@Tha1ChiefRocka, thanks for the rec! I listened to a bit of it and it was cool. Super high energy HC punk. Will listen to the rest soon and I've added it to my 1983 punk/metal queue. _________________ -Ryan
This is an excellent early Japanese hardcore album. For the most part this is intense, angry as fuck punk rock with some sick vocals that get the mood across. The final track is the title track and it’s a slow, almost sludgy 9 minute monster that almost always sounds like it will become meandering but never does. Instead it grows and creates a really rich, almost Neurosis-level of post-apocalyptic dread which is great! It’s not a perfect 10/10 song, but man it’s a pretty daring way to close out your generally quite fast and savage, cutting hardcore punk record that’s for sure!
I really enjoyed this. I will say I was expecting something more noisy, more unhinged and nuts and wild. I suppose mostly when I think of Japanese Hardcore its Gai, G.I.S.M. and S.O.B. The sound of The Stalin is not that. Indeed, in a lot of ways, the riffs and the attitude here is more akin to Sex Pistols. Usually the tempo is on the fast side but not remotely approaching the absurd speeds of much of the hardcore being released at the time. This style, a bit more purely pissed off punk rock style with that immersive slow dirge at the end, was refreshing after spending lots of time with the likes of D.R.I. recently.
Anyway, really good and would recommend to all you punk rock fans out there.
7.9/10
This looks glorious lol. Love the cover. From the snippets I've heard it's gonna be one hell of a punkfest. Thanks for the rec! _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
@LedZep, hell yeah! Let me know what you think whenever you get around to it! Great cover and a brilliantly antagonizing band name. Great sound as well, of course. _________________ -Ryan
As I slowly make my way chronologically through this project, I find myself skipping ahead often and nibbling at some upcoming goodies. Namely, starting in late 1984 there start coming several absolute game-changers. Bathory's debut, Destruction's amazing Sentence of Death EP, and Celtic Frost's debut are all so kick ass and I just can't wait to get there chronologically. However, considering there are about 60-80 albums betwixt now and them, I will be waiting awhile.
Also, sometimes I lose sight of what truly transcendent albums sound like and this can slowly push my grades and ranks up on albums because I just kind of forget what a true masterpiece does to me. So I have been listening a lot to what I consider truly PERFECT albums within this musical family of genres. The main touchpoints in the last couple months have been Slayer's Reign In Blood (the perfect album) and Ad Nauseam's Imperative Imperceptible Impulse (an album that has recently become a favorite and an album that never fails to blow my mind). Throw in some Neurosis albums and there you go. Those are the albums that keep me honest and not so eager to give a 9 or 8.5 or 10 out to every album I really enjoy.
It's been awhile since I've featured a 9.2 or higher album on this project. Minor Threat's first 2 EPs, and Black Flag's Damaged are the only true masterpieces (to my ears) that I have talked about here. And even those don't quite have the wholistic, masterpiece LP, transcendence that I associate with Reign In Blood or Through Silver In Blood or Imperative Imperceptible Impulse. They are hardcore releases, and there is just something different going on with those than a true masterwork. I don't even know how to describe it.
Anyway... I guess looking ahead to the dozens of 1983 albums coming there are several that could be revelations and there are some real goodies. But I am chomping at the bit to get to '85-'87 albums when a bunch of absolute masterpieces start dropping left and right.
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In other news I've been listening a bit to this band called Radiohead lately and man... they are really good. Great, even. In Rainbows is an album I have not been giving enough credit to.
As I slowly make my way chronologically through this project, I find myself skipping ahead often and nibbling at some upcoming goodies. Namely, starting in late 1984 there start coming several absolute game-changers. Bathory's debut, Destruction's amazing Sentence of Death EP, and Celtic Frost's debut are all so kick ass and I just can't wait to get there chronologically. However, considering there are about 60-80 albums betwixt now and them, I will be waiting awhile.
Also, sometimes I lose sight of what truly transcendent albums sound like and this can slowly push my grades and ranks up on albums because I just kind of forget what a true masterpiece does to me. So I have been listening a lot to what I consider truly PERFECT albums within this musical family of genres. The main touchpoints in the last couple months have been Slayer's Reign In Blood (the perfect album) and Ad Nauseam's Imperative Imperceptible Impulse (an album that has recently become a favorite and an album that never fails to blow my mind). Throw in some Neurosis albums and there you go. Those are the albums that keep me honest and not so eager to give a 9 or 8.5 or 10 out to every album I really enjoy.
It's been awhile since I've featured a 9.2 or higher album on this project. Minor Threat's first 2 EPs, and Black Flag's Damaged are the only true masterpieces (to my ears) that I have talked about here. And even those don't quite have the wholistic, masterpiece LP, transcendence that I associate with Reign In Blood or Through Silver In Blood or Imperative Imperceptible Impulse. They are hardcore releases, and there is just something different going on with those than a true masterwork. I don't even know how to describe it.
Anyway... I guess looking ahead to the dozens of 1983 albums coming there are several that could be revelations and there are some real goodies. But I am chomping at the bit to get to '85-'87 albums when a bunch of absolute masterpieces start dropping left and right.
Damaged is totally a wholistic, transcendent MASTERPIECE! 😜😈
As are...
Kill 'Em All
Melissa
Killers & Piece Of Mind
Screaming For Vengeance
Album - Generic Flipper
Group Sex
Ace Of Spades & Overkill
And I'll take Kill 'Em All over Master Of Puppets any day of the week.
The early '80s positively RULED when it came to metal & punk. Just ask Slayer!
😜 >
ps: Keep taking your time your time. Your project is now biblical to my eyes & ears!!! 😈
MercuryTurn your back on the pay-you-back last callProfile St. Louis
As I slowly make my way chronologically through this project, I find myself skipping ahead often and nibbling at some upcoming goodies. Namely, starting in late 1984 there start coming several absolute game-changers. Bathory's debut, Destruction's amazing Sentence of Death EP, and Celtic Frost's debut are all so kick ass and I just can't wait to get there chronologically. However, considering there are about 60-80 albums betwixt now and them, I will be waiting awhile.
Also, sometimes I lose sight of what truly transcendent albums sound like and this can slowly push my grades and ranks up on albums because I just kind of forget what a true masterpiece does to me. So I have been listening a lot to what I consider truly PERFECT albums within this musical family of genres. The main touchpoints in the last couple months have been Slayer's Reign In Blood (the perfect album) and Ad Nauseam's Imperative Imperceptible Impulse (an album that has recently become a favorite and an album that never fails to blow my mind). Throw in some Neurosis albums and there you go. Those are the albums that keep me honest and not so eager to give a 9 or 8.5 or 10 out to every album I really enjoy.
It's been awhile since I've featured a 9.2 or higher album on this project. Minor Threat's first 2 EPs, and Black Flag's Damaged are the only true masterpieces (to my ears) that I have talked about here. And even those don't quite have the wholistic, masterpiece LP, transcendence that I associate with Reign In Blood or Through Silver In Blood or Imperative Imperceptible Impulse. They are hardcore releases, and there is just something different going on with those than a true masterwork. I don't even know how to describe it.
Anyway... I guess looking ahead to the dozens of 1983 albums coming there are several that could be revelations and there are some real goodies. But I am chomping at the bit to get to '85-'87 albums when a bunch of absolute masterpieces start dropping left and right.
Damaged is totally a wholistic, transcendent MASTERPIECE! 😜😈
As are...
Kill 'Em All
Melissa
Killers & Piece Of Mind
Screaming For Vengeance
Album - Generic Flipper
Group Sex
Ace Of Spades & Overkill
And I'll take Kill 'Em All over Master Of Puppets any day of the week.
The early '80s positively RULED when it came to metal & punk. Just ask Slayer!
😜 >
ps: Keep taking your time your time. Your project is now biblical to my eyes & ears!!! :twisted:
Well, thanks regarding my diary.
Regarding those albums and what I mean by "wholistic transcendent LP Masterpiece" or whatever: well, what i mean is an album that has a distinct sound and atmosphere with somewhat of a theme and a flow. Maybe there is a certain patching-together of the tracks like its a narrative or a whole picture made with all the smaller parts/songs. Also, I have to love it, like adore it lol. That is where the masterpiece part comes in.
I feel like the album closest to that that I could pick up from my listens is Damaged. There does seem to be a theme and a sound and atmosphere through most of that classic. But there are also tracks that, while great, seem to not be there to forward the flow or atmosphere of the album - "TV Party" for example.
As for the Minor Threat EPs, besides the fact that they are 2 separate 6-10 minute EPs and thus of course don't have an innate flow or narrative, they also feel like just a set of GREAT hardcore punk songs, with very little thought to having some deeper theme or flow.
Kill Em All doesn't quite fit this wholistic masterpiece LP archetype either. Nor does Group Sex or Ace of Spades etc. Possibly Melissa will and I look forward to delving into that album now that I have fallen in love with their classic Debut EP. Possibly Piece of Mind. I am coming to the conclusion that perhaps its my Fave Iron Maiden. But I don't recall a overarching theme, or flow or atmosphere. I remember the songs are just perfect chiseled nuggets of that distinctly brilliant Maiden brand of Heavy Metal... each song its own contained story. Possibly Generic Flipper, but honestly I have heard it once and haven't given it the time and attention it deserves.
Obviously, this classification of album is very very personal and I am just now really delving into it for myself.
Through Silver In Blood by Neurosis fits my concept of Transcendent Wholistic LP Masterpice because it has
-a distinct sound obviously
-a distinct atmosphere clearly
-a definite flow and journey or arc
and, most importantly and the factor that makes this classification borderline useless person to person
-its a 10/10 album
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