ONSLAUGHT 012

ADOLF SATAN
S/T
CD

Tracklisting:

1. Here Comes The Cum 2. Jessica 3. Point And Grunt 4. Townspeople Are The Ones Who Will Pay 5. In The Rain With No Cocaine 6. Falling To The Ground - HEAR IT

7. My Sweet Gourd - HEAR IT 8. Horribly Charred 9. Polio Juice 10. Snail Trail 11. Pillow Shot 12. Bopeep Stick

ADOLF SATAN is a fist in the face of good taste and sobriety – a perfect soundtrack for every hangover, for every breakup, for every back alley abortion. This is antisocial music, played by scumbags, for scumbags. Fueled by substance abuse and a general disregard for any standards of “decency”, ADOLF SATAN is here for your liquor, your drugs and your children. The band consists of Larry Lifeless (vocals, ex-UPSIDEDOWN CROSS/KILSLUG/ANGRY HATE), Josh Martin (guitar, ex-ANAL CUNT), Nate Linehan (drums, ex-ANAL CUNT) and Nick Camilleri (bass, KEVORKIAN'S ANGELS) and deals out a dozen tracks of horrific Sludge/Doom metal on their debut full-length. Larry's perverse poetry and demented vocal stylings are backed by some of the heaviest riff-intensive Metal this side of VOLUME 4... ADOLF SATAN are Boston's new sleaze merchants and they have put together a platter of filth to dirty the ears of all who dare listen! (Liquor Not Included)

Recorded masterfully in analog by Steve Austin at Austin Enterprise studio

Release date: November 22nd, 2004

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REVIEWS

ADOLF SATAN (USA)
ADOLF SATAN (35:03)
BESTIAL ONSLAUGHT
Reviewed by Felix on February 13, 2005.

One of the most extreme and definitely insane local scenes I can come up with is definitely the one from Boston. Countless of bands have been coming, like an endless stream of godless elegy (and again this sentence seems sooo fitting here). Some of the bands from this scene at this moment that are worth checking for whatever reason are You're Fired, Upsidedown Cross and this Adolf Satan. Adolf Satan is a nice example of the incestuous scene that it is. This band contains members of every aforementioned band as well as from the best known act from this area, Anal Cunt - including Larry Lifeless (Angry Hate, Upsidedown Cross) and Josh Martin (Impaled Northern Moonforest, Anal Cunt and Upsidedown Cross) for instance. With mentioning Anal Cunt even the unaware metalhead will know what to expect. Sheer madness in perhaps its purest form. But the aware underground observer would know what it means that the music is pretty much in the vein of Upsidedown Cross (this is only underlined with the picture on the front of Larry Lifeless wearing an Upsidedown Cross shirt). It would do you good to look beyond the regular HMV releases, all over the globe, Adolf Satan is a nice example of what is out there…

The label had quite a nice and accurate way to describe the band - warning, I hardly use any phrases that aren't mine, but when they are as good as this one I can't help it, is has to be read. Bestial Onslaught's description of the band goes as follows: "Adolf Satan is a fist in the face of good taste and sobriety - a perfect soundtrack for every hangover, for every breakup, for every back alley abortion. This is antisocial music, played by scumbags, for scumbags. Fueled by substance abuse and a general disregard for any standards of "decency", Adolf Satan is here for your liquor, your drugs and your children." This indeed the best way to sum up everything that the band stands for.

Musically it pretty much hangs in two corners, being doom and hardcore, so its best labelled as sludge. But not in your Crowbar kind of way. Therefore the Boston scene has got a too raw sound. When punk came in as a non-commercial musical genre it had a certain sound which is hardly be heard anymore, only seldomly seen in the genre of 'garage rock' which is not the dying kind of music it seems. The raw and sleazy sound is actually what marks this CD best - this is probably the best of low-fi sludge I heard in quite a long time. The music is mainly Black Sabbath-ridden, there is no need to comment that both bands have nothing in common as for the rest of the aspects. The screechy vocals makes the music more creepy and are also rather typical, it reminds of some Anal Cunt vocals too, though these are not actually hysterical, just insane enough to give the music a rather revolting sound. That is probably the thing why this chunk of music is so hard to cope with. It takes quite a few spins to get into, and that goes certainly for people not used to this kind of music but at last it ends up being very worthwhile. Still I won't recommend it to the fainthearted - I wouldn't like to be the cause of your heart attack (that's really not in the Boston-style I guess, keeping in mind the subtle lyrics and song titles of Anal Cunt). But to any sludge freak or anyone who's into raw and sleazy kind of music with quite an open mind (and perhaps some patience) this could be quite a drug-like music adventure through the sickening worlds - welcome to the pits of the Boston underground.

VAMPIRE MAGAZINE



Adolf Satan - Self Titled CD
Bestial Onslaught

With the name Adolf Satan and a reference to Upsidedown Cross on the cover, when I got this album in the mail I expected some Anal Cunt style offensive-for-the-sake-of-being-offensive anti-music. Little did I know, the singer of this band is none other than Larry Lifeless of the previously mentioned Upsidedown Cross, and three other guys, all of whom were at some point in AC. I was pretty surprised at what I heard when I first put this album in actually. Surely, Larry Lifeless is responsible for these tortured vocals, but the music is less like AC and more like badass filthy raw fucking sludgecore! Chunky riffs, muddy production and grooves-a-plenty; this album is a gem for all fans of sludge to behold. I recently read a review where the dude said that sludge is just an unbearable form music he just can't listen to. I just can't understand how he was lead so far astray. When I listen to albums like this one, all I want to do is crank it louder and louder. Sure, the production is dirty, things are drug out and the vocals are downright painful. What's not to love?! I just can't say enough about the vocals on this album. Larry's sometimes droning, always deranged and tormented vocals are PERFECT for sludgecore. There's no other way to put it. The music is repetitive, full of feedback and pure crawling chaos with that sludgecore swagger. Songs like "Jessica," "Point and Grunt" and "Bopeep Stick" are perfect anguish. Highly, highly recommended.

rating: 7/7
RS

DAREDEVIL MAGAZINE



Adolf Satan
Self-titled
Bestial Onslaught

Back when I was in high school, Taang Records used to have this insane deal where you could get something like 25 cassettes for 20 dollars. Being the rabid consumer of music that I was (and still am, perhaps even more so), I couldn't resist the chance to take a self-directed course in the label's massive discography (well, at least that part of it that actually got released on cassette), so I sent away for all of the essentials: the early DYS stuff, the Lemonheads' first LP, some Moving Targets records, etc. However, after rummaging through Taang's mailorder catalog for hours upon hours, I still couldn't find enough cassettes I'd actually heard of to buy, so after reading the descriptions provided I decided to sample a band called Upside Down Cross. The tape that I got didn't get nearly as much play as Wolfpack or Kings of Punk, but I definitely remember being impressed with Larry Lifeless's completely unique, screeching vocals.

Now, ten years later, here I am reviewing Larry Lifeless's new band, Adolf Satan. Upside Down Cross is now a distant memory, and Adolf Satan finds Lifeless teaming up with some members of the Boston underground metal scene (including one or two folks from Anal Cunt) for a band that's slightly more punchy and hardcore-inspired than Upside Down Cross.

As you might expect if you know anything about my tastes, I like this combination quite a lot. Hardcore and stoner rock two of the only genres I really have any interest in at all anymore, and Adolf Satan do as fine a job of combining them as I've ever heard. Whereas most bands who claim this style merely play "stoner rock with hardcore intensity" or hardcore with riff-y breaks, Adolf Satan manage to integrate the two sounds almost completely seamlessly. ALL of the riffs sound like Sabbath riffs, but they're played at all different tempos and with the anarchic flair of Greg Ginn. And of course the vocals are wilder and more intense than anything you'll find coming out on the Southern Lord label.

While this self-titled record certainly isn't anything to totally lose your shit over (the production is a little rickety and there are moments that drag), Adolf Satan have carved out an original sound for themselves, which is next to impossible to do these days without going full-tilt into unlistenable weirdness. So, if the description above tickled your fancy pick this up, enjoy it and hope this band keeps going long enough to write the hardcore/metal classic that I have a feeling is floating around somewhere inside them.

Daniel

DEEP FRY BONANZA