HORRIFIED

"Firstly, this was recorded in 1986. 1986! Do you think Slayer or Dark Angel were about the most extreme thing around then? Think again. 'Horrified' makes 'Reign in Blood' or 'Darkness Descends' look like Jon Bon fucking Jovi in comparison; it's darker, faster, heavier, more agressive, more chaotic and more lyrically extreme whilst also being catchier and even more brutally to-the-point. From devastating blasts of relentless grindcore such as 'Eaten Alive' to insane thrashterpieces such as 'Black Breath', Repulsion fused the razor edge of Celtic Frost and Slayer with the dark brutality of Discharge and the manic speed of D.R.I, creating a work that redefined music. From the doomy intro riff of 'The Stench of Burning Death' through to that famous final yell of 'Fuck!' on 'Horrified', this remains a seminal influence on both death metal and grindcore."

"However, all of this is worth nothing if the music cannot still stand up to scrutiny. Luckily however, this still sounds fresh, invigorating and utterly, gloriously violent! The production is excellent; meaty, echoing guitar and distorted-to-white-noise bass are mixed perfectly with the clattering drums and grating vocals. It's raw, atmospheric and heavy as all fuck. The songwriting is truly magnificent; keeping the 'songs' catchy and to the point, Repulsion vary things up nicely, alternating between exhausting speed-fests and headbanging thrash with aplomb - cliff-drop stops, violent tempo changes and sudden, cackling, shrieking guitar 'solos' (a leering mockery of virtuosity) hit with impunity from all sides. And then there are the riffs! Yes, that's correct - Repulsion are a grind band who actually had real riffs, courtesy of their myriad thrash influences. There are A LOT of riffs in here, and they vary from three-chord smashing to intricate thrashing. Repulsion know both how to bolt different riffsets together and how to flow between riffs, letting them modulate and evolve, a growing pestilent cancer. Nothing is wasted. Nothing is misplaced. You will bang your head until you vomit." apple/c'd from metal-archives.com

HORRIFIED (1989)



Live in their hometown of Flint, Michigan - 1987

http://www.takenoprisoners.info/

Chapter 6

Heavy seventies gems. Compiled by Angry Aaron.

Into The Void

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Pa las que sea!

MIXTAPE

(via Big Benny)

Passed Me By

Great Manc dubby techno

Andy Stott - Passed Me By

Info

(from Marie-France)

Fennesz

Vienna-based guitarist Christian Fennesz is one of the city's many artists associated with the noted Editions Mego label, which releases mostly free-form ambient and experimental electronica. Similar in some respects to the work of Seefeel or Experimental Audio Research, Fennesz's six-string soundscapes are both darker than the former and more complex and intricate than the latter, combining dense, multi-layered sheets of treated guitar and synth with thin, odd-metered electronic percussion and engaging sampler work.
His first solo work for Mego, the Instrument EP, was released in 1996, and featured four tracks of stunning, uncompromising ambient and electro-acoustic music, combining elements of experimental electro/techno with heavily treated guitar and electronics.

Instrument

Steven Jay Bernstein

"He read poems from a stage with a live rodent in his mouth, its tail twitching as baseline punctuation. He tried to cut his heart out in order to hold it in his hands and calm it down. He once urinated on a heckler and tended to throw things: beer bottles, manuscripts, drumsticks, his wallet, a sandwich."

Most have heard him on the posthumous (Sub-Pop) album 'Prison' with music by Steve Fisk, so instead here's our friend with more prose, also some singing and piano. Released the year before his death in 1991... by stabbing himself in the neck 3 times.

The Sad Bag cassette (1990)





Further reading:
Selected Works
Requiem for a Punk Poet

Postcard From The Edge

Marie says 'These animated observations of tiles and Moorish architecture were made as a thank-you to Kenneth for helping to shoot on another film in Spain.'

Shot in the Alhambra in one day.

Ubu

Doctors of Death

Also watch: The Truth of Harbin: Unit 731

Unit 731 info: Part one + Part two

Across The River

"I think I found something interesting here... this is the Kyuss song "N.O." played 8 years before its official release in Welcome To Sky Valley..."

Across The River – “N.O.”

INTO THE GRAVE

The latest chapter of Into The Void's compilations. A well-informed selection of raw, early doom compiled by Olly Pearson of Moss, it makes sense of why people used to define Candlemass and other proto-doom bands as 'slowed down thrash metal.'

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They Live (1988)

Jesus turn the subtitles off here you idiot!☝

"They Live is a 1988 science fiction/horror film directed by John Carpenter, who also wrote the screenplay under the pseudonym Frank Armitage. The film is based on Ray Nelson's 1963 short story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning".

Part science fiction horror and part dark comedy, the film echoed contemporary fears of a declining economy, within a culture of greed and conspicuous consumption common among Americans in the 1980s. In They Live, the ruling class within the moneyed elite are in fact aliens managing human social affairs through the use of a signal on top of the TV broadcast that is concealing their appearance and subliminal messages in mass media."

Starring "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. True fans of old school WWF will enjoy the fight choreography.

Wiki

Placebo Underground Music Hallucination 2 - The Touring Bands

"Old school hardcore punk video that came out in 1984(?)showcasing bands that were playing Phoenix, AZ while on tour. This was put out by Placebo Products, who also made skateboards and records (JFA's label). Features very rare and obscure footage of Butthole Surfers, DOA, TSOL, Tales Of Terror, The Faction, Agent Orange, Raw Power, 45 Grave, JFA, Corrosion Of Conformity (who look real young on this tape)."

playlist

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Trilogy (1996)

QUARTERSNACKS

The TWIT Show (1984)

LOL's Will Tear Us Apart (2011)

"I suppose a man's actions are the creatures of his thought, and his thoughts are naturally the products of his environment and the conditions under which he is forced to live."

J.B.
1926

>>Note from Neko: For an "optimal" viewing "experience," please use HEADPHONES. K? thx, bai!

Nancy Holt and Richard Serra

Boomerang (1974), Serra taped Nancy Holt as she talks and hears her words played back to her after they have been delayed electronically. Originally broadcast over Amarillo, TX public television.

CHOPPER

Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read. Hanging with Eric Bana, spinning one of his famous yarns about the time he escaped the notorious H Division by cutting off his ears, in order to avoid a hit.

AUDIO (2003 Australian TV Interview)

Dj Bank Of Italy - Continuum Mix (2005)

Trippy mix/radio show from the archives of italian label Montemagro.
A lot of slowing down/speeding up and unnecessary layering. Some earlyish grime stuff, african music etc.

Part 1

Part 2

montemagro

Tonight

My friend Russell will be on the airwaves via Domino Radio late tonight/early tomorrow serving up a thick slice of psych and stoner-rock. The show will be kicking off at 1am GMT so if your the nocturnal type and your still up getting baked (or doing whatever it is you get up to) then this might satisfy your mongdom?

You can listen to the archived show here
Amos

The Hired Hand

by Peter Fonda (1971)

After seven years of wandering, of tired days and nights, with the earth for a bed, Collings feels that there is nothing for him but to return home, to his farm, to the wife he left when he was still almost a boy and to the little daughter who thinks he is dead. Reluctantly the wife takes him back, at first as a hired hand who works the land and sleeps in the barn. But in time their desires meet and he becomes a husband again. And it is then that he learns that Harris, his companion of the seven years, is held captive by a man he had wounded and is being slowly tortured to death. So Collings leaves his wife and farm and child and goes off to save his friend and to meet his fate. more

*Film was here to watch but was removed from YouTube*

Bruce Langhorne - The Hired Hand OST (1969)

John Wayne TV

Utter Doomdom

Classic doom metal primer

v/a DARK PASSAGES (Rise Above, 1991)

Cathedral – Mourning Of A New Day
Saint Vitus – I Bleed Black
Stillborn – Permanent Solution
Penance – Contemplation
Count Raven – High Beliefs
Cathedral – Ebony Tears
Revelation – Blessed Realm
Solitude Aeturnus – Where Angels Dare To Tread
Stillborn - Father Of Lies
Penance - The Penance

San Francisco

by Anthony Stern (1968)

Groupies (1970)