In Slaughter Natives – "In Slaughter Natives" (Cold Meat Industry – CMI-04) 1988

Some bright spark calls this stuff ,and I quote,"Symphonic Industrial",but,Having never knowingly heard anything by Nine Inch Nails, this cassette ,released on the aforementioned 'Cold Meat Industries' label around the advent of Hard Electronic Industrial Rock,with a Gothic Wagnerian slant, is what I guess it sounded like;but like the argument put forward by many an envious American rock musician that only Americans can understand Rock'n'Roll.....i'm thinking self-important Art slobs like the late David Thomas here....well.....the same can be argued that Americans can't understand dark European evil either. Especially when Wagner and Gothic Marching music is concerned. 

Just as Rock'n'Roll is basically modern american Folk Music, equally Dark East European Industrial like this is a form of modern folk music too.Replacing the Appalachians for the Urals. The ugly American could never produce anything like Laibach or even Throbbing Gristle within a million extinction events. 

The result is Nine Inch Nails, and The Ministry,which i figure are in fact just Heavy Metal again......purely a British form of modern Industrial urban Folk,that gets constantly fucked up by our American Cousins. I'm talking Hair Metal here.

You just can't make traditional dark Industrial Metal from the urban wastelands of Birmingham,UK, in California,or replicate the claustrophobiz in the wide open spaces of  Texas with a Van Halen guitar solo.

Having said that, "In Slaughter Natives" are apparently Swedish ,which is just another word for German,or, Norman,or even Viking for that matter. These Scandinavians can do Metal extremely authentically. Which also includes, Thudding Hard Electronics such as this, which feels like one is receiving a damn good, and well deserved kicking if one turns it up a notch.

Dark Electronic God Gary Numan is back at number one ,so i am informed,by copying Nine Inch Nails apparently?......Please let me never hear this potential atrocity ever!

Anyway, we all know who invented Industrial Rock don't we?...yep....Killing Joke innit!?

Tracklisting:

A1 Death, Just Only Death... 5:24
A2 CHRIST 5:24
A3 Media 4:33
B1 Cryptic Slaughter 1:52
B2 Head 5:16
B3 Structure (See Circule Say Cube) 2:43
B4 Then Gothic 5:24

DOWNLOAD a smorgasbord of cold meats HERE!

Scorn ‎– "Vae Solis" (Earache ‎– MOSH 54) 1992

We are getting in really dodgy territory now, 1992. A truly terrible year for music. Awful sampling abuse, Dire drum machine conformity, Really shite Effects units. DJ's in their forties treated like some kind of messiah. We even started to accept and even enjoy our conformity.A Huxley-esque concept made fact, if ever there was one; and its even worse today.
A resident of the 'Chill Out' area, I managed to escape the vast majority of the atrocities being committed in these dance concentration camps, and lost myself in the bizarre world of Easy Listening, which was one interesting bi-product of club culture.
However, Metal ,as the only mainstream alternative to clubbing culture, was mutating into the only partly subversive counter culture activity.This was the start of the couple of hundred sub-genres of 'Metal' that exist today.
Earache was largely responsible for quite a few of those, one being Industrial Metal, as purveyed by Godflesh (featuring yet another ex-Napalm Death member Justin Broadrick) in the late eighties, from a recipe originally concocted by the rather good Killing Joke.
More Ex-Napalm Death members Mick Harris and Nic Bullen, joined in the fun with their 'Scorn' Project, which was a brutally effective unit for the first album or so,before the irresistible influence of club culture watered down the racket into some kind of over programmed trip hop nonsense.

Tracklist:

1 Spasm 2:49
2 Suck And Eat You 3:48
3 Hit 7:36
4 Walls Of My Heart 7:02
5 Lick Forever Dog 6:29
6 Thoughts Of Escape 5:18
7 Deep In - Eaten Over And Over 8:28
8 On Ice 8:00
9 Heavy Blood 5:41
10 Scum After Death (Dub) 5:54
11 Fleshpile (Edit) 5:15
12 Orgy Of Holiness 4:48
13 Still Life 4:13

DOWNLOAD and get an earache HERE!