High Defamation Eric Bauer

This time around, diving into the seedy underbelly of Southern California punk and hardcore, the Venice crossover scene. We're going the distance with this one, all the best shit from the Venice Suicidal set... tried to be as thorough as I could but still leave room for your own discovery. Everything here rips; totally crucial, totally essential. Get into it.

WASTED YOUTH - Fuck Authority... Tormented... Good Day for a Hanging

BEOWULF - Down Til Dead... Flare

EXCEL - Split Image... Make Up Your Mind

NO MERCY - My Own Way of Life

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES - I Shot the Devil... Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right

THE BROOD - Call of the Dog

UNCLE SLAM - The Prophecy... Will Work for Food

DR KNOW - Fear of War... The Unknown... Slice of Life

NEGATIVE SELF - Negative Self

FATUM - Informational Battlefield [2015 "Life Dungeons" Neanderthal Stench; Moscow, Ru]
CONTAGIUM - Lies Beneath [2010 "Archaic" The Total End Records; Halifax, CAN]
WILT - Cold Road of Despair [2017 "Self Titled" Profane Existence; Seattle, WA]
SDS - Riding on the Ghost at Midnight [1992 "The Future Stay in the Darkness Fog: split w/ Misery" MCR Company; Gifu, JP]
MISERY - Class Warfare [1994 "Who's the Fool" Profane Extistence; Minneapolis, MN]
CRUZ - Culto Abismal [2016 "Culto Abismal" To the Death/Neanderthal Stench/Sentient Ruin; Barcelona, ESP]
HELLSHOCK - Tell Me It Ends Well [2009 "They Wait for You Still" HG Fact; PDX, OR]
LIMB FROM LIMB - Relentless Torment [2007 "Death.Famine.Plague" No Options; Van, BC CAN]
SANCTUM - This Downward Path [2008 "On the Horizon" Self Released; Seattle, WA]
SWORDWIELDER - Fields of Genocide [2013 " Grim Visions of Battle" Cubo de Sangre; Gothenburg, SWE]
INSTINCT OF SURVIVAL - Suffocation [2009 "North of Nowhere" World Funeral; Hamburg, DE]
EFFIGY - Cruel  Mind [1999 "Evil Fragments" Dark Age; Takamatsu, Kagawa JP]
CANCER SPREADING - Psychosomatic Nausea [2016 "Ghastly Visions" Neanderthal Stench; Modena, IT]
FILTH OF MANKIND - Poszanawanie Roznorodnosci (Respect for diversity) [2000 "The Final Chapter" Scream Records; Gdansk, POL]
LEGION 666 - Into Their Shadows [2000 "Kiss the Goat" Schizophrenic Records; Toronto, CA]
ATRAMENT - Spit on Mankind [2018 "Scum Sect" Sentient Ruin/Caligari; Oakland, CA]

I've got no particular theme this time around, so this is just a disjointed jumble of a lotta shit that I've been stuck on as of late. I try to cover the gamut of styles you're likely to catch me vibing to, so it's a bit spread out, but all fricking solid. Not a weak record in the bunch so I hope that you all find something that you can latch onto and dig, or at the very least enjoy the ride regardless. You're gonna encounter some scathing heavy metal, UK crust, Greek anarcho goodness, singalong oi! and some all around heavy goodness, so I hope you're ready to dive in!

Tracks:


OZ - Fortune
SMASH DETOX - Shanguri-La
CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - Shallow Ground/Vote with a Bullet
DOOM - Symptom of the Universe/Multinationals
Ναυτία - Μη με σατανίζεις
SORE THROAT - We'll March Against the Nazis
LORD WEIRD SLOUGH FEG - Gene-ocide
OVERLORDE SR - Full Speed Ahead
CEREBRAL FIX - Zombie
BRONCO LIBRE - Tortures
ÖSTRA AROS - Raka Ror
ESP Mayhem - Do Worse

When we think about European hardcore, or more specifically Scandinavian hardcore, we tend to go right to the home of mangel and kangpunk: Sweden. I think in terms of longevity that even Norway is often thought about more even though for the life of me I couldn't name any Norwegian hardcore beyond Svart Framtid or Fader War. Anyway, three 2019 releases really made me double back and get back into Finnish hardcore. There were so many projects coming from towns like Tampere and Helsinki and elsewhere that made huge marks not just on Scandipunk but the international punk scene abroad as well. In this episode we're going to hear a bevy of heavyweights that have all had equal import in terms of the hardcore/punk/crossover/thrash scene and I feel hit just as hard now as when this stuff was new... and some of it is new as you'll hear. So relax and crack a cold one and prepare to have your ears blasted from the land of the Winter War: the Fury of Finnish Hardcore.

Kohti Tuhoa "Mitä Se Maksaa"
Foreseen "Infiltrator"
Kurøishi "Peace is Victory"
Selfish "Burning Sensation"
Treblinka "Helvettiin Ja Takaisin"
Kohu-63 "Turmellus"
Kaaos "Kuoleman Teatteri"
Mellakka "Kiitollinen Kansalainen"
Bastards "The Beginning of the End"
Lama "Anarko Marko"
Kansanturvamusiikkikomissio "Luontoon"
Destrucktions "A Tale of the End of the World"
Riistetyt "Sokeana Syntyneet"
Kyklooppien Sukupuutto "Kuiva Maa"
Força Macabra "O Silêncio dos Cadáveres"

Year-end list madness here, folks! Goin over some of the drops from 2019 that kicked my ass and then some. Hope you all find that something here that resonates, and thank you for making High Defamation a success!

Long one here, folks... covering the gamut of a bunch of death metal that I feel like doesn't get its just due. The bands covered here span the map and all draw on seemingly different styles and atmospheres but they all rule and I urge you to dive deeper into their catalogs.

Playlist:

MANGLED TORSOS "Drawings of the Dead"

KRABATHOR "Body as a Cover"

LEMMING PROJECT "Hysteria"

ANASARCA "I Will Not Be Broken"

INIQUITY "Spectral Scent"

MASTIC SCUM "Imminent Obscurity"

OPPRESSOR "As Blood Flows"

PARAMÆCIUM "Injudicial"

KAAMOS "THERIOMORPHIC PANDÆMONIUM"