High Defamation

This time around, diving into the seedy underbelly of Southern California punk and hardcore, the Venice crossover scene. We're going the distance with this one, all the best shit from the Venice Suicidal set... tried to be as thorough as I could but still leave room for your own discovery. Everything here rips; totally crucial, totally essential. Get into it.

WASTED YOUTH - Fuck Authority... Tormented... Good Day for a Hanging

BEOWULF - Down Til Dead... Flare

EXCEL - Split Image... Make Up Your Mind

NO MERCY - My Own Way of Life

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES - I Shot the Devil... Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right

THE BROOD - Call of the Dog

UNCLE SLAM - The Prophecy... Will Work for Food

DR KNOW - Fear of War... The Unknown... Slice of Life

NEGATIVE SELF - Negative Self

I've got no particular theme this time around, so this is just a disjointed jumble of a lotta shit that I've been stuck on as of late. I try to cover the gamut of styles you're likely to catch me vibing to, so it's a bit spread out, but all fricking solid. Not a weak record in the bunch so I hope that you all find something that you can latch onto and dig, or at the very least enjoy the ride regardless. You're gonna encounter some scathing heavy metal, UK crust, Greek anarcho goodness, singalong oi! and some all around heavy goodness, so I hope you're ready to dive in!

Tracks:

1. OZ - Fortune
2. SMASH DETOX - Shanguri-La
3. CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - Shallow Ground/Vote with a Bullet
4. DOOM - Symptom of the Universe/Multinationals
5. Ναυτία - Μη με σατανίζεις
6. SORE THROAT - We'll March Against the Nazis
7. LORD WEIRD SLOUGH FEG - Gene-ocide
8. OVERLORDE SR - Full Speed Ahead
9. CEREBRAL FIX - Zombie
10. BRONCO LIBRE - Tortures
11. ÖSTRA AROS - Raka Ror
12. ESP Mayhem - Do Worse

Long one here, folks... covering the gamut of a bunch of death metal that I feel like doesn't get its just due. The bands covered here span the map and all draw on seemingly different styles and atmospheres but they all rule and I urge you to dive deeper into their catalogs.

Playlist:

MANGLED TORSOS "Drawings of the Dead"

KRABATHOR "Body as a Cover"

LEMMING PROJECT "Hysteria"

ANASARCA "I Will Not Be Broken"

INIQUITY "Spectral Scent"

MASTIC SCUM "Imminent Obscurity"

OPPRESSOR "As Blood Flows"

PARAMÆCIUM "Injudicial"

KAAMOS "THERIOMORPHIC PANDÆMONIUM"

In this installment we dive into the early scene from the former Czechoslovakia. So many young and raw artists playing their renditions of evil metal that it was hard narrowing down my choices, though ultimately, as I repeat often in this episode, it’s all a subjective crapshoot anyway. My choices aren’t necessarily indicative of “the best” the country had to offer, just those that I wanted to talk about most.

Tracklist:

1. Torr "Exorcist"
2. Torr "Kral Mor"
3. Torr "Pan Snu"
4. Crux "Rev Smrti (Scream of Death)"
5. V.A.R. "Proti Vizim"
6. V.A.R. "Vratislav (Vratislav Beer)"
7. Master's Hammer "Kovovy Chram"
8. Master's Hammer "Duse Nesmrtelnych"
9. Master's Hammer "The Mass"
10. Master's Hammer "Utok"
11. Master's Hammer "That Magnificent Deer Has Vanished"
12. Master's Hammer "Rock & Roll Music"

Kochi City's Disclose was always a dichotomy of savagery and control, bedlam and refinement and the band left behind a MASSIVE catalog of releases that tend to be elusive in the wild but nonetheless important. Not just in the development of their sound but in the progression of d-beat and punk in general. We're diving deep into this one, folks, enjoy the ride.

Kawakami Forever

Playlist:

1. DISCHARGE "But After the Gig" (Realities of War, 1980 Clay Records)
2. GISM "Anthem” (Detestation, 1983 Dogma Records)
3. DEATH SIDE "To the End" (Bet on the Possibility, 1991 Selfish Records)
4. TOTALITAR "Sin Egen Motståndare" (Sin Egen Motståndare, 1994 Finn Records)
5. DISCLOSE "Tragic Scene" (Fear of the War, 1994 Japankore/Crust Records)
6. FINAL WARNING "Rain of Death" (Out of Sight, Out of Mind, 1984 Fatal Erection Records)
7. MASSKONTROLL "Spräkta Naziskallar" (Warpath, 1995 Havoc Records)
8. MG15 "Luchad Contra El Poder" (Caos Final, 1983 N/A)
9. DISCLOSE "Burn to Damage" (Tragedy, 1994 Overthrow Records)
10. BACTERIA fragment (28 Trax Demo [1994], 2015 Dan-Doh Records)
11. DISCLOSE "Firestorms" (A Mass of Raw Sound Assault, 2001 MCR Company)
12. WOLFPACK "Zonetripper" (Lycanthro Punk, 1998 Distortion Records)
13. BROKEN BONES "Bonecrusher" (Bonecrusher, 1986 Combat Core)
14. DISCLOSE "But Still Work (Victims of the Mine)" (Apocalypse of Death, 2002 Dan-Doh Records)
15. DISCLOSE "The War Dead" (Yesterday's Fairytale, Tomorrow's Nightmare, 2004 Game of the Arseholes)
16. G.A.T.E.S. "Demon Crusade" (Nuclear Hell/Black Plague split w/ Disclose, 2005 Dan-Doh Records)
17. DISCLOSE "Nuclear Hell" (Nuclear Hell/Black Plague split w/ G.A.T.E.S., 2005 Dan-Doh Records)
18. DISCLOSE "Doomed to Die" (Controlled By Fear/Cruelty split w/ Cruelty, 2006 Dan-Doh Records)
19. GOATWORSHIPPER "Ave Satanas" [excerpt] (Blackgoat Harshnoise, 2007 Smell the Stench)
20. BLACKGOAT "Track 1" [excerpt] (Sabbatic 5 Goat, 2007 Smell the Stench)
21. CRUCIFIED BY THE KA-KAMI "Lovestruck" (Just Wanna Be Myself/Crucified By The Kä-Kami split with Insane Youth, 1999 Dan-Doh Records)