ASSÜCK

"misery index"
Year:  1997
Label:  Sound Pollution
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  15
Time:  25 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Grindcore

Second album of these masters and despite is very good, perhaps not than its predecesor. In general the band made here song very similars in all aspects (short, speed, lyrical themes, etc.) but the general sound here is noisier and dirtier. It continue to be grindcore, of course, but with these two elements in comparaison with its debut long album.

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"anti-capital"
Year:  1991
Label:  Sound pollution
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks: 27
Time:  25 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:         Grindcore

In fact this link here below (Bandcamp) has not the ASSÜCK debut album, but all its discography together. But the label which made this compilation used the cover and artwork of the debut "Anticapital". Only 30 minutes, no more, of intensity, speed and furious grindcore with some differences that then (1991) made this band and this album almos unique. First of all, to mention Agathocles was not alone in that genre theyselves called as "mince-core" late 80s, which very few bands could be describe as it like early Napalm Death or perhaps Terrorizer. ASSÜCK started its musical career in 1987 with an style quite dirty and close to fast-core, until this "Anti-Capital", when the band show its high technical level, high quality studio sound and its intelligen and original lyrics. Striclty musical  ASSÜCK sounded some kind of "metalized" grindcore perhaps a bit far from typical gutural death-metal and closer to thrash-metal, thraschcore or "crossover" sound. My personal opinion is ASSÜCK more similar to Terrorizer than Napalm Death. My first contact with them was with their EP "State to hate" (1993) and quickly I searched for their two other albums. Total classic and of course highly recommended.

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LOS FASTIDIOS

"revolt"

Year:  2023

Label:  KOB

Format:  CD, LP

Tracks:  9

Time:  18 min.

Genre:  rock

Style:        Ska

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"XXX the number of the beat"

Year:  2021

Label:  Kob

Format:  CD, LP

Tracks:  14

Time:  34 min.

Genre:  rock

Style:        Ska        Reggae

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"from lockdown to the world"
Year:  2020
Label:  KOP

Format:  CD, LP

Tracks:  12

Time:  36 min.

Genre:  rock

Style:        Ska        Reggae

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"joy joy joy"
Year:  2019
Label:  KOB
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  13
Time:  35 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Ska        Punk








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"the sound of Revolution"
Year:  2017
Label:  Fire and Flames
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  35 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Ska        Punk






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"Let´s do it"
Year:  2014
Label:  KOB
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  36 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Ska        Punk

"Let´s do it" isn’t just the best LOS FASTIDIOS album; it’s also their response to those who said they should’ve stayed dead after their previous full-length albums, never so good than this album. The songs, the quality sound and the technical level, all is better than all previous recordings. From here, we hope LOS FASTIDIOS will to be enough talented to make unless similar albums but better. Those who have only heard their debut or also second album, to say them here there is nothing to do about it. Precious ska music like "2 Tone" 1979 masters and perfect and well done punk rock 1977 style, no more. Direct lyrics, simple rhythms and few distorted guitars. All seem so easy, so simple... but at the same time so difficult to get it, isn´it? The band are well-known for promoting anti-racism in football and are part of the Green Left movement. Sounding like a football terrace chant, the album's title track declares, "Uniti si vince, divisi invece lo sai, futuro non avremo mai," which later in the song they kindly translate as, "United we stand, divided we fall, united, let's go." The only song on the album fully in English, "Think About Them", tackles an issue often neglected on the left - animal rights.The label "KOB Records" is own of Enrico De Angelis (singer of the band) and is based also in Verona. The release exist only on vinyl format. They prove on their new record that they have bigger steps ahead than the ones they left behind. Very good album no doubt.

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"all' arrembaggio"
Year:  2009
Label:  Mad Butcher
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  11
Time:  35
Genre:  rock
Style:        Ska        Punk





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"rebels'n'revels"

Year:  2006

Label:  Mad Butcher

Format:  CD, LP

Tracks:  13

Time:  36 min.

Genre:  rock

Style:        Ska        Punk

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NOS ANNEES PUNK

NOS ANNÉES PUNK 1977-1980
Year:  2002
Country:  France
City:  several
Label:  EMI
Format:  CD + book
Bands:  12
Tracks:  24

Time:  50 min.

Genre:  rock

Style:         Punk  Rock

There was a time when French rockers were in sync with the US and UK scenes: The Punk years! It's no mystery, considering the fact that the formative years of Punk were made up of intellectual artists in Manhattan who dabbled with the avant-garde and actually knew how to read decadent literature by Oscar Wilde, Rimbaud, Verlaine, or Burrough, and were inspired by the Situationnists' and the Dadaïsts' movements. It naturally appealed to the intellectual side of the French, and it gave credibility to French rockers with some kind of a seal of approval by the academics as long as it stayed in the art circles and didn't spill out into the streets (the Londoners, as we all know, took care of that!).

In fact, Punk in France was all about a small elite group who congregated around "Open Market," the record shop of Marc Zermati (the notorious owner of the Sky Dog label which once relaunched the dying career of Iggy pop and who now resides in Japan where he takes care of Japanese underground rock groups!) mainly situated in the middle of Paris, in the world renowned 1st district called "Les Halles." This shop was truly a rallying center for wired-up people who had assimilated subversive literature and were very hip rock fans searching for obscure, US garage-rock memorabilia like the Shadows of Knight or the Nuggets' comp.

All the French bands, who were to become important in the scene, already existed in the early '70s in the wake of the Velvet Underground, the New York Dolls, Stooges/ MC5s and Andy Warhol's Factory : Asphalt Jungle, Métal Urbain, Stinky Toys, Marie et les Garçons, and Electric Callas even though the Sex Pistols made their first and only appearance at the Chalet du Lac night club, in the woods of Vincennes on the outskirts of Paris, in September '76. Most of them had already seen the 'Pistols the year before in London, anyway! In fact, the gig of the New York Dolls in Paris much earlier was the true turning point which enabled a lot of active people to meet, so that when the punk scene was taking place in '76/ '77, people already knew each other and had already played on the same stage.

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"NOS ANNÉES PUNK 1972 - 1978"

Year:  2002

Country:  France

City:  Paris

Format:  Book

Pages: 462

Author:  Christian Eudeline

Label:  Denoël

Language:  french

Theme:  french rock scene from 72 to 78

This book was in the shops at the beggining of 2002 and then I was in Montpellier (south of France) on summer holiday. I bought the book as soon as I saw it and I started to read it the same day. In fact this is not a book which tell the punk or hardcore scene in France or in the francophone countries, but everything happened just before 1977 punk explosion. The author, a music journalist called Christian Eudeline, lived those days and tell us the bands, concerts and magazines related to styles described as: "proto-punk". Book plus CD are a document to know almost all about french garage, glam and proto-punk music. Meanwhile Stooges, New York Dolls, MC5 or Dictators recorded music in the USA or UK, in France they were bands such as: Les Frenchies, Blue Vamp or Little Bob. Later in 1976 France going to see its own "punk explosion" with names such as: Metal Urbain, Gazoline, Guilty Razors, Marie et les Garçons, Asphalt Jungle or Plastic Bertrand.

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