Friday, July 10, 2009

Suckspeed






the day of light, 1989
slow motion, 1991
the end of depression, 1992 FIXED
unknown gender (mcd), 1993
we bite live (Suckspeed, Emils, Capitol Punishment), 1991
It is easy to hate Suckspeed (look at the logo) but if you're into early (I said EARLY - pre 1987) Metallica and Prong with a touch of Erosion, you will enjoy the "day of light" - great, almost complex thrash and groove by excellent musicians. Then they slow down, add Black Sabbath and classic riff-metal and hard-rock and remove Erosion from the influence list. On the 3rd album they become almost commercial hard rock (think Scatterbrain), then the last mcd is even more melodic, almost pop at times. I'm addicted to these records, this is an amazing crossover between hard-rock, heavy metal and a touch of hardcore. The density of groove is impressive and BANGS THAT HEAD THAT DOESN'T BANG ZERRRRRRRRR !R !R!R R! !RR! ! !R !RRRRRRRRRRR R R R ! !R!
CD rip.

4 comments:

  1. the end of depression links to an unkown gender image

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  2. Thanks. Great post. I was looking for these for a little while now. I really like the early Suckspeed, although I lost track of them (i.e. didn't care that much anymore) on their later releases. Anyway, I grew up in Germany and saw Suckspeed a few times and within that genre they were head and shoulders above their peers.

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  3. P.S. Suckspeed was a pretty obvious wordplay on "Zakspeed" a motor racing team founded by Erich Zakowski (so Zakspeed was a pretty bad wordplay in itself already...). Zakspeed became somewhat famous in the mid-80s (when Suckspeed was founded I guess) when they tried to branch out into Formula 1. So at that time in Germany Zakspeed was a well known entity.

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  4. I guess Suckspeed were indeed a great live act, at least the live recording is excellent.
    Thanks for the info about he moniker! That's what I call an inside joke...

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