The Counterforce - DEAF DUMB & BLIND2026-07-01T13:06:03.000-04:00https://the-counterforce.org/tag/deaf-dumb-blind/The Counterforce - DEAF DUMB & BLINDDEAF DUMB & BLIND - Demo CS2026-07-01T13:06:03.000-04:002026-07-01T13:06:03.000-04:00https://the-counterforce.org /deaf-dumb-blind-demo/<p>Sometime in 2011, somewheres in and around Buffalo, NY, the MALLWAKERS were performing "Ten More Years (of 80s Hardcore)" and it seems it was more like ten and a half or twenty.</p><p>Perfectly cromulent, nothing ventured, but nothing beyond the cool little guitar freak out in "Maniacy" that would make me think about DEAF DUMB & BLIND again. </p><p>And that should have been the end of the review, but somehow DD&B pulled the tape's closer, "Trapped Inside" out of their fuckin' asses. Scrap the rest of the set and write more like that one.</p><p>1.5/6, but goddamn does that 1.5 put in the work.</p><p><em>Listen and judge for yourself here: </em><a href="https://hardcoreheadache.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2"><em>https://hardcoreheadache.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2</em></a></p><figure class="kg-card kg-bookmark-card"><a class="kg-bookmark-container" href="https://hardcoreheadache.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2"><div class="kg-bookmark-content"><div class="kg-bookmark-title">Demo, by DEAF DUMB & BLIND</div><div class="kg-bookmark-description">6 track album</div><div class="kg-bookmark-metadata"><img class="kg-bookmark-icon" src="https://ghost.the-counterforce.org/content/images/icon/a0642643078_3-20ed87272eb4dfb478f42c0f2ccbfdd3c014d31290060f08a599d5152484a951.jpg" alt="" /><span class="kg-bookmark-author">Hardcore Headache</span><span class="kg-bookmark-publisher">bearbowlbreakfast</span></div></div><div class="kg-bookmark-thumbnail"><img src="https://ghost.the-counterforce.org/content/images/thumbnail/a0642643078_5-fd6b7c6cd98e64efc83112ffb87907ee3bdb810d25adfc2fdb1e8830764d3d8e.jpg" alt="" onerror="this.style.display = 'none'" /></div></a></figure>
<p>Sometime in 2011, somewheres in and around Buffalo, NY, the MALLWAKERS were performing "Ten More Years (of 80s Hardcore)" and it seems it was more like ten and a half or twenty.</p><p>Perfectly cromulent, nothing ventured, but nothing beyond the cool little guitar freak out in "Maniacy" that would make me think about DEAF DUMB & BLIND again. </p><p>And that should have been the end of the review, but somehow DD&B pulled the tape's closer, "Trapped Inside" out of their fuckin' asses. Scrap the rest of the set and write more like that one.</p><p>1.5/6, but goddamn does that 1.5 put in the work.</p><p><em>Listen and judge for yourself here: </em><a href="https://hardcoreheadache.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2"><em>https://hardcoreheadache.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2</em></a></p><figure class="kg-card kg-bookmark-card"><a class="kg-bookmark-container" href="https://hardcoreheadache.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2"><div class="kg-bookmark-content"><div class="kg-bookmark-title">Demo, by DEAF DUMB & BLIND</div><div class="kg-bookmark-description">6 track album</div><div class="kg-bookmark-metadata"><img class="kg-bookmark-icon" src="https://ghost.the-counterforce.org/content/images/icon/a0642643078_3-20ed87272eb4dfb478f42c0f2ccbfdd3c014d31290060f08a599d5152484a951.jpg" alt="" /><span class="kg-bookmark-author">Hardcore Headache</span><span class="kg-bookmark-publisher">bearbowlbreakfast</span></div></div><div class="kg-bookmark-thumbnail"><img src="https://ghost.the-counterforce.org/content/images/thumbnail/a0642643078_5-fd6b7c6cd98e64efc83112ffb87907ee3bdb810d25adfc2fdb1e8830764d3d8e.jpg" alt="" onerror="this.style.display = 'none'" /></div></a></figure>