A FIST IN THE FACE OF GOD - FENRIZ PRESENTS... TRAPPED UNDER VICE VOL.I

Back when I started this weekly blog at the beginning of the year, I wanted to interview Darkthrone's Fenriz. The reasons are pretty obvious, but he declined, stating a rigorous interviewing schedule that had just finished. I was a little bummed out but we kept in contact and he would tip me off on so many bands I would never have heard of without his vast knowledge of music. Anyway, I then tried to get him to DJ to no avail. When I heard the Actual Pain mixtape I was naturally lost for words and asked him if there was any possibility he could do one for Vice. No problem, he said. He would love to. And here it is. Intro from the man himself (including all capitals) below.

I started the comp by thinking of some acts that should definitely be on there. Then I mulled it over for a week. I then sat down to structure it, and I had several darlings to kill and new ones to include. I am not making a ONE STYLE comp here, like "occult thrash" or something. I chose numbers mostly from bands that are/were old and rough and soulful-sounding, but thrash is one of the most intense genres so it sort of HAS TO be varied WHEN I MAKE 78+ minutes here! I was thinking of dropping three of the songs to make it more like a hit parade, but one needs some ups and downs in life, ha ha. Better to leave the mix untampered with. So it is sort of a whole labyrinth of songs, a world to get lost in. I also start with two tracks that have a really underground sound so that I will lose all posers that try to listen to the mix.

TRACK LISTING:

01. Necrovore (USA) "Mutilated Death" (1987)
02. Mental Decay (Denmark) "Eat the Posers Guts" (1987)
03. Pentagram (Chile) "Profaner" (1987)
04. Necrodeath (Italy) "Agony/Flag of the Inverted Cross" (1987)
05. Morbid (Sweden) "Wings of Funeral" (1987)
06. Poison (Germany) "Yog-Sothoth" (1987)
07. Devastation (USA) "Devastation" (1987)
08. Merciless (Sweden) "The Awakening" (1989)
09. Minotaur (Germany) "Fall of the Gods" (1988)
10. Mutilated (France) "Funerarium" (1988)
11. Deathhammer (Norway) "Toxic Radiation" (2008)
12. Obliveon (Canada) "Whimsical Uproar" (1987)
13. Obscurity (Sweden) "Demented" (1987)
14. Morbid Saint (USA) "Beyond the Gates of Hell" (1988)
15. Vulcano (Brazil) "Guerreiros de Sata" (2003)
16. Whiplash (USA) "The Burning of Atlanta" (1985)
17. Infernö (Norway) "Thrash Metal Dogs of Hell" (2004)
18. Aura Noir (Norway) "Iron Night/Torment Storm" (2008)

Listen: Trapped Under Vice Vol. I

Thanks again to Fenriz for everything, and also to Peter Beste for allowing me to butcher his fine photography for the cover. If you would like to download the mix please click here.

†ROCKWELL†

Comments

[thrash]

this wasa great idea

[Toby Keith's Uncle]

At first I saw Poison and was like AHHHHHHHH! Then I noticed it wasn't the same Poison.

[realdeal]

clearely he actually put some thought into this, thats legit

[atlien]

the burning of atlanta? what???????

[doggydog]

whatdo you mean, what???????

[mikey]

This is a truckload of awesome.

[ohwell]

i guess im a poser.

[adam]

Thanks Fenriz for another awesome mix.

[TonyFunfetti]

this is awesome. Vice, get Julian Cope to do one of these! thanks for exposing me to these obscurities, Fenriz.. gr8 mix

[Anti-Humanism]

"Obscurities", haha. Any half-awake metalhead knows this stuff like the back of his hand. Bloody hipsters.

http://www.antihumanism.com/2009/04/fenriz-of-darkthrone-issues-statement-to-antihumanismcom/

[SOME PEOPLE EH?]

Hey, anti-humanism, your website is even more hipster directed than viceland. Stop trying to defame Fenriz to make yourselves seem 'uber-cool' and 'credible'. You are prolly a bunch of fat losers who once felt up a girl. Once. Posers. Go write for Platform instead. Your attempts are futile and predictable now FOAD

[Dungeon Shaker]

awesome compilation! poison, inferno etc... all superb bands!

p.s.
subhuman anti-humanism fuck can foad in his bedroom ;D

[Wrath]

That anti-humanism site is run by a fat loser of a troll named Chris Blanc/Prozak. All he does is sit at his computer all day and try to trick people intro reading his utterly lame "articles". Avoid at all costs.