anthrax_uk

CONTAINS 1ST&2ND DEMO/CRASS SINGLE/SMALL WONDER SINGLE/AND MORE/LTD POSTER AND STUFFto buy cd for usa or eu send us your email address /how many copies you want and what country your in. we will then send you a pay pal invoice /once paid the cd will be sent. or go to our web site anthraxukoffical.com one usa inc pp=12dollar one eu inc pp=9eur uk inc pp £5.00 ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------- ORGAN REVIEW 'RE-ISSUE OF THE WEEK ANTHRAX – One Last Drop (Happy Release) – Anthrax, I love(d) 'em (in fact I love 'em both), this is the English Anthrax, the ones who came roaring out of Kent back in the early 80's and the best days of anarcho hardcore ranting raving thrashing pro-active get-involved punk rock. This is a fine collection that brings all their demos and singles (that originally came out of important/classic D.I.Y punk labels like Smallwonder, Crass and such) conveniently brought together in one neat and tidy, good looking (self released) impressive heart-warming package. Anthrax were a vital part of that very big, ever evolving (constantly bickering) anarcho punk family of tape trading DIY single making bands that came at you via the messy photocopied opinionated pages of a million insipiring, annoying, confronting, agitating 'zines and the stages of glorious dumps like the Hammersmith Clarendon and the Birmingham Mermaid - that and the under-siege squats and free festivals and anywhere where a crowd could get away with gathering without permission. Oh yes, all those great bands and times and confrontations – Civilised Society, Electro Hippies, Dirt, Subhumans, Ripcord, Oi Polloi, Discharge, Conflict and the mummies and Daddies of them all, Crass – the constant smell of riot and those zines and DIY promoters that kept things evolving. Besides Sir John Peel (and the occasional piece in the much missed Sounds music paper) this was all done via the DIY channels and a million tiny mail-order distribution networks and chains – a genuine underground, fine fine times – inspiring times (certainly inspired us – this is where Organ originally came from!).And so one by one, those glorious old bands have been dusting off their long lost tapes that they have stashed away in their attics and answering the demands of those of us who haven't quite forgotten. And to be quite frank some of those old bands are best left in those dusty attics with all the memories and flyers and stories and remember the time Conflict played the Greyhound and it all kicked off and no I'm not paying 50p for a zine you capitalist tool of Thatcher... Anthrax though, Anthrax always had a little edge (and those recent Anti-State/Anti this/anti that compilations that came out on Newcastle label Overground more than wet the appetite and the demand and...)So Anthrax got all their singles and demo tapes and old bits of this and that out (and set up a My Space page) and pulled it all together - and I've had this album sitting here for a few days now – not sure if I really really wanted to go there. Were they really as good as memory suggests? Is this going to be a let down? Is it all just rose-tinted (brew-encrusted) memories? No it damn well isn't! As strange as it may seem, this sounds as fresh and vital (maybe even more vital?) than it did back then – classic ranting raging slicing cutting angry pissed off confrontational thrashing metallic punk rock, a positive call to arms and does it do your heart good to blast it all again or what! All the tracks pulled together along with the original artwork and some new artwork that captured the spirit and vibe (by the original creator Tasty M). Oh yes! What a fugging set up, what a real treat, we all make sense of it, it all makes sense. Go grab a slice of real positive proper system defying punk rock (then go make your own or start a zine or a label or a website) – www.myspace.com/anthraxuk (that's right, interact 'round Murdock's Space, delicious irony, use that channels, subvert, divert, get involved, don't forget to soap the stamps and use a 14 times used already envelope with a Ring sticker on it)