DEVIATED INSTINCT

Four killer tracks tacked onto the end of a live set from 1985 (posted here). DEVIATED INSTINCT should need no introduction, but the uninitiated should prepare themselves for some raw and primitive UK anarcho crust. Two studio burners, followed by two live (or perhaps rehearsal?) tracks. Maybe this is for purists and/or completists, but maybe it just rules.

DEVIATED INSTINCT

LET THEM EAT PASTAS! LET THEM EAT SHIT!

Mid-90's international comp from the folks at Spock Productions. A few acts you are likely familiar with (WAT TYLER and THE GR'UPS deliver live performances that justify their status, while CITIZEN FISH have never sounded more inebriated than on this recording), but the highlights on this comp are the unknown bands. ONE BY ONE sound like NAUSEA interpreted by a churning, metallic CONTROPOTERE, easily the best tracks on the tape. W.O.R.M. and THE SHREDS manage to make the melodic side of the '90s sounds raw and insistent (no mean feat for these ears), Germany's BOOT DOWN THE DOOR are solid and burly take-no-prisoners hardcore, and there's a bizarre electronic/dance song by Florida's SPHERE LAZA that is going to be getting a lot of spins around TEHQ. Germany, Switzerland, France, England, Italy and the US are all well represented here. You won't get any punk points for listening to it, but the reward for listening to killer jams tends to be rather personal, in my opinion.

LET THE EAT PASTAS! LET THEM EAT SHIT!

WOMEN OF THE PORE

The motherfukkrs at Hamburger Tapes just don't seem to have any boundaries whatsoever. WOMEN OF THE PORE dish out two beautifully harsh noise tracks on this cassette, totaling just over 4 minutes. The closing moments of the tape are tense and disconcerting, while the A side is just relentless waves of sound crashing with unpredictable rhythm on your head...over and over. Get loose, my friends.

WOMEN OF THE PORE

SVÄTSOX

From the othe side of the tape that brought us the Oorwormer comp a couple of weeks back comes the essential debut full length from SVÄTSOX. Ruins clocks in just under 30 minutes, and delivers first rate angular post punk from start to finish. I've heard the band mentioned in the same breath as THE EX, and it's a legitimate comparison...this record is restrained angular punk at its finest. Dive in kids, get to learning.

RUINS

PUKEOID

Raw and nasty Midwestern hardcore in the ugly tradition of that glorious and beleaguered region. Eight songs in less than six minutes. There's a record out now on Not Normal, the same people who released this cassette.

PUKEOID

"I don't want your fucking life // I don't want your fucking sickness // I don't want your disease // I don't want that shit for me."

SYSTEMATIK

From the ashes of (or at least the guitarist of ) Vancouver's UNLEARN comes SYSTEMATIK. Lighting speed hardcore with searing guitars and a vocalist that can actually manage to convey his live frustration through recorded media - a rare feat. Four tunes on this demo, blown to shit with the chaos reigned in just enough...unhinged intensity at its finest. Worth it for the solo in "World Of Misery" alone, this four song banger will give you exactly what you came here for.

SYSTEMATIK

SHIT

Who doesn't want to start their Sunday with 5 minutes of downtuned blackened crust/metal mayhem? Dummies, that's who. Since you are not a dummy, you are about to be treated to some of the most primal and vicious death metal crossover you've ever heard. Making the right choice is good sometimes, and sometimes it means you get SHIT.

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