Okres Demo ’85 / Jarocin ’85 LP
Pulled from obscurity and into your stack of questionable records, this archival LP remembers OKRES out of Ostrów Wielkopolski, Greater Poland. The first half of the album features the band’s demo recordings from 1985, and the second portion brings us another blast from the past of the legendary Jarocin music festival of that same year. It’s fast and loose first wave hardcore driven by pure energy—“Liban Nie Żyje” has a wicked swarming guitar attack like Government Issue’s “Sheer Terror.” There’s nine crude tunes from the demo and nine from the festival, but Bandcamp only teases four songs, so if you want to hear the whole thing, you’ll have to pony up.