Generic Metal by Steve Hammond
The first in a series of archival recordings I will be slowly releasing, these are my very first recordings from when I was 12-13 years old recorded in 1990-91.
Frustrated that I couldn't play all my favorite Metallica/Nuclear Assault/D.R.I/etc songs immediately, I learned guitar while writing songs and playing and yelling them into my boombox in my bedroom in the rare moments I had the farm to myself. I knew nothing about playing thrash metal so these are pretty avant-garde in a folksy naive way. I must have gotten my Peavey Rage in '91 because some of the songs are way more fuzzed out. I used to hide the tapes in various places around the farm so my folks wouldn't find them. There were a lot of tapes, many had completely different versions of the same songs (for example “Psychopathic Dreamland”). I would name the “albums” various silly names but the very first one was called “Generic Metal” so I used that here. Only a couple of friends ever heard these at the time. Listening the entire way through this collection is an endurance test and a dare.
Tracklist
| 1. | Freak | 5:37 |
| 2. | Infested | 5:08 |
| 3. | Encyclomaniaxe | 6:43 |
| 4. | Destroyer | 3:45 |
| 5. | More Power | 3:14 |
| 6. | The Mosh Song | 1:43 |
| 7. | Continue | 0:44 |
| 8. | Life In General | 3:35 |
| 9. | It Doesn't Matter | 1:13 |
| 10. | Murder 'Em All! | 0:42 |
| 11. | * | 0:37 |
| 12. | Little Piggies | 3:47 |
| 13. | Not Your Normal Person | 3:07 |
| 14. | Incestation | 3:00 |
| 15. | Psychopathic Dreamland (Version 1) | 3:44 |
| 16. | Psychopathic Dreamland (Version 2) | 6:52 |
| 17. | Continue | 0:48 |
