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8.26.2025

BRUTALITY

"screams of anguish"

Year: 1990

Country: US

City: Tampa, Florida

Label: Nuclear Blast

Format: CD, LP

Tracks: 10

Time: 47 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Death Metal

Debut album by Brutality finally available on vinyl again!

Brutality is a Death Metal band from Tampa, Florida. Formed in 1986 as Abomination, the band only recorded one demo under the name before changing it briefly to Darkness and eventually to Brutality in 1987.

Originally released by Nuclear Blast in 1993, Screams Of Anguish hasn't seen a vinyl release since 2014 and it was about time this absolute death metal classic is available on vinyl again! Fans of Morbid Angel, Deicide, Death or Nocturnus will definitely be pleased while enjoying some Screams Of Anguish.

"It takes literally milliseconds to catch a whiff of what Brutality are cooking on their debut. Right out of the gate, Jim Coker’s drums blast their way into existence, an offering of complete and total audio punishment. Don Gates and Jay Fernandez aren’t slouching on guitar, either, keeping pace with the manic drum work throughout and interjecting enough thunderous chugs to put a smile on many a Bolt Thrower fan’s face." -Heavy Blog Is Heavy.

Screams Of Anguish is available on Svart exclusive transparent orange/red marble vinyl and classic black vinyl. Release date October 27th.

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"when the sky turns black"

Year: 1994

Label: Nuclear Blast

Format: CD, LP

Tracks: 10

Time: 46 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Death Metal

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"in mourning"

Year: 1996

Label: Nuclear Blast

Format: CD, LP

Tracks: 9

Time: 47 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Death Metal

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"sea of ignorance"

Year: 2016

Label: Repulsive Echo

Format: CD, LP

Tracks: 8

Time: 40 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Death Metal

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7.15.2025

CAN

"tago mago"

Year: 1971

Country: Germany

City: Cologne

Label: United Artists

Format: CD, 2 x LP

Tracks: 7

Time: 40 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Krautrock

German experimental rock band formed in Cologne circa 1968, initially as Inner Space and becoming "The Can" when fronted by American vocalist Malcolm Mooney. Can are well-known as one of the key pioneers of Krautrock, particularly during the era when fronted by Japanese singer Kenji "Damo" Suzuki who "turned their sound towards a crazy mixture of improvisation, noise, mantra and funk rhythms". They were constantly at the forefront of the Krautrock scene during their 10+ year history, composed music for films by directors including Roland Klick and Wim Wenders, and had an international hit with their pop satire single "I Want More" (1976).

The first Can member to go solo was Holger Czukay, and after Can split keyboard player Irmin Schmidt established a successful solo career. Other Can members also went solo and/or participated in other projects. In 1986 Czukay, Karoli, Mooney, Schmidt, and Liebezeit reformed, resulting in the album "Rite Time" (1989). In March 2003 Can received the German music industry's Echo Award for lifetime achievement.

Posthumously for some members, Can continue to inspire today and are blessed with a huge collection of tape recordings that have not seen the light of day. The Lost Tapes is part of this legacy, released in 2012, also known as Holger Czukay's pension fund. A new series is taking shape in the form of live recordings by long standing Can fans that shows the depth and wealth of the bands musical resolve.

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"ege bamyasi"

Year: 1972

Label: United Artists

Format: CD, LP

Tracks: 7

Time: 40 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Krautrock

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7.11.2025

GRINDCRUSHER

"Grindcrusher - the earache sampler"

Year: 1989

Country: UK

City: Nottingham

Label: Earache

Format: 2 x LP, CD + Single

Tracks: 11

Time: 30 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Grindcore, death metal , industrial , punk

"Grindcrusher" is a great sampler of late-'80s thrash metal/death metal/grindcore sides from the pioneering English label Earache. Primarily focused on British and European acts when this collection was released, Earache brought originators like Napalm Death, as well as other standout bands such as Morbid Angel, Bolt Thrower, and Entombed to the metal limelight. Along with impressive cuts from these groups, this collection also includes a load of quality material from the obscure likes of Old Lady Drivers, Cadaver, Lawnmower Deth, and Repulsion. As the names evoke both menace and even a bit of camp, so does the music, with Godflesh pummeling the listener with jackhammer percussion and ultra-demonic vocals on "Streetcleaner," and Lawnmower Deth undermining all the gloomy seriousness with their tongue-in-cheek "Satan's Trampoline." The variety continues with stripped-down hardcore from Repulsion, the relatively straightforward Judas Priest-metal-stylings of Hellbastard, and even some industrial dance music from Mighty Force. Jazz experimentalist John Zorn's brief stay on the label is represented by Naked City's eclectic thrash montage, "Osaka Bondage," while equally innovative grindcore is heard on clever, multi-textured offerings by Carcass and Sore Throat - Old Lady Drivers deserves special mention here too for the keen sense of grotesque wit that went into a song title like "Colostomy Grab-Bag." Grind Crusher is an intense and galvanizing set, perfect for those curious about the fringe subgenres coming out of the marriage of metal and hardcore punk ( *Review by Stephen Cook ).

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7.06.2025

FAILURE

"obstinate"

Year: 2024

Label: No Time Records

Format: CD, LP

Tracks: 10

Time: 12 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Power Violence

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"failure"

Year: 2017

Label: Here And Now!

Format: CD, LP, cassette

Tracks: 10

Time: 20 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Power Violence

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6.12.2025

CARNIVORE

"retaliation"

Year: 1987

Country: US

City: New York

Label: Warner

Format: CD, LP

Tracks: 12

Time: 36 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Speed Metal

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"idem"

Year: 1985

Label: Warner

Format: CD, LP

Tracks: 8

Time: 36 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Speed Metal

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5.29.2025

HARDCORE HOLOCAUST

"Hardcore Holocaust (peel sessions)"

Year: 1988

Country: UK

City: London

Label: Strange Fruit

Format: CD, LP

Bands: 9

Tracks: 25

Time: 41 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Hardcore Punk

Featuring a mind-boggling 118 tracks across three discs, this compilation brings together some of the most extreme music ever recorded for John Peel’s legendary BBC Radio 1 show. With a mass of ground-breaking material from 1987-90, this is the single most comprehensive history of grindcore ever released.

Peel’s relentless quest for the cutting edge took him to places where lesser DJs feared to tread. In the mid- to late-80s, his quixotic journey led him to discover an emerging wave of new UK bands taking punk, hardcore and metal influences to a new extreme. Dubbed grindcore, their distorted, hypersonic outbursts laid the groundwork for some of the most uncompromising music of our age.

Napalm Death weren’t the first OTT hardcore outfit to be championed by Peel, but they were by far the fastest and easily the most influential. All manner of extreme hardcore and metal was later inspired by their pioneering noise. The band’s first Peel session, recorded in September 1987, was a whirlwind of speed and sonic chaos. With tracks such as The Kill and Dead clocking in at around three seconds and ten seconds respectively, nothing quite like it had been heard before. Two further Napalm Death sessions are included here and are mandatory listening for those interested in the genesis of today’s extreme metal scene.

Disc one also features sessions by Extreme Noise Terror, the high-velocity hardcore band who famously performed 3 a.m. Eternal with The KLF at 1992’s Brit Awards. Like Napalm Death, their vitriol was directed at the military-industrial complex and the evils of corporate control.

The second disc opens with two sessions of crude grindcore/death metal from Carcass, who subsequently cleaned up their sound and became one of death metal’s most important innovators. With song titles like Crepitating Bowel Erosion and Reek of Putrefaction, they steered clear of politics, preferring instead to explore a mire of nightmarish gore.

Bolt Thrower’s rumbling, bottom-heavy death metal rounds out disc two, making way for a diverse final disc featuring Godflesh’s industrial noise metal, Unseen Terror’s metallic grindcore and a return to straightforward hardcore with Heresy and Intense Degree. With comprehensive liner notes from Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris, an explosive chapter in UK music history finally has a tribute worth the name (*Review by Greg Moffitt ).

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5.23.2025

BGK

"jonestownaloha!"

Year: 1983

Country: Holland

City: Amsterdam

Label: Vögelspin

Format: CD, LP

Tracks: 20

Time: 30 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Hardcore Punk

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"nothing can go wrong"

Year: 1986

Label: Alternative Tentacles

Format: CD, LP

Tracks: 16

Time: 36 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Hardcore Punk

The masters of Dutch political punk hardcore strike the match and burn wildly with this new line-up. Tony’s gone over to guitar and he rips the pace to bleedin’ shreds as the drums smash over and over again with Rene’s forceful thrusted vocals. If you liked the first, the second will drive you mad with quickness, tight harmonies, and action-packed thrills.

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