Possessed

01. Possessed - The Demos 1984-1992, 1984/1993 CD Compilation Unofficial Release      Not On Label - none      Reissue from 2006 - Death Metal Demo Tape 84 + Rehearsal 84 + Demo Tape 91 + Demo Tape 93 02. Possessed - Seven Churches, 1985 Vinyl LP Album      Roadrunner Records - RR 9757 03. Possessed - Seven Churches, 1985 CD Album Reissue      Century Media - 66049-2      Reissue from 1999 04. Possessed - Seven Churches, 2001 Vinyl LP Album Reissue Picture Disc      Century Media, Lonely Planet Productions - 66049-1, none 05. Possessed - Beyond The Gates, 1986/1987 CD Album Reissue      Icarus Music - ICARUS 800      Reissue from 2011 - Contains The Eyes Of Horror EP This week, I started to read the Koran. Many months of fun on the throne now. Makes me feel like zerring some Possessed. Over 30 years of worship of the swing of the axe into the seven churches! I attended the Slayer / Possessed show in SF in August 1985. Was anyone at this show? Amazing noisefest! On vinyl, I was first completely mesmerized by their appearance on Metal Massacre VI, then Seven Churches blew me away to a geostationary orbit, I never really came back. Death metal! None more evil! The unstoppable corrosion had begun. Bang your head to the death til thrash til triplazer! Remove brackets and unzip: [churches of zer] !ZER Possessed ZER! PS: the tags & song titles of the demos CD are wrong, but are faithful to the errors on the CD booklet.

Force Fed

01. Force Fed - Claustrophobia, 1989 Vinyl LP Album      In Your Face Records - FACE 08 02. Force Fed - Full Up And Loaded, 1989 Vinyl 7" 45 RPM Single      Limited Edition Records - RARE 003 03. Force Fed - Elounda Sleeps, 1991 Vinyl LP Album      Sycophant Records - SYC 04 04. Force Fed - Fast Forward, 1991 Vinyl 7" 45 RPM      Sister Records - SISTER-03 AAR. Fresh rips of these marvelous records (remaining to re-rip: S.O.B. and Raped Teenagers). Force Fed's marketing point was the involvement of Heresy's bass player on Claustrophobia, that would sure attract a lot of attention. But the music stands by itself extremely strongly and zerly. Claustrophobia is a pure pearl of super powered dark hardcore that illuminates (with black photons) Eternal Zer City's Top Ten Central Palace. The twisted mix of Amebix, Bl'ast! and Bad Brains explains the ultimate altitude of this (way too short) record. The next releases were more straight forward high quality hardcore thrash that may remind us dinosaurs of Life Sentence or RKL. Ditto for the EPs. First rate, world class, highest golden zerness of 80s hardcore forever and beyond! Remove brackets and unzip: [zer fed] !ZER Force Fed ZER! PS: I regularly receive moot requests like "post more punk, less metal" or vice versa. These requests will be entirely ignored. Be specific and post in the requests forum. I cannot manage requests for trends as it depends on my mood. Anyway, I think it's pretty much well balanced between punk and metal. If you don't think so, go watch Mad Max and come back in tears.

Unholy Grave

01. Unholy Grave - Crucified, 1995 CD Album      Eclipse Records - ECR-01      YEAR: 1995 02. Unholy Grave - Inhumanity, 1996 CD Album      Eclipse Records - ECR-011 03. Unholy Grave, Mass Separation - Distressed / Untitled, 1998 CD Album      Do Not Consume - none , Compilation      Contains 38 songs by: Unholy Grave, Mass Separation 04. Unholy Grave - Nein E.P, 1998 Vinyl 7" EP      Farewell Records, MacGyver Records - FWR #15, FWR #15 05. Unholy Grave - Tortured Alive, 2000 Vinyl 10" 33 ? RPM      Farewell Records - FWR #20 06. Logger Head, Unholy Grave - Unholy Grave / Logger Head, 2000 CD EP      Revolution - none , Compilation      Contains 18 songs by: Logger Head, Unholy Grave 07. Unholy Grave, Violent Headache - Recordando A Un Bosque / Free From Fear!!, 2000 Vinyl 7" 45 RPM      Wicked Witch Records - WWR017B , Compilation      Contains 7 songs by: Unholy Grave, Violent Headache 08. Unholy Grave - The Unreleased, 2001 Vinyl 7" EP 45 RPM Remastered Numbered      Nuclear BBQ Party, Living Dead Records - NBP001, NBP001 09. Unholy Grave - Zero Hour EP, 2001 Vinyl 7" EP 45 RPM      Undislessed Records - UND # 01 10. Unholy Grave, Gyarandu - Death Of Savage Ass / Untitled, 2001 Vinyl 7" EP 33 ? RPM      Bloodbath Records - BIMI027 , Compilation      Contains 7 songs by: Unholy Grave, Gyarandu 11. Unholy Grave, Idi Amin - Untitled / Stupiditiez, 2001 Vinyl 7" EP 45 RPM      Wicked Witch Records - WWR 019 , Compilation      Contains 10 songs by: Unholy Grave, Idi Amin 12. Unholy Grave - Fanaticism E.P., 2001 Vinyl 7" EP      Rescued From Life Records, Incendiary Devices - rfl5, 2 13. Unholy Grave - Kill 'Em All For One?, 2001 Vinyl 7" EP 45 RPM      Crucial Blast, Crucial Blast - CB007, Crucial Blast 07 14. Unholy Grave, Rotten Sound - 8 Hours Of Lobotomy / Wrath, 2001 CD      MCR Company - MCR-160 , Compilation      Contains 9 songs by: Unholy Grave, Rotten Sound 15. Unholy Grave - Unholy Grind Destruction EP, 2002 Vinyl 7" Picture Disc EP      Agromosh Records - #005 16. Unholy Grave, Godstomper - Mad World / Real Evil, 2002 Vinyl 7" EP 33 ? RPM Limited Edition      Rescued From Life Records - RFL 7 , Compilation      Contains 8 songs by: Unholy Grave, Godstomper 17. Kerum, Unholy Grave - The First Priority / Untitled, 2002 Vinyl 7" EP 33 ? RPM      Regurgitated Semen Records - RSR 037 , Compilation      Contains 13 songs by: Kerum, Unholy Grave 18. Terrorism, Unholy Grave - Endless Supply Of Pain / Untitled, 2002 Vinyl 7" EP 33 ? RPM      Morbid Reality Records, Disembowelment Records - MRR001, MRR001 , Compilation      Contains 9 songs by: Terrorism, Unholy Grave 19. Unholy Grave, Agathocles - Agatho Grave, 2003 CD      Bloodbath Records - BIMI034 , Compilation      Contains 21 songs by: Unholy Grave, Agathocles 20. Unholy Grave, Anarchus - The Human Spectacle, 2004 CD      2+2=5 Records - CD2+2=13 , Compilation      Contains 22 songs by: Unholy Grave, Anarchus 21. Unholy Grave, S.C.U.M. - Terrorism / Untitled, 2004 CD      Bloodbath Records - BIMI035 , Compilation      YEAR: 2003 - Contains 13 songs by: Unholy Grave, S.C.U.M. 22. Unholy Grave - Terroraging Crisis, 2006 CD Album      Grind Freaks - grave-001 23. Unholy Grave, Dropdead - Dropdead / Unholy Grave, 2003 Vinyl 7" EP 33 ? RPM      MCR Company - MCR-177 , Compilation      Contains 10 songs by: Unholy Grave, Dropdead Requested, zerred. Partially, because it is not possible to own the complete UG discography. They may have more releases than Iron Maiden. So, today I finished the New Testament - 10 months of reading - on the toilet only, that's why it took so long. I read the Old Testament when Hell Awaits came out. Perfect audio background for such a nasty and amazing story. Now, the NT is not nearly as good, except of course for the very last part called the Apocalypse, I totally must get some of what that guy smoked while writing this triple dragon / seven angels / four horsemen / sword out of the mouth story. We would not have half of Slayer's and Venom's discography without that chapter. For some reason, it made me think that I should post the few Unholy Grave discs I have. Yeah, fast grrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiinding Japanese thrash, that's exactly what we need!! Bang that head!! Remove brackets and unzip: [grind til zer] !ZER Unholy Grave ZER! Off to the Plastic Bertrand show now.

Scatterbrain - Here Comes Trouble

01. Scatterbrain - Here Comes Trouble, 1990 Vinyl LP Album      In-Effect - 467375 1 NRAR. Vinyl rip this time, because there is no such thing as nostalgia, especially from 1990 - what a year (and we're still married). I must admit that I was disappointed upon my first listen of this LP: I was expecting another monster of ultimate crossover like Ludichrist's Powertrip. But at the second play I realized that Here Comes Trouble is close to the very best of the very best of the cream of the best hard rock album ever released. Astonishing amount of highest zerness from all angles!! Remove brackets and unzip: [here comes zer] !ZER Scatterbrain ZER!

Violent Arrest

01. Violent Arrest - Violent Arrest, 2006/2007 CD Album      Deranged Records, Deranged Records - DY110, DY#110 02. Violent Arrest - Minute Manifestos, 2010 CD Album      Boss Tuneage - BTRC049      includes Criminal Record double 7" 03. Violent Arrest - Tooth And Nail, 2011 CD Album      Boss Tuneage - BTRC061 04. Violent Arrest - Life Inside The Western Bloc, 2015 Vinyl LP Album Limited Edition      Boss Tuneage, Farewell Records - BTRC12-092, FWR#51 05. Violent Arrest - Life Inside The Western Bloc, 2015 CD Album      Boss Tuneage - BTRC092      includes Distorted View Basic hardcore punk anyone? 5 years later, it was time to have a Violent Arrest update. This is great stuff, rough and virulent as we might expect from former Ripcord members, even if none of these releases match the level of zerritude of Poetic Justice. No musical breakthrough or groundbreaking extremities here, just plain classic British sounding old style thrash that might fill that urgent craving. I cannot leave without regretting the usually generic lyrics. The hardcore scene should definitely go and use satanic zombie lyrics or anything else but these half-assed so-called socially concerned interchangeable hypocritical slogans. Parrot'n'roll! But as long as it makes a lot of noise, I won't complain too much. Remove brackets and unzip: [zerocracy] !ZER Violent Arrest ZER! PS: After Death reloaded, try again.

Nocturnus + After Death

01. Nocturnus - The Key, 1990 CD Album      Earache - MOSH 23CD 02. Nocturnus - Thresholds, 1992 CD Album      Earache - MOSH55CD 03. Nocturnus - Ethereal Tomb, 2000 CD Album      Season Of Mist - SOM 024 04. Nocturnus - The Nocturnus Demos, 2004 CD Compilation      Candlelight Records USA - CANUS0072CD      The Science Of Horror 1988 + 1st demo 1987 05. After Death - Retronomicon, 2007 CD Compilation      Iron Pegasus Records - I.P.052 As promised, here are the most famous creatures of Mike Browing, formerly of Morbid Angel. After Death gathers early members of Nocturnus and deliver a different kind of death, but not that different. So a combined post is relevant, yes. Both bands are completely awesome and unique in the death metal department - death metal from outer space with crazy riffs and large amounts of mind-twisting structural meat, plus invasive keyboards with teeth beyond cheese. The 3rd album is slower, with an almost Paradise Lost feeling, still very great despite the eviction of Mr Browning - more straight forward heaviness, less cannibal alien attacks. After Death resurrects the greatness of the creative power of Nocturnus and satisfies our craving for ancient death mastery. Classic death til zer til forever rezer! Go check the Unaussprechlichen Kulten post for the UK/AD split. Remove brackets and unzip: [after zer] !ZER After Death, Nocturnus ZER! Aaah, I must go attend a hip-hop show now. Pray for me.

W.D.M.

01. W.D.M. - Tomorrow's Gone, 1985 Vinyl 7" White Label      Not On Label - none 02. W.D.M. - Democracy? EP, 1985 Vinyl 7" 33 ? RPM EP      Vaihtoehto - none 03. W.D.M. - Freedom Of Music, 1988 Vinyl 7" 45 RPM EP      M&M Productions - MMS 8802 80s Finnish hardcore punk. Fast, loud, anarchy! Remove brackets and unzip: [zerocracy] !ZER W.D.M. ZER!

Bottom Feeder

01. Bottom Feeder - Grinding Teeth, 2013 Vinyl LP      Raw Birth Records, Crucificados Pelo Sistema - RBR008, none Bottom Feeder sound a lot like Iron Monkey who sounded a lot like Eyehategod. To each decade its sludge catastrophe. Grease your aural conduits and rejoice upon this superb avalanche of dead elephants and feedback. The swamp never dries up! Remove brackets and unzip: [swampocracy] !ZER Bottom Feeder ZER!

Circle Jerks - Group Sex

01. Circle Jerks - Group Sex, 1980 Vinyl LP Album      Frontier Records - FLP 1002 That classic album. The eternal staple of US punk rock. No introduction necessary, short and sweet zeristic abrasion to be consumed from now til forever! Off to the Girlschool show now. Remove brackets and unzip: [group zer] !ZER Circle Jerks ZER! PS: Support free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

Massive doomgasm with my brother Maxime on drums:

Warhead

01. Warhead - Never Give Up, 2011 CD Compilation, DVD      Blood Sucker Records - BSR-107 02. Warhead - Warhead, 2014 CD Album      Blood Sucker Records - BSR-115 At last! 21 years later, Warhead finally release another album. Of course, there were all the EPs, but was it enough to satisfy our craving for deadly Japanese thrash intensity? Of course not. So, yes, this new album is a monstrous killing machine in the best Japcore tradition. It is already a classic. It may even be rawer and faster than their previous material, like a really pissed off Raw Power | Gauze radioactive mutant. "May" because I just got it and have not listened to it enough to issue a definitive case study, but it is so good I wanted to post it ASAP. Fucking buy it now! And then there is also this amazing Never Give Up compilation with all the EPs (except This World Of Confusion, but since I am such a nice person, you get a free reload here, say merci). Break your neck on punk's boiling point! Remove brackets and unzip: [zerhead] !ZER Warhead ZER! Am I the only one too think of the new Mad Max as an awfully boring piece of rotten horse manure? On the scale of Prometheus, it gets 100%. Go on, Crappywood, please continue to ruin all the classics.