Description
Tracklist:
: Strength Of Metal In Motion
1-1: Last Rites
1-2: Shockwork / Workshock
1-3: Prokofiev’s Dream
1-4: Drum And Body
1-5: Death Of God
1-6: Dawn Of Humanity
1-7: Blood And Sweat (Stakhanovite)
1-8: WWBC
1-9: Kindergarten
1-10: Interlude
1-11: Disneyland
1-12: Feeling It All
1-13: On Pain
: Ecstasy Under Duress
2-1: Hunger
2-2: Compulsion
2-3: In Uniform
2-4: Slow Hunger
2-5: Spring Into Action
2-6: Gdask
2-7: Shockwork
2-8: Efficiency
2-9: Beating Retreat
: John Peel Sessions And Studio Recordings
3-1: Blood And Sweat
3-2: Shockwork
3-3: Gdask
3-4: Efficiency
3-5: Shockwork
3-6: State Of Affairs
3-7: Hunger
3-8: Operation Prayer Power
3-9: Massive Kamikaze Attack
3-10: Shockwork
3-11: Gdask
3-12: Gdask Dub
: Atonal And Hamburg
4-1: The Fall From Light
4-2: Total State Machine
4-3: Shockwork
4-4: Gdask
4-5: Kick To Kill
4-6: Fist
4-7: 51st State Of America
4-8: Corridor Of Cells
“Strength Of Metal in Motion”
Recorded Live
1-5: Albany Empire (Deptford) 25-08-82
6: Arch 69 (Waterloo) 14-05-83
7-8 + 12-13: Temperance Hall (Newbury) 24-04-82
9-11: Acklam Hall (Notting Hill) 23-07-82
“Ecstasy Under Duress”
Recored at:
1: Britannia Row Studios (London)
2+7: Heaven (London) 11-12-83
3+5: Porterhouse (Retford) 10-12-83
4: Henry Wood Hall (Glasgow) 23-12-83
6: The Batcave (London) 01-08-82
8-9: Arch 69 (Waterloo) 14-05-83
“John Peel Sessions & Studio Recordings”
1-3: Goldsmiths Demos 18-03-82 – recorded at Goldsmiths College Refectory, New Cross.
4: Touch Meridians 1 Version 1983 – recorded at Cold Storage Studios, Brixton. Origionally appeared on “Touch [r=168600]”.
5-7: John Peel Session 15-08-83 – recorded at BBC’s Maida Vale Studio 4.
8+9: John Peel Session 04-02-85 – recorded at unknown studio; producer & engineer unknown.
10: Trident Studios Version – recorded at Trident Studio. Originally appeared on “[m=472404]”.
11+12: Red Herrings Version 1984 – recorded at Ealing Studios, West London, for Red Herrings; producer & engineer unknown.
“Atonal & Hamburg”
1-4: Recorded at Atonal Festival (Berlin) 17-02-85.
5-8: Recorded at Markthalle (Hamburg) 27-10-85.
Compiled 2025.
Restoration and mastering at Kontrast Mastering.
Housed in a 10-panel ecopak with 24 page booklet featuring a specially commissioned essay by Test Dept expert Alexei Monroe, as well as period photographs. Copies ordered at Lexer Music are signed by Gray Cunnington and Paul Jamrozy, exclusive to Lexer Music.
