Abscess - Seminal vampires and maggot men

Abscess´s proper debut album after the "urine junkies" collection of demos ...

... just as sick,ugly and thumping as anything Autopsy ever did .

Who the hell cares if there´s more emphasis on punk than there is on doom or whatever this time around?

It´s still Chris Reifert

it´s still the definition of DEATH METAL !!!!!!

The scent of Shit

Eat my Fuk - "Wet slit & a bottle of whiskey"

"Searching for books about the history of whisky, Amazon's superb software and search tool showed me this CD which I could never have imagined would come up in Amazon's website (check the titles!). To me Amazon is a "G" rated website. But with this example, it shows bad taste, bad judgement, interest in selling just about anything without quality control; quality meaning not just a non defective product but moral, ethical and intellectual quality. Amazon and Jeff Bezos, both highly praised for exceptional customer service, show their dark side, one not imagined, at least by me, as possible in this website. THUMBS DOWN AND SHAME ON YOU AMAZON AND JEFF(Benzos)!!!! "

Well ,it´s Chris Reifert(again) ,what is there to say ?

Highly recommended for fans of Emperor,Wagner,Nietzzzzzsche,french wines ,LaVey and all things intelligent/intellectual I guess ...

Kneel before my Cock

I...dare...YOU!

Some days ago I was having this little casual chat with Namru_Xul which loosely involved a relative´s suicide,drugs,insanity and ... HAWKWIND.

Well,(un)fortunately I do not keep any archives anywhere but Namru quite blatantly

(and to my total disbelief) expresssed the will to post the latter´s entire (Official and Unofficial) discography.

Well , see this as my contribution/introduction (that "rare" bootleg I told you of will be coming soon too as soon as I find it)to your future post ,

or who the hell knows? Maybe we´ll be working together on this one...

As a taste of what´s to come here´s some random compilation cd nicked from HMV or Virgin,not too sure now,in London(center,near Trocadero) at a time when life was as simple as nicking wine bottles from Marks & Spencers(the one almost right opposite to Brixton´s tube station for instance),

selling it to local restaurant owners

for 20 quid - Tenner B bag/Tenner W bag ...

Launder,fold,repeat (locations may vary)...

...but yeah man , I DO dare you!!!!

Starfish Of human blood shape Tentacles of human gore Spread out on the pavement

Repulsion

Would you take any extreme metal anthology

(be it a book , a cd , a BLOG ,whattheFever) half seriously ,

were it not ,at the very least, to feature Repulsion?

I know you wouldn´t ...

... so here it is presented to you exactly how I´d like it presented to myself -

nothing that special really, just each and every track they´ve recorded as featured on the 2003 re-issue of their classic "Horrified" album Minus the 2 live tracks which is basically filler and that annoying "extras-all-crammed-into-1cd" approach .

I can´t recommend the "WFBE" demo enough,

basically a session which predated "Horrified" with a couple of killer tracks (read:matching anything on "Horrified")

which were not included in the latter for whatever reason.

(320kbps)

Jack-Up

Dead Can Dance

Ironically & conveniently enough ,the best/most succinct way to describe what DcD means to me/how I perceive it all(whichever way you may wish to put it)coincides with one of their songs´ title - "Anywhere out of the world"- or if that sounds pretentious,pompous,pathetic,_____ or all of the above combined,perhaps 4AD Ivo´s(?!) words may just happen to be less (or more)so : "Dead Can Dance were not obsessed with the past, nor did they provide a sense of nostalgic escape into bygone ages. They severed boundaries and set music free from the fetters of time and place, soaring out of the immediate world".

...Anyways ... fukk what they mean to me or to anybody else for that matter,let´s focus more on what EXACTLY is in here:

1-the COMPLETE official discography (@320kbps) uploaded directly from my juuuuust as complete cd collection(just a 1 + 1/3 exception due to the (in)conveniences of vynil and technical problems respectively)

2-a bootleg series I particularly enjoy (6 over 1 hour long each cds of unreleased songs, demos,rehearsals,lives etc),not necessarily for the "right" reasons but I guess those of you who´ve been with DcD for half as long as we have will enjoy it just as much...Oh yeah, I do not own those so expect the quality you truly deserve)

3- As a starting point I´d either go for their "mid-period" albums("Spleen & Ideal","Within the realm of a dying sun","The serpent´s egg")or simply the "1981-1998 Box set" which to me represents the quintessential DcD item ...

4-"if "3-" is a point there might as well be a "4-" ...

... pretty pointless

DcD

G.I.S.M. (General Imperialism Social Murder) - Human Condition

“Without a single doubt the best G.I.S.M. bootleg ever made.” can be read on G.I.S.M.´s unofficial website...well I´d personally simplify this to “Without a single doubt the BEST bootleg ever made”. I can only compare this to “a tribute to the black emperors” (Mayhem) vinyl bootleg.

Listening to a song like “Fire”(Believe it or not this is some early 80´s compilation "song") can only be comparable to the 1st time I listened to that version of “Carnage” contained in the later.Instantly reminds me of why I got into Metal/Punk in the 1st place,the uncompromising naked aggression, a lingering sense that “the boundary between “music” and actual threat can at times get rather blurry" blah,blah,blah ...(to be continued or edited or whatever when I happen to be less boring or more drugged up ... or both)

Punks IS Hippies

G.I.S.M. DETESTation (1984)

“When you put it all together G.I.S.M. is kind of like listening to (early) Iron Maiden (might as well have mentioned Diamond Head,Venom or Motorhead even) during a really ,really bad acid trip with Discharge playing really loud in the next room. I don’t know how anyone thought to combine driving hardcore/punk with NWOBHM and these unholy vocals, I just know it’s good.”

The only perhaps not so obvious reference in this is undoubtedly early SPK . G.I.S.M. just like the former is actually an acronym which has different variations such as 'Guerrilla Incendiary Sabotage Mutineer' (original), 'God In the Schizoid Mind', 'General Imperialism Social Murder', 'Genocide Infanticide Suicide Menticide', and 'Gnostic Idiosyncrasy Sonic Militant'.

Also much like early SPK , GISM were widely known for violence present in their lyrics/concepts and live shows, “On stage, Sakevi would often be dressed on stage wearing a balaclava and bullet belt, waving lit flares in audience members' faces, using microphone stands as clubs, and attacking concert goers as Vietnam war footage was projected behind him. In the past he has attacked photographers for taking pictures of him and has chased audiences with a flamethrower.”.
Like some other reviewer put it ...

... “ after over 25 years it is one of the few records that can still get an extreme reaction from people listening to it for the first time so long after it was first conceived. It’s one of the harshest most brutalizing rock records ever made. It’s also one of the strangest.”.

INDULGE

TSOL

Metal's kissing cousin, punk rock is often criticized by the metal community for not pushing the envelope enough thematically. The Misfits of course are a classic example of a band that is adored by both communities openly for their use of horror concepts. Then we have a classic release here by TSOL. Dance With Me was one of those rare punk albums that not only used horror imagery, but completely blew the doors off of the punk wagon at the time. Drug addled tales of gutter punk hippies? Political rants about the injustices of Reaganomics? Nah, how about some good old fashioned necrophilia and schizophrenia tales? Ah yeah that's the stuff.
Adored for ages for that ability to shock the fukk out of your teenage pals in earshot, and still give a good goof of a laugh in your advanced burn out age of your 30s... This is a classic of the genre that if not owned, at least needs to be understood. Have fun.

CODE BLUE!!!

Filii Nigrantium Infernalium

This my dear Xulims …THIS is HANDS DOWN the best portuguese Black Metal band(which along with Moonspell pioneered the style in this country ... ok,ok,"what about Decayed?" Fukk Decayed,they never managed to impress me in the slightest)…period.

Nothing whatsoever to do with all these third rate scandinavian wannabe clone bands we have over here these days.

Oh the memories about this one… such as seeing them live in the early 90s opening for Ancient Rites (and in which Impaled Nazarene were also rumoured as headliners).The sort of memorable experience that makes one forget /ignore all the other bands playing that night(including Ancient Rites).Simply the rawest,filthiest,most chaotic dose of Anarko/black metal I’ve ever been exposed to.Remember how unique something like early Necromantia or even Rotting Christ sounded in the late 80s/early 90s? Or even the “isolationism” of Samael’s “Worship him”for that matter? What you have in here is basically the same strong sense of identity of the aforementioned bands,nothing remotely Snorre-ish in here that’s for sure.This is a product of fully understanding what Punk,80s Euro thrash,(Black) Metal were originally all about and use it all as a medium which reflects Belathauzer’s twisted charisma for which he was/is locally renowned.


P.S. Start either by the 90s “A era do abutre” EP or the “Fellatrix Discoria…” full length and then as a curiosity check the demo out which in my opinion isn’t really representative of what the band is about.

INDULGE

Filth of Mankind

“Why the hell is this confused twat self sabotaging his own posts?”.Did that sound redundant?And speak of redundancy,perhaps cause I know exactly where this comes from ,as in I’m too aware of the references behind this…from the very pronounced general Amebix feel of this to the rather crust/punk clichéd political content of the message(Antisect,Amebix,Discharge etc etc) ,also that punk crossing over into metal territory without quite getting there etc etc .In spite of all of this and specially if you’re lacking all the obvious references this is a more than solid release which deserves exposure imo. I mean ,listen to “obledna rzeczywistosc”(4th track) which is to me the stand out track in here ,that’s got all the elements which were so special about stuff like Amebix,early/mid era Neurosis and more ,it’s just great punk/crust(argghh!)/metal …also ,earlier on I mentioned bands like Hellhammer,Deathstrike or even Skitsystem ,well,same “organic” and visceral approach to what is on display really,the way these songs were recorded ,their dynamics,the way the band delivers them shares all the spontaneity/sincerity with the above bands…Oh well,just check them out,definitely some quality in this which might just make you return to it…

INDULGE

Guitar Wolf

Japan's greatest offering of supercharged punk hell. This just bleeds cooler than you attitude...
No teenage jerking off on your couch with some power chords nonsense, no politics... nothing but rockabilly influenced super kill. The Cramps must have toured Japan and shot their seed all over their geisha moms, causing them to grow up rapidfire godzilla nuclear ultra number 1 style. The little monsters embraced their instruments, named themselves after them and then began destroying everything in sight.

LOCK AND LOLL!!!