This Is A Record I Want. Episode I: Sete Star Sept – Gero Me
Sete Star Sept – Gero Me
http://www.discogs.com/Sete-Star-Sept-Gero-Me/release/3502525
I have a huge love for 7S7. And especially Gero Me. But I never got around to buy it. I know I’m going to at some point, but for now, I have to make do with the digital version. Bus as I’m deeply addicted to it, I thought I’d make a new sub-blog about records I’d like to own.
This is an intense motherfucker of a record. Short spastic noisy songs, all in Sete Star Sept’s trademark bass/drum/vocal-assault style. It was the first thing I ever heard from them, and that listen spawned an expensive habit of collecting their records, no easy task! Discogs currently have 70(!) releases listed, and I have 13 of these… I have had a little communication with the band about a possible split with my own band, but they politely declined. I haven’t given up hope yet though. They have been a huge revitalizing factor in the shaping of the sound of my band, especially the songs on Gero Me and Visceral Tavern (discussed elsewhere on this blog).
Not much more to say, but
This is a record I want…
Machetazo – Mundo Cripta
Machetazo are one of my favorite bands. Sadly they have just announced their disbanding.
They play classic Carcass-clone goregrind, and do it very well.
I have a soft spot for Carcass-clones, General Surgery, Haemorrhage, The County Medical Examiners and Impaled to name some of the best.
http://www.discogs.com/Machetazo-Mundo-Cripta/release/1827038
Sete Star Sept – Visceral Tavern
Such a gruesome scene. And while the zombies eat, Kiyasu and Kae spiller op til dans.
Side A is a lot of short noisegrindy tracks. Side B is… weird.
Good record though.
http://www.discogs.com/Sete-Star-Sept-Visceral-Tavern/release/4645433
Deche-Charge – Disgrace To The Corpse Of Seth
I got this evil slab of noisecore today. Very very entertaining and wild. Just the way I like it.
http://www.discogs.com/Deche-Charge-Disgrace-To-The-Corpse-Of-Seth-Lp/release/5537168
1001 Tracks!!!
Sore Throat – Unhindered By Talent
Three Seconds Long!!! This is the lp that really defined the micro-song as a valid and beautiful genre for me. The amount of noisy drunken fun on display here is overwhelming.
“Out of tunes guitars, with broken strings, unintelligable growls, and smashed drum sticks. Unhindered by talent, but we don’t give a fuck, if you don’t fucking like it, then tough fucking luck.”
There is so much spite and venom in the lyrics, I remember being a crusty peacepunk being shocked at the anger towards D.R.I. and other bands. I just wanted everybody to be happy…
The Molecatcher and A Bow To Capital makes for well deserved breathers in all the great feedbacky racket. Both unusual but great. I still need to know more about Pete Pax.
http://www.discogs.com/Sore-Throat-Unhindered-By-Talent/release/823999
Positive drinking attitude
The Endless Blockade/Wadge – Split 7″ 2010
This is a record I have wanted to get for a considerable amount of time. Being a big fan of both bands, I nearly soiled myself when I learned that they had made a slit 7″.
The Endless Blockade gives us a groovy set of songs, including the S.O.B. inspired “traditional” The Endless Blockade”. Good semi-experimental stuff.
Wadge is as you might know merchants of the rare Tiki-Grind. And here are three great songs of said kind. I love Wadge heap much, and am not disappointed.
My copy is a wonderful piss-yellow. Gurgle!
Go go Tiki! Grindcore Pa’ina!!
http://www.discogs.com/Endless-Blockade-Wadge-The-Endless-Blockade-Wadge/master/544478
Cloud Rat – Moksha lp 2013
Cloud Rat – Moksha LP 2013
http://www.discogs.com/Cloud-Rat-Moksha/master/575014
Cloud Rat is one of my favorite alt-grind bands. The combination of thinking outside the standard grindcore formula, while retaining ferocity and anger pleases me a lot.
This lp was released last year, and I consider it to be the strongest work of Cloud Rat yet. The comparison to Fuck The Facts is tempting, but I consider Cloud Rat to be superior to FTF. Mainly due to the punkier vibe to Cloud Rat (I’m not very fond of getting too much metal in my grindcore…).
This lp here is a delightful package, a beautiful cover, and overall a nice record to look at and touch. Listeningwise it rules all the way through. The Neil Young cover song (Needle and the Damage Done) kick my viking arse to Valhalla and back.
Get it!
http://haloofflies.bandcamp.com/album/moksha
http://7degreesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/7dr016-cloudrat-moksha-lp
Napalm Death – Utopia Banished
When this lp came out in June 1992, I had just moved to Copenhagen. I had been quite disappointed by Harmony Corruption, and was wary of the thought of a Napalm Death without Mick Harris.
“The world keeps turning – We overdose on overdrive.”
(The World Keeps Turning)
But I wasn’t dissapointed.
Not at all. In fact this was and is one of the best Napalm Death albums ever. Mind you, I still worship every second of grind made by the Steer/Dorrian/Harris-lineups, but since that gang went to its grave, this new revitalized band is a bloody good substitute. Danny Herrera is one of my all time favourite drummers, and Barney has here honed his trademark vitriolic lyrics and singing to something Unique.
“We overdose on overdrive, we spin out of control.”
(The World Keeps Turning)
A funny thing about Utopia Banished, is how much influence there is from the From Enslavement To Obliteration lp.
It is as if Harmony Corruption had never existed. And I consider it a tragedy for grindcore in general and me personally (yeas yeah) that they didn’t follow the path laid out for them here, but instead chose that boring industrial route they blundered around in for the next 8 years. The of course came Enemy Of The Music Business and Napalm Death were back with a vengeance.
Go have a beer and a listen!
Either this original lp version: http://www.discogs.com/Napalm-Death-Utopia-Banished/release/739080
Or this great remastered cd: http://www.discogs.com/Napalm-Death-Utopia-Banished/release/3703196
Oh and let’s not forget this industrial schlager:
Contemptuous
Sadness, despair.
Sometimes the things I cherish,
Sometimes that’s all I’ve got,
And that’s enough.
Bitterness, anger.
Man made torture,
Not to be shared.
Various – Violent Noise Party: International Blast Fighter Compilation
Various – Violent Noise Party: International Blast Fighter Compilation 7″
This is an absolute must have for the picky punk and grindfreak. Insect Warfare, Netjajev SS, In Disgust and plenty of other good, fast and heavy bands all in the space of a 7″ record.
Insect Warfare treat us with a brutal cover of the classic Celtic Frost Into the Crypts of Rays, and Rainbow of Death gives us one of the more bizarre sampled intros.
I have nothing but praise for this compilation, who needs 80 minutes, when 15 will do?
Godstomper/Gorgonized Dorks – Split 10″
This 10″ split is one of the best split ep’s I know of. The music from both bands is killer and it is sure to satisfy the cravings of even the most demanding noisepunk.
As a bonus the pink 10″ vinyl looks like something out of Candy Crush.
More info: http://www.discogs.com/Gorgonized-Dorks-Godstomper-Gorgonized-Dorks-Godstomper/release/3688363
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