Crust, Metal, Blastbeats And Gabber Hardcore

After all that grind from last post, your ears are probably still ringing with some of the best music on earth. To counterbalance, I am gonna post a bunch of stuff that has blastbeats that is technical, and metal, and well played, and all that shit. I am also gonna post some fast, fast, hard electronic music that only people who use/used drugs are going to appreciate fully. The rest of you might like it, but there are a bunch of things you simply will not hear if you have spent most of your life sober.

Also, first and foremost, I would like to post some crust. Masskontrol I have talked of before, their Recycle Or Die flexi is up on this blog for download, good luck finding it. They are everything I love about crust, fast, fucked up, political, but very antisocial and anti-human, and every once in a while contain blastbeats, but more often, just those fastcore tempo, not quiet blastbeats, which I also love. Those, if they get fast enough, are true blue blastbeats. This band is a lot like Disrupt, who may well be the best crust band on earth. But these guys have a less distinctely American, particularly Oregon, feel to them, they are more like what Swedish expats who spent 20 years in an American ghetto would write, if they were imprisioned for blowing people up. It's that good.

MASSKONTROL- WARPATH

MASSKONTROL/BATTLE OF DISARM

MASSKONTROL- WILL YOU EVER LEARN?

Another thing that I love is when Japanese bands pretend to be Finnish, or Swedish bands. Kriegshög, who do not actually sound like Krigshot, which is weird, have a great name, great sound, and that one riff in that song "Zouo" is like the bets crust riff ever. It comes back on like evry second song of theirs, and is on every album. This is d-beat all the way, and it sounds great. Raw, but audible, noisy and screechy, but with discernible riffage, prime band for covering. Also, they have great fucking art work.

KRIEGSHÖG/DOG SOLDIER

KRIEGSHÖG/DEATHTRIBE

KRIEGSHÖG- HARDCORE HELL EP

KRIEGSHÖG- DEMO 2007

KRIEGSHÖG- COVERS TAPE

KRIEGSHÖG- ST LP

Another awesome band, this time from Germany, and employing no blastbeats what so ever, are Recharge. The reason I like them is because they are simply put, the best imitation of Discharge out there. A lot of the times dis-bands do not sound like Discharge at all, they sound like clone bands for sure, but of each other and not of Discharge. Which is fine and dandy, if you ask me. However, this band, they do sound so much like the original its amazing. They have their own "unique" things going on, but lets get real, its d-beat, its typical, it is exactly what you would expect, down to every last syllable and riff played. Just a great example of how to bite well.

RECHARGE- MENSCHEN, HASS, VERNICHTUNG

RECHARGE- HAMBURG 42

RECHARGE- SILENT SCREAMS

RECHARGE/EXTINCT GOVERNMENT

This part of the post is going to be all about the life and times of Mr Helmkamp, who is a metal guy who did such amazing bands as Angelcorpse, Conqueror, Revenge, and a host of other ones. Aside from being a main force in the whole bestial balck/war metal thinggie, and providing the negative ideological basis for the genre itself, he is also a great fucking musician. His music is thick, dense and full of fucking blastbeats. He is a musical genius of our times. I don't know how much of his ideology I am willing to buy, however, it is very war oriented, and smells a little like the extreme right wing, although he could not be said to be a part of that movement. However, most of it has to do with reevaluating the worth of humanity in general, which I am all for, and also of destroying religious folks which I also give the thumbs up for. As for the warlike-ness and the whole thing, I truly believe that that is all shinnanigans, although I saw Revenge live in Brooklyn in like, fuckin, when was that, 2002?? I think it must have been, he seemed pretty fucking serious about whatever it is that he writes songs about. The lyrics don't make much sense to be real with you. At least, not to me, because I am not a part of the 'iron goat command'. I do not have command of the Iron Baphomet. In fact, there is very little I have command over. Thats why I keep cats. Plus, they eat vermin. Can't go wrong with cats.The first band I know of that is his is Conqueror, which is the precursor to Revenge, its the same, except not played as well. I have already posted their split with Black Witchery, and now, here is their demo, its very much like all their other stuff.

CONQUEROR- ANNIHILATE

His best band by far is Angelcorpse. They are technical, and awesome, and also somehow, remaining old school. Possibly one of the fastest death metal bands out there, which is saying a lot. Tons of speed, the guy must be like some sort of machine, really, super on point, super fast, super hard all the time. Making me look bad.Their best one, in my opinion, although they are all excellent, would have to be The Inexorable. Iron, Blood and Blasphemy is a collection of demos and EPs and shit, where they play classic heavy metal and black/thrash songs, and old school shit as well, first demo, that sort of thing, and also, it includes a live as well. It is a little bit less uncompromising and non-stop onslaught like as the rest of their stuff. Their new one, Of Lucifer And Lightning, has gotten a lot of flack, but I think that one is also awesome, but you can defiinitely hear that they all have a million side-projects by this point. Its not as good as some of their other stuff, but its still some of the best death metal out there period.

ANGELCORPSE- THE INEXORABLE

ANGELCORPSE- IRON, BLOOD AND BLASPHEMY

ANGELCORPSE- OF LUCIFER AND LIGHTINING

ANGELCORPSE- EXTERMINATE

ANGELCORPSE- HAMMER OF GODS

ANGELCORPSE- DEATH DRAGONS OF THE APOCALYPSE

The band that he recently did was called Kerasphorus, and its very much like Angelcorpse, except its got this weird-o, mystical, black metalish thing going on with it. Its super good though, you need to listen to it at least twice just to remember the riffs. Fucking really, really good. Dense, intertwining, frothing and bubling cauldron of blasphemy and hate. Pure awesome.

KERASPHORUS- NECRONAUT

KERASPHORUS- CLOVEN HOOVES AT THE HOLOCAUST DAWN

Revenge is like his most relentless band ever. Its got shrieking and shitty sounds and just blastbeats the whole time, and nothing else but, except sometimes there is a guy screaming into a pitch shifter. 2-3 minutes of just blasting and menial riffage, and screaming about hate and death. It is war metal to the fullest. I would hate to play this music live, it must be tiresome. Fucking good to listen to, if you are trying to kill someone though. They have a bunch more, but they are all like this.

REVENGE- VICTORY.INTOLERANCE.MASTERY.

REVENGE- ATTACK.BLOOD.REVENGE.

Another great band who Mr Helmkamp was NOT invovled in,as far as I know, but sounds like he might have been, is Diocletian. Named after the last Roman Emperor to persecute Christians, the band plays war metal with a balckened, mystical edge that wil make you fucking freak out. Relentless in its brutality and non-stop onslaught, the riffs are hardly memorable, but fuck em, its about the sheer trudging, slaughtering power of this band. Also, they are from New Zealand. What the fuck?

DIOCLETIAN- DOOM CULT

Unfortunately, mediafire will not allow me to upload anything over 200 MB. So, I cannot post the awesomeness that is Terorrdrome. Suffice to say, in the world of dance music, Gabber is the equivalent of what Grindcore is in Punk. It is fast, relentless, hardcore as fuck, noisy, and evil. If noisy, evil, fast shit is what you like, then you will like this shit as well. I wanted to upload all of them, but here is a post where you can find them, they are compilation CDs, ten of them, and they are super fucked up.

And to keep the tradition going, Im going to leave you with some classics.

This is Tumor, from Germany, and they are an old school as fuck noise/grind band, playing the genre in the way that I like it to be played. Semi-written, semi-composed, short songs, blastbeats the whole time, super fucking fast and sloppy as well, plenty of improvisation, grimmy but audible sound, distortion to fucking deafness. Got it off of the Damaging Noise blog, so props to Shawn for always keeping shit as real as he keeps it, rant wise and music wise as well. Grimy little piece of shit of an album.

TUMOR- IMPLOSION OF BOWELS

And one more, just for the road. Y'all know I love Regurgitate, this one specific time of theirs, when they absolutely nailed the genre. Nailed it. This is a record smack dab in the middle of that time frame, when Rgte were the best grindcore band on the planet. Well, maybe thats a little bit much, but seriously, they were great. This is their split with Psychotic Noise, and it fucking rules, everything that is good about grind, lo-fi, mysterious sound, plenty of noise, great riffs, blast beats, double times, sick vocals, great primitive riffs, more noise, gore, hatred and a high snare sound.

RGTE/PSYCHOTIC NOISE

Till next time.

13 ALBUMS, A RACE RANT, AND SOME PICTURES. NEAT-O!!!!!

So I have a wide range of albums for you on this post. I have every genre with blast beats included, there is some death metal and death/grind, of course ye olde style grindcore, with that gory influence, some crust, a power violence record, and even some old school noise/HC, better known as noisecore. Pretty much only gore grind, to whom too much of the past posts have been dedicated and black metal, who I will deal with in due time are left off of the roster. However, before I present them, you have to listen to me ramble on about some issues that pis sme off. Its like that drunk guy on the bus who gave you a cigarette, and now is talking to you about his bullshit ideas all the way home. Lets begin.

The idea used today by nations to justify themselves and to create a national mythos is one that was constructed by a select few people on the turn of the century. It was heavily influenced by what had happened in the Americas, and was constructed to justify the First and Second World Wars. This new idea of nationhood and of national purity was made so that, specifically Eatsern, Southern and Central Europe, which have always, and I mean ALWAYS been multi-ethnic and multi-cultural king or fiefdoms, would have to be smashed, re-regulated and bent over backwards to the status quo residing in the west, in France, England and the Netherlands specifically. This was done extremely well, and after this idea of nationhood, destructive from its very begginings, and a piece of crap ideologically speaking, has served its uses to its creators, Western European leaders, it is still lives on today, and people have internalized it as God given truth. The stupidity of people is indeed baffling. And all of you who are on the left ro right of any issue, are just buying in to the same idiotic, preconceived deception, that was made depending on where people sat in the British House of Commons.
We need to abandon this idea of borders containing an ethnicity. It has never worked in this part of the world. The Scythian empire, pictured above, is a mobile empire based not on genetics or borders, or "country" of origin, but based on language, shared cultural values, and whether or not you were accepted into the tribe. That is what nationality is. The modern problems of Americans resulting from "race" are just as bogus as the territorial disputes in the Balkans, the war between Greece and Turkey, the civil war in Macedonia, or indeed any conflict in those areas int he 20th century, barring a few exceptions. These places have enough food to feed more than just their own populations, enough land that there need not be wars of conquest, and enough history of people getting along, that to dwell on these recent atrocities and blame each other for them is beyond idiotic. I think we should all occupy all the land, and understand ourselves in terms of mobile empires. It is not a solution for world peace, but it is one that makes sense.

Now for the grrrrrrrrrrind. Ima get the death metalish stuff out of the way first, cuz that is what I believe the least of our readers like.
This band, Orchidectomy. What can I say? This stuff is totally inhuman, it sounds like its being played by aliens, or monsters or some shit. The riffs are very hard to sink your teeth into, technical, but strangely timed, not wankerish, just weird and spastic, insanely fast at times, really chugga-chug at other times. I put their album "A Prelates Attrition" and their promo stuff in one folder. By the way this band is probbaly the most guttural shit out there today, along with Copremesis, Wormed and Pustulated. Super fuckin inhuman vocals.
ALIENS MONSTERS ON A CRACK INDUCED KILLING SPREE.
Next up is the godly Malignancy. Weirdest band out there, besides Portal. Despite the tough, death metallish gimmick and the fact that they are giant metal dudes, this is a nerd band. The songs are about gross stuff, medical anomalies, psychological tension and maladjustment in general. Some of the songs are about killing people. Its a death metal band, after all. One of the innovators of death/grind, a genre I am not that keen on. But this stuff, and a few others make it worth my while.
NERDY DEATH/GRIND.

Next up is Necrovore's demo from the legendary 80s Texas scene. It is their only demo. It sounds so harsh, that many of you Disclose and Death Dust Extractor fans will shed a tear of joy, and the old school death metal genre will be salvaged, even for your type. It sounds like nothing else, I totally love this demo, although it is 4 tracks, and really friggin hard to get through.

EASY LISTENING.

This next one is also really fucking psycho. Masturbation (gotta love that name) is from Colombia and they play, like, i dunno, industrial death metal? Also frighteningly guttural, and the music is almost noise core, all you can hear is the hyper blast, it all sounds so tinny and distorted and fucked up, its a real mind fuck of an album, some mediocre riffs from time to time, but mostly just blasting and you cannot hear the guitar at all. Perfect for the nightly prayers of the blast beat worshipper. Smoke a fatty and you will pass out to this.

INDUSTRIAL MASTURBATORY WEIRDO GRIND.

This next one cannot be fucked with. Dead Congregation rule, and this is their full length. Old school, cryptic death metal, with new school death metal drumming (courtesy of the Inveracity drummer), but almost like a death/doom album with blast beats. These guys probably dont smoke weed, they just dont sound like the type at all. Its apocalyptic, heavy, doomish, but gets frighteningly fast at times, it is pure fucking evil. Just a great album, set new standards for death metal, I am extremely pleased that I bought this for only 10 bucks form NWN! productions, although I got mine on CD. I am sure this sounds absolutely killer on vinyl, I will have to pick up a second hand copy of it from somewhere.
CRUSHING YOUR HEAD, THEY'RE CRUSHING YOUR HEAD.


That is all the metal I have got. The next stuff is Dahmer, from Canada, gore influenced old school grind with some d-beats, tons of mid-tempo blast beats, awesome riffage, just a great band in any respect, awesome pig squeal guturals, dual vocal action with awesome shouts as the second voice. Really catchy riffs, although all the songs are very similar. They are good, though, I like em tons, and I want to present some of their more obscure stuff, since everybody knows like 2-3 albums or splits from this band, and they were much more prolific than that. They also had a bunch of lo-fi recordings, and these are the ones I wanna talk about.
First up, their 3 way split tape with Diarhée Mentále, also from Canada, and Carcass Grinder, for whom my love has already been professed. If not, they are one of the greatest grindcore bands out there. Pretty much it. DM sounds similar to Dahmer, but sillier and crustier, in some ways. They have cookie monster vocals all the livelong day. I think they might have shared some members. Anyway, tape is fairly lo-fi, Dahmer side still sounds good, though.
COOOOOOOOOKIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
Next one is their demo, Dahmerized, which is like 3 demos in reality, one of them sounds good, one of them sounds aight, and one of them sounds super crappy. This is classic Dahmer stuff. Not much more to say, great tape from a great band.
TAPE IS THE FORMAT FOR GRIND.
Just recently a post was made on Cephalochromoscope about Parade Of The Lifeless, being their full length. Its good, but not as weird and noisy as their split with Dahmer. I guess Dahmer just brings the best out of everyone. POTL is like a noise band, kinda artsy, kinda grindy, sorta metalled out, really really weird stuff. And Dahmer, they play real pro-like on this one, one of their faster recordings, too.
NOISE GRIND THAT IS NOT NOISE-GRIND.
The other piece of good old school grind is from a band that has been on this blog before, they are Jack from Hungary, and espite their name, they absolutley rule. This is one of their older albums, when they were way more crust influenced, its along the lines of the Step On It split, good stuff. The vocals arent growly yet, they sound kinda snoty and irritating, its excellent stuff, Levi is a great singer, and a hillarious front man. This one is called "Téged Akarnak" which means "They Want You". Its about the media and the military industrial complex. Excellent Hungarian grind.
SNOTTY OLD GRIND.

This next one is Masskontrol's flexi called "Recycle Or Die". It is funny, and pretty much the only Masskontrol recording with a fair amount of blast beats. Nothing over the top, mind you, they are a crust band. This is definitely their fastest recording. I do not have a physical copy of this one, it is very hard to get, as flexis tend to be. I do have their LP, and I will be posting that sometime, but not quiet yet.
ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY FLEXI?
This is MK-Ultra. They are from Illinois, have Charles Bronson's drummer, and just released their discography on a beautiful double LP on Youth Attack! records. The moment they run out of copies I will be posting that as well, unless they tell me not to. I wanna get people to listen to this without paying a million bucks on e-bay for some vinyl. You can get that disco LP right here, by the way. The music is disonant pv/hardcore, with a bit of old, a bit of new, lots of really, really weird things going on. Song structures are very strange for me, unlike other bands. This is their best material in my humble opinion. Do not own a physical copy, but do have it on the discography LP, which is beautiful.
MIND CONTROL.
The last one is the noisecore stuff, really old, really fast, really sloppy, really awesome. Olho Seco and Brigada De Odio are both Brazilian old school noise hardcore bands. Brigada De Odio is basically a grindcore band, but way sloppier and really over the top with the noise schenanigans. Olho Seco are more of a crust/hc band. But also noisy. And fast. Brigada De Odio supply the blastbeats.
OLD BRAZILIAN NOISE.

So Ima leave you to enjoy that. My next post will be shorter, and as I forgot some stuff here, its gonna be like an update post. Keep in touch.