Recipients Of Death (USA)- Recipients Of Death 12" MLP

(Wild Rags Records 1988)

Can you imagine such an abomination of a monster like Recipients Of Detah being procreated in happy, warm and sunny Southern California? I can't but what have you got? The band in all its vileness and vehemence is a powerpack of violence, executing full hardcore onslaught that is hungry to maul and rip apart somebody's face like a pitbull terrier. While hardcore is now given the booboo treatment these days by the metal scenes made up of our dear conceited puritans of "Spartans", it nevertheless had a stronghold back in the '80s when those speedcore, deathcore or thrashcore sound way more brutal and aggressive since they're pretty much charged up with angst and ethos. If only the metal scene is more united these days, we wouldn't have so much faecal nonsenses spilled from the rears of the "Spartans". Alright, when I spin the wax, it evokes nasty pictures of war and devastation, which lives up to the tense songtitles like "Raping Death", "City Of The Dead (Necropolis)" and "Fleshburn". They made a simple, "to the point" affair with this one but the lead guitars seemingly cast a complex web of chaotic intricacy, forcing you to get entangled and liquefied in their atomic fission. The MLP is produced by Eric Meyer of the legendary Dark Angel, so the productions is quite good albeit raw and intense. It'd be even of stronger appeal to you if you enjoy brutal death/thrashcore in the veins of Num Skull and Burnt Offerings. The MLP comes with a full colour band poster, so you can stick 'em up your walls if you worship these purveyors of nuclear destruction, but then you're verging on "Spartan" tendencies, which comes from the kind of people they'd love to disintegrate. This bit was released recently on CD format.