It was probably the seminal band’s metallic, catchy, yet apocalypse-harshed debut full-length ‘ Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing‘ in 1982 that found their music reaching every corner of the Earth henceforth and even if we don’t consider the regional “d-beat” scenes and their creative variations of the last forty plus years it can be said that the seed and inspiration for thrash metal, black metal, grindcore and well, crust punk were all dribbling from their holes at that given juncture. Once we’ve hit somewhere near Bolt Thrower and Prophecy of Doom, we’re in the thick of the origin story.Īny given musician could seemingly spend a lifetime listening to nothing but Discharge and still live a fulfilling gig as a musician, this isn’t hyperbole but a fact proven again and again since (at the very least) their first “big” record, the ‘Why?’ EP back in 1981. I will aim find deeper cuts but not until we’re beyond the later extremes of stenchcore in the 80’s. Chances are your favorite NWOBHM band from that era had at least one member who’d been in a stellar punk band, such as Tank‘s Algy Ward being an important part of The Saints and The Damned, where the transition from punk to metalpunk and full-on heavy metal was a matter of resisting the established idioms of the mid-to-late 70’s and sprawling the possibilities of songwriting as exciting new music styles were developed. To start, it’d be helpful to understand that crust punk is essentially the United Kingdom’s answer to “metallic hardcore” circa the late 70’s when Motörhead and Venom (among many others) reached peak grittiness and left an opening for everything from Discharge and Amebix to the much lauded Antisect and their archetypal forms. It is a small niche with vague parameters so, it’ll be interesting to see if any major feedback is warranted. I don’t care about teaching you a damn thing, I want to learn together!įor Part I we will have to create some sense of scene, mindset and various settings that’d allow for this music to differentiate from nearby developments in related “crossover”-wise sub-genres of punk and metal. this is not a declarative practice on my part. Please feel free to recommend bands or albums for this venture while keeping in mind a full discography for each band is not the goal, unless multiple releases are particularly important. Most of the research (er, listening) for this series was done between 2014-2018 but it was not a thorough practice so, it remains a second revision of a primary list. I’ll attempt a moderately chronological set of albums herein that are essentially crust punk and death metal hybridized whilst trying to avoid too much direct crossover with grindcore, thrash and (eventual) black metal associations These variations will inevitably be included in some capacity due to the joyous form-shattering nature of crossover experimentation in the 80’s and 90’s as well as the “there are no rules” mindset in terms of sub-genre of the last two decades. This time around it is a vehicle tasked with collecting and discovering the history of bands/albums that would find a natural fusion between emergent crust punk (“stenchcore”) and nascent death metal movements. Luckily, you have a dedicated vomit button to clear your infection bar instantly.AN EXHAUSTIVE STUDY is exactly that, an exploratory documentarian medium rather than an authoritative statement. So healing and casting spells both cost infection points, and getting too infected kills you. The spells also give you infection points. So your goal as a player is to balance your two stats (health and infection.) Overeating meat will kill you from infection, but not having enough infection will prevent you from casting spells. So you can heal by eating meat, which gives you infection points, but you must have infection points to cast spells. You can also cast spells, which are advertised as using infection points.Īha! This made sense to me. So far, so understandable the infection stat prevents meat from being overpowered as a healing item. So when you eat the gross meat to restore some hitpoints, it also gives you a few points in "infection." Getting too infected has negative consequences. One thing I don't understand about Death Trash, an RPG about solving the mystery of the meat that grows out of the ground everywhere, is the mana system.
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