Glorium - "Cinema Peligrosa" CD/LP

I've been thinking about Glorium recently, mainly because they're playing TONIGHT at Mohawk in Austin TX as part of Aasim's annual birthday party show! And in doing this thinking, I realized that i've never posted their first full-length, "Cinema Peligrosa"!

Released back in 1994 on Undone Records, and instantly became a favorite of mine. Hopefully they'll play some of these songs tonight at the show!

For more info about the show, check out the Facebook invite here.

1994 Undone Records

1. The Misinformed Vs. The Uninformed

2. 70 X 7

3. The Final Dis

4. Death Of The Insect Queen

5. Mutant Lover Special

6. Victim

7. The Fossil

8. Matches For The Fuse

9. Having The Devil On Your Side

10. Under The Lid

11. Blue Lights Beckon

12. Possession Weapon

13. A Place To Crash

14. Cinema Plastique

DL: Glorium - "Cinema Peligrosa" CD/LP

Glorium - "Demolition" demo

Continuing with the demos... here is the great first demo from GLORIUM! Two of the five songs from this 1992 demo would end up on Glorium's first single (previously posted here). I simply can't believe that this demo is 18 years old!

1. Chemical Angel

2. Groundfloor

3. Madonna

4. Divebomb

5. Burning Me Down

DL: Glorium - "Demolition" demo

Glorium is playing their first show since 2008 tomorrow night (May 22, 2010) at Saluté in San Antonio! If this was in Austin, I would definitely go. Here's a flyer:

v/a: "Live At Emo's" compilation CD

This compilation is comprised of mostly Texas bands with a few high profile non-Texas bands thrown in (most likely to entice non-Austinites to buy it), all recorded live at Emo's Austin to glorious ADAT. Why do I know it was recorded to ADAT? Because a band that I used to be in played one of the nights that some of these recordings were made (Nov 12th, 1993, the same night the Seaweed & Glorium tracks were recorded), and our entire set was recorded that night. We had hopes that we would be included on this comp, but didn't make the cut for obvious reasons. I still have one of the ADAT tapes from that show in a box buried in my closet somewhere.

That being said, this brings me to my next question: Did all the bands keep tapes of their shows, and do these exist somewhere? Is there an entire unreleased live Cherubs recording (or Gut? or American Psycho Band? or ANY of these bands?) out there somewhere, waiting to make it's way to the internet for all to enjoy? If so, i'd like to know.

1994 Rise Records

1. The Didjits - "Captain Ahab"

2. FuckEmo's - "Your Lies"

3. Gut - "Fresh Fish Surprise"

4. Ed Hall - "Bullshit"

5. Cows - "Plowed"

6. Cherubs - "All Chickened Out"

7. Noodle - "Crack Baby"

8. Seaweed - "Baggage"

9. Glorium - "Mother Machine"

10. Sockeye - "Slicin' Technique Off The Top"

11. Chaindrive - "Sad Sack"

12. American Psycho Band - "Ice Queen"

DL: v/a: "Live At Emo's" compilation CD

Glorium/El Santo - split 7"

Great split 7" from 1993. When this record came out, the pairing made complete sense as they were two of my favorite Texas bands at the time. Low and behold, I still love this to this day, 17 years later. Great stuff.

1993 Unclean Records

1. Glorium - "Hour One And Counting"

2. El Santo - "Lackluster"

DL: Glorium/El Santo - split 7"

Glorium "Divebomb/Chemical Angel" 7"

This 7" was the first vinyl release for Glorium, released on Ryan Richardson's EV Records limited to 300 copies on clear vinyl with no repress.

1992 Existential Vacuum Records

1. Divebomb

2. Chemical Angel

DL: Glorium "Divebomb/Chemical Angel" 7"

Gut/Glorium - split 7"

Great split 7" from Gut and Glorium, released on Powernap Records out of Houston. The first pressing of this record had a pressing defect on the Gut side causing it to skip about 40 seconds in. I don't recall HOW it happened, but it resulted in hundreds of records being pressed with the defect. Crafty people figured out that the record wouldn't skip if you placed a quarter on top of your record stylus, weighing it down. A subsequent pressing of the record corrected the issue. The original version that I have was distributed with a yellow inner paper sleeve (matching the color of the cover) on black vinyl, while the re-press was on marbled grey vinyl with a plain white inner sleeve.

1994 Powernap Records

1. Gut "Satanic Caviar"

2. Glorium "G93"

DL: Gut/Glorium - split 7"

Glorium "Phantom Wire Transmissions" 7 "

It's criminal that it's taken this long to have Glorium represented here. A mainstay of the 90's Texas scene, early Glorium fused Sonic Youth-ish art-swagger with DC punk mythos to create something truly unique and exciting. Members went on to play in I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Kingdom Of Suicide Lovers, and Sexto Sol, among others.

1993 Undone Records

1. Matches For The Fuse

2. My Demolition

3. Electricity

DL: Glorium "Phantom Wire Transmissions"

v/a: "Seek Sound Shelter" Compilation

1994 Dot Zit Records

1. Kid's Meal "Smoke Stack"

2. Kid's Meal "Tuner"

3. Gut - "And the Android"

4. Gut - "Mortal Kombat"

5. That - "Done"

6. Tu Edge - "Nowhere to Stand"

7. Tu Edge - "Away From Me"

8. Johnboy - "Admiration"

9. Johnboy - "Quick to Drain"

10. Boy Wonder - "Account"

11. Boy Wonder - "Passing"

12. Gomez - "Skirt"

13. Gomez - "Laundry"

14. Multitude of the Slothful - "First Word, Four Letters"

15. Multitude of the Slothful - "Second Word, Six Letters"

16. Glorium - "There's a Strain"

17. Glorium - "Mylanta Plenty"

MF DL