Strappado [Swamp Green Vinyl]

by Slaughter

Overview

Inattentive consumers picking up this album because they confuse it as being by the testicularly challenged American glam rockers will be in for quite a surprise. This is the Canadian band named Slaughter, and their lone 1987 album, Strappado (named after a medieval torture tactic that had victims suspended by their hands, while these were tied behind their backs), contained improbably raw blackened thrash reminiscent of the earliest works of Voivod or, say, Sepultura. In other words, there are no hair products in sight! Instead, Strappado's crusty brand of gutter thrash pushes past boundaries of musical decency in the same brusque fashion as Motoerhead and then Venom before them. The hysterically frantic "Disintegrator/Incinerator" opens proceedings with all the subtlety of an electric lawnmower to the head, but the rest of side A is curiously dominated by uniformly slower -- though, for the most part, no less entertaining -- moshers like "Nocturnal Hell," "Tortured Souls," and "The Curse." Side B, by comparison, is full steam ahead; rapid-fire numbers like the title track, "Maim to Please," and "Tyrant of Hell" unleash machine-gun warfare before the concluding "Tales of the Macabre" finally decelerates the head-banging down again. Minimal production renders all of the above even more unpalatable for any but the most serious of metalheads, and it helps if you're old enough to remember the far simpler aesthetic expectations of the '80s -- where sheer savage fun often took precedence over perfect execution. Otherwise, you'll think Slaughter are just a bunch of hopeless amateurs. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia

Product Details

Release Date:	06/09/2023
Label:	High Roller Records
UPC:	4251267713141
Rank:	90095

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Strappado
2. The Curse
3. Disintegrator
4. Incinerator
5. Parasites
6. One Foot in the Grave
7. F.O.D. (Fuck of Death)
8. Tortured Souls
9. Nocturnal Hell
10. Tales of the Macabre

Disc 2

11. One Foot in the Grave
12. Disintegrator
13. Incinerator
14. The Curse
15. Tales of the Macabre
16. Strappado
17. Tyrant of Hell
18. Nocturnal Hell
19. F.O.D. (Fuck of Death)
20. Disintegrator
21. Incinerator (Backing Vokills Only)
22. Tortured Souls (No Chorus)
23. Parasites
24. Death Dealer

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Slaughter   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Dave Hewson   Composer
Ron Sumners   Composer
Terry Sadler   Composer