Electro Hippies – The Only Good Punk

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Electro Hippies are an oft-overlooked group that was very underground and short-lived, lasting only 4 years since their inception in 1985, and are usually only noted for having Jeff Walker of later Carcass fame as their bassist.
The Hippies’ music was no-nonsense crust punk: the exposed, [...]

Insect Warfare – World Extermination

Insect Warfare didn’t stray too far from the beaten path on this album for the sake of “innovation”, which was probably a good thing. The riffs are churned out with factory precision, while each riff sequence returns with unsettling certainty and force. The percussion exhibits punk and death metal vocabularies with the usual blastbeat filler [...]