Extreme Noise Terror - A Holocaust in Your Head

You're just going to have to forgive me for not always being able to find something really obscure to post about.  I'm not enough of a blog hound to be that consistent.  Today, I bring you my first foray into full-on Crust, Extreme Noise Terror's "A Holocaust in Your Head".  If you're unfamiliar with the genre, this beast of an album is the perfect place to start.  This classic came out in a really pivotal time in extreme music ('89), but at the same time, was totally oblivious to it.  While Black Metal, Death Metal, and Grindcore bands were getting tighter and more sophisticated, Crust bands like E.N.T. were totally content to caveman-bludgeon their instruments and write brutally simple songs.  Pure sonic violence is what you can expect; this is about as heavy as Punk got, prior to the advent of Powerviolence.  You'd still be hard-pressed to find something more guttural than this, without vocal effects and drum machines all over it.  It's true that E.N.T. eventually became an unremarkable Grind band, like a poor-man's Napalm Death, but this is when they were at their Stylistic peak, before the cheesiness and the poor fashion choices.  This is the essence of brutality.

it stinks in here...
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