PROUD TO BE LOUD Metal Log #63, 30/11/2010

1.DARK ANGEL darknesss descends "Darkness Descends" 1986
2.SADUS torture "Illusions" 1988
3.BATHORY son of the damned "The Return" 1985
4.NEKRASOV disillusion "Extinction" 2010
5.AURA NOIR Hades rise "Hades Rise" 2008
6.SYPHILITIC VAGINAS in satanic service s/t Ep 2008
7.TIGER JUNKIES satanic metal fucking Hell (ABIGAIL)"D-beat street rock'n rollers" 2008
8.SARCOFAGO satanas "INRI" 1987
9.MX satanic noise "Simoniacal" 1988
10.VULCANO incubus "Bloody vengeance" 1986
11.EXPULSER no resurrection "Fornications" Ep/demo 1989/90
12.VENOM countess bathory "Black metal" 1982
13.PARADISE LOST internal torment (1989) "Drown in Darkness - the early demos" 2009
14.BLOOD febrile massacre/terroraise "recognise yourself" demo/7" 1989/90
15.DEADLOCK up to the scum "Up to the scum" demo 1988
16.FEAR OF GOD my hands deep in your guts s/t ep 1988
17.E.N.T. take the strain "A Holocaust in your head" 1989
18.AGATHOCLES gorgonized dorks "Fascination of Mutilation" 7" flexi 1990
19.ATROCITY swallow the lies "let the war rage" 2009
20.BAD BRAINS sailin' on "Rock for Light" 1983
21.RAW POWER politicans "screams from the gutter" 1984
22.D.R.I. couch slouch "Dirty Rotten LP" 1983
23.DEAD KENNEDYS dog bite "In god we trust" 1981
24.RAZOR OF OCCAM bite of dogmata "Homage to martyrs" 2009
25.DESTROYER 666 the barricades are breaking "Defiance" 2009
26.MESSIAH anarchus "hymn to abramelin" 1986
27.NECROSCHIZMA Triumph of death "Erupted evil" demo/discography LP 2010
28.PRONG freezer burn "force fed" 1988

29.NEUROSIS nonsense "aberration" 7" 1989
30.MEATBEATERS killer in the night "Carry on Tuggin'" 2009
31.CIRCLE JERKS parrade of the horribles "Golden shower of Hits" 1983
32.WHERES THE POPE? going nowhere s/t EP 1994
33.RAVEN BLACK NIGHT metal martyr v/a "metal or death" vol.1 2010

PROUD TO BE LOUD Metal Log #62, 23/11/2010

1.QUEEN gimme the prize "A Kind of magic" 1986
2.FLAX demon in your heart "One " 1976
3.ELIAS HULK nightmare "Unchained" 1970
4.ATOMIC ROOSTER Friday the 13th "Atomic Ro-o-oster" 1970
5.GODSPEED lest we forget Demo 1984
6.TRILOGY the hammer "Life on earth" 1984
7.SURRENDER in dreams s/t 1984
8.ARTILLERY khomaniac "By Inheritance" 1990
7.TAIPAN stonewitch "Stonewitch" 2007
8.SAXON Dallas 1pm "Strong Arm of the Law" 1980
9.JUDAS PRIEST let us prey/call for the priest "Sin after sin" 1977
10.QUEEN flash (1980) "best of"
11.BLUE OYSTER CULT godzilla "Spectres" 1977
12.PANDORA hot rocker "Space amazon" 1974
13.U-TURN side-walk teaser "Living in the city" 1977
14.QUEEN fat-bottomed girls "Jazz" 1978
15.ACDC whole lote of Rosie "Let there be Rock" 1977
16.INSANITY fire death fate Reh/Demo 1985
17.BLOTTED SCIENCE night terror "The Machinations of Dementia" 2007
18.VOIVOD Ion "Kronik" 1998
19.MORTAL SIN mortal slaughter "Mayhemic Destruction" 1987
20.THE DEVIL's BLOOD white faces (ROKY ERICKSON) "Come Reap" Ep 2008

R.I.P. Freddy Mercrury 24/11/91. Queen certainly played a part in the 1970s in the evolution of heavy metal as a genre.
R.I.P. Bud Mills (INSANITY) 14/7/2007.

PROUD TO BE LOUD Metal Log #61 16/11/2010

"SWEDISH DEATH METAL"
1.ENTOMBED Left hand path "Left Hand Path" 1990
2.DISMEMBER overide of the overture "Like an ever flowing stream" 1991
3.CARNAGE deranged from blood "Dark recollections" 1990
4.THERION the return "...Of darkness..." 1991
5.UNLEASHED unleashed "where no life dwells" 1991
6.CARBONIZED euthanasia "For the Security" 1991
7.GRAVE extremely rotten flesh "Into the Grave" 1991
8.NIRVANA 2002 further beyond promo 1991/"Recordings '89-'91" 2009
9.GROTESQUE blood runs from the altar "The Black gate is closed Demo 1989
10.AT THE GATES Terminal spirit disease "Termainal Spirit Disease" 1994
11.LIERS IN WAIT bleeding shrines of stone "Spiritually Uncontrolled Art" 1992
12.EDGE OF SANITY in the veins/darker then black "Unorthodox" 1992
13.DISSECTION heaven's Damnation "The Somberlain" 1993
14.EUCHARIST once my eyes moved mountains "A Velvet Creation" 1993
15.ENTOMBED Stranger aeons "Clandestine" 1991
16.AFFLICTED CONVULSIONS consumed in Flames "Beyond Redemption" demo 1990
17.EVOCATION through the darkened Peril "The Ancient Gate" Demo 1992
18.INTERMENT in silent darkness "The Final Chapter" Demo 1994
19.GENERAL SURGERY The succulent aftermath of a sudural haemorrhage "Pestisferous anthropophagia" Demo 1990
20.NECRONY Hill of cadavers "Severe Malignant Pustule" Demo 1991
21.TIAMAT necrophagious shadows "Sumerian Cry" 1990
21.MORBUS CHRON creepy creeping creep "Creepy Creeping Creep" 7" 2010
22.BASTARD PRIEST power of death "Under the hammer of Destruction" 2010

Another hard episode to compile due to the many great Swedish Death Metal bands to choose from, but I mainly wanted to focus, after looking at the Swedish scene of the 1980s in last week's episode, on the period post "Left Hand Path" as this album really planted fiercely the flag of Swedish metal into the ground and inspired so many other Swedish death metal releases to come afterwards. The foundation of the Swedish death metal scene was the underground tape-trading phenomenon, back in the late 1980s and early 1990s there was no internet, mobile phones and it was virtually impossible to hear/know about extreme metal without real dedication! The fact that the Swedish death metal scene was mainly made up of young males between the ages of 14 to 18 is all the more impressive. Today, most people on this planet have heard the words "Swedish death metal" and have some idea as to it's main characteristic sounds (the Stockhlom sound having the fat buzzsaw guitar made helpful by the bossman heavy metal pedal turned to 10, deep guttural vocalz, heavy bass & thundering drums or the Gothenburg sound with slightly more melodies, screechy/throaty vocalz, and generally more cleaner production) that's quite a feat, considering the brutality of the music and the discrimination these young male Swedes would have encountered back when it all started....I finnished the show with MORBUS CHRON which features Nicke Andersson's brother, Robert, and BASTARD PRIEST with their song "power of death" which I thought was quite fitting since Swedish Death Metal is still going strong! And check out Daniel Ekeroth's great book, Swedish Death Metal.

PROUD TO BE LOUD Metal Log #60 9/11/2010

"SWEDEN THE 1980s"
1.HIROSHIMA soldier of the world "Taste of Death" 1984
2.UNIVERSE stories fro the old days s/t 1985
3.SILVER MOUNTAIN universe "Universe" 1985
4.YNGWIE J MALMSTEEN caught in the middle "Marching Out" 1985
5.HEAVY LOAD you've got the power "Metal Conquest" MLP 1981
6.GOTHAM CITY see how it flyes "The Unknown" 1984
7.PROUD dark lady forest "Fire Breaks the Dawn" 1984
8.BATHORY the return of darkness & evil v/a "Scandinavian Metal Attack" 1984
9.ASOCIAL samhallets offer "How could Hardcore be any worse?" Demo 1982
10.ASOCIAL brall din rostgedal "How could Hardcore be any worse?" Demo 1982
11.ASOCIAL alternativ "How could Hardcore be any worse?" demo 1982
12.ANTI-CIMEX instrumental demo 1982
13.MISSBRUKARNA kristen Fesning Demo 1983
14.MOB 47 rustning ar ett brott "Karnvapen Attack" 7" ep 1984
15.DISRESPECT (unknown title in Swedish)song 5 Unreleased LP 1987
16.HYSTE'RIAH world in war "Attempt the Life" demo 1987
17.HATRED antichrist "Winds of Doom" demo 1987
18.MEFISTO betrayed truth "Megalomania" demo 1986
19.OBSCURITY demented "Damnation's Pride" demo 1987
20.AGONY deadly legacy "The First Defiance" 1988
21.MANINNYA BLADE ripper attack 7" 1984
22.KAZJUROL stagedive to hell "Messengers of death" 7" 1987
23.CANDLEMASS solitude "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus" 1986
24.MERCILESS bestial death "Behind Black Door" Demo 1987
25.MORBID disgusting semla "December Moon" Demo 1987
26.GOD eternal war "Four wise men" Demo 1987
27.CORPSE rise again "Black Dawn" demo 1986

28.NIHILIST carnal leftovers "Premature autopsy" Demo 1988
29.CARNAGE crime against Humanity "The day man Lost" demo 1989
30.DISMEMBER deathevocation "Dismembered" demo 1988

Arggh, this was hard to do in two hours (so many more bands I wish I could have included), Sweden has the most metal bands per captia of any country in the world and the 80s spawned not only some overlooked heavy metal bands like PROUD, GOTHAM CITY, HIROSHIMA, light years ahead punk hardcore bands like ASOCIAL, MOB 47, MISSBRUKARNA, CRUDE S.S., ANTI-CIMEX, DISARM(as Daniel Ekeroth mentions in his book, Swedish Death Metal, the band ASOCIAL, was probably the 1st band to have the blastbeat, you only need to check out the "How could hardcore be any worse?" released in 1982 for this, which is before D.R.I., REPULSION, NAPALM DEATH), as well as THE absolute pivotal band in Black metal and extreme metal in BATHORY, a worldclass doom metal band in CANDLEMASS, the Guitar God in Yngwie J. Malmsteen, some obscure but very influential thrash metal bands in MEFISTO, OBSCURITY, MERCILESS, and then the Death metal phenomenon that started out towards the latter end of the decade.....SWEDEN we salute you!!
Tune in for next week's special on Swedish death metal on 3D radio 93.7FM or www.threedradio.com Tuesday 9-11pm....the playlist is going to be a cracker!

PROUD TO BE LOUD Metal Log #59, 2/11/2010

1.MORBID ANGEL Immortal rites "Blessed are the sick" 1989
2.CARCASS reek of putrefaction "Symphony of Sickness" 1989
3.OBITUARY chopped in half "Cause of Death" 1990
4.ACCUSED Martha Splatterhead "The return...of Martha Spatterhead" 1986
5.AGGRESSION frozen aggressor "The full Treatment" 1988
6.IMPETIGO dear uncle creepy "Ultimo Mondo cannibale" 1990
7.REPULSION driven to Insanity "Horrified" 1986/89
8.DAYGLOW ABORTIONS the spawn of yog sothoth "Here today guanno tomorrow" 1988
9.DOOMED BEAST dooming the beast demo 2009
10.VOMIT armies of hell reh 25/11/86 "Still Rotting" 2007
11.NECROPHAGIA mental decay "Season of the dead" 1987
12.SACRIFICE re-animation "Forward to termination" 1987
13.TAIPAN the rising "Flamethrower" 2010
14.ONSLAUGHT fight with the beast "The Force" 1986
15.SLAYER the antichrist "Show no Mercy" 1983
16.CRUMBSUCKERS moments of silence/Mr.Hyde "Life of Dreams" 1986
17.BLACK SABBATH supernaught "Volume 4" 1972
18.THE DEVIL's BLOOD christ or cocaine "The time of no time Evermore" 2009
19.TROUBLE hello strawberry skies "Manic frustration" 1992
20.GIRLSCHOOL deadline "Demolition" 1980
21.ENTICER reaper of the earth "1991 Album"
22.JOHNNY TOUCH master your masters demo 2010
23.WITCH CROSS fight the fire demo 1983
24.GODSPEED flight of the phoenix demo 1986
25.ADDICTIVE crazy train (OZZY OSBOURNE) single

What's on in Adelaide.......

For all you Record Addicts check out Vinyl Palooza Record fare this Saturday & Sunday (5th & 6th of November held between 10am & 5pm, both days) at 214 Wakefield Street, Adelaide, $5 entry.
THE LOVING TONGUE are playing this Friday Night (the 5th of November)at the Crown and Anchor Hotel.
Also on the 13th of November, RAVEN BLACK NIGHT are playing at the Forrest & Squatters Arms Hotel and have have new vinyl and other music for sale, entry is for free, support one of Adelaide's top metal acts!