Monday 14 May 2012

John Holmes - El Louso Suavo (1999)


I wrote about John Holmes and posted up their final album a while back here, so I am not going to patter on about this awesome bands legacy and lineage again. All you need to know is that El Louso Suavo is a monster of an album. A ugly, crust influenced monstrosity of hardcore smashing its way through Deadguy and The Jesus Lizard style noise rock with a suitably British sense of nihilism.



This originally came out on Flat Earth Records who have recently put their entire back catalogue up for free download. This is a label that introduced John Holmes, Hard To Swallow, Manfat, Ebola, Sawn Off Drop Dead, Witchknot and tons more to my young ears. They made an impression on my musical education.



2 comments:

  1. Sweet pic, Bro!

    http://loresviscera.blogspot.com/2007/09/john-holmes.html

    My first attempts at Photoshop, etc.

    An underrated gem of an album!

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  2. Ah. I would have credited if I had known man. Just the only JH pic that seems to exist online.
    Its a superb album. My old band played with them a few times. Some of them do a band called Endless Grinning Skulls now. You should check em out Jase.

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