In
case you're still not fed up with hearing about the most impossibly rare
Black/Death/Extreme Thrash releases ever made, let's just add one other
menacing title to to that frustrating list of unattainable Devil-rock
items, shall we? Here's the deal: in 1988 Colombian filmmaker Rodrigo
D. shot a documentary about the now legendary extreme music scene and
youth culture of Medellin. Apparently the film was a successful enough
domestic hit for a soundtrack to be released in 1990. On this extremely
scarce release 4 punk bands and 6 Metal bands were included and trivia-buffs
might want to know that the bands were compiled with the assistance of
Carlos Mario Pérez of the godly
PARABELLUM.
In respect to the occasional, trivia-searching punk-fan stumbling across
this review I'll include a few words on the punksters as well...
PESTES play stumbling, pogoing, wavey Punk in the CRASS/early WIRE
vein really bad, while
MUTANTEX makes such a mess out of "My
Way"("Sin Reacción"), the old Sid Vicious-"original"
sound like Beethoven's 5th in comparison and their other heavily SEX PISTOLS-influenced
songs doesn't improve this first impression. Finally there's
PE-NE
which is more Oi/HC oriented, but so much out-of-tune even the most undemanding
EXPLOITED-fan would turn them a deaf ear. Luckily we don't have to wait
until the B-side for the Metal to start.
AMEN start out really
promising with some neat Speed Metal riffing in the earliest SLAYER/POSSESSED
vein. The incredibly thin production makes them sound more classic Metal
than anything Black Metallic.
EKRION's head-on Thrashing sounds just a wee bit more modern than
AMEN. I dunno, maybe I'll rather stick to my SLAYER albums..
AGRESOR
is the first band in the more "well-known", insane Colombian
Death/Black style. Unfortunately the playing is even worse than on the
BLASFEMIA and REENCARNACION-releases.
PROFANACION falls even further
down into the hellish pits of Total Blakk Metal-dementia. A pretty neat
number taking obvious influences from the sickest bands of the era: MAYHEM
(NOR), SARCOFAGO and PARABELLUM. Would love to hear more actually. I haven't
got a clue why
DEXKONCIERTO ended up on the Metal-side of this
album, since their "To Futuro Es Muerte" is so much more Hard
Core Punk than anything metallic. It's a pretty cool track though, in
a totally different league than the childish fuck-ups on side-Punk. DWARVES-fans
take note!
BLASFEMIA (featuring ex-members of PARABELLUM and future
members of MASACRE) is the only band on the album who had a vinyl release
of their own. Unfortunately the song "Post-Mortem" is not an
exclusive cut, but a different recording from the one on their "Guerra
Total" MLP of '88. A slightly tighter (and superior) version of this
fast Black Deathrash cut for the hoards of BLASFEMIA-completists to covet.
The wonderfully demented
MIERDA (does that mean what I think it
means?) wrap up this jangly noise attack of an album and I dare almost
bet my own copy of "No Futuro" that's the luwly little voice
of Ramon Restrepo (PARABELLUM/BLASFEMIA) screaming his guts out behind
the Black Thrashcore wall-of-sound.
So, with almost half of the music on this album being in the punk-vein,
and the other half not exactly being all-out genious material, it's safe
to say that "No Futuro" is an item solely for the Manic Completists
(kinda like a "Kent Rocks" for the Black/Death-cliqué.)
I do however have the feeling that most people who manages to seek out
this review belong to that cathegory.