108's second album, Songs of Separation, is getting a limited vinyl repress via Equal Vision Records, out in tune with the 30th anniversary of the record's release in 1991.
The band was founded by Vic DiCara in the aftermath of Inside Out, playing Cro-Mags style hardcore from a Krishna Consciousness perspective.
The repress is for sale now. Read an old interview with the band from SPB's archives.
Excellent! 108 is dropping their second post reunion LP (a feat that I think further proves their honest intentions of just creating and playing music), and dear lord this record is a long time coming (it took more than a year following recording to see the light of day); such waits can do funny things to a band that can … Read more
Eleven years! It has been roughly eleven years since 108 last released a studio effort discounting last year's one-oh-eight demo. That is a long time between albums; the really scary aspect of that factoid for me is that I remember purchasing that last record when I was in high school. So much has changed in the landscape of underground music … Read more
108 may have been one of the major proponents of the "Krishna core" movement of the early to mid 1990's in the hardcore and punk scene, but the religious or ideological essence of their music does not even come close to overshadowing the energetic, passionate music that they produced over their short but relatively productive lifetime. At this point it … Read more
Ben Green (Fairweather-keyboards/vocals) SPB: Did you experiment with different sounds in the studio for Deluge, or did you enter knowing exactly what equipment you wanted to capture it? (Do you have any examples of equipment that helped to define this EP?) Green: Lots of different guitar sounds went into the … Read more
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