Geisha batterin', spirit burnin' trad-core from...Austria?! Cultural appropriation can fellate itself, if it was never put on blast how "foreign" the band was, you'd swear on Ishiya's trihawk they were as Japanese as cephalopod porn. Impressively produced and obsessively played, everything about their existence and ethos is rendered with the same conviction as any of the surly old black tooth cokeheads y'all kowtow to. FUCK Y-O-U! (PUNK!)
Shock Troop - 1998 Demo
Geisha batterin', spirit burnin' trad-core from...Austria?! Cultural appropriation can fellate itself, if it was never put on blast how "foreign" the band was, you'd swear on Ishiya's trihawk they were as Japanese as cephalopod porn. Impressively produced and obsessively played, everything about their existence and ethos is rendered with the same conviction as any of the surly old black tooth cokeheads y'all kowtow to. FUCK Y-O-U! (PUNK!)
Dejecta - Demo '93
Post-Repulsion dark thrash from Aaron and Matt. There's blasts, and the drummer is human, but his entire performance is so strongly processed that I can't tell if they're bad triggers or the band got him in after this session. It's not the worst detractor, as the rest of the recording has an excellent mix and capture (and juuust enough structural commonality to Repulsion for me to cosign it). Vocals are super clean, songs aren't too long, and thematically it's still skulls-for-soup-bowls and necrophilia. Not a mediocre project at all, just heavily overshadowed by their previous band's still living legend.
Geranium - Demos 1 & 2 (CDR / Tape) 2007
One of the substantially better 21st century noisecore bands. We all know that scene's core fixation is just Diswanky U.K., but with Geranium I "feel" an uncanny similitude to Dust Noise's own compressed and shouty copy-noisecatting. They stand out, they coalesce tropes (that name yo!) that immediately teleport the listener into the mathematical center of the pogo zone. Not for any scenester hot tub tugfest, but because they legitimately LOVED to noise!http://www.mediafire.com/file/dagf836ihs6bejz/Geranium_-_Demos.zip
Seats Of Piss - Live '84 & "City Of Bastards" LP 2005
Gabba's tardpunk band before Chaos U.K. (and after). Disgustingly anti-pc with a penchant for fetish crossdressing on stage, their embryonically sloppy and forgettable sound metamorphosized into something pleasingly bizarre and genre-bending decades later. The LP's expert home production is just a blast, with "electronica" elements (something not foreign to Gabba's other solo efforts) playfully braided into what appears to be "classic" UK82 snot and cheek...but really perverted and warped. Instead of jacking off to Facebook...literally...Gabba should jack out more LPs like THIS! 
Seven Minutes Of Nausea - "Does Abstinence Kill" Demo & Live '86, "Karen's Edge" Demo '86, Advance Tape to "Thrashbora" Flexi '88
Uranus to the titans of noise-grind! Inspired to destroy music after attending a Death Sentence gig, the nascent duo quickly decided playing 1/4 of a minute was too stoner doom for them, so they destroyed music's corpse even further...to a single second...per song...in tune...with acidically spat sociopolitical statements barely forming a single sentence or pair of words within each aural aneurysm (literally 100s of tracks...all with titles, all with lyrics!!!!!!). Two O.G. demos and an O.G. advance tape for their "Thrashbora" flexi. Demo 1 is their stoner doom days, the other demo is the style they've mostly carried on with to this very day. And Thrashbora? Nigga...kiss your SOUL goodbye!
Collapse Society - Demo '93 & EP '94
An O.G. rip from an O.G. tape, re-gifted to me the year of release (Morishita > Hometown Homie > Me). Hell yeah I'm gonna brag! Picture the transformers you see on telephone poles shorting out and arcing through your brain...that's Collapse Society. 2nd wave dis-noisecore who were among the very first in Japan's initial revival of the genre. Up tempo on the EP, oddly "groggy" on the demo (I prefer the demo), the dis is usually Doom/E.N.T. speed with noise levels into the infrared. As so elegantly photographed, I had a shithead paint pen accident that I just as shitheadidly failed to morph into the band's initials. And for the cybersadists, the cover isn't O.G. because that got TOTALLY destroyed. Real punx always party on their shit! I had no drama whatsoever with the EP, or any of my vinyl...but tapes...they saw dark things.
Christbait - "Prod" Demo 1991 & "Yeast" CD 1992
FUCK I kept some (now) ancient shit! Heavy as whale balls on your exposed lungs, Australian sludge-death and rare shock ultragrind that morphed into solemnly emotive industrial metal. Fairly low gurgles and deathliness gave way to clean shouts and a template closer to a simplified Helmet or Zeni Geva. Godflesh is the most obvious and redundant influence, noticable in the reverbed-out singular note noodling, but they "groove" more than loop themselves. Tight and well produced on the demo, and very tight and expertly produced on the CD, this was a band truly worthy of cult status that blew all the homies away upon first release...BOTH the demo and CD (and I was the nigga to dub the band for them...aaalll of them)! SO...whatever happened to the Fear Bait / Christ Factory collaboration?
Skumdribblurzz - Live 83/84, "Practice", 2nd Show May 1984 (With Tracklist)
Nine+ minutes of horrifying dogshit. According to legend (pensioner punks) the band formed just to get in free for shows, too fucked to even bother with a Shitlickers level of anti-musicianship. More Suburban Filth or Eat Shit than Anal Cunt, the "band's" biggest claim to fame was Digby Pearson joining them much later on bass (and a mention in the first Filthy Christians LP). I barely heard them in 2003, and quite frankly this is the first time I bothered with the "experience" all the way through. One live show with a surprising amount of clarity given the form of cacophony, and a "practice" that sounds like a single member dicking around on a 3rd world guitar with all the wiring completely soldered over (my trader insisted Dig is in on the practice...doing what, blowing homie on his shit-tar?). For ultra-nerds only, who will ultra say this "deserves" vinyl. So why did I upload it? People don't listen to the truth, they gotta LIVE it... 2017 Rip: First Show/Practice...
2021 Update: 2nd Show/"Gabbas Headache":...
The Grey Wolves - "Legion Of Hell" Cassette (Year? [mid 80s])
My fave release from the U.K.'s #2 terroristronics duo. Grainy field recordings of Satan talking shit warble O-P-P-R-E-S-S-I-V-E-L-Y over chirps and blurbles of traditional dark synth (the kind heard in every mid 70s to mid 80s z-grade sci-fi flick), all mindfully enhanced with existential reverb and nihilistic delay......as it should. Some of the more identifiably synthy accoutrements have a sporadic feel to them, but I also can't quite measure the improv element considering how damn effective the rest of the recording came out. Grey Wolves always preferred to play it fast and loose, so maybe I should (over)analyze less and just get to the link...
Merzbow - "Merzbuddha" CD 2005
Masami Akita's exceptionally brutal tribute to the drum n' bass genre...massively deconstructed and weaponized as violating meditation. Pulsar-heavy-pulses decompose into subsonic rhythmic loops, while neutrino bursts quadrophonically hiss ceaselessly about like flies on it's greasy black corpse. The frighteningly engulfing mix (total dimensional dislocation yo) is so intentionally midrange it literally makes me queasy......and yet...I keep listening. Not as frenetic as he's usually known for (there's a patience to the textural sculpting that heavily reminds me of his much older work "Memorial Gadgets"), but there's no pejoratives in that either, the enhanced focus is what maintains this particular release's lingering memorability and revisitation.
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