愚鈍 – 狂気の日本

31. March 2021

v.a. Hang The Sucker Vol. 2 LP

Another truly monstrous late 80s japanese hardcore compilation. Hang The Sucker Vol. 2 came out in 1989 on Kagai Mousou records, which also did lots of Gudon, Chicken Bowels, Googol Plex, the My Meat’s Your Poison comp. Hang The Sucker Vol. 1 was a 7“ which came our the year before.

This comp starts out with 4 songs by Death Side which kill: superfast, tight, brutal (one is a re-recorded version of Stick And Hole off Smashing Odds Ness!!). Next are Gudon, also superfast and tight but with a somewhat subdued production. Half Years are up next with a style somewhat similar to Gudon. This again is not surprising since they most of their members played in Gudon at some time. Again: superfast and tight, with a clean and powerful production. Last are Mad Conflux who are the dirtiest band on this comp, with a style that reminds me a bit of Crück. Their guitarist Ori-Chan now has the difficult job of being the present Death Side guitarist, having to follow after Chelsea’s death; as far as I know he had been a guitar student of Chelsea’s.

But who is the sucker that should be hung?

31. May 2020

Gudon – 1984 LP

If you’re into saving shit loads of money and listening to pure noise (not music), this 2018 bootleg LP is for you. It compiles Gudon’s first tape release from 1984 (腐臭/Stench) and their first flexi 7“ (残忍聖者/Brutal Saint) from 1985 (since both releases were recorded in 1984 I guess the LP title is still appropriate). Both are perfect exersises in simplistic hardcore brutality, but the tape is still a bit less unhinged than the complete noisy insanity of the 7“.

If you wanted to own the originals you could spend well over 400€.

4. November 20194. November 2019

愚鈍 – 卑下志望 7″

Higeshibou from 1986 was Gudon’s second release (after the noisy monster that is their 残忍聖者 7“ from the previous year). It’s another classic piece of japanese hardcore madness. Stoic violence on side a is a five minute (!) orgy of thrash with thumb-muted guitars, mid-tempo breakdowns and short metallic leads. On side b Leaden Love (鉛の愛) is another epic of (almost!) 5 minutes, a dark and monotonous monster of mid-tempo punk, while Burst Your Head is simple, fast and chaotic thrash. The sound is not yet as well produced as it would be on Howling Communication, but there are a lot less vacuum cleaners involved than on 残忍聖者.

Get it!

1. November 2019

v.a. My Meat’s Your Poison LP

The My Meat’s Your Poison compilation from 1987 is nothing but classic high-speed thrash from start to finish. I’m not going to waste your and my time describing every single band, after all I’ve already posted releases by all of them: Outo, Chicken Bowels (misspelled on the cover as „Chiken Bowels“), Systematic Death, Gudon, S.O.B. and Lip Cream, they all rule! Still, S.O.B.’s hilarious and over the top cover of Blitzkrieg Bop deserves to be mentioned separately.

Sadly my copy of this record has no lyric sheet.

1. November 2019

Gudon – Howling Communication 7″

What’s not to love about a band that names itself “Stupidity”? Well, maybe the kind ugly cover artwork on this 7″, but that’s about all. Howling Communication, released on Selfish Records in 1987, was Gudon’s third 7″. As the production values of their 7″es was continually increasing (their first 7″ sounds like it was recorded on a boombox), this one has a really cool -if somewhat bass-heavy- sound. Most of the songs are simple, maniacally fast thrash. All in all, Howling Communication is my favourite Gudon release.

No more Bloody Sleeping, it’s time for Howling Hate with the Power Of Dusk!