USA/Mexico Laredo (2017)

Released at the end of June, USA/Mexico's debut Laredo is without question my favorite album of 2017. Noisy, fuzzy, rumblings that will hypnotize and cauterize your mind + ears.

This comes from their Bandcamp bio: "The long-awaited/rumored/feared debut recordings from Austin, TX trio USA/MEXICO are finally upon us. Guitarist Craig Clouse (Shit & Shine, Todd), drummer King Coffey (Butthole Surfers, Rubble, Hugh Beaumont Experience) and bassist Nate Cross (Marriage, When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth, Expensive Shit) have somehow created a musical landscape that exceeds present day reality for absurdity and nightmarishness. There's faint (oh ok, try "loud") echoes of their past works but their combined forces have resulted in an album as bludgeoning and all-encompassing as any that's occupied shelf space in my home or yours."

Napalm Death - 2016 - Boston

Here's footage of Napalm Death playing in Boston, Massachusetts at The Paradise 16 April 2016. I attended this show and it was out of sight. Also on the bill were the Melvins and Melt Banana.

Black Flag - Target Video

Black Flag

Target Video

Footage from 1979, 1980, and 1981

Butthole Surfers - Aug. 1986 - Detroit

Butthole Surfers

Graystone Hall - Detroit

29 August 1986

Bad Brains: A Band in DC (2012) documentary

From co-directors 

Mandy Stein and Benjamen Logan

2012 documentary

Bad Brains: A Band in DC

Bad Brains - 1982 - CBGB

Bad Brains

1982

CBGB

Black Flag - 1984 - Hoboken, New Jersey

Black Flag

19 October 1984 

Maxwell's

Hoboken, New Jersey

Obliteration

Revenge
Nervous Breakdown
Can't Decide
Forever Time
Swinging Man
Wound Up
Slip It In
My Ghetto
Black Coffee
Beat My Head Against The Wall
Your Last Affront
Rat's Eyes
The Bars
Police Story
Rise Above (cuts in)
My War (incomplete)

 

Butthole Surfers - 1988 complete SNUB-TV interview

Butthole Surfers

complete interview

at home in Texas 

19 May 1988 

portions were used for a segment on 

“SNUB-TV”

Butthole Surfers - Nov. 1987 - Los Angeles

Butthole Surfers

Variety Arts Center
Los Angeles, CA
11/7/1987

The beautifully demented sights and sounds
from a stop during touring
in support of their 1987 release
Locust Abortion Technician.

1) -noise-
2) Something
3) Rocky
4) Sweat Loaf
5) Ricky
6) Graveyard
7) Paranoid
8) 100 Million
9) Backass
10) scream sequence
11) Julio
12) Cherub
13) Gary Floyd
14) Psychedelic Jam
15) Pittsburgh To Lebanon
16) Johnny Smoke
17) Jimi
18) 22 Going On 23
19) X-Ray

Venom, Slayer, + Exodus - 1985 - Sudio 54, NYC

The Ultimate Revenge: Combat Tour Live 

Venom 

Slayer 

Exodus

Recorded  on April 3, 1985 at Studio 54 in New York.

Wild look back at a truly classic line up of heavy hitting, extreme, and underground metal acts. The footage of Slayer and Exodus comes directly from the filming done at the April 1985 Studio 54 show, but the Venom performance clips come from earlier releases. Not sure why this the case but I vaguely remember hearing Mantas was sick and Venom used replacement guitarists for this gig, so perhaps that's the reason. Backstage interviews provide some comic relief as well as insight into band dynamics and attitudes.

Misfits - 1983 - Boston

Misfits 

at The Channel

Boston, Massachusetts 

20 March 1983

1. Halloween
2. 20 Eyes
3. Wolfs Blood
4. All Hell Breaks Loose
5. Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight?
6. Devil's Whorehouse
7. Demonomania
8. London Dungeon
9. Die, Die My Darling
10. Violent World
11. Astro Zombies
12. Green Hell
13. I Turned Into a Martian
14. Skulls
15. Devilock
16. We Are 138
17. Nike a Go Go
18. Hatebreeders
19. Braineaters
20. Attitude
21. Rise Above
    (Black Flag cover)
22. Horror Business
23. Bullet
    
    
    

    While in Boston
    The Misfits filmed a promo video for
    "Braineaters" at a local venue/restaurant,
    pretty sure it was Cantone's.

    
    
    
    

Rush - 1974 - Ontario

Rush

performing
with their original drummer
at the 

Laura Secord Secondary School 

St Catharines, Ontario
1974

1. “Need Some Love”

2. “Before and After”

3. “Best I Can”

4. “I’ve Been Runnin’”

5. “Bad Boy”

6. “The Loser”

7. “Working Man”

8. “In the Mood” (partial)

Geddy Lee – lead vocals, bass

Alex Lifeson – guitars, backing vocals

John Rutsey – drums, percussion, backing vocals

Thanks to BrunoSamppa for posting

Live Skull - 1986 - CBGB

Often noisy with peaks of audio power/dissonance
paired alongside
valleys of subtler, melancholy laced interludes;
New York City's  
Live Skull
are captured below on July 1986 playing
NYCs legendary venue CBGB.

Filmed by Greg Fasolino.

Voivod - 1987 - Paris

Voivod 

opening for Kreator 

1 December 1987  

at the Rex Club 

Paris, France 

Butthole Surfers - 1987 - Atlanta

Butthole Surfers

15 May 1987 

Rollick (formerly the 688 Club), Atlanta 

Videographer - Barry Mills

I was lucky enough to witness the Locust Abortion Technician tour when the Butthole Surfers played Chicago about a month before the show featured below. 

Over the years I have attended a lot of live shows but that one remains my all time favorite. The combination of incredible music plus the over the top visuals; such as the fog machine pushed into the red line, the heavily odd movies projected either behind the band or onto banks of fog, and the painted naked dancer with glued on facial hair, created an alchemy the likes of which was a true mind-scrambler.

Fast Asleep - 2015 - Santa Cruz

 Here's new favorite

Fast Asleep

whose heavy sounds

are on display here

at a show in

Santa Cruz, California

opening for the Cro-Mags

on 17 February 2015.

Dead Race 

Dogpile 

Pain Never Stops 

Bludite 

Charred Altar 

Time Theft 

Louse 

Perseverance of Annihilation 

Burial Gown 

Dead Silent Stare 

Reasons of Insanity 

Automaul 

Not Yet 

 Lifer

Iron Reagan - 2015 - Brooklyn

Here's some great footage of Iron Reagan 

from their recent 2015 tour with Noisem and Angel Du$t. 

I lucked out and won tickets to their Boston show, 

the night before the one below in Brooklyn at Saint Vitus.

Torche - 2015 - Brooklyn

Here's Torche's entire set 

from a show this past March. 

They were delivering their unique brand 

of sonic heaviness to a receptive crowd 

at the Saint Vitus in Brooklyn, 

the night after I caught them in Boston.

26 March 2015

0:00 - Piraña
1:45 - Sandstorm
4:20 - Healer
7:05 - Minions
11:35 - Loose Men
14:08 - In Return
17:07 - Kicking
19:50 - In Pieces
23:20 - Reverse Inverted
26:48 - No Servants
30:28 - Believe It
34:22 - Sky Trials
36:26 - Across the Shields
39:34 - Vampyro
42:03 - Restarter
47:30 - Barrier Hammer
51:23 - Undone
53:05 - Blasted
56:48 - Annihilation Affair
1:01:32 - Charge of the Brown Recluse
1:04:00 - Harmonslaught

Video shot and edited by Nicolas Cusworth:

www.arpeggiamedia.com

Originally posted by Heavy Blog Is Heavy

Last Days Here (2011) Pentagram doc

Last Days Here (2011) 

Fascinating documentary on 

Pentagram and lead singer

Bobby Liebling 

during a recent resurgence 

of his band.

the trailer

the documentary

Alice Cooper - Olympia - Paris 1972

Alice Cooper 

From French television,

includes airport and hotel footage

along with a

performance from the 

Olympia, Paris
13 December 1972.

Public Animal 9
Eighteen
Is It My Body?
Gutter cats vs The Jets
Killer
Elected