Reload: Vopo's

01. Vopo's - Dead Entertainment, 1981 Vinyl LP      Redlux - Vopo 001 02. Vopo's - Conquer, 1983 Vinyl LP Album      Solid Records, Solid Records - S002, SOLID 002 03. Vopo's - The Price Of Being Young, 2005 CD Album      Berlin Wall Productions - none 04. Vopo's - Brand New, 2008 CD Album      Berlin Wall Productions - none Requested: rezerred. Remove brackets and unzip: [pass bitte] !ZER Vopo's ZER!

Vopo's

01. Vopo's - Dead Entertainment, 1981 Vinyl LP      Redlux - Vopo 001 02. Vopo's - Conquer, 1983 Vinyl LP Album      Solid Records, Solid Records - S002, SOLID 002 03. Vopo's - The Price Of Being Young, 2005 CD Album      Berlin Wall Productions - none 04. Vopo's - Brand New, 2008 CD Album      Berlin Wall Productions - none In the glory days of prehistory (no youtube! no bandcamp! oh!), record reviews in fanzines & magazines were a great way to get introduced to new releases. So when I read a super negative review of Vopo's Conquer ("horrible racket from a bunch of punks") from a "journalist" openly fan of Bon Jovi, I knew this was a record for me, and hunted it down (merci Record Mail!). And I was right! I never ceased to worship Conquer for its amazingly catchy alliance of punk and heavy metal. Brilliant song writing, awesome riffs & choruses, excessively memorable headbanging! And unbeatable horrible artwork as any classic LP of the 80s should have. The monster is like the fusion of Tank, English Dogs, Warfare and The Exploited still totally relevant in 2016. Dead Entertainment is much less exciting, but its rerecorded songs on The Price Of Being Young are really great (the rerecorded songs of Conquer are totally amazing). Brand New is another demonstration in high energy punk rock and should not be bypassed. Too bad their reunion did not produce anything else. If you like Bat and The Blood, try Vopo's. Metalopunkizer triplazer forever thrasher! Remove brackets and unzip: [in zer book] !ZER Vopo's ZER!

Vopo's

Dead Entertainment, 1981 Conquer, 1983 The Price Of Being Young, 2005 Brand New, 2008 'Conquer' was already posted in the very beginning of this blog, because it is a fantastic album. Now here comes the rest of Vopo's production, and a new/better (louder) re-rip of the masterpiece Conquer. Yes the cover art is ugly, but the music rips and it was my first experience with what would be called crossover - before Broken Bones, before any other HC/punk band turned metal. I remember buying it because it received very very bad reviews in the metal press as well as in the punk zines. Too punk for the first and too metal for the latter, it had to be great - how would you dare going against the dominant orthodoxy! Red or long hair, you had to choose. And this is the only record I know with a song called Nuclear War that has accordion in it, and it works so well! Conquer is like the perfect mix of English Dogs and Warfare with better guitars. Groovy, heavy, with 12 fists in the air! I was floored then and today this record is still amazing. I wouldn't be so enthusiastic about Dead Entertainment, a collection of below-average-to-tedious basic '77 punk rock... And then they came back in 2005 with a re-recording CD with most of Dead Entertainment and 5 songs from Conquer. This CD RIPSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! They turned the early songs from D.E. into high octane punk anthems and the Conquer tracks into bombs of mid-paced thrash - the guitar picking is INTENSE!!! One of the most AMAZING re-recoding albums ever. If only they had redone the whole Conquer album... The song "In the book" is simply outstanding and sits in all my home made mp3 comps. Then the 2008 Brand New album demonstrates further the power and experience of these guys in the bone-crushing punk department. This is not Green Day! GENUINE KILLER PUNK THRASHING ZZEERR R RRR zerRRrrRrrRR!R!RRrR!Rr !R !RrRR RRRRRRRRRRR! r RR! !R!R!! !!!! CD rip and vinyl rip of : Dead Entertainment: A1 You're Gonna Miss Me Baby A2 God A3 Dead Entertainment A4 Picture A5 Commercials A6 Unifil Soldier A7 Zwolle A8 Uniforms A9 Bathroom A10 Let Them Look at Themselves B1 A Light B2 Communist Rules B3 Friday Till Monday B4 Television Sensation B5 School B6 I Don't Care What People Say B7 City Destroyers B8 We're Gonna Do What We Like B9 E-38 Conquer: 1 Hard and Loud 2 Tonight 3 In the Book 4 Nuclear war 5 Warrior 6 Conquer 7 Get me 8 Speedbanging Babies 9 007 10 Short Joy Buy the two AMAZING CDs directly from their website!

Vopo's - conquer

Vopo's - conquer, Holland 1983 Briliant metallic punk or punkish speed metal with influences from English Dogs, Tank and the Blood. Bang your head. titles Check out this excellent blog