Worshipping japanese hardcore since the day before yesterday!
Although it’s called Skatehead ’88, Rose Rose -together with Dogma Records- dropped this bomb of a 7″ in ’87. There’s a lot of influence by D.R.I. and other contemporary crossover thrashers, so don’t you expect any subtlety or slow tempos on this fucker here!
After a number of 7“es and compilation tracks Mosh Of Ass, originally released in 1987 on Dogma Records, was Rose Rose’s first full length offering (this here is the licensed pressing from 1988 on the british In Your Face Records). And what a monster of a debut this is: 40 minutes of very metallic, thrashy and grinding, mid-tempo moshing, blast beating insanity. Pure madness!
When Chaotic Dischord called one of their albums “Now! That’s What I Call A Fuckin’ Racket”, they hadn’t heard anything like THIS yet. Six Weeks released this compilation of japanese thrash/grind/chaos/whatever bands in 1995 in the ever appropriate 8″ flexi format. You’ll get a lot more noisy, thrashy, fuzzed-out and blast-beating insanity than on the comparatively “tame” follow up compilation LP from bands like The Gaia, Rose Rose, Zone and a shitload of ofhers that are just as wild!
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