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Vile Gash Joins Youth Attack Armee

August 6, 2008 – 5:37 am | by Wes Flexner

Angry Andy throat of Vile Gash. Photo by Jimmy Buttons.

On the Youth Attack website they announced that Columbus Hardcore band Vile Gash had joined their roster. Youth Attack has released records by No Age, Charles Bronson, Total Fury, Das Oath and Holy Molar in the past. So it’s a pretty decent label.

This is significant on multiple levels.

The immediate local significance is two members of Vile Gash play in other Columbus bands. B.J. Holesapple is in Necropolis. Christian Weiland is in Deathly Fighter.

And Youth Attack is a worldwide respected record label.

I am personally stoked on this because Charles Bronson is one of the few hardcore bands I actually like.

Mark Mccoy, Youth Attack owner and former Charles Bronson frontman, is in the video above shooting up a rare pressing of a Charles Bronson record with a gun. I don’t know a lot about hardcore. But it looks funny to me.

In general to me hardcore is a dance music similar to Miami Bass or Baltimore Club. I don’t really listen to it in the home unless I plan on throwing lightbulbs and bottles off of my balcony into the street. But live there is nothing competing with the energy. Because of this opinion of mine, I own like 7 hardcore records. Minor Threat, Killed in Action, Severe, the first Locust record, Weedsteeler, Black Dove, and maybe a His Hero is Gone record.

The first record that I bought after Minor Threat was Charles Bronson which broke my ten-year streak of not buying hardcore records after hearing Youth of Today. I initially stumbled on CB at a punk girl’s house. She was showing me her Beastie Boy and Wu-Tang Records which at least let me know she wanted to make out with me. But it was the Charles Bronson record that actually made me think she wasn’t boring.(for a moment)

After looking at Charles Bronson’s song titles like “The Only Time I Think About Romance is When I Wonder Why I Don’t Think About it”, “Rich Crusties Shall Pay”, “One Life Crew Goes On Slimfast” “Drunk Punks is Hippes”, “I Can’t Be In Band With You Because You Like Epitaph”, “Marriage Can Suck It” and my personal favorite. “Let’s Start a Revolution So We Can Break Some Shit”. I tried to borrow her record indefinitely. But she apparently actually liked to listen to it. A week later I traded a Mr. Lif record about Toyota Hybrids away to a Vegan friend for the Bronson Discrappy.

The shit ruled because it was fast and aggressive but not overly macho or pretentious. It wasn’t annoying and self-serious like Antioch Arrow or whoever was inventing screamo. It wasn’t super-political to the point of dogma. Charles Bronson had humor, speed, art and rebellion to it. They had cured most things I hate about hardcore.

So, after becoming bored once again with the Hip Hop scene, I met Martin Weiland and all his friends at the Camp David Punk House. They were all skinny and hilarious like Mark Mccoy, Charles Bronson’s front man.

After becoming friends with the Camp David doods, they put me on to Mccoy’s other groups Das Oathand Virgin Megawhore. I quickly learned that Das Oath got banned from some distro’s because of controversial artwork involving shemales I do believe. Virgin Megawhore got sued for 75,000 dollars by the Virgin Megastore.

They also inducted me into 3cb. 3cb’s influence on flyer making has gotten some of their sons to be the center of DW message boards debate.

See what I am getting at? Youth Attack Records appealed to us because they were funny and fun. Plus they used design that pushed buttons.

Now two kids from the next generation, Angry Andy. and Martin’s brother/3cb member Christian, have a record being put out by someone who influenced and entertained their community.

Andy said that Mark has been putting him onto some books with intense imagery but he won’t give up the titles to me.

He won’t convert the VG demo to digital so that I can upload MP3’s either. When finding out what I was up to, he said, “don’t you have someone else to pick on. I know you do whatever you want so I can’t really stop you.”

Tags: charles bronson, Columbus Hardcore, vile gash, youth attack