Punk and New Wave (Of British Heavy Metal)

The grandpappys of grindcore, Amebix walked it like they talked it. Never far from imploding, they lived on the edge and took no shit. They managed to release a wealth of material, and still remain broke. Unknown to the vast majority of the world during their existance, yet their influence on bands that came after them is immeasurable. They'd go on tour and come back with different members then they left with. They'd live in squalor in squats but yet somehow got the equipment to keep going. And I could drop a dozen more amazing facts and you still wouldn't get half the story of this monumentally trail-blazing band that is as important to late 80s early 90s truly underground hardcore and heavy metal as say, Celtic Frost is to death & black metal. Give these pioneers a shot if you even have the slightest bit of interest in what influenced band such as Napalm Death and Carcass. Or Electro-Hippies and Pink Cream 69. Or the mighty Hellbastard. They are not as insane (or as out of control ) as any of those bands musically, but their attitude more than makes up for it. Got intense? Get Amebix!
This is their '83 9 song ep No Sanctuary.


http://rapidshare.com/files/16986221/Know_Sank-Chew-Airy.rar



Another in the continuing NWOBHM series, here's one that I could find nothing about, but really stood out as an original in a sea of sameness. This one was released in 1980 and is the (lone?) 7" from a cool band called Shock Treatment. A side is the Mugger and it's backed with Nuclear Warfare. Good one here.






http://rapidshare.com/files/17000457/ST-TMu.rar




I had it!!! I saw this band during the crossover (when the line between punk and metal became very blurry and the punks were crying sell-out and the metalheads were eating it up like hash brownies) opening up for the Circle Jerks in early 1986 and I remember commenting to a friend how tight the band was, and that they would be a perfect candidate for the aforementioned movement. Well, they sounded metal enough live but I bought their two available eps (Reagan's In & Get Out of My Yard) and realized at the time they were a tad metal (at least on the later of the 2), but mainly a punk band both in attitude and in execution. Well around 2 years later imagine my surprise when their album (today it would be considered an EP) Black Daze came out. They had fullfilled my prediction and more. This isn't crossover, this is full fledged metal. Released on the Restless label in 1988 to little or no fanfare (because it was marketed as punk and punks hated it), but it does rock mightily.




http://rapidshare.com/files/16983849/wy-bd.rar

I hope everyone is enjoying the diversity of stuff Kit and I are presenting.
When it comes right down to it
I think Brian Johnson said it best: "Rock and roll is just rock and roll, yeah." Some may be a bit intense than others but we are detecting some really cool open-mindedness (is that a word?) here and the blog status has shot through the roof. As always, any suggestions or constructive criticism is welcomed (please be nice about either!!) or if you have anything you'd like to see posted here drop a comment and we'll do our best as long as it's reasonably obscure and/or out of print.