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METAL MONDAY (pt. 2 cont.)

Assaulter 'Subservience' 7" e.p.

A while ago i posted Assaulter's first demo, which i fuckin love, and now i introduce their first 7", Subservience. Two songs of Blackened Australian Thrash Speed Metal! It's high time ya guys get into this amazing band cause im gonna post their full length soon! And if ya dig Destroyer 666, ya will dig this! Amazing stuff!!

Anyway...that concludes the second METAL MONDAY!! Tune in next week, same bat blog, same bat time!!???? (i know, i know, i'm reaching! HA!)

METAL MONDAY (pt. 2)

DarkThrone 'Soulside Journey'

Returning to Metal Mondays, we continue with DarkThrone's first and only Death Metal LP from way back in 1990. We all know that their first LP was Death Metal and their second, A Blaze In The Northern Sky, was their first Black Metal LP, a style they continue to play, though nowadays they add a little crust and a little Motorhead into the mix.

I'm definitely more into Black Metal than death Metal, in fact, there's really only a dozen or so Death Metal albums that i really like. DarkThrone's Soulside Journey is one of those, and i think its actually one of the best Death Metal albums ever recorded. By a Black Metal band at that!

Anyway, stay tuned for more metal and keep worshiping Satan!!

Say Hello To Mr Fist

Gehennah 'Hell Beer' Demo

It's a rainy Sunday Afternoon and i'm a grumpy little fucker today and Sweden's Gehennah are a fitting remedy. Mr. Violence, Rob Stringburner, Ronnie Ripper and HellCop always get me outta any funk i find myself in with their satanic antics. The 'Brilliant Loud Overlords of Destruction' play the thrashy Black Metal that Venom intended for the world, though a little more filthy and alot more drunk.

This is just a three song demo they put out in 95 in between their two best albums, Hardrocker and Kings of the Sidewalk. You know what your getting with song titles like these-Blood Metal, Brilliant Loud Overlords of Destruction and my fave, Say Hello To Mr. Fist. Oh, yeah!

Irish Metal

Cruachan 'Tuatha Na Gael'

Trust me! You crusties are going to love this band!!!

If anyone knew me around 95/96 they'd know how much i loved this album, i played this nonstop for a good solid year. Hailing from Dublin, Ireland they first recorded a demo in 92/93 then in 95 they recorded this, their first LP. The production isn't industry standard these days, which i like because it gives it sort of a punk feel. Folky Black Metal incorporated with flutes, tin whistles and mandolins that they play at breakneck speeds. In retrospect i don't know if i'd even call this Black Metal though that is what it's 'labeled'. Fuckin labels, right? I might say punky irish black metal, if, ya know, i was forced too. Fuckin blogs, right?

Anyway, i love this album and like i said i listened to it nonstop when it came out. They broke up a few years later only to get back together in 99? They have a new sound thats more mainstream with a female singer and not my favorite. Though on their 2002 album 'Folklore' they do two duets with the immortally great Shane MacGowan, the traditionals 'Ride On' and 'Spancill Hill'. Both amazing songs in their own right and i also think Shane produced that Lp too, could be wrong about that though.

A unique album that i think everyone who reads NO BEAST SO FIERCE would really dig.

Slainte

NBSF

Burning Portland

Burning Leather Demo

Burning Leather out of Portland, Oregon play dirty rock-n-roll, a bit punk, a bit metal, a bit Motorhead and thoroughly kick ass! Check out this resume- Members are in or have been in: Hellshock, Detestation, Defiance, Nux Vomica, Resist, Murder Disco X, Severed Head Of State, Splatterhouse, Fall of The Bastards, Deprived, Poison Idea, Atrocious Madness, and many more. Now if that doesn't sell ya i don't know what would.

One of the things i like about this band is that its different than any of the formentioned bands. It takes a new dirrection and i appreciate that, not many bands (or musicians) have the guts to stray from the safe path. Its not insanely different, just different for the members in said bands. So, high fives to Burning Leather! Hope ya dig this as much as i do.

Top Ten- Ten Things to Listen To While Your Politician Bashing #10

Extreme Noise Terror 'A Holocaust in Your Head'

ENT. Extreme Noise Terror. Two singers for a dual attack. Chainsaw guitars. Whirlwind, Brussel Sprouting, Grinding Holocaust Thunder and Lightning Drums. Punk gone crazy. When this band started they turned punk rock on its head. So fast, so loud, so manic. I think this and their first release are their best and most punk, but im digging this one especially right now as its more raw.

If Your Only In It For The Music (Then S.O.D. Off!!!!)

Alethes

Alethes 'Aletheia'

Alethes from Cascadia (Oregon, Washington) deliver a true masterpiece here with Aletheia. Dark acoustic reminiscent of Ulver's Kveldssanger LP with cello and violins. Dark, somber, beautiful,inspirational that invokes many emotions all define this yet do it little justice.

Music for solitude as it's not exactly party tunes.

Members of Fauna, Waldteufel, L'Acephale.

Reek of Pretty Smelling Things

Carcass 'Reek Of Putrefaction'

Bach.

Mozart.

Beethoven.

Chopin.

Carcass.

Cry of the Sheeps

Paintbox 'Cry of the Sheeps' e.p.

Paintbox from Japan are one of the most unique bands in hardcore. A fusion of Burning Spirits style hardcore/Thrash and Jazz!??? That's not entirely true, but then again. They are fast as hell, the singers voice is definetly one of a kind and they do use horns esp. saxophone. Sounds like a turn off with the horns, huh? But its not, it's amazing and somehow through superb musicianship they manage to pull it off and it's still punk as anything else that comes outta Japan. The guitarist Chelsea was in the legendary DeathSide, so that adds definite merit. Paintbox are one of those bands that are punk, fun and tight if ya follow.

This is Paintbox's three song ep that came after the amazing EarthBall Sports Tournament Lp in 2001.

Chelsea died in August og 2007? (2008?) of a heart attack. One of punks most original guitarists will surely be missed!

Early 90's SoCal Crust Part Two

Confrontation Discography

The late 80's/early 90's was a great time for American Crust Punk. There were a few scattered bands in this city and that, but in the Southern California/L.A./Long Beach area their was a huge scene with quite a few insanely crusty bands. A//Solution, Glycine Max, Apocalypse, Body Count and Confrontation were at the core of this scene. They were all crusty as hell, stinky, drunk and played a bastard child of Peace Punk and StenchCore. Just how i like it.

Confrontation was just brutal fuckin smelly ass crust punk with just a nose, just a hint of grind and a wafting aroma of Death Metal! This is all their stuff minus their demo (I believe).

I will soon post more from this scene as i absolutely love it all and have most of the recorded stuff from then.

Terminal Filth StenchCore

Deviated Instinct 'Terminal Filth StenchCore' Demo

The mighty Deviated Instinct's second demo and first demo with their newer more metal sound ala crusty sound ala stenchcore ala fucking awesome sound that was found on the Welcome to The Orgy e.p.

The songs on here were later put on a compilation of sorts called Re-Opening Old Wounds from Desperate Attempt Records outta Louisville, Kentucky. Like I said in a previous post I like later Deviated Instinct more than i like the Welcome to the Orgy/Rock-n-Roll Conformity era, but that isnt to say that i dont love this era, i do. Fucking Punk as Nails! And changed punk as we know it!