Some people says 50 but I'm not sure.

I got my copy from the band drummer.

And we have the Cro-Mags rip off cover ! This cover supposed to be used at the Record Release show with the Cro-Mags, but finaly no. 150 copies are supposed to be pressed and the big part seems to be destroy. Apparently, only 30 or 40 copies left... I don't know !

My copy came with the classic White vinyl, but some other copies comes with the Clear vinyl with blank label but without handnumber.

Those three editions comes with a black insert.

Last but not least : the React ! Showcase edition given for free at the React ! Showcase in september 2011. Yeah, 2011. Fun fact : Aram found 88 copies on Black vinyl with little hole, so he decided to make a new special cover and give them for free.

This edition is handnumbered on the back cover. I got the n° 9 of 88.

And to finish, there is the Demo Tape. The tape is Clear with homemade paper cover and handwritten sticker. She's handnumbered on the edge. This is the number #1 but I don't know if it's like the "Demo #1" or if I got the tape n° 1 out of... Hum, I also don't know how many tape were produced. 

I missed only four editions : the rejected Test Press, the regular editions with White and Clear vinyls, and the Cro-Mags edition with Clear vinyl. If you got those, I'm very interested !

Anchor | Recovery (Tape)

This month I talked about my Anchor collection and my tape collection. What better way to conclude ? The tape version of Anchor's last album, Recovery !

I completely forgot I ordered this tape, so what a surprise to find in my mailbox a beautiful package from the mailorder of Live And Learn Records, a really cool belgian label.

This tape was released by Learn To Trust Records, a label from Kuala Lumpur. Yes, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.

 

 Clear is the only variation, limited to 60 copies. Manufactured tape, but homemade cover.

If you still don't know Anchor, it's a fuckin' great Hardcore band from Sweden (and probably Norway). They have some great records and given huge shows around the world. Go take a look on their amazing album A Quiet Dance.

Cool stuff !

Anchor | Two Shows, Five Records

Anchor is one of the greatest Hardcore band in Europe. One of my favourite too. This is a really cool band who made some great records and performed a lot of insane shows.

I had the opportunity to see them twice and each time I left with a few records under my arm.

The first time I see Anchor was in Lyon in 2008. The band played with Verse on a boat. In fact it was a barge : La Marquise. Funky place. 

But Anchor played so loud that it was inaudible. Too bad. So, to confort me I bought a couple of 7".

Captivity Songs was released by Drastic Actions. I got the only edition from the second press : Black out of 330 copies. Unlike the first press, this edition got a exclusive dark green cover.

Retrospectively, I think they had some first press or maybe some Tour Press at the show, but I pick mine quickly and I didn't pay attention. Fuck.

Anchor / The Kind That Kills is a Split Single between two swedish band on a swedish label : Monument. So swedish.

Three songs from TKTK and two from Anchor. I don't have any information about the press. I just know mine is limited to 1000 copies on White Grey Splatter. Maybe this is the only edition for this records.

There is a really cool insert.

The last time I see Anchor was in my city, Marseille, this summer. We organized this fuckin' show just three days after Run With The Hunted and Unveil. What an amazing week !

Unlike the first show, this time Anchor was incredible. The experience of the road spoke : the band was square, fuckin' intense and they played my two favourite songs : Burden and Find Home.

So I cracked and picked some stuff again.

Relations Of Violence is a Single released in 2009 by the polish label Refuse.

The first press was Clear, so I think I got the second press because mine is Black. No more information....

Recovery is the last Anchor's album realeased on Refuse too. This record have a beautiful gatefold cover with a great booklet. I have the White vinyl out of 340 copies.

Gatefold is really neat.

Classy booklet.

Finally, my favourite record : The Quiet Dance. Released by Refuse (again) a few years ago, this is a fuckin' great album.

Strangely I never buy this record until this show. The fault is repaired ! I have the beautiful Clear Red from the second press out of 521 copies and I'm so happy.

The album comes with an insert.