Vromb - "Jeux De Terre" CD 1993

This was one of two specific CDs I always played while driving into the mountains very late at night (to drink, oh and the other disc was Voice Of Eye's "Vespers"). Erroneously cited as sampling actual insects, digital wing flutters and macromolecular roars are pulped and sifted into a darktronic symphony of breathtaking majesty (it's still revered as Gerard's best work). It's too easy for me to say "this shit's cray like smokin' PCP in the butterfly tent at the zoo"...which it is...but I don't think it's intentionally engineering fear. Gerard seems to be hailing the insects, hacking their little souls to see how their view of this dimension ticks. So while the tracks can be "creepy", they have an alien disconnect to them...like they were crafted for arthropod ears and not human ones. Whatever the species, this release is flawless!

Rupture - "Orangutan Suicide Sessions" 1990-2001 4 x Cassette 2014

The very definition of "complete discography" (of home recordings). Demos, rehearsals, full sessions from the earliest EPs and splits, unreleased songs, half songs, live soundboards, and side band Mob 48 (lol) aaaaaalll duped from the masters. I really wanna hammer at how clear and loud most of the recordings and duplication came out, as though the label was shady (they even pissed off the band swapping out their original art for the "joke" cover), every fan of piss raw 4-track fastcore/thrash/nasty ass drunkpunk would fastly piss themselves raw at the care taken into the transfers. My bladder burst, but after enduring ripping these tapes in one sitting, I don't think I'll be able to revisit Rupture again for at least a decade (or tomorrow).



Uncle Slam - "Say Uncle" LP 1988 (Japanese CD Rip)

There's something about 80s cholocore that's addictive to me. In Uncle Slam's caught case, the crossover is usually upper midpace with ridiculously high school hesher lyrics (one song is even groove-metal rap). Each track is honed for supreme pit power, with airy production and riffs that chuggily shank you like broken 40s. And they were on Caroline. Fuckin' CAROLINE (for the millennials, that's a fat juicy 'member berry to old fucks). Throw on a white t-shirt and iron that bandana, tonight...you SLAM!

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ptf9q3p6i44su0i/UNCLE_SLAM_-_Say_Uncle_1988.zip

Mick Harris - '88 Troubled Times Radio Interview

I was arsed to find the tape! So here it is: the March '88 Troubled Times radio interview with Mick Harris. Topics include ND's style (which seems to amuse the host more than impress), E.N.T., Larm cheating playing fast, crustys, zines, and just about everything else going on in extreme thrash at the time. Highly informative and brutally truthful, the only downer is the host's stony disassociation from reality (his speech patterns alone are annoying). A fun and sentimental listen for those born with a Scum test press in their ass, or those who downloaded a copy to teethe on decades later.






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.