DEAD- Musical Abortions Demo (Fuck Music Publishing, USA, 1986)
I bought this tape in some record store with a air conditioner of the size of a jumbo jet somewhere in Florida in 1986, because of the band name and the cover. When I took it back to the flat of Kam...
View ArticleSLEDGEHAMMER- Blood on their Hands LP (Illuminated, UK, 1983)
Do you wanna know how much I love you guys (and the gal)? When I was at a record fair recently and saw a sealed Mauseoleum Records version copy of the first LP of the phenomenal SLEDGEHAMMER, I bought...
View ArticleANTI-CIMEX- s/t 12″EP (Distraught / Skysaw Records, UK, 1986)
Who wouldn’t remember how controversially this slab was received. I got the advance tape only a few days after the final mixing of what would be the last ANTI-CIMEX record was done. The tape also...
View ArticleGASTUNK- To Fans 7″EP (Sex69, Japan, 1986)
What a bizarre blend of Metal, Hardrock (KISS!), Folk and Punk. GASTUNK from Japan enjoy some sort of cult status and I can really understand why. There simply ain’t no band with a similar sound...
View ArticlePOISON IDEA- Plastic Bomb, b/w We got the Beat Advance Cassingle...
So this was the first version of what was re-released twice later on. First off as a bootleg 7″, then as part of a double 7″ set and also on the b-side of the band’s SubPop 7″. Not much left to say as...
View ArticleWEHRMACHT- Thrash Metal Tape (SM Tapes, Switzerland, 1986)
Prior to the «Beermacht» demo, Portland’s WEHRMACHT released this cassette through the swiss SM-cassette label of Röbi Zollinger (founder of the legendary «Speed Airplay» radio show). To my...
View ArticleSACRED BLADE- »The Alien« Live Footage from 1983
This is amazing! I always loved SACRED BLADE and especially the band’s highly energetic and extremely original song “The Alien” on the epochal »Metal Massacre IV« compilation album. There is...
View ArticlePUSRAD- Smart Trams 7″ EP (Just4Fun, USA, 2012)
Perfection. Sort, sharp, to the point. Clever, full of energy, sounding like the best and yet like no one else. I’m sorry, but there’s nothing more that I could say. This yellow piece of plastic has so...
View ArticleGHOST- Secular Haze Live in Linköping, Sweden, December 2012
Papa Emeritus & his friars in their 2nd incarnation. Still – the most amazing band of our time! The rank sweetness, the maelstrom, the bottomless pit, that opens beneath your feet. May they take on...
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