Destruction

01. Destruction - Sentence Of Death, 1984 Vinyl 12" Mini-Album 33 ? RPM      Steamhammer - SH 0020 02. Destruction - Infernal Overkill, 1985 Vinyl LP Album      Metal Blade Records, Enigma Records - MBR 1048, 72067-1 03. Destruction - Sentence Of Death / Infernal Overkill, 1985 CD Compilation      Steamhammer - SPV85-7529      Reissue from 1988 04. Destruction - Mad Butcher, 1986 Vinyl 12" Picture Disc      Steamhammer - 12-1896 05. Destruction - Mad Butcher / Eternal Devastation, 1987 CD Album Mini-Album Compilation      Steamhammer, Steamhammer - SH CD 0070, 85 - 1860 06. Destruction - Release From Agony, 1987 CD Album      Steamhammer, Steamhammer - SH CD 0078, 85-7506 07. Destruction - Release From Agony, 1987 Vinyl LP Album Picture Disc      Steamhammer - PD 12-7515 08. Destruction - Live Without Sense, 1989 Vinyl LP      Noise International - FW 44454 09. Destruction - Cracked Brain, 1990 Vinyl LP Album      Steamhammer - SPV 008-76191 10. Destruction - Destruction, 1994 CD Mini-Album Limited Edition Numbered      Brain Butcher Compact - UAM 0447 11. Destruction - Them Not Me, 1995 CD Mini-Album      Brain Butcher Compact - BBC 0714 12. Destruction - The Least Successful Human Cannonball, 1998 CD Album      Brain Butcher Compact - BBC 0715 13. Destruction - All Hell Breaks Loose, 2000 CD Album      Nuclear Blast, Nuclear Blast - NB 494-2, 27361 64942 14. Destruction - The Antichrist, 2001 CD Album      Nuclear Blast, Nuclear Blast - NB 632-2, 6632-2 15. Destruction - Metal Discharge, 2003 CD Album Limited Edition x 2      Nuclear Blast, Nuclear Blast - NB 1170-2, NB 1198-2      CD 1 16. Destruction - Metal Discharge, 2003 CD Album Limited Edition x 2      Nuclear Blast, Nuclear Blast - NB 1170-2, NB 1198-2      CD 2 17. Destruction - Inventor Of Evil, 2005 CD Album      Candlelight Records USA - CDL0194CD 18. Destruction - D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N., 2008 CD Album      Candlelight Records USA - CDL428CD The riffs, the speed metal, the bullet belts! In 84, Sodom, Kreator and Destruction were among the first to fuel the fire of the almighty German thrash metal scene. What an awesome and brain-blowing era, all this noise, all this leather, all this frenzy! The Sentence Of Death poster was hanging over my bed and Infernal Overkill was in this endless rotation of the 85 summer with Hell Awaits, Dealing With It, Screams From The Gutter, Morbid Tales, Tales of Terror, Animosity, Raging Violence... Sorry for the time-travelling again. But records speak to me louder than photographs. Now Destruction didn't seduce me as much with their following releases, and although the come-back albums since All Hell Breaks Lose are great, I lost interest after the killer Metal Discharge, and finally stopped buying their stuff: this is why you do not get the 5 or 6 other albums. Get all the missing titles from the amazing Old Tendencies. But you do get The Least Successful Human Cannonball, although it is regarded as the ultimate repulsion by most fans and the whole band: I totally love the thing. It is an incredible hard rock album, I like it much more than the newest stuff. It does not sound like Destruction, but it is completely amazing nonetheless. In no way is it the Load or Cold Lake of Destruction. It simply fucking rocks. Release From Agony was wrongfully tagged as LP (it's a CD rip). I never found affordable copies of the Destruction & Them Not Me mini CDs so the posted rips are downloaded mp3s, yes. Remove brackets and unzip: [sentence of inzernal zer] !ZER Destruction ZER!

Legion Of Andromeda

01. Legion Of Andromeda - Iron Scorn, 2015 CD Album      Crucial Blast - CBR111 It is time to get munched and swallowed by a giant black monster! This Iron Scorn cracks your skeleton and crushes the remaining powder into the finest ready-to-snort flour with its hostile bulldozing machinery of slow pain. This is is Noisezilla in action, this is Japan taking over the throne of Godflesh and dragging its corpse into the rusted landfills of hell. There is a single beat on the entire album that carries the monolithic riffs and the horrible incantations. It is like one long torture song of Coffins with machines. This is the heaviness of what they play on planets that have a gravity of 1000 g. This album is obscenely great and proportionately bad for your health. but nevermind, I'll play it another dozen times today, fuck yeah. Crucial gigadeathdozer forever heavier! Remove brackets and unzip: [iron triplazer] !ZER Legion Of Andromeda ZER!

Angkor Wat - When Obscenity Becomes The Norm... Awake!

01. Angkor Wat - When Obscenity Becomes The Norm... Awake!, 1989 Vinyl LP Album      Death Records - 7 72408-1 NRAR: here is the missing LP rip of that crucial crossover thrash monster that reaches out to avid fans of the Accüsed. We can also hear some early Destruction in this wild thrashfest. Does that mean that a Destruction post is welcome? But first tomorrow we must have some Japanese monstrosity. If you got the CD rip, this LP source will not be an improvement and can be safely ignored. Remove brackets and unzip: [obscenizer] !ZER Angkor Wat ZER!

The Abs

01. The Abs - Mentalenema, 1989 Vinyl LP Mini-Album      Link Records - LINK MLP 100 Today is bumps of joy and lightness with this short sharp rock and rolling UK pop punk record. For fans of Noise Annoys and the poppest of Hard Ons to sing along and be happy all week! Remove brackets and unzip: [zer'n'roll] !ZER The Abs ZER!

Panx Vinyl Zine 01-05

01. Various - Panx Vinyl Zine 01, 1989 Vinyl 7" 33 ? RPM Compilation Numbered      Panx Productions - PP004 , Compilation      Contains 5 songs by: S.O.R., Anti-Dogmatikss, Plaies Mobiles, Bluck 02. Various - Panx Vinyl Zine 03, 1989 Vinyl 7" 45 RPM Compilation Numbered      Panx Productions - PP006 , Compilation      Contains 5 songs by: Moss Icon, Lost Fights, The Hated, Toxic Avengers 03. Various - Panx Vinyl Zine 02, 1989 Vinyl 7" Compilation      Panx Productions - PP005 , Compilation      Contains 6 songs by: Society Gone Madd, Fanatical Views, Cold Vietnam, Resident Mockery, The Stench 04. Various - Panx Vinyl Zine 05, 1990 Vinyl 7" EP      Panx Productions - PP008 , Compilation      Contains 6 songs by: A.C.M.E, Rebellenblut, Légitime Défonce, CMX, Go!, Deceit 05. Various - Panx Vinyl Zine 04, 1990 Vinyl 7"      Panx Productions - PP 007 , Compilation      Contains 5 songs by: Horse Laugh, Wartburgs Für Walter, Radiation Sickness, Lost In the dark age before the internets and the tutubes, one had to read fanzines and listen to compilation tapes or records to discover enough new noise at once. One also used to blindly buy some shit according to wild descriptions from flyers and catalogs, labels (eg. I had to own every release by Alchemy Records) or just because the artwork promised great audio content (this is why I bought the weird-looking LP from that new band Voïvod). It was then only logical to subscribe to the Panx bi-monthly compilation series. Panx is a great label and distro and their selection for this batch of 7" is excellent: only good to awesome nasty hardcore punk. Too bad I forgot to renew my subscription for the second series. The nostalgia never dies. The time machine flies again! Remove brackets and unzip: [born toulouse] !ZER Various ZER!

Demon Lung

01. Demon Lung - The Hundredth Name, 2013 CD Album      Candlelight Records - CDL528CD 02. Demon Lung - A Dracula, 2015 CD Album      Candlelight Records USA - CDL597 Today is superb doom day. Demon Lung recycle the best elements of 80s/90s doom metal with some smoldering stoner epithets to produce their marvelous mixture of Candlemass | Cathedral | Count Raven. The lady on the mike plays it haunting and sluggish, adding another ladder of dark sweetness into the heavy metal. It all works so well that this is now your new favorite stack of doom. Crush that head into the crypts of tar! Remove brackets and unzip: [merci lundi] !ZER Demon Lung ZER! PS: books page update with a couple of new titles & link fixes.

Verbal Abuse - Live in Berlin

01. Verbal Abuse - Of America, 1990 Vinyl LP Album      Destiny Records - 05256/08 NRAR: missing from the VA post, here is the LP rip of that fantastic live recording. VA at the height of its powers! All the hits through a red hot set. Useless download if you already have the CD rip (and with fewer songs). VA rocks your head off! Remove brackets and unzip: [zerbal obtuse] !ZER Verbal Abuse ZER!

Nasty Savage

01. Nasty Savage - Wage Of Mayhem, 1984/2002 CD Mini-Album Limited Edition      Crook'd Records - CROOK'D2002      Reissue from 2002 02. Nasty Savage - Nasty Savage, 1985 Vinyl LP Album      Banzai Records - BRC 1950 03. Nasty Savage - Nasty Savage, 1985 CD Album      Metal Blade Records - 3984-14063-2      Reissue from 1994 04. Nasty Savage - Indulgence, 1987 Vinyl LP Album      Metal Blade Records - RR 9630 05. Nasty Savage - Indulgence / Abstract Reality, 1988 CD Compilation      Metal Blade Records - 3984-14064-2      Reissue from 1994 06. Nasty Savage - Penetration Point, 1989 Vinyl LP Album      Rotten Records - ROT 002 07. Nasty Savage - Penetration Point, 1989 CD Album      Rotten Records - ROTCD 002 08. Nasty Savage - Cleveland '87, 2003 CD Album      Marquee Records - MR005 09. Nasty Savage - Psycho Psycho, 2004 CD Album      Crook'D Records - CR2004 Very heavy metal is great, long live very heavy metal! Nasty Savage blipped on my radar on the legendary Metal Massacre VI (the best one). From then on, it's been a constant bliss of petals and cream, from the early slower heavy thrash to the complex bomb of Penetration Point (my favorite), the absolute masterpiece. Nasty Savage developed a unique sound that combined NWOBHM roots with the heaviosity of Celtic Frost, the thrashness of Hallow's Eve and the velocity and catchiness of Zoetrope. Sort of. All of it through their first class execution and song writing. One of these classic black stars that were not just yet another clone of Slayer or Metallica. The return album Psycho Psycho was brilliant and since they seem to be active again, we are due for a follow up, it's been 12 years already. Thrash til zer! Remove brackets and unzip: [tasty ravage] !ZER Nasty Savage ZER!

7 Seconds

01. 7 Seconds - The Crew, 1984 Vinyl LP Album      Better Youth Organization - BYO 005 02. 7 Seconds - Walk Together Rock Together, 1986 CD Album Reissue      Better Youth Organization - BYO 10CD It was the epoch of minor threats against society system decontrol and of toxic reasons to have fun, when the government was already a big issue because of their bad brains of dirty rotten imbeciles. The battalion of saints were overwhelmed by the stupids, the bastards and all the stalins in a major chaotic discord. We were wishing for millions of dead cops while fearless Iranians from hell and other zero boys were discharging their raw power and bad religion in a loud blast against unsuspecting electro hippies. It was the epoch of poison ideas that have flourished until today, the surrender of common sense and basic thought to heresy- we said no means no, but they never care, the victims families can just go fuck themselves and die in the global inferno. But had it really degenerated? The prophecy of doom has never been wrong, the atavistic always wins. It is sad to think that the kings of oblivion seem to rule and the only spunk bubble of relief comes from music seven seconds at a time. But there might be hope outside warfare, genöcide and sabotage organized barbarians. Let's not have the terrorizers produce more carcasses and pools of blood for a devious public. No permanent damage nor systematic death will be allowed! Nurture nostalgia and tax evasion! Let's give up on voting and let's rock together until the leeches dry up and fall apart! Remove brackets and unzip: [777 zer] !ZER 7 Seconds ZER!

Yeah, whatever you say. Now the fact is that a few days ago I finished the Koran (Qu'ran?). You know, that book. It is a surprising text. The Bible was already a boring string of crappy tales with dubious philosophy, although the second part traded the gore and the violence for more sophisticated claims - although none of these ever reached the level of the lowest Greek philosopher.
But the Koran single-handedly defeats the Bible in the stupidity department. It is a fucking gallery of doom. It has absolute zero philosophical value, it is lower than a Star Wars movie. It is shockingly empty of any scenario, any tale, any parable or even the simplest smart one-liner. It is an endless litany of threats of violence, murder and eternal torture, from the great and loving god or from his true followers. It is fucking evil. It's all in there: hate, scorn, abject submission, murder, genocide, slavery, rape, ablation, mutilation, decapitation, in this world and in the next. I am not interpreting, the plain, explicit words are all there, verse after verse. The Koran is the best black metal and goregrind source of lyrics ever. My version is the French 80s translation edited by Bordas. I checked the worst paragraphs on other languages versions (English, German) and they are all there: I am not interpreting or misreading. I am truly horrified, and the most horrifying is to understand that most followers of that is called Islam have obviously not read the Koran. Just like most Christians never read the Bible from cover to cover. Otherwise they would have all rolled their eyes, facepalmed in exasperation and picked up some Aristotle, if they truly wanted to absorb antique wisdom that still applies today.
Read the Koran and be stunned. It makes me cringe but I must admit it ranks much lower than other superstition sources. Long live Hare Krishna and the reincarnation booth.
Now I started another superstition book: Thomas Piketty's lastest brick of propaganda (an easy brick, I went through half of it in a few hours). Try it, you won't be disappointed. Another few weeks of great toilet-sessions reading.
We must read books, especially the worst ones. The Koran is the worst thing I ever read. EVER! THE USER GUIDE FOR CRAZIES!

Toe Tag + World Of Lies

01. World Of Lies, Toe Tag - Toe Tag And World Of Lies, 2009 CD Album      Not On Label - none , Compilation      Contains 18 songs by: World Of Lies, Toe Tag Requested, rezerred. Toa Tag is one of the bands that recycle The Fartz / The Accüsed former members and it is a true delight in dirty punk thrash - The Fartz style. World Of Lies offer killer grinding thrash with a death smell: nothing excessively original but nonetheless full of zer. Consume without restraint, bang your head against the trash can. Remove brackets and unzip: [zer tag] !ZER World Of Lies, Toe Tag ZER!

Occultist + Noisem

01. Occultist - Death Sigils, 2013 Vinyl LP      Primitive Ways Records - PWR004 02. Occultist, Noisem - Slaughter Of The Innocent And The Damned, 2014 Vinyl 7" 45 RPM      A389 Recordings - A389-141 , Compilation      Contains 2 songs by: Occultist, Noisem 03. Noisem - Blossoming Decay, 2015 CD Album      A389 Recordings - A389-162 After a killer first album, Noisem are back with a killer second album saturated with the same classy mix of thrashing deadly metal and dirty grind of the 80s sort. This short one renders the best Terrorizer | Repulsion | Dark Angel | Slaughter legacy you can wish for. Plain brilliant full throttle old-school in your face raging headbanger triplazer! Occultist are on the same page regarding the power and passion in old-school thrash metal and crossover worship, yet deploy longer songs with a little less speed, incorporating crust punk pounding and heavy metal riffing for an equally satisfying travel on the orbit of 1986. We must thank the very angry lady handling the microphone for her intense presence. Then both bands cover Repulsion and Plasmatics on the split EP. It's Christmas again! Remove brackets and unzip: [noizertist] !ZER Occultist, Noisem ZER!

Cro-Mags

01. Cro-Mags - Age Of Quarrel, 1985 Vinyl LP Unofficial Release      Not On Label - Unkown      Reissue from 1991 02. Cro-Mags - Age Of Quarrel, 1985 CD Unofficial Release      Not On Label - none      Reissue from 0 03. Cro-Mags - Live 1986, 1986 File FLAC Unofficial Release x 16      Church Of Zer - Zer3      Reissue from 2016 04. Cro-Mags - The Age Of Quarrel, 1986 Vinyl LP Album Repress      Profile Records, Rock Hotel Records - PRO-1218, PRO-1218 05. Cro-Mags - The Age Of Quarrel, 1986 CD Album      Profile Records, Rock Hotel Records - PCD-1218, none 06. Cro-Mags - We Gotta Know, 1986 CD Unofficial Release      Holy Records - Holy 006      Reissue from 1992 - Live in Winnipeg, 26/07/1986 07. Cro-Mags - Best Wishes, 1989 CD Album      Profile Records - PCD-1274 08. Cro-Mags - Alpha Omega, 1992 Vinyl LP Album      Century Media - 08 9730-1 09. Cro-Mags - Alpha Omega, 1992 CD Album      Century Media - 84 9730-2 10. Cro-Mags - Near Death Experience, 1993 CD Album      Century Media - 7750-2 11. Cro-Mags - Hard Times In An Age Of Quarrel, 1994 Vinyl LP, Vinyl LP      KINGfisher - KF 007-1      Reissue from 1998 12. Cro-Mags - Hard Times In An Age Of Quarrel, 1994 CD Album x 2      Century Media - 77072-2      CD 1 13. Cro-Mags - Hard Times In An Age Of Quarrel, 1994 CD Album x 2      Century Media - 77072-2      CD 2 14. White Devil - Reincarnation, 1995 CD Mini-Album      Lost And Found Records - LF 210/CD 15. Cro-Mags - Revenge, 2000 CD Album      Cro-Mag Recordings - CM2000 16. Cro-Mags - Live In Germany 1991, 2016 File FLAC Unofficial Release x 12      Church Of Zer - Zer4 Let us start 2016 with a classic among classics. In 2015 we hailed the Atheist legacy, today we dive into full Krishna worship. Cro-Mags are the zero-default band that has banged my head for exactly 30 years. I find not a single bad song on the entire discography. Only killer riffs, amazing build-ups, so welcome metal influences and superior vocalization (from both skinheads). Yes, Alpha Omega is a perfection of metalized melodic groove thrash. Yes, NDE is a marvel of recycling of the Best Wishes axioms and yes, Revenge, which features Rocky George from ST, is a killer recycling of the Age Of Quarrel formula, even the NoFx sections are great (BTW the songs of the White Devil MCD are all featured on Revenge). Cro-Mags innovated the tough guy hardcore sound, they were heavier than Agnostic Front and Warzone. From this era, style and city, only Crumbsuckers impressed me as much as Cro-Mags. I have been a non-stop Cro-Mags fan forever. Time I am. Their live performances were awesome, until some other versions of the band surfaced in the late 90s (I was disappointed by the Leeway-backed/Joseph fronted one). I don't care about the Krishna bullshit anymore that I care about the Jah or Satan or working-class-revenge feebleness of other bands. If I had to care about lyrics, I would have to throw away at least 6530 albums from my shelves. Cro-Mags are firmly set in the EZTT among Bad Brains, Slayer, Victims Family, Raven, Celtic Frost, MDC and the other eternal immortal heroes. Happy new 2016. Amen. Remove brackets and unzip: [the ozer side of zerness] !ZER Cro-Mags, White Devil ZER! PS: I wanted to do a Pneuma Hagion post this week. This is some killer heavy death metal, with those sewer vocals and straight forward pummeling riffs from the 90s. It's generic but fucking great. However they sell their music for $1 per EP, which I consider a more than fair price (compared to the stupid $10 some bands or labels sell digital albums - at this price, I want a CD). Therefore I won't post the PH stuff here and encourage all fans of the dark side to click and spend $3 for 9 songs. You pay for a cellphone, you can afford it. Speaking of the dark side, I accompanied a bunch of nieces and daughters to the movies to watch the Star Wars disaster. It's a disaster. It does not even look great. It's a bad rehash of the first movie (which I liked when it came out, but I was 8), but  a lot more cretin, it's an astonishing achievement in stupidity. I'll never understand why this shit franchise is supposed to be classic, why anyone should find any philosophy/"societal commentary" in there or why the fuck anyone above the age of 8 would want to watch any of those movies 11 times. What reassures me is that among the kids I went with, not one over 9 liked it. Fuck Star Wars, double-fuck the posers who write essays about it, triple-fuck the media who make it look like profound art. Quadruple-fuck modern art. Listen to Howls Of Ebb. Amen.