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This is their second and I think their best one.
The broken guitar sound, like on their first EP, is gone, but you can still sense it under the surface of the songs.

DANCE WITH THE DEAD is a dark hit, maybe a little too long (approx. 6 min.), but you can’t listen to beautiful, melancholic melodies long enough, can you? Side 2 opens with IN ANOTHER TIME which reaches almost side 1. HUNT THE HUNT is a pogo-smasher just to get you out of the chair to flip this record over again and again and again and again.

To fully understand what I mean:

Dance With The Dead
In Another Time
Hunt The Hunt

This is NOT the crappy independent band with the same name. Shame on you, you filthy &%$”%&//(!!

I remember me and some friends of mine watching a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a Flipside Video Fanzine (…a fanzine for people who don’t even know how to read…..nana..na.nanaaaa….Flipside….). There were quite a lot bands on that, CRUMBSUCKERS, BIG BOYS, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES (the whole stage full of people), AGENT ORANGE (playing guitar while riding a skateboard, no joke!), M.I.A., U.K.SUBS and THE EXPLOITED filmed and interviewed on their 1984 (?) U.S. Tour, whoaahahaha, with Charlie Harper protecting Wattie from the interviewer asking: “Wattie, why are you so bad?” That was worth a laugh! OK, so many cool and uncool bands, but one band blew all our minds!

THE ICONOCLAST

Three young kids rocking out a real blast! That was not the typical US Hardcore style. They played it more british (you know DISCHARGE, don’t you?), but far away from being a clone. We all found that this was a real great band. “Let’s get all their records!” Blablabla. Can you imagine, how horrible it was, that absolutely no-one around us, had anything of The Iconoclast, not to mention nobody even knew them? Unbelievable!

Two years later a small orderlist from an even smaller record-distributor fell into my hands. Mhm….nothing special…..boring……yawn…..THE ICONOCLAST….7″ E.P……whaaaaaaa??? Where did he get that from? Doesn’t matter, we ordered five, got three.
You could listen to one, if you would download its tracks right here:

In These Times
Prisoners of Existence
Battlefields / Things of Beauty

The records arrived some days later. We were nervous. Layed the platter on the turntable. Turning up the volume. Expecting our ears to fell off by that blasting wall of sound soon to come…..and then? Sizzling winds, acoustic guitars (not in fact acoustic, but an undistorted electric one, but what did I know back then?)…..fuck it, man! That’s not THE ICONOCLAST we knew from the video! Turn that thing around. Side 2. Midtempo something we didn’t wanna hear, track 2, ahhh, that’s it. Two songs blending into another with quite exactly the sound we wanted to hear. GREAT!

But read this carefully: The other two songs evolved to the two of the most beautiest ones I knew at that time (long, long ago). And that’s what they still are. They are full of true emotions, felt at the moment these tracks were recorded.

On top of that, The Iconoclast had a political / social aspect I never recognized in that form by any other band from the US before. And they were vegetarians, too.

They were not only in it for the music!

I don’t know if Glenn Danzig ever knew about this one!
This is the BEST sounding version of that tune ever. OK, there is no Mr.Danzig to sing it, but we have Bobby Steele on guitar and voice duet.

B-Side is sucha fuckin’ great Bubble-gummer-punker. You’ll love it!

This is the limited red vinyl german release.

Where Eagles Dare
Ice Cream Man

This is their first. Terminus were (are?) a band from Scunthorpe, UK. I will place some more information about them here soon, but I’m too tired now, really. Their unique sound depended on Mark Richardson’s voice and their fantastic kaputt guitarsound. Unfortunately they’ve lost that sound more and more and after their first full-length Album there was just so little left of it, that for me it was not really Terminus anymore.
Anyway I was in touch with Mark at the end of the 1980s and he was such a nice guy to write with (he’s the one who introduced me to something called “cider”). Sadly we’ve lost contact about 1990.

Just so much for this time: Check these songs out! They are slightly morbide, have catchy melodies and I just love them.
This EP was in a package of records I swapped with a guy from France I do not remember. What I remember is that by hearing it the first time I didn’t like it. It was nothing special. But after listening to it three or four times….check it out for yourself.

Star Born Thing
(Waiting for the) Purge
Kill Mechanism