Band Name: Disaster (2)
Music Album: War Cry
Album Release Date: November 1991
Music Genre: Punk Rock Hardcore
Record Label: Tone Deaf Records
Album Release Country: United Kingdom
Music Record Type: 10 Tracks Vinyl Album 12"
History writer by Russ (the singer)
It was 1989 and a bunch of lads from Halifax, West Yorkshire formed a band. The influence was Discharge as well as the bands coming out of Sweden like Discard, Anti-Cimex, Totalitär etc. In the UK, Doom were doing something similar, but where Doom were basing their sound on the Scandinavian Discharge copies, we were gonna sound just like Discharge.
Our first practice session was arranged and Browny came along with the first incarnation of the song "Devastation"—it certainly sounded like Discharge. Week after week he would arrive wth more classic riffs, and the rest of us would go home and check our records to make sure they were not Discharge songs. Soon we had enough songs to play a short set and we played our first gig at a squat in Leeds. Rumours had got out about us and the venue was full we could barely move. A demo was released and tracks from it were used on a couple of compilation tapes—Mother Earth Is Screaming and Die Freiheit Volume 3.
Tony and a friend living in Leeds had decided to set up a record label (Tone Deaf) and expressed and interest in putting out a Disaster release. We didn't have enough songs to release a full LP, so we decided to do a mini-LP like Discharge's Why?. War Cry was recorded in July 1990 and the sleeve design followed the Why? format. Initial feedback from War Cry was good; reviews in Raising Hell and the US zine Maximum Rocknroll helped spread the word. The rec (...)
| A1 | I.C.I. |
| A2 | Progress |
| A3 | Victim Of ........ |
| A4 | Glorious ? |
| A5 | Devastation |
| B1 | Inferno |
| B2 | Crematorium |
| B3 | Salvation |
| B4 | Farce |
| B5 | Diseased |
Recorded from July 29th, 1990 to August 4th, 1990 @ Fulton Street Studios, Bradford.
Lyrics printed on back cover.
Pressing company uncredited, identified by the runout grooves etchings.
1,000 copies.
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