ZOUO A Roar Agitating Violent Age LP

ZOUO A Roar Agitating Violent Age LP

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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
    One of the more elusive Japanese hardcore bands of the 1980s, Osaka death-punk outfit Zouo only released a single 7" (1984's The Final Agony) and a couple of compilation tracks before disbanding, but even with this limited output, their legacy has loomed large in the decades since. One of the first hardcore punk bands to heavily incorporate elements of darker, harsher metal and Satanic imagery, Zouo's sound was pretty demented, marrying their crazed Discharge-influenced thrash to an almost Venom-esque proto-black metal vibe that at the time sounded pretty unique. Song titles like "Fuck The God" and "Sons Of Satan" sat alongside more typical anti-authoritarian screeds like "System Fuck Off" and "Power To People", but it was really all about the total savagery of their music that has continued to draw new listeners to their recordings over the years. Once you hear 'em, you can easily see where Zouo's music had an influence on some of the more maniacal, malevolent hardcore bands that followed, and they were an avowed influence on Integrity, who would end up covering their "No Power" on the No Peace/War compilation.
    Getting our hands on Zouo stuff is a real fuckin' challenge, though. One of the few "official" Zouo releases to surface in recent years, A Roar Agitating Violent Age came from a cassette recording of the band performing in early 1984 that had apparently surfaced in the gothic/occult shop run by former Corrupted/Freedom member DJ Taiki. AS you'd expect, the sound quality is pretty low-fi, probably recorded through the soundboard, but Zouo's frenzied energy still comes through loud and clar. This blistering live set took place a few months before the release of their The Final Agony 7" and the band's subsequent implosion, banging out a full fourteen-song set at some small Osaka club in front of a crowd of enthusiastic mutants. The band sounds rabid, front man Cherry alternately snarling and moaning his nihilistic rage over the ferocious D-beat driven hardcore, ugly and blown out and catchy as fuck, guitarist Milky spraying the room with screaming atonal solos and blasts of excoriating feedback. Each song pummels the crowd with mangled metallic riffage and cranked-up three-chord hardcore, but those 7" tracks come off as a punker version of Hellhammer's necrotic slop. Pretty essential if you're a hardcore Zouo fan, as eleven of these songs never appeared anywhere else. Killer stuff - if you're into the crazier, more fucked-up stuff that came out of the 80's Japanese hardcore scene a la G.I.S.M., definitely check these guys out.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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