Stupids

01. Stupids - Peruvian Vacation, 1985 Vinyl, LP, Album      Children Of The Revolution Records - GURT 9 02. Stupids - Peruvian Vacation & Violent Nun, 1985 CD, Compilation      Clay Records - CLAY CD 116      Reissue from 1993 - includes Violent Nun EP + 11 demo tracks 03. Stupids - Retard Picnic, 1986 Vinyl, LP, Album      Children Of The Revolution Records - GURT 15 04. Stupids - Retard Picnic, Feedback Session, Stupids Flexi, 1986 CD, Compilation      Clay Records - CLAY CD 117      Reissue from 1993 - 1-16: Retard Picnic. 17-20: Flexi, 21-29: Feedback session, 30-34: Retard Picnic out-takes. 05. Stupids - The Complete BBC Peel Sessions, 1986/1987 CD, Compilation      Boss Tuneage - BTRCRS034      Reissue from 2008 - 1-4: December 9, 1986, 5-8: Frankfurter Show, April 16, 1987, 9-13: May 12, 1987, 14-18: October 13, 1987. 06. Stupids - Untitled, 1987 Vinyl, 7", Single, Limited Edition      Vinyl Solution - VS3 07. Stupids - Van Stupid, 1987 Vinyl, LP, Album      Vinyl Solution - SOL-2 08. Stupids - Van Stupid / Eat, 1987 CD, Album, Reissue      Visible Noise - TORMENT128      Reissue from 2008 - 1-7: Van Stupid, 8-15: Frankfurter - Eat EP. 16-23: Frankfurter Demo, 24: Previously Unreleased. 09. Stupids - Jesus Meets The Stupids, 1988 Vinyl, LP, Album      Vinyl Solution - SOL-7 10. Stupids - Jesus Meets The Stupids, 1988 CD, Album, Reissue      Visible Noise - TORMENT129      Reissue from 2008 - includes bonus 1st pressing EP 11. Stupids - The Peel Sessions, 1988 Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM      Strange Fruit - SFPS054 12. Various Artists - No Cheese! (The High-Way To Hell Tour Souvenir), 1989      Vinyl Solution - SOL - 16, Compilation      Contains 8 songs by: Tennant All Stars, Pittman All Stars, Stupids, Hard-Ons 13. Stupids - The Kids Don't Like It..., 2009 CD, Album      Boss Tuneage - BTRC030 14. Stupids - Japanese Vacation, 2011 CD, EP, Limited Edition      Boss Tuneage - BTRC064 Maximum superclassic rezer! Everyone agrees with strong head nodding that Stupids are one of the brightest star in punk-rock-universe. Deeply carved into the Eternal Zer Top Ten foundations since the release of Peruvian Vacation, they explode in your face with the unmatched energy of a double bomb of Stilton. And... NO BULLSHIT CONCERNED & REVOLUTIONARY "POLITICAL LYRICS". This is the pinnacle of essential catchy thrashing rocking triplazer for the past and future decades. Stupids forever hyprazer! But will this be another case of blog demolition? PS: discogs links fixed !ZER Stupids ZER! Remove brackets and unzip: [holy flying zercus]

Mekong Delta

01. Mekong Delta - Mekong Delta, 1987 Vinyl, LP, Album      GWR Records - 7 71413-1      Reissue from 1989 02. Mekong Delta - The Music Of Erich Zann, 1988 Vinyl, LP, Album      Aaarrg Records - AAARRG 11 03. Mekong Delta - The Principle Of Doubt, 1989 Vinyl, LP, Album      Aaarrg Records - AAARRG 19 04. Mekong Delta - Dances Of Death (And Other Walking Shadows), 1990 Vinyl, LP, Album      Aaarrg Records - ARG 23/034-1 05. Mekong Delta - Live At An Exhibition, 1991 CD, Album, Remastered      Mystic Empire - MYST CD 040      Reissue from 2006 06. Mekong Delta - Kaleidoscope, 1992 CD, Album      Intercord Record Service - IRS 986963 07. Mekong Delta - Visions Fugitives, 1994 CD, Album      Intercord Record Service - IRS 986.993 08. Mekong Delta - Pictures At An Exhibition, 1996 CD, Album      Bullet Proof Records - IRS 993.626 09. Mekong Delta - Lurking Fear, 2007 CD, Album, DVD, DVD-Video      AFM Records - AFM 173-9 10. Mekong Delta - Wanderer On The Edge Of Time, 2010 CD, Album      Aaarrg Records - AAARRG 2010 - 1D 11. Mekong Delta - Intersections, 2012 CD, Compilation, Album      Steamhammer - SPV 260222 CD Let's do this: the blog goes on, on short FIFO mode. As one quick smartass lectured, let's use our own private space. But churchofzer.com having 100 times less space than the previous server, I'll have to erase files quickly to make room for new posts, and post more slowly. All posts will have a lifespan of one to two weeks due to limited storage space. On average, only the last two or three posts will stay alive. You'll have not to miss what you're interested in because reloads will be unlikely for a while, new posts will focus on stuff that has not been posted since February 2012. Let's see how this works. Then it's up to everyone to reload and seed to keep it all floating around. I don't want to put up torrents myself as my home bandwidth is limited. The Kvist post is reactivated. And now let's have the 8th wonder of the universe, the supernatural Mekong Delta and their splendid masterpieces. Technical thrash metal would be the short description, but the real phrase should be: mind blowing succulent perfection in maxizer demonstration of the metal. The vocals may sometimes be less impressive, but they always work, like they do in Voïvod or Coroner (or Living Death :) which reminds me that there were some guys from Living Death in the first line-up). There is also plenty of classical music reprises on several if not all albums. Just brilliant and more brilliant. I would have a hard time identifying my favorite album. Dances Of Death would probably go into the survivor kit, but just half a nose hair before everything else. Mekong Delta occupy a large house with two swimming pools on Eternal Zer Top Ten mountain. !ZER Mekong Delta ZER! Remove brackets and unzip: [azeralypse now]

The end of permanent posts

From Open Drive:

"I have checked your account, and it was closed due to a copyright report on several of the files you have been sharing. This, as you may already know, is a violation of our terms of service. Unfortunately, we will be unable to reopen the account unless you can furnish proof that all files on the account belong to you or that you have been given permission to share the files.
The files that were included in the report are:
Terveet Kädet - Ääretön Propaganda
Terveet Kädet - Mi Enthalvan Tk Historiaan 1980-1984
Terveet Kädet - Pissaa Ja Paskaa
Terveet Kädet – Halloween
Kaaos - Totaalinen Kaaos
Riistetyt - Valtion Vankina
Riistetyt - As A Prisoner Of State
Riistetyt - Skitsofrenia
If you can provide proof of ownership or authorization to distribute the files, please attach the information in a response to the message. We will be happy to forward this information."

We can thank the Finnish punk police this time (last time it was the politburo from Alternative Tentacles). It is (almost) funny how the punk scene is so protective of their copyrights, like mother bear. I guess some obese asshole in Finland has the rights to the above records and is crying to mama. He did not even contact me first to ask to take down the copyright-raping posts.

I remember the angry letters to the editor in Maximum Rock'n'Roll from people (punks!) insulting DRI, Verbal Abuse, Wasted Youth et al. for turning metal in 1986, because playing metal was selling out, going all rock star like Whitesnake, becoming capitalist whores, and as you all know capitalism is cannibalism (and pedophilia) (and Nazism).
Now the very same kind of people (and their lawyers), the dreadlocked anti-system living-room-anarchists who hate Monsanto send cease and desist orders to music blogs. It was all about "freedom", "sharing", "smashing the state" and "money is evil". But copyrights über alles!

Too bad, I was ready to post the entire Mekong Delta collection, GBH, Stupids, Carcass, Clown, Geriatric Unit, Exhumed, Emils, Tetsu Arrey, No Allegiance and a bunch of other cool stuff (Japanese and otherwise!). But the punks won't let you erode their copyrights. You'll have to wait until 2077 when they are all dead.

I could go on with this blog and reload the whole thing (I have backups of all archives) if I find another server, but frankly I'm not sure I'm going to search for one (and I'm sure I'm not going to). Suggestions are still welcome. Somewhere in Russia? Meanwhile, the punk$ have won - but it was a great ride, 6 years of green loud fun! Thanks to everyone for caring and leaving comments.

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Fuck that. We'll be going on in a constricted format. Starting very soon, I'll have rotating posts on a private server on a weekly basis. Stay tuned.

Kvist

01. Kvist - For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vike, 1996 CD, Album      Avantgarde Music - AV014 Death and taxes. After the water from the sky, the water from the city is invading the comfort of my basement, let's celebrate with a black metal day. What I wrote 4 years ago about this very great album is exactly what it is all about. So let's have another serving and bang your skull against the nearest pump. H2O til 666! !ZER Kvist ZER! Remove brackets and unzip: [thortue]

Groinchurn

01. Groinchurn - Thuck - Grinding South Africore, The Early Days, 1994 CD, Compilation      Mad Lion Records - MLR CD 003      Reissue from 2001 - 1-14: Every Dog Has It's Decay Demo, 15-25: Four Ways To Misery Split CD, 26-32: Human Filth Demo, 33: Chards Of Civilisation Comp., 34: Noise Against The Machine Comp. 02. Groinchurn - Sixtimesnine, 1997 CD, Album      Happy Hamster Records - HHR 5972-97 03. Groinchurn - Already Dead, 1998 CD, Mini      Happy Hamster Records - none 04. Groinchurn - Fink, 1998 CD, Album      Morbid Records (2) - MR 048 05. Groinchurn / Haemorrhage - Surgery For The Dead / I Don't Think So, 1998 Vinyl, 7", EP, 33 RPM      Morbid Records (2) - MR 045 06. Groinchurn - Whoami, 2000 CD, Album      Morbid Records (2) - MR 074 !ZER Groinchurn ZER! And yet another request completed, call me Dr Love. The grinding South-Africore of Groinchurn is as juicy and meaty now as 15 years ago, their Staying Alive cover is worth a hundred listens in a row and now it is time to bang your head again and again til rezer!! PS: I forgot to rip the 10" pic vinyl version of Sixtimesnine, which has more songs than the CD. I'll fix that soon. Stay calm. Remove brackets and unzip: [whozeri]

Deadzone

01. Deadzone - An Audio Interpretation Of Human Existence, 1993 CD,      Not On Label - DZ 001 Old request, new rezer: the 90s band that sounded a lot like a Type O Negative demo of Slow, Deep and Hard (which, as everyone remembers, is one of the greatest releases in human history). From good to great, I think this mini slab of slow depressed groove is their only release (otherwise let me know) and underlines deliciously how useless and insipid you are on a Sunday morning. And on the rest of the week too. Zer! !ZER Deadzone ZER! Remove brackets and unzip: [corde tabouret]

Infest

01. Infest - Slave, 1988 Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM      Off The Disk Records - OTD 02 02. Infest - Still Fighting, 1993 CD      bootleg, Compilation      1-18: Slave, 19-20: 1st 7'' (10 songs), 21-22: 2nd 7'' (9 songs), 23: Live At Gilman 2/10/89 (5 songs), 24: Apocalyptic Convulsions comp, 25-28: 1987 Demos (10 songs) 03. Infest - No Man's Slave, 1995/2002 Vinyl, 12", Repress      Deep Six Records - DS25      Reissue from 2002 Mega armagedon rezer! Invoked long ago, at last comes the tornado. This is the sound of your skin being removed by the wind. The short glory of Infest still resonates through the chambers of speed maniacs everywhere. No need to babble further, Siege, Heresy and Infest until forever! !ZER Infest ZER! Remove brackets and unzip: [sick and zerred]

Counterblast

01. Counterblast - Prospects, 1995 Vinyl, 7", Single      Skuld Releases - SKULD 023 02. Counterblast - Balance Of Pain, 1996 Vinyl, Album, LP      Skuld Releases - SKULD 031 03. Counterblast - Impassivity, 2003 CD, Album      Life On The Edge Records - LIFE 1 04. Counterblast - Faceless, 2010 Vinyl, 10", 33 RPM, EP      Alerta Antifascista - AA62 05. Counterblast - Nothingness, 2011 CD, Album      Alerta Antifascista - AA70 In a fearless diversion from the request log, let's have a reload of the heavy darkness of Counterblast. The first two records are lethal charges of metallic crusty sludgy thrash armed with the Amebix | Neurosis Big Bertha. Extremely powerful stuff that bangs and crushes, awesome! Then, from Passivity on, they dropped the fast parts and only retained the Neurosis engine, and they are every good at torturing it. If you can't get enough of the Neurosis sound, you should enjoy this a lot. But... I still find the first two records more vital. And before anyone asks, I won't post any Isis, Pelican or Kylesa, I got rid of all these. Counterblast and Agrimonia largely fill this niche on my shelves. Counterblast seem appropriate here today because I attended the Godspeed You! Black Emperor + Neurosis show yesterday, and now the weather is all grey and grim. It was a good show, very professional and artistic and decorated. Godpseed did their thing, stockpiling layers of string sounds and other analog noises in long progressions, like a conversation of disagreeing whales. It was interesting. When something is interesting, it means you appreciate its qualities and don't want to say bad things about it, but you didn't care much. I thought I'd be more into it than on records (which I did not keep, don't ask for this either), but not really: it was fun for a while, then I had to go eat something, 90 minutes of this was too much for me. Also, I don't really get the visuals, someone may explain it to me. I suppose the projected films were to immerse the audience in the fascinating universe of something and underline the absurdities of other things, in black and white. I only saw random scenes of visual noise, flowers, rail tracks, factories, words like "hope" and "I love you", dead bodies, texts displayed too shortly to read, ID photos, machinery, industrial plans, abandoned houses, hills and other things. It was interesting. Well no, actually it wasn't. "Hope" despite human industry and real estate decay? "Love" and flowers in contrast to factories and war? Really? As usual, I must have missed something. Every time a band project films, the narrow limits of my neuron prevents me from appreciating it. Was it poetry, politics, an art college student project or hipsterism? Why not project a Louis Lumière film instead, or excerpts of a good book, or a Gwar video? Then Neurosis did their own thing. No video projection, but nothing from Pain Of Mind (just kidding). These dudes are seriously serious about their recipe of heavy melancholy. They wear menacing beards and don't talk to the audience at all, these are alpha males with emotions (and sound generators). It was a very long and perfect set too, and I guess I'm not into Neurosis all that much anymore. !ZER Counterblast ZER! Remove brackets and unzip: [it's in my counterblood]

Verbal Assault

01. Verbal Assault - Learn, 1986 Vinyl, 12", EP, 33 RPM      Positive Force Records - No.7 02. Verbal Assault - Trial, 1987 Vinyl, LP      Konkurrel - K 001/114 03. Verbal Assault - Tiny Giants, 1988 Vinyl, 7"      Giant Records (2) - GRI 6016-7 04. Verbal Assault - On, 1989 Vinyl, 12", EP, 33 RPM      Konkurrel - K 001/121 05. Verbal Assault - Your Choice Live Series 004, 1990 CD, Album      Your Choice Records - YC LS 004      Recorded at the Oberhaus in Alzey - 28/10/89 06. Verbal Assault - Verbal Assault, 1992 CD, Compilation      Konkurrel - K 137c 07. Verbal Assault - Volume One: The Masses And Learn, 2002 CD, Compilation      Mendit - MEN007 Yes, at last the long time quest for Verbal Assault is complete. Needless to state again the density of classic zer that we have here. The early basic hardcore stuff (Learn) sounds a lot like early Uniform Choice, or Minor Threat. Good, good, good, but I've always been much more excited by the later, more mature releases: Trial, On etc. are simply fantastic records. They deliver this succulent haunting that comes with the slower paces and the more rocking metallic riffing that is not unlike Bad Brains' Quickness or Underdog. Infused with this cosmic Fugazi influence, they reach the Himalayan-height class of gigazer brilliance. Also, I need to underline that FOR ONCE this amazing music is not wasted by childish lyrics, unlike 99% of hardcore bands who can only regurgitate binary hippie slogans, the so-called "political lyrics" (basically: the rich are assholes and corporations suck - oh but I need a new smartphone). The 80s will always win! NB: the 1st CD contains Trial, Tiny Giants, On and Exit. The other CD contains the Masses demo and Learn, obviously, not some reunion rerecordings, unfortunately. !ZER Verbal Assault ZER! Remove brackets and unzip: [zerbal essence]

The Sadist

01. Sadist, The - Total Sex 1984-1990, 2013 CD, Compilation      MCR Company - MCR-269 As promised, the Sadist compilation. Dirty old rocking Japanese hardcore of the classic sort! !ZER The Sadist ZER! Remove brackets and unzip: [total zer]

The novelty post: Shellshock, Satan, Ratos De Porao, SIgh, Artillery, Clown, Forward, Onslaught, Church Of Misery, Beyond Description, Flagitious Idiosyncrasy In The Dilapidation

01. Forward - War Nuke And Death Sentence, 2012 Vinyl, LP, Album      Prank - PRANK 136 02. Ratos De Porao - No Money No English, 2012 Vinyl x 2, LP, Compilation      F.O.A.D. Records - F.O.A.D. 039 03. Sigh - In Somniphobia, 2012 CD, Album      Candlelight Records Usa - CDL509 04. Artillery - Legions, 2013 CD,      Metal Blade Records - 3984 15276-2 05. Beyond Description - An Elegy For Depletion, 2013 CD,      Punishment 18 Records - P18R 062 06. Church Of Misery - Thy Kingdom Scum, 2013 Vinyl, LP, Vinyl, LP, Etched, Single Sided, All Media, Album, Limited Edition      Rise Above Records - RISELP163 07. Clown - Human In Confusion, 2013 CD, Album      MCR Company - MCR-268 08. Flagitious Idiosyncrasy In The Dilapidation - Wallow, 2013 Vinyl, Album, LP      Six Weeks - SW-127 09. Onslaught - VI, 2013 Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition      AFM Records - AFM 444-11 10. Satan - Life Sentence, 2013 CD, Album      Listenable Records - POSH 205 11. Shellshock - 肆~shi~, 2013 CD      Revontulet Records - RVR-0006 It is time to complete a list of previously posted bands with their new releases. We have two groups: Japan and the rest of the world. They intersect with three other groups: classic metal, crossover/hardcore/grind punk and Shellshock. We also have male and female. And we have megamaximum extra zer and great new stuff. When it came out, I wasn't too interested in the RDP collection, this kind of releases often gathers bad quality recordings. I was so wrong, then I had to wait for this reissue on FOAD. This compilation is amazing, any RDP fan must buy a copy of this superb double LP. Only killer tracks here, amazing covers (the Septic Death and DRI ones totally kick heads!), burning live stuff and unreleased sessions, and a funny bio. Raging thrashing crossover! In the metal group, we have four classic beasts. Onslaught deliver a great album, although it will never replace The Force or Killing Peace. Still, excellent Onslaught all the way. Artillery come with a truly amazing album full of killer riffs and great hooks. At first when the promo song was published I was dubious because of the new singer, but he's actually perfect. This album is an achievement in power and melody, a major piece in their discography. Just like Sigh who here put out one immense mountain of might. Multilayered high end black metal with circus music and Venom: they nailed it to the bone. Amazing! My favorite Sigh of the past ten years, easy. And the winner is... Satan. Life Sentence defies the laws of tradition. It is undeniably a modern album, yet it screams 1983 from all angles. It is a masterpiece in songwriting, execution and production, I would not blaspheme too much by saying it is one of the best heavy metal albums ever released. Each song is a classic, it brings out the best of NWOBHM, strips it of all the possible cheese, feeds it into the genius generator and leaves you flabbergasted. I didn't think they'd ever match Court In The Act, the only 1983 metal album that had me salivate as much as Show No Mercy and Kill'Em All. But they did! Non metal people should seriously listen to this diamond now firmly shining over the Eternal Zer Top Ten even if it is only a few months old. Hail Satan! Now we turn to the Japanese thrash bunch. Let us get our audition canals cleaned up in a Flagitious Idiosyncrasy session. The ladies grind as much as before, but this is still not going to replace 324 or Multiplex. It's fun, not classic. More repeated satisfaction is earned from the new Clown and Forward. [I just realized the other Clown post needs refreshing, will do soon.] This new album is even greater than Livestock World. Bombastic punk rocking hardcore of the Testu Arrey | Forward | Paintbox branch, which means Poison Idea worship and greatness. Human is already a classic album, just like the new Forward, also their best IMHO. Forward kick and groove like hell, rezer of the perfect punk abrasion and rezer of the rezer! Beyond Description also come back with a great piece of crossover not too far from Attitude Adjustment (sometimes with a James Hetfield impersonation). It is maybe a bit too polished or not raw enough to excite as much as Clown, but in their current style Beyond Description bang that head. Church Of Misery! Another fantastic release, and also my new favorite in their discography. Heavy duty dirty stoner massage at maxizer level served by an amazing sound production. This is better than the latest Cathedral or Electric Wizard. Can't wait to see them live, they should return soon. Now... If I had to select only one album from this amazing list, I would suffer a lot, but I know I would instinctively grab the new Shellshock. Doom fans cannot not cherish Shi and its advanced semiprogressive thrashy punk rocking groove. Depending on the permeability of your neuron, you can hear some Coroner and Voïvod hovering over a field of high-end punk temptation. Simply perfect! Shellshock must never abort their mission, Shellshock forever rezer! BUY ALL THESE ALBUMS AND BE NICE AND HAPPY! !ZER everybody ZER! Remove brackets and unzip: [happy new zer]

Note URGENTE aux adeptes de Manu-Joseph Vallsline, il faut saisir le conseil d'État immédiatement afin d'électrocuter dans les plus brefs délais Michel Audiard et Jean-Pierre Marielle car d'aussi intolérables soufflés aux crevettes ne peuvent décemment pas survivre une seconde de plus dans un Univers d'amour, de partage et de libartu d'issprichion: