Record collection, Part 6, Bi - Bl 3/6-14

The Birthday Party - Funhouse (LP)
A-Lad-Insane (1982)
Like "The Front Row Is Not For The Fragile", Lydia Lunch does an appearance on one track and that is it. Otherwise a really good live recording from Bremen in 1982.

The Birthday Party - It's Still Living (LP)
Missing Link (1985)
Another live recording, better sound quality and a more official release than a lot of others since it's Missing Link.

The Birthday Party - The Peel Sessions II (12'')
Strange Fruit (1988)
Recorded in 1981.

Black Sabbath - S/T (LP)
Vertigo (1970) / NEMS (1976)
Classic.

Black Sabbath - Paranoid (LP)
Vertigo (1970) / NEMS (1976)
Classic.

Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality (LP)
Vertigo (1971)
Classic.

Record collection, Part 5, The Birthday Party 23/5-14

Now, we've really reached one of the favorite sections in my record collection.

The Birthday Party - Prayers On Fire (LP)
1981 (4AD)
First official BP album and an amazing debut it is.

The Birthday Party / Lydia Lunch - Drunk On The Popes Blood / The Agony Is The Ecstacy (12'')

1982 (Missing Link)

BP side is, as it says on the cover, 16 minutes of hell. A classic live recording.

LL side is just one long track.

The Birthday Party - Junk Yard (LP)
1982 (4AD)
More furious and harder hitting tracks than Prayers On Fire. Considered the best output by some.

The Birthday Party - The Front Row Is Not For The Fragile (LP)

1982 (Tuff Monk Records)

A semi-okay live bootleg. The only reason Lunch is portrayed/mentioned on the cover is that she performs one song with BP.

The Birthday Party - The Friend Catcher (12'')
1983 (4AD)
Singles compilation EP.

 The Birthday Party - The Bad Seed (12'')
1983 (4AD)

The Birthday Party - Mutiny! (12'')
1983 (Mute)

The last two studio recordings by BP. The recording session for Mutiny was also released as a DVD a while back, where it really shows that BP (by then) were disintegrating.
At the same time, the tracks on these two 12'' LP's are amongst the best tracks by the band.

Record collection, Part 4, BE - BI , 21/5-14

I'm back, with a new receiver, and eager as hell to continue this venture!

Bethlehem - Sardonischer Untergang Im Zeichen Irreligiöser Darbietung (LP)
1998 (Red Stream Inc.)
Album title reads S.U.I.Z.I.D. and you get that feeling, Bethlehems early albums was so friggin' dark and angstridden so nothing could compare. Not as great as Dark Metal or Dictius Te Nicare, but great anyway.

Bethlehem - Reflektionen Auf's Sterben (12'')
1998 (Red Stream Inc.)

Birdflesh - Alive Autopsy (LP)
2001 (Leather Rebel Records)
Bought this around it's realease. Birdflesh are always funny, but re-listening this also made it very clear that musically they make excellent grindcore as well.

Birdflesh - Catheter - Time To Face Extinction (Split-LP)
2004 (Civilisation Records)
Not as good as Alive Autopsy and Catheter isn't anything special.

Birdflesh - Mongo Musicale (LP)
2006 (Candlelight Records USA)
A bit harder, more metal and better recording than Alive Autopsy. Alive Autopsy may live a little more on nostalgia, since it was the first album I heard and I probably got this a couple of years after its release. But lyrically it isn't as amusing as AA.

Boys Next Door (The Birthday Party) - The Birthday Party (LP)
1980 (Missing Link)
Originally released as the Boys Next Door album, re-released two years later as a Birthday Party album.
I consider Birthday Party to be one of the most important artists/groups/bands in my life. The early Nick Cave albums (which we'll come to eventually) have also played a very significant role. The arrogance in the music, the darkness in the lyrics, the danger constantly present in the sound and the snottyness in the Birthday Party phenomenon is amazing.

Record collection, Part 3, B - BE - 24/3-14

 No project goes without kinks. I just got me a new pair of speakers, but yesterday my reciever died. So I need to sort this problem out before this journey continues. These are the few I could go through before shit happened.

B.Dolan - Live Evel (12'')
2008 (Strange Famous Records)
I came across B.Dolan when I got completly hooked on Sage Francis second album A Healthy Distrust and went to Strange Famous website in order to find more great music.
B.Dolans poetic approach in the earlier stuff is really amazing and there is this poetry slam clip of him performing Still Electric which is the opening track of his debut album The Failure.
I really love the mixture of hiphop and spoken word in his early stuff.

Bestial Mockery - Christcrushing Hammerchainsaw (LP)
2002 (Metal Blood Music)
Bought this when it was released I was extremely into the whole underground Black Metal-thing. This is thrashy and trashy Black Metal. It feels a bit outdated in my world these days, even though my first tattoo was taken from the backside of the cover.

Bethlehem - Du Sollst Dich Töten (Pic-LP)
1999 (Red Stream Inc.)
This is the vinyl version of Dictius Te Nicare, which is in my opinion their best album!
For some reason they changed the name of the album when it was released on vinyl. Anyway, Bethlehem was the first (only? best?) dark metal act and the angst present in this music is beyond me. This was a great band back then, the newer stuff turned into goth or something and is not at all as good.

Record collection, Part 2, AN - AS - 21/3-14

Okay, day 2.

Anaal Nathrakh - Eschaton (LP)
2006 (Season Of Mist)
I still listen quite a lot to The Codex Necro from time to time, this is a later album and not as violent and harsh, but more melodic and "catchy", with clean vocals here and there. Probably the first time in a lot of years I listen to this.

The Anals - Total Anal (LP)
2009 (Permanent Records)
The Anals consist of at least one member from A.H. Kraken, but this isn't as no wave-y, this is lo-fi synth/punk no wave with a wonderful musical arrogance. It's dirty, not in sync all the time and really, really great!

Arsonists Get All The Girls - Hits From The Bow / The Game Of Life (2-LP)
2007 (Process Records)
Bought this straight from the label back when it was released, my old band was in contact with Process Records in order for them to release our debut album in the States, but it fell through and the label called it quits, or so they told us.
Anyway, Hits From The Bow is great and humorous death/grind with math influences and there's a very cool and funny Iron Maiden-rip off track in the beginning of the album. I listen to this album every now and then. The Game Of Life was not as good, more standard metal, which made it more boring.

Artemisia Absinthium / Weasel Walter - S/T / Big Death (Split-LP)
2009 (Heart & Crossbone / Wee Wee / Saucisses Lentilles / Electric Junk / Amertune-Corruption / Bande Noir Records)
The Artemisia Absinthium side is like a jazz-infused The Locust, that hysterical grind-/hardcore but with brass instruments as well.
The Weasel Walter side is noiserock extravaganza and experimental weirdness.

Asterisk* - Dogma I: Death Of A Dromologist (LP)
2000 (Three One G)
A favorite band within the extreme music scene. Asterisk* is probably one of the best grindcore bands Sweden has ever had to offer. So intense, extreme, raw and violent. I love this album.

Asterisk* - Dogma V: Decomposing Dogma (LP)
2004 (Lady Godiva Operations)
Masami Akita (Merzbow) and Lasse Marhaug rip, chop and slice Asterisk*-tracks beyond recognition.

Record collection, Part 1, # - AL - 20/3-14

Since I'm studying at home more or less every day, I decided to start a new project, I'm gonna listen through all my vinyls (LP's, 12''s, 10''s and 7''s).

Since this is a rather interesting experience, going through 14 years of vinyl purchases stretching over different genre-focused periods of my life (and it's gonna be really weird genre-jumps here and there, I promise), I thought I could might as well share this with you.

The order will be: LP's/12''s from #-Z, then 10''s and lastly the 7''s. Alphabetically and chronologically. 
There won't be any extensive reviews of the records, I'm gonna keep it short, to keep your interest up and to limit my time in front of the blog, since main focus should be reading about charismatic christianity and pentecostalism.
So here we go, Part 1.

7 Year Rabbit Cycle - Wind Machines (LP)
2004 (Free Porcupine Society)
A great album by a favorite artist, but I prefer the previous album Animal People. The weird mixture of folk/psych/experimental/noiserock  makes this a musical masterpiece.
I stumbled across this is in a used record store in Stockholm, hadn't heard anything by them but a friend of mine had mentioned this album to me, certain that I would like it. And I really did.

8-Eyed Spy - S/T (LP)

1981 (Fetish Records)

A short-lived Lydia Lunch project (they dissolved because they got too popular) after Teenage Jesus & The Jerks. Funky and catchy No Wave with Jim Sclavunos (now a Grinderman and a Bad Seed) on drums.

Found it at a market in Berlin.

13th Floor Elevators - Fire In My Bones (LP)

1985 (Texas Archive Recordings)

A compilation of TV, live and studio recordings and short interviews. I've always preferred 13th Floor Elevators to Roky Erickson later stuff. A record fair find.

A.H. Kraken - Elle avait peut-être 19 ans mais pour moi elle en aura toujours 12 (LP)

2008 (In The Red Records)

The new wave of No Wave from France. Really echoing of '78-'81 No Wave as well as Arab On Radar. A highly recommended album for fans of DNA, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks and newer No Wave/Noiserock.

 

A.H. Kraken - Tatiana (S/S 12'')

2009 (Gaffer Records / Down Boy Records)

A dirty follow-up 12'', more lo-fi and less "funky" if that is a word to use for this kind of music.

Abruptum - Obscuritatem Advoco Amplectère Me (Pic-LP)
1999 (Blooddawn Productions) / 1993 (Deathlike Silence Productions)

Bought this way back in my limimal phase between Black Metal and Noise, guess I was around 16-17 or so. Back then, this was exactly what I wanted to do, one foot in Black Metal and the other in Noise/Experimental, the results will forever be buried in a folder on my hard-drive.

Abruptum - Casus Luciferi (LP)

2004 (Blooddawn Productions / Regain Records)

A lot less Black Metal and more Martial Industrial/Noise than previous outputs, hence Cold Meat Industry releases comes to mind, as a point of reference, and also a little early Sunn O))). Dark and very monotonous.

Alfarmania / Ättestupa - Stenstans Fördärv / Mitt Blod, Min Kropp (Split-LP)
2010 (Release The Bats)
A couple of years ago I was extremely into Ättestupa, listened to them daily. I loved the Post Punk-ish/Black Metal influenced noise they put together.
This is probably the only recording of Alfarmania I have heard, but it's good stuff as well!

Alpinist - Minus.Mensch (LP)
2009 (Alerta Antifascista / Phobiact Records / Contraszt! Records)
Discovered them rather recently, probably during 2012, when I got a tip to check out Momentums second album Herbivore (coming when we get to M), and I browsed through Doomrocks Mailorders website. This is the debut album by austrian Alpinist. Amazing Hardcore. Highly recommended!

Alpinist - Lichtlaerm (LP)
2010 (Vendetta Records / Phobiact Records)
Actually even better than the debut.

Playlist 18/10 2013

Funeral Mist - Maranatha (2009)



Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum (2007)



Catharsis - Samsara (1997)



Shellac - 1000 Hurts (2000)