"Gods of War"
Blackened Grindcore from Canada (the band broke up in late 1996), originally released by Osmose & then licensed by JLAmerica in 1993. According to the Black Metal List, this CD version purportedly also includes the 1989 demo "Blood Upon the Alter" (yup, they probably meant "Altar"). This is similar to other brutal Canadian (& Australian, too) BM/grind bands, or can compare to a primitive Impaled Nazarene darkness or atmosphere. Still worth checking out as an essential example from Canada, & to help complete your thorough BM collection!
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DETERIORATE
"The Senectuous Entrance"
Import from Denmark (on DIEHARD Music).
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"Rotting in Hell"
Surprisingly great first album by this Pennsylvania deathmetal quartet that has currently metamorphosised into one of America's best Black Metal bands. A great recording that was unfairly overlooked by the majority of big-label-oriented metalheads back when this was released by Turbo/JLAmerica (containing full-color tri-fold booklet with lyrics to all songs) in 1993; shows clearly the proficient calibre of the band even back then. This is truly extreme deathgrind/thrash with technically adept instrumentation able to hurdle beyond raw, albeit more-than-adequate recording production.
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EXCRUCIATING PAIN
"Thou Shall Choose"
Deathish grindcore trio from Hermitage, Tennesee released by Turbo/JLAmerica (w/full-color booklet with lyrics to all songs!) in 1992. Patterned after middle-period Napalm Death &/or early Deicide, this is very listenable (very good recording production) without compromising its strong brutality.
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GOATLORD
(self-titled)
Totally brutal, raw & primitive blackened grindcore classic from Las Vegas, released by Turbo/JLAmerica back in 1992 (originally released as ''Reflections of the Solstice'' by Turbo Germany in '91, this American re-release is a reworked, much-improved & essential version!). Features guest vocals by Mitch Harris (Napalm Death) on three songs (including the truly blackened doom of ''Sacrifice''!). Over 50 headbanging minutes of Satanic mayhem & goat-worshipping insanity!
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MALICIOUS ONSLAUGHT
"Rebellious Mayhem"
Play this LOUD! Because once you get past the low-level (but definitely not lo-fi), reverb-drenched recording production (uneven, because sometimes certain songs are clear & loud), you will find a ripping, raging 8-song album of terrorizing thrash! Technical, blackened death-thrash with titles like "Transgressor", "Beyond Evil", "Rebellious Mayhem", "Thrashed Black", etc.; how can you go wrong, when today (if they were still around) this band would strongly hold their own among the ranks of Absu, Aura Noir, Inferno, Gehennah, Bewitched, & Dark Funeral! 1992's death-grind version of "Bonded By Blood"-era Exodus & Possessed! Re-discover the darkness!
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MORTUARY
"Blackened Images"
Obscure, but classic pioneering blackthrash/death from Mexico; released by Turbo/JLAmerica (w/full-color booklet with English lyrics to all songs!) in 1992. Well-recorded & well-written anti-christian songs about Satan & (gasp!) killing priests, sung with grim blackened deathgrowl (not low) vokills! A good dark atmosphere that still holds up in comparison to current modern Black Metal.
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NOKTURNEL
"Nothing But Hatred"
Speedy & technical death-thrash from this New Jersey trio released by Turbo/JLAmerica (contains color tri-fold booklet with lyrics to all songs) in 1993. Manic double-vocalists attack, gasping out desperate songs of hate, pain, isolation, evil, etc. Raw, but actually well-recorded & catchy deathmetal/grind songs.
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"Penitence"
Brutal blackened death-grind from San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico's cemetary surfing trio. Recorded right before Christmas (when studio rates are at their cheapest, no doubt) in 1992, this is not your average Carcass-loving grindcore band; spiced up with symphonic/melodic-Greek Black Metal style keyboards, & dark atmospheric doom (complete with Iommi/Sabbath-y guitar licks/riffs!) this a refreshing re-discovery of an obscure, but promising band that got overlooked in a climate of Morrisound/Tampa-wannabe bands proliferating the [at that time] trendy scene. A simpler comparison: think Autopsy with keyboards! For true blackened-grind collectors only!
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Various Artists
"Brutal Aggression"
A thrifty, low-risk sampler featuring core bands from the JLA stable: Beherit, Acheron, Goatlord, Deteriorate, Malicious Onslaught, Nokturnel, Morpheus Descends, Vicious Circle, Excruciating Pain, Mortuary, Mutilation, Doom Snake Cult, Dark Half, Excruciation, & Killing Addiction. 15 tracks of extreme/brutal grind/black/strange & obscure metal compiled in this once-overlooked anthology that today's collectors grab whenever they can find them (& can't seem to get enough of)-- well, here it is: easy to get & prices that can't be beat with a spiked-stick! *(Also an essential aid in deciding which full-length albums by the featured bands to get later!!! ;-)
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"JL Turbo Sampler Volume 1"
The first budget-value sampler (cassette only) from JLA-Turbo/Osmose with 18 (count 'em!) tracks by: Immortal, Master's Hammer, Samael, Blasphemy, Impaled Nazarene, Pyogenesis (when they sounded like a No Fashion Records band, complete with female vocals!), Beherit, Crucifix (rare demo track!), Acheron, Deteriorate, Morpheus Descends, Killing Addiction, Nokturnel, Organic Infest, Skeletal Earth, Excruciating Pain, Disastrous
Murmur, & Vicious Circle. Been curious about the releases on this now legendary, now non-existent extreme underground label, but cautious about risking your thin financial reserves? Try this el-cheapo tape & put your curiosity to rest! Satisfy your Satanic craving for brain-scraping brutal grind!
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