Ugly Americans

The Dream Turns Sour, 1984 Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed, 1985 Philadelphia Freedom 7", 1986 Punk rock it is today! US brand, family of DI, Adolescents and so on, although they were not from the West coast. Good melodic and energetic stuff. Their singer did the vocals on C.O.C's awesome Technocray! CD rip and vinyl rip of: The Dream Turns Sour: A1 Twisted Cross A2 Masked Minds A3 Sleepless Nightmare A4 Dance Of Death A5 Smurph Song A6 Young Businessman A7 Night On Redneck Mountain B1 The Bad, The Worse, And The Ugly Americans B2 Unrequited B3 Fearchild B4 Criminal Justice B5 Shadows, Shadows B6 Bob's Beach B7 Keep On Shooting Philadelphia Freedom: A Philadephia Freedom B1 Blacklash B2 Sleepless Nightmare

Exumer

Possessed By Fire + Rising From The Sea, 1986/1987 (Brazilian reissue with both albums on 1 disc) All right, to amend the comments about Exumer in the previous post, here are the two albums. More good German 80s speed metal! This sounds a LOT like Destruction's and Kreator's first albums. To justify my previous remarks, for me these records came out just 2 years too late: by the time the 1st Exumer came out, Onslaught, Dark Angel or Sacrilege BC (and Ludichrist!!!) had already matured to invincible beasts and it was hard for new releases to compete. But Exumer did a lot better than others, like Mayhem's 1987 Deathcrush which had generated its fair share of laughter... Anyway, these two albums are very enjoyable, bang that head! CD rip. Exumer on MySpace - they're back!

Vectom

Speed Revolution, 1985 Rules Of Mystery, 1986 Ah, German 80s speed metal! This is good speed metal influenced by Destruction and a bit of the early Helloween stuff on Rules Of Mystery. The 1st album is more intense and rougher and just better than the second, on which they try several improbable melodic riffs. Speed Revolution is actually quite fun, if not a revelation. Like Necronomicon, Darkness or Exumer, Vectom are clearly for the speed metal completist, as this is not in the league of the German masters (Assassin, Living Death, Backwater, Protector... you know what I mean). Great nostalgia anyway! CD rip with no tags (track lists here). Track 12 PS: try what I just did - switching from Vectom to Ludichrist... argh zer zer zerrrrrRRrrrrRrRRRRRrrrrr Ludichrist

Shikabane

Living For Someone Or Living For Myself, 1998 Ego And Desire, 2000 Why Do You Live?, 2002 Barabara [Reason For Being], 2009 If you've not been eaten by a bear this week-end, you might as well experience the sonic rendition of such an experience thanks to the mayhem of Shikabane. The Crazy Japanese Thrash Factory delivers another beast of major ferocity: the first two records concentrate some classic Japanese sounding grinding 80s hardcore à la S.O.B. | Rose Rose with some juicy slabs of Extreme Noise Terror | Heresy with the relentlessness of Unholy Grave. Yes I heard all this. Then the agonizing meat of Darkthrone and a generally black metal sauce of crude livers and poisonous fish enter the recipe on Why Do You Live, an amazing nightmare with longer songs (up to 6 minutes!). And now, you die: Reason For Being is THE ULTIMATE MONSTER. I'm not sure of the title of the album, Reason For Being is the only track name in English (first or last track). But I'm sure this is a masterpiece of Eternal Zer Top Ten proportions, it's more disgusting than any GISM, it's haunting and terminally grinding at the same time, and the production is much heavier than on any of the previous releases. The thrashing alternates with awesome melodic parts that remain carved into your skeleton through groovy, long-range song structures with psych-ward vocals. They really surpassed themselves on this one, at all levels!!! It's like the most voracious parts of Abscess, Neurosis, Oxbow and Unholy Grave had a bbq of living animals in a minefield. MEGA ARMAGGEDDON ZERRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR R RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!R!R!R !R!R!R!RRRRRR R!R!R!R RR!R !RR!RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! R!R!R !RR! !R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !R!R !R!R!R!!! R!R !R! R!RRRRRR !R!R !!R !R R! !R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!R! R!R! !R! R!R !R!!!!!!R !RR! ! !! !! CD rip and vinyl rip of: Why Do You Live: 1 Ash - Bone 2 Why Can't Obstacle Disappear In This Society? 3 Nihilism 4 Coming Apart ... 5 Break Down Of Mental Balance - I Dive In A Foward Looking Attitude - 6 What Do You Take Responsibility This My Suffering? 7 I Can't Try 8 The Last Myself

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Word Salad

Punk In Drublic 7", 1993 s/t 7", 1997 Electric Funeral 7", 1998 Death March 2000, 1999 split 10" w/Hellchild, 2000 (Hellchild side) Back to something dirty with the nasty feedbacks in the thrashcore and sludge of Word Salad. This is fast hardcore with some metal in the slit vein of classic Electro Hippies through the blender of power violence plus a subtle dose of Eyehategod mayhem. Corrosively insane zeristic screaming attack of the eardrums! CD rip (Deathmarch 2000) and vinyl rip of: Punk In Drublic 7": A1 Portrait Of A Submissive Christian A2 Sunday Hymn B Bloody Eye Electric Funeral 7": A1 Electric Funeral B1 Welcome To The 3rd World B2 Perverting My Retardation B3 The Pills s/t 7": A1 Faction of Dystopia A2 Overfed Politician A3 Indiscriminate Murder B1 Blister Blight B2 Sex = Death B3 Burn Your Family Split 10" with Hellchild: A1 Hellchild - The Movement Outward A2 Hellchild - Human B1 Word Salad (2) - Death Is Our Hero B2 Word Salad (2) - Simulated Telepathy B3 Word Salad (2) - Emotional Bondage B4 Word Salad (2) - Untitled

Détente

Recognize No Authority, 1986 History 1 (demo '85 + Catalepsy demo '88), 1985/1988 (2008 CD reissue) Decline, 2010 Thrash metal über classic! This stuff has the rage of Raw Power with the metal toolbox of early Megadeth | Exodus. They were one of the few speed metal bands with a woman singing, at this time it was pretty much Acid, Holy Moses, Znöwhite and Détente (yeah, Nuclear Death and Witches too, but they came out later and Warlock or Bitch where just not fast/heavy enough :-) - rare but KILLER! The new album Decline, just out 24 years after the first one, is another attack of ferocious, intense and plain excellent thrashing metal featuring a new and young but very, very angry lady on vocals. Nothing groundbreaking but everything skull-smashing! Do not miss the demo CD, the Catalepsy demo is just AWESOME! CD rip. I didn't really enjoy Fear Of God (post-Détente, not the Swiss thing) and do not have the CDs anymore, sorry. Buy Détente CDs!!! Détente website Détente on MySpace

Doom

No More Pain + Go Mad Yourself! e.p., 1986/1987 (1989 reissue) Complicated Mind, 1988 Killing Field + 4 tracks, 1988 Incompetent..., 1989 Human Noise, 1991 Illegal Soul, 1992 [LINK NOW REALLY FIXED] Where Your Life Lies, 1999 Corpsepaint-wearing Japanese music godsssss!!!!!!!!! In the upper crust of the Eternal Zer Top Ten, this heavenly place where reside such entities as Eisenvater, Bad Brains, Holy Terror and Victims Family (and Die You Bastard! and Rose Rose!), Doom have a big nice shining throne too. Each and every Doom release is a complete masterpiece from start to finish. Any description will fail to pay enough tribute to their greatness. Their discography starts with a with a heavy, nasty piece of thrash-metallic rock with GISM, Celtic Frost and Voïvod influences. From Complicated Mind on, you could hear Victims Family mixed with Holland's God playing voïvodish music with a touch of Coroner. It's twisted while maintaining absolute groove, thrash beats surface when they need to and the level of experimentation is so fucking well adjusted, it's perfect. The vocals are a bit like Tom Warrior and Snake full of THC arguing about the best way to stare at a goat. And the musicians are just masters, infinite supply of incredible guitars, beyond great drumming and some of the craziest bass lines in metal and rock history. Then let's mention the last album Where You Life Lies and its radical shift to highly saturated industrial metallic death that makes Ministry sound like the Shadows. I'm usually not very much into machine-sounding music, but THIS is AWESOME. It is impossible to say which album is the best, maybe Human Noise and No More Pain ? No, this is too reductive and the Church Of Zer makes it a sin not to inject very often all these discs in your audition canals. I can spend 12 minutes selecting which Doom album to play. I need six more brains. DOOM TIL ZERRRRRRRRRRR!R!!RRRRRRRRRRRRRR!R!R!R!R! !!RR! !RR !R!R!R!RR!R!R R!RR!!RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR !R!R!R !R!R!R!R! RR!R!!!!!!!!!!! R!R !R!R! R!R!R !RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!R!R! R!R !R!RR !R!R!! R! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CD rip. Doom on Wikipedia the Doom FAQ

Soothsayer

To Be A Real Terrorist (demo) + live Mtl 1987, 1986/1987 Have A Good Time, 1989 Among the cohorts of bands that built the legend of Canadian metal, Soothsayer was one of the most amazing, and they still are. These 2 CDs are the hottest, most intense straight-forward thrash/crossover recordings to ever surface in the province of Québec and one of the best Canada-wide, at the level of the best of Razor. This is like hearing Wehrmacht in your right ear and Dark Angel in the left. Add a layer of the Accüsed and dismember your family! MEGA THRASHING ZERRRRRR!RR!R!R! !R! R! !R! R!R! R!R !R! R!R!!!!!!!!!!!!! R!R!R !RR !!!!! CD rip. Buy the AMAZING terrorist CD!!! Soothsayer on MySpace

Autopsy

Severed Survival (11 tracks version) , 1989 Retribution For The Dead mcd, 1990 Mental Funeral (+ 3 demo/live tracks), 1991 Fiend For Blood mcd, 1992 Acts Of The Unspeakable (+ Fiend For Blood mcd + 10 live tracks taken from "Live from the grave"), 1992 Shitfun (+ 10 live tracks), 1995 Torn From The Graves (27 tracks compilation including live & demo tracks), 2001 From the very depths of the swamps of advanced putrefaction, Autopsy!!! The kings of sludge death returned last year and released a couple of eps, here are their earlier legendary material that carried on the torch of Post Mortem | Hellhammer. Is it Darkthrone's and Coffins' main influence ? Let's drown in a slow horrible death zerrRRrRRrRRRRrrRRR!!!RrRR!RrR!RR!R!RRrRR!!!!!RrR!R !R! R! !R!!! CD rip. Autopsy website Autopsy merch

PileDriver

Metal Inquisition (censored version), 1984 Metal Inquisition + Stay Ugly, 1986 Metal Manifesto, 2009 Canadian metaaaaaaaaaaal!!! I've been a PileDriver fan since I bought Metal Inquisition strictly because of the cover "artwork", I could not not own this. Then I heard the music and banged my head against the nearest anvil. Amazing shit! It's a festival of cheesy speed metal that works amazingly well, it's like a mix of Venom, Anvil and Twisted Sister and it grooves to death. Against all odds, after 23 years of silence, the legendary and exalted PileDriver strikes again with last year's excellent Metal Manifesto, a loud brick of heavy grooving thrash metal. The CD comes with a DVD with nice and raw live footage, but with too many useless airport and off-stage scenes. Anyway the album itself is a must have! Old fans will rejoice, it is as catchy and juicy as the masterpiece Metal Inquisition. Amazing show with Razor, Exciter and Anvil in 2005! Heavy Metal is the law!!!! CD rip and vinyl rip of Metal Inquisition censored version: 1. Metal Inquisition 2. Lust (replaces Sex with Satan) 3. Twister (replaces Sodomize the Dead) 4. Witch Hunt 5. Pile Driver 6. Human Sacrifice 7. Alien Raid (same song as "Alien Rape") Piledriver website (with a ton of videos) Piledriver on MySpace

I don't know where you can buy the Metal Manifesto (I had got the last copy on the Century Media distro!), but watch their website, it is announced to be rereleased with this artwork:


Fan video of the year!

Vopo's

Dead Entertainment, 1981 Conquer, 1983 The Price Of Being Young, 2005 Brand New, 2008 'Conquer' was already posted in the very beginning of this blog, because it is a fantastic album. Now here comes the rest of Vopo's production, and a new/better (louder) re-rip of the masterpiece Conquer. Yes the cover art is ugly, but the music rips and it was my first experience with what would be called crossover - before Broken Bones, before any other HC/punk band turned metal. I remember buying it because it received very very bad reviews in the metal press as well as in the punk zines. Too punk for the first and too metal for the latter, it had to be great - how would you dare going against the dominant orthodoxy! Red or long hair, you had to choose. And this is the only record I know with a song called Nuclear War that has accordion in it, and it works so well! Conquer is like the perfect mix of English Dogs and Warfare with better guitars. Groovy, heavy, with 12 fists in the air! I was floored then and today this record is still amazing. I wouldn't be so enthusiastic about Dead Entertainment, a collection of below-average-to-tedious basic '77 punk rock... And then they came back in 2005 with a re-recording CD with most of Dead Entertainment and 5 songs from Conquer. This CD RIPSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! They turned the early songs from D.E. into high octane punk anthems and the Conquer tracks into bombs of mid-paced thrash - the guitar picking is INTENSE!!! One of the most AMAZING re-recoding albums ever. If only they had redone the whole Conquer album... The song "In the book" is simply outstanding and sits in all my home made mp3 comps. Then the 2008 Brand New album demonstrates further the power and experience of these guys in the bone-crushing punk department. This is not Green Day! GENUINE KILLER PUNK THRASHING ZZEERR R RRR zerRRrrRrrRR!R!RRrR!Rr !R !RrRR RRRRRRRRRRR! r RR! !R!R!! !!!! CD rip and vinyl rip of : Dead Entertainment: A1 You're Gonna Miss Me Baby A2 God A3 Dead Entertainment A4 Picture A5 Commercials A6 Unifil Soldier A7 Zwolle A8 Uniforms A9 Bathroom A10 Let Them Look at Themselves B1 A Light B2 Communist Rules B3 Friday Till Monday B4 Television Sensation B5 School B6 I Don't Care What People Say B7 City Destroyers B8 We're Gonna Do What We Like B9 E-38 Conquer: 1 Hard and Loud 2 Tonight 3 In the Book 4 Nuclear war 5 Warrior 6 Conquer 7 Get me 8 Speedbanging Babies 9 007 10 Short Joy Buy the two AMAZING CDs directly from their website!