Mule Skinner - "Stripped Of Flesh" Demo '91 & "Servitude" 7" '93

Earliest 90's grind/death fusion! Vaguely analogous to Suffocation, but with decidedly shorter songs...mostly around 90 seconds or WAY less...and a bullish preference for consistently chaotic tempos instead of chugs and slams. Well, there's a little chug, a little slam, but believe me their blastbeats come so frequently you'll be reminded more of Terrorizer than Monstrosity. Thick mid-fi studio recording on both releases, with a sharper overarching tone to the demo. They closed their career with a full length CD (which I don't own, otherwise it'd be included here) where they upped the production game an order of magnitude without neutering the nuclear devastation of their style. Yet another demigod who's never been officially unearthed and reissued. Like America's emperor always says: SAD!

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ride1npzw93z1hd/Mule_Skinner_-_Demo_And_EP.zip

16-17 - 2xCD 2005 ('87-'89)

"If Swans loved jazz."

😕

Fuck it, that works.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/gnq3o2ck5z0c324/16-17_2xCD.zip

Boris - "Vein" LP 2004/2006

Japan's most confusing alt-drone heroes pull tranny moves once again by recording...a NOISECORE LP?! The band didn't indulge themselves in that exacting form of sonic torture just to maintain hipster equilibrium, the end product is actually more art than science, with a great deal of thought put into the zero dynamics and incompetent solos. Feedback assassination (the only hint to their "usual" sound) does introduce or overlap a few of the tracks, but only as an adjunct to songs that otherwise sound like a lost Tranquilizer jam. The Decibel crowd seems to really hate this particular release. If that alone isn't the best enticer, than you obviously prefer music that's been microbrewed and barcoded.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/tpiag8gw1pf3aqw/Boris_-_Vein_LP_%28Hardcore%29.zip

Women Of The SS - '84 S/T Tape, '85 "Rigor Romance" Tape, '86 "The Call To All Women" Tape, '91 "SS Orgy/SS Bitch" 7"

Nazisploitation, bondage snuff, a TOPY ethos, and John Zewizz...aka...EDGELORD RAPTURE!

http://www.mediafire.com/file/0abcwssywg5conw/WOMEN_OF_THE_SS.zip

Crazy But Proud - Venice HC Compilation 1986-1989

A cholocore mixtape enthusiastically shared by Dopibag, for YOU, the Network Of Niggaz! 💞 

http://www.mediafire.com/file/annlibiiejdmfaj/CRAZY_BUT_PROUD_-_Venice_HC_compilation_1986-1989.zip

Posthumous - "Deterioration" Demo 1 1990

What didn't I buy from Wild Rags? Grinding Dutch death with the occasional humorous microsong, and a drum machine named Peter (great job Petey). The recording feels 4-tracky, as it has the bassy compression and economical mixing inherent to that technology, but it's produced very well for this perceived limitation and is actually quite heavy. Vocals are deeply hoarse gurgles, where instead of lyrics all you hear being gagged out is "BLUH! BLUH! BLUUUHHH!!!". They're fuckin' ridiculous, but I couldn't picture them being delivered any other way. 8 songs, 13 minutes, so obscure they have no cult...

Golem - "Sadness" 1999 Demo

Nippon sluuudddggge, pulling inspiration...through cold molasses...from slow death metal instead of the arguably cleaner New Orleans sound. Song structures are traditional (there are no feedback symphonies or shoegaze anywhere within the tape's 18+ minutes), with a curious lack of tangible sustain on the guitars. Lurching, shambling, chugging, but never lags with the places it wants to drunkenly wander...which I'm unsure are as metal as their immediate mindset. Ripped / scanned years ago, and good enough to have been pilfered from me for random stranger's youtube videos (yer fuckin' welcome)...

http://www.mediafire.com/file/3021chgxkkgazq8/GOLEM_%28Japan%29_%2799_demo.zip

R.A.W. / Hypnotic 23 - "Evil Baptism" Split Tape 1995

This is it, this is THE tape that indoctrinated me into hXc-techno. It was a few years after it's release, as I was 24 at the time and doing what I still do: gettin' high with homies. One of them threw on a dubbed copy made by a friendly coworker, and I was blown away. That simple. Dark, distorted, repetitive to the point of insanity, and ceaselessly (obsessively) fast, it was a brutal and deeply refreshing sound that matched any punk, metal, grind, or industrial band's own extremity...and it instantly fascinated me!

R.A.W.'s side remains the most intense (coincidentally it was his side we listened to first, officializing Disciples Of Annihilation's opening track as my "first contact" with this scene), but Hypnotic 23's mad skillz aren't afraid of multiple Nasenbluten segues either. My lame n' mundane nostalgia trips aside, the tape holds up incredibly well, not only in track choice and turntable gymnastics, but as one of the clearest snapshots into what O.G. rave culture was really all about: NOISE WORSHIP!!! 

http://www.mediafire.com/file/4jnwd5bt9s14c61/Raw_23_Evil_Baptism.zip

Scorn - Live 1994 With James Plotkin (FLAC)

LIVE...1994...W / PLOTKIN...FLAC!!! (!!!!!!)

!!!!!!!!!S-O-U-N-D-B-O-A-R-D!!!!!!!!!

http://www.mediafire.com/file/g4is4470yuh37d0/Scorn_-_Live_94_With_Plotkin.flac

Poikkeus - 7" 2003

The nigga Lia reminded me of the exquisiteness of these Japanese Suomi posers' debut EP. Now, they're not stylistically bulletproof, there's just as much generic "Crasher" influence as Rice-ta-tittys piss-takes (and they laughably repurpose the language from other band's album titles), but the production and passion on this 7" is exceptional even within a scene that is already worshipped for its uncanny sonic nerdery. You won't see God with them, but you WILL see Jesus...reverb overdose and all!

http://www.mediafire.com/file/3hc6cyxzci9qo8y/Poikkeus_-_7_2003.zip
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