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Today's artists are an English gothic rock band, formed in London, England in 1982. The current lineup of the band consists of Nik Fiend and Mrs. Fiend. The band became known in the gothic scene for its dark, electronic industrial-leaning sound, heavy samples, loops, dub remixes and manic vocals. Five of the group's albums and 12 of their singles reached top 20 positions in the UK charts in the period up to 1987.. ......N'Joy
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One of the earliest groups to be labeled goth rock, Alien Sex Fiend are among the genre's most theatrical acts. They're also one of its most humorous, preferring a campy B-movie aesthetic to the dourness or morbidity of many of their peers. Heavily influenced by the Cramps, Alice Cooper, glam rock, punk, and psychedelia, the group's performances are ghoulish spectacles, and their boundlessly creative music combines heavy electronic beats and noisy guitars with warped, dubby effects and samples. Alternately referred to as goth, deathrock, post-punk, or industrial, ASF are ultimately a category unto themselves. The group was highly prolific throughout the '80s, releasing fan-favorite full-lengths such as Acid Bath (1984) and "It" the Album (1986), in addition to numerous remix-filled singles and EPs, showcasing the group's penchant for experimentation. ASF incorporated several electronic dance music styles into their sound before other goth and industrial acts did; the 1989 single "Haunted House" lived up to its name, while the group embraced techno and trance on '90s releases such as Inferno (The Odyssey Continues) (1994). In the 21st century, albums such as Information Overload (2004) and Possessed (2018) have even worked in traces of dancehall and drum'n'bass.
Alien Sex Fiend's origins lie in the Batcave, an influential London club acknowledged as the birthplace of goth culture. Nick Wade, who worked at the Batcave, dubbed himself Nik Fiend and founded the band in 1982, along with his wife Christine Wade (aka Mrs. Fiend), who played synth, as well as guitarist Yaxi Highrizer (born David James) and drummer Johnny "Ha Ha" Freshwater. Prior to forming ASF, Wade had previously been a member of the punk band Demon Preacher as well as Alice Cooper-inspired groups the Earwigs and Mr. & Mrs. Demeanour.
Following some obscure early cassettes, Alien Sex Fiend made their proper debut with the 1983 single "Ignore the Machine," a favorite among goth club denizens; this preceded the full-length Who's Been Sleeping in My Brain? A series of indie chart hits followed in 1984, including "R.I.P.," "Dead and Buried," and "E.S.T. (Trip to the Moon)" (the world's first 11" single). The success of the album Acid Bath further increased the group's visibility, and Alien Sex Fiend became major stars in Japan, resulting in the 1985 live release Liquid Head in Tokyo.
Following the departure of Johnny Ha Ha, the group continued as a trio to record 1985's bleak Maximum Security. After the following year's "It" the Album, released to coincide with Alien Sex Fiend's opening slot on Alice Cooper's Nightmare Returns tour, they recorded 1987's Here Cum Germs, the final offer to feature Yaxi Highrizer. Now essentially a duo, the Fiends explored more synth- and sample-oriented territory on 1988's Another Planet, a trend continued on 1990's Curse, which featured the minor hit "Now I'm Feeling Zombified."
With a revitalized lineup including new guitarist Rat Fink Jr. and keyboardist Doc Milton, Alien Sex Fiend resurfaced in 1992 with Open Head Surgery. After a 1993 live album, Altered States of America, ASF (back to being the duo of Nik and Mrs. Fiend) composed the music for the CD-ROM game Inferno. Released as Inferno (The Odyssey Continues), the album was a venture into instrumental electronic music. With the release of the compilation The Singles 1983-1995, the band's affiliation with longtime label Anagram ended, and the Fiends soon established their own 13th Moon Records imprint. The trance-influenced 1996 EP Evolution found Alien Sex Fiend traveling even further away from their goth beginnings into the realm of electronica, a move continued on 1997's Nocturnal Emissions.
Following numerous compilations and live releases, including the 1999 retrospective Fiend at the Controls, Vols. 1-2, ASF returned with 2004's Information Overload, an adventurous update of the group's sound. Para-Abnormal, a CD of remixes and rarities, followed in 2006. The group's next full-length was delayed due to deaths in the family and other personal issues, but ASF re-emerged with Death Trip in 2010. In 2015, Cherry Red released Classic Albums and BBC Sessions Collection, the first of two comprehensive box sets of the band's early material. These were followed by the generous triple-CD package Fiendology in 2017. Possessed, Alien Sex Fiend's first studio album in eight years, appeared in 2018.
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The is the CD version of the self-produced "Maximum Security" LP plus four bonus tracks.
This Alien album is a dark and oppressive. It's a further exploration of the electronic realms opened up by Acid Bath. This time around the deathrock angle to the band's sound fades away as the album is increasingly less interested in guitar and more interested in esoteric electronic pulsations that end up outstaying their welcome before too long.At times the Cramps aren't far away
Alien Sex Fiend - The First Compact Disc (flac 393mb)
01 I'm Doing Time In A Maximum Security Twilight Home 6:00
02 Mine's Full Of Maggots 5:45
03 Do You Sleep? 4:04
04 In And Out Of My Mind 4:48
05 Spies 4:45
06 Fly In The Ointment 3:46
07 Seconds To Nowhere 2:38
08 The Beaver Destroys Forests 1:28
09 Do You Sleep?? (Not Of One Mind) 3:58
10 Depravity Lane 5:38
bonus
11 E.S.T. (Trip To The Moon) 4:30
12 Boneshaker Baby 3:31
13 Ignore The Machine (Electrode Mix) 5:08
14 Attack!!! 8:29
Alien Sex Fiend - The First Compact D (ogg 144mb)
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Tightening up the electronic experiments of the previous album and blasting off into uncharted territory, Alien Sex Fiend's It: the Album is a deathrock-tinged electro-dance-goth maelstrom. There's nothing wrong with noise, particularly ugly noise, but greater successes were being enjoyed elsewhere at the time and what remains of the band's punkish roots often gets in the way of proceedings - plus almost all the tracks outstay their welcome, with the exception of the Sisters of Mercy-baiting Smells Like.
Alien Sex Fiend - It The Album (flac 470mb)
01 Smells Like... 5:47
02 Manic Depression 13:04
03 Believe It Or Not 4:48
04 April Showers / Wop-Bop 9:12
05 Get Into It 3:42
06 Lesson One 3:37
07 Do It Right 5:05
08 To Be Continued... 00:42
bonus
09 Buggin' Me 3:39
10 I Walk The Line 4:50
11 Here She Comes 3:49
12 Can't Stop Smoking 5:04
13 In God We Trust (Live At The BBC) 4:21
14 E.S.T. (Trip To The Moon) (Live At The BBC) 5:51
Alien Sex Fiend - It The Album (ogg 171mb)
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Here Cum Germs finds Alien Sex Fiend drifting even further from their death rock origins, and those coming in expecting something like Who's Been Sleeping In My Brain? are going to be bitterly disappointed. With soundscapes regularly approaching the industrial, although with a bit more punk swagger and Fiendish humour, it is an interesting listen, though it at points feels more like transitional sketches than a fully developed album. Distorted sound collages over dance beats. Lyrics mostly rather minimal. Sounds a little like what would happen if the Stooges got together with PiL, ran into Syd Barrett and irritated him until he started emitting strange noises. Alien Sex Fiend's cartoonish electro goth has its moments; charmingly simplistic and amateurish, ASF sounds at times like Skinny Puppy's goofy little brother. On Here Cum Germs, most of the ideas are unfocused and undeveloped; the songs usually consist of primitive drum loops, samples, some stray guitars, found-sound atmospherics, and Nik Fiend's silly rants and chants. Still, it's good antisocial music to annoy your parents or neighbors with.
Alien Sex Fiend - Here Cum Germs (flac 361mb)
01 The Impossible Mission 4:24
02 Here Cum Germs (Ravi-Mix #9) 3:30
03 Here Cum Germs (Vocal) 2:56
04 Isolation 7:07
05 My Brain Is In The Cupboard Above The Kitchen Sink 3:35
06 You Are Soul 5:58
07 Death 5:38
08 Boots On! 11:51
09 Camel, Camel 2:58
10 They All Call Me Crazee 5:32
11 Stuff The Turkey 3:55
Alien Sex Fiend - Here Cum Germs (ogg 147mb)
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Alien Sex Field were always one of the more "out there" goth acts, taking the whole walking-corpse thing to a ridiculous extreme. The music is just as much performance art as music. "I Walk the Line" isn't the Johnny Cash song, but a swaggering punkish goth rock track. "School's Out" is a brash Alice Cooper cover. "Here She Comes" is a demented rock track, sort of like The Cramps. "Can't Stop Smoking" channels the Cramps again, a knuckleheaded Addams Family style organ-grinder track. Highly unique and enjoyable EP.
Alien Sex Fiend - I Walk the Line - The Impossible Mission (flac 180mb)
01 I Walk The Line 4:50
02 School's Out 3:15
03 Here She Comes 3:52
04 I Can't Stop Smoking 5:06
The Impossible Mission EP
05 The Impossible Mission 4:22
06 My Brain Is In The Cupboard - Above The Kitchen Sink 3:29
07 The Impossible Mission # 2 4:22
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Today's artists are an English gothic rock band, formed in London, England in 1982. The current lineup of the band consists of Nik Fiend and Mrs. Fiend. The band became known in the gothic scene for its dark, electronic industrial-leaning sound, heavy samples, loops, dub remixes and manic vocals. Five of the group's albums and 12 of their singles reached top 20 positions in the UK charts in the period up to 1987.. ......N'Joy
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One of the earliest groups to be labeled goth rock, Alien Sex Fiend are among the genre's most theatrical acts. They're also one of its most humorous, preferring a campy B-movie aesthetic to the dourness or morbidity of many of their peers. Heavily influenced by the Cramps, Alice Cooper, glam rock, punk, and psychedelia, the group's performances are ghoulish spectacles, and their boundlessly creative music combines heavy electronic beats and noisy guitars with warped, dubby effects and samples. Alternately referred to as goth, deathrock, post-punk, or industrial, ASF are ultimately a category unto themselves. The group was highly prolific throughout the '80s, releasing fan-favorite full-lengths such as Acid Bath (1984) and "It" the Album (1986), in addition to numerous remix-filled singles and EPs, showcasing the group's penchant for experimentation. ASF incorporated several electronic dance music styles into their sound before other goth and industrial acts did; the 1989 single "Haunted House" lived up to its name, while the group embraced techno and trance on '90s releases such as Inferno (The Odyssey Continues) (1994). In the 21st century, albums such as Information Overload (2004) and Possessed (2018) have even worked in traces of dancehall and drum'n'bass.
Alien Sex Fiend's origins lie in the Batcave, an influential London club acknowledged as the birthplace of goth culture. Nick Wade, who worked at the Batcave, dubbed himself Nik Fiend and founded the band in 1982, along with his wife Christine Wade (aka Mrs. Fiend), who played synth, as well as guitarist Yaxi Highrizer (born David James) and drummer Johnny "Ha Ha" Freshwater. Prior to forming ASF, Wade had previously been a member of the punk band Demon Preacher as well as Alice Cooper-inspired groups the Earwigs and Mr. & Mrs. Demeanour.
Following some obscure early cassettes, Alien Sex Fiend made their proper debut with the 1983 single "Ignore the Machine," a favorite among goth club denizens; this preceded the full-length Who's Been Sleeping in My Brain? A series of indie chart hits followed in 1984, including "R.I.P.," "Dead and Buried," and "E.S.T. (Trip to the Moon)" (the world's first 11" single). The success of the album Acid Bath further increased the group's visibility, and Alien Sex Fiend became major stars in Japan, resulting in the 1985 live release Liquid Head in Tokyo.
Following the departure of Johnny Ha Ha, the group continued as a trio to record 1985's bleak Maximum Security. After the following year's "It" the Album, released to coincide with Alien Sex Fiend's opening slot on Alice Cooper's Nightmare Returns tour, they recorded 1987's Here Cum Germs, the final offer to feature Yaxi Highrizer. Now essentially a duo, the Fiends explored more synth- and sample-oriented territory on 1988's Another Planet, a trend continued on 1990's Curse, which featured the minor hit "Now I'm Feeling Zombified."
With a revitalized lineup including new guitarist Rat Fink Jr. and keyboardist Doc Milton, Alien Sex Fiend resurfaced in 1992 with Open Head Surgery. After a 1993 live album, Altered States of America, ASF (back to being the duo of Nik and Mrs. Fiend) composed the music for the CD-ROM game Inferno. Released as Inferno (The Odyssey Continues), the album was a venture into instrumental electronic music. With the release of the compilation The Singles 1983-1995, the band's affiliation with longtime label Anagram ended, and the Fiends soon established their own 13th Moon Records imprint. The trance-influenced 1996 EP Evolution found Alien Sex Fiend traveling even further away from their goth beginnings into the realm of electronica, a move continued on 1997's Nocturnal Emissions.
Following numerous compilations and live releases, including the 1999 retrospective Fiend at the Controls, Vols. 1-2, ASF returned with 2004's Information Overload, an adventurous update of the group's sound. Para-Abnormal, a CD of remixes and rarities, followed in 2006. The group's next full-length was delayed due to deaths in the family and other personal issues, but ASF re-emerged with Death Trip in 2010. In 2015, Cherry Red released Classic Albums and BBC Sessions Collection, the first of two comprehensive box sets of the band's early material. These were followed by the generous triple-CD package Fiendology in 2017. Possessed, Alien Sex Fiend's first studio album in eight years, appeared in 2018.
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The is the CD version of the self-produced "Maximum Security" LP plus four bonus tracks.
This Alien album is a dark and oppressive. It's a further exploration of the electronic realms opened up by Acid Bath. This time around the deathrock angle to the band's sound fades away as the album is increasingly less interested in guitar and more interested in esoteric electronic pulsations that end up outstaying their welcome before too long.At times the Cramps aren't far away
Alien Sex Fiend - The First Compact Disc (flac 393mb)
01 I'm Doing Time In A Maximum Security Twilight Home 6:00
02 Mine's Full Of Maggots 5:45
03 Do You Sleep? 4:04
04 In And Out Of My Mind 4:48
05 Spies 4:45
06 Fly In The Ointment 3:46
07 Seconds To Nowhere 2:38
08 The Beaver Destroys Forests 1:28
09 Do You Sleep?? (Not Of One Mind) 3:58
10 Depravity Lane 5:38
bonus
11 E.S.T. (Trip To The Moon) 4:30
12 Boneshaker Baby 3:31
13 Ignore The Machine (Electrode Mix) 5:08
14 Attack!!! 8:29
Alien Sex Fiend - The First Compact D (ogg 144mb)
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Tightening up the electronic experiments of the previous album and blasting off into uncharted territory, Alien Sex Fiend's It: the Album is a deathrock-tinged electro-dance-goth maelstrom. There's nothing wrong with noise, particularly ugly noise, but greater successes were being enjoyed elsewhere at the time and what remains of the band's punkish roots often gets in the way of proceedings - plus almost all the tracks outstay their welcome, with the exception of the Sisters of Mercy-baiting Smells Like.
Alien Sex Fiend - It The Album (flac 470mb)
01 Smells Like... 5:47
02 Manic Depression 13:04
03 Believe It Or Not 4:48
04 April Showers / Wop-Bop 9:12
05 Get Into It 3:42
06 Lesson One 3:37
07 Do It Right 5:05
08 To Be Continued... 00:42
bonus
09 Buggin' Me 3:39
10 I Walk The Line 4:50
11 Here She Comes 3:49
12 Can't Stop Smoking 5:04
13 In God We Trust (Live At The BBC) 4:21
14 E.S.T. (Trip To The Moon) (Live At The BBC) 5:51
Alien Sex Fiend - It The Album (ogg 171mb)
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Here Cum Germs finds Alien Sex Fiend drifting even further from their death rock origins, and those coming in expecting something like Who's Been Sleeping In My Brain? are going to be bitterly disappointed. With soundscapes regularly approaching the industrial, although with a bit more punk swagger and Fiendish humour, it is an interesting listen, though it at points feels more like transitional sketches than a fully developed album. Distorted sound collages over dance beats. Lyrics mostly rather minimal. Sounds a little like what would happen if the Stooges got together with PiL, ran into Syd Barrett and irritated him until he started emitting strange noises. Alien Sex Fiend's cartoonish electro goth has its moments; charmingly simplistic and amateurish, ASF sounds at times like Skinny Puppy's goofy little brother. On Here Cum Germs, most of the ideas are unfocused and undeveloped; the songs usually consist of primitive drum loops, samples, some stray guitars, found-sound atmospherics, and Nik Fiend's silly rants and chants. Still, it's good antisocial music to annoy your parents or neighbors with.
Alien Sex Fiend - Here Cum Germs (flac 361mb)
01 The Impossible Mission 4:24
02 Here Cum Germs (Ravi-Mix #9) 3:30
03 Here Cum Germs (Vocal) 2:56
04 Isolation 7:07
05 My Brain Is In The Cupboard Above The Kitchen Sink 3:35
06 You Are Soul 5:58
07 Death 5:38
08 Boots On! 11:51
09 Camel, Camel 2:58
10 They All Call Me Crazee 5:32
11 Stuff The Turkey 3:55
Alien Sex Fiend - Here Cum Germs (ogg 147mb)
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Alien Sex Field were always one of the more "out there" goth acts, taking the whole walking-corpse thing to a ridiculous extreme. The music is just as much performance art as music. "I Walk the Line" isn't the Johnny Cash song, but a swaggering punkish goth rock track. "School's Out" is a brash Alice Cooper cover. "Here She Comes" is a demented rock track, sort of like The Cramps. "Can't Stop Smoking" channels the Cramps again, a knuckleheaded Addams Family style organ-grinder track. Highly unique and enjoyable EP.
Alien Sex Fiend - I Walk the Line - The Impossible Mission (flac 180mb)
01 I Walk The Line 4:50
02 School's Out 3:15
03 Here She Comes 3:52
04 I Can't Stop Smoking 5:06
The Impossible Mission EP
05 The Impossible Mission 4:22
06 My Brain Is In The Cupboard - Above The Kitchen Sink 3:29
07 The Impossible Mission # 2 4:22
(ogg mb)
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