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1982 Lyrics & Music
The Muzzle, patron saint of the
Underground!
Copyright 1982 Todd West
UTOPIAN JESTURES 1/82
Continuing in feedback land, I write my first real symphonic piece. Everysong is connected with a theme on medieval fantasy.
Contents:
Ultrasonic Flashback
Battle Against the Good Magician/ Repulsion
The
Covenant
No Stoned in Here
Product of a Mad Guitarist
Wormwood
Land of Infantile Purpose
The Evil Magician
Keeper of the Truce
Zombie
Maniac's Lunacy/ The Storyteller
COLOSSUS
IMPERITIVE 4/82
Songs begin to get shorter again with more riff-orientated stuff. Some blues influence here. Phaser and feedback galore. I was listening to tons of Robin Trower around this time.
Contents:
Captured in the Dark
Morning Glory
Ape and Grizzley
Rockin' Tonight
Rocker Anthem
Mystic Meanings
City of Amps
The Overdose
Road Roll On
Personal Play Toy
Georgia Jam
Move On / Praise Rock N Roll
WELCOME TO
HELL 5/82
Big religious concept album here (yeah right). The jams that produced this one included some close friends whom I was teaching to play other instruments. Most songs are really grindcore industrial, lengthy and heavy. I was using multi-layer delay holding patterns and distorted feedback on the vocals. I wanted to record this project but at this time the material began to pour out in droves, and without any recording apparatus I just continued to write and play.
Contents:
Vision One: The Introdustion to Sorrow
Journey To Hell
Illusion of Water (Instrumental)
Vision Two: Temptation
Tales of Sin
The Girl That Never Was
Vision Three: The Good Book Of Wrong
Interview With Satan
I'm Alone
Last Chance
Vision Four: Truth, or Disillusion
Lucifer's Castle
Rasin' Hell
One Found Love
The Realm of the Sub-Hells: (Album Two)
Sub Hell I:
Lustful Lover
Tidal Winds Accross Elastic Memories
World's Greatest S.O.B.
Sub Hell II:
Bridge Accross The Pit
Plight of The Ice Gods
Truth
CIRCUMVENT GAMES 6/82
Street-punk mode. First lineup of the Theoria band practiced in my bedroom at my parents house, then began throwing high school keg parties to jam at. All the kinds of music I had began experimenting with over the past 3 years began to show-up in varied qualities throughout the material of this era. I took as many tapes as I could with me when I went to Europe, visiting Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Contents:
Revenge of
The Matrix
RIVET HEAD
MADNESS 7-9/82
Riff orientated LP. I had a 64 SG (les paul JR I bought
for $90 and rebuilt) at this time and loved to let it rip.
I was getting bigger amps by now and the neighbors could
feel the blast. For some reason most the lyrics and vocals
on this album remind me of Bon Scott!
Contents:
Goin' Down
I pieced this one together from incompleted tunes from
the past four or five albums. My high-school buddies were
liking my stuff as opposed to the heavy corporate rock
scene beginning to emerge. Lots of people were saying acid
punk was dead, so titles began to be irrelevant.
I had been managing young local bands and peddaling their
tapes for the past couple of months, I was calling my label
Underground Records, strickly non-profit.
Contents:
Today's Heroes
What I remember most about writing this album is driving
into Atlanta and hanging out at the clubs. We had a good
underground scene around here at this time, college radio
and the clubs were saving us from the big-hair scourge of
the mainstream. Pretty punkish, this long winded jewel
was.
Contents:
Psychedelic Blues
Right after finishing One Battle... I completed this
batch of songs. This one's heavy metal all the way with
trimmings. Leather and biker music was dying a slow
death, yet in my age group the fasination was still
mystic, so with my anarchist attitude I put a spike in
this one and pleased my local audience.
Contents:
Slaplash
I was trading alot with alternative music lovers
throughout the US and alot of fanzines and new tapes I was
getting contained the offsprings Speedmetal and Hardcore
Punk. We had a brand new really cool club here in
Atlanta called The Metroplex (around this time or
sometime hereafter) that catered to this stuff. It became
my favorite place to play and hang. First line-up of my
group Equinox was unleashed. This was our first batch of
songs, I sent demo albums out to every fanzine I could find
out about in the world.
Contents:
Images on My
Eyes
As 1982 came to a close I was into alot of heavy stuff.
This album was around the time everybody quit trying to
put a label on my stuff. If you wanted, you could call
this industrial metal, but whatever you called it it was
in your face and loud.
Contents:
Transvestite
1986 Mentat
Rules
Feel the Fire
Crimson Delight
Black Star
Heat of The
Night
Need You Tonight
The Lovers Drug
Stoney
Loves to Rock
The Stripper
Cesarean Death
Compound Unknown
Your Place or Mine
Headbanger
Lightning
Strikes Twice
Freebleeder
Leather Lady n
Chains
Old Rockers Never Die
WHATEVER
BECAME OF THE HEROES 10/82
Hood With Class
Rock N Roll Addict
Innocent Age
Powerdriver
High Livin'
Queen of The Sea
Social Overdrive
Lost Identity
ONE BATTLE
WON, ANOTHER BEGUN 11/82
Action Lady
Lung Ripper
Nothing
HLDDMR
Non Believer's Destiny
Man Vs. Himself
Winds of Change
THE DEATH
OF SADNESS 7-11/82
Little Heathern
Era of Treachery
B. Under Population
Riddles Don't Rhyme
Heavy Metal Rock N Roll
Sword of Fire
A. Rise of Treason
Trouble in the Numbers
SPEEDREAMER 10-12/82
Evolution
Leather Queen
Chained Love
Lorn
Strangers
in the Night
Simple
Song Lingers Long
Texture of
Tantrum
Speedreamer
The
Imploring Agenda
Painless Death
Soldier of Time
SLAYER OF
MORTALITY 11/82
Mind Games
Grip of Fear
Infinite Zero
Sparrow's Song
Dead Heart
Angie
Iron Cement
Can't Kill Rock N Roll
Beast Wthin
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