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Still pretty ‘tied down’ today but I’m taking a small break here to make note of one of my favorite full-tilt “D-Beat” albums - DISGUST “Brutality Of War” lp. I know it’s on the very un-punk label Earache, who subsequently put them on tour with Morbid Angel, but the deal is basically that Dave Ellesmere (you might know him as Bambi on Discharge’s “WHY”) decided to throw his hat in the ring with an old style Dis-clone band, in part because he was so ashamed of the path Discharge had taken in their later years (after his departure). Who better to hire as the singer than Dean Jones of Extreme Noise Terror? I mean cred-wise they may not be at the top of the heap, but sonically I’ll hold this up with any of the big boys of the era. I mean it basically sounds like Extreme Noise Terror circa Phonophobia, maybe digging into the beat a little more but it beats the hell out of anything they managed thereafter (not saying much I guess but whatever). You won’t find an moment of innovation, but a track like Mother Earth is just perfectly constructed single minded War Punk. Almost every song goes VS/CH/VS/CH/solo/VS/CH, it couldn’t be more deliberately one dimensional but I think that’s part of what makes it. You take it as one whole, not individual songs.

BTW- this has been out of print since it came out basically and I doubt Earache cares to repress it. You can find the CD all over amazon and ebay for like $1-2, but the vinyl doesn’t pop up all that much.

…and now for a quick “conflict of interest”.