ydi out for blood cd

alright. ydi. i've reviewed them twice before. the ep and the lp. wso why am i reviewing this? because it's a discography. ydi released a great ep and a missunderstood lp. but they also released a demo which was never sold. they need to be slapped for that. not as overwelmingly serious and hard as the ep it seems but a really solid hc demo. these guys were idiots not celling this. i mean, how can you not love that guitar tone! the other tracks worth mentioning are the comp tracks from get off my back! one was used in the movie american hardcore in a live version. that seems to be where people know them now. two great songs especially i killed my family. the rest of the tracks are from the ep and lp which i've already talked about. the ep is as good as ever. the lp isn't everyone's cup of tea but for some reason i love the way it sounds. if you don't own any of these records i suggest getting it. if you do..well it's worth it for the out for blood demo. ps ydi, please explain why you never sold the demo. unless you just gave it away for free. then you guys rock haha

chemical waste life's a bitch demo tape

here's something for you thrashers. an obscure new york (or new jersey whatever) crossover thrash band who released one demo in the 80s. and this is it. billy from m.o.d along with other bands was a fan of this band. i only wish m.o.d sounded as good as this. what this is is crossover thrash. the way it's supposed to be done. hardcore meets metal in the best way. you can hear that they were having fun on this release. and it doesn't sound like they're triing too hard to be just like other bands, the knock on most new thrash bands. this just sounds great. nothing mindblowing but a fun little thrash demo when thrash or crossover mattered. the lyrics are funny as well. just look at the titles! overall a nice little tape from an unknown band. look for this on the net. it's worth owning. p.s i always thought this was where municipal waste got the name. i recently saw an interview where they said it was on a garbage truck. still i'm not convinced.

negative approach nothing will stand in our way cd

well here's something i baught at amoeba a while ago. i heard that it contained rare demos. cool! i thought. well i was half right. the first few tracks are from the band's first recording. nice sound to this one. a little slower but still pretty cool. the next tracks were from a live show. the band's first. i'm not much for live recordings anyway. skip. the next tracks were from a demo. really cool sound on this one. the next tracks are a heavelly eddited version of a recording i have of them playing at the mud club. i have the uneddited show and it sounds way better than this. not saying anything interesting happened in between songs but the mud club gig was powerful as hell. i mean i got chills listening to it. this one the tape sounds too loud. everything's somewhat destorted and it just doesn't sound as good. the next two tracks are outtakes from the self titled ep. really good especially the cover of chaos by the 4-skins. i like the na version more. something to do with brannon's voice i think. the rest is live stuff. i lost interest after that especially considdering the shitty quality of the sound. overall i kinda felt ripped off. i just wanted the studeo stuff anyway. if you get this try to get a download and take out all that live tracks unless you want crappy sounding live stuff that you could get on the net in better versions. kind of reminds me of the total recall cd where after tied down it's like i'm done! anyway get this for the studeo tracks if you're an na fan

Kreator - Enemy Of God (2005)

1.  Enemy Of God
2. Impossible Brutality
3. Suicide Terrorist
4. World Anarchy
5. Dystopia
6. Voices Of The Dead
7. Murder Fantasies
8. When Death Takes Its Dominion
9. One Evil Comes - A Million Follow
10. Dying Race Apocalypse
11. Under A Total Blackened Sky
12. The Ancient Plague

Bishop: A friend bought me this album for my birthday... Christ knows how long ago now. I remember the first song I ever heard by Kreator was "Betrayer" from Extreme Aggression. I'd say by the time they got to Enemy Of God they were a lot more mature a band. Whether that's a better thing or not is down to opinion I guess.

Elliott: Two things you must know: first, I’m a thrash fanboy. I fucking love thrash. Second is “Pleasure To Kill” is one of my favourite thrash… no, favourite metal album ever. Every time I got into Kreator’s other albums I was disappointed, but I must say this album is kick ass! It reminds me of “Pleasure To Kill”, but more polished and with more melody.

Bishop: It's a brilliant album. There's more harmonic bits in it than the old stuff, which I think is what turns the "elitists" away.

Elliott: I really like the nice mix of heavy and melody. I don't know about the elitist thing, 90’s Kreator kind of did that and now they're seen as back. One thing, I kind of wish they didn't record “Pleasure To Kill”. This is a great album, but it took me so long to like it. I just kept comparing it to Pleasure, but fuck that album, I'll do it another day. Love the vocals on this.

Bishop: The vocals are strong as hell; they don't falter at any point. The production is crushing too, one hell of a heavy album. There are a lot of bands that get to that point I think and are burned out and not really angry any more, but it doesn't sound like they're phoning it in at all.

Elliott: I think doing what they did in the 90’s really energized them. Everyone said “Fuck Kreator” and they wanted to kick ass. Bands like slayer just sound like they repeat themselves. I mean, I like slayer, but still, they kind of sound like they're phoning it in

Bishop: Yeah, fair enough the 90's stuff wasn't to everyone's taste, but it probably kept the band alive. Slayer just sound like a poor version of how they used to be and I have no doubt Kreator would've turned out the same if they walked the same route.

Elliott: Yeah, so maybe its good they changed. What's your favourite song off this album?

Bishop: Honestly, I couldn't choose. Every single song is an absolute belter. I'd probably say "Suicide Terrorist" and "World Anarchy" are a bit thrash by numbers though, although by no means bad songs.

Elliott: And what's wrong with thrash by numbers? The first song really sets the tone. It builds up so nicely and goes apeshit. And great lyrics! Oh and I just want to say.....amazing drummer.

Bishop: Everything's just tight as hell, the playing is utterly faultless. If I remember the album after this just sounds like Enemy Of God Pt II as well.

Elliott: As luck would have it i just got “Hordes of Chaos”. It does and that's
actually a good thing! Check the new one out dude it's really good. The singer sounds pissed btw

Bishop: I can't think of a single criticism towards this album, I really can't.

Elliott: The problem is neither can I. Ah well, you're dumb. Haha.

Bishop: I'm dumb? You're the yank.

Elliott: And you're a cunt. Is it just me or does Kreator seem to flirt with death metal a lot on this album?

Bishop: Yeah, it's definitely got elements of death metal in there, luckily not too many.

Elliott: Wouldn't mind a few blasts and stuff. Honestly, great record. Good god, we agree on something!

Bishop: I can agree that we both do not dislike this record.

Elliott: I wish I could sing like this guy

Bishop: He has a good and unique voice like. Seriously, I'm sat trying to think of a single thing I don't like about this, but it's not happening.

Elliott: Me too dude. I mean once I got over the clean production it all sounds great! The drums, bass, guitar and vocals! It's a great new thrash album!!!! Why'd you pick an album that we both like? Can i just say that I love the lyrics to “Impossible Brutality?”

Bishop: No you can't.

Bishop: Well, I just did!

the modernettes get it straight cd

i'm not sure how many times i've played the teen city ep. hundreds at least. well i found this and just had to get it. and boy i'm glad i did! the modernettes were a fantastic poppy punk band from canada. this cd has everything they did in the studeo. the first 6 tracks are from the amazing teen city ep. yeah...amazing. the next 3 tracks are from the gone but not forgiven lp. the lp is live except these three. shame really. would have loved to hear a modernettes lp. won't have to worry i've heard before and it quickly became my favorite song by them. but really all the songs are great. the next 5 tracks are from the view from the bottom ep. remixed i guess. it kicks off with rebel kind. wow is that a great song or what! i guess the problem with this record is every song once i hear it becomes my favorite. maybe i'm the one with the problem haha. the next tracks are demo and live stuff. i with they'd included more demo tracks as the one on this cd is amazing. if anyone has the full tape and would like to share it....well i'd like it. the live tracks are okay i guess. i'm not much for live tracks anyway. seriously i only have a few live recordings. the tracks for the radio show (i think) are really good. over all a fantastic record from a fantastic band. allmusic said this band probably doesn't stand the test of time. well here's someone who wasn't even born when the modernettes were around (yes i am that young) who loves this record. take that allmusic! haha. if you like powerpop or melodic punk it's not even a question of should you buy it but when should you? the answer, right now!!!!!!

sound of imker train of doomsday/see those girls 7

here's a weird one for you. sound of imker was from holand and recorded this single in 1969. it was released but i'm guessing in very small numbers. it flopped. wonder why. it's a great record but probably just wasn't right for the time. had this been released in the 80s it would have been well received i think. jello biafra called it the first hardcore record. it really does sound like punk before punk. train of doomsday has a great beat. the singer isn't melodic at all but that's part of the fun. the quality of this record is well...the sound sounds like as one guy put it "a secondhand demo" but it's still a fun record. see those girls at first would seem to be the weakest track. but it's got a great solo and an even more unmelodic vocal performance. i know that imker was the last name of the two brothers. and one overdoced in the 80s. shame that. this band was way ahead of its time. this makes me think how many more records like this exist? obscure records that were fast before fast was cool. the best way is to get this off youtube now that both songs are up. i think this is on some compilation but i'm not sure. you need this if you're a fan of obscure music. not only is it obscure but....it's good too.

napalm death and more live review

well last night i went to the observatory in orenge county to....observe some bands. let's start with the first band. downspell. they were from alaska. did i mention they were from alaska? oh and they were from alaska. they only said it about a thousand times. the music was pretty good deathcore. metal archives calls it metalcore/death metal.....deathcore. pretty good considdering the genre of music they play. then after the unknown downspell came the classic thrash band attitude adjustment. they seemed to have lost some of the punk from the sound and play much tighter and a little slower. barny from napalm death came up to sing a song. it was pretty cool. and they actually played songs off the demo and destruction's end flexi! yay!! next came exhumed.....lame! i've never heard exhumed before except when they covered a samhain track. the high vocalist sounds like an emo kid now. and he acts like one on stage with the croud. he actually got the crowd to say swares. how lame can you get? he was just another lame ass performer. how you all doin tonight? i can't hear you! shut up for a second and maybe you'll get to hear us idiot. the chainsaw durring a song was nice though. so was closing with a seige cover. next came repulsion. barny sang with them too. repulsion was great! everything was amazing about the set. and the singer could actually still do it! i guess the only problem i had was they didn't play every song off all 6 demos haha. next came napalm death. i thought they were gonna be the last band honestly. so did the croud i guess. now i know nd has no original members and is a tad more metallic than 87 but it was a great show! barny's voice is way more gritty and i love it that way. mich's voice was cool with some nice echo effects and his clean vocals were haunting. i've always thought of nd as a punk band with metal trappings and i beleive it even more today. also greenway's rants between songs were awesome. ps danny's drums were so crazy i couldn't follow it. after that came municipal waste. i was actually ready to leave at that point when a few old friends came up and we talked some. mw is an okay band. it doesn't take any ammount of brain power to get them and the lyrics. seriously how many songs about getting drunk can you have? it got annoying. plus repulsion, napalm death, and not least attitude adjustment should be way after them especially attitude adjustment. hell they created the sound mw rips off and sees no reason to alter. it's fun party music but really that's all. no meaningful lyrics. i'd like it more if they were at least before napalm death. seriously it felt like the long beach grand prix where they run the indycar race then they have a sports car race after so if you want to wait out the crowd you have something to watch. half the people left after napalm so that's what it felt like. that municipal waste was the throwaway band after the legends....which they are! like i said i like mw. they're fun. but after napalm death? that's like when mr. manson went on after slayer. what the fuck? btw nd did a cool repulsion cover as well as some other short songs (they closed with you suffer) and municipal waste did what every crossover thrash band does and covered s.o.d's united forces. as much as i love s.o.d seriously everyone's done it. maybe that's why people don't like this retrothrash thing that's been going on for some time now. i enjoy the music but am not the biggest fan. overall it was a fun night. btw the dj at the shows is a god. kiss of death by satan and a weapon song were played. obscure nwobhm. i was like is that??no! wait yes!!! hell we went in just as nuns have no fun by mercyful fate was playing. that's when i thought wow something cool is happening. so thank you for playing obscure metal whoever you are. overall i had fun. heard a lot of music and talked to some old friends. good night

peach kelli punk s/t lp

no, that's not a mistake. somehow i found this on the internet. i thought the amazing peach kelli pop put out a new record. well i was wrong. this is some dude named joe from some band called germ attack rerecording the pkp lp. i'm sorry, it's just not good enough. i mean i don't think it was suposed to be but still. it just can't hold a candle to pkp. now i know nothing about germ attack (i'm guessing they're canadian as the thing i read was on a canadian site) but....yeah. joe sounds like he's having a lot of fun and it did make me smile a little. you can tell he likes the record. it's kind of funny actually. but it's just not the same. sorry mr. joe whoever you are. it was a fun listen but i just can't see myself going back to it....then again i said that about level and i listened to that shit for like another year before finally deleting it. over all not a bad record actually....just nowhere as good as peach kelli pop. btw anyone know anything about germ attack?

kreator pleasure to kill lp

oh my god. this record is one pure headfuck. from start to finnish this record says one thing....ttttttttttttttthhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! seriously. this is thrash in its purist form. the songs might be repetitive for some. boo hoo. it's a great record. this had me headbanging so hard i was actually tired at the end of the album. first off the production. fuckin yes! this is what i love in a thrash production. rough, echoy, and the band recorded live. you can feel it too. this is unpolished thrash at its best. kreator would go on to be one hell of a band going more goth and industrial before returning to thrash with more of a melodic touch. but this album....amazing. the two vocalists are just amazing. the german accent comes through quite clearly. i feel with this the same thing that i felt about sepultura's first two albums. great music not meant to be anything than what it is, raw thrash. and while like sepultura i love the later works, nothing and i mean nothing can compare to this. this might be more interesting than dark angel's darkness descends which came out around that time. i also hear a lot of pree-death metal in this. if someone would ask me what's death/thrash i'd say this was it. not death metal with a thrash feel but thrash metal with a death feel. confusing huh? haha. anyway you need this record. no not you should have it or i think you need it. you fuckin need this album. if you don't get it don't ever call yourself a metalhead

The Exploited – Fuck The System (2003)

Now then!

Over the past couple of years you've had the massive displeasure of listening to either Elliott or myself waffle on about various albums. Whilst I haven't done that many reviews myself, I have spent a considerable amount of time over the past year emailling Elliott about albums, usually ones we don't agree on. It dawned on me that instead of me just publishing my one sided opinion here, we should instead engage in conversation and publish that. Elliott thought it sounded like a good idea (not that he knows anything) and out of pity I let him choose the first feature as a test run to see how it goes.

The Exploited - Fuck The System

 

1.  Fuck The System
2. Fucking Liar
3. Holiday In The Sun
4. You're A Fucking Bastard
5. Lie To Me
6. There Is No Point
7. Never Sell Out
8. Noize Annoys
9. I  Never Changed
10. Why Are You Doing This To Me
11. Chaos Is My Life
12. Violent Society
13. Was It Me

Bishop: I'm not massive on The Exploited, but I have to admit I really like this album. I don't think there's a dud song on here at all.

Ellliott: I actually really like this band. Great album, but am I the only one who thinks the lyrics are a little simplistic?

Bishop: What, and the other albums they did were full of lyrical genius? It's simple punk for simple people.

Elliott: Yeah, I guess you’re right. I’m just so used to Napalm Death and Crass and stuff, they can articulate. Bad Religion too. I do love the last track “Was It Me”, that riff gets stuck in my head all the time.

Bishop: Oh man that final track is a killer, used to have it on in my car all the time. Every other song is about politics, or anarchy, or some other bullshit I don't want to be preached to about, but "Was It Me" just feels genuine. By the way, I'm pretty sure you used the word articulate in the wrong context.

Elliott: I don’t care if I used it in the wrong context, I’m American. I agree with what they have to say about politics, though I do think they jumped on the anarchy boat a little after it was popular. Anyway, I like the blending of metal and punk. Wattie sounds nothing like his old self though, he reminds me of a more pissed off you.

Bishop: I don't really hear the comparison to me, but I guess I wouldn't.

Elliott: “Beat The Bastards” sounds like you too.

Bishop: The thrashy elements that come through are refreshing. A few people give this album bad lip because of the production quality, but it still sounds raw and aggressive to me.

Elliott: The production sounds like the last three Municipal Waste albums. Anyway, one of the reasons I like The Exploited are the samples at the beginning of the album. Wanna talk about that?

Bishop: No.

Elliott: You’re a cunt.

Bishop: I like the sample at the start of the album. Every time it crops up on my playlist it annoys me to fuck though, I'm pretty sure that's why they did it.

Elliott: Great drum sound by the way.

Bishop: Yeah, nice and crisp. I don’t think, sound wise at least, it could’ve been any better. I’m not even that bothered that the album doesn’t really evolve, or is a little bit repetitive, it’s a brill album. If they released another record almost the same though, I’m not quite sure I’d be able to sit through it.

Elliott: It’s The Exploited, have you ever known them to ever evolve in an album? And this will probably be the last record; I think they’re content to play gigs now.

Bishop: They’ve already announced a new one.

Elliott: And they haven’t done that before? Sorry, I’ll believe it when I see it. Just like with the Septic Death discography, they keep saying they’re going to do it, but they’re fucking slow about it.

Bishop: I wouldn't complain if they didn't. I mean, I'm pretty sure they've covered all the ground they could by now.

Elliott: Unless they do a Napalm Death and add more stuff to the basic sound on every new album which, given who they are, isn’t likely. By the way, I love the energy on the record, it just sounds like they feel it.

Bishop: I think we can pretty much agree that, although a simple record, it's solid and enjoyable from start to finish.

Elliott: It’s a good record if you’re pissed off.

Bishop: Yeah, although I now have a strange urge to nut a politician.

d.r.i dealing with it lp

dri's first album (the dirty rotten thing was an ep!) it took me a long time to even get this. i knew they went metal and i didn't know how this would sound. well...for the most part really good. straight up fast as fuck hc. right where i belong. the mix is great. all the musicians get plenty of sound. people spend large amounts of money triing to get the perfect production and some punk kids did it on one album. the vocals especially are really pissed off. he still sounds like that today! not the low parts. they screwed up the intro to i don't need society. i liked the ep version where it was just drums and guitar then all hell broke loose. the lp version has some doublebass stuff and the lyrics are sung slow. yes mam was better on the ep too. but whatever they can't just stay the same. the worst song is nursing home bluez. oh my god. it just goes on and on and on and i fall asleep. 9 hours later it's still going. the song is pure metal but it just doesn't go anywhere. i love metal. we all know i love metal. if you couldn't tell just by reading the blog posts you're an idiot. but this is just annoying. the song goes nowhere and it's a problem that would dog the band on the rest of the albums. the songs are just too long sometimes. other than that it's a great album. the lyrics are a bit simplistic but whatever. i still prefer the dirty rotten ep to this but it's fun for a listen. ps the clip of the singer's dad yelling at them is funny as hell

NME unholy death lp

i first got into NME (enimy) a few years back when i heard the machine of war demo released in the mid-80s. i loved it. pretty much pure venom wership and i just fell in love with the tape. the songs were all in the right tempo and had the right amount of fury. well my friend kept talking about unholy death as this great album. so i got it. what a fuckin shame. this album should have been amazing. except and this will sound weird but the songs were two fast! okay i love fast music. but it seemed like what they did was take slower songs and speed them up. without changing anything in them. the result is it just sounds really messy and bad to me. it sounds like the drummer has no idea what he's even doing. that's fine but i don't know. they even rerecorded at least one track from the demo and it just sounds wrong. too sped up. maybe if i hadn't heard the demo i'd like it more. i'm gonna keep triing to like it but it just doesn't sound right. great lyrics though. and i can't argue with the guitar tone. it just seems sped up and wrong. just get the machine of war demo and be happy. sorry if i've said the wrong thing haha