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Acme (from Bremen, Germany) were among the most influential Hardcore bands of the 1990's. Edison released their album "to reduce the choir to one soloist" in 1996, but the recordings date back to 1993/1994, these nine tracks comprise the entirety of Acme's recorded career (one 7", three compilation tracks, one demo). Presumably the band take their musical cues from early 90's Hardcore bands such as Born Against and 'Protestant'-era Rorschach, but this is occluded so thoroughly by a dense (funeral) fog of extreme metal, sludge and grind that their original Hardcore influences are difficult to pinpoint. The result is one...

It all started in 1975 - Ozzy joined a band in Welwyn Garden City named 'Bullfrog'. At the time Ozzy was a big fan of the stooges, Lou Reed, New York Dolls, MC5 etc etc. During the next few months Ozzy developed his sound within this band but the other members were after a more traditional (Bad Company, Lynyrd Skynyrd) type of sound. At this time the Punk scene was starting to emerge in London and Ozzy felt a kinship with the music that was being produced and so in 1976 he left 'Bullfrog' and with a bass player (Pete...