Disattack: A Bomb Drops 12″

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I dont want to blow, I want to grow! The first Dis-clone? We dont know about that, but these are some early rumblings of Dis-mania, direct from the Merseyside in 1986. For every man, woman or child there is no escape from the dark war horse of This Attack! Disattack. 6 raw bursts of sonic bloodbath that will leave your ears bleeding in a ditch. The fear of doom dawning when the whole world will be bathed in Blood! The 4 song demo is complemented by 2 additional rehearsal songs and a 28 page booklet of archival material, hand-outs and photos. For those who worship Discharge, Anti Cimex and Sacrilege! Line-up includes a young Bill Steer pre-Carcass.

Our take: Disattack was a short-lived band from Merseyside, England, and their claims to fame are that they featured a 15-year-old Bill Steer before he was in Napalm Death or Carcass and that they ripped off Discharge earlier than most people thought of doing it. Thats the short version, but as this package from Demo Tapes Records proves, theres so much more to the story. If youre concerned about the music, its cool, but its not the total Discharge worship you might expect. While you can hear hints of the Scandinavian style that had emerged by the time they recorded this tape (which they were aware of one of Disattacks members ran the label that released Anti-Cimexs Criminal Trap 12), most of the songs here do a lot more than just rearrange Discharge parts into new patterns. If youre into obscure British and European crust from the early to mid-80s, though, youll get plenty of spins out of this 1-sided 12. However, what I enjoyed most about A Bomb Drops was the thick booklet, which told the bands story through a mix of archival documents and interviews with Negative Insight fanzine from 2015. Disattack started as a joke in a fanzinethe 80s punk equivalent of a memethen morphed into a functioning band and fell apart after a few months. However, its the detailsincluding encounters with future metal superstars and international d-beat legendsthat make the story interesting. I can think of very few packages that tell a bands story more eloquently than this one. This is only for the real punk nerds, but if youre one of those people, youre gonna love it.