The Industrial Twilight: War-Whore - "Surveillance" [1996]

Friday, February 22, 2013

War-Whore - "Surveillance" [1996]

Artist: War-Whore

Title: Surveillance

Genre: Raw Industrial Grindcore

Country: Ukraine

Release date: 1996

Track List:

Intro: Space Assembly
Optimism
Military Mind
Things
School
Parallelism
Try To Contemplate
Offuck
Words
Captor's Defeat
Sordid Unreason
Military Minds (Fix)
Outro: Space Assembly

Another rare cassette release from the 90s that now has reached a cult status in the underground. War-Whore was one of the many projects by T.Sosiskin (funny surname... though I'm sure it was a pseudonym) from Kiev. First I found out about "Surveillance" after reading a review in a now defunct webzine "Resistance by Sound", but couldn't find it anywhere back then (mid-2000s, ~7-8 years ago). The .mp3 rip of the cassette started to circulate since ~2010 and finally reached me. It's sci-fi themed industrial grindcore, obviously influenced by Napalm Death, Godflesh (and maybe Dead World and other early industrial metal bands), with weird vocals (which someone described as "screams from a mental asylum"). The quality of production is of course quite poor, but it was expected from one of the first industrial metal/punk releases of the ex-USSR underground scene.

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