#REPULSION Horrified 1989

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"THE UNDEGROUND CULT ALBUM FROM THE WORLD'S FASTEST DEATH METAL BAND!"

PIC INFO: Part 2 of 2 -- Resolution at 1400x1400 Spotlight on "Horrified," the only studio album by pioneering American grindcore band REPULSION.

Although the album was originally recorded in 1986, and released on cassette as "Slaughter of the Innocent," it remained unreleased until three years later when it was officially released on LP and CD via Necrosis Records, a sublabel of Earache [Records] run by Jeff Walker and Bill Steer of the band CARCASS.

MINI-OVERVIEW: "REPULSION has always been a band that your favorite bands worshipped, but were somehow otherwise criminally unheard of. But make no mistake, evangelizers like Napalm Death, Carcass, Entombed, Terrorizer, At the Gates and others will tell you: One listen to "Horrified" — to the thrashing riffs and buzzsaw bass, the desperately screamed vocals and the incessant pounding (that legitimized a new drumbeat) — and you’ll see how it all started; you’ll visit the haunted cobwebbed attic of the genre we call grindcore.

Recorded in ’86, tape-traded for three years — beyond REPULSION’s demise — and released posthumously on Earache sub-label Necrosis in ’89, "Horrified" infected the burgeoning underground with an unheralded blend of hardcore and death metal, appealing to disparate scenes and transcending genre boundaries, effectively blurring them into a frenetic mess. It was a singularity, a leap in the evolution. Unpolished and unapologetic, its legacy of primitivism is just as relevant now in this digital age of perfection as it was back in the ’80s, when it was shocking enough to make tape decks tremble and listeners utter, "What the fuck is that?""

-- "DECIBEL" Magazine, written by Matthew Widener, REPULSION's "Horrified," "Decibel" Hall of Fame #42, August 8, 2008

Source: www.decibelmagazine.com/2008/08/18/repulsion-horrified & Wikipedia.

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Repulsion - Eaten Alive

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Repulsion “Bodily Dismemberment”

• Horrified (1989)

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Repulsion - Driven To Insanity

Horrified (1989)

Sickening thoughts, your sould's in chains Your rotted corpse brought to life again Brain is dead but your instincts alive Visions of death still haunt your mind Insanity breeds in your varicose veins Poisoned blood flows through your veins Your breath reeks of a rotted form And the menstrual flow of a thousand whores Your blood it boils and rots your brain Tortured life makes you insane Your self control has nothing left The only escape is through your death Once again your at death's door Your wasted life exists no more Now your doomed to rot in hell Your fucking corpse begins to smell

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Repulsion - Horrified. 29/05/1989

[festering-remains]

Repulsion - "The Stench of Burning Death" from Horrified (1989)

"Desecration of the earth - Massive death End of all that breathes new life - Nothing left A few survivors nearing death - Mutated Slow decaying of the flesh - Soon they're dead"

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Watching Begotten (1989) so you don't have to

I decided to watch it on "Effed Up Movies", since they're not afraid to show the original, uncut versions of lots of disturbing movies. The entire film has 1 hour and 12 minutes, but because it's supposed to be disturbing I quess they would feel like three hours.

The site provides us with a short summary, but I decided not to read it because Spoilers. However, here it says that the actors are playing God, Mother Earth and Son of Earth respectively, which already sounds quite interesting.

TW: Gore, Rape, Sexual Violence, Self-Harm, Necrophilia & Torture.

-1:11:31: Like a flame burning away the darkness/Life is flesh on bone convulsing above the ground.

The movie has a very eerie, melancholic atmosphere, which can be both peaceful and uncomfortable depending on how you view it. The film seems to be made in the late 1890s to early 1900, judging by the b/w pallete and the poor camera quality, where you barely distinguish any sort of details. None of the characters is talking, there's barely any background music and the nature sounds are the main soundtrack.

We see a small, seemingly abandoned house, where a man tied to a chair whose face is covered by a cloth mask is suffering. There is blood everywhere. Blood flowing from his mouth, blood splashing on the walls and floor, blood on his clothes. The man then proceeds to stab himself repetitively and takes out his own organs. He doesn't seem to be in pain as much as any other person in his place would be. However, the entire moment isn't presented in the same grotesque, horrifying manner many people would think of. It's rather disgusting and repulsing, and a short view of his feet defiled by his fecels as he's excreting only adds to this impression.

A woman wearing a masquerade mask that covers only her eyes suddenly appears. She walks around the room until she notices him, then takes his penis and starts to rub it until it ejaculates. She lifts her skirt and fills herself with his sperm, impregnating herself. She's already pregnant when she's burying him, since we get some quick shots of her enormous womb as she's looking at his coffin. Months later, she gives birth to a deformed child, whom she abandoned.

We see him as an already grown man, covered in mud and laying on the ground. He has violent spasms, moving his limbs and chest erratically. He finally opens his mouth and lets out a deep growl, probably taking his very first breath. Despite being already physically developed, he looks like a Frankenstein-like type of figure, meaning that he thinks and acts like a child since the world is still new to him.

A group of mysterious people wearing robes with hoods pass by him, carrying lanterns and rods. They look like some sort of monks, of perhaps the members of an obscure cult. They're surrounding him, all of them starring at his throbbing body. They bind him and carry him away, as he's still shaking violently. They proceed to torment him, covering his mouth so that he would no longer scream, beating him, torturing him, cannibalizing him. He's then covered with some sort of a robe as the mysterious group of men drag him towards a fire. We get an explicit scene of him laying on his back and spasming as the top of his head is slowly melting. Meanwhile the mysterious men are stabbing him, causing him to vomit.

The group of men then returns him back to the forest and leave him alone for a while. His mother turns back to him and puts a rope around his neck as if he would put a dog on a leash, forcing him to crawl behind her.

The mysterious group of men observe her and watch them for a while. They then seize the mother and hit her son in the head, making him bleed. One of them cuts his genitalia for no particular reason, then hits his mother with a rod too. The woman falls unconscious, and they begin to undress, grope, mutilate her privates and force themselves on her. They repeteadly stab her to death. We get a short yet visible shot of them ejaculating on her corpse as well.

In the next scene we see her son kneeling next to her body and mourning her, before the men take her away. Now, we don't see clearly what are they doing to her, but honestly I would prefer not to graphically describe this moment, especially because it possibly involves necrophilia and grotesque fetishes. Finally, they throw her remainings into a cauldron and carry it away.

Meanwhile, her son is crawling on earth, until some men from the group find him, put him in a sack and beat him until he dies. We see two men carrying the cauldron until they reach a spring. On the other side, the rest of the group pulls out the son's organs, put them in pouches and squeeze them with the rods.

In the final scene we see his corpse laying on the ground, probably in his birthplace.

This movie can be interpreted in a lot of way and it clearly covers a lot of religious and philosophical subjects. To put it shortly the main themes are the death of religion, the abuse of nature by humankind and overall a nihilistic outlook on what life ultimately is. Feel free to form whatever opinions you want to about it.

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REPULSION-FESTERING BOILS

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Drawing Metal Covers At Least Thrice a Week Until I Get  Tired Of It, Day 1: Repulsion - Horrified (1989)

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The Supreme Court may not realize it, but in overturning Roe v. Wade it would open up a horrifying and perhaps counterintuitive possibility that should repulse all admirers of liberty: the legality of forced abortion or sterilization. Just as a fetus is inextricably fused with the body of the person gestating it, if the Court erases Roe and thus obliterates the right not to beget and bear a child, it will inevitably erase its reflection: the right to bring a child into the world. If Roe was wrong, then decisions upholding mandatory sterilization and abortion would be right.

The practical and not merely theoretical nature of that symmetry became clear during the nearly two-decade interval between Roe’s initial recognition of the constitutional right to an abortion in 1973 and Planned Parenthood v. Casey’s reaffirmation of that right in 1992. Lower courts, including the Courts of Appeals for the Fourth and Eleventh Circuits, had during that period been confronted with repeated efforts by state officials, sometimes doing the bidding of teenage girls’ parents, to coerce their daughters into undergoing surgical abortions or sterilizations. The reasons offered ranged from feared birth defects to beliefs that their girls were not ready to be good mothers to disapproval of the fathers-to-be, although it’s hard not to suspect that domestic abuse and incest were sometimes lurking beneath the surface.

Consider the case of Virginia Avery, a 15-year-old Black girl who became pregnant and sought prenatal treatment at a state-controlled medical facility in Burke County, North Carolina, in the years after Roe. State medical officials told Avery that she had a sickle-cell blood condition that exclusively affected the Black population, that continuing her pregnancy would immediately endanger her life or shorten it considerably, and that her condition would prevent her from taking birth control pills. The medical diagnosis turned out to be a lie, but, believing the doctors and succumbing to their relentless pressure, Virginia underwent an unwanted abortion and agreed to be sterilized. In 1981, the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled in Avery’s favor in a federal civil-rights suit against the state medical officers. The story of a pregnant Black high-school girl pressured for weeks by Alabama public-school counselors to undergo an abortion against her wishes—as well as the wishes of her family and sexual partner—is no less shocking, and ended with an Eleventh Circuit ruling in the girl’s favor in 1989.

The decision those courts invoked to protect the bodily integrity and personal dignity of the young women involved? None other than Roe v. Wade. The courts understood—and the Eleventh Circuit explained at length—that Roe stood not so much for a right to end a pregnancy as for the right to choose whether to end one. Indeed, when Supreme Court justices have affirmed the existence of another right nowhere named in the Constitution—a right to refuse unwanted medical interventions—they haven’t hesitated to invoke Roe v. Wade.

That’s why, when the Court in Casey was explaining its decision to protect a woman’s autonomy, it pointedly said that it wasn’t relying on the doctrine of stare decisis, or standing by decisions previously made, despite the failure of the Constitution’s text to mention the subject except at a high level of generality, using the word liberty. The Court in Casey reasoned that if a woman’s liberty to choose whether to remain pregnant could be usurped by the state on the basis of any rational justification—a notoriously easy standard to meet—then the state would need no more justification to force a woman to abort than it would need to prevent her from aborting. Coerced pregnancy and coerced abortion were, as I wrote in an article several years after the Casey decision, “mirror images of one another.” As the Court in Casey specifically put the matter, in a passage almost everyone appears to have overlooked in the 30 years since:

The soundness of this prong of the Roe analysis is apparent from a consideration of the alternative. If indeed the woman’s interest in deciding whether to bear and beget a child had not been recognized as in Roe, the State might as readily restrict a woman’s right to choose to carry a pregnancy to term as to terminate it, to further asserted state interests in population control, or in eugenics, for example. Yet Roe has been sensibly relied upon to counter any such suggestions.

At that point, the Court referenced the lower-court decisions I’ve mentioned, in which judges refused to force young women to end their pregnancies or to undergo sterilization. And it was that comparison, not precedent, on which the Court relied to insist that the core holding of Roe was right.

Justice Antonin Scalia, in his dissent in Casey, mocked that supposed symmetry as proof of the Court’s bankrupt reasoning, archly insisting that he could tell the difference, even if the Court’s majority couldn’t, between killing a fetus and preventing its death. But that mistakes a definition for an argument. Yes, an abortion causes the death of a fetus. But the question is how to decide whether that consequence of letting a woman control her own body and destiny suffices to justify an imposition that our law otherwise steadfastly resists: depriving a person of full ownership of his or her body, full control of his or her life, whether in the context of forcing someone to donate blood or a kidney or of forcing someone to continue a pregnancy.

Nor is it decisive that a ban on abortion forbids an act while a coerced abortion commands one. It was none other than Justice Scalia, two years before Casey, who wrote in a case involving mandated medical treatment about “the irrelevance of the action-inaction distinction.” “Starving oneself to death,” he wrote, “is no different from putting a gun to one’s temple.”

In a Constitution that outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, is it really enough, as Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization insists, that “abortion destroys what … the law at issue in this case regards as the life of an ‘unborn human being’”?

If no more than that widely contested characterization is demanded, as the Alito draft implies, then we have opened the door to compulsory sterilization of people deemed likely to transmit undesirable traits, and the nightmare of forced abortion. As Justice Robert H. Jackson once remarked, “It seems trite but necessary to say that … our Constitution was designed to avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings.”

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STAY ETERNALLY HORRIFIED WITH "HORRIFIED" -- COMPLETE HORROR -- TOTAL DEATH.

PIC(S) INFO: Part 1 of 2 -- Spotlight on hype sticker & sleeve art to "Horrified," the debut album by pioneering American extreme music group, REPULSION, recorded and released on cassette in 1986, and released posthumously on Earache's sub-label Necrosis in 1989.

Resolution at 1080x1080 & 1000x1000.

Source: www.picuki.com/media/3348449564608391128 & Relapse Records (official).

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Repulsion - Festering Boils

[gotankgo]

Repulsion“Bodily Dismemberment”

• Horrified (1989)

[theparanoid]

Repulsion - Horrified

(1989, full album)

[Grindcore, Death Metal, Thrash]

[the-true-metal]

32th Anniversary

Repulsion

Horrified

Grindcore/Death Metal

United States

May 29th, 1989

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REPULSION - Horrified (1989)

“ The Stench Of Burning Death “