Goetia - "Space Distortion" 12" 2006

Tachycardia T-E-R-R-O-R from Morocco's speedcore goddess Siham Chafik. Incontestably her roughest EP, the kicks are so Goatse-level blown out that they bruise black holes (and so unremittingly patterned that Goatse-sized holes are punctured in reality itself). With 20+ releases on hXc linchpins such as Strike and Psychik Genocide (s.i.c.), you know this kitty's got more than claws, she's rockin' straight up Krueger gloves! Fave Track: "Trashforce"


"The Ancient Greek word 'goēteía' means 'charm, jugglery, sorcery'. During the Renaissance, 'goëtia' was sometimes contrasted with 'magia' as evil magic vs good magic."

Trey loves Rumiko, Rumiko loves Slayer...

Sanktio - "Ei Toimi Enää" CDEP 2001

Growing up in Socal, I was no stranger to the "beach punk" sound (whether the bands resided in Huntington Beach or Huntington Park, they were fairly communal in emotive chord choices). I've never been a Bad Religion sorta guy, but I've also never been entirely immune to rare songs in the style creeping into my ears and ticklin' muh stapes. It was serendipity when Sami Kettunen asked me to do artwork for a Finnish group inspired by that scene (Finns really do surf by the way). They just needed a cover, and would handle the rest of the layout themselves...which I shouldn't have let them do, though I can't talk too much shit as...just...look...at those...football extremities. I think I was going for a Pushead rag doll thing, and instead had a mindfart of apocalyptic proportions. But anyway, I get my artist's copy, throw it on out of morbid curiosity, and LOVED it! It was melodic...of course...clean cut...of course...primed for a Vans sponsorship...of course...but it just grabbed me, the posi vibe, the blistering soul in the vocals, the not-too-irritatingly-Epitaph-production, it held my fullest attention because it was fucking BEAUTIFUL! It still is, so if anyone's down for a reissue, I'm down to dramatically overhaul the visuals! Fave Trax: "Pilvenpiirtäjä" and "Sä Et Tuu".

"Spectrum" #1 1998 & "Even When It Makes No Sense" Broken Flag Pamphlet 1985

EYE NOISE! Broken Flag's short anthology of manifestos looks like it was cloned on a photocopier from the early 1970s. The hieroglyphs that haven't completely eroded away will show you singular paragraphs on wokeness, Paul Lemos' dissatisfaction with a stagnating cassette culture (W-O-W, even back then!), and a semi-thesis inspired by the misadventures of Syd Barrett. None of it seems too pretentious, with the overall vibe of the contributors coming off as more restless than self-righteous.

Spectrum was a wholly traditional music zine with a "desktop publishing" layout (it's as '90s as the interviewees, e s p e c i a l l y  t h e  f o r m a t t i n g  e r r o r s). Knowledgable reviews and lengthy dialogs with Malignant Records, Megaptera, MZ.412, The Protagonist, Sanctum, and Hazard. Again, thankfully, there's no discernible elitism from the editor or his subjects (this scene has always been rife with "people" who think they're genetically superior for liking glorified horror movie soundtracks), with good ol' fashioned enthusiasm taking precedent over being an egotistical bore.

Fight illiteracy and record-nazis...

Gore Lunatic #1-4, Butcher #1, Spikehead #4

A fanzine inferno from 90s' dawn: half-ass-to-full-ass exposés and interviews with Ulcerous Phlegm, Broken Hope, Exulceration, Edge of Sanity, Convulse, Hiatus, Exit 13, Agathocles, Plutocracy, Disembowelment, Splatterreah, Demisor, Transgressor, Tumor, Rottrevore, Afflicted, Dead Infection, Meat Shits, Sigh, Sexorcist, Acheron, Noiseslaughter, Acoustic Grinder, Extreme Smoke 57, Satanic Death, Filthy Charity, Dissection, Necrophiliacs, W.B.I., Rot, Dolemite And The Jive Five, Atrofia Cerebral, Massacre, Smegma, Nuclear Death, The Earwigs, Gut, Exterminio Brutal, Anal Massaker, Dicktator, Impetigo, Traci Lords Loves Noise, Poserslaughter Records, Regurgitate, Entrails Massacre, Pile Of Eggs, Jangle, N.P.H., Noise Waste, Retaliation, Samael, The Exploited, Kazjurol, Deathrow, Cadaver, Mayhem, Treblinka, Mortem, Verbal Assault, Bolt Thrower, Skeletal Earth, Vicious Circle, Xysma, Schizo, Concrete Sox, Wench, Grave, Carnage, No Comment, Rotting Christ, Death, Master, Autopsy, Atrocity, Dismember, Sabbat, Tiamat, Beherit, Unleashed, Baphomet, Phantasm, Carcass, Cathedral, Paradise Lost, Asphyx, Old Funeral, Derketa, Vital Remains, Napalm Death, Sadistic Intent, Seraphic Decay Records, Sonic Violence, H.P. Lovecraft, and...that's not even half the bands! IMAGINE WHEN YOU SEE THE REVIEWS AND THE ADS!!!

Hi-Res Scan Bundle...
http://www.mediafire.com/file/viq1pxjk6d816xa/Gorey%20Butchead.zip

"99 Short Songs Vol.1+2" '77-'87 & "100% Euro-Punk" '77-'80

Sometime in the late 90s, L.A.'s immortal Thrashead got his shithooks on a studio grade outboard mastering machine (a pre-internet CDR burner the size of an Eastern Bloc VCR) and fiendishly took to proto-ripping prolific chunks of his KBD collection (not the bootleg series!!!), mailing off the resulting burns as surprise gifts for the homies. These discs are a mere fraction of those efforts: 243 tracks of eBaycore, 198 of them dedicated to how quickly one can puke out their angst (9 to 59 seconds). There's no way in collector-hell I'm typing up all the bands, so scope out the scans for yourself...and you'll be blowing a hole out your shorts from catastrophically crapping them so hard......

  
 

Confuse - FLAC For "Indignation" (10 Track Version) '84, Live 2-24-85 / 12-28-84 / "Doushisha" '85 / 11-23-86

Noisecore's Mitochondrial Eve! Confuse actually shares a conjoined buttcheek with Swankys on the Disorder-thrash throne, but had greater longevity in the style by keeping it grinding psychosis up until their breakup in 1989 (Swankys abruptly switched to garage rock halfway through their own career). Most of the various live shows I acquired from Japanese traders in the late 90s, mainly Hironobu Nakao (where are ya mate?), while The FLAC of Indignation's alternate version went like this: "Passy" > pathological liar > me > Damaging Noise. I'd tape traded, CDR traded, boot-taped, re-eq'd as a fake lathe (to troll), and uploaded this stuff a quadrillion times before, and it's been exponentially fractalized ever since, so none of it should be "rare" anymore..."but just in case" 😘 ...

http://www.mediafire.com/file/pd5uri46gcdid6w/Confuse%20-%2010%20Trk%20%26%20Live.zip

Jughead "The Punk" '83, "How To Look Punk" Pamphlet By Marliz '77, Garry Bushell's "Punk's Not Dead" '80/'81

Comedy platinum here gang! Let's begin with the infamous "punk" story that opens issue 327 of Jughead. Considering it's age, I'm totally shocked that photocopies never found their way onto records, flyers, or fanzines since the comic's initial publication (outside of scans of single panels on various sequential art blogs). The tale is hysterically absurd of course, normies wrote and drew the damn thing (though the artist, Stan Goldberg, was a legit legend in the industry), but it makes for phenomenal giggles when weighed against punk's actual cultural norms.

The "How To Look Punk" pamphlet wasn't an intentional joke either, as it was seriously compiled by a fashion and cosmetics expert who specialized in trend forecasting for Max Factor, Revlon, and Vidal Sassoon. Aesthetically, the tips were surprisingly on the mark, though the text will have you cringing so hard you'll fold in half ("Everything goes if you want to look wild, Star Wars is as good a guide as any").

Garry Bushell's single (?) issue of "Punk's Not Dead" has aged amazingly well with it's coverage of the 2nd wave of punk and embryonic beginnings of hardcore. The opening editorial alone is applause-worthy for it's call to unity and calling out of already fractured subscenes obsessed with fashion over passion. There's plenty of professionally photographed pin-ups and snotty leers, but the contents as a whole are more exploratory than sensationalistic. Bushell wasn't trying to cater to any demographics here, he just loved all things punk, believed in it's cathartic power both as a movement and music genre, and put in a herculean amount of effort in legitimizing it's existence.

Before the link, here's a few factoids on Goldberg and Bushell, further info on poor Marliz / Mary Elizabeth Norton is as impossible to find as the unrl Neos LP (!!!!!!!!!!!!) !

Stan Goldberg (May 5, 1932 - Aug 31, 2014) was an American comic book artist, best known for his work with Archie Comics and as a Marvel Comics colorist who in the 1960s helped design the original color schemes for Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and other major characters. Goldberg stopped freelancing for Marvel in 1969. Shortly afterward he began a decades-long association with Archie Comics, drawing the misadventures of Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead, and the rest of the Riverdale High teens. Goldberg's work appeared across the line, including the flagship series Archie (for which he had been the primary artist from at least the mid-1990s through mid-2006). He ended his nearly 40 year relationship for Archie with two three-part, alternate-future stories in Archie #600-605 (Oct 2009 - Mar 2010) titled "Archie Marries Veronica" and "Archie Marries Betty".

Garry Bushell is an English newspaper columnist, rock music journalist, television presenter, author and political activist. He also sings in the Oi! band The Gonads. From 1978 to 1985, he wrote for Sounds magazine, covering punk and other street-level music genres, such as 2 Tone, NWOBHM, and the Mod revival. He was at the forefront of covering the Oi! subgenre. In 1981, Bushell wrote the book "Dance Craze, The 2-Tone Story", and in 1984 he wrote the Iron Maiden biography "Running Free". While managing the Cockney Rejects, he coined the term Oi! after another disparaging journalist noted that the Rejects’ singer Stinky Turner seemed to shout little else between songs. "And lo, a movement was born..."


   

Unknown Death (Pre Terrorizer) - 1987 Demo (Wavs)

Black minded death-thrash from Oscar and Jesse. Surprisingly similar in style to Cogumelo's classic roster, the boomboxed devil worship here is purely metallic (if structurally frantic), bearing absolutely no resemblance to the later bands that deified them. The historicity of this tape is finite, but it's an honestly fun ride, and I say that with none of the usual sycophancy imposed upon a vast majority of grindcore's pioneers. These are the raw, unprocessed wavs that Nausea's O.G. bassist Cosmo shared, ripped straight from his own tape (and authorized for upload by Oscar). What can I say, people take one look at my boyish face and Hollywood smile, and they want to wrap my ears in the fuzziest blankets imaginable...

Gore Gazette & The Splatter Times 1980-1987

Donald Farmer and Rick Sullivan were grindhouse zinesters who...partially fueled by an unfriendly rivalry...achieved respectable footnote status in the annals of horror and sleaze fandom. I never got ahold of their rags back then, only becoming aware of their existence through articles in either Deep Red (who vicariously introduced me to Repulsion in a printed letter from Johnathan Canady) or Gore Zone. The Great Equalizer that is the internet rectified that of course, so here we are! This upload is highly abbreviated, I've only ever been able to find the same 10 scans out of 110 issues of Gore Gazette, while The Splatter Times is mostly complete, minus issue 6. The dysphemistic Sullivan died in 2017, while Farmer has steadily built a sizable oeuvre of his own z-trash blasphemies since 1987 (and counting!).


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