VICIOUS CIRCLE/PERDITION split LP
Label: Flipside Records
Cat. #: FSR 005
Released: 1985
VICIOUS CIRCLE
1. Epitaph
2. Supplied Demise
3. Coconut Song
4. Distant Cry
5. Dwelling on Thoughts
6. Rights Dub
7. Vicious Circle
8. Personality Crisis
9. Trapped
10. Claws of Death
11. Corporate Death Sceme
LINER NOTES/LYRICS
PERDITION
1. I'm Laughing
2. Just One Mistake
3. Degeneration
4. Progress Where?
5. Big Problems
6. Nothing for You
7. Deserve to Die
8. New Anarchy (dub)
Info:
Vicious Circle gives us Aussie hardcore, fast and heavily distorted with a mean sounding singer and those punk rock lyrics we've all become accustomed to. They start off strong with "Supplied Demise," the "Coconut Song" and "Epitaph" but head for a "Personality Crisis" on the Anti-Pasti sounding "Vicious Circle," then end up being "Trapped" in "The Claws of Death" and disintegrating into "Corporate Death Sceme."
Perdition are fairly fast too, with a English sound that mixes the Subhumans with some Oi-type chants. Their lyrics are a little more personal. The yodeling singer, dinky sounding drums and overall production is not too my liking. Both these distotion-filled bands already have other Australian releases and this record does a reasonably good job as an introduction to their sound.
-Thomas, from Ink Disease #10, 1986