The tropes of Italian hardcore might not be as widely recognised as its Scandinavian counterparts, but if anything, the discerning characteristics are more potent. Italian may be a beautiful language when crooned by some sleazy dildo on the back of gondola, but when spat by Turin's Nerorgasmo (and indeed, the equally heinious Raw Power, Wretched and Negazione), it's absolutely venomous, and when joined with the sort of basement-dwelling drum fills and cold rock riffs that the Hellhammer generation would downtune to their infernal conclusion, it becomes absolutely evil.A uber-limited boxset discography with eyeball-tickling silver print, a set of dice, a silver-print patch and a badge, this is a real labour of love for FOAD Records, and by far the most balls-out spectacular CD release they've involved themselves in – the lush digipack with the CD (and DVD live set) contains nine unreleased songs, the band's debut EP, remastered from the original tape and sounding far crisper than its weaksauce vinyl release and their 1993 full-length, remastered from the studio DAT.
In an era where black metallers are following Fenriz' lead and embracing the overplayed Discharge beat, they're overlooking the most hateful and misanthropic incarnation of punk, the most black metal scene to pre-date black metal – that of Nerorgasmo and their fellow travellers in the volatile, hateful frenzy of classic Italian hardcore.
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