nuclear blast. 001 / 20 tracks / 1987

The humble beginnings of Nuclear Blast, back then still a hardcore/thrash label. Mostly fast and noisy hardcore, some with metal/thrash influences. The tracks by Sacred Denial, Fear Itself, Condemned, Dehumanizers and Cancerous Growth are from their respective LPs, but the songs by AMQA (fast frenzied hardcore), Impulse Manslaughter (3 of the 4), Attitude (live songs) and Sea Monkeys (fast chaotic hardcore) are exclusive. Most of the music is actually pretty good, but if you deduct the songs taken from other records not much remains. The AMQA tracks are hot, though. This could win a prize for the worst cover design ever. [6]

Erstes Release des Nuclear-Blast-Labels, hier noch ohne Deathmetal-Einflüsse. Zumeist geht es um schnellen, krachigen Hardcore, hin und wieder auch mit Thrash/Metal-Kante. Mehr als die Hälfte der Tracks taucht auch auf den LPs der einzelnen Bands auf, aber die Songs von AMQA (schneller, ausgerasteter Hardcore), Impulse Manslaughter (3 der 4 Songs), Attitude (live) und Sea Monkeys (schneller chaotischer Hardcore) gibt es nur hier. Zieht man das bekannte Material ab, bleibt nicht viel - aber die beiden AMQA-Songs sind super.

Tracks: Sacred Denial - take a look around / when i sleep / some curiousity / Fear Itself - prophecy fulfilled / pyro / AMQA - red streak / amqa / Condemned - satan's sandals / Dehumanizers - chemical death / cigarette death / Impulse Manslaughter - this world / satan's doormat / herman munster / patton's disease / Attitude - no blind power / deadly euphoria / Cancerous Growth - black/doomy theme / greed / Sea Monkeys - cardiac arrest / on the team