Earache Records

The record is called We Are Unpeople.

It's out now on Earache Records.

It absolutely slaps.

I mean, I had a feeling it could have been my album of the year.

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It's called Fire and Vengeance.

It's out right now on EarAche Records.

Probably best known as the frontman of The Almighty, The Black Star Riders, and the reformation of Thin Lizzy.

It's, man, this is good stuff right here.

It's out on Steamhammer Records.

That's the other cool thing.

Like, you go down this list and you go, "Wow, Steamhammer's still out there doing stuff, and Earache Records-

Mm

This is just straight-up hard rock from Los Angeles.

This is their second, and they are on Earache Records, so they are on a pretty sizable label.

And if you're a fan of The Darkness, Greta Van Fleet, or The Struts, you're going to dig The Bites.

This here is one that...

Okay, so this is from the Ethereal Mirror, July 6, 1993, out in the U.S. And the category here is this little fun little time when these little labels grew up a little bit and signed distribution deals with the big labels.

So what we have here is Earache getting in bed with Sony.

And so it was really cool seeing these pretty inaccessible underground bands have proper, you know, they're essentially become quote unquote major label bands.

So Cathedral was the favorite one.

And I think if you were to give this, uh, to someone then or now, this is, like, really kind of the perfect introduction to, like, grindcore and death metal, and there's, like, industrial music and even, like, really weird experimental shit on here.

But, uh, I'm gonna go with Earache's, uh, Grindcrusher.

There's the...

There's kind of a couple different iterations of this.

It originally came out in '89, just as the Earache Sampler, featured, like, nine tracks.

And then a couple years later, they kind of, like, put out a deluxe version of it, uh, The Ultimate Earache in 99, uh, 1991.

So again, you know, as we've touched on this theme of, like, labels wanting to kinda showcase their roster, and I mean, for '89, the bands that were on Earache in '89, really just putting this on paper and, and exploring through it, Morbid Angel, Repulsion, Carcass, Godflesh, Napalm Death, Terrorizer, Bolt Thrower.

A couple other ones that I wasn't really familiar with, Intense Degree, Filthy, uh, Christians.