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Despite facing challenges with record companies and distributors, the band persevered by starting their own label called American Leather.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1990, Poison Idea achieved critical acclaim with the release of Feel the Darkness LP, successfully blending elements of hardcore and hard rock to create a dark and powerful sound. Over the years, they released numerous records including full-length albums, EPs, and cover collections before disbanding in 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"confuse-and-conquer","title":"Confuse and Conquer","description":"\u003cp\u003e11 raw, filthy nasty brand new tracks from the 'Kings of Punk'! Recorded by the infamous Joel Grind (from the band Toxic Holocaust). 'Confuse and Conquer' features eleven raging new anthems - the record booms with thirty-five minutes of fully ignited hardcore punk in the monolithic style the band has provided for three-and-a-half decades now. Though 'Confuse and Conquer' is the first new Poison Idea album to be released since the passing of iconic guitarist Tom 'Pig Champion' Roberts in early 2006, the loved, infectious sound delivered on the band's seminal albums including 1990's 'Feel The Darkness' and 1992's 'Blank Blackout Vacant' blazes through the entire album. Poison Idea currently includes Eric 'The Vegetable' Olsen, back on lead guitar. He was the first real lead guitarist in the band and the second player after Pig Champion, and he played on the 1987's 'War All the Time' LP and 1988-released 'Filthkick' EP. The band also welcomes the return of Chris 'Spider' Carey on bass, who played on 'Latest Will And Testament', the last recording before Pig passed. The lineup is rounded out with Brandon Bentley also joining on guitar, Nathan 'Skinny' Richardson on drums, and as always, founding vocalist Jerry A. 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All this makes a good album, but what turns War All the Time into an amazing album are the lyrics and their delivery. Jerry A took the negative side of the world around him and expressed it in detail, rendered with words that can be read in a universal manner, expressing everything trivial and worthy of our puke in a language better suited to talk about the beauty of life. 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Well-seasoned and confident in their sonic skin, this album showed the musical progression the band had made while still holding on to the buzzsaw guitars of Tom “Pig Champion” Roberts, the defiant bellow of Jerry A. Lang, and the other elements that positioned them as one of the forerunning units for American Hardcore punk. The chance to absorb Poison Idea's scintillating and supposed swan song in the proper format is available to you once again. Act accordingly or be hung like a saviour.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"American Leather","offers":[{"title":"LP - Fireball Orange","offer_id":53229440958795,"sku":"R2901-7625","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/unnamed-2025-08-22T112057.357.jpg?v=1755858067"},{"product_id":"latest-will-and-testament-ud","title":"Latest Will And Testament","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoison Idea sound just as ferocious and antisocial as they did on Feel the Darkness. 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The embryonic versions presented here of future Poison Idea classics like \"Give It Up\" and \"Castration\" are played in a more quirky and herky-jerky manner than how they would appear three years later on their debut seven-inch EP, Pick Your King. This recording also holds the most unfiltered display of Germs vocalist Darby Crash's influence on Jerry. \"His voice gave me the license to go\" states Jerry. \"You didn't have to be a trained singer. Just open up your soul and scream\". The remainder of this release is culled from a recording done in June of 1981 at a birthday party for Kim Kincaid, vocalist for local punk group, Neo Boys. The event was held at the short-lived but groundbreaking punk venue for Portland, Clockwork Joe's. \"Clockwork Joe's was like Peter Pan's island of lost boys\" Lang recollects, \"There was a lot of booze, a lot of drugs and a lot of young kids\". Hearing this ferocious, tightly-wound set, one can only imagine the sweaty debauchery that occurred that night, especially during the pounding rendition of \"Underage\" presented here, yet another future Pick Your King track.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"American Leather Records","offers":[{"title":"LP - Green","offer_id":56710041174347,"sku":"R7383-5843","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/201375107486.jpg?v=1772800663"},{"product_id":"record-collectors-are-still-pretentious-assholes-ct","title":"Record Collectors Are Still Pretentious Assholes","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe classic Portland punk of Poison Idea still destroys. 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