Violent Arrest

01. Violent Arrest – Violent Arrest, 2006/2007 CD Album      Deranged Records, Deranged Records – DY110, DY#110 02. Violent Arrest – Minute Manifestos, 2010 CD Album      Boss Tuneage – BTRC049      includes Criminal Record double 7″ 03. Violent Arrest – Tooth And Nail, 2011 CD Album      Boss Tuneage – BTRC061 04. Violent Arrest – Life Inside The Western Bloc, 2015 Vinyl LP Album Limited Edition      Boss Tuneage, Farewell Records – BTRC12-092, FWR#51 05. Violent Arrest – Life Inside The Western Bloc, 2015 CD Album      Boss Tuneage – BTRC092      includes Distorted View Basic hardcore punk anyone? 5 years later, it was time to have a Violent Arrest update. This is great stuff, rough and virulent as we might expect from former Ripcord members, even if none of these releases match the level of zerritude of Poetic Justice. No musical breakthrough or groundbreaking extremities here, just plain classic British sounding old style thrash that might fill that urgent craving. I cannot leave without regretting the usually generic lyrics. The hardcore scene should definitely go and use satanic zombie lyrics or anything else but these half-assed so-called socially concerned interchangeable hypocritical slogans. Parrot’n’roll! But as long as it makes a lot of noise, I won’t complain too much. Remove brackets and unzip: [zerocracy] !ZER Violent Arrest ZER! PS: After Death reloaded, try again.

Circle Jerks – Group Sex

01. Circle Jerks – Group Sex, 1980 Vinyl LP Album      Frontier Records – FLP 1002 That classic album. The eternal staple of US punk rock. No introduction necessary, short and sweet zeristic abrasion to be consumed from now til forever! Off to the Girlschool show now. Remove brackets and unzip: [group zer] !ZER Circle Jerks ZER! PS: Support free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

Massive doomgasm with my brother Maxime on drums:

Septicemia

01. Septicemia – Sabbath Conventions, 1992 Vinyl LP Mini-Album      Black Power Records – BPR-003 Greek thrashing death! And some doom. It has aged very gracefully and is still very relevant in 2015: still as fast, dark and guttural. Use Convulse and Death, add a layer of Paradise Lost and a touch of Morbid Angel for the speediest parts, or the first Carbonized, then crush, shake and salt a lot, burn for 666 hours, worship Satan and serve hot. Amazing record – too short, but zer til death! Remove brackets and unzip: [septic zer] !ZER Septicemia ZER!

It’s coming!

D.R.I.

01. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles – Dirty Rotten LP, 1983 Vinyl LP Album Reissue      Dirty Rotten Records, R Radical Records – DRR 1983, DRR 1983 02. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles – Dirty Rotten LP, 1983 CD      Rotten Records – 2088-2      Reissue from 1987 – Roadrunner Records / Rotten Records 1983-1984-1988 RR 9555 2 Tracks 14-15-16-26 taken from the “Violent Pacification” EP (1984) Tracks 27-28 are previously unreleased versions. The other tracks are from the “Dirty Rotten” LP (1983) 03. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles – Dealing With It!, 1985 Vinyl LP Album      Death Records, Enigma Records – Death 003, 72069-1 04. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles – Dealing With It!, 1985 CD Album      Reissue from 1991      Rotten Records – ROTC 005 05. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles – Crossover, 1987 Vinyl LP Album      Metal Blade Records – 7 73402-1 06. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles – Crossover, 1987 CD Album      Roadrunner Records – RR 349620 07. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles – 4 Of A Kind, 1988 Vinyl LP Album      Roadrunner Records – RR 9538 1 08. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles – 4 Of A Kind, 1988 CD Album      Metal Blade Records – 3984-17012-2 09. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles – Thrash Zone, 1989 Vinyl LP Album      Roadracer Records – RO 9429 1 10. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles – Thrash Zone, 1989 CD Album      Enigma Records, Metal Blade Records – REST 72437, REST 72437 11. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles – Definition, 1992 Vinyl LP Album      Rotten Records – 2093-1 12. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles – Definition, 1992 CD      Rotten Records – 2093-2      P&C 1992 Rotten Records D.R.I. = Dirty Rotten Imbeciles 13. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles – Live, 1994 CD      Rotten Records – 2096-2 14. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles – Full Speed Ahead, 1995 CD      Rotten Records – 2099-2      P&C 1995 Rotten Records YEAR: 1995 15. Various – We Don’t Need Society D.R.I. Tribute, 2002 CD Compilation      Malt Soda Recordings – MSR6 , Compilation      Contains 37 songs by: Deface, Shut The Fuck Up, Holy Moses, Capitalist Casualties, Sappy Bell, Strap-Ons, The, Very Metal, Jackalopes, The, Victory Flag, Deceased, Candy Striper Death Orgy, Zero Bullshit, L’Amico Di Martucci, Electric Frankenstein, Mirrormen, The, Chopcore, Eight Bucks Experiment, Crosstops, Total Fucking Destruction, Resort To Distort, Mr. Bungle, North Side Kings, Milkman, Fartz, The, Mala Suerte, Reality’s End, Hollywood Hate, Butcher, The, Crash, Mercury Legion, Mc Jesus, Bloodshot Hooligans, Ratos De Porão, Retox, 40 Grit, Bloodred Bacteria 16. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles – Live At CBGB’s 1984, 2005 CD Album      Beer City Records – BCCD118 Dealing with it for 30 years! And counting. From the golden wagon of eternally classic and genre-defining entities [insert your preference here: Bad Brains, Motörhead, Judas Priest, Slayer, Venom…], D.R.I. fueled a lifelong love story: my first aural contact with D.R.I. go back to the What Does Not Hurts Us and P.E.A.C.E./War compilations. Then I miraculously got my own copy of the Dirty Rotten LP (thanks Gisela from West-Berlin!!! Best pen-pal ever!), which floored me – fastest piece of sound I had ever heard (in 1984). Then during my summer vacation in 1985 in SF, Ca, I had an afternoon to kill before the Possessed/Slayer show, so I went to the Record Vault, where I bought (hold your teeth): C.O.C. – Animosity, Raw Power – Screams From The Gutter, SSD – How We Rock, Hallows Eve – Tales Of Terror, Celtic Frost – Morbid Tales, Hirax – Raging Violence, Septic Death – Now That…, Dr Know – Plug-In Jesus, Lääz Rockit – City’s Gonna Burn and… D.R.I. – Dealing With It! Wasn’t that an amazingly superior day? I remember it as vividly as the days my kids were born. D.R.I. UNTIL MY LAST BREATH!!! Remove brackets and unzip: [direct rezer invasion] !ZER Dirty Rotten Imbeciles ZER!

Apostasy

01. Apostasy – Sunset Of The End + Fraud In The Name Of God, 1991 CD Compilation Limited Edition      Proselytism – none      Reissue from 2013 Chilean death thrash at zerring altitude and speed! From the dawn of the 90s emerges this magnificent reissue, in the traditional style of Proselytism 7″ size digipak and perfect artwork. Amazing reissue. Beyond the exceptional packaging, the music goes like this: “It rips, it shreds, it buries the corpse in a deluge of rotten and reeking blood. Highly recommended for fans of anything from Dark Angel to Possessed or even Sepultura’s finest hour(s).” (stolen from the Metal Archives review). I would also link Apostasy`s sound to the German thrash attack of early Kreator and earlier Deathrow. Killer thrashing triplazer! Speaking of death row, our subhuman friends from the Church of State did again today what they do best: kill people. We need more worldwide state apostasy, total rejection and complete dissolution of the state, this evil, cannibalistic superstition. Satan, help us! Remove brackets and unzip: [apostatizer] !ZER Apostasy ZER!

Guillotine

01. Guillotine – Bring Down The Curtain, 1989 CD Album      Alchemy Records – 002CD 02. Guillotine – Bring Down The Curtain, 1989 Vinyl LP Album      Alchemy Records – 002LP From the farm of classics Alchemy Records came this very great crossover thrash album. Fans of Death Angel, Excel and Metallica must not miss it. The word amazing does not seem to  pop up in the conversation, as it would when refering to Clown Alley or Sacriilege BC from the same farm, but the general greatness in song writing and execution makes it a minor classic that will satisfy any thrashosaur. Thrash til zer! Remove brackets and unzip: [alchemyzer] !ZER Guillotine ZER! PS: CD rip link fixed

Krull

01. Krull – Anguish, 1989 Vinyl 7″      New Wave Records – NW 031 Krull were from Paris and played a slightly metalized hardcore that was not as fast as Heimat Los, but maintained this French 80s sound. I can also hear echoes of Unwanted Youth and late Upset Noise, and I am happy. Great EP! No, I do not have the demo tape. Bonjour Vincent! Remove brackets and unzip: [ski nautique] !ZER Krull ZER!

Saturation

01. Saturation – Beware The Living, 2002 Vinyl LP 45 RPM      Not On Label – LM-01 Complete thrashing of the detonation! According to all measurements, this is the best release of the past 15 years from Montreal. Short, fast and pissed, this blast of aggressive hardcore splits a galloping rhino as efficiently as a charge of Dropdead, Failure Face and even Siege. Bang your head and bang it again! Thrash til zer! Remove brackets and unzip: [saturizer] !ZER Saturation ZER! Ami francophone âgé, sache que tu seras grandement avantagé par la relecture des légendaires numéros de Sang & Sueur pour tout savoir sur l’actualité de 1987/1988. C’est tellement pointu que ça parle de Eat Yourself, zer! Nous demandons également la même diffusion de nos autres périodiques préférés tels que Les Faux Fils De Thrash Bourrent, Poulets Basquaise, Possessed By Speed, Valéry Giscard D’Estaing Et Les Poumons, vous savez qui vous êtes. Soyez modernes, réincarnez-vous en pdf !

Crucifix + Proudflesh

01. Crucifix – Dehumanization, 1983 Vinyl LP Album      Corpus Christi – Christ It’s 11 02. Crucifix – Dehumanization, 1983 CD Album Reissue      Southern Records – 18523-2      Reissue from 1994 03. Crucifix, Zyklome A – Live At Brighton Academy / Made In Belgium, 1984 Vinyl LP Unofficial Release      Ei Raha Oo Mun Valuuttaa – none , Compilation      Released in 1994 – Contains 25 songs by: Crucifix, Zyklome A 04. Crucifix – The Rise And Fall, 1996 CD Compilation Unofficial Release      Not On Label – ae0315-0a , Compilation      1-3: ”1984” 7” 1982, 4-8: 7” 1981, 9 : Not So Quiet comp, 10-16: live 1984, 17-19: Proudflesh ”Power Broker” 1988 EP 05. Proudflesh – Proudflesh, 2006 CD Album Stereo      Wired Gnome Records – WG2 The most recent request, and I can’t resist. Dehumanization is easily in the classic hardcore EZTT. As maximumizer as anything from Discharge! So much power, so much soul, infinite supply of zer. It never ages. Then there is the completely totalizer Proudflesh album that surpasses any post-1983 Motörhead. Proudflesh is the most criminally ignored hard rocking punk album of the past three decades, it bangs your head on all axis with flabbergasting prejudice. In the name of ZER, we demand another five Proudflesh albums! Come on! The Cruciflesh discography is as short as completely unavoidable for any true zerist. And if anyone knows the story behind that bizarro bootleg (why a split with Zyklome A??), I’m interested. Peace & anarchy or annihilation! Remove brackets and unzip: [zerflesh] !ZER Crucifix,Zyklome A,Proudflesh ZER!

Skepticism

01. Skepticism – Stormcrowfleet, 1995 CD Album      Red Stream Inc – RSR 0111CD 02. Skepticism – Lead And Aether, 1998 CD Album Limited Edition      Red Stream – RSR-0120 03. Skepticism – The Process Of Farmakon, 2002 CD EP Limited Edition      Red Stream – RSR-0155 04. Skepticism – Farmakon, 2003 CD Album      Red Stream – RSR-0156 05. Skepticism – Alloy, 2008 CD Album      Red Stream – RSR-0199 Death, depression and doom! And more doom. Complete death and doom from the nadir of emptiness into the darkness of nothing! And more doom. Skepticism vomits large buckets of tar over the Eternal Zer Funeral Top 3. With more heavy desperation and slow pain than their predecessors Anathema, Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride – the evident trio of initiators of early doom death – Skepticism darkened for our greatest rejoicing the past two decades, sucking all light through their invincible black hole (unlike the one in Interstellar since this one emits light in pretty colors) and we thank them loudly, forever, and the day after. Thank you Skepticism, and may you release more doom and death for the next twenty hundred years. May the doomgasm begin. ETERNAL DOOM TIL THE MEGAZER! Remove brackets and unzip: [unzersuperstition] !ZER Skepticism ZER!

I have been a big Crisis fan for two decades. So of course, I ordered the album of Karyn Crisis’ new band Gospel Of The Witches, which sounds extremely promising, like an awaken version of Neurosis with good vocals:

But while digging a bit of info about this project, I landed on Karyn Crisis web page, and was struck by the horrifying page where she sells old new-age cretinism. Supernatural attack! Skepticism alarm! She really is a witch (the kind that exorcises your neuron out of your skull). This sounds so banally ridiculous that I must read it: if anyone has a link to a pdf or whatever free source (preferably pirated illegally), thanks for posting it in the comments. I guess it is going to be a good healthy laugh, but I can’t pay for this adulescent bullshit. This is going to be the Interstellar of reading. Bravo Karyn! Don’t forget, love transcends time and space! Shit and reshit. It is time for more Skepticism.