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Japanese metal consultant Reaper here
and we're gonna kick it off with this
NunSlaughter / Sabbat split why'd you
bring this in today well this is
sentimental so I wanted to kick it off with
some sentiment I think the Japanese Sabbat
because obviously there's a UK one
is definitely one that is just so
proactive with having so many releases
what better band to go with than Nunslaughter then well that's where
the sentiment is so I was a Nunslaughter for seven years
and we did an exclusive rehearsal
recording and just for this release and
it sounded great I I recorded it and put
all my heart into it
yeah then this release comes out and the
release as you could tell here it's just
packaged really nicely as the heavy
metal superstars releases are and so you
can't open it yeah so it's got like this
weird covering around it it's like what
is that it's like see-through paper kind
of yeah I've never really seen on a
vinyl so being us a fan of Sabbat it was
really cool and then heavy metal
superstars which is a Japanese label it
was just a really cool release to be a
part of because they are pretty select
on that and it's all handmade and it
even has like a warning on various
releases to that's like open
now and regret later cuz it's like hard
to put it back together so needless to
say I have not opened this it's never
been played here's Anatomia, Anatomia is
a cool band because it's kind of like
just uh just a darker doom but it's just
slow death metal and a lot of things
that they had Japanese underground is
like there's a lot of splits and stuff
so there's really just a true spirit of
what underground metal is about and
so this release here is actually a split
with our good friend
Billy from Evil Speak with the band
Surgikilll, Anatomia Surgikill it's
just totally just that death metal
spirit but Anatomia has got a handful
releases and they do a lot of splits and
stuff
this is butcher ABC band that I got
familiar with through going to Japan in
fact uh kind of wearing the novelty
shirt here where I went when I went to
Japan in 2005 played the show with them
and Naru the vocalist singer or
vocalist singer the vocalist guitar player
he brought the band there and did a
great job great guy
butcher ABC sounds like the Bolt Thrower
a lot as you came to kind of tell with the
cover art there's total Bolt Thrower
artwork style let's do some head
crushing with Hellhound that's damn
straight right there total yeah I would
definitely say one of my favorite songs
heavy metal highway
yeah that's a great song especially when
you're driving yeah there you go
so the rock down on the highway
absolutely so tell me about this Grim
Force common guess death metal but just
not what you'd always picture when you
hear to think death metal and I don't
know why it's not like it's all that you
know it's got different instrumentations
or anything just just something about it
but one of the things that I really
enjoy about is the drumming on it just
I'm a sucker for a good drummer yeah
that's a hell of a drummer right there
Fastkill so when I was in Nunslaughter we played
the gig with them in Tokyo so when they
hit the stage man they are just ripping
then they were is there everything that
they are on this disc only a little bit
faster which is saying a lot because it
really to him fast under this well that
was what I was worried about so we were
gonna play after him and everyone was
just raging in stones like oh my god how
are we gonna top this kill for pleasure
would be my might stand out sure yeah
mainly to for the blood feast reference
of the kill for pleasure track that they
have and I'd like to think that they're
big fans and they just paid homage tool
Lucifer oh yeah go back to that's bad
reference because Gezoll from Sabbat
does this band MetaLucifer because it's
one of the first releases of the band it
had Bill Andrews from Death while
playing drums on it I believe actually
this is the only record and he played
drums on but then he was like an English
advisor later on oh wow and I love how
the other mascot and he's always that
guy's always up on their covers
no posers are allowed with this one
Casbah that's what they say at least
with their style really changes on this
release so the demos are what I like
the most and when you open up the
booklet and see some of the photos and
stuff in there they say death metal on
there right and I'm like I don't know if
I would call it death metal but there's
also something be saying about the time
of them obviously being in Japan maybe
that meant something different in 86 or
87 I believe whatever the first demo was
so I don't know but I would kind of
described it more source thrash something
like in between death metal and wrath I
guess I just leased from nowadays
standards when you think death well then
you put that on your like there's no way
Gorgan this is definitely a rarity right
here Gorgons not really a band that's
like puts out widespread releases I
think in fact everything in their
discography it's like a splinter live or
something that's just not that you know
like compelled me not like a full-length
album exactly okay I mean this would be
the closest thing to it cuz it's alive
and so it's just kind of a cult kind of
band in a way very much two-spirit yeah
seventies punk feel to it I thought yeah
so yeah but there's a lot to be said
that you know like new wave of British
heavy metal style does have that and
Gorgan definitely hails to that scene
and it's just great and this look this
live recording is is really cool too
which is kind of a thing about Japan is
like you know you play a gig they're
there they you usually leave with like a
video and a soundboard recording of the
show yeah and I thought that was really
cool that they did that and just just a
great country to learn from yeah a lot
of great music what are some of your
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