Genre: Cult Old School Death Grind
This album, that paved the way for the german Deathgrind pioneers, will be unleashed in its ultimate incarnation on the 17th of June 2019, featuring the most vicious and sick oldschool Deathgrind from 1989. 30 years IMPULSE TO DESTROY. No regret!! Animate Records is proud to release this milestone in a noble Digi 3-CD , containing the original recordings, the remastered roughmix of the album (incl. the "recognize yourself" EP) and a massive amount of unreleased rehearsal and live recordings, all partially restored and remastered. The roughmix recordings were lost for 30 years and were re-discovered during this project slowly took shape. And yes, there are also 30 (!!!) previously unreleased bonus rarities from that time. With a total of 86 grind attacks this 30th anniversary edition of the cult album "IMPULSE TO DESTROY" is probably the most complete summary of the entire work of BLOOD in the period from 1988 - 1990. What you get is nothing less than: • 83 songs from the years 1988-1989 • 3-LP with triple gatefold cover, inside printed jacket, red hotfoil stamping, matte lamination, 20-pages full coloured LP-size booklet, poly-lined black inner sleeves • LP version incl. free high resolution woven patch • 8-panel DigiPak with inside printed jacket, red hotfoil stamping, matte lamination and 20-pages full coloured booklet • never before published photos from the "IMPULSE TO DESTROY" photo session • huge collection of old school flyers and interviews • liner notes by Martin "Chicken" Witchskinner, Nocturnal Grave Desecrator and Black Winds (Blasphemy), Blum (original cover artist), Mark Sawickis (Impetigo), Stoffel (Yacøpsæ) and many others • special roughmix cover artwork by Thomas "Necromaniac" Westphal • roughmix and bonus tracks remastered and partially restored by Patrick W. Engel (Temple of Disharmony)
• LP 1 / CD 1: "impulse to destroy" original album
• LP 2 / CD 2 / tape side A: unreleased remastered roughmix including the "recognize yourself" EP songs, (lost for 30 years!!!)
• LP 3 / CD 3 / tape side B: rarities - 30 previously unreleased bonus tracks