RFD: Banzai Records

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So I'm impressed with Voivod's War and Pain. It's different from what I expected. Total 4-track hardcore slop with veering-off-the-highway solos and giddy squeals. And I've been down with Destruction's Eternal Devastation for a while. That intro's something like Sonic Youth if they learned their finger exercises or something. So what was this label all about? What else do you like?

― sundar subramanian, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What else do you like?
ELO. But it gives me splitting headaches. So I opt for Jesus Lizard now.

― helenfordsdale, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Didn't they release the first two Metallica records? I remember seeing a bunch of stuff in the metal section of our small town mall record store, and it always made me laugh...the really early VoiVod and stuff by bands like Trouble. I heard bits and pieces or records from that section and it sounded menacing, scary, and funny all at the same time, especially when I looked at that bloody hammer on the cover of Kill Em All.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 17 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

wasn't it music for nations who released kill em all and ride the lightening?

frankly, the original artwork for the first metallica album wasn't any better, but perhaps not quite as silly. it looks like the kind of thing Sum 41 would do now, to be 'ironic'.

― david, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maybe I'm misremembering...or maybe it was a Canadian-only thing. I'm pretty sure I saw the first two Metallica albums before Elektra got their mitts on them, and I was pretty sure that it was Banzai- licensed, but maybe I was just confusing that with all the other Banzai releases in that section. Hm.

― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nope, wasn't misremembering. Sundar, you may have just uncovered something. You notice that only Canadians seem to be replying here? I have a feeling that Banzai may have had an autonomous Canadian branch...or was it totally Canadian? Anyhow, there's a link here that bears out my Metallica on Banzai theory (looks like a licensing deal only, though).

― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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