Life Is Abuse Records

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Web Site: www.lifeisabuse.com

Label Discography:

ARTIMUS PYLE - 7"
ASUNDER - A Clarion Call CD
ASUNDER/LIKE FLIES ON FLESH - split LP/CD
BLATZ - Cheaper than the Beer 7"
BLATZ/FILTH - The Shit Split LP/2xCD
BRAINOIL - s/t LP/CD
DIMLAIA - s/t CD
DYSTOPIA - Human=Garbage LP/CD
DYSTOPIA - The Aftermath CD
FIELDS OF SHIT - 10
FILTH - Live the Chaos 7"
FLESHIES - Gung Ho! CD
LE SCRAWL - Too Short to Ignore CD
LE SCRAWL - Eager to Please CDEP
LUDICRA - Hollow Psalms CD
MEDICATION TIME - One Free Miracle Ticket LP/CD
NIGEL PEPPER COCK - The New Way LP/CD
SKEW WHIFF - Taedium Vitae CD
TARANTULA HAWK - s/t CD (Album #1)
TARANTULA HAWK - s/t LP (Album #2)
TEEN CTHULHU - Ride the Blade LP
TOTAL SHUTDOWN - Broadcast Performances 7"
UNPERSONS - IV Self Portrait CDEP
YETI - Things to Come LP
YETI - Volume, Obliteration, Transcendence CD

Release Discriptions:

ARTIMUS PYLE - Debut 7"
5 Songs of discordant, manic thrash. Disjointed guitarwork, pounding drums, pissed off screaming and throbbing thrashed out bass lines. This is their debut ep, released shortly after the demise of their pervious band, FUCKFACE. Many records have since been released by PRANK.

ASUNDER - A Clarion Call CD
Five long years since their debut EP, Oakland, CA's cult doom act Asunder finally returns with their debut full length, A Clarion Call. A staggering progression from their early days, they deliver a trilogy of epic dirges. Recorded with doomlord Billy Anderson with the 'thick and heavy as fuck' sound you can expect! An unusal blend of styles ranging from the classic late 80's/early 90's british scene, a healthy dose of Thergothon/Skepticism and a nod to earlier staples Pentagram / St. Vitus. Featuring members of Dystopia, Skaven, and Weakling, expect cloudy visions of an epic and dismal new dawn.

ASUNDER/LIKE FLIES ON FLESH - Split LP/CD
ASUNDER belts out two tracks of thunderous doommetal, with sullen guitar hooks and gargantuan vocals--the shortest song at close to 9 minutes. LIKE FLIES ON FLESH from Ft. Worth, TX can best be described as an unholy union of AT THE GATES and "Killers Era" IRON MAIDEN. Dueling guitar hero war harmonies and chainsaw riffs abound. LP contains 2 18x24" posters.

BLATZ - Cheaper than the Beer 7"
The finest fucked up mess discovered in the dumpster behind 924 Gilman. This is the first classic blast from the female/male led bundle of chaos known as Blatz, repressed on Life Is Abuse. From the late 1980s East Bay scene came this sextet, who later went on to a ton of other bands, including Dead and Gone, Creeps On Candy, The Criminals, and The Frisk. This ep is included on the cd version of Blatz / Filth "Shit Split" 2xCD.

BLATZ / FILTH - The Shit Split LP / 2xCD
The legendary collaboration from these two early 90's East Bay punk bands. Re-issue of the classic 924 Gilman release originally pressed on Lookout. These two bands destroy society, your stereo, and your slippery grasp on sanity. Double Cd includes complete discography of each band.

BRAINOIL - LP/ CD
"This LP is so intense that only those with leather eardrums can survive it. After releasing a free-over-the-internet demo, an extremely rare and collectable split 7" with IRON LUNG, and an earth-cracking split CD with CRUEVO; this Bay Area trio has finally unveiled their debut LP. BRAINOIL are maniacal riff merchants. The sound waves they create literally have a tangible and physical presence, you more than hear them; you feel them. Hell, you can almost taste them and smell them. More driving and rapid (all things being relative) than most of their tar coated peers, BRAINOIL are likely to have a broader appeal than most bands of their breed. Only a fool would pass up this album." - Jeb Branin / Short Fast and Loud

DIMLAIA - s/t CD
A tremendously dark album of sonic depression from this Memphis-born group of heavy gloomers. Sonically dark and dramatic soundscape compositions drenched with soothing melodies and grey atmospherics. People have compared them to A MINOR FOREST, GOD SPEED YOU BLACK EMPOROR and NEUROSIS, which I suppose is fairly accurate. This cd two new tracks along with re-recorded versions of songs from a cdr demo. Features bass and vocal work from CARL AUGE of HIS HERO IS GONE and cello on a few tracks by Jackie Perez Gratz from Amber Asylum.

DYSTOPIA - Human=Garbage LP/CD
DYSTOPIA = Doom-ridden, metal-laced, down-tuned punk with a "Love Earth-Hate People" philosophy. The destructive nature of humans interpreted by three dirtbags from California using guitars, drums, samples and voice. CD has all Dystopia tracks from the "Human=Garbage" LP, plus the split LP with EMBITTERED and split EP with GRIEF, 12 songs total). Members of Dystopia have previously played in MINDROT, CONFRONTATION, and CARCINOGEN.

DYSTOPIA - The Aftermath CD
More Misanthropic melodies about the all the shitty things in life. This is a digital collection of all the DYSTOPIA vinyl recorded after the "Human=Garbage" CD... that is, the "Backstabber" 7", the splits with SKAVEN, SUFFERING LUNA, and "the Aftermath" 12". . Doom-ridden downtuned punk played by the disgruntled co-workers from your shitty job.

FIELDS OF SHIT - 10"
13 song debut / last will and testament of this short-lived Bay Area band, brought to you by members of FILTH, QUEEN MAB and TALK IS POISION. Melodic, angry, punked out grooves with political lyrics from dual gendered vocalists.

FILTH - Live the Chaos 7"
Razor sharp, two fingers in the air punkrock. 4 tracks of catchy, raw and in-your-face punk. Driving buzz saw guitars and ballistic drums collide with glass eating vocals spouting out nihilistic tirades against the system. This is a repressing of FILTH's debut ep, originally released on Lookout in 1990. This ep is included on the cd version of Blatz/Filth "Shit Split" 2xCD.

FLESHIES - Gung Ho! CD
FLESHIES have been tearing shit up since 1999, relentlessly touring the globe and playing ballistic punk that has often landed members in emergency rooms of foreign countries. This release is a collection of Fleshies singles, comp tracks and B Sides that has been remastered and archived with liner notes. Tracks from their splits w/ VICTIMS FAMILY, THE PHANTOM LIMBS, THE JOCKS, TOYS THAT KILL can be found here, as well as some previously unreleased tracks.

LE SCRAWL - Too Short to Ignore CD
LE SCRAWL play totally demented and innovative grind. Add a slice of jazz, a dash of ska, surf, salsa, bossa nova, etc and then mix in the wipeout crust vocals. This early discography spans the course of 9 years, taken from 2 mini-CD's, a few comps, demo tracks, and few live shows recorded in Slovenia.

LE SCRAWL- Eager to Please CDEP
More eclectic freak out grind from Germany's LE SCRAWL. This newest installment features 13 songs recorded in 2003 by Harris Johns (producer of SODOM, KREATOR, IMMOLATION) at his "Spiderhaus Studio" in Luttz, Germany.This CDEP continues w. LE SCRAWL's sonic debauchery of grind mixed w. ska, jazz and all things weird, but adding a stronger metal influence in both songwriting and production. LE SCRAWL completed a quick and dirty tour of California in March 2004.

LUDICRA - Hollow Psalms CD
Black metal, not from the tundra, but as could only be churned out from the wasted cityscape of the SF Bay Area. Ludicra is urban, not ancient; emotional, not evil. This is a burley 50-minute 8-song masterpiece packaged in story-book digi-pak format. This is black metal, but expect no Norway worship here, songs about snowy mountain peaks, or panda bear make-up. It is black metal by default only, and depressing and harsh by circumstance. Featuring members of Hammers of Misfortune, Fölcainö, Impaled, Ominum, and the Lord Weird Slough Feg.

MEDICATION TIME - One Free Miracle Ticket LP/CD
A spastic, sarcastic, piece of plastic, about being mentally challenged and fucked up on drugs during the second coming of Christ and World War IV. Mad frantic trash for dysfunctional members of society, executed by recovering members of DYSTOPIA, SKAVEN, THE IMPULSE ITEMS, and NIGEL PEPPER-COCK. LP is a gatefold, CD contains a 33 minute interview by local mind-maverick Saint Paul.

NIGEL PEPPER COCK - The New Way LP/CD
NIGEL PEPPER COCK have redefined the words sexy, heavy and out-of-control. An unstoppable force of fully erect alpha males, these super studs from the badlands are hell-bent on world domination in a vigilant frenzy of unmitigated lust. (Contains EXPLICIT IMAGERY. You MUST be 18 or OVER to purchase, signed ages statement required.)

SKEW WHIFF - Taedium Vitae CD
Skew Whiff hail from Liege Belgium and dish out 14 tracks of blackened crust with slaying metal guitar leads. Kinda like their previous bands (HIATUS / MEDICATION TIME) mixed with a bit of BLEEDING RECTUM, SCATHA, and even some later era SUBHUMANS stuff. LP / Cassette released on TRUJACA FALA out of Poland.

TARANTULA HAWK - CD (Album #1)
"San Diego's Tarantula Hawk create a heavy, epic rock soundscape, a bit like a metal version of Godspeed You Black Emperor, with a healthy dose of Hawkwind." This debut release contains 6 songs morphed into one continuous track of heavy instrumental organ and bass driven "psychedelic-death-prog", laced with samples of vehement insects and wretched machines. Musically reminiscent of GOBLIN, old PINK FLOYD, MAN IS THE BASTARD, and KING CRIMSON executed by former members of THE LOCUST, STRUGGLE, and "THE TITO O'TITO BAND".

TARANTULA HAWK - Gatefold LP (Album #2)
"Witness the return of the mighty Tarantula Hawk, the San Diego based psychedelic volume dealers whose immense self-titled debut cd we raved about two years ago. Here's their second album, somewhat confusingly also self-titled, which again proves them to be the masters of drone prog metal supreme. Instrumental super heavy ritual music, bass-heavy majestic murk with grinding prog rock keyboards and intense, energizing drumming, spacey stretches of ominous gloom... Imagine the Omen soundtrack meets Neurosis, or an evil ELP into Eyehategod. Or a crust-metal take on 20th century classical? As good as their self-titled debut, or better, and obviously highly recommended!" - Aquarius Records

TEEN CTHULHU - Ride the Blade LP
Another chest-impaling blow from Seattle's bleak champions of utter despair. Taking the raw chaos of punk and fueling the flames with black metal grimness, it becomes the circle for the Cthulhu evocations. 13 tracks of blackened metal tinged fastcore that will trample you under cloven hoof and fill your veins with burning vitriol. Previous releases include splits w. IRON LUNG, AKIMBO, WORMWOOD and CREAM ABDUL BABAR. Members have since joined DOOMSDAY 1999, AKIMBO and BOOK OF BLACK EARTH.

TOTAL SHUTDOWN - Broadcast Performances 7"
Ballistic and abrupt blasts spat out and smeared on the ground with guitars, keys, sax and drums. Methamphetamine rainbow violence inspired by Judy Blume and the ill's of modern culture. This 6 Song 7" was recorded live on the air in 2001... they've since released an LP/CD on LOAD and TIGERBEAT 6.

UNPERSONS - IV Self Portrait CD
UNPERSONS formed in Savannah Georgia and have since found most of the band relocated across the globe. They've been churning out scatterbrained, unconventional harsh and heavy hardcore since 1997. Previous works include an epic full length CD "III" released on At a Loss Recordings, a self titled cd released on Born to Die, and a 7" on Fishfur records. This new release is a 15-minute distortion-drenched dirge ranging from wild and brutal to brooding and dark, often conjuring up the ghosts of United Mutations, Jesus Lizard, Rudimentary Peni, and Rorschach. Recorded at the Jam room in South Carolina.. mixed and produced by Unpersons and Phillip of KYLESA.

YETI -Things to Come LP
YETI play thick and heavy "doom-prog" with manic, hardcore-influenced jazz-blasts and smooth soothing melodies. Four talented fellows pulsate your brain with bass, guitar, thundering drums and more keyboards and effects than you can shake a stick at. These mad scientists from Ft. Worth have concocted some intensely bizarre and dark music and worship at the altar of the mellotron. LP is pressed on clear wax and includes an 18x24" poster penned by D.V.D'Andrea.

YETI - Volume, Obliteration, Transcendence CD
The surviving members of YETI are back with close to an hours worth of new music. Four dark and dismal dirges, that draw influences from MAGMA and SHUB NIGGURATH to MAN IS THE BASTARD and BORIS. YETI continues to offer a heavier music combining the darker elements of jazz and rock forms. This new CD is packaged in a digi-pak, with all artwork created by David D'Andrea.