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You can order stuff from me and I can bring it to you at the following shows:
27.-30.08.08 Hole In The Sky Festival - Bergen
(w/At The Gates, Carcass, Possessed and more)
26.-28.09.08 Maiden Massacre Fest II - ??, Oslo
(w/General Surgery, Grind Crusher, Asphyx and more)
02.10.08 Nile - Garage, Oslo (w/Grave, Severe Torture, Omnium Gatherum)
29.07.08
I have returned from Czech, and I have written a small report which will be published shortly. I got into some technical issues with the photos, so hang on!
Some new items are in the webshop now!
01.05.08
Poster by Kristian / Obliteration
Diskord
Execration
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A few weekends ago weekend was the second Oslo Death Fest. The whole thing started out the previous year by local death metal bands Diskord, Grotesque Hysterectomy and Abominat teaming up for a one night show. But this year, thanks to Alex of GH, Death Fest had turned into a full-fledged two days festival featuring eight bands of which seven local. Basically this means the entire local death metal scene except Abominat, dearly missed. Club Maiden provided a safe haven for around 140 death metal devotees this weekend. First out was Kristiansund's The Sickening, who played brutal death metal in a style that, to the best of my knowledge, no other Norwegian bands have been doing so far; hyper-triggered drums with all sorts of modern full speed techniques (Moeller technique, heel-toe bass drumming and God knows what else, pardon my ignorance). The drummer was even wearing a set of rather colossal earphones. Next up was Deject, who, in addition to featuring vocalist Erik of Abominat, also had recruited Obliteration drummer Kristian. Brutal death metal with a mid tempo edge was their game. My own band Diskord also proudly participated in the encore of last year's success. Without too many noticeable errors we managed to stumble through a totally new song, which will be featured on our sophomore album, hopefully in the not too distant future. Last band this evening was The Allseeing I, who play death metal with an emphasis on the technical aspect.
A new day first brought Kraanium, who play slam death metal. A sub-genre also quite uncharted here in Norway, and, may I add, a cup of tea I would normally discretely feed to the plants. But these guys did a quite convincing live show which didn't sound too new school to me. The boys were wearing size XXXL shirts, the guitar player even sporting baggy pants big enough to go shop lifting for rather large stereo decks. Execration up next, as usual they played their death metal quite dark and down-tuned, obviously inspired by more than one Immolation album. This evening they also did a cover of Autopsy's Twisted Mass of Burnt Decay, which of course got my approving thumb! Grotesque Hysterectomy did a very decent show this evening. They play quite brutal death metal, yet with a certain old school vibe. For
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this evening the bass player had taken the vocal duties as well, but what impressed me was that they sounded tighter and clearer than before. Last band out were the Obliteration guys, who play pure old school death metal. No surprises here; yet another great show from the young guys, and they even dedicated a song to Diskord in a very flattering tone, so thanks a lot, guys!
13.04.08
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In Hungary you have at least two active printzines that provide a very interesting read. One of them is Shrunken & Mummified, the other one just came out in its 2nd issue, the name is Deadly Illness. It may not have great layout, instead editor Csaba's focus is, as always, on the music itself. Being purely focused on old school death metal, in addition to covering wellknown acts such as Death Breath, Csaba digs deep among new and obscure bands to provide you the chance to discover bands like Hungary's Catalepsy, Finland's Gorephilia and Germany's Hatespawn. You will also find an interview with my band Diskord (and reviews of almost every recording I have ever participated on myself, he-he. And a picture of my
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old but trusty Tascam tape deck!). Everything is written in a very laid-back, un-pretentious tone. Csaba promises that this will be the last issue to exclusively feature old school death metal, but I am sure by the time issue 3 is out, it will reek just as much of smelly, old death. You may get your copy from Csaba through his Myspace page. I also have some copies in my distro.
04.03.08
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This weekend I played live in Trondheim with my band Grind Crusher and you can read a small report here.
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22.02.07
| Between 1992 and 1995 I played in a death metal band called Infanticide. Probably very few have actually heard this band. I thought the songs were more than good enough to be of interest to the old school death metal community, so 10-15 years later the time was long overdue to produce a Myspace page and some tapes. You can stream 3 minute samples from 3 songs at the Myspace page, but if you want to enjoy these (zombie) puppies in their entirety, you need to download the MP3's or get a tape from the address given at the Myspace page. Enjoy! http://www.myspace.com/infanticidenorway
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18.12.07
Here is a new batch of bands that have sent me promo packages. Check out these bands if you think you're hip to be square, some of them are very good and may very well be the next talk of the town.
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Angstridden
Blasting black metal from Greece. There is no doubt these guys are inspired by Norwegian black metal bands like Zyklon-B, Dødheimsgard, 1349 and Satyricon (the latter providing inspiration for the band name as well). Yet what Angstridden might lack in originality they consummately compensate for by being great riff-makers. http://www.myspace.com/angstriddensociety
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Parlamentarisk Sodomi
Norwegian grindcore, great band from the West Coast with a new sexual insight on Norwegian politics. They are still a drum machine band though, which unfortunately is a thorn in my ear. http://www.myspace.com/sodomi
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Sakatat
Turkish grindcore. These guys have already released a split 7" EP with Agathocles. Vocalist Semih is also the editor of the great grind/death zine Impact Drill. http://www.myspace.com/sakatat
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Terrorazor
German grindcore. Their name suggests analogies to Terrorizer, unfortunately their musicianship and songwriting skills suggest differently, sorry guys! http://www.myspace.com/terrorazorgrind
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Töxik Death
80's induced primitive thrashpunk from Norway in the vein of DRI, Venom, Kreator, Infernö and probably heaps more. http://www.myspace.com/txicfire
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Violent Gorge
These Canadians sent me their 'Grind Appreciation' tape consisting of grindcore/goregrind in the vein of fellow countrymen Putrescence, Dahmer and Archagathus mixed with a dash of Euro-goregrind. Brutal stuff, highly appreciated! http://www.myspace.com/violentgorge
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12.12.07
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The zine is alive and kicking. And some zines are even laid out in the antiquated way with a pair of scissors! Black Blood zine of Greece is one of them, out now in its 4th incarnation. To reach editor Unholy Sodomizer you even need to send a good old letter! This issue is very internationally oriented, with interviews of Canada's Prosanctus Inferi, Finland's Lathspell, Chile's Chainsaw, Singapore's Istidraj, Brazil's Catacumba, and so on. There is also an in-depth interview with yours truly! Wow, the layout makes the interview look like it was done 20 years ago, he-he. That would make me nearly 50 years old, aargh! I have a few of the hand-numbered copies available in my distro. Or you can wipe the dust of those
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envelopes and stamps you planned to send Grandma for Christmas '87 and contact Unholy Sodomizer at Ayfandis Dimitrios, PO Box 3350, 10210 Athens, Greece.
12.12.07
I recently came across an interesting statement from the Finnish death metal band Slugathor while browsing Abhorrent Decay webzine. Although I can not say I concur 100% to all that is being stated (I don't have anything against Swedes, and I personally would not express my opinions in such a harsh manner), you can read what they have to say
here.
23.11.07
I haven't released any new vinyl records for over a year now, but rest assured thet new releases will keep on coming. I regularly feed the distro with some new items through trades and wholesale purchases, my distro stock is now nearly 250 different items, constantly growing in a slow pace. Next planned NPP! release is a Regurgitate / Dead Infection split 7" EP. I have been waiting for Dead Infection's contribution for some time now. The Regurgitate music and artwork is finished. Other than that I will be releasing an EP by one of my two own bands, Grind Crusher (my other one being Diskord). Grind Crusher is a new brutal grindcore band, and a split EP is planned. I am in loose talks with another cool new band to share the split with. No death metal releases are currently planned, so if you play old school death metal, this might be your chance!
24.10.07
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The unholy Swedish grindcore trio of Regurgitate, Retaliation and Sayyadina is coming here to Oslo in December, and I will be playing live as well with my new band Grind Crusher. Expect very fast and brutal grindcore with lots of D-beats and blastbeats from our new band. Of course I will bring all my NPP! merch as well.
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Update: Wow, this was a great night! Norwegian webzine Eternal Terror have published a report from the show (in Norwegian language) and an additional photo gallery for each band: Regurgitate, Grind Crusher, Retaliation and Sayyadina.
30.09.07
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This weekend I ran into Dave "Grave" Hollingshead at the local Club Maiden. Wow, the godfather of blastbeats in person! He had come all the way from Flint, Michigan to install packaging machines for the dairy industry. I had the honour of enjoying a long talk about one-foot blastbeats, Helga who lost her head and other interesting subjects.
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24.09.07
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For better or worse, tapetrading is definitely a lost art, but other ancient traditions prevails. And what could serve as a better example of this than a new issue of the French fanzine Putrefactive Effect, hot from the press? Jim, the editor, has switched from 50-50 French/English language for the first issue, into a full-fledged English version this time. Like you would expect from a fanzine, interviews and reviews in abundance is the main content here, with Ydin, Ignivomous, Charnier, Banisher, Pestifer, Severance, Deathevocation, Afterlife Productions, Forbidden Cult and Enthrallment. In addition there are some cool feature articles like 'Blind test', where editors of prominent zines Shrunken & Mummified and
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Necroscope battle each other in know-how. There's a 3-page in-depth interview with my band Diskord as well, which of course is a great honour, and hopefully a good reading. Old school death metal is the key subject for Jim both in his writing and aesthetics, but if you are into thrash/black metal or goregrind surely you will find something worth reading inside his putrid rag. You can order a copy from my distro (head on to the 'Magazines' section), or get it from Jim directly via his e-mail address.
19.09.07
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I will be going to the Bloodshed Fest in Eindhoven, The Netherlands in October. No, not to sell records, but to see some extremely cool bands live, namely Regurgitate, Dead Infection and Agathocles! But of course I would be happy to bring some records down to sell or trade, so get in touch if you are going there as well. Great distros like Power It Up, Revenge, Regurgitated Semen and Bones Brigade will be setting up shops, so hopefully I will be coming back with some cool trades for the distro. You can rest assured that I will provide a report from the event in this very necroblog.
Update: The festival was great, and I have written a festival report that you can read here.
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06.09.07
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For the last years Sweden has been maybe the only country with a really vital scene of newcomers playing old school death metal. Bands like Kaamos, Necrovation, Nominon, Verminous, Paganizer, Deathevocation, Demonical, Ceremonial Execution, Karnarium, Ribspreader, Sworn, Revokation, Tribulation, Evocation, Vomination and probably heaps more, are all more or less worth checking out (how 'new' some of these bands are may of course vary). The first, and unfortunately last, full length album from arguably the cream of this crop
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has finally been pressed on vinyl, quite some time after its recording and initial CD release. Repugnant's 'The Epitome Of Darkness', again released by Soulseller Records, who did the CD version as well as the 'Premature Burial' 7". You may get the album on LP (in 666 copies) or picture disc (in 333 copies). Unfortunately the band has split up, so don't expect anything more from this constellation. You may order a copy from my webshop, or directly from Soulseller.
http://www.myspace.com/epitomeofdarkness
http://www.soulsellerrecords.com
The remaining vinyl catalogue from Repugnant includes the above-mentioned 'Premature Burial' 7", perhaps the most sought-after release from this band, quite a nice looking picture disc with a pro-printed backing card, but nothing really exciting music-wise, comprising the title track in an early, crude mix from the album recording, as well as a Nihilist cover and some live tracks (500 copies in 2004). Going backwards getting to the Split 7" with Pentacle, which simply has a cover song from both bands, Repugnant does a track by to me unknown Swedish band Obscurity (100 copies on clear red vinyl, 400 black copies on To The Death Records in 2002). Finally we get to the 'Hecatomb' EP, originally split released as a 7" by To The Death Records and Dead Monkey Records in 1999 on 500 hand numbered transparent red copies, then re-released as a 12" on black vinyl by Hammerheart in 2000. Being a Hammerheart re-release you would think it's probably scrap iron, but the 12" has totally different, quite nice old-school layout, and also includes an extra track not found on the original. These three studio tracks (and a Celtic Frost cover) are quite cool and worth checking out for those hungry of some more flesh to feast upon from this short-lived sensation.
23.07.07
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A third edition of Turkey's great underground zine Impact Drill has hit the streets, and for this issue editor Semih asked
me to compile a Norwegian scene report, an assignment which I took on with great enthusiasm. Of course trying to be as
complete and accurate as possible turned out to be a real ball-buster. Whether I was up to the task
you may find out for yourself by ordering a copy from Semih at his e-mail address.
Impact Drill is a proper old-school-as-hell printed fanzine and features articles, interviews and reviews of current
releases in mainly death metal and grindcore. Some of the bands featured are Poland and Germany's grind gods, Dead Infection
and Blood, as well as great Finnish old school death metal act
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Lie In Ruins. Hopefully I will get copies in the distro soon.
If you normally don't read printzines, why not use this opportunity to start?
http://www.impactdrillzine.cjb.net
Update: You may order this zine from my distro stock now. Head on to the 'Magazines' section.
26.04.07
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Diskord did a gig last Friday called 'Oslo Death Fest' with support from brutal death metal bands Grotesque
Hysterectomy and Abominat at Club Maiden. The concert was a great success, more than 150 people showed up,
despite numerous other concerts around the same time in tiny Oslo. We also sold a lot of T-shirts and CD's. Thanks to
everyone who showed up! DJ's for the evening were Sindre from Obliteration and the mighty Fenriz. The Obliteration guys
gave me a promo of their new album 'Perpetual Decay', which I have been listening a lot to the
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last days. It's nice to see there is a new rise of old school death metal bands in Norway. Obliteration sounds just like 1992's Tampa, Florida, although the guys were barely out of their diapers at the time, he-he. The album is released by Tyrant Syndicate,
a sub-label of Peaceville run by Fenriz and Nocturno Culto of Darkthrone. Release date for the CD is set for May 28.
http://www.obliteration.tk,
http://www.tyrantsyndicate.com
12.04.07
Easter time in Oslo means it is once again time for the Inferno, the annual 30 band metal festival which involves the usual
reserved Norwegian crowd, steep beer prices as well as hopefully a few cool bands. This year with a fairly interesting
lineup of bands like Brutal Truth, Lobotomized, Rotten Sound, Suffocation, Watain,
Immortal, Dødheimsgard and Sodom.
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Wednesday, the day before the festival, my band Diskord did a successful show at the Elm Street pub together with
avant-garde metal band She Said Destroy and thrashers Manngard. About 150 paid at the door, thanks to everyone
who showed up. Thursday, first evening of Inferno, and time for SUFFOCATION's first Norwegian appearance. To my amazement
they played a lot of old songs with all the speed and intensity. A few new songs as well, but it never became boring.
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The show in its entirety sounded to me as if executed flawlessly. Recommended liveband! The same evening Swedish black metalers WATAIN also did a
good show, this time with only a mild scent of unwashed crotch from their trademark pig's blood makeup, thank God!
Friday Finland was represented by veteran grindcore outfit ROTTEN SOUND, doing a very brutal show with mostly blastbeats all
the way. Good, steady drummer, no fuzz or frills, just straight grindcore. Between the songs they acted the stereotype of
the laconic Finns with very few words to say, great! IMMORTAL were the headliners this evening, unfortunately having some
minor sound problems, which seemed to put the band off completely. Strange for such a pro liveband. And when is this
over-the-top staccato triggering of the drums going to end? Come on people!
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Saturday started off with two great bands, first off Norwegian punk-death sewer trash LOBOTOMIZED. Sporting a toilet on
stage as well as a trash can from which they handed out giveaways to female crowd members who exposed themselves. Nice..
With all the stuff happening in addition to the music, it's somehow easy to forget they play great death metal in the vein
of Autopsy and Abscess, and this time they had the best sound of the entire festival. Next up was grindcore godfathers
BRUTAL TRUTH. Of course it was great to finally behold this legend live, and their spastic drummer in particular, but my
problem with this group live is that their newer recordings are fairly chaotic, and playing them even faster live doesn't
help. Old classics from the 'Extreme Conditions..' era like 'Stench Of Prophet' and 'Ill-Neglect' also suffered from
this. Cross-over black
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metal band DØDHEIMSGARD/DHG also did a very decent show this
evening, perhaps suffering a bit from recent lineup changes. Hopefully they will improve as a live band for future shows.
Last show on the festival was SODOM. No introduction should be needed for this German band, who went through a lot of old
classics as well as a few new songs. But of course the occult feeling of the 'In The Sign Of Evil' album seems to have
been replaced during the last twenty or so years by a more "happy" live show. On a side note German thrashers Kreator
and Swiss legends Celtic Frost also visited Oslo very recently, and out of the three I must say Celtic Frost was the
most interesting live band for 2007, with their newfound downtuned, doomy sound.
All in all? Suffocation really did it for me this time. http://www.infernofestival.net
30.03.07
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Diskord's debut album 'Doomscapes' has been released on CD. It is a great slab of death metal, a modern classic
maintaining the heritage from the heydays of Norwegian old school death metal, where albums such as Darkthrone's
'Soulside Journey' and Cadaver's 'In Pains' saw the darkness of daytime. You can order a copy from me together
with NPP! stuff, just send me an e-mail instead of ordering through the webshop. You can also get a copy directly through
the fixed-price Entartete Musik webshop, which is
handled by Espen of Diskord, or you can ask for
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detailed payment info from the Diskord e-mail address. 'Doomscapes' was released by Edgerunner Music, a small label distributed throughout music stores in Norway by VME. If you haven't heard Diskord's peculiar style of death metal then head on to our Myspace site.
I am totally sold out for the 'hdfh' EP, which was a collaboration between NPP!, US label Vendlus Records
and webzine Nocturnal Cult.
Head on to the Vendlus or Nocturnal Cult websites to grab the last copies, or check the distros listed on my link page.
22.02.07
Unfortunately I was ripped off recently by a guy from Serbia, so I had to make a rip-off page to warn other distros. You
may find it on the bottom left menu.
12.02.07
When I woke up on Sunday morning I had received an unanswered call on my cell phone and a message on my voicemail.
It turned out to be quite an amusing late night call from a couple of Swedish grinders, and you can hear it here.
http://www.jigsoreterror.com
http://www.birdflesh.net
22.01.07
This weekend I joined Norwegian bands Audiopain and Grotesque Hysterectomy on the road, selling merchandise
on a couple of gigs around Norway. I also sold a lot of my own vinyl records. Thanks to everyone who came out at the shows.
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On Friday the venue was the Hydranten in the inland city of Hamar. Between 50 and 100 people showed up, not bad for a small
city of about 28,000 people. First up was brutal death metal band Grotesque Hysterectomy. Guttural death metal is the stuff
you get to hear from these guys, and being their first ever live gig they did a good job. http://www.deathmetal.no
Next up was Dead Trooper,
playing thrash/heavy metal in the vein of Pantera, Metallica and Sepultura, having to make a last-minute
decision to perform as a trio
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because the bass player displayed serious stomach issues. http://www.deadtrooper.com These guys were able to work
up the audience quite well, preparing the ground for 80's thrash worshippers Audiopain. You have to have a heart of stone not
to get charmed by this crew of old school maniacs. They are sort of bad-ass with their over-the-top Lemmy-position microphone
stand and cool 70's guitars, the drummer is even draped in bullet belts and a WWII helmet, but still he is such a nice guy you just
want to get on stage and give him a big bear hug! If you are remotely interested in thrash metal you do not want to miss these guys' live show.
Audiopain fans can look forward to a new self-released 10" vinyl slab called 'A bomb's view'. http://www.audiopain.com
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Saturday took us to the exotic outpost of Sogndal, a sleepy town of about 7,000 inhabitants located deep within the Sognefjord, for a
show at the Støy Festival. http://www.stoy.no The turnout being quite low this time, Grotesque Hysterectomy got into some Spinal Tap-ish issues.
After their intro they started playing their ultra-brutal death metal, but the stage carpet would not open! The vocalist came out
from behind the carpet doing his guttural grunts, and finally the carpet went aside, exposing the rest of the band. That's rock'n
roll! Before yet another bone-splitting show from Audiopain, laying waste 99% of all other thrash metal acts, it was time for Dead Trooper
again, who now had support from bass player Didrik of Grotesque Hysterectomy. In one day, while we were barely
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making it across the
snowy windswept mountains of Western Norway, this guy listened to the Dead Trooper songs on an MP3 player, picked up all the bass lines by himself,
performing live on stage with Dead Trooper in the evening. And looking quite relaxed! An awesome effort. Didrik also plays bass in Obliteration, another
Norwegian death metal band, who now have secured a contract with Peaceville sub-label Tyrant Syndicate, run by Darkthrone
members Ted and Gylve. This label sports the interesting roster of Old, 80's style German black metal, Abscess, with
their new album Horrorhammer, and Norwegian black thrashers Aura Noir in addition to Obliteration. I got to listen to some new
material from Obliteration's upcoming album backstage, and to me it sounded like some of the best old school death metal I have heard in years. Fans of Autopsy and the
likes should be chuffed. http://www.obliteration.tk,
http://www.tyrantsyndicate.com
11.01.07
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I received a new LP today. It's the latest (but apparently not final) output from Nasum, 'Grind Finale',
commemorating late frontman Mieszko Talarczyk. What a jaw-dropping release! The price is $50, but worth your easy-earned pennies.
Consisting of 152 songs on 4 LP's in a triple gatefold sleeve, with a 12" size 24-page booklet and a poster, it clocks in at
more than two hours of pure grind. The material presented on the LP's are the different splits, 7" EP's and compilations
Nasum have participated on. In the booklet every recording session is described in detail,
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and the lyrics for all songs are
included (now that's not less than 152 social issues for you to think about while stuffing that McDonalds burger). The vinyl colour is black,
and each inner sleeve has cool band photos and a metallic foil stamped Nasum logo in different colours. Needless to say the
music rocks. This is a release made out of love. I wish all box sets was made with such passion (and this is not even a box set!).
It was printed in 1,000 copies, so get one now before it's too late, either directly from the Canadian label
Unrest Records, or a decent distributor such as
Relapse Records in the US or
Wasted Sounds Distribution in Sweden.
07.01.07
Happy new year to everyone! I have been traveling a lot the last two months, so updates have been scarce. But now a lot of new
items are in the webshop, like the new Birdflesh/Splatterhouse split, see the "New in stock" page for info.
Blood
Cock And Ball Torture
Nude stagediving
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I spent Christmas in Paris, from which I had the possibility
to drive across the border to Germany for the grindcore festival 'Just Killers - No Fillers! Fest IV'. The drive
proved to be quite long, to my utter dismay missing Splitter, Anal Whore and Stoma, we made it alive for German grind bands
Blood and Cock And Ball Torture, and last but not least Austrian godfathers of s&m, Pungent Stench!! The bands were of course amazing, and so
was the German audience, with mosh pits, stage diving and crowd surfing. A totally different experience from the reserved Norwegian crowd.
BLOOD played their well-proven blasting grindcore, with a very energetic singer. They've been grinding for 20 years, so don't expect
the youngest guys in class if you go to see their live show. Very cool live band indeed. Up next was COCK AND BALL TORTURE, another
long-running German act. These guys played fairly slow old school goregrind with pitch shifted vocals and down-tuned guitars (actually
you could buy endorsed custom guitar strings at the merch stand). I believe the vocalist was trying to say "danke schön" between songs, who knows
with the totally over-the-top pitch shifted vocal effect. Finally time for PUNGENT STENCH, doing a great show with lots of humour and
rock'n roll attitude. But the crowd was really getting drunk and tired now. At one point one guy was even stage diving totally in the nude!
Great merchandise stands was provided by Cudgel Agency, Power It Up and Morbid Records. For info on next year's festival, go to http://www.justkillersfest.net.
Before France I spent three weeks in the vicinity of Gdansk, Poland. Unfortunately I was not able to attend any shows by the thriving Polish
death/grind/gore scene. But strangely enough, while driving, we passed by a horrible car accident. Arriving even before the ambulance, we were able to be standing
just meters away as the fire department blocked
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the streets and they pulled out the blue-in-the-face half dead driver from the twisted pile of debris.
I felt somewhat like in the middle of a Dead Infection lyric (which comprises "gore, road casualty, fatal accidents and putrefaction", according to Metal Archives).
10.11.06
NPP! is now on Myspace! For now I only have a puny 3 friends, so please click the Myspace icon on the bottom left menu and add me to your friend lists.
09.11.06
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I received a new LP today, from the Polish goregrind band DEAD INFECTION. It contains one of their two demos, 'World full of remains' from 1991-93, in its entirety.
The music you will find here is old school goregrind in the vein of early Regurgitate and Carcass, with pitch shifted vocals, and a certain hardcore influence. Of course no drum machines or stuff like that.
This is also a great chance to enjoy the magnificent
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artwork, the photography of two US state troopers inspecting a severely mutilated corpse (they don't seem quite
sure what to do with it), in glorious 12" size. Order your copy from Underground Front Records (http://www.ufrontrec.prv.pl), other Polish distros, like Selfmadegod (http://www.selfmadegod.com), or directly from the band at http://www.deadinfection.info.
08.11.06
I have been trading quite a lot with other distros lately, so about 25 distro titles coming in soon.
At the moment there are no new releases ready to print for No Posers Please!, but some loose deals has been made for 2007.
I am very eager to release new high-quality music, so do not be shy sending in those promo packages.
But please have a look on what I have released so far before you lick those stamps.
Although I do have a certain fetish for receiving stuff in the mail, there is just no use wasting your cash if your band does not fit the label profile.
Here are some of the bands I have received promo packages from. Some of these are very good, and hopefully there will be a release in the future.
While others may be very good bands which I enjoy listening to a lot, but they might not fit the label profile 100%. Either way check them out!
Sworn Old school death metal from Sweden. They already have a MCD out on Nuclear Winter Records.
http://www.sworn.tk
Throat Violence Thrash metal from Norway. http://www.myspace.com/throatviolence
Terrordrome Brutal death metal from Greece. I hear they have inked a deal with Grindethic Records.
http://www.terrordrome.net
Excoriate Old school death metal from Germany. Some cool cassette demos released so far. Very nice old school visuals throughout all their output!
http://mitglied.lycos.de/smokedemon/
26.10.06
To keep this frontpage/newsblog a bit more clean, I have created a separate 'New in stock' page. So click on that to see which new titles are available.
Some cool new stuff in the distro, like the Audiopain/Dead To This World split.
09.09.06
A lot of new items in the distro today, totalling the number of available titles in the webshop to a 100!
08.08.06
I have added a link page. It's not too big yet, but hopefully it will expand.
26.07.06
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The new split from Skitsystem and Cyness is a killer release. Skitsystem should need no introduction, the brutal Swedish hardcore/crust band initially with members from At the Gates.
Cyness is a very cool and brutal Grindcore band, I imagine this is what Terrorizer would have sounded like if they came from Germany, so this release should appeal to both grindcore and death metal fans
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alike.
I have the regular black vinyl edition (600 copies) in the distro, but for hard core collectors (no pun intended), there are also colour vinyl copies with a slightly different sleeve (100 red, 100 blue, 100 yellow, white).
The coloured vinyls were divided like this:
Skitsystem - most blue and yellow copies (go figure)
Cyness - most red copies
Release party - all white copies
Unsociable Records - mix
So if you're looking to track down all the colours, go get'em, or cry later!
06.07.06
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Some time ago I stumbled upon 3XM Productions (on the Myspace, gaah!, I admit it). 3XM is short for XXX Maniac, a drum machine style goregrind band (I'm sorry to say I dislike that particular style of goregrind, but if you're into newer Mortician and the likes, check it out).
Now, the point of all this is that 3XM are releasing a vinyl box of dISEMBOWELMENT, a long-
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gone, fantastic Australian death/doom band. To my dismay they have only been available on CD before, so this is a great opportunity to get most of the dISEMBOWELMENT catalogue on vinyl.
Relapse is going to distribute this, but I think 3XM is the only place to get the coloured vinyl edition.
http://www.myspace.com/3xmproductions
Update: Got the box set. It is a decent way to feed your craving vinyl deck with the dISEMBOWELMENT catalogue, but nothing more. There are three LP's in the box, along with a badger-style patch and a medium size poster.
Each release does not have its own 7"/10"12", and there are no outer sleeves with artwork, only inner sleeves. The poster is simply butt ugly, with a picture of a stupid statue which has been given the old filter treatment by a Photoshop 1.01 student.
All in all I would say this is a typical seen-it-before box set, looks more like a readymade Relapse product than 3XM having anything to do with this
(I believe the Atheist box set looked exactly like this). Box sets should be made out of love, love is unique. And I didn't get the colored vinyl edition, bummer!
20.06.06
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The Endwarfment EP has arrived from the pressing plant. I take orders as of today. The EP is called "World downsfall",
so you may guess we are talking about ultra-brutal grindcore with a twist to the political correctness confining many of the
bands in the -core scene. It is pressed on half and half black and grey vinyl, and the sleeve has a silver metallic foil logo.
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10.06.06
The Abominat and Lobotomized EP's have arrived from the pressing plant. I take orders as of today. The Endwarfment EP is on its way as well.
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The Abominat EP is called "Storms of calamity", it's orthodox death metal from Norway, brutal, heavy, fast and clever.
These guys were frozen in time in 1993, and are only brought to room temperature now and then to record skullcrushing death metal.
The EP is pressed on brown vinyl, and comes with a xerox copied insert on beige paper. The sleeve has embossed artwork. Limited
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The Lobotomized EP is called "Fuckn Lobotomized". Sleazy punk-death metal from Norway. This motley crew will tear you a
new asshole while combing their mullets. In fact they're the sleaziest guys I know. The EP is pressed on black vinyl, with an
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25.05.06
The webshop is starting to look as a real underground distro, and not just the commercial-looking interface Open Source Commerce is bundled with. OSC is a freeware e-commerce solution, perfectly necro for my little distro. I’ve been working on it for a few weeks, starting a webshop is hell when you don’t know any html at all.
The Abominat, Endwarfment and Lobotomized EP’s are at the pressing plant. I am using Pirates Press, an American agency for GZMedia in the Chezh Republic. GZ is the biggest and cheapest pressing plant, but the people there are notorious for their commie era-style communications skills.
In other news Abominat are rehearsing with a new vocalist, and looking for a bass player (the drummer has been handling the bass duties so far). Hopefully we’ll get to see them live in the future. Diskord are waiting for their debut album “Doomscapes” to be released on CD through Edgerunner Music (www.edgerunnermusic.com). Lobotomized have booked the analogue Spendless Studio once again in July to record a follow-up to their s/t debut EP. Up-and-coming US goregrind label Last House On The Right (Bill from Relapse/Exit-13) has shown interest for the band. My guess is LHOTR will be a force to be reckoned with in the future (http://www.myspace.com/lasthouseontheright). There’s a nice interview with Lobotomized published in the Nocturnal Cult webzine (http://www.nocturnalcult.com), check it out! Endwarfment have just released their debut album “The paralympic sessions” on CD through Duplicate Records (http://www.duplicate-records.com), and have two vinyl EP’s lined up besides the “World downsfall” release for NPP! There’s a split with Norway’s fastest thrashcore band, Victimised, coming out on Plata Records (http://www.platarecords.no), and a split with Hellstorm coming out on Apocalyptic Empire (http://www.apocalypticempire.com). Hopefully there will be yet another split, this time with black metal douche freaks Nattefrost.
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