When I interviewed local hardcore trio the New Flesh for the Baltimore City Paper in 2007, the band was in a middle of a transitional period. They had just parted ways with founding guitarist Danny Propert, and had begun playing shows with a new guitarist, Greg Dembeck. At the time, they had ambitions to finish recording their third album of material with Propert, and quickly follow it up with another album with the new lineup. Ultimately, however, those plans didn’t pan out. Instead late last year, the New Flesh released Hall Of Heads, a compilation featuring scraps of both projects along with other recordings, on drummer Rick Weaver’s label, Human Conduct Records.

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