The Rods

01. The Rods - The Rods, 1981 Vinyl LP Album      Arista - AL 9558 02. The Rods - Wild Dogs, 1982 Vinyl LP Album      Arista - AL 9601 03. The Rods - In The Raw, 1983 Vinyl LP Album      Shrapnel Records - SHRAPNEL 1005 04. The Rods - Live, 1983 Vinyl LP      Combat - MX-8003 05. The Rods - Let Them Eat Metal, 1984 Vinyl LP Album      Roadrunner Records - RR 9833 06. The Rods - Heavier Than Thou, 1986 Vinyl LP Album Stereo      Passport Records - PB 6055 07. The Rods - Vengeance, 2013 Vinyl LP      High Roller Records - HRR 314 Hard rocking heavy metal mania! One classic band delivers one classic hot rocking discography. Simple catchy songs with much energy and sweat and heat, that's what we need! The first four entries here are mandatory records in the league of early Anvil, Saxon and Twisted Sister. Just brilliant! The following are also excellent with an added heavy metal vibe - the 80s were rolling forward. The singer/guitarist is the cousin of Ronnie James Dio, what a family. No, I do not have the very first album nor the last two. If you do, FLAC rip links are of course super welcome. Remove brackets and unzip: [hot rods] !ZER The Rods ZER!

Reload: A.G.E.

01. Armed Government's Error - Inside Darkness, 1997 Vinyl 7" EP 33 ⅓ RPM      Dewa Records - DR-001 02. Armed Government's Error - Exploding Insanity, 1999 CD Album      P.A.S, Tribal War Asia Records, Tribal War Records - TWA-AGE002, TWA-AGE002, TWA-AGE002 03. Armed Government's Error - Four Wings, 2001 CD Album      Tribal War Asia Records, Tribal War Records - TWA-AGE001, TWA-AGE-001 04. Armed Government's Error - Blowing Wind, 2002 Vinyl 7" 45 RPM Numbered      Underground Warder Productions - UWP006 05. Armed Government's Error - The Spider, 2006 Vinyl 7"      Black Water - BLACK WATER 09 06. Armed Government's Error - The Scar Of Lead, 2008 Vinyl 12" 45 RPM EP      Black Water - BLACK WATER 018 07. Armed Government's Error - Survive, 2010 Vinyl 7" EP Limited Edition      Black Water - BW-036 Requested: rezerred. Remove brackets and unzip: [government error] !ZER Armed Government's Error ZER!

Demos & live bootlegs: Venom, Type O Negative, G.I.S.M.

01. Venom - Demon (Demo 1980), 1980 CD Album Compilation      Welcome To Hell Records - WTHR66601      Reissue from 2017 02. Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses (The Demos), 1993 CD Compilation Limited Edition Unofficial Release      Carnivore Fanclub Records - CARFC0001 03. G.I.S.M. - Rituals For The Blind Dead - Roadburn Festival 2016, 2016 CD Album      Shoot To Kill Records - 17001 Long live international free trade! Fuck copyrights with chainsaws! The postman is my friend: today he delivered this wonderful package of illegal CDs. Cheers to Tributezz Records for quick shipment of zer! The classic Venom 1980 demo when they were a four piece entity comes in a simple yet superb packaging (and comes with nine 1981-1984 bonus tracks). Raw as hell! Zer as fuck! Venom fans want this. Likewise, the T.O.N. demo is a must-have for T.O.N. fans, it is also packaged with a fine booklet with great pics, and comes with two live bonus tracks, and an unreleased item. Zer! Carnizer! And the cherry on the cake: the GISM live disc from their 2016 gig at the Roadburn festival! The sound quality is raw, but much better than the tapes posted the day before yesterday. I guess it is a console mix recording. This CD has two songs more than the vinyl version, zer. GISM fans CANNOT bypass this one, it is basically Detestation live. Noise, filth and fury! Remove brackets and unzip: [zerrRrrRRrRRrification] !ZER Venom, Type O Negative, G.I.S.M. ZER!

Ogreish Organism

01. Ogreish Organism - 鬼, 1993 CD Album      Selfish Records - BELCD-12057 Innovation of Zer: I am posting this album while listening to it for the first time (I usually post stuff I've been listening to for a while and know well). But today a very kind member of the Zerbook provided us this great Japanese hardcore punk CD that sounds like a classic in the vein of Chainsaw, and I could not resist tagging it, so why not post it too. Enjoy the basic instincts of expert 90s Asian punk rockers! Awesome! Remove brackets and unzip: [ogreich orgasm] !ZER Ogreish Organism ZER!

Live tapes: CCM, Carnivore, Indigesti, Negazione, COC, Scream, Excel, Cro-Mags, Minor Threat, 7 Seconds, Gang Green, Verbal Abuse, Celtic Frost, SNFU, Les Thugs, Le Raton Et Ses Laveurs, Contropotere, Panico, Electro Hippies, Black Flag, Kina, DOA, Colera

01. Electro Hippies - Live (2 songs), 1985 02. Carnivore - Deliver Us To Evil -Live 1985-, 1985 CD Limited Edition Unofficial Release      Toxic Records, Male Supremacy Records - Toxic 268, none 03. Georges Brassens - Live, 1837 1837 04. Black Flag - Live Subvert, 1983 05. Minor Threat - Live, 1983 06. Carnivore - L'Amours NY 8/27/84, 1984 Cassette Unofficial Release      Not On Label - none 07. Gang Green - Live (Pacific Palissades), 1985 08. 7 Seconds - Live, 1985 09. SNFU - Live (Pacific Palissades), 1985 10. Minor Threat - Live (Pacific Palissades), 1985 11. Kina - Live, 1985 12. Excel - Live & Demo, 1985 13. C.O.C. - Live, 1985 14. Kina - Live (Montélimar), 1986 15. Verbal Abuse - Live, 1986 16. Negazione - Live (Grenoble), 1986 17. Indigesti - Live (Grenoble), 1986 18. Celtic Frost - Live, 1986 19. C.C.M. - Live (Grenoble), 1986 20. D.O.A. - Live (Grenoble), 1987 21. Carnivore - Live, 1987 22. Le Raton Et Ses Laveurs - Live, 1987 23. Panico - Live, 1987 24. Les Thugs - Live, 1987 25. Negazione - Live (Montélimar), 1987 26. Excel - Live, 1987 27. Celtic Frost - Live, 1987 28. C.C.M. - Live (Montélimar), 1987 29. Colera - Live (Montélimar), 1987 30. Contropotere - Live, 1988 31. Scream - Live (Montélimar), 1988 32. Cro-Mags - Live 1986, 2016 File FLAC Unofficial Release x 16      Church Of Zer - Zer3 33. Cro-Mags - Live In Germany 1991, 1991 File FLAC Unofficial Release x 12      Church Of Zer - Zer4 34. Negazione - Live (Torino), 1988 35. Negazione - Live (Paris), 1991 36. Negazione - Live (Eindhoven), 1987      Visit negazione.bandcamp.com 37. Celtic Frost - Live (St-Gallen), 1985 Welcome to the dusty post for the rear guard: here is a batch of live tapes of your favorite 80s punk rock & hardcore. I took the liberty to also include some of the Carnivore, CF, CCM, Verbal Abuse, Indigesti and Negazione live tapes that were previously posted, because I felt like it and because it makes a nice completion since several of these shows took place in the same venue (La Tannerie in Montélimar or Clef De Sol in Grenoble, France). I attended some of these shows (and the bands I used to be a member of opened for two of these: Scream - with Dave Grohl - and Negazione, zer & triplafuckingzer). Negazione posted for free download a long list of complete live shows on their bandcamp page, I am posting here the best sounding ones (they lifted the Montélimar gig from my previous post and added it to the page). Most of this stuff is purely for nostalgia purposes. The sound quality is generally very rough - audience recordings made with 80s tape decks LOL because no, there was no direct-to-WAV, self-compressing, self-limiting, distortion-eliminating $50 USB mini devices back then. CD was the new hot thing. To make your own live recording, you  had to bring your boombox to the show, or a walkman with a recorder function, and hope 1) you would be allowed to use it 2) nobody would walk or jump on it 3) the audience would not speak too much near the mic. You generally ended up with a super crap tape, but happy. Hopefully the tapes posted today are above shit quality and mostly distortion free, but still not everyday listening material. I therefore clearly heard my wise lazy self and did not took the pain & the time to name & tag most files. I also did not erase most of the band/audience interactions, sometimes for minutes (those Minor Threat boys sure were very verbose), so you have tracks that are purely crowd blurbs. And I did no do any Eq or compression of any processing of any kind. To complain, please fill 9 copies of the A38 form and mail them to me with your $44.50 processing fee. Then I`ll hire a panel of experts to decide the best course of action in your very favorite top-down democratic way. Until then, enjoy the noise! Remove brackets and unzip: [alte schule distortion] !ZER CCM, Carnivore, Indigesti, Negazione, COC, Scream,  Excel, Cro-Mags, Minor Threat, 7 Seconds, Gang Green, Verbal Abuse, Celtic Frost, SNFU, Les Thugs, Le Raton Et Ses Laveurs, Contropotere, Panico, Electro Hippies, Black Flag, Kina, DOA, Colera ZER! PS: Colera link fixed. Sorry!

Sudden Death - Demo

01. Sudden Death - Sudden Death, 1987 Cassette Numbered      Not On Label - none This is a reload of the Phobia demo posted in 2016, but it is also not a reload. How can such an extraordinary claim be valid? Is it Schrödinger's post? Once upon a time in a decade far far away, there was a band from Lyon called Sudden Death, and there was a band from Grenoble called Phobia. Both played a variation of the crossover thrash metallist genre, and at one point, they merged as Phobia. Before the merge, Sudden Death had released the demo presented today (with Phobia's vocalist as guest). After the merge, the tape was re-released as Phobia with the title "Sudden Death". Today's post is a rip of the SD version, while the rip from 2016 was made from the Phobia version - two rips from two distinct tapes containing the same music. Completist enough? Zer? If the above is wrong, correct me with the actual story. For those who haunted the 80's, the singer on this demo is Gérard M. who used to co-run the excellent Bunker records label, store & mail order, in whose general direction much of my personal funds were funneled for my best satisfaction. Remove brackets and unzip: [eat yourself] !ZER Sudden Death ZER!

Asphyx

01. Asphyx - The Rack, 1991 CD Album      Century Media - 84 9716-2 02. Asphyx - The Rack, 2006 CD Album Reissue      Century Media - 77594-2      Includes 11 bonus tracks: Live at De Woage, Halle, Holland 1991 03. Asphyx - Last One On Earth, 1992 CD Album      Century Media - 7734-2  04. Asphyx - Last One On Earth, 2006 CD Album Reissue Remastered      Century Media - 77595-2 05. Asphyx - Crush The Cenotaph, 1992 CD EP      Century Media - 79 9723-2  06. Asphyx - Depths Of Eternity, 1994 CD Compilation Remastered x 2      Century Media - 9979622      Reissue from 2009 - remaster of Asphyx 07. Asphyx - Asphyx, 1994 CD Album      Century Media - 77063-2  08. Asphyx - Embrace The Death, 1996 CD Album Limited Edition Reissue Remastered x 2      Century Media - 9979612      Reissue from 2009 09. Asphyx - Embrace The Death, 1996 CD Album Limited Edition Reissue Remastered x 2      Century Media - 9979612      Reissue from 2009 - Ancient Wisdom: EP, demos & reh 10. Asphyx - God Cries, 1996 CD Album      Century Media - 77117-2  11. Asphyx - Depths Of Eternity, 1996 CD Compilation Remastered x 2      Century Media - 9979622      Reissue from 2009 - Remaster of God Cries 12. Asphyx - Embrace The Death, 1996 CD Album      Century Media - 77141-2  13. Asphyx - On The Wings Of Inferno, 2000 CD Album      Century Media - 77263-2 14. Asphyx - On The Wings Of Inferno, 2000 CD Album Reissue Remastered      Century Media - 9979632      Reissue from 2009 15. Asphyx - Death...The Brutal Way, 2009 CD Album      Kill Again Records - KA 039  16. Asphyx - Live Death Doom, 2010 CD Album x 2      Century Media - 9980002 17. Asphyx - Live Death Doom, 2010 CD Album x 2      Century Media - 9980002 18. Asphyx - Deathhammer, 2012 CD Album Limited Edition x 2      Century Media - 9981630 19. Asphyx - Deathhammer, 2012 CD Album Limited Edition x 2      Century Media - 9981630      Bonus MCD 20. Asphyx - Incoming Death, 2016 CD Album      Century Media - 88985363372 Death! Death! MORE DEATH!!! And some doom. Requested: zerred. The legend of Asphyx lives on, and like a fine tar, improves with time. The newest stuff is at least as heavy and as sick and as oppressive as the first, pre-2000 leg of their career. There is no bad release here, maybe one average title in the middle (I won't stool it) - only first grade death with doom and sludge and rotten meat between the cracks of death. Asphyx make the wettest of all wet dream for all fans of Possessed, Celtic Frost and of course early Pestilence. The bulldozing riffs act like the invincible force and the mega doom sections play the role of the unmovable mass. It is all black gold on an antifragile skeleton: the more you use it, the denser, heavier and stronger it gets: Asphyx rule as much as Autopsy and Grave. Asphyx, Autopsy and Grave hover forever the EZTT of Death Metal! And like Autopsy and Grave, the recent Asphyx releases are top notch FULL DEATH for DEATH'S SAKE! Do not stay stuck on the early classics! Timeless deathbanging forever megazer in all directions and back again! Remove brackets and unzip: [doomed to death] !ZER Asphyx ZER! PS: I had intended to make a mega post with the satellite bands that involve the Asphyx dudes (Soulburn, Grand Supreme Blood Court, Siege Of Power etc.) but I got struck by lazy-lightning. Coming up in some imprecise future.

G.A.T.E.S.

01. G.A.T.E.S. - Back From The Grave, 2017 CD Album      High Society Satanic Records - hsr-014 02. G.A.T.E.S. - Children Of The Night, 2018 CD Single      High Society Satanic Records - HSR-015 Motörthrashpunk zer! I am a recent fan of this band, thanks to a fine post in the ZerBook. Here are the two of their latest releases, two short bombs of raging and rolling metal punk that oozes everything from Forward to Poison Idea to Warfare and of course to yöu-knöw-whö with the perfect vibe and the grand energy. First grade mötorizing ass-kicking through forests of double-bass and barrages of killer riffs and thundering low tides with the solos as the wolves and the growler screams as the bears : none more alive, none more hungry! I have none of the other releases, FLAC links welcome. Remove brackets and unzip: [gates of zer] !ZER G.A.T.E.S. ZER!

Reload: Mindrot

01. Mindrot - Forlorn, 1995 CD Maxi-Single      Relapse Records - RR 6914-2 02. Mindrot - Dawning, 1995 CD Album      Relapse Records - RR 6925-2 03. Mindrot - Soul, 1998 CD Album      Relapse Records - RR 6967-2 Requested: rezerred. Remove brackets and unzip: [mindzer] !ZER Mindrot ZER!

Intense Degree

01. Intense Degree - The Peel Sessions, 1988 CD EP      Dutch East India Trading - DEI8328-2 02. Intense Degree - War In My Head, 1989 Vinyl LP Album      Earache - MOSH 9 03. Intense Degree - Released!, 1990 Vinyl 7" 33 ⅓ RPM      Sound Pollution Records, Sound Pollution Records - POLLUTE: 03, POLLUTE 03 04. Intense Degree - The Eyes Have It, 1992 Vinyl 10" 33 ⅓ RPM      Sound Pollution Records - POLLUTE:08 Brave thrashcore day! Intense Degree were one excellent entry in the 80s British thrash/grind wave, catering to D.R.I. & Heresy fans: there is not much to add, except that the first two releases are near-classics - let's say an eighth of an inch behind Dealing With It! and Face Up To It! - while the last two records are slightly less exciting. Consumers of fast, short, sharp shocks of crossover thrash cannot bypass Intense Degree. No, you cannot. So much high-velocity chainsaw fun! Intense degree of zeRrRrrRRRrrristic nostalgia! Remove brackets and unzip: [intensizer] !ZER Intense Degree ZER!

Altarage

01. Altarage - Nihl, 2016 CD Album Reissue      Doomentia Records - DOOM176CD2      Reissue from 2017 02. Altarage - Endinghent, 2017 CD Album      Season Of Mist Underground Activists - SUA 080D 03. Altarage - The Approaching Roar, 2019 CD Album      Season Of Mist Underground Activists, Season Of Mist Underground Activists - SUA 097D, SUA 097      Visit altarage.bandcamp.com From the metallic shores of the Death Sea emerges the invincible megabeast. Concocted from the vilest and most accurately deadly organs and junctures of the school of Portal, the extremities of the voracious waves so perfectly delivered to the listener makes him an instant slave, for he already worships Noctambulist, Impetuous Ritual and Imperial Triumphant. The machine of perfect death from this new wave of obfuscating obscurity enlarges again the cavern of the auralpocalypse! BOW DOWN TO THE MEGABEAST OF NON-COMPROMISE! And look at the best artwork on the market. Remove brackets and unzip: [approaching zer] !ZER Altarage ZER!