EXTREME NOISE TERROR "The Peel sessions" ('87-'90) 

(Strange Fruit Records)
Release date: 1990
Total running time: 26:50

Review: I still haven't had the chance to listen to all the early Extreme Noise Terror recordings, but I'm sure this is some of their best stuffs. The first seven tracks are from 1987, this is great crustcore, certainly with a big Discharge influence, but also a violence and intensity close to early Napalm Death. Mick Harris, the Napalm Death drummer is by the way playing on this first session. All the songs are in the same vein, uncompromising crust/grind, with relentless fast rythms; but no Napalm Death-like blastbeats. Everything have a dirty raw vibe, simple crusty guitar riffs, violent drumming, two nasty types of vocals, hardcory growls and manic screams... and all this is definitely wicked dirty punk music stuff, which later influenced tons of bands like Disrupt for example. The song "I am a bloody fool" is the only exception here, some sort of good funny punk-rock song. The rest is fast crust-grind, the best stuff of this kind ever recorded!

Tracks: 1)False profit 2)Another nail in the coffin 3)Use your mind 4)Carry on screaming 5)Human error 6)Conned through life 7)Only in it for the music part 2 8)Work for never 9)Subliminal music (Mind control) 10)3rd world genocide (By arms trade) 11)Punk: fact or faction? 12)I am a blood fool/In it for life 13)Deceived 14)Shock treatment

EXTREME NOISE TERROR "Phonophobia"

(Vinyl Japan)
Release date: 1991
Total running time: 17:17

Review: Extreme noise terror is a very influencial band, and here is a great ep with a classic, strong and fast form of grind/crust/punk/hardcore, with barks and screams for vocals, a wall of hard guitars and rigorous fast drums... Between early Discharge and early Napalm Death... gotta hear ENT at least one time in your life... 

Tracks: 1)Pray to be saved 2)Knee deep in shit 3)Self decay 4)Moral bondage 5)Just think about it 6)Lame brain 7)What do you care? 8)Third world genocide

EXTREME NOISE TERROR "Retro-bution"

(Earache Records) MOSH 83
Release date: 1993
Total running time: 31:04

Review: Crustcore with big production. Re-visited versions of old Extreme Noise Terror songs. The powerful sound quality still keeps the rawness of their stuff, fast crust hardcore with ripping simple Discharge guitar riffs, fast drumming, hardcore growls and screams for vocals. But the insanity of some of their early recordings is slightly missing. Well, this is although truly great to hear the songs with great production, who cares about the rest? Wonderful crust-core record. More than recommended to lovers of the genre...  

Tracks: 1)Raping the earth 2)Bullshit propanga 3)Lame brain 4)Work for never 5)We the helpless 6)Invisible war 7)Subliminal 8)Human error 9)Murder 10)Think about it 11)Pray to be saved 12)Conned through life 13)Deceived 14)Third world genocide

EXTREME NOISE TERROR "Being and nothing"

(Candlelight Records)
Release date: 2001
Total running time: 29:55

Review: I know some people dislike the new ENT thing. It sure isn't the same line-up or same music than before. And they're on a label that releases mostly boring stuffs. Ain't that bad though. They're kind of in the same spirit as Napalm Death nowadays I guess. Sounds much more metal and more grinding than their old pissed off crust. They have a clean sound and clean metal songs, that lacks the lively raw violence of the early ENT. It's good grind-death though, better than your usual run-of-the-mill grind-death record. I preferred the last album though, which featured Barney from Napalm Death on vocals, it was a definitely bigger kick in the ass. But, anyway it's one of the better produced grind-death album this year, worths a listening or a dubbing.

Tracks: 1)Being and nothing 2)Through mayhem 3)When gods burn 4)Man made hell 5)Damage limitation 6)No longer as slaves 7)One truth one hate 8)Awakening 9)Non believer genocide 10)Destestation