Apator - Het Geluid Kruipt (1989)

So I can finally rip vinyl. Unfortunately, I can't scan covers, but nevermind. Here's the only 7" I own from the mighty Apator, as mentioned in my savant metal post. There's no metal here, just lo-fi electronic and vocal evil. Oppressive atmosphere. Worth listening. Noisebastard exclusive. Yo.

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Whore - Suicide Massacre (2005)

Satisfyingly abrasive UKBM from the nightmarish Ballardian sprawl of Essex. Long tracks of unrelenting VON-influenced black metal, drenched in white noise and underpinned by the monolithic monotony of a distorted drum machine. The vocals are heavily effected, rising like ghosts from the acrid miasma and screaming incomprehensible invective. Cover of VON's "Satanic Blood" is better than most.

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P.S. Sorry, I only have this ripped as a 128kbps WMA file and can't find the CD, but with music this lo-fi it's really not that important.

Slashing Death - Irrevocably and With No Hope (1989)

Vintage Polish savagery from this pre-Vader unit. Although ostensibly a black/thrash record, this is so raw and chaotic that the faster moments sound like 7 Minutes of Nausea on a metal tip. Plenty of splashing cymbals, manic guitar abuse and guttural vocals make for a thrilling listen. Parts of this bear comparison to Blasphemy and their progeny, but with a near-psychedelic looseness few war metal bands achieve. Some of it even made me think of Peter Brotzmann, for no good reason. The token "ambient" intro with Santana guitar and machine gun fire is a vintage treat, too.

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Skull Hell - Death Lust Demo (2009)

Something I finally recorded today that I've been planning for a long time. Unlistenably raw BM in tribute to all those 80s demo bands no one remembers (but I'll be uploading here). Let me know what you think.

1. Death Lust
2. Cruelty of the Grave
3. The Burning
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Abstract Satan - Demo 7512 (2004)

Insane black metal from the wilds of Russia. Unlike the vast majority of Eastern European BM, this is bestial, ritualistic BM in the vein of VON and Havohej, rather than Burzum-indebted or folk-influenced. The production is a bass-heavy chthonic rumble, but everything is fairly audible. The vocals are heavily VON-influenced, but the liberal amounts of reverb make them sound even more inhuman. Programmed drums don't sound overly artificial, and keep a steady hypnotic grind (these short songs feel much longer than they are). This came out in 2004 in an appropriately obscurist edition of 66 copies, so I hope they don't mind me making it more widely available.

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Svaty Vincent - S/T LP (1990)

From the Savant Metal article:

One of the oddest records to come from the nascent second wave of Black Metal, and a personal vinyl collecting holy grail. Loosely aligned with the Iron Curtain-era Czech scene (Root, Master's Hammer, Tudor), this is the frankly baffling work of one Vincent Venera, plus whoever he got to abuse various instruments as backing to his unique utterances. Perhaps one of the greatest vocal performances ever committed to tape, Mr. Venera grunts and shrieks his (presumably Czech) lyrics about Satan and Marijuana, over the kind of musical backing that, if presented on an American Tapes lathe LP in an edition of 16, would get David Keenan ejaculating from here until passover. As it is, this record sounds like the riotous speedevil of Venom and the first Bathory LP, choked with paint thinner until they descend/ascend into the brilliant sphere of pure musical torture. Like a far less intentional form of the "black noise" peddled by Abruptum etc., it veers between sheer comedy and sheer nightmare-inducing tragedy. Perhaps most disturbing of all is the applause that follows a few of the live cuts, suggesting something very troubling about the immediate post-revolution Czech mindset...

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Black Metal was invented in 1971.

Seriously.