Prophecy of Doom-Calculate Mind rape 7" (Prophecy Rec.s,1989)

Another piece of grinding crusty noise and a piece of vinyl coming from late '80's: Calculate Mind Rape was posted in summer of 2007 and here is again in fresh new rip and scans for all you audiophiles.
I need to rant some shit, actually to copy-paste some from the old post and add some new, so let's go:
The grindcore freaks Prophecy of Doom were from Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire,UK. They started as Domination Factor and later became Prophecy of Doom. As Domination Factor they recorded the "Dominated till death" demo in 1987 and they had a live @ Mermaid in Brum (August '87). I have never heard anything of Domination Factor (probably they were a rotten noise band too) so if anyone of you UK old punks out there know any further info just drop a line
The first PoD recorded material was the "Insanity reigns supreme" demo(1988) and was followed by "Calculated mind rape and "Acknowledge the confusion master" lp in 1990 (Peaceville/Deaf), the Peel Sessions ep (1990,Strange Fruit), "Until the again 7" (Afterworld Records,1991, incl. three live recordings),the Second Peel Sessions (link is from Damaging Noise, thanx Sean!), the "Matrix" lp (1992,Metalcore Records) and "Ego-Death grind" demo (1996) which was recently released by Agipunk in seven inch under the title "Tri-battle thought-form engagement"
"Calculated mind rape" was the first vinyl release of PoD, it came out back in 1989 on Prophecy Records and its a two track piece of heavy as hell brutality with many tempo changes from mid paced to faster and back again,grinding guitars with heavy thrashing riffs, sludgy bass and the way grindcore should sound far from gore cliches and deathgrind bullshit, imagine Carcass without the blastbeats and you got PoD. Did i say grindcore? well, the production is a little sloppy, guitar is harsh and crunchy, vocals are unbelievably brutal but if the sound quality was a little better/cleaner and Shrew's singing was human and not these animal grunts, this would be another piece of Crust.
Both tracks appear in "Acknowledge the confusion master" lp in different recordings,(Hybrid thought is about a minute longer), Shrew (Vox) and Shrub (later on guitar) are now in drunk crusties Alehammer along with Scoot (Hellkrusher / Extinction of Mankind). According to Metal Archives, Dean the guy who played drums in "Calculate..." committed suicide in 2002...
watch them here and here

Prophecy of Doom-Calculated mind rape 7"

First off i d like to say to all you guys who requested some old posts with dead links, there will be some reposts as soon as possible. There's a thought about what to do with the whole thing but i would like to discuss it with Whispy,(a little hard right now cos he's in summer holidays in some tropical islands giving a shit about crust-hardcore). Anyway,take it easy,have a beer and consider everyday life routine and the usual shit that occasionally comes, it is summer and we all have to slow it down sometimes..
Secondly, this post credits go to John Liedown of Punks on Postcards blog. I always wanted some PoD here but since their last ep is still floating around in distros and "Until the again" is a lost treasure,well i can't resist the temptation..
Prophecy of Doom were a grindcore act from Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire,UK. They started as Domination Factor and later became Prophecy of Doom. As Domination Factor they recorded the "Dominated till death" demo in 1987 and they had a live @ Mermaid in Brum (August '87). Never heard anything of Domination Factor so if anyone of you old punks out there know any further info just drop a line
The first PoD recorded material was the "Insanity reigns supreme" demo(1988) and was followed by "Calculated mind rape and "Acknowledge the confusion master" lp in 1990 (Peaceville/Deaf), the Peel Sessions ep (1990,Strange Fruit), "Until the again 7" (Afterworld Records,1991,DOES ANYONE HAVE IT???), the "Matrix" lp (1992,Metalcore Records) and the "Ego-Death grind" demo (1996) which was recently released by Agipunk in seven inch called "Tri-battle thought-form engagement". According the their myspace, there is a secord Peel Seesion from 1991 unreleased yet.
"Calculated mind rape" was the first vinyl release of PoD, it was released back in 1989 on Prophecy Records and its a two track piece of heavy as hell grinding brutality, the way grindcore should be far from gore cliches and deathgrind bullshit. Both tracks appear in "Acknowledge the confusion master" lp in different recordings,(Hybrid thought is about a minute longer), Shrew (Vox) and Shrub (later on guitar) are now in drunk crusties Alehammer with Scoot (Hellkrusher / Extinction of Mankind)
tracks:
1:Calculated mind rape
2:Hybrid thought

Prophecy of Doom-Until the again 7" (After World Records,1990)

Until the Again is a live 7" recorded and released back in 1990 by After World Records. There is no much to say about Prophecy of Doom since Calculate Mind Rape was posted twice and a lot of bullshit was typed. The truth is they were overlooked and never gained the attention of people the way and the level Napalm Death or Carcass did. Anyway, Until the Again came in gatefold cover and delivers three tracks: Earth Reality Victim, Acknowledge The Confusion Master and Insanity Reigns Supreme(which is the first PoD song i ever listened back in late 80's in a tape trade), the sound quality is as good as can be for a live recording of a grinding metal punk band and the paranoia lasts for almost twelve minutes. Some samples are used in the beginning of songs and fit with the sociopolitical/philosophical lyrics, i love the way Shrew's over-distorted vocals destroy the last hints of music each time he opens his mouth, he sounds like a fart of a mutant monster coming from hell.
If anyone knows anything or has in digital format Domination Factor 's Dominated till death demo tape (a pre-Prophecy of Doom band) just drop a few lines here, After World Records was a small label with a few releases of some goregrind/deathgrind acts under their belt (Bathomet's Boiled in Blood 7", Exhumed's Excreting innards, Putrifact's Visceral Devourment and others).
This is not my ripping, thanks to Pete for one more contribution, he sent some wav's that i ripped to mp'3 and i had to find covers on the web, well i did what i can (yeah too bored and busy to rip a vinyl myself.)

Benediction-Flexi 8" (bootleg,199..?)

This little red gem comes from the late '80's and its a forgotten flexi from the old school deathsters Benediction. Metal orientated crusties know these vets who along with Bolt Thrower kept the flag of UK's old school death metal high since late '80's. Back in the day and when i was deep into to grindcore and death metal shit, they were one of my favorite bands along with Carcass, Napalm Death, Prophecy of Doom, Terrorizer, Disharmonic Orchestra etc. And since there is a post from these monsters why not something from Benediction? so here we go: "death metal reigns!!!"
The flexi comes in the unusual size of eight inches (which is too large for the usual plastic sleeves made for 7 inch ep's) and brings two songs that last about eight minutes: Subconscious Terror is of course the title track of their first lp and Bonesaw which appeared only in The Dreams You Dread demo tape from1989, (if the song or riffs of it appeared in a song in official release is a question that can be replied by Benediction die hard followers) the recording is live and was probably recorded in the years '89-'91 when Barney was still in the band before join Napalm Death (i love his grunting "punk is dead, rock is dead, hardcore is dead,death metal reigns!") and before Dave Ingram's arrival on vokill duties. Quality wise, this is far from the level of Antisect bootleg and even the cover artwork is far from Benediction's image and lyrical topics. I don't know the year this came out (probably in early '90's) or how many copies were made, if you know any information please share it with us, all i know is this little piece of red flexible vinyl and poor photocopied paper used to reach some high and insane prices on eBay's insanity.
And just a few more lines of meaningless ranting: Some great news about Benediction came up back in 2008 when they announced the release of a split with Wolfbrigade on FETO Rec.s after a seven year hiatus. My enthusiasm turned slowly into disappointment because the record never saw the light of day and the project died in oblivion. Killing Music their latest release is an amazing piece of old school death metal with plenty of crust influences and covers of Amebix and Broken Bones, don't give a shit about the low rates of reviewers in Metal Archives, they just are not into crust.

Rotting Christ/Sound Pollution-The Other Side of Life split 7" (bootleg)

This little gem brings you the globally known Rotting Christ and the widely unknown Sound Pollution in a split ep which was the first official release of R.C. and the only vinyl release of S.P.
Rotting Christ need no introduction, before they become known as metal lords they were a noisecore/grindcore band, they recorded a few demo tapes with Carcass-ic medical lyrics (Decline's Return, Leprosy of Death) before they start their journey into black metal realms with Satanas Tedeum demo from 1989. Internet is full of info and resources about them so there is no need to blurb any shit.
Sound Pollution was formed in 1988 as Ηχορύπανση (Ehorypansi, sound pollution in Greek), they recorded a couple of demo tapes: Practic Holocaust (1988) and Demo 1989, they had a split tape with Seven Minutes of Nausea (contributing the 2nd demo tracks) and appeared in Nobody Listens Anymore comp (1988, PPR Records). After some line up changes the band split into two new bands:the black metallers Varathron and the crusties Industrial Suicide (Βιομηχανική Αυτοκτονία,Viomihaniki Aftoktonia) which included people from Forgotten Prophecy and Negative Stance, I.S recorded two demo tapes (demo 1989 and demo 1990), they appeared in Delirum Tremens #17, Bonds of Friendship benefit comp. (1990,tape) and called it a day in 1991 or so, some members along with people from Panikos and Social Outcasts continued with Human Lethargy.
Both bands deliver similar psychoterroristic grindcore farting songs of a less than a minute lenght each, Rotting Christ deliver their Carcass-ic medical terminology with gory background while Sound Pollution grunts and growls are more into socio-political side of things, furthermore the bands shared some members (i think the "vocalist" is the same person in this recording, any help from old time Greek grinders is appreciated), sound quality is horrible, the record came in blue vinyl (this one here is a bootleg) consisting of nine Rotting Christ and ten Sound Pollution songs (or "songs") and a sheet with lyrics was included.
From a comment on Youtube written by Spyros (a.k.a. Captain Death), Sound Pollution-Varathron and Vomit drummer, we found that the influences of S.P were Doom, Napalm Death,Siege and Mob47. Carcass, Sarcofago and Agathocles were the inspiration of R.C and this split was supposed to be with S.P. and a Yugoslavian band but finally RC covered the other side of vinyl.
This split reaches incredibly high prices when pops up on ebay, just take a look at this picture ( or search it in Discogs.com) and to coin Roilo Golez of Brave New World blog, "The Greek government should take in consideration the potential of their early local noise band to solve their public debt crisis." Well i don't if this post speeds on the process to downfall or reduces the imaginary income this record could bring to Greek state as a parameter in a chaotic mathematical equation ( and i have no remorse at all,hahahaha!) but on the other hand this record and its chaotic wrath beyond music forms and the usual formulas describes the Greek Indignados, even the cover artwork is connected with them: Some gallows appeared today in front of Greek parliament, watch it here :)
Sound Pollution demos links are taken from Cerdos Distructores, Raf666Underground, Lord Agz! Punk As Fuck 777 Not 666 and Brave New World,i ranted too much,go get it and torture your ears

Hibernation-Loneliness

This is a repost and it isn't:Last week and during the uploads of dead links and reactivating the olds, i started to add some more blurb in old short posts,(Whisp polluted me with perfectionist spirit(!) amongst some other addicts..). So, while i was adding some more in Hibernation's old post, a HTML trouble came up and all changes were locked (there was no way neither to edit nor draft the post plus the fact that links and letter fonts looked different and affected each page this post appeared. I told Whispy what happened and he said "no big deal, leave it the way it is, none gives a shit",well this must be the truth but i do give a shit, i deleted the post(five comments were lost,sorry people) and bring the record in first page with a new rip @ 320 (is this a good excuse or not? shut up Whisp,i know what u r thinkin..)

Hibernation is one of the historic bands of Greek crust scene that are still active (the other one is Panikos). The term historic comes for their connection with some bands from the great era of late '80's-mid '90's of greek scene: Chaotic End and Forgotten Prophecy (and in a chain of links these bands were connected with some other legends such as Ashen Breath,Naytia, Human Lethargy,Stateless in the Universe and others). Their first ep was posted here, Malisha posted their last release "Into the Silence of Eternal Sorrow".
Loneliness was released by Power it Up in 2000. Cover artwork reflects isolation,despair and loneliness and stands off to crust cliches . The record comes with a nice booklet with lyrics and translation in English. There are four tracks here: The spoken word of first track delivers the first dark colors of despair and inner search in a world of hypocrisy and then the crust assault begins: Alex sings in a side tracks while Yanna in b side's.All tracks are fast and short delivering a blending of Doom and Nausea with a metal edged feeling,heavy riffs, excellent rhythm section and hard pounding drums. There are some slower parts while some keyboards here and there add more shades of darkness. the production is a bit better than the first ep
Loneliness (and all Hibernation records) had good reviews (check some in this fan made myspace) but according to Alex's interview in Mountza zine, Power It Up was not happy with it. weird....
Too much rant.. now go get

Hibernation-st 7"

Hibernation along with Panikos and Naytia are the most widely known abroad bands from Greece. They formed in 1997 by Alex, former guitarist of legendary Chaotic End and Forgotten Prophecy, they recorded a demo tape and this is their first vinyl release on Malarie Records
The next years the band was active and released Loneliness 7" (2000,Power it Up/Maximum Voice) and Into The Silence Of Eternal Sorrow lp (20003,Skuld Releases), After a long hiatus (Alex is married with Yanna(drums and formerly in Nuclear Winter) and raising kids takes time and effort, recently they came back in action with a new bassist (Mel from Straighthate) and started playing gigs.
The record comes with a nicely done booklet with lyrics and translation in English, after all these years the image of front cover has become their logo. Lyrics deal with socio-political topics in a personal view creating haunting pictures of a poisoned past and a dark present and future.The surface of vinyl brings four tracks, two fast and two mi-paced. Music wise they deliver a blending of Nausea and Doom with a metal edged apocalyptic crust feeling, vocals are deep low, the guitar is thick with dark and heavy riffs that are technical enough, the rhythm section is excellent. the sound quality is dissent,some keyboards here and there add some agony and fear in the dark atmosphere while some guitar solos that appear from time to time work really nicely.



Hibernation-st 7" (@320)