Pure Filth

Vinyl LP pressing. Following the success of Warfare's "Noise, Filth & Fury" EP, Neat Records gave the go-ahead to drummer/vocalist Evo and Co. to go back into Impulse Studios to come up with a full-length album. The result was 1984's "Pure Filth," a suitably unsubtle 10-headed monster produced by Tank's Algy Ward. The album unveiled a punk/metal hybrid that spat bullets and oozed class conflict from every pore. There were no ballads, no let-up, and no escape from an anarchic vision of total Armageddon. Bands like Warfare were taking metal in a different direction, and in 1984, when the thrash metal boom was still in its infancy, "Pure Filth" was about as heavy, aggressive, and malevolent as it was possible to be.