Neurosis

01. Neurosis - Short Wave Warfare, 0 Vinyl LP Album Unofficial Release      Not On Label - none      Live recording 02. Neurosis - Pain Of Mind, 1987 Vinyl LP Album      Alchemy Records - VM105 03. Neurosis - Pain Of Mind, 1987 CD Album Reissue Remastered      Alternative Tentacles - VIRUS 146CD      Reissue from 1994 04. Neurosis - Aberration EP, 1989 Vinyl 7" 45 RPM EP      Lookout! Records - #12 05. Neurosis - The Word As Law, 1990 Vinyl LP Album      Lookout! Records - Lookout 021 06. Neurosis - The Word As Law, 1991 CD Album      Lookout! Records - LOOKOUT 21CD      with bonus tracks from previous LP and EPs 07. Neurosis - Souls At Zero, 1992 CD Album      Alternative Tentacles - VIRUS 109CD 08. Neurosis - Enemy Of The Sun, 1993 CD Album      Alternative Tentacles - VIRUS 134CD 09. Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood, 1996 CD Album      Iron City Records - ICR 002 CD 10. Neurosis - Times Of Grace, 1999 CD Album      Relapse Records - RR 6419-2 11. Neurosis - Sovereign, 2000 CD EP Enhanced      Neurot Recordings - NR-008 12. Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets, 2001 CD Album      Relapse Records - RR 6496-2 13. Neurosis - Official Bootleg.01.Lyon.France.11.02.99, 2002 CD Album      Neurot Recordings - nr019 14. Neurosis - Official Bootleg.02.Stockholm.Sweden.10.15.99, 2003 CD Album      Neurot Recordings - nr027 15. Jarboe, Neurosis - Neurosis & Jarboe, 2003 CD HDCD Album      Neurot Recordings - NR 028 16. Neurosis - The Eye Of Every Storm, 2004 Vinyl LP Album x 2      Neurot Recordings - NR-033 17. Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay, 2012 CD Album Limited Edition      Neurot Recordings - NR085 According to none other than myself, Neurosis has three distinct era: the hardcore of the 1st two albums and EP, the experimental anger with lots of doom and noises of the 90s, and after that the sad and melancholic waves of sweet long stuff. I will eternally be a fan of the hardcore era, from the straight forward classic punk thrash of Pain of Mind to the more Blast-like sound of Word As Law. For something completely different, the following anger/doom albums are amazing too - the high point being the evil monster Through Silver In Blood. Then I started to get bored with the sad stuff. It is musically excellent, but they can't sing and it ruins it for me. You need actual singers to perform on this kind of musical landscapes, not depressed lumberjacks who lost their axes and saws in the pond where suicidal angels come to drown. According to Church Of Zer standards, you are allowed to use a death metal growler on your sad music if he has the class of the guys in Temple Of Void or Esoteric, or else Peter Steele. But not his post-bar fight whining. Too bad because most of this stuff could match the Sonic Mass from Amebix, but it does not because the Baron sings beautifully, lui. That's why my favorite of this era is the awesome album featuring  Jarboe, who sings like an angel about to dive in thick black waters without a snorkel. This album rules! Then there was that tedious, bore fest of a show I attended a few years ago, which did nothing to revive the passion. Neurosis ruled, and they probably still do, let me know if the last album is worth a try for non-insomniacs. Remove brackets and unzip: [zer of mind] !ZER Neurosis ZER! MRR readers should read this. Glad I stopped buying that crap zine in 1987, surprised it still exists  - yeah, now on the capitalist interwebs with their own capitalist website!

Swans

Filth, 1982/1983 Cop + Young God, 1984 Public Castration Is A Good Idea, 1986 Greed + Holy Money, 1986 Real Love, 1986 Feel Good Now, 1987 Children Of God, 1987 The Burning World, 1989 Body To Body, Job To Job, 1982/1985 (1991 release) Soundtracks For The Blind (Copper disc), 1996 Soundtracks For The Blind (Silver disc), 1996 Die Tür ist Zu, 1996 FIXED World Of Skin, 1997 Swans Are Dead (Black disc), 1998 Swans Are Dead (White disc), 1998 Forever Burned (The Burning World extended), 2003 Neurosis & Jarboe, 2003 My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky, 2010 Reactivated last year! Here comes a section of the Swans' very large output. From very heavy industrial machinery to the ballads that would fit an Irish film about a dead mother in 1927, Swans built a sonic legend for the true zerist when he needs less metal and more reptile poetry. The early stuff is the potent infection germ of the drone doom that would make us bleed in the 90s. Also, the 80s metalhead is informed that Ted Parsons from Prong is the drummer on the 86/87 recordings, rezer. The new album is classic Swans of the most elaborate dimension with some of their best material to date, the wait is well rewarded. Mesmerizing dark light! Masterpiece! Magnificent satellite: the amazing Neurosis & Jarboe album. CD rip. Buy Swans CDs from Swans Swans on MySpace

Extreme Noise Terror

Extreme Noise Terror / Chaos UK - Earslaughter, 1986 A Holocaust in Your Head, 1989 Peel Sessions, 1987/1990 Sessions 1 & 3 Grind Madness at the BBC, 1987/1990 The 3 Peel Sessions remastered Discharged: From Home Front to War Front, 1991 Discharged, 1992 Phonophobia, 1992 Retro-bution, 1995 Damage 381, 1997 Being and Nothing, 2001 Extreme Noise Terror / Driller Killer, 2007 Law of Retaliation, 2009 Phil Vane, singer of E.N.T., passed away last month at 46. We will continue to enjoy his torture vocals though the immense legacy of Extreme Noise Terror, masters of all things crust, grind and death. I initially bought the Earslaughter split as a Chaos UK fan, but once I had heard the E.N.T. side, I had a much broader, drooling smile. E.N.T. brought the early crust thrash sound of Discharge | Terveet Kädet | Rattus | Mob 47 | Ratos De Porao to new levels of abrasion and speed. The Peel Sessions (with Mick Harris of Napalm Death on drums) and Phonophobia are landmark crustgrindcore monsters!! Their insane aggression is the Rolls Royce of the genre, and they even excelled at death metal with the amazing Damage 381 (with Barney from Napalm Death on vocals) and the head crushing Being And Nothing - one pulverizing exercise in super fast death metal. The Law Of retaliation combines both styles, with an emphasis on thrashing crust mania. ACH! EXTREME NOISE TERROR FOREVER ZERRRRR!R!R! !RR! !R !R!R !R!R !RRRRRRRRRRRRR !RR! !R R!R R! !R!RR!RR !!RR ! ! ! ! !RR!R!R! ! !R!R!RR!R !R ! ! !RR! ! CD rip. Phile Vane RIP. E.N.T. Website Buy E.N.T. noise! Discharge tribute - Discharged: 1 Extreme Noise Terror - No T.V. Sketch 1:33 2 Extreme Noise Terror - Religion Instigates 1:42 3 Extreme Noise Terror - They Declare It 1:12 4 Concrete Sox - Death Dealers 1:56 5 Concrete Sox - Is This To Be 1:21 6 Disaster - Mania For Conquest 1:22 7 Excrement Of War - Tomorrow Belongs To Us 1:41 8 Raw Noise - A Look At Tomorrow 2:04 9 Raw Noise - Always Restrictions 1:23 10 Nausea - Hear Nothing, See Nothing 1:37 11 S.D.S - Doomsday 2:39 12 S.D.S - Why? 1:09 13 Scamp - Two Monstrous Nuclear Stockpiles 1:06 14 Scamp - Free Speech For The Dumb 2:18 15 C.F.U.D.L - Does The System Work 1:11 16 C.F.U.D.L - Ain't No Feeble Bastard 1:30 Discharge tribute - Discharged: From Home Front to War Front mini CD Track 1 by Nausea Track 2 by Final Conflict Track 3 by Neurosis Track 4 by 411 Track 5 by Extreme Noise Terror 1. Intro / Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing / Ain't No Feeble Bastard 2. A Look At Tomorrow 3. Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing 4. State Violence State Control 5. You Take Part In Creating This System

In These Black Days

in these black days 5 x 7" Black Sabbath tribute ! With Brutal Truth, Anal Cunt, Converge, Cavity, Jesuit, Overcast, Neurosis, Coalesce etc. Excellent dirty job by fine purveyors of dark matter. I have to check again where that bloody 6th 7" is hiding in my basement (I think vol. 4 is missing, I'll add it if I find it). ZERRRRR!!! Vinyl rip track list on Wikipedia

Neurosis - short wave warfare

Neurosis - short wave warfare, USA 1990 Very good live recording from the first two albums tour, when they were more hardcore sounding. Very zer. I didn't know it had been officially released. This is the vinyl rip without the 3 added tracks from the official CD.