First demo of State Children inspired (at least in production) noisecore thunder from future members of Chaos Channel. 48hz, 128 joint stereo, because I didn't know what the fuck I was doing in 2005...
Chaos Channel interview here...
Entety - Discography 91-94 & Live/Interview On KXLU
The sureño Carcass, but more rampaging than wonky in song arrangement. The debut demo, a soundboard recording from a show I attended (where their first singer Jack barfed on TOP of my homie's head), was a sloppy affair, as the band's usual sound was laced-weed uzi-powered MURDER-SUICIDE!!! (!-!-!) They eventually sheared themselves apart due to inner and outer volatility (their fanbase was one of the most toxic in L.A.), though several members later regrouped as the equally ruthless "Infamy".
P.S.: The vokes with their 2nd singer Oreo (the dude who looks like Judd Nelson) ARE FUCKING REAL!!! NO PITCH SHIFTER!!!
Multiplex & Force - 5 Song Rehearsal 10-24-90 & CD 1999
"It was 1990, and I was 19 years old. I came to see the studio session where a band called ASPHYXIA was playing. I was so impressed by their performance; ultra heavy and fast Grind music. The songs were all very complicated but groovy. The members were Yoichiro (Ds/Vo), Noboru (G) and Hideki (Ba). I was asked if I got interested in playing vocal in that band. To be honest I was not confident if I could follow their music as it was so complicated, but I decided to try. Then I joined the band ASPHYXIA.
The band soon changed the name to MULTIPLEX as we wanted to absorb variety of music elements mainly from Grind/Death vein, but also from other genre such as Industrial, Noise and Junk music etc. At that time the influences the members mentioned were CARCASS, GODFLESH, FEAR FACTORY, TERRORIZER, John Zorn etc. My focus was more on Death/Grind vein, but other members had really wider music tastes and reflected various elements into our music.
We began to play many local gigs and also recorded the first three-song demo in 1991. I liked the dirty sound of this demo! With these live performance and demo tape, an indie record label Selfish Records took interest in us. This label was well known for lots of Japanese Hardcore releases such as those by S.O.B., LIP CREAM, GAUZE, DEATHSIDE etc. Then the label released a compilation CD ‘Thrashing Deathpower’ in 1991 featuring MULTIPLEX, GIBBED and SATANIC HELL SLAUGHTER (This CD was released in UK some time again with the name ‘Deathpower’). I think it was one of the first grindcore CDs released from Japan except for those by S.O.B. These three bands were based in different cities in Japan, but we were all good friends, and played many gigs together.
We were also featured in a comp. CD called ‘Grinding Syndicate’ with GIBBED, ANARCHUS (Mexico) and CACOFONIA (Mexico) released by Samurai Records in Japan. I am still wearing the T-shirt with the cover design of this CD! Another EP ‘Uncanny Complex’ was released by Psycho Slaughter Records in USA but I’m not sure if this EP was really distributed as we ourselves received almost no copies.
Then Selfish Records decided to release our full-length album ‘World'. The name of the album is very simple as we didn’t want it to easily sound like usual Death/Grind one, and wanted listeners to have wider images from it. The album was produced by Tottsuan (R.I.P.) of S.O.B. and we played gigs with S.O.B. in local clubs in Japan. We really liked to play gigs, indeed. By the way we experienced several member changes by the time we released the album and there was a time when we had three guitarists!
At that time there were many Death/Grind bands in Japan. The long established HELLCHILD was very popular in the underground scene, and we often played a series of gigs called ‘Drowned Stage’ together (some members of MULTIPLEX and HELLCHILD later formed a pure grind band called FORCE). Sometimes people made the block-long line to see our gigs, but at the other time we played in front of 6 people. Anyway we were good friends with not only the bands I mentioned before, but also TRANSGRESSOR, ERODED, VOIDD, THE EQUINOX, TERROR FECTOR, MAGGOTY CORPSE, etc. and played a lot of gigs. It was really good time!
Along with playing gigs together, a Japanese label Toy’s Factory released a comp. CD ‘To the Marrow: Japanese Deathnology’ in 1993 featuring these bands. It must be very difficult to get this CD now, but it was a very nice sampler of the Japanese Death/Grind scene at that time. In the same year MULTIPLEX and HELLCHILD were featured in a comp. CD ‘RAD’ released by BMG Victor which also featured G.I.S.M., DOOM, RUINS, TETSU-ARREY, COCOBAT etc.
I left the band in early 1994 for personal reason, but the band kept playing till around 1996."
Stapled Shut - "Resin Heaven" Demo '92 & "L.A. Times" Demo '96 (WAV & 320 With Scans)
First demo: outright jovial discore, 2nd demo: still dissy, but hits the yard H-A-R-D with the grind-violence. Upped for the quintillionth time, ripped from Jerry Flores' masters (I have no idea why I'm still their guardian)...
In Slaughter Natives - "Insanity & Treatment" 3xCD 2011
"I know you've been making music since 1988, which is really already a long time and you joined the famous Cold Meat Industry label...
In fact, it was even earlier, I think in 1987 or yes, maybe indeed 1988. I had known Roger Karmanik for many years before that. I knew his wife since 1982 or something like that. He was working in the music industry and he asked me: you've got to release something. I thought: yeah I can do that and he said: you need to be ready. So I had to quickly finalize everything. That's how the first cassette came out.
Now it's really a legendary label...
Well, you know there was a connection between all the bands back then. In the beginning, everything was based in a small place called Linköping in Sweden, only 50.000 people lived there. It was only 2 hours of driving from Stockholm where I used to live. Most of the bands were friends, we knew each other very well. As it was a small town it was very easy to do things together.
Why did you choose to make the kind of music you are making and how did you choose the name?
Well, I had the feeling I had to come up with something. I had a master tape and was wondering what I should do with it, stick to it or do something else. I had done other styles and music before. I tried other things, but I slowly came back to the thing I had made. Somehow I kept coming back to the same thing and decided to simply go for it. It was in me and it was like it was meant to be. It just happened. When I make music it's not that I have a plan. I just make music as it comes, I don't think about selling or about record deals. And about the name, well, you can't say the name 'In Slaughter Natives' is proper English, but nobody cares. I just loved it and it felt good to do things the way I did them. I wasn't thinking about the name, it just came later. I just liked the combination of the words.
Do you have your own record studio where you can just do whatever you want, whenever you want?
Yes, I'm totally independent and can do whatever I want. This is very important for me. In the early days, it was very expensive and you needed much more material than now. Now it's so much easier, and the technology doesn't cost that much anymore. Now I have the feeling that i have too much gear to work with. Before you couldn't do much, because you needed so much equipment and it was very expensive. You had to work with the little equipment you had. I must say that saving things is much easier than before. You can just record something and leave it for a longer time and come back on it when you feel ready for it. Before, you really had to save everything and it took some time before it was all done in a proper way. Now it's so easy.
Can you tell us something about the 3xCD ‘Insanity & Treatment’? How did you come up with the idea of the 3xCD box? It captivates the atmosphere very well. Can you tell more about it?
Honestly, it was not my idea to do it. Nick, the guy from the Russian label, Infinite Fog Productions, wrote to me and asked for it. I like him, he's a nice guy."
Debut cassette:
Intense Mutilation - "Poser Sacrifice" Demo Tape 1987 & "Greatest Shits" Demo Collection 1988 (CDR Version)
More chauvinistic than G.G., more grand guignol than The Mentors,
they're mnemonic with Crab Society North...but got SIGNED!!! 😕
Impostor - "Little Hitler Illusion" Demo 1987 & "Still Not Satisfied" Demo 1990
Tonally confused Norsk thrash/Hellhammer-metal with Messiah/Mayhem
(it'd be funnier if it was Messiah Marcolin)...
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