"This work brings together the histories and discographies of almost 140 British punk rock bands of the 80s, who only released EPs and demos as a selection criterion or only appeared on compilation LPs, so they never released a full album. So this is about the underground of the underground. In this comprehensive book there are portraits of The Mad Are Sane, Act of Defiance, Solvent Abuse, Assassins of Hope, Dead Rose, Brigandage, Mania, Asylum, Chaos, Seventh Plague, Nox Mortis, Devoid, Revulsion, Carnage, Organized Chaos, Disarm, Corpse, Death Sentence, Mass of Black, On Parole, Anorexia, Indian Dream, Ethnic Minority, The Syphletix, Post Mortem, The Accursed, Leukaemia, Criminal Damage, Faction, The Dismembered, Hostile Youth, Life Cycle, Potential Threat, No Defences, Passion Killers, X-Cretas, Pseudo Sadists, Impact, Scorched Earth, Outrage, Sanctuary, Vex, Karma Sutra, Disattack, Political Reform und Vortex. Ian Glaspers has already written three books about British punk of the 80s, with this comprehensive compendium the gap between the three previous works is now to be closed, so that the 80s of UK punk are now comprehensively documented. Like his previous works, this work is well researched and prepared, the only thing is that it is a bit tedious to read through hundreds of pages of bands from which you have never heard anything before and after. Therefore, this should rather be just a reference book for KBD specialists." 686 pages, Earth Island Books.
Christian / Trust Fanzine (Germany)
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