Shock

Kino I: Birthdeath comprises the remastered first 12" EP, available in its entirety for the first time since 1987, plus six previously unreleased, unheard and undreamed of tracks by Skullflower.

Tracklisting:
1. Anaphora
2. Like A Disease
3. Slaves I
4. Shit Strasse
5. Marilyn Burns
6. Birthdeath
7. Grub Song
8. Timebomb
9. Blood Harvest
10. Language + Trance

The remastered first album Kino II: Form Destroyer by Skullflower - the best it's ever sounded, two 'bonus' tracks from Shock's long out of print RUINS and two previously unheard pieces. A truly monstrous disc of heavy, fucked up music.

Tracklisting:
1. Serve No Master
2. Serve No Purpose
3. Eat The Stars
4. Black Ass Bone
5. Elephant's Graveyard
6. Big Muff
7. Thirsty Animal
8. Woodland Death March
9. Solar Anus
10. Procession Of Eternity

The most requested early Skullflower release, the original CD rendered unplayable by disc rot for 20 years and the subject of endless drivelsome internet speculation... Finally remastered, with new cover art from Matthew's archive.

Tracklisting:
1. Slaves
2. Sunset
3. Xaman
4. What Did You Expect?
5. The Shit Hits The Fan
6. Barbed Wire Animal
7. Wave

“It's flashback time at Shock! Everybody loves the '80s now innit, and everybody positively adores old tapes of bedroom noodling... So, always keen to exploit the latest trends, Shock has rummaged through the archives to come up with EATEN AWAY BY SHADOWS, over 79 minutes ('value' for money!) of SJ archive stuff recorded between '82 - '83, before editing Shock Xpress, playing in Whitehouse, Skullflower etc…

This was recorded mostly in Bristol, some in London while living in a squat up the road from M Bower. (Mr P Best was crashing on my floor around then. Hilarious times were had by all.) It moves from 'guitar rock' to metal-banging, drone and industrial & ends with some major guitar 'deconstruction' and a positively uplifting organ/feedback orgy…Most of it doesn't sound too obviously like anyone else, so as far as influences go the dedicated can ponder what I'd been listening to (other than the Satanic voices in my head) at any given point. Suggestions on a postcard please.

Many cheap instruments were abused in making this music. Guitars and mics were dropped, hit, beaten with pieces of metal and occasionally with an axe, and pretty much all of it (including a good old Dr Rhythm) went through some sort of distortion and a dysfunctional tape echo unit. Various glitches and tape oddities may be discerned at various points, all part of the music's many charms…

Tracks are ordered as they appear on the cassettes, the titles (some a tad uninspired or stemming from idiotic 'private' jokes, sorry) are off the inlays. One piece was previously heard on a Fusetron 7", another appeared as the Hydra track on the Melt/Dissolve compilation, and one was chopped up & used on Band of Pain's Reculver CD. All are presented here in vastly superior sound quality.

The album's mastered by Andrew Liles so it sounds amazingly good (given the limitations of the source material…), and we don't want to hear any moaning about the fact it's in a jewel case not a repulsive digipak! “ – Stefan

Tracklisting:
1. Sleep 
2. Two Note Bass 
3. M.O.R. 
4. Untitled 
5. Torn Apart 
6. Second Orgasm 
7. Winter 
8. Thrown Into Convulsions 
9. Guitars I 
10. Guitars II 
11. Organ & Guitar

"Bilharzia is 15 minutes of electronic nausea, adding layers of bleeping LFO nastiness to a relentlessly repetitive base. You should know you'll get what's coming to you with a song called Make a Joyful Sound, and I don't feel it disappoints.
Pounding brutality you could bury your dad to, and a bad time guaranteed to be had by all. There is a kind of tune in there somewhere though, lurking dimly in the background...” – Stefan Jaworzyn

Tracklisting:
1. Bilharzia
2. Make a Joyful Sound

Exceptional 23 min assault from '88 - incredible line-up of Rudolph Grey, Beaver Harris (his last Blue Humans performance) and Jim Sauter.