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I haven't had time to post in quite a while. Sorry about that. Now that i'm employed and less stressed i think i'll be able to update this blog at least once a month. Since i've last posted on here i've been on a steady grindcore kick. Mostly the classics i guess, with a few oddities thrown in. I can't think of any grindcore band past the '90s that really kicked my ass, aside from maybe Insect Warfare, so there won't be any current stuff for upload in here.
Just stuff i've been digging lately. I've tried to upload as many demos, rehearsals, live tracks and other rarities in here as possible, as well as some harder to find records. Download Neighbours From Hell 2 Full Version For Free Softonic more. As usual, anything ripped from cassette has been cleaned as best as possible. Ghostscript Convert Pdf To Tiff Command Line. All tracks adjusted to the same volume, and all taken from the best possible sources and ripped at 320 (in most cases). The first time i heard grindcore was sometime in 1988.
I was at my friend Vinny's (RIP) house in Nutley, NJ. He took me to the local record store near his place. At the time i had only been into hardcore for about a year, and my favorite album at the time was DRI 'Dealing With It'. So i scanned through the records looking for the LP with the most songs, figuring that would be a safe bet. I came across Napalm Death's 'Scum' album. It had a shitload of songs, a great cover, and sticker on it that said something along the lines of 'world's fastest band'. So of course i grabbed that, and also bought Warzone's 'Don't Forget the Struggle.'
LP, then went back to my friend's house to check out the new tunes. I put on Scum first. Multinational Corporations kicked in and i didn't know what to think, I remember my friend Vinny saying 'what is this crap?' When the grinding started in the middle of the second track i had never heard anything like it. I couldn't even say something like 'Wow, this sounds like Discharge or Celtic Frost at triple the speed' because i had never heard those bands yet. I had no point of reference.
It was just a wall of noise to me. By the fourth or fifth track i took the album off the turntable and broke it over my knee. First press Scum LP in the trash (i cringe every time i think about it).
I just wasn't ready for grindcore that day. Of course a year later i heard it again and loved it. After hearing the Peel Sessions from the Hardcore Holocaust comp, Napalm Death became one of my favorite bands ever. In my opinion, the Pl Sessions they did 25 years ago have never been topped in the genre since. One of the most intense recordings of all time.