Comments on: CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER- Life in Grave Demo Tape (USA, 1985)

By: elliott

elliott — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:17:57 +0000

wow. what a fuckin fantastic demo. my friend gave me a coppy of the first lp but i can’t remember what happened to the record other than i don’t have it. stolen probably. this demo sounds more metal than punk but who cares. play it loud and play it proud.

By: klon

klon — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:56:49 +0000

I’ve loved Cryptic Slaughter ever since I bought a tape of theirs for 50 cents at a flea market.

By: jimmy tumors

jimmy tumors — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:28:58 +0000

dunno that most who like cryptic slaughter would dig the looters, though we strangely went over well that show. the singer (my brother) and i were from an earlier thrash/noise band called butt acne, shane was just coming off the tail end of his interest in hardcore and his brother jason was a stoner into led zeppelin. the result was a kinda hybrid of hardcore, older 70s punk and flipper-type dirges. shane and jason later became part of the rip offs and cememnted their place in punk history, my brother and i went back to butt acne and another band, plain agony, the he went off and headed fish head, and i went on to our band sucks, the black jax, ollin and the tumors.

By: Erich

Erich — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:41:00 +0000

Never ‘eard of the Looters – care to post some of your band’s material?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:43:00 +0000

Thanks for posting, bro, I love this..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:06:00 +0000

A great one for sure, the drummer probably had bionic arms, crazy anyway.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 05:17:00 +0000

Thanks for posting this!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 06:53:00 +0000

my band, the looters, played with cryptic slaughter at a mason’s lodge in culver city back in ’86. we went on second, right after our singer got arrested trying to sneak a 40 into the hall. the place was crawling with suicidals and fights were breaking out everywhere. we borrowed cs’s amps and managed to get through our set (still got a soundboard of that night around here somewhere), then three or four songs into the next band’s set a full-on riot broke out and the show was shut down. so far as i know, cryptic slaughter never got a chance to play…….

-jimmy tumors

By: Peter - KBDRecords

Peter - KBDRecords — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 06:45:00 +0000

This was the kind of stuff that made me yaaawwwwn.

By: larm

larm — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:06:00 +0000

Life In Grave is CS’s most metal release, Les’ riffs seriously shred, Necessity Supreme being a prime example.

1985 was a great year for demos. I thought it was cool how even Death incorporated a hardcore/crossover influence on their rehearsal tapes during their San Francisco period. I guess all those Attitude Adjustment, Excel, Hirax and Cryptic Saughter gigs must have had an impact on them. Plus they did the extreme speed/blast beats thing then with Eric Brecht from D.R.I. on drums. I think Genocide/Repulsion, Slaughter and Cryptic Slaughter have a lot to do with that.