Coloured vinyl reissue of the landmark debut album from Hellbastard, originally released in 1988. The band that allegedly created the crust-punk genre which spawned a million bands worldwide!

The genre name “crust” was coined by Hellbastard with their demo release Ripper Crust. That demo also became the “archetype” for how crust punk/hardcore would sound like in due time. Although AMEBIX are said to have pioneered the sound of crust punk, they never coined the term or gave their style a name (it was just known as anarcho-punk back in their time).

Long out of print, but highly desirable, this release was followed by 1990s Natural Order album, a damn good effort, but the bands move to a slicker Thrash Metal style disconcerted those who loved their debut.

Too Metal for punk and too punk for Metal… Includes six bonus tracks not featured on the original release! For fans of Amebix, Antisect, Discharge, Sacrilege and Slayer.

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