ZYNTHSLAKT

    Earlier this year I was telling a pal about a copy of the Zynthslakt LP listed on Ebay that I was bidding on. "Don't bid on it" I said, "I really want it!" Minutes later thumbing through the last records on the shelf (Zoe….Zounds…ZYNTHSLAKT???), he pulls out the copy of Spray På en Vägg that I already owned. "What's this? Isn't this the record you were just talking about?" I had bought it about a year ago with a handful of other records. Listened to it, filed it away and forgot about it. I was embarrassed, not only did I own it and I forgot about it I was also about to buy it again. That's crazy! How could I forget that I already had a record? Especially one that I wanted so bad. Was it because it is so forgettable? Or that the blank spine and alphabet order guaranteed the LP a spot hidden at the end of my collection? It's definitely not the record I had expected or wanted it to be and was let down. I was desperate to hear more songs sounding like those on the Och Hor Sen split. Songs that do not exist.

    Four years ago I had stumbled upon a Frenchman selling off his mostly Euro hardcore collection. At first I bought what was familiar and then started to buy up the rest. I was sending chunks of my paycheck to him every two months or so. He joked "most of my collection now resides in Winnipeg!". The description for the Zynthslakt/NOS split Och Hor Sen read "HC Suède 1982". It was enough, I bought it.  That last order was mostly a disappointment, Och Hor Sen and a few mediocre LPs (SLAM anyone? ugh).  I didn't expect much, if it was good someone would have bought it, right?
   
   The first song, Es ist Krieg, starts off with a chorus of "Ohhhhhhhhhohhhhohohohs" that are layered throughout creating a strange melody, like some sort of depraved chant. Bleak as a song about war should be. Yet totally a melodic, gritty stomper. Moves straight into Påga and finishes with Är Jag Galen. The drums might as well be buckets and that one guitar solo is so perfectly out of tune (is it even a guitar??).  A perfect melodic mess filtered through swedish hardcore. I want more. Are there demos?? Someone dig them up, please.

Links to vids:
Och Hor Sen

Vem is to Zynthslakt as New Age is to Blitz?
Vem

Spray På en Vägg. I actually like the LP a lot, would definitely have a place on my Top 10 Punk Records with Saxophone list. Es ist Krieg is sped up and redone as Land of War.
LP side 1  side 2