Necessary repress of this album from Japan underground minimal/doom legends Corrupted. First pressing sold out in a week back in 2002. Corrupted are almost as mythic and mysterious as fellow Japanese underground heads Les Rallizes Denudes, operating within the parameters of a hardcore/squat/punk/grind scene that their music all but explodes, never allowing themselves to be photographed, never doing interviews, refusing festival bookings, singing only in Spanish, combining crushingly slow metal riffs with almost Satie-esque piano… and this is another instalment in the saga, a remixed and rerecorded version of the Paso Inferior CD that reduces it to two side-long tracks that mix anti-gravity feedback bombs with throat-shredding vocals and some of the heaviest guitar stasis this side of Blue Cheer and The Melvins. Black on black sleeves.

Edition of 500 copies 180g vinyl with tip-on sleeves EP that bundles both of the amazing/rare 1979 singles from this massively crude DIY/free noise/Industrial group coming out of Sydney Australia in the late 70s. Slugfuckers play leery fucked-up lo-fi psych that has a similar relation to rock form as “Zyklon B Zombie” has to The Velvet Underground. The sound is murky and confused, with blats of almost free jazz/Cosey Fanni Tutti style confusion battling with rocking repetitive grooves, insane levels of fuzz and some possessed vocals. The missing link between the first generation of Industrial groups, UK DIY legends like The Scrotum Poles, The Prats, The Desperate Bicycles and contemporary lo-fi psych/drone rock, heard together these two singles make a pretty convincing case for Slugfuckers as the premier Australian weirdo group of the late-70s. Totally fantastic and a real public service reissue. “The Slugfuckers were started in the late 1970s in Sydney, Australia by Terry Blake (vocals),  John Laidler (guitar) and Graham Forsyth (bass) who were all at the time students or recent graduates of the Department of General Philosophy at Sydney University. Craig Wilcox (keyboard), Gordon Renouf (guitar, sax), Austin Laverty (drumkit) joined soon after. They released two extremely rare singles in 1979 which are combined on this 12? and an album in 1981. Bridging the nascence of punk, DIY, and industrial, The Slugfuckers took the true intent of punk and carried it to a logical extreme. With shouted vocals, almost rudimentary playing, volume on ten and many obligatory messy interludes they enthralled, engaged and repelled in equal parts?” Highly recommended!