A Holocaust in Your Head

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A Holocaust in Your Head
Extreme Noise Terror studio album

Publication
(s)

1989

admission

November 18-20, 1988

Label (s) Head eruption

Format (s)

LP

Genre (s)

Crustcore / Grindcore

Title (number)

13

running time

22min 46s

occupation
  • Phil Vane: vocals

production

Extreme Noise Terror, Steve Bird

Studio (s)

Birdsong Studios

chronology
Earslaughter
Split, 1986 		A Holocaust in Your Head In It For Life
Split, 1989

A Holocaust in Your Head is the debut album by the English hardcore punk and grindcore band Extreme Noise Terror . It was released on Head Eruption Records in spring 1989 and reached number 7 on the UK Indie Charts .

useful information

When it comes to songwriting , the band was mainly influenced by discharge and disorder . The first recordings took place "in a barn somewhere in the country in Suffolk ", still with Mick Harris on drums and produced by Pete Davison of The Addicts . Extreme Noise Terror was so dissatisfied with the result that the recordings were discarded. After Mick Harris was replaced by Doom's Tony Dickens , Extreme Noise Terror re-recorded the album from November 18-20 at Birdsong Studios in Worcester under the direction of Steve Bird. With We, the Helpless there is a cover version of the relatively unknown Japanese hardcore band Kuro on the album.

Published A Holocaust in Your Head by Lawrence Bell, a friend of the band, on his newly founded independent label Head eruption Records in the spring of 1989. Since then it has been republished several times, in 2010 Extreme Noise played terror the whole album, and re-published it in a remastered version on CD .

reception

The album is counted among the groundbreaking releases of Grindcore. Ian Christe has it in his list of the most important albums in this genre of the 1980s, Albert Mudrian counts it among the essential albums of Grindcore. Jan Jaedike from Rock Hard calls A Holocaust in Your Head one of the “initial ignitions of the second British harcore punk wave” and characterizes the music as “brilliantly amateurish”. The online magazine metal.de thinks that Extreme Noise Terror brought out a very important crust album with the album, even though the production seems “tinny and a little weak”. The music is characterized by extremely fast D-beats and the hateful alternating vocals by Phil Vane and Dean Jones and contains numerous hits from the group, in particular the "vegetarian anthem" Murder .

Track list

  1. Statement - 2:02
  2. Deceived - 1:58
  3. Take the Strain - 1:11
  4. Conned Through Life - 1:13
  5. We the Helpless - 0:49
  6. Show Us You Care - 2:59
  7. Innocence to Ignorance - 1:26
  8. Use Your Mind - 2:03
  9. Murder - 2:08
  10. Another Nail in the Coffin - 1:35
  11. Raping the Earth - 1:25
  12. Bullshit Propaganda - 1:55
  13. If Your Only in It for the Music (SOD Off!) - 2:02

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barry Lazell: Indie Hits 1980-1989 . Cherry Red Books, London 1997, ISBN 978-0-9517206-9-1 , pp. 81 .
  2. ^ A b Ian Glasper: Trapped in a Scene - UK Hardcore 1985-1989 . Cherry Red Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-901447-61-3 , pp. 276 .
  3. ^ Ian Glasper: Trapped in a Scene , p. 275
  4. ↑ Ian Christe: Hell-Noise. The complete, ruthless, unique history of heavy metal . Verlagsgruppe Koch / Hannibal, Höfen, ISBN 3-85445-241-1 , p. 198 .
  5. ↑ Albert Mudrian: Choosing Death: The Incredible Story of Death Metal & Grindcore . IP Verlag Jeske and Mader, 2006, ISBN 978-3-931624-35-4 , p. 250 .
  6. ↑ Jan Jaedike: Vinyl: Extreme Noise Terror - A Holocaust in Your Head . In: Rock Hard . No. 287 , April 2011, p. 114 .
  7. ↑ Sickman: Extreme Noise Terror - A Holocaust in Your Head. metal.de, March 1, 2007, accessed April 20, 2011 .