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Nihilist Action

by Vermiform Front

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Electronic Eugenics (Nihilist Action) 00:17
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You’ll Never Get Out Alive (Nihilist Action) 06:15
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Four Guns (Nihilist Action) 04:30
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Killing People (Nihilist Action) 05:12
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Community Management (Nihilist Action) 06:04
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Accidents Happen (Nihilist Action) 06:04
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Sedition Is The Heart Of Democracy (Nihilist Action) 05:05
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Vigilante (Nihilist Action) 04:54
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Consumer Regulations (Nihilist Action) 06:38
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Survivor (Nihilist Action) 04:18
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Power Noise Sadist (Nihilist Action) 10:06
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Bloody Dove (Nihilist Action) 04:23
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Killing People-Early Version (Nihilist Action) 04:18
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Sedition Is The Heart Of Democracy-Early Version (Nihilist Action) 06:39
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Power Noise Sadist-Early Version (Nihilist Action) 07:55
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Vermiform (Nihilist Action) 02:29
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about

“Nihilist Action” was the second – and final - cassette from Vermiform Front, released on the Musicus Phÿcus label (MPCS 962) on April 15 1996.

Vermiform Front was a collaboration between Alan Bloor from Knurl (bass and metal), Steve Markowsky (tapes and metal) and Brian Damage (vocals and metal). The goal was to create the most nihilistic music possible, stripped of all of its usual trappings. In true nihilist form, Vermiform Front took all that was wrong with the world – greed, murder, environmental destruction, corporate corruption – and used it as the subject matter of the songs.

This cassette has a running theme of gun culture. Most of the lyrical ideas came from Steve. Of note are a couple tracks: “Electronic Eugenics” is the sound of Alan plugging his bass into channel four of our four-track recorder. It exploded and caught fire! We decided that if channel four couldn’t handle the rock, then it deserved to burn! In the mid 90’s there was this popular Tshirt that a lot of the industrial kids were wearing (probably a KMFDM shirt) that had some kind of self-describing slogan on the back of it, something like “Techno Industrial Terrorist” or “Typical Rivethead Conformist” on it. Steve wondered what he would use as a self-describing slogan and came up with Vermiform front’s signature song “Power Noise Sadist”.

Vermiform Front released two cassettes, appeared on the “Multipurpose Saws” compilation and performed a handful of shows before disbanding in the summer of 1996 when Alan moved to Toronto and Brian to Ottawa.

All tracks by Vermiform Front, except “Consumer Regulations” based on “Individual Consumption”, by Phÿcus. This tape set the standard of lyrical minimalism that was used for most of the tracks on Phÿcus’ “X” LP.

Side One:
01 Electronic Eugenics (Nihilist Action)
02 You’ll Never Get Out Alive (Nihilist Action)
03 Four Guns (Nihilist Action)
04 Killing People (Nihilist Action)
05 Community Management (Nihilist Action)
06 Accidents Happen (Nihilist Action)

Side Two:
07 Sedition Is The Heart Of Democracy (Nihilist Action)
08 Vigilante (Nihilist Action)
09 Consumer Regulations (Nihilist Action)
10 Survivor (Nihilist Action)
11 Power Noise Sadist (Nihilist Action)

Bonus Tracks:
12 Bloody Dove (Nihilist Action)
Uses music of “Four Guns”
13 Killing People - Early Version (Nihilist Action)
14 Sedition Is The Heart Of Democracy - Early Version (Nihilist Action)
15 Power Noise Sadist - Early Version (Nihilist Action)
16 Vermiform (Nihilist Action) Previously unreleased

credits

released April 15, 1996

Alan Bloor – Bass, Noise
Steve Markowsky – Metal, Power Tools, Tapes
Brian Damage – Vocals, Metal, Moog MG-1

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Phÿcus was a Canadian industrial / experimental band that existed from 1988 to 2000. Phÿcus transformed from the traditional band format into a network that included over 50 contributors in a dozen locales, with Montreal as its centre of operations. Phÿcus' success was minimal, but their output was prodigious. Now in 2020, Phÿcus is back with a new release, "CrowleyWood". ... more

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