Hellbastard – Heading For Internal Darkness 2xLP

A manic clash of guitars, bass and drums beating each other’s brains out in the same sonic bullring? Check. Despite already (if a little unbeknownst) being considered crust pioneers, by 1988, Hellbastard had firmly inserted themselves, even proudly so, in between a series of bifurcated genre schisms well-protected by those scene’s respected guardians. Their official debut, Heading For Internal Darkness no less perfectly exemplifies that schism.  With Wendy V Gill’s haunted-cosmos monologues injecting some transcendental light into the neck otherwise being mercilessly ripped to pieces by Scruff and Scotty’s spaced-out vocal grunts, opener We Had Evidence to the equally arresting elevator-shaft-with-a-mind-of-its-own Death Camp to The Pylons whip up seriously dark whirlwinds into atmospheric dances of rapid energy and relentless spasms of spellcasting drama. Never mind metal, too punk for anything.
(Radiation/ 2024)

Tracklist:

A1 We Had Evidence
A2 Civilised?
A3 Nazis Killed
A4 Death Camp
A5 Massacre.....
B1 Heading For Internal Darkness
B2 The Pylons
B3 Afrikkan Beggar
B4 Rise Of Crust (Inst.)
C1 Into The Crypts Of Rays (Rehearsal 1988)
C2 Return To The Eve (Rehearsal 1988)
C3 Aggressor (Rehearsal 1988)
D1 Aggressor (Brixton 1988)
D2 Die By The Sword (Rehearsal 1988)
D3 Die By The Sword (Birmingham 1988)