Terrorizer - Demo '87

Everyone knows World Downfall, right? Right!? To be honest, getting onto World Downfall was one of the last things I did in familiarising myself with the history of grind, purely because every other Terrorizer record is so...well....not weak, but just....bland as fuck. World Downfall however, sounds like Morbid Angel on methamphetamine, and this 87' demo sounds like the same thing but fed through a fucking meat grinder first. Whilst I do appreciate the analogue warmth to the "big" studio sound of the band's most famous record, there is just something about this demo which adds to proceedings in a way that the studio recording can't.

I must be coming across like a more-kvlt-than-kvlt black metaller or something ("only the first demo is reeeaaal!"), but I am not trying to insist that things *simply have* to be recorded shittily to sound crusty or anything like that, and it's not even as if these recordings are particularly "necro" or unlistenable either. It's just here, or rather - there, back in 1987, there was magic in the air. Crackling. This entire thing is pulsing and overflowing with excitement and energy. Something that everything else Terrorizer has released since these recordings has been sorely missing.

Electric Wizard - Legalize Drugs & Murder

So if you weren't at the London show when this 7" came out, you were pretty much boned for an original copy! Represses exist on 7" though thanks to Rise Above, and the EP was released more nationally as a free copy by the good folk at Terrorizer magazine, on the excellently under-rated format of tape and with a couple of extra tracks thrown in for good measure! You though vinyl had a warm sound? Son, you need to fire up that ol' tape deck and chomp this fucker into it.

Legalize Drugs and Murder is the usual Leccy Wizz affair of drugs'n'riffs; opening with a sample of bubbling bongwater before sludging headfirst into a muddy-as-hash-oil riff-fest. It is, quite honestly, the best thing in the world to nod your head to whilst smoking a fucking massive spliff. Word. All the tracks are excellent, including the remixes. I genuinely feel like I have stepped back in time plugging my headphones into my seldom used tape deck! Far out, man!

This is currently selling for a variety of different prices on Discogs and eBay because let's not forget that Terrorizer is a British magazine and there are still plenty of Wizard fans over the globe who cannae get a copy of this bastard!