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A Fist in the Face of God Presents... Too Fast to Die!

Thirty-five tracks of face-melting thrash.

Since Deathhammer vocalist Sergeant Salsten moved to Tasmania, his band workload has gone down, understandably, and his time for making mixes has increased. I've posted a lot of compilations on here over the years, and many have surprised with me with their selections, but Daniel Salsten's are something else.

First of all, he draws his own covers, and secondly he usually sends what most people would consider two – maybe even three – mixtape's worth of songs, this one being no exception. I can't praise this one enough, but at over two hours running time it's going separate the die-hards from the dabblers. It also includes a song by a Japanese band from the 80s called "Mein Kampf", which I'll flag here just in case you think we're bringing you some kind of Nazi speed metal. Which we're not; just a song from a band that named itself when all its members were idiot teenagers.

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I'll leave the rest in Salsten's capable hands:

Dylan asked me to do another mix, and I thought this time I'd make one with only violent death and thrash metal. Some of the bands actually lean more towards speed or black metal, but most importantly it's all fast and ripping – no wimpy shit.

TRACKLIST

1. Aggression (CAN) - Blaspheming at the Altar (Demo I / 1985)
2. Savage Death (USA) - Legions of Doom (Mass Genocide / 1985)
3. Slaughter Lord (AUS) - Die by Power (Taste of Blood / 1986)
4. Vellocet (GER) - Assassin on Attack (Captive of Reality / 1986)
5. Vomit (NOR) - Armies of Hell (Rot in Hell / 1987)
6. Terminal Death (USA) - Judge Death (Faces of Death / 1985)
7. Kruiz (RUS) - Poslednij Rassvet (Kruiz-1 / 1987)
8. Invocator (DNK) - Dismal Serfage (Genetic Confusion / 1988)
9. Debustrol (CZE) - Antikrist (Ultra Metal SPLIT / 1990)
10. Mein Kampf (JPN) - Speeder (Speeder / 1985)
11. Disaster (CHL) - Desquiciado (Desquiciado / 2004)
12. Kreator (GER) - After the Attack (Sound Waves 1 / 1988)
13. Bombarder (SRB) - Speed Metal Manijak (Bez Milosti / 1991)
14. Spectral Birth (AUS) - Frog of Fear (Raze / 1990)
15. Witchhammer (NOR) - Curiosity about Death (1487 / 1990)
16. Leviathan (USA) - Destructive Aggressor (Legions of the Undead / 1987)
17. Korrozia Metalla (RUS) - CÎrnyj Terror (Orden Satani / 1988)
18. Backwater (GER) - Rock Hard (Revelation / 1984)
19. Vader - (POL) - The Final Massacre (Necrolust / 1989)
20. Dorsal Atlântica (BRA) - Depress„o Suicida (Antes do Fim / 1986)
21. Second Hell (NLD) - Homicide (Metal Deadness SPLIT / 1986)
22. Devastation (USA) - Apocalyptic Warrior (A Creation of Ripping Death / 1986)
23. Xandril (GER) - Nearly Dead (Perfect Darkness / 1988)
24. Evil Blood (CRO) - Kill with Napalm (The Best of Djinn / Evil Blood -83'-86' / 1986)
25. The Beast (USA) - Pitbull Terror (Demo 86' / 1986)
26. Metal Storm (GER) - Suicide Commando (Outbreak of Evil / 1987)
27. Pyöveli (FIN) - Metal Forces (Feel the Razor / 2003)
28. Voo Doo (POL) - Da Czadu VooDoo (Heavy Metal VooDoo / 1987)
29. Casbah (JPN) - Death Metal (Russian Roulette / 1986)
30. Dismember (SWE) - Substantually Dead (Dismembered / 1988)
31. Atomic Aggressor (CHL) - Bloody Ceremonial (Bloody Ceremonial / 1989)
32. Outrage (GER) - Into the Abyss of Belial (Outrage I / 1985)
33. Mutilator (BRA) - Evil Conspiracy (Grave Desecration / 1986)
34. Sodom (GER) - Live from Hell (Victims of Death / 1984)
35. Acheron (USA) - The Enochian Key (Rites of the Black Mass / 1992)

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I've also been keeping up my monthly radio show on NTS, where I play the finest in forgotten metal for two hours. The shows are chronicled here, for those not in the know.

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