Cyclone

Brutal Destruction, 1985 Inferior To None, 1990 Welcome to Belgium’s finest speed and thrash metal band (ex-aequo with X Creta!). ‘Brutal Destruction’ is a heavy pizza of early Exodus | Whiplash | Metallica and it feels great to abuse it. This is speed metal 1985 zer! But nostalgia aside, I do prefer ‘Inferior To None’. The songs, the playing, the artwork and the production are better, the thrash metal on this album is meaner, with an added touch of Prong. Bang that head! CD rip. Cyclone on MySpace

Reload: GISM, Golers, Satan, Sacrilege, Carrion

A quick reload of some essential zerism: unedited rip (G.I.S.M.), newer reissue (Sacrilege, Satan) and CD rip of previously posted LP rip (Golers, Carrion): G.I.S.M. Detestation (rip of the Beast Art CD), 1984 Golers South Mountain Style (CD) 2nd generation (CD) Satan Court In The Act (+ 3 single/demo tracks), 1983 Sacrilege Within The Prophecy (+ 3 live tracks + 3 demo tracks – 2009 reissue), 1987 Carrion Evil Is There! (+ Evil Is There! demo 1985 + 2 live tracks 1986 – 2005 CD reissue), 1986

Chaosfear

One Step Behind Anger, 2007 Image Of Disorder, 2008 Total thrash metal obliteration! This deadly trio from Brasil ressucitates early Sepultura tactical moves (with a delicate touch of Morbid Angel) to propel their own brand of metal aggression to the highest levels. This is not just another number in the vast cohort of neo thrash bands: Chaosfear are one of the very best of their generation (according to none other than myself, and I agree). The first album is a frontal thrash attack with first grade riffs, excellent song writing and arrangements; then the second album is a complete metal masterpiece, a terminal classic of the Y2K decade! It is insanely heavy, aggressive and memorable – and delivers more groove than anybody else, augmented by excellent melodic lines and almost prog metal structures. They’re not just rehashing, they bang your head and the whole meat harder than most in the happy thrash metal revival. Not since Golers and Watchmaker have I had such strong and lasting erections thanks to a new thrash metal band. THRASH ‘TIL DECHE!!! Yes I am excited. CD rip. Chaosfear website Chaosfear on MySpace

Attitude Adjustment

AA – American Paranoia & More (Dead Serious demo / Bitzcore CD), 1985/1986 AA – Out Of Hand + No More Mr Nice Guy (Bitzcore CD), 1988/1991 AA – True To The Trade 7″, 1995 (complete…) Attitude – The good, the bad and the obnoxious + Kein Schlaff bis Deutschland (mini LPs), 1987 Attitude – Tracks from Rat Music (includes Factory Man 7″), 1988/1990 Attitude – The Good, The Bad, The Obnoxious + Kein Schlaff Bis Deutschland + To Whom It May Concern (We Bite CD), 1987/1990 Nobody told me the previous Attitude Adjustment post was total crap, many ‘Dead Serious’ and ‘American Paranoia’ songs missing. Sacrilege! I apologize and here are AA again, and also the Attitude discs, tant qu’à faire. “Out Of Hand” still stands today as one of the most fierce crossover records – pissed, fast, heavy with two tons of groove, ZER! Of course ‘American Paranoia’ is the classic of classics, amen. I also enjoy very much the excellent mini LPs from the spin-off Attitude (= singer from “American Paranoia” with another line up, including drummer Eric Brecht from DRI/Hirax). Attitude traded the manic speed to the rest of AA for more hard rock and heavy metal and zer the excellent Exodus|Excel crossover. Killer from start to finish!!! CD rip except Rat Music (tagged – merci Stéphane!) True To The Trade: 1. Pay the Price 01:04 2. My Problem Is… 00:44 3. Born To Lose 01:01 4. No Explanations 01:25 5. I Can’t Forgive 01:30 6. First Things First 03:05 7. Prejudice/Skinned Alive 01:05 Amazing CRUCIFIX cover!!! AA on MySpace – they’re back!!! AA on Wikipedia

Bad Brains

Black Dots, 1979 (rel. 1996) Pay To Cum 7″, 1980 Attitude – The ROIR Sessions, 1982 (1989 We Bite reissue) Live At CBGB, 1982 (rel. 2006) Rock For Light, 1983 Rock For Light (dumb 1991 remix), 1983/1991 I Against I, 1986 The Youth Are Getting Restless (Live in Amsterdam), 1987 (rel. 1990) Live, 1988 Quickness, 1989 Spirit Electricity (Live), 1991 Rise, 1993 God Of Love, 1995 Build A Nation, 2007 Bootlegs: Live 1989 – Quickness tour, 1989 (tape rip) Live 1995 – God Of Love tour, 1995 (tape rip) Live on Dutch TV 1989, 1989 (VHS rip) Live At Iguanas 7″, 1989 Live At The Marquee, 1991 (new & better rip than last year’s!) Track 03 (UPDATE) Pay To Cum 1979/1981 12″, ? Related zerness: HR – Tapes ’84-’86 (It’s About Luv + Keep Out Of Reach), 1988 Stealth – Zero To Mach 7, 1998 Never Give In – A Tribute To The Bad Brains, 1999 You saw it coming. After Henry Rollins’ Bad Brains stories, I had to post some Bad Brains records, the best band in the world. Also, this post kicks out the Protector post from the front page, it HAD to be with something with CULT CLASSIC status. BAD BRAINS! I already mentioned the ETERNAL ZER TOP 10 in which Eisenvater, C.C.M., Rose Rose, The Accüsed and Acid Bath hold unmovable seats. Bad Brains is there too, above the previously cited. To me Bad Brains is the combined greatness of Black Sabbath and Motörhead in the hardcore punk rock department, they invented the whole thing, they released the best records and they are gods. That’s it. My favorite albums? Probably “Rock For Light” and “Quickness”, but actually everything up to and including the masterpiece “Rise”. “Rise” is to Bad Brains what “Curse” is to the Accüsed, an amazing comeback with another singer that does as well as the original. Saw them 3 times on the Rise tour with Israel on vocals and it was as mesmerizing as the 3 shows we attended on the 1989 Quickness tour (when I proposed to my wife! Zer! Fucking flabbergasting Zürich show! NOSTALGIAAAAAAAAAAA!). Notes: – I tagged the 1991 reissue of “Rock For Light” as “the dumb remix” because the songs order changed, there is way to much reverb on the vocals to my liking and I always had the feeling some parts had been accelerated. Listen and compare. – the tribute CD posted here is pretty good, however the best Bad Brains covers I heard are not on this disc. Check out the incredible rendition of “We Will Not” by crossover kings Blunt Force Trauma. Other great covers by Sepultura, Cro-Mags, Living Colour, Kazjurol and a billion others. Don’t forget the German cover versions by Kein Hass Da (ex Militant Mothers, the German Bad Brains). You might also be interested in the excellent Japanese Bad Brains: Fearless Vampire Killers. Mega zer. And don’t use this Bad Brains orgy as an excuse to smoke a joint because drugs are bad, long live the war on drugs! CD rip except vinyl rip of Pay To Cum 7″ (tagged) Pay To Cum 12″ (tagged) Live At Iguanas 7″: A1 Banned In D.C. A2 At The Movies B Pay To Cum Live At The Marquee: Black Dots: Don’t Need It At The Atlantis Pay To Cum Supertouch / Shitfit Regulator You’re A Migraine Don’t Bother Me Banned In D.C Why’d You Have To Go? The Man Won’t Annoy Ya Redbone In The City Black Dots How Low Can A Punk Get? Just Another Damn Song Attitude Send You No Flower + tapes & VHS rips where indicated and I was too lazy to tag, anyway you know all the songs. Each song is a classic. Know your classics. Bad Brains on Wikipedia

Rollins Band

Do It, 1988 track 7 (UPDATE) Life Time, 1988 Hard Volume, 1989 Kick Out The Jam Turned On (Live in Austria), 1990 The End Of Silence, 1991 Heny Rollins & the Hard-Ons – Let There Be Rock, 1991 Being Obscene (Live @ St Andrews Hall, Detroit, 17/04/92), 1992 Electro Convulsive Therapy (Live at City Garden, Trenton, New Jersey on August 22, 1992), 1993 Weight, 1994 Come In And Burn, 1997 Insert Band Here (Live in Australia 1990), 1999 Get Some Go Again, 2000 Nice, 2001 Yesterday was the day. Henry Garfield was on stage in Montreal for an almost 3 hours long speech – without a second of pause nor a single glass of water! It was as interesting as hilarious, the man is a fantastic speaker and adresses a variety of subjects that range from Sarah Palin to the Bad Brains. You really should go listen to Henry Rollins if his current “Frequent Flyer” tour stops in your area, it’s well worth an entire evening. I’m not a fan of Black Flag so I’ll post here some Rollins Band recordings. This music – especially the ultra intense 87/93 era – is heavier than metal. It is HARD rock!!! This stuff ripssssss your screaming skeleton!!! Big ass twisted heavy and evil shit as in Bl’ast! wrestling the Stooges and MC5 at a doom show. I can’t say which one I like the most from the 5 or 6 first records, probably “The End Of Silence”, “Lifetime” and all the live records. And the Hard-Ons mcd is a must too. Fucking fuck!!! CD rip except vinyl rip of Hard Volume: Hard What Have I Got I Feel Like This Planet Joe Love Song Turned Inside Out Down And Away Turned On: Lonely 4:59 Do It 2:55 What Have I Got 5:42 Tearing 5:08 Out There 11:37 You Didn’t Need 5:26 Hard 4:20 Followed Around 2:46 Mask / Down And Away 7:44 Turned Inside Out 6:57 The Dietmar Song 2:28 Black And White 3:31 What Do You Do 6:29 Crazy Lover 4:44 S.O.A. things up sooner or later. Zer.

Teeth Of Lions Rule The Divine

Rampton, 2002 Featuring members of Khanate | Sunn | Iron Monkey | Cathedral, here is another one-shot EXTRA BIG ASS OVERKILL DOOM album. Be ready for 3 songs (with a Killdozer cover) | 54 minutes of the creepiest, darkest and heaviest doom destruction with monumental diplodocus groove that has ever been released – since Corrupted. CD rip. Buy this ULTIMATE MONSTER!

Khanate

Khanate, 2001 no joy (if you get a corrupted rar of the 1st album) live in Montreal, 7/7/2002 live on WNYU, 2002 Things Viral (CD), 2003 Things Viral (Double LP), 2003 Dead/No Joy (Remix) 12″, 2003 Capture and Release, 2005 Clean Hands Go Foul, 2009 Track by track… (UDPATE) Post-Bethlehem gloom and hypra doom! Khanate redistribute the Melvins “Lysol” formula for the end of the world with the terminal armaggeddon death of Burning Witch and you just lie there in awe, reduced to an inapt assembly of meat parts. The Khanate live experience (Québec 2002!) was the most intense thing you can imagine and replicates the hammer of Brutal Truth at the opposite end of the speed spectrum. I don’t think I ever experienced anything as heavy and disgustingly slow as Khanate. Old School Trivial Pursuit hint: Khanate feature ex Old Lady Drivers members. Ah, Porno Coma opened the Montreal show (that also featured Warhorse), that was our last live appearance, zer! DOOM TIL DEATH! CD rip and also vinyl rip of Dead 12″: Dead No Joy (Remix) Things Viral: Commuted Fields Too Close Enough To Touch Commuted (Coda) compare to Things Viral CD: Commuted Fields Dead Too Close Enough To Touch Buy Khanate discs!

Bethlehem

Dark Metal, 1994 Dictius Te Necare, 1996 Dictius Te Necare CD2, 1996 (remixes & mutilated Iron Maiden cover in German doom fashion!!) Sardonischer Untergang im Zeichen Irreligiöser Darbietung, 1998 Reflektionen auf’s Sterben, 1998 Profane Fetmilch Lenzt Elf Krank, 1999 Schatten aus der Alexander Welt CD1 – das Grauen, 2001 Schatten aus der Alexander Welt CD2 – der Dorsch, 2001 Mein Weg, 2004 Schatten aus der… Bethlehem – Tribute to Dictius Te Necare, 2009 ACH! More German sonic genius! Let us all move to Germany to be closer to the source of all this fleischkraft. Bethlehem is one of my über favorite bands ever (well, since 94 to be accurate). Madness of blood and tar doom with depressive death! Any review or description attempt is doomed to fail, so I’ll just stop now. It is hard to find anything sicker than Bethlehem, even their electronic parts reek of neuron salad putrefaction (cf “Schatten” double CD, arghhhhhhh!). The last one “Mein Weg” even has some Rammstein echoes and a Claude François cover. It is all greater than great. The tribute album is a real big ass tribute: amazing covers, some identical to the originals, some completely punk and raw, mandatory for the Bethlehem fan! Fuck yeah! Tod und Wahnsinn! À POIL!!! CD rip. Bethlehem on MySpace Buy Bethlehem discs and hang yourself! You Must Play With Yourself!

Dead Congregation

Purifying Consecrated Ground, 2005 Graves of the Archangels, 2008 Reading this crazy piece of news : http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/03/now_thats_what_atheists_look_l.php made me listen to some evil death metal, i.e. Dead Congregation from Greece. Excellent Morbid Angel revival!!! They perfectly master what they do, it’s fast, tight, dark and a non-stop headbanger. Top class satanicalism!!!! 666 ZER!!! CD rip. Dead Congregation on MySpace Buy Dead Congreation records!!