cheerleaders of the apocalypse "rock n roll self destruction" "7

probably one of my favorite album covers ever...florian bertmer brings the goods on every peice he does (cant wait to see what hes got cooked up for the official jesuit discography on magic bullet!) anyways this is messy fucked up sXe grind from germany in the late 90s....you thought monster x and acrid where the last word on the genere? think again! this shit just vomits all over the two aformentioned bands and grinds them into submission.....would have given my right arm to see them live.........this record came out on react with protest sometime in the very early 2000's.

COTA

keitzer "as the world burns" lp

undoubtably the best grind band from germany at the moment, keitzer pulverizes your soul with a sound derived from the older per koro bands (morser, systral, acme, ect) but viewed through a bloody grindcore lens..........absolutely feral and ferocious stuff here......this band has a couple full lenghts out and all of them are stellar...this one however is more brutally perfect than the rest.........

hope to see them live at some point.........

keitzer

acheborn "tuesday is dead" lp

acheborn where from munster germany and where associated heavily with bands of the "bremen" sound, even though this lp at least isnt really in line with that sound at all...anyways i got this record at michiganfest 1999 or 2000 (one or the other, my memory gets kinda blurry with shows and fests of the time) from gavin stickfigure's distro........i expected this record to be pretty typical bremen style hardcore but was taken aback from the first note...very hyper and hectic stuff, like if mohinder decided to play moshcore....there is what i believe to be a depeche mode cover at the end (never let me down again) tell me if im wrong on that one............

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tuesday is dead

enfold "no coming home" lp

this band was from bielefeld germany and played some really intense engergizing "northcore". tightly packed noise-groove with ragged vocals......saw them in indiana in 2000 when they came over with chispa...unfortunate that their tour got cut short by an auto accident in st louis.....just a really really good record  and an outstanding live band.........just wished they had lasted longer........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE-TRWiyik4

a video of them in germany in 1998 or so

enfold: no coming home lp