Nations On Fire + Scraps

01. Scraps - Apartheid, 1986 Vinyl 7" 33 ⅓ RPM      Aaltrack Records - none 02. Nations On Fire, Scraps - Strike The Match / Wrapped Up In This Society, 1992 CD Compilation      Strive Records - STR-02 , Compilation      Contains 29 songs by: Nations On Fire, Scraps Back to basics - back to the caves! Nations On Fire were an OK Belgian hardcore punk outfit, and Scraps were a French thrashcore band who sounded like an accelerated version of the UK anarchopunk thing, but way more mediocre: fast but sloppy, noisy but not as extreme as Lärm, angry but juvenile - this weak guitar sound, those atrocious vocals! NoF delivered the generic HC thing, the formula was well understood, but they appeared in the early 90s and by then they already sounded retro, without added personality or intensity or virtuosity to make their music noticeable, aka a waste of my time.  Lyrics wise, both bands inflict on their audience the ridiculous, prepubescent, irritatingly conformist mantras you'd expect from militant automatons. The depth of a beer can, the thinking power of a brick. I have tried to sell these discs for decades but nobody wants them. Remove brackets and unzip: [www.partidemission.org] !ZER Nations On Fire, Scraps ZER!