How REEKING CROSS blew my mind

Another party I attended late!! The 1st time I was punished by REEKING CROSS was when I first heard the split 7" with out of this world grindcore band SICK DESTROYER from Czechoslovakia. (Will be featured here soon as well). 

But lets talk about REEKING CROSS in general first. Noisegrind from Sterling, VA USA. Holy cow they left me speechless and drooling. Ultra harsh and not giving a shit about good artwork or even track titles. When you read "30 Untitled Tracks" in 4:33miuntes you know you are in for a treat. Thats what you can expect from their split Cd with Sidetracked. When I heard that 30 songs I did something I didn´t do in more than 15yrs: I BOUGHT A COMPCT DISC!!!

  

 

 I managed to play that 30 songs 4 times in a row on my way home from work. 120 songs and I guess I will play it thousand times more. There are not enough words to describe how harsh, brutal, pissed and ugly REEKING CROSS sounds.

They already released a ton of material since 2015 but like I said I only discovered them this year (2023).

I am unabled to describe them or compare the to other bands. Check em out yourself! But you have been warned, high addictive for the true noise fans:

 Reeking Cross - Split w/ Sidetracked

 

#reekingcross #noisegrind #noisecore #ultraharsh 

HERESY´S "Never healed" 7" got proper reissue and it turned out amazing

 

After 37 years HERESY´S Never healed flexi ep received a proper reissue as a real solid vinyl 7" on Short Fuse records. The flexi was Earache Records #1

The repress contains a lyric sheet with liner notes from Kalv on how the OG flexi has been recorded and published. Back then every printing company refused to print such a gory cover. So the 2 coloured, xeroxed cover was a compromise to get the flexi out. They wanted to sell it for a most reasonable price so they had to make compromises in production and sleeve. Thus they were able to sell the flexi for 50 British pennies / 1 US $. Unfortunately the repress is way more expesive obviously.

The repress is true eye candy. Additional to the mentioned lyric sheet it has a massive sticker of the artwork and a huge 2-sided poster with collages of photos from the time period when the flexi has been made. Heresy on this recording were Kalv, Steve and Reevsy.

Insane job from Short Fuse records who already released records from Ripcord, Uniform Approach (Steve from HERESY), Plasmid (Reevsy from HERESY), Lärm and so on

I played the flexi and the vinyl 7" right after each other and I guess you can imagine that the repress sounds way better.

 

#heresy #neverhealed #earache #shortfuse #flexi # repress #ukhardcore 

ROTTEN SOUND - Drain Testpressing

 

I got my hands on 1 of 5 testpressings of ROTTEN SOUNDs classic Drain ep. The repress on Back on Black records with a plain white sleeve and a promo sheet with the track list. The seller claimed that there are 5 copies but he couldn´t prove that, so I contacted Back on Black and received a confirmation.

The regular pressing has been pressed on red wax. So these are only five copies on black. :-D

OG pressing on SOA records!

I don´t like plain white sleeves so I did another DIY cover. I already made some sleeves for several other testpressings in my posession. This is just for me so I don´t bother numbering them. I know there is just one copy of each.

#rottensound #drain #backonblack #testpressing #diy #diycover #diysleeve #poorphotoshopjob #grindcore #finland