Black Winter - Live 1987

This comes courtesy of the nigga Mahler, whose o.g. archives of live / reh tapes is one of the most mentally demolishing I've seen. His words on the project below...

"Live tape by BLACK WINTER, a totally unknown UK band, very much in the vein of AMEBIX, AXEGRINDER, (demo & 1st LP) HELLBASTARD & HELLHAMMER/CELTIC FROST. Recorded at this venue called "The Queens head", somewhere in the UK on the 25th of July 1987. Very decent live recording that has been restored & mastered too, from a 28 year old tape. 4 tracks, 27 minutes."

Slaughter Strike - "A Litany Of Vileness" Demo Tape 2010

Grinding hardcore with an early 90s grind/death backbone (those scenes were completely fused back then). I think the Utopia Banished era of grind influence actually works very well for them (the intro especially seems like such an obvious spliff-pass to that specific LP). There's even a few drips of early 90s doom tucked away in there...but mostly the tunes remind me of Citizen's Arrest at Daryl's deathliest. Production feels analog (if it's digital I don't give a fuck cuz it still kicks ass), every element is completely full and non-competing in the mix. This band nerded hard on influences right down to production styles, and that nerding payed off spectacularly. One of my earlier rips, and I still think I did a Keller-stellar job!

Septic Death - FLAC Live At The Cathey De Grande 1984

Distant sounding, yet audible. The ripper wrangled the tape hiss sufficently, but the recording lacked any power to begin with. Why people rip shows of this quality at this quality is beyond me...but we are collectors, and this is Septic Death...

Rabia - Interview, EP & Demo 1992 / 1995

Instead of my snooty 12 cents, I'll let the interview (and my o.g. ripz) do the talking. It goes without saying I zoomed the fuck in on this band when I read this issue "back in the day" (MRR #134 / July 1994). If it's not intuitive to know how to enlarge images in this trillionth millennia of the internet, you're just failing at existence.

 

Troubled Times Radio Interviews 1988: Unseen Terror, Rudimentary Peni, Daz Russel, Digby Pearson

Phone interviews conducted live during the Troubled Times radio show (out of Berkeley I believe). I'd like to know what happened behind the scenes to authorize the expense of these pre-internet phone calls (the logistics of massive timezone dilation occasionally interferes in some fashion too)! The interviewees speak (literally) for themselves on this. The host doesn't seem like the brightest bulb, so some of the questions bring unintentional hilarity. Quality is decent, all interviewees are audible with tolerable tape hiss (I sourced these in trades over the decades, mostly from the U.K. of course). One millennia when I can be arsed to find the tape, I'll re-rip the '88 interview with Mick Harris on the show (HYSTERICAL!).

Jet$et And Bloedbad 1981-1984

Holland's Jet$et was female fronted punky thrash that often deviated into tracks of total no-wave. They weren't untalented in each genre...but they weren't talented either. Jos/Larm was supposed to release their discography LP a few years ago, but...here we are...sitting...juuust sitting. Their half of the download is composed of various solo and split demos with not totally crude production.

Sharing one of those splits were domestic peers Bloedbad (Bloodbath), who were absolute chaos-thrash in a parallel vein to Larm. Speedy, bouncy, simple as fuck but tight, somehow nicely recorded, heavy...dude, I'd love to see Jos finance a discography for THEM!!! (I took care of that in the download too 😇 !)


Syphilitic Vaginas - 9" (wavs) 2007 & 12" 2008

The world's most seriously performed parody project. R.U.G.I.S.M worship, Venomous Frost worship, Magnus' one man band had and (outside of Bastard Priest) still has the biggest cock-ring in the metalpunk orgy pit. Production matches the feel of Yugoslavian death-thrash demos from the mid-80s (you know that is the blackest mark of trve kvlt sovnds). Clay sent me the wavs around the time of the 9"s release, the 12" is in mp3. Possessed to FUCK nigga!

Terrorizer's first interview (Decibel Of Death zine 1987)

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In Slaughter Natives - 1988 Demo

Pounding martial-death, released at the dawn of the experimental scene's 2nd golden age (by one of modern martial's founders). It's emo as fuck and unapologetically ebm-gothy...but it also comes from the more nazi end of that scene that listens to earliest Laibach over current Laibach (repetition and experimentation are preferred to poppin' a pussy on the dance floor). More nazi = more fun. The project quickly evolved into a symphonic style that borders on a religious experience...but at light speed out the dog-track gate, this "demo" was already an impressive debut!


Otaku Party - Demos 2008 / 2009

I like this more than I should, so (re) up it goes. Spoken-vocal French noisecore that oddly reminds me of Man Is The Bastard's early freak outs (with the rarest segue into VERY short blastbeats). The arrangements and playing ability are several notches above shit-fi, and because of how those arrangements "are", I'm thinking the band was more influenced by global thrash over a strict regiment of Kyushucore (though there's nerdery afoot in their name). The result is engaging, surprisingly noteworthy, and still completely refreshing several short years on.  They never got any vinyl, what the hell?


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