Ok, so I am posting this to grab y'all's attention for BIG JESUS TRASH CAN's CANADIAN METAL NIGHT, TONITE ON 89.5
CIUT.FM, WITCHING HOUR TO 2AM; an in-depth retrospective of Canada's historic and present thriving metal scenes.
Slaughter were a 1980s Death/Thrash Metal band from Toronto, ON Canada, OK? NOT an American Glam Rock shit show of cocaine indulgence. Slaughter, in a very first-wave death metal visionary way, set out to create the loudest most destructive skull-cracking bludgeon ever to come from three dudes in a basement in Toronto, at the time. They succeeded, and they did it without Evil Chuck Schuldiner, who they kicked out of the band mere months before recording this little piece of crushing sonic sludge. In '86 these bloodthirsty canucks entered the studio with Brian "Rubbish" Taylor, TO punk vet and premier Ontario thrash record engineer, and carved out a solid slab of death punk destruction to lay in the foundation of brutal musick. The end product is a tour de force in sheer insanity and blistering speed; dense, lumbering layers of guitar ooze and spine-shattering percussive rumblings.
Strappado, like the medieval torture from which it's name comes and cover depicts, is a twistedly primitive indulgence in pain. There is nothing methodical about Slaughter's approach to metal. The utter simplicity but effectiveness of the half-speed jackhammer drums in Fuck Of Death sort of sum it all up: it's about raw intensity and catharsis. This kind of testosterone fueled reckless noise is hard to come by these days in metal and may have purely been the result of anxious and frustrated teens not hearing the macabre in music that they saw in the world. In a day and age where everyone is looking for something old and untapped to copy, sit back, drink a two four and bang your motherfuckin head to this timeless original!
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