Mephistofeles are Argentinians ("Argies",the Sun 1982). They describe themselves as Proto-Doom/heavy psych rock. played by..... Gabriel Ravera (guitarra & voz) Ismael Dimenza (bajo) Iván Sacharczuk (batería)....I think that's right,unless Ivan plays Bacteria, and Ismael plays the Banjo??...They don't seem to have normal Argentinian Names.like Adolf, Heinrich and Ulrich at all? Especially strange is that they play what they admit to being 'Proto-Doom'? This is the kind of Honesty sadly missing with many groups who claim to be originals,and the others are ripping them off.,the New Originals, like The Ramones are always moaning about,in denial of their Proto-Punk status.
Mephistofeles are are also unashamed to wear their Black Sabbath cred on their sleeves.They even have one of those Tony Iommi acoustic numbers on the LP,the ones that we (they) always used to skip over whilst playing a B Sabbath LP back in the days of NWOBHM .
As Doomy as would be the imaginary Proto-Doom Band that played on the deck of the General Belgrano as it slipped below the waves of the Falklands exclusion Zone,again back in the days of NWOBHM.
Rock'n'the Roll is largely dead, apart from the odd gig by Blur or Arctic monkeys,and an enormous Savannah plain of migrating heavy metal Wildebeests trampling all that block their path under a storm of thundering cloven hooves. Metal,with all its mutations are the only survivors of the great extinction that positively flourished after the Acid House asteroid hit ground Zero back in '88. Nowadays the only new guitar bass and drums based music that exists is......yep.....Heavy Metal and its illegitimate children. All things Rock have collapsed into the black leather hole of Spinal Tarp derivatives.
The cover seems to feature the corpse of a very Ex-Model,with tits like last christmas's balloons.The censored nipples is an interesting addition, but these Argie Sabbath Clones fail to compete with the rest of the Smell The Glove brotherhood for decent chicks for those malodorous smeg hording malcontents to masturbate to.
They'll be singing along to this stuff way into the 22nd and a half century,long after This Heat are forgotten.Depending on the outcome of collective Human Stupidity on the current climate crisis that no-body...repeat....nobody, is doing anything useful about???
It's 21st century folk music at its best,played by a bunch of losers with dubious Germanic family trees.Still relevant for the time in the near future when that massive ocean of crude oil under The Falkland Islands is being exploited to the max by BP,who will then rule the world, and we all live in underground cities.....,which does indeed make Nuclear conflict possible again.
I'll say it again "Collective Human Stupidity"!?
Tracklist:
A1 Cerimone Sessuali Di Satana 15:09
A2 Profanazione 3:30
A3 Di Nuovo In Basso 4:15
B1 Overdose 3:12
B2 Siringa 6:13
B3 La Maledizione Del Coltello 5:20
B4 Catene Di Agonia 9:59
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So now I know what Jonny’s been doing in his spare time, or now he knows what I’ll be doing with mine!. In any case thanks for providing the answer for most every ‘why’ question related to activities on this plane: Collective Human Stupidity. sigh…
Nuclear conflict again? Hiroshima was FIRE-BOMBED, so was Nagasaki, the damage at both of these cities is EXACTLY the same as the firebombed capital, Tokyo. Exactly. Grass grew back in weeks, the same for all 3, all three had houses made of wood and paper, the only difference was the citizens of the two FAKE nukes were x-rayed - over and over - nuclear weapons are totally FAKE. FAKE like covid, fake like virii, fake like politicians and tv ratings.
Y'know...it gets to the point where everything is de facto Fake,like a long term girlfriends orgasms.There's no point in inventing anything because it'll just turn out to be Fake in the end. Cars are Fake,the entire population of Birmingham(UK & USA) are all just acting.There's no real evidence that anything actually exists. Crikey, even Ifor Biggwm is probably one of those Conspiracy Actors,planted by an alien govt to brainwash us into thinking that everything's Fake.....but then I would say that, I'm a Crisis actor myself,got Sandy Hook, Ukraine, and the FA Cup final on my CV.
Ooooooh I love a bit of satanic sex me, as I know Rev B does too,but as the witching hour approaches, i will be off for more excited quaffing down of baby's blood with BFF's Bill and Hilary, who i met at a certain Pizza joint in Washington DC. I betcha Ifor gets in a royal lather at the thought of a kidnapped two year olds ass legs akimbo,then chomping on some foetus pie....its not illegal,its just Fake......wait there's some cops banging on my door!????
I wouldn’t worry. Those are fake cops at the door, actors, just like Ifor Biggwm Flausma. I’m told George Floyd now runs a casino in Vegas after collecting MILLIONS faking death by cop. People are soo… gullible. You have to wonder why these it’s all fake types always seems so upset. Shouldn’t they be in the waving, not drowning club? Foetus pie, yum. I hear they deliver…
Just a couple of words to tell you that you have fantastic great taste and an amazing blog! Thank you for all the music that you present here, I have known and loved it for a long time. And I enjoy looking at your great like hell posts, dear JZ. Best regards from Holy Mother Russia! - M
If the good Reverend is now worshipping at this temple I better subjugate myself as well. I'm always wary of the vocals on these type of things but I did enjoy what I heard from the Devil's Witches so I'll exert the effort to click on the link. Plus, that mini-poster insert is pretty hawt!
According to Discogs it came with a free blotter acid sheet. Which isn't quite the same thing as a free sheet of blotter acid - circumventing the drug squad, or the Trade Descriptions Act?
Also supposedly recorded in Dracula's castle on an Akai 4000D tape machine, which is the same model I used to record on in the Eighties.
Maldorer is dead...still get a lot of traffic from Mother Russia.How much of that comes from Troll farms in Petrograd I don't know? I did turn down a crisis acting job to be Medvedev, although the guy who got the job is doing a fine dark comedy hawk version of Medvedev worthy of an award.
Jonny >> Yeah, the connection here still works OK and allows us to still merge in the common Internet ecstasy! There are no trolls in Petrograd - I love this city - only elves - beautiful infernal girls, vodka for depressive autumn evenings and the revolution cruiser Aurora - everything else is a wet fantasy of the CIA and f***ing Hollywood xo xo )) Medvedev is not relevant for a true actor. There is no ancient Greek tragedy! - as far as I understand in the cinema (and one of my modest avant-garde films was shown in Los Angeles last fall). But what about a sex orgy trash horror about Harvey Weinstein as the new Ted Kaczynski? Or about Satan Barbie?
"They'll be singing along to this stuff way into the 22nd and a half century, long after This Heat are forgotten.Depending on the outcome of collective Human Stupidity on the current climate crisis that no-body...repeat....nobody, is doing anything useful about???"
Yeah. I think the absolute best case scenario is that This Heat _won't_ be forgotten. Everything else will be shit, but there'll still be This Heat, at least.
I find myself googling "is anybody doing jack-shit about climate change?" (worded differently, of course) all the time. I can't figure out whether everyone is simply in denial, or they know something that I don't know. Not to sound immodest, but I really don't think it's the latter. Kinda depresses the crap out of me.
One must note that This Heat's "Deceit" is my favourite Sing-a-long album,and the sole reason i know the wording of the American Declaration of Independence.....always handy for the pub Quiz.
Yeah they're doing jack shit, and making things worse by raping the earth to make those ridiculous electric cars.
¡ Malvinas Argentinas ! . . . also, very on point as per usual, Juanito Civago, you certainly rock (!) our world with each entrée of your blog, but 'twas Rap as a whole, I FEEL, and not really Acid House which triggered the killing of rock - in 88 indeed -, but it is okay to have some little UKcentric worldview, mate, I, for one, am great supporter of everything Albion. Except its geopolitics, duh . .
Hola mister Jonny, this is the band here, Mephistofeles. You have posted this unauthorized. If you plan to keep it on your otherwise excellent blog, please send one hundred American dollars in brown paper bag to PO Box 093, Tucuman, Argentina.
Gracias!
Hola Chunga, that's ok, i'll just deduct the $100 from your $200 bill for all this publicity you're getting by being featured on the 10th most popular obscure music blog on the web.
luv JZ
You missed it! Great band name, "Smeg Hoarders".
Or album, opera fan mag title too.
"Smeg Hoarders, hoarders of smeg!"
As far as the moon landing, I have always thought it was real.
But recently heard the theory, only the first one was faked.
Which is not nearly as crazy. Faked to beat the russians. Very important to both countries at the time. Except I do believe there were reports of big telescopes
seeing the flag and stuff on the moon. But, really, I don't know how true that is either. Did we really have that capability then? And who reported it. That's why I don't worry about any of it. Too busy listening closely to all the dieordiy? posts.
Yeah Northy, the evidence is that a lazer reflector was positioned on the lunar surface by armstrong and the boyz,that has been used constantly since the alleged fake landing,and is still used today to measure the expanding distance between the Earth and the moon......plus lots of orbiter pix of the Sea of tranquility landing sight,complete with footprints etc.
In the early days of the Internet conspiracy epidemic, I too was taken in by this shit,then I learned never to believe what unconfirmed sources say, or make edited vids on you tube of. There's far far more evidence for than against.So don't worry,and keep listening and glistening.
Smeg hoarders is the title of an unfinished Andrew Lloyd Webber musical from the early 90's. No-one can use it without risk of being sued.
PS, i do however have evidence that there's A Nazi Flag on the Dark side, and a mothballed lunar base that houses Nukes,and cryogenically stored top Nazi's, one of them having a little mustache.
This is proven,just ask Heinrich H on facebook.
When I first heard "Deceit" by This Heat in the mid 80ies I wasn`t too enthusiastic despite obvious similarities to the music of Can, an all time favourite of mine , but the opener of the album "Sleep" instantly stuck on my mind. It needed the re introduction years later by this glorious blog to fully appriceate the beauty of these recordings. Thanks for that by the way, Mr Z. A remarkable example of the power of a good melody, me think.
Herr A
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