Monte Cazazza - The Worst of Monte Cazazza [1996]

Genre: Old School Industrial/Experimental

Tracklisting:
01. psychiatric review
02. to mom on mother's day
03. candy man
04. rabid rats (vietnam)
05. distress
06. mary bell
07. kick the habit man
08. first / last
09. tiny tears
10. stairway to hell
11. sex is no emergency
12. a snitch is a snitch
13. six eyes from hell
14. liars (feed those christians to the lions)
15. a is for atom
16. if thoughts could kill
17. mark of the devil
18. climax

Seems like Monte Cazazza - guitarist of Psychic TV - has a lot of distance to himself - starting from the title of the compilation, ending on performances of the songs. Psychedelic industrial improvisation starts with "Just tell me when to start... anytime? ok. [and with a sweet, 10-years-old-boy-like voice] To mom on mother's day...>". Awesome.

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SPK - Information Overload Unit [1981]

Genre: Old School Industrial/Noise/Power Electronics

Tracklisting:
1. Emanation Machine R. Gie
2. Suture Obsession
3. Macht Schrecken
4. Beruftverbot
5. Ground Zero: Infinity Dos
6. Stammheim Torturkammer
7. Retard
8. Epilept: Convulse
9. Kaltbruchig Acideath

First studio LP by industrial classic SPK (after the live album At the Crypt) is somehow an introduction to their famous Leichenschrei [as Socialistiches Patienten Kollektiv] - the 'weakest' noise-explorers are easily discouraged by this album. Disturbing noisy power electronics improvisations with a well-hidden germ of melody are the clue of Information Overload Unit [as System Planning Korporation]. Though, some of the songs show the post-punk inspiration of SPK - like the second track Suture Obsession with a bass guitar on the first plan.

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Angerlreich - The Face Of Your Fear [2009]

Angelreich is a Polish metalcore band, this track is from their debut album The Plague. It's got few very good songs, this one is on the highest metalcore standard. I've experienced them live and I know they're doing their job pretty well. Unfortunately, on their debut CD with 8 tracks, 2 of them are intro and outro, and 1 is an electronic interlude...

Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave [2009]

Genre: Deathgrind/Death Metal/Grindcore

Tracklisting:
1. Strongarm 03:04
2. Diktat 03:41
3. Work to Rule 03:16
4. On the Brink of Extinction 03:29
5. Time Waits for No Slave 04:26
6. Life and Limb 04:00
7. Downbeat Clique 04:26
8. Fallacy Dominion 04:07
9. Passive Tense 03:48
10. Laurency of the Heart 03:36
11. Procrastination of the Empty Vessel 02:56
12. Feeling Redundant 03:23
13. A No-sided Argument 02:13
14. De-evolution Ad Nauseum 03:48

We are being used to fact, that Napalm Death, 80's grindcore precursor, every 1-2 years releases a good, solid piece of grindcore with death metal influences. Same with Time Waits for No Slave - it's nothing special, just a solid, enjoyable album. It's got some very-very-downbeat tracks, like On the Brink of Extinction or Life and Limb, and these moments are actually the best on the whole CD.

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MF DOOM - Operation: Doomsday [1999]

Genre: East Coast Hip Hop/Abstract Hip Hop

Tracklisting:
1. The Time We Faced DOOM (Skit)
2. Doomsday
3. Rhymes Like Dimes feat. DJ CUCUMBER SLICE
4. The Finest feat. TOMMY GUNN
5. Back In The Days (Skit)
6. Go With The Flow
7. Tick, Tick... feat. MF GRIMM
8. Red And Gold feat. KING GEEDORAH
9. The Hands Of Doom (Skit)
10. Who You Think I Am? feat. KD, KING GEEDORAH, KONG, MEGALON, RODAN, X-RAY
11. Doom, Are You Awake? (Skit)
12. Hey!
13. Operation: Greenbacks feat. MEGALON
14. The Mic
15. The Mystery Of DOOM (Skit)
16. Dead Bent
17. Gas Drawls
18. I Hear Voices (Part One) feat. KURIOUS
19. Hero vs villain (Epilogue) feat. E.MASON

MF DOOM's first studio release, not as good as the new Born Like This, but very good for sure. Not simple, like other East Coast albums - the 'Supervillain' had already created his abstract style of setting up the beats. Also, on Operation: Doomsday, we can easily hear Doom's characteristic style of rapping: "When in Rome/go back home/and get real dome/from a well known crack gnome". Yo!

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Dawn of Ashes - The Crypt Injection [2007]

Genre: Harsh EBM

Tracklisting:
1. A Blade In the Dark
2. Torture Device
3. Portrait of Homicide
4. Inhuman Salvation
5. Psycho Therapy
6. Still Born Defect
7. The Crypt Injection
8. Slasher
9. Where Angels Die
10. Blood Shattered Cross
11. Vengeance
12. Portrait of Homicide (Grendel Mix)
13. Portrait of Homicide (Aesthetic Perfection Mix)
14. Portrait of Homicide (Nurzery Ryhmes Mix)

Awesome piece of Harsh EBM in Combichrist aggro-tech style. Their heavy beats, distorted vocal typical for this kind of music and lots of loops makes The Crypt Injection very psychedelic, leading to some kind of trance. This album gots also some electro-industrial interludes, sounding like dark and gothic musical landscapes. Best EBM record I ever listened to so far. Strongly recommended!

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