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Artist Slaughter (can)
Title Strappado
Format D/LP
Label High Roller
Release Year 2014
Genre THRASH
Country Germany
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CatalogueNumber HRR 385
Description:
Limited double album featuring 2 different mixes of the album and aposter and lyric insert

Inattentive consumers picking up this album because they confuseit as being by the testicularly challenged American glam rockerswill be in for quite a surprise. This is the Canadian band namedSlaughter, and their lone 1987 album, Strappado (named after amedieval torture tactic that had victims suspended by their hands,while these were tied behind their backs), contained improbably rawblackened thrash reminiscent of the earliest works of Voivod or,say, Sepultura. In other words, there are no hair products insight! Instead, Strappado's crusty brand of gutter thrash pushespast boundaries of musical decency in the same brusque fashion asMotörhead and then Venom before them. The hysterically frantic"Disintegrator/Incinerator" opens proceedings with all the subtletyof an electric lawnmower to the head, but the rest of side A iscuriously dominated by uniformly slower -- though, for the mostpart, no less entertaining -- moshers like "Nocturnal Hell,""Tortured Souls," and "The Curse." Side B, by comparison, is fullsteam ahead; rapid-fire numbers like the title track, "Maim toPlease," and "Tyrant of Hell" unleash machine-gun warfare beforethe concluding "Tales of the Macabre" finally decelerates thehead-banging down again. Minimal production renders all of theabove even more unpalatable for any but the most serious ofmetalheads, and it helps if you're old enough to remember the farsimpler aesthetic expectations of the '80s -- where sheer savagefun often took precedence over perfect execution. Otherwise, you'llthink Slaughter is just a bunch of hopeless amateurs. This limitedvinyl edition comes with insert and 5 bonus tracks

Track listing:
1. Strappado-original mix
2. The Curse-original mix
3. Disintegrator-original mix
4. Incinerator-original mix
5. Parasites-original mix
6. F.O.D. (Fuck of Death)-original mix
7. Tortured Souls-original mix
8. Nocturnal Hell-original mix
9. Tales of the Macabre-original mix
10. One Foot in the Grave-unedited rough mix
11. Disintegrater-unedited rough mix
12. Incinerator-unedited rough mix
13. The Curse-unedited rough mix
14. Tales Of The Macabre-unedited rough mix
15. Strappado-unedited rough mix
16. Tyrant Of Hell-unedited rough mix
17. Nocturnal Hell-unedited rough mix
18. F.O.D. (Fuck Of Death)-unedited rough mix
19. Disintegrater-unedited rough mix
20. Incinerator-unedited rough mix
21. Tortured Souls-unedited rough mix
22. Parasites-unedited rough mix
23. Death Dealer-unedited rough mix