Thursday, May 28, 2020

WHITE SS - Mercy Killing EP 1978

200 copies were pressed by this only output from White SS and how they came to this atrocious name can only be explained with a lot of alcohol or drugs. Punk is supposed to provoke and with this name it works very well. Musically, three pieces are offered and they range from amateur low-fi sound to snotty scraping, in one word, fantastic! Released by the bands own label and I am sure that no further inquiries have been made about repressing. I want give you a short info (all on punk77 above) about the tracks from the band itself: The tracks were (believe it or not) professionally recorded - but the limiters clipped the volume, which is why they sound so dreadful. The 'live' track was not live at all - it just sounded worse than the others. I remember sticking those dreadful covers on the record sleeves - took a whole weekend - also wrote the lyric sheets. The NME saw through it - they said "as concentration camp guards, this lot would make good poodle breeders." So Ladies & Gentlemen, get your own picture about this rare EP, I’m amused anyway. 


1 comment:

  1. oldschool punk5 March 2021 at 08:19

    Hey man, could you please reupload this one?

    Thanx a bunch!!!

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