Disclose - The Aspects of War (1997)

A chaotic, careening 4-track practice space recording from the great Disclose. As noise-fucked and raw as they ever sounded.

Track listing:

1. Volkssturm (National Storming Party)

2. Courage

3. The Cause of War

4. The Aspects of War

5. Why Isn't There War?

6. Heartless

7. In Fact

8. The Grief

9. Smell of the Rotten Corpse

10. After an Air-Attack

Futility and lawlessness

More like this:

Gloom - 撲殺精神破綻者 (2003)

D-Clone - Creation and Destroy (2013)

Disfear - Everyday Slaughter (1997)

"But DEAR SPIRIT," I hear you say, "if you're so busy, surely your pushup regimen must be suffering!" Not to worry, my caring, inquisitive reader, it's not. I'm still shupping like a madman. I've even taken to shutting my camera off and busting out a quick 50 when a classmate in a Zoom lecture asks a question about something I already understand. Today, I did pushups #200-300 to Everyday Slaughter, arguably the greatest straight-up d-beat record ever recorded.

Track listing:

1. With Each Dawn I Die

2. Anthem of Agony

3. Crimescene: Worldwide

4. A Race for Power

5. Spectre of Genocide

6. Everyday Slaughter

7. Subsistance

8. Totalitarian Control

9. Frustration

10. Aftermath

11. 101 Overkill

12. Captured by Life

13. In Fear

It's all death

More d-beat:

Disgust - Brutality of War (1993)

Framtid - Under the Ashes (2002)

Discard - Four Minutes Past Midnight (1994)

By request, here's some old-school Swedish kång to smash your head against. Raging d-beat filled out by wild speed metal soloing.

Track listing:

1. Intro / Resist and Exist

2. Death Race

3. Sounds of War

4. I Won't Surrender

5. Never Ending Nightmare

6. Four Minutes Past Midnight

7. Nuclear War

8. Why Should They Die?

9. Nuclear Sunrise / The Final Dawn

10. One Day

11. Armed Revolution

12. Lights Out

13. Stand Up and Fight Back

14. Fear / Take a Look at Tomorrow

Ough!

More:

Disgust - Brutality of War (1993)

Totalitär - Sin Egen Motståndare (1994)

Framtid - Under the Ashes (2002)

Red-lining Japanese d-beat. Total fuck. Probably the band that I tried to ape most when I was briefly in a generic d-beat band.

Track listing:

1. Intro

2. The Total Arse

3. Over Population

4. Scapes of Tragedy

5. Tomorrow

6. Consuming Shit and Mind Pollution

7. Centuries of War

8. Death Protest

9. Curse

10. No Installation

11. Life's Hard

12. We Must Impart

13. Bomb Blast

Pictures of starving children sell records

More like this:

Gloom - 撲殺精神破綻者 (2003)

Kriegshög - Hardcore Hell EP (2008)

Uncurbed - Peacelovepunklife... Andotherstories (1998)

Classic, fist-pumping Swedish d-beat/hardcore. As you can tell from the album cover and song titles, the band's presentation and vibe is very 'punks-is-hippies'; however, the delivery is a whole different story -- it's beefy, ripping, and tight. "A Taste of Tomorrow" and "Forget the Future - Live in the Past" were among the first mp3s I ever downloaded, in 1998, off of some random, extremely primitive punk website. So you can thank Uncurbed and whoever uploaded those files for kicking off my obsession with downloading every piece of music ever recorded.

Track listing:

1. Tomorrow Rebels

2. System Stinx

3. Welfare or Hellfare?

4. Anarchy and Peace (Brothers and Sisters)

5. If I Need I Make!!

6. A Taste of Tomorrow

7. Passed Away

8. Breakout

9. Realize

10. Living in a Squat (So What!!?)

11. Forget the Future - Live in the Past

12. Never Change

13. Celebration to the Losers

14. Liberation Hippies

15. Government Education

16. Party Punx

I send them so much shit

Hope they all choke

More like this:

Totalitär - Sin Egen Motståndare (1994)

Hiatus - El Sueño de la Razon Produce Monstruos (1995)

Jeniger - Jeniger (2002)

One of the first and best melodic d-beat/crust records; it's maybe worth noting that Jeniger was recorded before the first Tragedy LP came out. This record changed the way I thought about punk, and was one of my old band's biggest influences during our formative years.

Track listing:

1. Point of No Return

2. Wasted

3. Lethargie

4. Paradise

5. For This Time

6. For No-One

7. Go Off

Welcome to paradise

Welcome to hell

More melodic d-beat:

Ambulance - The End of Our Time (2004)

Schifosi - Absentium Existence (2006)

Fukpig - Spewings from a Selfish Nation (2009)

Heavy-as-fucking-fuck d-beat with buzzsaw guitars and an impenetrably dense sound that, along with some melodic tendencies, dramatic choral keyboards, and general studio weirdness, suggests industrial black metal.

Track listing:
1. The Horror Is Here
2. Necropunk
3. Switchblade Romance
4. As the Bombs Fall
5. As Millions Suffer
6. Bombs of War
7. Cunt Hive
8. Mother Nature's Fears
9. Millions Dying
10. Thrash Armageddon
11. Their Cries
12. Negative Mental Attitude
13. Caught Out
14. Inertia

Delight in the dying of the light

Similar sonics:

Morgue - The Process to
Define the Shape of Self-Loathing (2002)

N.K.V.D. -
Hakmarrja (2014)

Nausea - Extinction (1990)

One of the best crust albums ever made. Deserves a better writeup but probably doesn't need one. Get drunk and thrash to mark the inevitable end of life on earth.

Track listing:
1. Tech-No-Logic-Kill
2. Inherit the Wasteland
3. Johnny Got His Gun
4. Self Destruct
5. Butchers
6. Sacrifice
7. Godless
8. Clutches
9. Extinction
10. Battened
11. Blackened Dove
12. Void

Praise the cybergod for the pound of flesh you ate
Praise the cybergod for the gift of hate

More like this:

Misery -
Next Time (1995)

Decrepit - Tired of
Licking Blood from a Spoon (1999)

Disgust - Brutality of War (1993)

The world is a fat turd. How 'bout some d-beat while you wait to die?

Track listing:
1. Intro
2. Mother Earth
3. As Millions Suffer
4. An Horrific End
5. Thrown into Oblivion
6. Civilization Decays
7. Relentless Slaughter
8. And Still...
9. The Light of Death
10. What Kind of Mind
11. You Have No Right
12. Sea of Tears
13. The Anguished Cry
14. Life Erased
15. Outro

The visions of the destruction
Of slaughter and violence

More like this:

The Shitlickers -
The Shitlickers (1982)

Hiatus - El Sueño de la
Razon Produce Monstruos (1995)

Kriegshög - Hardcore Hell EP (2008)

10 minutes of unrelenting Japanese raw d-beat noise.

Track listing:
1. Kriegshög
2. Zouo/Rotten
3. Nuclear Blood Rain
4. Trapped
5. Battlefield

Grim, terrifying, and frankly, repulsive visions of nuclear war

You'd also like:

Order of the Vulture -
Christ Killer (2004)

Paranoid - Hardcore Addict (2012)
+ Destroy Future Less System (2014)

Totalitär - Sin Egen Motståndare (1994)

Classic Swedish hardcore/d-beat. Inarguably one of the greatest hardcore records ever made. Music writing is bullshit.

Track listing:
1. Sin Egen Motståndare
2. Döda Döda för Inre Frid
3. Slut Som Människa
4. Vägen Till Ända
5. Allt Är Inom Dig
6. Tvingad in I Livet
7. Slagen Av Sanning
8. Jakten På Budskap
9.Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Stockholm
10. Vart Tog Pengarna Vägen?
11. Slit Ner Hälsan
12. Hårda Kast
13. På Väg Mot Mål
14. Välj Min Lögn
15. Väck Mig Nu!
16. Skallra for Döden
17. Stoppa Produktionen
18. Framtidsplaner

Life under the bomb

More like this:

Pisschrïst -
Nothing Has Changed (2006)

Paranoid - Hardcore Addict (2012)
+ Destroy Future Less System (2014)

His Hero Is Gone - Fifteen Counts of Arson (1997)

A classic of chaotic, heavy-as-fuck crust that incorporates elements of d-beat, grind, and sludge. If you like crust, you already know and love His Hero Is Gone. If crust has never done it for you, they might make you a believer. Features one of my all-time favorite album-closers. Fun fact: "Unleash" was the first mp3 I ever downloaded; it's less than 30 seconds long, and took like half an hour to download.

Track listing:
1. Professional Mindfuckers
2. ... And We Burn
3. Unleash
4. Leash
5. Sterile Fortress
6. Good Samaritan
7. Hand That Feeds
8. Raindance
9. Voluntary Amputation
10. Anthem of the Undesirables
11. Scalor
12. Concrete Cage
13. Abandoned
14. Thieves
15. The End Result of 11 Days in the Mental Hospital

They don't even have to break down our doors
Blindfold and gag us with their force
To install mind-control devices in our homes
We buy them on our own

If you like this, check out:

Decrepit - Tired of Licking
Blood from a Spoon (1999)

Muga -
Muga (2002)

Pisschrïst - Nothing Has Changed (2006)

Australian d-beat. "Blood Bled Dry" features the only whistling lead I've ever heard on a crust record. A bit of a Motörhead vibe (or "Wild West d-beat" as my homie Zack calls it) but really, this is straightforward, ripping d-beat that I was too busy being a dumb snob to get into when everyone else was.

Track listing:
1. Who Is to Blame
2. Mass Genocide Machine
3. System Stagnates
4. Fight Back
5. Pecah Kepalla
6. Blood Bred Dry
7. The River Runs Red
8. Chemical Warfare
9. Nothing Has Changed
10. Fuck the World
11. Hilong
12. Infected
13. Tamadun

Neverending nightmare

More like this:

Doom -
Monarchy Zoo (1996)

Consume -
Consume (2004)

Paranoid - Hardcore Addict (2012) + Destroy Future Less System (2014)

Swedish raw d-beat annihilation. Gnarly-as-fuck tones, sick riffs, a redlining mixdown, and a whole lotta feedback.

Track listing:
-Hardcore Addict-
1. To Whom It May Concern
2. Never Existing
3. Af-Raid of Life
4. Shitstorm
5. Illusions
6. High-Tech Future
-Destroy Future Less System-
1. 生、被害妄想、死
2. 盲目願望
3. 世界的核破壊
4. 悪循環
5. 腐敗と強欲

End my life

You would also dig:

Gloom -
撲殺精神破綻者 (2003)

D-Clone -
Creation and Destroy (2013)

Instinct of Survival - Call of the Blue Distance (2014)

German crust. Anthemic, dark, and driving, with seamlessly integrated post-punk influences. To whoever was asking me if I had any Countdown to Armageddon: I'd bet money on you digging this.

Track listing:
1. Call of the Blue Distance
2. Salvation
3. Walls
4. To Forget
5. Violence Silence
6. Lapsed into Absurdity
7. Drown in Sorrow
8. What Will You Do
9. Fading Footsteps
10. Endzeit

Life is against me

If you like this, check out:

Misery - From Where the
Sun Never Shines (2012)

Swordwielder -
Grim Visions of Battle (2013)

Consume - Consume (2004)

Related:
Decrepit - Tired of Licking Blood from a Spoon (1999)

Heavy, ripping d-beat featuring ex-members of State of Fear. Some of the best riffs the subgenre ever produced, and just a touch of melodic d-beat a la Tragedy. Consume compiles everything this band recorded, and to me stands as one of the most essential d-beat records in existence. If you're not pumping your fist and slamming into who/whatever is closest to you, you're dead.

Track listing:
1. Gender Roles
2. Logical Limits Exceeded
3. Starved
4. Carcharodon Carcharias
5. The Cycle Continues
6. No Skin Off Your Back
7. Stormclouds
8. Mediocrity Remains
9. The End of Tomorrows
10. Led Astray
11. Forked Tongue
12. Lying Cunts
13. Shadows of Sorrow
14. Rise
15. Behind the Curtain
16. The Screams of Dying Cowboys
17. Products of Ignorance
18. Dogfood

Fuck off

You should also be listening to:

Hiatus - El Sueño de la
Razon Produce Monstruos (1995)

Ambulance -
The End of Our Time (2004)

Schifosi - Absentium Existence (2006)

Australian melodic d-beat. The Absentium Existence EP was the last thing Schifosi released before splitting, and, as is so often the case with swan songs, it's their best work. An old friend and bandmate who knows more about the genre than I once said that "Shallow Alchemy" might be the most advanced d-beat he'd ever heard.

Track listing:
1. Post Genocide Syndrome
2. In Absentium
3. Vice Grip
4. But a Heretic
5. A Life Overdue
6. Shallow Alchemy

Suicide is illegal and punishable by death

You'll also like:

Muga -
Muga (2002)

Ambulance -
The End of Our Time (2004)

324 - 冒涜の太陽 (2000)

Heavy, tight Japanese grind/hyperspeed d-beat with ace breakdowns. I can only imagine how utterly buck-wild crowds must have gone for this band.

Track listing:
1. Silence Before Silver Screen
2. Quarter Moon
3. Red Origin Still Streaming
4. Plastic Dream
5. 鉄の森
6. Disgusting Flower
7. Swinging Skull
8. Broken Clock
9. Crawl in the Transparency
10. New Dimension
11. Cobalt
12. Flash Rings Link
13. M.O.C.
14. Glenghost

Demons in the basement

You should also hear:

Clotted Symmetric Sexual Organ -
Are You Excrements? (2000)

Suffering Mind -
At War with Mankind (2009)

Hierophant - Great Mother : Holy Monster (2013)

Crushing Italian blackened d-beat/hardcore. Some metal blog (can't remember which one, maybe Metal Inquisition?) used to call bands like this "amazingcore" because their fans are beardos who alway say that shit's "amazing," and though the shoe fits Hierophant, please don't hold it against them, cause they slay.

Track listing:
1. Son of the New Faith
2. Son of the Tongue's Prison
3. Son of Four-Hands Way
4. Son of the Carcinoma
5. Son of Egoistic Love
6. Son of the Public Castration
7. Son of the Cathartic Cave
8. Son of the Black Mirror

Ten thousand winters

You might also like:

Majority Rule -
Interviews with David Frost (2001)

Generation of Vipers -
Howl and Filth (2011)

Doom - Monarchy Zoo (1996)

Heavy, butt-simple d-beat from UK crust legends Doom. Though the Police Bastard 7" has the distinction of being the best-selling crust record of all time (it's true, look it up) Monarchy Zoo has always been my personal favorite Doom record. Starts with the anthemic, mid-paced title track, followed by four short blasts of thrash-y caveman d-beat, then they're out. Perfect.

Also: someone should start a funeral doom band called "D-Beat."

Track listing:
1. Monarchy Zoo
2. Raining Napalm
3. Want Not Need
4. Dig Your Grave
5. Doomed

Lock them up, throw away the key
Put behind bars for the tourist industry

You'll also wanna hear:

Hiatus - El Sueño de la
Razon Produce Monstruos (1995)

Order of the Vulture -
Christ Killer (2004)