Unwanted Youth

01. Unwanted Youth - Unwanted Youth, 1988 Vinyl LP Album      Destiny Records - EFA 12-5141 Let us exhume another lost gem of the 80s hardcore scene. This short album oozes with energy and urgency in typical Attitude Adjustment | No Allegiance | Corpus Vile form. The listener might not get floored at first - this is fairly generic 80s hardcore/punk. But the power of seduction of this assembly of raw, speedy songs is obvious, and it is done with quite some class. The riffs are great, the prominent bass lines are great, the drumming is great, the vocals are great, the arrangements are great and the production is great. The songs are great, the the "artwork" is fucking lazy, this album is a great and generally catchy minor classic. Excellent job, would have deserved at least two follow-ups! Remove brackets and unzip: [long live the 80s] !ZER Unwanted Youth ZER!

Reload: The Sadist

01. The Sadist - Total Sex 1984-1990, 2013 CD Compilation      MCR Company - MCR-269 Requested: rezerred. Remove brackets and unzip: [total zer] !ZER The Sadist ZER!

Gargoyle - Junreiin

01. Gargoyle - Junreiin, 1998 CD EP      Paranoiz - PAR-70003 A couple of weeks ago, the Church discovered with great horror that this EP was not in its collection. Ordered, ripped, zerred. The Church could live without minor Gargoyle EPs, but not without this awesome seven tracks disc. If you discount for the ugly ballad, this is one short bomb of pure gargoylesque highly flexible thrash metal and hard rocking explosions. It features only hits, especially the first and last songs that have taken full control of the Church neuron via infinite loops. Totally infectious! Gargoyle rule the zeriverse forever! Remove brackets and unzip: [satoriiiii iiiii iiii] !ZER Gargoyle ZER!

Bloody Panda

01. Bloody Panda, Kayo Dot - Kayo Dot / Bloody Panda, 2006 Vinyl 12" 33 ⅓ RPM      Holy Roar Records - HRR002V , Compilation      Contains 3 songs by: Bloody Panda, Kayo Dot 02. Bloody Panda - Pheromone, 2007 CD Album      Level Plane Records - LP106CD 03. Bloody Panda - Summon, 2009 CD Album, DVD      Profound Lore Records - PFL-048 If you hate doom, this is not your lucky post. Bloody Panda incarnated doom on a funeral leg and on a experimental drone leg. Plus they delivered outstanding live performances (Mtl Katacombes 2009 ZER!) for full crowd flattening.  The discography is short but intense and every single second is an exercise in mindfuck. The slow dirge is augmented by the insane vocals of a young lady who looked inversely menacing, and exquisitely morbid layers of keyboard, for once this instrument is put to good use. And they were the nicest of guests. Grand doom domination til the nadir of the zeriverse! Remove brackets and unzip: [doomnation] !ZER Bloody Panda ZER!

Reload: Mindwar

01. Mindwar - Mindwar, 1992 CD EP      Not On Label - none 02. Mindwar - Degeneration, 1994 CD Album      XNO Records - XNO 94-07-1 Requested: rezerred. Remove brackets and unzip: [mindzer] !ZER Mindwar ZER!

Whipstriker

01. Whipstriker - Crude Rock 'N' Roll, 2010 CD Album      Deathrash Armageddon - DA13-038 02. Whipstriker, Germ Bomb - Germ Bomb / Whipstriker, 2011 Vinyl 7"      Hellrocker Records - 003 , Compilation      Contains 4 songs by: Whipstriker, Germ Bomb 03. Whipstriker, Skull And Bullets - Attitude Punks Will Wail / Worshippers Of Death, 2012 Vinyl 7" EP      Bestial Invasion Records - BIR022 , Compilation      Contains 4 songs by: Whipstriker, Skull And Bullets 04. Whipstriker, Power From Hell - Brazilian Bestial Attack, 2013 CD Album      Hell Music, Cianeto Discos, Terceiro Mundo Chaos Discos, Morbid Tales Records, Loja Rock Animal, Soul Erazer Records, Turbulation Prods, Metal Reunion Records Extreme Division - none, none, TMCD015, none, none, SE010, none, none , Compilation      Contains 10 songs by: Whipstriker, Power From Hell 05. Whipstriker - Troopers Of Mayhem, 2013 CD      Kill Again Records, Urubuz Records, Hell Music, Fuck The Mainstream We Are The Mainstream Records - none, none, none, none 06. Whipstriker - Black Rose Killz, 2014 Vinyl 7" 33 ⅓ RPM EP      Dying Victims Productions - D.V.P. 49 07. Whipstriker, Slaughter Command - Condemned To The Grave / Queen Of The Iron Whip, 2014 Vinyl 7" EP      Anger Of Metal Records - AOM020 , Compilation      Contains 3 songs by: Whipstriker, Slaughter Command 08. Whipstriker - The Return Of The Goat's Mark, 2014 File MP3 Single      Not On Label - none 09. Whipstriker - Midnight Crust, 2014 Vinyl 7" EP Limited Edition Numbered      Chainsaw Distro, Weird Face Productions - CHNSWD001, WF009 10. Whipstriker, Bastardizer - Strike Of The Bastard, 2015 CD EP Limited Edition      Hells Vomit Productions - none , Compilation      Contains 6 songs by: Whipstriker, Bastardizer 11. Whipstriker, Ophicvs - Satanic Metal Army, 2015 CD Album      Tribulacion Productions, HOTA REX - TR048, HOTAREX014 , Compilation      Contains 12 songs by: Whipstriker, Ophicvs 12. Whipstriker - Only Filth Will Prevail, 2016 CD Album      PRC Music - PRC70 13. Whipstriker - Merciless Artillery, 2018 CD Album      Hells Headbangers - Hells 239 Welcome to hell! Fans of Venom, Warfare, Bulldozer, Bathory and all our usual darlings are de facto fans of Whipstriker, who greatly reproduce the exact vibe of 1981-1985 sleazy black rocking thrash metal punk. Especially Venom. I cannot remember if I know of another Venom clone that sounds as exactly as Venom, from WTH to Possessed. Only Filth Will Prevail even contains a Warfare cover, well done. I won't bother ranking these releases, some are better than others, but they all rock. My favorite is Only Filth Will Prevail. Mid-tempo dirty neo-proto-thrash with balls and hair, zer! Remove brackets and unzip: [in league with venom] !ZER Whipstriker ZER!

Totenmesse

01. Totenmesse - To, 2018 CD Album      Pagan Records - MOON018 I had planned a totally different and larger post for today, but something went wrong. While this is being fixed, let us drool over this unbelievable black bomb of Polish destruction. Poland, the new black metal Mecca! Featuring evil people also involved in Mord A Stigmata, Mgla, Odraza, Medico Peste and other supreme kings of perfect sonic obliteration and soul munching, Totenmesse sculpt your inner and outer meat with such finesse and lightning speed that you beg for more - I often repeat-play this CD. Their black metal is simultaneously very sophisticated and extremely vicious, plus they deliver the best King Crimson cover this side of physical existence. No "atmospheric" shit here, only twisted fast riffs and evil complexities to crush skulls and melt brains in pure Easter Europe fashion. No war metal either: the brutality here is calculated and engineered from a control bunker, there is no bestial invasion of the Archgoat or Revenge sort. Totenmesse just exploit the best of both worlds: black terror and evil surgery, and deliver actual songs with personality instead of a rectangular blur of noisegression (I have nothing against rectangular blurs, but today we reach another level). Songs you remember and songs you want to hear again, with dynamics in the sonic panorama. A true album! Straight to the first half of my 2019 top ten even if it was released in 2018! Totenmesse über zer and triplazer!!! Remove brackets and unzip: [to the death] !ZER Totenmesse ZER!

Forest Of Impaled

01. Forest Of Impaled - Mortis Dei, 1996 CD EP      Terrorizer Records - none 02. Forest Of Impaled - Demonvoid, 1999 CD Album      Red Stream - RSR 0133 03. Forest Of Impaled - Forward The Spears, 2003 CD Album      Red Stream - RSR-0167 04. Forest Of Impaled - Rise And Conquer, 2007 CD Album      Red Stream - RSR-0192 Black death destruction! With thrash metal riffs, especially on the last releases. There are killer hooks and memorable parts everywhere, with a special award to Mortis Dei. Precise savagery in hostile blackness, straight forward sonic terror, speed and power, you got the whole arsenal for the perfect headbanging. If you are looking for experiments and originality, look elsewhere. If you are into a glory ride of neck breaking and aural decapitation, enter the Forest Of Impaled! Remove brackets and unzip: [zer and conquer] !ZER Forest Of Impaled ZER!

Reload: S.S.D.

01. SSD - X-Claim !, 0 Vinyl LP Unofficial Release Compilation      Not On Label - none      1-12: from Kids LP, 13-19: live CBGB 06-10-1983 02. SSD - The Kids Will Have Their Say, 1982 Vinyl 12" Album 45 RPM      Xclaim!, Xclaim!, Dischord Records, Dischord Records - NO.1, no.1, NO.7½, no.7½ 03. SSD - How We Rock, 1984 Vinyl LP Album      Modern Method Records, Modern Method Records - MM022, X110 04. SSD - Break It Up, 1985 Vinyl LP Album      Homestead Records - HMS027 05. SSD - Power, 1992 CD Album Compilation      Taang! Records, Taang! Records - TAANG! 50, TAANG!50 Requested: rezerred. Remove brackets and unzip: [how we zer] !ZER SSD ZER!

Violent Dirge

01. Violent Dirge - Obliteration Of Soul, 1991 Cassette      Carnage Records - 008-91 02. Violent Dirge - Elapse, 1993 Cassette Album      Carnage Records, Carnage Records - CARR 054-93, CARR 054 03. Violent Dirge - Elapse, 2019 CD Album Reissue Remastered      Pagan Records - MOON 123 In the remote corners of the basement sit old tapes full of corrosion and death. After decades of slow rot and grey dust, an excited exhumation brings them to the light of day and reveals their vicious power. Violent Dirge were one killer band with the combined destructive abilities of Sadus, Grave, Dark Angel, Ripping Corpse and Gorguts. Absolute first class material! Their usage of heavy artillery with precision and class makes their barbarous delivery all the more impressive and enjoyable. There is complexity in the disgust and there is virtuosity in the hate. Expert world war riffing, giant pummeling drumming, prominent killer bass lines, horror voices from the crypts of zer, clarity of destination through the density of architecture and mechanized butchery! Zerification of the obliteration! Metalization of the total thrashing death! These tapes did not age too well. A link to a better/CD rip of Obliteration and one for Craving are of course very much appreciated. Remove brackets and unzip: [obliterizer] !ZER Violent Dirge ZER!

Ensnared

01. Ensnared - Dysangelium, 2017 CD Album      Dark Descent Records, Invictus Productions - DDR187CD, IP110      Visit invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com I wanted to like this CD, I really did because of the artwork. So, I got my copy after checking under thirty seconds of their sound on the bandcamp page. Invictus and DD release mostly killer stuff anyway. And then it was delivered to my mailbox and then I played it and then I did not like it, I fucking LOVED IT! There is barely anything here that the death and black metal addict has not heard before, but this is the kind of minor masterpiece that does not need to reinvent music to reach the highest standards of class, personality, roughness and grimness, at the same time. If you expect 666 references, come again. Let's say this album should equally reach out to Crown Of Thorns and Morbid Angel fans. It is that great! Triplazering black til death! Remove brackets and unzip: [enzerred] !ZER Ensnared ZER!

Reload: FU's + Straw Dogs

01. FU's - Kill For Christ, 1982 Vinyl EP 12" 45 RPM      Xclaim!, Xclaim!, Xclaim! - No.2, No. 2, X-2 02. FU's - The Origin Of The Straw Dogs, 1982/1984 CD Compilation      Lost And Found Records - LF 020/CD      Reissue from 1990 - 1-8: Kill For Christ LP, 9-10: The Master Tape comp, 11-15: This Is Boston Not L.A. comp., 16-35: live April 1st 1984. 03. FU's - My America, 1983 Vinyl 12" 45 RPM Album      Xclaim!, Xclaim! - X-5, #5 04. FU's - Revenge, 1983/1984 CD Compilation      Lost And Found Records - LF 037/CD      Reissue from 1992 - 1-13: Do We Really Want To Hurt You?, 14-24: My Ameria 05. FU's - Do We Really Want To Hurt You?, 1984 Vinyl LP Album      Gasatanka Records - E-1109 06. Straw Dogs - Under The Hammer, 1986 CD Album      Lost And Found Records - LF-030/CD      Reissue from 1991 - We Are Not Amused with 4 extra tracks, including Young, Fast, Iranians 07. Straw Dogs - We Are Not Amused, 1986 Vinyl LP Album      Enigma Records - 2181-1 08. Straw Dogs - Your Own Worst Nightmare, 1992 CD Album      Lost And Found Records - LF 034 CD Requested: rezerred. Remove brackets and unzip: [yes we do] !ZER Straw Dogs, FU's ZER!

Reload: Dr. Know

01. Dr. Know - Plug-In Jesus And Burn, 1985 Vinyl LP, Vinyl 7"      Mystic Records, Super Seven Records - MLP 06, SS7EP 152      Burn 7'' 02. Dr. Know - Plug-In Jesus And Burn, 1985 Vinyl LP, Vinyl 7"      Mystic Records, Super Seven Records - MLP 06, SS7EP 152      Plug In Jesus 03. Dr. Know - This Island Earth, 1986 Vinyl LP Album      Death Records, Restless Records - DEATH 009, 72177-1 04. Dr. Know, Brandon Cruz - The Original Group, 1987 Vinyl LP      Mystic Records - MLP 33165 05. Dr. Know - Wreckage In Flesh, 1988 Vinyl LP Album      Death Records - 7 72240-1 06. Dr. Know - The Best Of, 2001 CD Compilation      Mystic Records - MCD 187      Burn, Jesus & more, but in random order 07. Dr. Know - F#*k Off And Die, 2008 CD Album Compilation      Anarchy Music - CLP 2258 08. Dr. Know - Killing For God, 2009 CD Album Reissue Enhanced      Unrest Records - UNREST CD010 Requested: rezerred. Remove brackets and unzip: [fistzer] !ZER Dr. Know ZER!