Relapse Records is the home to some of the heaviest of the heavy when it comes to the world of modern Metal music and the label is currently celebrating their 25th anniversary since being founded by Matthew F. Jacobson in 1990. The world of Extreme music would be treated well and bands such as Suffocation, Nile, Dying Fetus, Obituary and scores more would put out some of their most pivotal works while under this banner. Now onto the fun part. In honor of this bone smashing anniversary, Relapse Records has set up a special download for its supporters that features 184 tunes from across their entire label history. If you are a fan of Death Metal, Thrash Metal, Grind and things that go sludge in the night you are going to want to read further on down this post to learn how to get it. I suggest that you get a fresh cup of coffee, tea or hot chocolate before digging into this list since its going to take a little while to get through it and you might want to pause for the occasional “Wow” as you see what is being put up in this download.
1. Mastodon – March Of The Fire Ants 04:25
2. Neurosis – Locust Star 05:48ou
3. Red Fang – Blood Like Cream 03:33
4. Baroness – Take My Bones Away 04:59
5. Torche – Loose Men 02:28
6. Nothing – Bent Nail 02:57
7. Death – Lack of Comprehension (Remaster) 03:43
8. Dying Fetus – Praise The Lord (Opium Of The Masses) 05:31
9. Nile – Sacrifice Unto Sebek 03:02
10. Exhumed – Open The Abscess 03:34
11. Obituary – Violence 02:06
12. Obscura – Vortex Omnivium 04:13
13. The Dillinger Escape Plan – 43% Burnt 04:31
14. Pig Destroyer – The Diplomat 02:56
15. Nasum – Doombringer 01:57
16. Repulsion – Acid Bath 01:30
17. High On Fire – Devilution 04:46
18. Lord Dying – A Wound Outside Of Time 03:11
19. Pentagram – Be Forewarned 03:59
20. Windhand – Woodbine 09:22
21. Royal Thunder – Forget You 05:20
22. Christian Mistress – Pentagram and Crucifix 03:49
23. ASG – Day’s Work 04:20
24. Toxic Holocaust – Awaken The Serpent 01:38
25. Iron Reagan – Miserable Failure 02:15
26. Amorphis – Better Unborn 05:52
27. Suffocation – Infecting The Crypts 04:38
28. Necrophagist – Only Ash Remains 04:11
29. Incantation – Golgotha 03:29
30. Origin – Algorithm 03:31
31. Skinless – The Optimist 05:42
32. Abysmal Dawn – In Service Of Time 04:48
33. Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Moral Distortion 02:00
34. Cephalic Carnage – Dying Will Be The Death Of Me 04:41
35. Today Is The Day – The Man Who Loves To Hurt Himself 04:06
36. Godflesh – Messiah 06:29
37. Genghis Tron – Things Don’t Look Good 03:35
38. Black Tusk – Bring Me Darkness 03:05
39. Bongzilla – Greenthumb 04:07
40. Cough – Crippled Wizard 06:49
41. Rwake – It Was Beautiful 11:44
42. Indian – Rhetoric Of No 06:18
43. Inter Arma – Destroyer 10:13
44. Unearthly Trance – Unveiled 07:03
45. Kingdom Of Sorrow – God’s Laws In The Devil’s Land 03:56
46. Minsk – White Wings 05:34
47. Primitive Man – Loathe 11:02
48. Nux Vomica – Reeling 11:52
49. Atriarch – Allfather 06:22
50. Mindrot – Burden 09:02
51. Morgion – Canticle 06:42
52. Alabama Thunderpussy – Motor Ready 04:21
53. 16 – Throw In The Towel 03:20
54. Harvey Milk – I Do Not Know How To Live My Life 06:09
55. Jucifer – L’autrichienne 05:00
56. Usnea – Random Cosmic Violence 14:43
57. Bloodiest – Pastures 04:28
58. Serpentine Path – Disfigured Collosus 05:58
59. Bedemon – Child Of Darkness 04:12
60. Howl – Jezebel 04:25
61. Anatomy Of Habit – Radiate and Recede 20:11
62. Culted – Illuminati 06:42
63. Nebula – Let It Burn 04:52
64. Mose Giganticus – The Great Deceiver 04:06
65. Birds Of Prey – Buttfucked With A Shotgun Barrel 03:39
66. Facedowninshit – NPON 04:19
67. Dukatalon – ZX 06:23
68. Hail!Hornet – Disperse The Curse 04:22
69. Rabbits – Burn, Sun, Burn 04:40
70. Zombi – Digitalis 04:39
71. Terminal Sound System – Ghost 07:32
72. True Widow – Creeper 05:50
73. Don Caballero – Railroad Cancellation 05:16
74. Broughton’s Rules – Reversers 03:50
75. Horseback – Invokation 06:44
76. Locrian – Eternal Return 02:51
77. Wolvserpent – Within The Light Of Fire 16:24
78. Titan – Wooded Altar Beyond The Wanderer 08:00
79. Publicist UK – I Wish You’d Never Gone To School 04:24
80. Dysrythmia – My Relationship 02:29
81. Brian Posehn – Metal By Numbers 04:18
82. The High Confessions – Chlorine and Crystal 09:35
83. Merzbow – Woodpecker No. 1 06:43
84. Chris Connelly – Compatibility 05:24
85. Circle Of Animals – Invisible War 05:12
86. Halo – Buried In Light 04:37
87. Subarachnoid Space – Square Wheels 09:12
88. Vverevolf Grehv – Year Zero 04:08
89. Myrkur – Nattens Barn 05:55
90. Tombs – Edge Of Darkness 05:28
91. Cryptic Slaughter – Money Talks 03:41
92. Black Anvil – Margin For Terror 03:52
93. Morbid Saint – Assassin 07:05
94. Num Skull – Ritually Abused 04:27
95. Dekapitator – Deathstrike Command 04:19
96. Rumpelstiltskin Grinder – Nothing Defeats The Skull 04:13
97. Weapon – Vanguard of the Morning Star 04:19
98. Adrenalin OD – Office Buildings 01:12
99. Parasytic – Feast Of Fools 02:24
100. Control Denied – Expect The Unexpected 07:16
101. Voivod – God Phones 05:07
102. Warpig – Flaggit 03:09
103. Deceased – Fading Survival 02:59
104. Disembowelment – The Tree of Life and Death 10:25
105. Inverloch – The Menin Road 06:21
106. Coffins – Here Comes Perdition 06:41
107. Hooded Menace – Effigies of Evil 05:35
108. Death Breath – Death Breath 02:55
109. Gruesome – Closed Casket (Demo) 03:49
110. Revocation – Dismantle the Dictator 03:57
111. Spawn of Possession – Where Angels Go, Demons Follow 05:38
112. Pan Thy Monium – The Battle of Geeheeb 11:55
113. Devourment – 50 Ton War Machine 04:16
114. Misery Index – The Carrion Call 03:46
115. Mortician – Chainsaw Dismemberment 02:39
116. Ulcerate – Confronting Entropy 06:30
117. Obliteration – Goat Skull Crown 04:40
118. Pyrrhon – Sleeper Agent 04:04
119. Convulse – World Without God 05:00
120. God Macabre – Spawn of Flesh 04:27
121. Daylight Dies – Unending Waves 07:05
122. Haemorrhage – Flesh Devouring Pandemia 01:48
123. Mortals – View from a Tower 06:49
124. Morta Skuld – …Of Evil 04:06
125. Nirvana 2002 – Zombiefication 02:37
126. Inevitable End – Embracing the Origin 04:28
127. Man Must Die – Kill it, Skin it, Wear it 04:18
128. Coldworker – The Interloper 02:38
129. Alchemist – Tongues & Knives 05:15
130. Graves of Valor – Bridles of Incitatus 03:25
131. Dead World – Lies 06:07
132. Brutal Truth – Dementia 02:04
133. Human Remains – Weeding Out The Thorns 02:37
134. Soilent Green – It Was Just An Accident 04:12
135. Rotten Sound – Self 01:23
136. Exit-13 – Ethos Musick 01:44
137. Phobia – Degrading Humanity 04:26
138. Weekend Nachos – Watch You Suffer 03:25
139. Cretin – It 02:13
140. Fuck The Facts – Drift 03:55
141. Fall Of The Void – Ageless 03:27
142. Regurgitate – Abducens Eminence 00:57
143. Cripple Bastards – Malato Terminale 02:44
144. Blockheads – Pro-Lifers 02:13
145. Columns – Punching Nancy Grace 01:45
146. Gadget – Requiem 01:12
147. General Surgery – Slithering Maceration Of Ulcerous Facial Tissue 01:11
148. Kill the Client – As Roaches 01:20
149. The Drip – Rise To Failure 02:13
150. Noisear – Global Warning 01:01
151. Liberteer – Build No System 01:34
152. Looking For An Answer – Campo De Exterminio 02:24
153. Mumakil – Without Grief 01:21
154. Murder Construct – Red All Over 02:02
155. Primate – Drinking And Driving 02:54
156. Abscess – Aching Meat 04:44
157. Agenda of Swine – Decimation Through World Trade 01:32
158. Anal Cunt – Some Songs 01:07
159. Antigama – Disconnected 01:14
160. Mammoth Grinder – Total Extinction 03:20
161. Criminal Element – Crime & Punishment 02:39
162. Benumb – Struggle On 01:19
163. Blood Duster – Porn Store Stiffie 01:33
164. County Medical Examiners – Necrotic Apologues 04:15
165. Flesh Parade – Backstabber 01:14
166. Leng T’Che – 1800 Apathy 03:08
167. Hemdale – Pus Filled Carcass 02:46
168. Coalesce – The Plot Against My Love 02:58
169. Burnt By The Sun – Dracula With Glasses 01:46
170. Burst – Cripple God 06:42
171. Disrupt – A Life’s A Life 02:07
172. Disfear – Get it Off 03:17
173. Ringworm – Hammer Of The Witch 03:22
174. Unsane – Committed 02:41
175. Zeke – Long Train Runnin’ 01:39
176. Genocide Superstars – Hatestomp 03:08
177. Coliseum – Defeater 02:01
178. Buried Inside – Time As Ideology 03:14
179. The End – Throwing Stones 03:29
180. Ultramantis Black – Biomonster DNA 01:12
181. Unkind – Laumasielut 03:35
182. Car Bomb – M^6 02:15
183. Uphill Battle – Ripped Off Face 03:29
184. Hero Destroyed – That’s An Axe 03:27
Congratulations, you have successfully scrolled through this entire massive track listing and I am so glad that you did because I painstakingly typed that whole thing out for your consumption. Oh alright, I copied and pasted it all but there was a lot of formatting to make it nice. Now its your turn to get this release from Relapse Records via http://relapsesampler.bandcamp.com/album/relapse-records-25-years-of-contamination
As you can see, the album is technically NOT free but is using a “pay what you want” sort of process and since there are 184 songs, clocking in at what I am reading to be some thirteen hours, I think contributing no less than $5 bucks is more than fair. My thinking is like this, $5 bucks will not set you back all that much and its a nice little tip of the hat to the label for doing this. Plus look at the mathematics for this purchase: $5/184 = $.0275 per song and that is more than a normal discount if you ask me. What do you readers think? Will you be downloading this group of songs or just doing a select few of them? Let me know in the comments. See you next time.
Official Website: http://www.relapse.com