ANTI-CIMEX- Raped Ass 7″EP (A-Records, Sweden, 1983)
There are two reasons for me to post the follow-up to «Anarkist Attack» by ANTI-CIMEX. One would be the incredible and intolerable objections articulated by certain commentators against this most wonderful band. Another would be that I feel really crusty at the moment (sweaty, dumb and as empty as the beer bottles in my kitchen).
Peter KBD thinks ANTI-CIMEX lacked originality. I think Peter is wrong. Or let’s put it this way: When hearing the countless “crust bands” that followed, one often forgets who originally came up with it, and at that before it had become a formula (the most despicable style of music and fashion I can think of, made by idiots for idiots, with some of the silliest lyrics I ever read. All this regressive animal loving and anti-humanitarian bullshit with “anti capitalistic” lyrics that seems to be coming from 5 years old growing up on the CRASS farm in the 70s. Bizarre! Degoutant! Nauseating! Whenever I see one of them in the typical uniform, I think to myself, “oh, look there, a Muesli Punk”. Now that I think of this abonimable crust crap, I call for a law. There must be a worldwide anti-crust law, followed by schooling programs and boot camps for crusties!).
Maybe DISCHARGE or DISORDER were even more of a blueprint because their records were widely distributed - but ANTI-CIMEX coined their own variation for sure. “War Machine” makes me think of driving a tank into a crust festival. Brilliant!
The b-side has quite a bit of crusty crackling here. Often repressed after this first version. Mid 80s copies had blank labels, xerox sleeve and were on clear vinyl. 100 of these had porn images on the labels (or was it the cover? Sold mine long ago and only kept the original press).
One last word: Should certain commentators uphold their objections against ANTI-CIMEX, they are kindly invited to drop me a line and arrange a personal meeting in my offices.
When the Innocent die.mp3
War Machine.mp3
Total Silence.mp3
Cries of Pain.mp3
Raped Ass.mp3
PS: One final word: The front cover is so horrible, but the heavy cardboard is nice.
Pär wrote:
This is a bit better than the mediocre Anarkist Attack but still not as good as other swedish bands. I listen to Stockholm Mangel earlier today and all the songs on that album are better than any song on this record, well War Machine maybe up there with Röjers.
Now I think I´ll put on I kräftans klor again.
Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 9:33 am | Permalink
Admin wrote:
Pär, there seems to be a serious problem with your musical taste. I noticed that you had Celtic Frost’s latest garbage pile on your playlist, but thought to myself, well, let’s not panic. He might just be a bit distressed. But now this. Please call my secretary and arrange a personal meeting. Action needs to be taken before it’s too late.
Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 9:54 am | Permalink
TomsyBomsy wrote:
I think that both 7′ are very good indeed… Hell I even think that the scandinavian jawbreaker LP was fucking brilliant. But probably that’s just my silly taste in music…
Muhaha… Müesli Punks… now that’s a very good description.
Crust festivals are something for retards anyway… the last one I attended had one hellufKILLERlineup and all these dorks were doing was standing around with crossed arms throwing an occasional fistbang here and there (ugh!!!).
Yeah… at least with a tank they would finnaly fucking MOVE!!!
Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 10:49 am | Permalink
Peter - KBD Records wrote:
This and Anarkist Attack is two damned great records. The rawness is overwhelming!! With the comments for the Anarkist Attack i wanted to provoke all the worshippers you know . Being from outside Sweden I would’ve tolerated the worship a lot more. Anti Cimex and the whole context they where in with all these crusty studded close minded punks was a pain in the ass back the 80s which made the whole scene totally generic and conformative. Just take a quick look at how diverse and interesting the swedish scene was pre HC.
Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 11:01 am | Permalink
Admin wrote:
“(…) was a pain in the ass (…)” - I guess there comes the title of the 2nd EP from!
Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 11:05 am | Permalink
Peter - KBD Records wrote:
The sleeve design is horrible yeah. But so is almost everything punk that has skulls on. We need to ban skulls and horror artifacts on punk sleeves. Use your tip ex NOW!!
Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 11:12 am | Permalink
Pär wrote:
I once had an insurance at Anti-Cimex that helped me when I gott water damage in my house, perhaps I should like this alot?
Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 11:20 am | Permalink
Admin wrote:
I used to re-design record covers a lot when I was younger. For instance, I blackened all Bolt Thrower CD covers or cut out pictures of holocaust victims (cause I thought that exploitative - and still think so, though ebay taught me to be a bit more tolerant these days …
). Damn, I need to take photos of my altered covers one day - like Judas Priest “Screaming for Vengeance” which I turned into a picture of an eagle coming home from shopping etc. etc.
Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 11:23 am | Permalink
Admin wrote:
Pär: Is Anti-Cimex the name of a swedish insurance company????
Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 11:24 am | Permalink
Diego wrote:
Awesome! Though personally i think Victims of a Bombraid is their best, and fuck Napalm Death for their awful cover.
Admin, I read on KFTH that it’s the name of a pest control company.
Hey now I’m itchin’ to start a band here in DC and call it Terminix.
Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 11:37 am | Permalink
Diego wrote:
well… something like that anyway:
http://www.anticimex.com/
Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 11:43 am | Permalink
Pär wrote:
No, it´s the name of a company that checks for vermins, mould and stuff like that in houses. But they did provide an insurance at them that would limit my costs if I had water damage in my house and of cause I got that. Now that I had the deal with them a new kitchen didn´t cost me a thing.
I still DIS-like this.
Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 11:46 am | Permalink
kev wrote:
how can one man so many great records?? thank you for all the effort. in the past 6 months this has become the only hardcore punk related blog I regularly visit.
Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 11:52 am | Permalink
eddie wrote:
i bet peter feels his raped teens is better than raped ass ep. by the way, i heard RT’s records after their ‘85 ep and i thought it sounded worse than barry manilow!
Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 1:03 pm | Permalink
CRUST POWER wrote:
laws against crust? Müesli Punks? Idiots? I think the idiot is YOU. you’re a elitär asshole. you never supported the scene!
Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 2:00 pm | Permalink
Peter - KBD Records wrote:
eddie i think you need a hugh.
Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 2:02 pm | Permalink
Peter - KBD Records wrote:
HA HA HA “eddie” = anal owl ho ho ho 100% sure.
Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 2:04 pm | Permalink
Steve wrote:
Excellent post! I used to have this and the ‘wictims of a bomb raid” (haha) a long time ago before I foolishly traded them away. Thanks for posting these!
Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 2:42 pm | Permalink
blake wrote:
No Comment! ……….downsided
Posted on 02-Jul-08 at 7:19 pm | Permalink
Pär wrote:
Crust Power, you´re right Erich has glases so he don´t support the scen.
Posted on 03-Jul-08 at 12:34 am | Permalink
chano wrote:
This is slightly better than the first ep , but i still think it’s highly overrated stuff .
Posted on 03-Jul-08 at 1:05 am | Permalink
Sean wrote:
I think Crust Power needs his dreadlocks washed out.
I really like the first ep…this one has the songs, but production is too thin for me. 3rd ep has that amazing production, but songs are so-so.
I don’t think I’ve lasted an entire spin through the 12″.
And to reiterate, FETO is the superior album to Scum. Scum sounds like Larm to me, which isn’t bad, just not “grinding mosh power”.
Posted on 03-Jul-08 at 3:30 am | Permalink
Tony wrote:
I don’t ‘Anarkist’ as much any more and to be honest I am a bit intrigued by all the foreign obsession with it, but whatever. I love the second and third 7″ and the painkiller 12″ -hell I even like the ‘absolute country’ and ’scandianvian’. The point about Anti Cimex is that for this genre of hard core they are second only to Discharge (with Terveet Kadet on third) and no one can change that because that is a objective historical fucking fact!
Posted on 03-Jul-08 at 7:03 am | Permalink
Tony wrote:
(That is supposed to read: “I don’t like ‘Anarkist’”)
Posted on 03-Jul-08 at 7:07 am | Permalink
Senap wrote:
Gött Mos Erich!
Ok, then I’ll throw in some half-wit bullshit trivia again:
Conrad were supposed to be included in a “package-deal” when we recruited his friend Dojan to BMM in ‘82. That didn’t happen so he joied Anti-Cimex instead. And now, with the face-it in our hands, we know that it was a deadly ass-ignment! Ass you all know has 2 out of 4 (OK, 5 with Jonsson) guys who raped (b)ass in the band gone to the seller hunting-grounds (Cutting and Lefty, RIP)
And the Raped Ass EP? Fuckin’ great stuff dude!
Posted on 03-Jul-08 at 9:08 am | Permalink
eddie wrote:
fuck u peter! i don’t who the fuck analowl is so shut your piehole up!
Posted on 03-Jul-08 at 11:50 am | Permalink
Kill ugly pop wrote:
This is hands down the best Swedish record (along with the SKITLICKERS EP and DISARM 1st EP).
Their 1st EP is average but this is punishing!
Posted on 03-Jul-08 at 12:40 pm | Permalink
Jerry B wrote:
Dudes.. nothing wrong with that sleeve, I like it way better then the Anarkist one.
Posted on 03-Jul-08 at 1:16 pm | Permalink
Jerry B wrote:
Now completely offtopic, a heartfelt request to post some Dutch stuff, like Nog Watt Fear for instance.. Big Warning, Big Mistake!
Posted on 03-Jul-08 at 1:20 pm | Permalink
Tony wrote:
The cover is sheer class! Jonsson also did the artwork for the second Disarm EP by the way…
Posted on 03-Jul-08 at 3:19 pm | Permalink
Peter - KBD Records wrote:
no analowl/mike rush i can’t shut up cause i love you so much. oh wait a minute isn’t it you who should keep your greasy fingers off the keyboard. let me think…hmm…yeah i’ve came to the conclusion it’s you who should turn off internet and go back to bed where mom is waiting for you with cookies and milk. hugs and kisses.
Posted on 03-Jul-08 at 3:22 pm | Permalink
Tony wrote:
The more I think of it, I think ‘Warmachine’ is by far the worst Anti Cimex song on here; it is so damn stupid: “Are you ready to die for your land / Lie down with a gun in your hand?” etc. Totally Sweinglish (this was originally in Swedish if I am not entirely retarded and forgot the facts, for some reason I can’t seem to find where the Swedish version - was it on V/a GBG HC Punk?). Also, Warmachine is like the cathciest track on here, in fact you could almost argue taht it is a generic Swedish trall punk song (that’s not a compliment) played by a hard core band. The inclusion of Warmachine on this otherwise brilliant historic record is really a shame because this reworked old song does not really measure up to the brilliance of the other songs: ‘Total Silence’ and ‘Cries of Pain’ are masterpieces (I dare say almost better than any of the Discharge Why? 12″ hits). Masterpieces of minimalism I hasten to add.
Posted on 04-Jul-08 at 2:20 am | Permalink
Admin wrote:
Well, I see it exactly the other way ’round, Tony. War Machine being THE ‘Cimex song. Candidly spoken: I normally only play the a side of “Raped Ass”. And the lyrics: Well, 99.9999% of all Punk (and related) lyrics are moronic, idiotic and ludicrous. At best, they can be entertaining at that.
And I’m sorry to say that in this style, nothing (!) ever came close to the claustrophobic self destruction of “Why”. In fact, “Why” is so brutal that sometimes when I’m in a really “Why”-responsive mood, I almost suffer under its pressure. I tend to believe that DISCHARGE only made “Why” for me and for nobody else in the world. “Hear nothing” comes close to this.
Posted on 04-Jul-08 at 2:45 am | Permalink
Maikoholic wrote:
True! And indeed, Why has a fysical impact of it’s own.
For what it’s worth: i think both Anarkist and Raped Ass suck. Don’t ask me why (why!why!why!) I like Victims and their following albums though.
Posted on 04-Jul-08 at 6:19 am | Permalink
Tony wrote:
Erich, you can change the word “punk” iun the following statement to any genre of music:
“99.9999% of all Punk (and related) lyrics are moronic, idiotic and ludicrous. At best, they can be entertaining at that.”
Your description of Why? 12 (whilst true) reads a bit like how I feel about Amebix…
But actually Warmachine is not too band musically, but the vocal structure (not singing style) reminds of a trall punk song I think, as it does not follow the dictated and required Discharge model…but as it’s said “it’s Anti Cimex so I like it” hahahaha happy weekend
Posted on 04-Jul-08 at 9:32 am | Permalink
eddie wrote:
peter, you’re friggin’ nuts, man! all that hc music has ruptured your brain.
Posted on 04-Jul-08 at 11:05 am | Permalink
justin wrote:
As if anyone’s opinion counts for anything, surely not mine, I appreciated these last two posts and thought they were both worth several listens. Erich that comment about the Why album made all these comments worth while. In talking about the lyrical content that album stands out for it’s less is more attitude. Thanx for the last 300 or so posts.
Posted on 04-Jul-08 at 12:59 pm | Permalink
Admin wrote:
You’re welcome, Justin. And never forget: I’m only the medium (and the medium is hopelessly tedium).
Posted on 04-Jul-08 at 1:56 pm | Permalink
Tony wrote:
“Cries of pain
From the innocent
Cries of pain
From the innocent
Reality
Reality
Cries of pain
From the innocent
Cries of pain
From the innocent
Reality
Reality
Cries of pain
From the innocent
Cries of pain”
So damn good.
Posted on 04-Jul-08 at 5:38 pm | Permalink
Pär wrote:
I really hope that you´ll leave Sweden and the crust now and return to Italy. Or better, more Manowar, the demo you wrote about would be interesting to hear.
And one more thing FETO is way better than Scum!
Posted on 04-Jul-08 at 10:16 pm | Permalink
Tony wrote:
“MANOWAR attempts to break Guinness record
Maria Vassileva of SofiaEcho.com reports that MANOWAR’s July 5 concert on the opening night of Kaliakra Rock Festival 2008 in the Bulgarian “rock capital” of Kavarna lasted 5 hours and 1 minute. It represented the metal band’s attempt to break the world record for the longest heavy metal concert which they themselves set in 2007 at last year’s edition of the festival.
http://www.sofiaecho.com”
HA HA HA! Take that!
Posted on 08-Jul-08 at 1:38 am | Permalink
Admin wrote:
That’s vivisection! Hahahaha
Posted on 08-Jul-08 at 1:48 am | Permalink
Pär wrote:
Manowar rules!!!
Posted on 08-Jul-08 at 6:13 am | Permalink
Thomas wrote:
‘When the innocent die’ is 2 me the totally outstanding track, I especially always like the solo part of the guitar.
Unfortunately I traded my copy away in the good ol’ days, so thanks a lot 2 Erich for making it possible to listen to such a skullcracker without spending millions of $$$$ or €€€€!
Thomas
P.S.: Btw, there was a Punk band called ‘Die Mueslis’, from the Bremen area and they even did a demo around 1985.
Posted on 09-Jul-08 at 10:41 am | Permalink
bobovdeath wrote:
the way you feel about crusties is the way i feel about 95% of skinheads and stupid fashion “street punks”….
i happen to like anti-capitalist kill cops type of people.
but hippies…yuck.
you have a great site,thanx for all the great music.
Posted on 22-Aug-08 at 9:38 am | Permalink