Repulsion: Horrified - 1989 (recorded 1986)
Any metal fan worth his salt knows that this is the
real first grindcore album, as it was recorded before Napalm Death's
Scum, but had the bad luck to only be released several years later. Too bad cause this is a far better album than
Scum.
Scum certainly has its moments but its grind sections just sound like a wall of boring noise that kills momentum rather than adds to it. No such problem with
Horrified and as such the intensity level on this album is cranked up to 11. This is no-frills noise pollution with about a 50/50 mix of early death metal and the filthiest of eighties hardcore. It's pretty much a thirty-minute long headbang with the only thing really breaking up the heads down, grinding aural assault being short, mid-paced chugging riff sections that demand the jackhammering of one's skull. Honestly, there really isn't a whole lot more to say. It rules and if you're an old school death metalhead/grindcore fan then I don't know why you haven't already listened to this.