Mahler gettin' nutso with the 'Cles! His words below (the rips were freely offered, I don't pilfer EVERYTHING)...
"1. Rare full live set here by Agathocles, when they supported S.O.B. (Jap) at Het Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium in October 1990. Soundboard recording that's been restored & remastered by myself. Two tracks from this set were used as their side of the split 7" with BLOOD (Germany) in 1991, but this is the full set. This is when they were going through a death metal/Doom phase I guess. Not much of the mince-core to be found here, but still utterly punishing & super heavy. The first 90 seconds of this set has some slight tape whirl, but gets better after that. Ripped from a 25 year old tape.
2. Recorded at the Hnita Hoeve in Heist op den Berg, Belgium, July 1988. This is an audience recording & it came out "ok" after some restoration & remastering. AG were still in their grindcore period here, so the songs were shorter & pretty much devoid of any metal. 17 tracks in 24 minutes (& that includes Jan's famous song explanations too!).
3. To celebrate Agathocles's triumphant gigs in Canada, I went through my OLD tapes of theirs to try & find something special to rip & upload. In other words "special" meaning A: It hasn't been released yet & B: it needed to be good enough quality. So I came across this live show they did in Hoogstraten, Belgium in February 1988. This is probably the best quality "very early AGx" live tape I had. So I've ripped, restored & digitally remastered it. 10 songs in just under 15 minutes. P.S. Just before the last song, the guy taping it gets his mate to fart into the tape recorder...thanks to the remastering, you can pick it up quite clearly.
4. Live in Leiden, Netherlands September 1990. 45 minutes, great sound, although they were quite clearly in their Death metal period by then. 11 tracks, restored and remastered."
Just in time for Halloween! I assure everyone's subatomically calibrated electron microscopes that I have plenty of my own rips queuing up for eventual (in centuries) upload, re-upload, re-re-upload etc...but Mahler keeps offering aural heroin, and I just can't say no! This was Majesty's only show, performed as a two piece, with intense tape-swirl and all the production values of a walkman covered in mud. FOR COMPLETISTS ONLY! It's pretty much in the same vein as the State Children demo, meaning it's unlistenable...but hey...some people out there are adamant that they can "hear the noise still"...so go forth! The Majesty art is mine, official, and is F-I-N-A-L-L-Y seeing the light of day in a CD repress (of F.O.A.D.'s LP) on Haunted Hotel records.
