"THE UNDERGROUND CULT ALBUM FROM THE WORLD'S FASTEST DEATH METAL BAND!"
PIC INFO: Part 2 of 2 -- Resolution at 1400x1400 Spotlight on "Horrified," the only studio album by pioneering American grindcore band REPULSION.
Although the album was originally recorded in 1986, and released on cassette as "Slaughter of the Innocent," it remained unreleased until three years later when it was officially released on LP and CD via Necrosis Records, a sublabel of Earache [Records] run by Jeff Walker and Bill Steer of the band CARCASS.
MINI-OVERVIEW: "REPULSION has always been a band that your favorite bands worshipped, but were somehow otherwise criminally unheard of. But make no mistake, evangelizers like Napalm Death, Carcass, Entombed, Terrorizer, At the Gates and others will tell you: One listen to "Horrified" — to the thrashing riffs and buzzsaw bass, the desperately screamed vocals and the incessant pounding (that legitimized a new drumbeat) — and you’ll see how it all started; you’ll visit the haunted cobwebbed attic of the genre we call grindcore.
Recorded in ’86, tape-traded for three years — beyond REPULSION’s demise — and released posthumously on Earache sub-label Necrosis in ’89, "Horrified" infected the burgeoning underground with an unheralded blend of hardcore and death metal, appealing to disparate scenes and transcending genre boundaries, effectively blurring them into a frenetic mess. It was a singularity, a leap in the evolution. Unpolished and unapologetic, its legacy of primitivism is just as relevant now in this digital age of perfection as it was back in the ’80s, when it was shocking enough to make tape decks tremble and listeners utter, "What the fuck is that?""
-- "DECIBEL" Magazine, written by Matthew Widener, REPULSION's "Horrified," "Decibel" Hall of Fame #42, August 8, 2008
Source: www.decibelmagazine.com/2008/08/18/repulsion-horrified & Wikipedia.
