There are a few reference points to consider when forming a thrashtastic D-beat band; the chief one being how much do you want to sound like Discharge, Motorhead and Extreme Noise Terror. The answer, of course, is as much as possible, and all these legendary noise exploiters are to be found splattered across the songs in this collection of EPs by Boston's brilliantly named Panzerbastard. There are also whispers of black metal and a touch of early Anthrax lurking in the d-beat mayhem. The difference between Panzerbastard and the millions of d-beat/crust thrashers is that they have a quality control button turned way up to the highest setting; so no poorly recorded, loose, chaotic punk thrash here, just well-produced, tight, aggressive, hardcore motorcrust, full of slam dancing, headbanging, fist in the air qualities that shoot to kill at twenty paces. The band does not support any kind of politics through its lyrics.

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Black metal band from Brooklyn.

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1) Nachzehrer. Rising from the pits of Boston, MA in 2009, NACHZEHRER plays raw black metal combined with black thrash speed and aggression. In 2010 they put out the four song demo "Black Thrash Ritual" as a limited tape release on Massachusetts-based label Reaper's Grave, followed up by the 2011 EP "Pestilence Hungers in the Shadows" as a split-label release on Demons Gate Records/Tombs in the Valley Productions from the UK. They have shared the stage with Destroyer 666, Enthroned, Evoken, Nocturnal, Midnight, Impiety, Abazagorath, Absu and many more, unleashing a chaotic assault of blasphemic devastation with each live ritual! To contact the band, email: nachzehrerbm@yahoo.com

2) Nachzehrer was formed during a creative inspired moment on the sidelines of the Tampere Film Festival in March 1987. On-site and therewith founding members were Max Aviles, Ilmarinen Harland and Rick Oberheim. The main connective element is their collective genre-spanning preference for a dark, but ironically ruptured tinge of life, which is reflected in the lyrics, in the music - a cocktail of popular doomsday music and danceable soundtracks to interpersonal catastrophes in the tradition of bands like Tuxedomoon, Joy Division, The Birthday Party, Frank Tovey's Fad Gadget - and of course in the name of the band:

"A Nachzehrer is a sort of German vampire. [...] Though officially a vampire, they are also similar to zombies, and in many ways different from either undead." (Wikipedia 2007)

Already during the constituent session in April 1987 they record the first material for their meanwhile legendary "4-Track Tape". In the following year, more than 2 000 sold tapes qualify the band as one of the most successful in tape avant-garde. 1989 the trio, still teenaged, wears down two long-serving producers and calls off a major label deal. The same year drummer Aviles dies as a result of a car accident shortly after the end of their first club tour. The remaining Harland and Oberheim cancel all intended releases; hide the jointly completed "Posthum" and strike different paths.

1998, after an eight-year break, Harland, Oberheim and Cora Pascas, now playing guitar for the band, decide to make a new start, which soon yields fruits, that are hard to take, but durable. To find out how the story continues, check out the band's official website: www.nachzehrer.com.

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Experimental noise band, formed in Boston 1978. Notorious for their early recordings which were exercises in brutal noise, such as their infamous 1985 album Knees and Bones which utilised pneumatic drills, metal percussion and cement mixers as sound sources. Subsequent albums delved into sonic and textural experimentation as the band gradually grew more sophisticated and palatable, however a number of less experimental, commercial industrial albums were released on Wax Trax! in the late 1980s. Nontheless, Controlled Bleeding's sound varies from album to album and at one time or another has contained elements of dub, free jazz, noise, prog rock, sacred music, dark ambient, classical and musique concrète.

Also see the band's side-projects & solo work:
Skin Chamber
Joined at the Head
Fat Hacker
Body Clock
Paul Lemos
Paul Lemos & Joe Papa

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