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.