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Fenriz is the metal friend you wish you had. He’s funny, his band Darkthrone rules sometimes, and he makes great mixtapes. For Vice’s website, he’s made a thrash mixtape called Trapped Under Vice, Vol. I. It is 79 minutes of banging, polka beaten filth, with Metallica and Slayer nowhere in sight (though some Slayer riffs crop up). My personal faves are Morbid, Whiplash, and Infernö. I hear a lot of the latter in NY street punk thrashers Villains. You can read Fenriz’ “liner notes” to the mix here. Together with The LHP Thrash Primer from a few months ago, this mixtape should scratch your thrash itch for a while. You can download it here:
Trapped Under Vice, Vol. I [126.63MB, .zip]
01. Necrovore (USA) ‘Mutilated Death’ (1987)
02. Mental Decay (Denmark) ‘Eat the Posers Guts’ (1987)
03. Pentagram (Chile) ‘Profaner’ (1987)
04. Necrodeath (Italy) ‘Agony/Flag of the Inverted Cross’ (1987)
05. Morbid (Sweden) ‘Wings of Funeral’ (1987)
06. Poison (Germany) ‘Yog-Sothoth’ (1987)
07. Devastation (USA) ‘Devastation’ (1987)
08. Merciless (Sweden) ‘The Awakening’ (1989)
09. Minotaur (Germany) ‘Fall of the Gods’ (1988)
10. Mutilated (France) ‘Funerarium’ (1988)
11. Deathhammer (Norway) ‘Toxic Radiation’ (2008)
12. Obliveon (Canada) ‘Whimsical Uproar’ (1987)
13. Obscurity (Sweden) ‘Demented’ (1987)
14. Morbid Saint (USA) ‘Beyond the Gates of Hell’ (1988)
15. Vulcano (Brazil) ‘Guerreiros de Sata’ (2003)
16. Whiplash (USA) ‘The Burning of Atlanta’ (1985)
17. Infernö (Norway) ‘Thrash Metal Dogs of Hell’ (2004)
18. Aura Noir (Norway) ‘Iron Night/Torment Storm’ (2008)
I can see Metallica in name of this compilation, haha – TRAPPED UNDER ICE!!!
Kind of bothered that Vice is involved in this because they are a bunch of hipster twats but it looks like a great compilation nonetheless.
I actually don't mind when hipsters write about metal, as long as it's clear they're legitimately enthusiastic (which they usually are, I think), and they aren't condescending (which they seem to be less and less every day… is it the whole Eggers/Wallace New Sincerity thing?). That said, a lot of the time Vice seems like a shameless outlet for coke-snorting, closet-conservative, New York prep school fucks.
I had to look up "New Sincerity." I find it sad that people have to systematize modes of behavior and thought so artificially.
I don't really care who posted it, if it includes classic old school stuff by Merciless, Obliveon, Morbid Saint and Whiplash then it's cool with me. Nice to see that Obliveon can make an impact with someone from Norway!
"I had to look up "New Sincerity." I find it sad that people have to systematize modes of behavior and thought so artificially."
It's awful most of all because sincerity as an a posteriori system is not very sincere. If you're looking at yourself trying to be sincere… *sigh* I guess I appreciate the sentiment at least.
villains inluenced by a Norwegian retro-thrash band from 95? ha ha h ah !
try again I.O.
Anon – You're right, the chronology makes influence unlikely. But the bands certainly share similar influences.
Question for anyone who's listened to it (while I'm at work). Is #7 the Devastation from Chicago? If so, I'm impressed, but the song "Devastation" is actually from their 1986 demo "A Re-Creation of Ripping Death".
Also, for anyone who's interested (everyone, right?), I made some classic thrash mixes a while back on my blog. Coincidentally, one of my mixes also had Whiplash's "Burning of Atlanta" (one of my favorite songs of all time). Here's the link:
http://twophoton.wordpress.com/2009/05/16/history-of-extreme-metal-part-iii-golden-age-of-thrash-1985-89/
I can't believe people are too busy talking about hipsters when the fucking mixtape is incredible!!!!!!
Pentagram (Chile), Vulcano, Morbid, Poison, and the almighty NECROVORE!!!!
Fenriz rules and did this right. What the fuck is a Vice anyways?
Villains rules hard too.
FTW.
Contact, that's the magazine where they advocate their "writers" to take coke lines with holistic Jews and then write about it like it was a dream-come-true.
This is a great mixtape. Plus, the artwork is hilariously bad. Got to love it.
I love that he put Necrovore first. Ha!
Contact: YES. THAT SONG RULES.
great comp.!
but why the hell he included those unoriginal bands of nowdays like A.Noir, Inferno and Deathhammer when he could put other 3 old ones songs?? (ok Vulcano has a recently recorded song, but they made history in the 80s!)
by the way, great he included NECRODEATH, pride of italy (forget what this band is nowdays, the real stuff was this with Ingo Veleno on vocals: Black Thrash 'til decay, like they said).
I think Vice has done some good interviews, Mike Leigh, Harry Crews come to mind and a lot of other good stuff. As magazines go they do have a lot more intersting stuff than most of what is out there, they also have mostly crap but as I age I find it much easier to block out stuff i don't like. Anyway I guess many people might consider me a hipster if they looked at me or perhaps someone who just looks indistinct. I started listening to Darkthrone when I was 15 and saw Phil Anselmo wearing the TH shirt. Since then i've gotten into a lot of other stuff and having enjoyed he sort of post modern perspective on a lot of genres and youth movements I think it has validated BM as a credible genre, just as you can say wow weren't the Stooges special now you can also look at Darkthrone and Burzum an say the same thing. I just watched Unttil the Light Takes Us and the thing which struck me was that not only was Black Metal was good enough to use in the film it was actuallt excellent, Burzum and Darkthrone in particular and that Thorns album is fucking great too.
John