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PURE HELL 'Noise Addiction' LP (Spain, Beat Generation, Catalogue #BEAT59) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2016 Beat Generation label LP edition of ripping and mind-bogglingly great (and inexplicably unreleased at the time) 1978 album recordings by Philadelphia New York Dolls/Dead Boys (and Ramones/Heartbreakers/Sex Pistols, quite likely) inspired Punk Rock maniacs from Philadelphia who recorded under the aggregate band name of Pure Hell.

Black American Punk Rock bands (or even just plain old regular Rock Bands, for that matter, comprised of same) weren't exactly a dime a dozen back in the '70s (or ever since then, as well.) In addition to the Detroit band Death (whose even earlier 1970s era album recordings went unreleased until that band's much heralded release/renaissance in 2009), Pure Hell would also exist as a band with rumored-to-have-existed to nearly mythical status (even though both bands each had a 7" 45 to their names during their actual original era existence; an obscure and not easy to come across 1978 single, released only in the UK, for Pure Hell, and a legendarily rare and brutally sought-after 1976 single for Death) until these recordings first saw the light of day in 2006. Many had assumed that Bad Brains (whose frenetic and savage live assaults blew the minds of everyone who saw them in their early '80s heyday) were the first of their sort in the "land of Punk" but here are that band's antecedent (and cited by the Bad Brains themselves as "an early influence.") At any rate, had this album first saw release on a label like Sire Records back in the late '70s when it was initially recorded, Pure Hell would be as revered, remembered and spoken about by legions of degenerate and delinquent rock fanatics as they do the Heartbreakers, Ramones and the Dead Boys.

Jaded rockers on the lookout for previously unheard, honest-to-goodness, almost too-good-to-be-true street-level Punk Rock kicks (in the ass-kicking '70s style of the Dead Boys), look no further than this relentlessly raging amphetamine-laced slab (and then file it right where it belongs, next to L.A.M.F. and Young, Loud And Snotty.)

(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION!)

Beat Generation presents a reissue of Pure Hell sole full-length album, recorded in 1978 but not released until 2006. In 1974, on the streets of Philadelphia, a band unlike any other was formed. They called themselves Pretty Poison. They had a sound so ahead of its time that the music industry was not yet ready for it. They coupled the punk sound of the New York bands of the time with a harder, faster heavy metal edge unheard before. Their unique sound was a result of Kenny Gordon's berserk choreography and Preston Morris's needling guitar riffs, while Steel and Spider added synchronized barrage with no nonsense execution to the arsenal. Inspired by the famous fuel-altered dragster, they changed their name to Pure Hell in 1975. Soon after, they moved to New York City where they played with bands like the New York Dolls, Sid Vicious, Wayne County and the Electric Chairs, The Dead Boys, The Stimulators, Richard Hell, The Germs, The Nuns, The Cramps and more. In 1978 Pure Hell headlined a tour of the UK, with bands like the UK Subs, Wilko Johnson, Vermilion & the Aces and more opening for them. While in the UK, their only original record was released. It was a single released by their manager Curtis Knight on his label, Golden Sphinx Records. The songs on the single were "These Boots Were Made for Walking" and "No Rules." The single charted in the top 40 charts in the UK. During the same year, a full length album was recorded but was never released. It did not surface again for 28 years.

- Noise Addiction is the only original album by Philadelphia punk band Pure Hell, recorded in 1978 but not first released until 2006.
- Pure Hell moved to New York and combined a punk sound with a faster heavy metal edge, playing with the likes of New York Dolls, Sid Vicious, The Dead Boys, Richard Hell, The Germs, The Cramps and more.

Tracks on this LP are as follows:

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