CRIPPLE BASTARDS "Age of vandalism 1987-1993" 4xCD boxset on sale now!!



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Even if it's been released some months ago already, we thought to wait for some relevant reviews to start spreading the word about this. First off, CRIPPLE BASTARDS "Age of vandalism" is A deluxe 4xCD digipak boxset featuring remastered versions of ALL the Cripple Bastards’ tapes released from 1988 to 1993 plus an incredible amount of unreleased tunes drawing the complete history of the Bastards on tape. This includes the four official demos, the split 7” with Violent Headache session (with extra unreleased tracks!), the whole 1988-1991 collection, all side projects, and basically HOURS of unreleased noise including pre-Cripple Bastards blurr-thrash from 1986! A jump back to the late 1980s/early 1990s ultra-DIY noisecore spirit made of tape traders, cult labels like TNT & Records and Psychomania, and ear-damaging bands releasing zillions of tracks on terrific lo-fi demos, not giving a damn about studio productions and “I can’t hear the snare”-type pedant asses. 1,036 SONGS IN TOTAL—YOU ARE WARNED!

USA's Decibel Mag gave it 9/10 and reviewed it as it follows:

The Age Of Vandalism box set compiles the output of Italian grindcore act Cripple Bastards from 1987 to 1993. It spreads 1,036 songs across four lavish digipacks. Can you imagine MP3-tagging that sonofabitch? Luckily, a CD can only hold 99 tracks, so the box set bunches up wads of songs into tracks. Ergo, track titles like "94 song demo, Nov. 1992" and "Side B of 'From 88 to 91' collection tape (281 songs!)"
But this isn't just "You Suffer" for hours. Sure, it's a rush to hear micro-songs fly by. But this collection of filth is surprisingly compelling. Much of it comes from when Cripple Bastards were a two-piece. When teenage delinquents Giulio the Bastard and Alberto the Crippler weren't terrorizing their hometown of Asti with vandalism, they were vomiting their frustrations on tape. Grunts, screams, blast beats, Italian horror movie samples, even a show bootlegged by cassette 'from the back of the audience' - it's a hell of a mudbath.
The liner notes are even better: a booklet for each digipak, plus a big, thick one for the set. They include essays, flyers, historical photos, demo tape artwork and incredibly soulful, thoughtful interviews. Age of Vandalism is really a giant audiovisual zine tat documents the early history of Italian grindcore. Cripple Bastards are a bona fide band now; they construct music, and they do it well. But back then they deconstructed their existence with tape recorders, Xerox machines and even an axe. This box set is their amazing legacy. (Cosmo Lee)

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... ovvero, tutto quello che avreste sempre voluto sapere sui Cripple Bastards e non avete mai osato chiedere. Per la precisione, i primissimi Cripple Bastards. Quattro CD, 1036 “canzoni” (!) e un pregevole libretto che ripercorre quegli anni fetidi e rumorosi di orgogliosa militanza underground con interviste, testi, foto e il tipico stile grafico post-atomico del filone extreme dell’epoca. Un autentico blob di thrash-grind-noisecore che ripercorre la prima produzione della band di Asti, “spalmata” lungo demo e sette pollici condivisi con altri nomi, progetti paralleli, persino delle prove pre-Cripple Bastards risalenti al 1986/’87 e altro ancora… Insomma, un’orgia di estremismo sonoro e attitudinale assemblata con eccellente cura filologica; se avete conosciuto il gruppo italiano solo negli ultimi tempi, qui scoprirete la loro vera estrazione “antimusicale” e superunderground. Per il resto, dice tutto ciò che da dire il retrocopertina del cofanetto: “Un salto indietro alla fine degli anni ‘80/inizio anni ’90, nello spirito noisecore ultra-DIY (do it yourself) fatto di tape-traders, etichette di culto come la TNT & Records e la Psychomania e band devastanti che incidevano bilioni di tracce su demo spaventosamente lo-fi, fregandosene della produzione e dei rompicoglioni del tipo ‘Non sento il rullante’. Tutto ciò voleva suonare merdoso, senza senso e irritante per qualsiasi maledetto ascoltatore, giornalista e appassionato”. Siete avvisati. Per info: www.scareyshop.com