I Shot Cyrus / Discarga Split LP

Split between two legendary punk bands from Brazil that I was crazy about during my early twenties and are now sadly defunct. I Shot Cyrus plays thrashcore with a slightly metallic edge, and Discarga is maddening fastcore/powerviolence with less metal and more punk that makes you want to destroy everything, plus their side ends with the intro of "For Whom The Bell Tolls!" Essential listening. 2005 LP on Peculios Discos.

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Allee Der Kosmonauten / Crude B.E. split 10"

It's been quite some time since my last post, but things are very busy: I'm spending more time with my child, I'm in-between changing posts, I'm pretending to be studying for my PHD plus we had gone on vacation. I think that this will be the frequency of writing for some more time.

Anyway, here's a superb split between Allee Der Kosmonauten, whose only 8-minute song here I saw live years ago and it completely floored me, it's an amazing rocking punk tune turned into melodic-epic d-beat crust, and Crude B.E. on the other side, who play heavy powerviolence/grindcore with rocking and stoner moments, good fun. 2001 10" on Thought Crime Records.

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Fatal Nunchaku ‎– Paving Stone Under The Beach

French powerviolence band with a typically french powerviolence style and humorous lyrics, like the legendary Sylvester Staline and Aberrant, and with heavy influences from Plutocracy and DropDead and a primitive punk attitude, i.e. this is not heavy powerviolence like, say, The Endless Blockade or Weekend Nachos.

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Various ‎– Communal Grave (Comp. 1SThit) 10"

Compilation 10" featuring Controlled Existence, Gets Worse, Black Hole of Calcutta, Mangle, Prügelknabe, The Afternoon Gentlemen, Vile Intent, and The Shining. This came together with the namesake zine. Expect top-notch grindcore and powerviolence, as well as some thrash. 2013 10" vinyl on Dead Heroes Records.

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Various - Making Children's Songs A Threat Again! LP

 

In 2006 I went to the grindcore festival Obscene Extreme in the Czech Republic, which at that time was the apex of grindcore, crust and powerviolence, but which has now become just another cash-grab mediocrity bringing stupid ass metal bands. Apart from the many awesome bands I saw, and the many drunken dudes running around the stage wearing just girl thongs, I went extreme record hunting in the festival's countless stalls, and probably the best discovery I made there was this cute LP focusing on the theme of alernative/punk/non-hierarchical parenting. Included in the printed material are a number of interviews (both in French and English) with members of grindcore/hardcore punk bands who had become parents, sharing their thoughts on the upbringing of their children. Quite interesting if you want to be a non-oppressive parent.

Musically, the tracks feature grindcore, crust punk, hardcore punk and powerviolence by many bands, with the lyrics focusing on children, growing up and even fairytales! So, there is spoken word introduction in French by Elo, which is members of the French crust band 20 Minutes of Chaos, violent screaming hardcore by Sugar Pie Koko, unhinged grindcore by Zanussi from Spain, an amazing punk/powerviolence track by the Japanese Power Of Idea with vocals in the Jap language shouted by a very cute girlie-girl, a grindcore fairytale about a fox by the Czech Gride , whom I had seen that year at the festival, moshingly cool grindcore by Disarm from Italy, an unnerving and hair-raising psychedelic experimental hardcore nursery rhyme by Karst featuring members of Damad (check out their two albums), fastcore/powerviolence by Jinn from the UK, anarcho/post-punk by Stracony, fast hardcore punk by Migra Violenta from Argentina, straight-edge fastcore by the Dutch Betercore (famous for the anthem "Straight Edge But Not An Asshole), dissonant crust by the French Inertie, epic d-beat crust by the legendary Irish band The Dagda, and the song "Struck by the Wild" by Żegota off Reclaim! which has already been posted here. 2005 red LP on Guerrilla Shooting Records.

PS.: I was too bored to upload all the scanned pics on this post, so instead I've included all of them in the compressed file.

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Lycosa - Lycobra Command 7"

Great powerviolence/grindcore with technical mastery, black metal influences and moments of atonal madness by Lycosa from Richmond, Virginia. Reminds me of Plutocracy as well as Gasp. 2000 7" on Putrid Filth Conspiracy and Sounds of Betrayal.

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Cathode

Ferocious hardcore from Holland, like a much more violent version of His Hero Is Gone. I think a member also played bass in Zegota.

A Machine That Never Falters



Also, their split 7'' with Brazilian powerviolence/fastcore band Sick Terror.

Cathode/Sick Terror