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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 title of the album, songs with names like "I'm Her Frankenstein" and "Wish I Woz a Dog," the utterly demented look of Nik Fiend in full make-up and regalia, not to mention the rest of his bandmates -- the Alien Sex Fiend ethos was set from the start, in all its wiggy glory. Sometimes the sheer wackiness obscured the fact, though, that ASF offered great music along with the humor, always the distinction between the truly great comedy bands and the ones that are just a bad joke to begin with. While not pretending to be pushing the cutting edge of music, Brain was still a great combination of punk's snarl, glam's giddiness, campily dramatic theatricality equal parts Alice Cooper and the Damned, and not a little bit of envelope-pushing with the band's extensive use of drum machines alongside Johnnie Ha-Ha. With Mrs. Fiend pulling a bit of a Ray Manzarek on keyboards and bass sounds, and Yaxi kicking up the guitar dust, all Nik needed to do was wrap his electrocuted-Cockney singing around it all, and the rest was genius; however, Youth provided the finishing touches as a producer, balancing crispness with just enough echo and murkiness to satisfy all sides. To its further credit, Brain wasn't just one tune repeated over and again; while ASF aren't exactly ever going to be known for ballads, the rumbling Burundi-into-'50s raunch of "Wild Women" isn't the pulsing pagan psychosis of "New Christian Music," which in turn isn't the anthemic, heroic surge of "Ignore the Machine," and so forth. Though arguably ASF has never really moved beyond the bounds of what it set on Brain, what the band did come up with was more than great then and now.
Alien Sex Fiend - Who's Been Sleeping In My Brain ? (flac 417mb)
01 Wish I Woz A Dog 7:08
02 Wild Women 3:19
03 I'm Not Mad 4:31
04 New Christian Music 5:47
05 Wigwam Wipe Out 2:57
06 I'm Her Frankenstein 2:48
07 I Am A Product 4:26
08 Ignore The Machine 6:44
09 Lips Can't Go 5:43
10 Black Rabbit 1:23
Bonus
11 Under The Thunder (Ignore The Dub) 6:45
12 30 Second Coma 2:45
13 R.I.P. (Blue Crumb Truck) 4:51
14 New Christian Music (Single Version) 7:23
Alien Sex Fiend - Who's Been Sleeping In My Brain ? (ogg 165mb)
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Acid Bath unveiled the new, fully electronic Alien Sex Fiend, introduced by "In God We Trust, In Cars You Rust", which added a frenetic beat, and basically presented a rawer, more rock 'n' roll version of Suicide. Their previous manifesto, "Ignore The Machine", had been transported to the disco. "Dead And Re-Buried" had a more menacing tone, it's frozen electrifying pulse brought to the fore, and also furnishing psychedelic guitar, and a new cyber-punk tone, as if a collaboration between Billy Idol, Section 25 and Suicide.
"She's A Killer" was more dramatic and gothic, more than ever wanting to create an atmosphere, as if Bauhaus did an electro-disco music-hall, an impression that surfaced again in "Breakdown And Cry". Their most daring moment was probably "E.S.T.", an electronic gothic number marshaling a tropicalia beat, Nik Fiend's typically wild vocals and a neoclassical somber drone. Finally, "Attack !!!!!#2" upped the garage-gothic format of Who's Been Sleeping In My Brain? by intensifying the aggression.
Alien Sex Fiend - Acid Bath (flac 452mb)
01 In God We Trust (In Cars You Rust?) 4:49
02 Dead And Re-Buried 5:58
03 She's A Killer 6:40
04 Hee-Haw (Here Come The Bone People) 6:02
05 Smoke My Bones 00:45
06 Breakdown And Cry (Lay Down And Die - Goodbye) 6:55
07 E.S.T. (Trip To The Moon) 8:15
08 Attack!!!!!! #2 6:22
Bonus
09 Dead And Buried 5:48
10 Attack!!!!! 8:32
11 Boneshaker Baby 3:32
12 I Am A Product (Live) 5:15
Alien Sex Fiend - Acid Bath (ogg 172mb)
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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.
Alien Sex Fiend - Maximum Security (flac 425mb)
01 I'm Doing Time In A Maximum Security Twilight Home 5:59
02 Mine's Full Of Maggots 5:45
03 Do You Sleep 4:04
04 In And Out Of My Mind 4:07
05 Spies 4:44
06 Fly In The Ointment 3:45
07 Seconds To Nowhere 2:38
08 The Beaver Destroys Forests 1:28
09 Do You Sleep (Version) 3:58
10 Depravity Lane (Think I'll Take A Trip...) 5:37
Bonus
11 Ignore The Machine (Electrode Mix) 5:07
12 Attack!!!!! (Live At The BBC) 5:46
13 Dead And Buried (Live At The BBC) 4:19
14 Hee-Haw (Live At The BBC) 5:04
15 Ignore The Machine (Live At The BBC) 7:01
Alien Sex Fiend - Maximum Security (ogg 160mb)
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Coming as it does in the wake of Acid Bath, Liquid Head In Tokyo feels like a mild step back on the part of Alien Sex Fiend. Evidently at this stage their incorporation of electronics into their sound had advanced more in the studio than it had on the stage, because there's a mild reversion here to the guitar-oriented sound of the debut album and that makes the older songs sound tired whilst the newer, Acid Bath-era songs are a little confused in the transition. It's fun enough, but we know they could do better.
Alien Sex Fiend - Liquid Head In Tokyo (flac 502mb)
01 R.I.P. (Blue Crime Truck) 3:49
02 E.S.T. (Trip To The Moon) 5:32
03 Dead And Re-Buried 5:01
04 In God We Trust (In Cars You Rust?) 4:36
05 Back To The Egg 4:49
06 Attack !!!!!! #2 5:22
07 Lips Can't Go 5:19
08 Wild Women 5:13
Bonus
09 Hee Haw 6:04
10 I Wish I Was A Dog 8:33
11 Dead & Buried (12 Version) 5:45
12 Girl At The End Of My Gun (12 Version) 2:53
13 New Christian Music (10 Version) 6:29
14 Wild Women 3:12
Alien Sex Fiend - Liquid Head In Tokyo (ogg 193mb)
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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 title of the album, songs with names like "I'm Her Frankenstein" and "Wish I Woz a Dog," the utterly demented look of Nik Fiend in full make-up and regalia, not to mention the rest of his bandmates -- the Alien Sex Fiend ethos was set from the start, in all its wiggy glory. Sometimes the sheer wackiness obscured the fact, though, that ASF offered great music along with the humor, always the distinction between the truly great comedy bands and the ones that are just a bad joke to begin with. While not pretending to be pushing the cutting edge of music, Brain was still a great combination of punk's snarl, glam's giddiness, campily dramatic theatricality equal parts Alice Cooper and the Damned, and not a little bit of envelope-pushing with the band's extensive use of drum machines alongside Johnnie Ha-Ha. With Mrs. Fiend pulling a bit of a Ray Manzarek on keyboards and bass sounds, and Yaxi kicking up the guitar dust, all Nik needed to do was wrap his electrocuted-Cockney singing around it all, and the rest was genius; however, Youth provided the finishing touches as a producer, balancing crispness with just enough echo and murkiness to satisfy all sides. To its further credit, Brain wasn't just one tune repeated over and again; while ASF aren't exactly ever going to be known for ballads, the rumbling Burundi-into-'50s raunch of "Wild Women" isn't the pulsing pagan psychosis of "New Christian Music," which in turn isn't the anthemic, heroic surge of "Ignore the Machine," and so forth. Though arguably ASF has never really moved beyond the bounds of what it set on Brain, what the band did come up with was more than great then and now.
Alien Sex Fiend - Who's Been Sleeping In My Brain ? (flac 417mb)
01 Wish I Woz A Dog 7:08
02 Wild Women 3:19
03 I'm Not Mad 4:31
04 New Christian Music 5:47
05 Wigwam Wipe Out 2:57
06 I'm Her Frankenstein 2:48
07 I Am A Product 4:26
08 Ignore The Machine 6:44
09 Lips Can't Go 5:43
10 Black Rabbit 1:23
Bonus
11 Under The Thunder (Ignore The Dub) 6:45
12 30 Second Coma 2:45
13 R.I.P. (Blue Crumb Truck) 4:51
14 New Christian Music (Single Version) 7:23
Alien Sex Fiend - Who's Been Sleeping In My Brain ? (ogg 165mb)
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Acid Bath unveiled the new, fully electronic Alien Sex Fiend, introduced by "In God We Trust, In Cars You Rust", which added a frenetic beat, and basically presented a rawer, more rock 'n' roll version of Suicide. Their previous manifesto, "Ignore The Machine", had been transported to the disco. "Dead And Re-Buried" had a more menacing tone, it's frozen electrifying pulse brought to the fore, and also furnishing psychedelic guitar, and a new cyber-punk tone, as if a collaboration between Billy Idol, Section 25 and Suicide.
"She's A Killer" was more dramatic and gothic, more than ever wanting to create an atmosphere, as if Bauhaus did an electro-disco music-hall, an impression that surfaced again in "Breakdown And Cry". Their most daring moment was probably "E.S.T.", an electronic gothic number marshaling a tropicalia beat, Nik Fiend's typically wild vocals and a neoclassical somber drone. Finally, "Attack !!!!!#2" upped the garage-gothic format of Who's Been Sleeping In My Brain? by intensifying the aggression.
Alien Sex Fiend - Acid Bath (flac 452mb)
01 In God We Trust (In Cars You Rust?) 4:49
02 Dead And Re-Buried 5:58
03 She's A Killer 6:40
04 Hee-Haw (Here Come The Bone People) 6:02
05 Smoke My Bones 00:45
06 Breakdown And Cry (Lay Down And Die - Goodbye) 6:55
07 E.S.T. (Trip To The Moon) 8:15
08 Attack!!!!!! #2 6:22
Bonus
09 Dead And Buried 5:48
10 Attack!!!!! 8:32
11 Boneshaker Baby 3:32
12 I Am A Product (Live) 5:15
Alien Sex Fiend - Acid Bath (ogg 172mb)
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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.
Alien Sex Fiend - Maximum Security (flac 425mb)
01 I'm Doing Time In A Maximum Security Twilight Home 5:59
02 Mine's Full Of Maggots 5:45
03 Do You Sleep 4:04
04 In And Out Of My Mind 4:07
05 Spies 4:44
06 Fly In The Ointment 3:45
07 Seconds To Nowhere 2:38
08 The Beaver Destroys Forests 1:28
09 Do You Sleep (Version) 3:58
10 Depravity Lane (Think I'll Take A Trip...) 5:37
Bonus
11 Ignore The Machine (Electrode Mix) 5:07
12 Attack!!!!! (Live At The BBC) 5:46
13 Dead And Buried (Live At The BBC) 4:19
14 Hee-Haw (Live At The BBC) 5:04
15 Ignore The Machine (Live At The BBC) 7:01
Alien Sex Fiend - Maximum Security (ogg 160mb)
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Coming as it does in the wake of Acid Bath, Liquid Head In Tokyo feels like a mild step back on the part of Alien Sex Fiend. Evidently at this stage their incorporation of electronics into their sound had advanced more in the studio than it had on the stage, because there's a mild reversion here to the guitar-oriented sound of the debut album and that makes the older songs sound tired whilst the newer, Acid Bath-era songs are a little confused in the transition. It's fun enough, but we know they could do better.
Alien Sex Fiend - Liquid Head In Tokyo (flac 502mb)
01 R.I.P. (Blue Crime Truck) 3:49
02 E.S.T. (Trip To The Moon) 5:32
03 Dead And Re-Buried 5:01
04 In God We Trust (In Cars You Rust?) 4:36
05 Back To The Egg 4:49
06 Attack !!!!!! #2 5:22
07 Lips Can't Go 5:19
08 Wild Women 5:13
Bonus
09 Hee Haw 6:04
10 I Wish I Was A Dog 8:33
11 Dead & Buried (12 Version) 5:45
12 Girl At The End Of My Gun (12 Version) 2:53
13 New Christian Music (10 Version) 6:29
14 Wild Women 3:12
Alien Sex Fiend - Liquid Head In Tokyo (ogg 193mb)
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