Worshipping japanese hardcore since the day before yesterday!
Scatterraw first came out in 2005 as a japanese CD release, this here is the european pressing on vinyl. To my ears Nightmare steered into a more adventurous direction following this album. The sound became more lo-fi in quality, the guitar less distorted but a lot wilder at the same time, the riffs less „catchy“, but a lot crazier and less „predictable“ (if you must). This is a wild album for sure!
Starving Dog Eats Master, released in 1991 on Bloodsucker records, another classic japanese compilation. Death Side (some of their best tracks on this album) and Nightmare need no further introduction, and Crück are another true gem (especially considering they only ever released compilation tracks). Kathabuta only released a 2×7“ flexi and a tape beside this, Warhead Junk had a split release with Gudon, and Bandit released two albums in the early nineties.
Refugee Of Logical Society from 2006 was Nightmare’s first release in about 7 years. The sound has become a lot more lo-fi, and the music is chaotic, wild hardcore (the type that a friend of mine likes to call „japanese hectics“, hehe) with singer Masahiro’s maddening shrieks on top. Wow! There’s two songs on this 7“, plus two rudimentary pieces of assorted noise called Spiral. This is the european licensed pressing on Hate Records btw.
This 2012 bootleg 12″ combines the first two official releases by Nightmare: their 1988 self-titled 7″ and the 1990 12″ “Give Notice Of Nightmare”. Both are full of wild, somewhat melodic high speed thrashers. There’s absolutely no pause on this record, and there’s such insane, manic energy from first second to the last that all other words would be nothing but a waste of time, so…
Eye Of The Thrash Guerilla is a great compilation with a cool mix of different styles. It’s got great Burning Spirits hardcore by Death Side and 鉄アレイ (Tetsu Arei), wild thrash by Nightmare and Raise Cain, total mayhem by SxOxB and dark d-beat by Crow (who were not nearly as heavy back then as they are now). This version is a german bootleg on the 大阪 records, who also released boots of SxOxB and Outo.
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