slaughter (canada)/virulence

(if i need to point out that this band bears absolutely no relation to the sensitive hair metal band from the late 80s... you're beyond my help. go away.)

getting back into the swing of things here, so i'm not going to say much. slaughter got together in 1984 (no doubt heavily influenced by metallica, venom, slayer, motorhead, etc) and released their strappado album in 1986. it was heavily tape-traded at the time and most likely influenced quite a few thrash/death bands. essential if you want to delve into the obscure history of 80s underground metal.

but the tracks i'm posting today are from the surrender or die demo from 1985 (later released on cd by utopian vision music), which shares alot of material with the later lp but is raw, crude and almost hardcore in its simplicity and energy. how can you not want to hug a band with lyrics like "in suits they were dressed as the button was pressed/they fed upon semen - the government's a demon!"

so here are the first two tracks as one file (as god intended):

slaughter - disintegrator/incinerator



special bonus! i picked up this virulence album a while back on the strength of the cover and song titles. come to find out (as they say in the south) that it's got some dudes from fu manchu in it. but instead of skateboarding and boogie vans, this is all depression/self-loathing fodder created by possibly the only band to enjoy both black flag's in my head and the first couple of saint vitus albums (though not enough of the latter). second string all the way, but what the hell.

virulence - blank stare