Cryptic Slaughter Skateboard Decks

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Cryptic Slaughter - Lowlife & Set Your Own Pace (1986)

Playing a friends house party @ Bel-Air, CA - 6/21/1986

Cryptic Slaughter - Black and White (1986)

Live @ Fender's Ballroom, Long Beach, CA 11/8/1986

Cryptic Slaughter - Stepping Stone

Cryptic Slaughter - Money Talks (1988)

Live in Los Angeles C.A. 5/28/1988

Cryptic Slaughter

Taken from the Official Cryptic Slaughter Myspace page:

The original Speedcore merchants, Cryptic Slaughter dealt a West Coast hand into the late 80's Crossover movement, a movement that saw the normally warring armies of punk rock and thrash metal finally come together into a unified front bent on exposing social injustice and political hypocrisy. Powered by a previously unimagined sense of informed aggression, the band's uncompromising political stance and lightning-fast tempos ultimately proved too harsh for mainstream tastes, but their status as underground legends remains unquestioned.

Vocalist/bassist Bill Crooks, guitarists Les Evans and Adam Scott, and drummer Scott Peterson first met while playing on their High School soccer team, and formed Cryptic Slaughter in 1984. Adam Scott was soon on the outs, but the remaining trio still managed to cut their five-song Life in Grave" demo by May of the following year. Its sheer speed and unbridled ferocity quickly made it a favorite conversation piece on the all-important underground tape-trading network -- a worldwide phenomenon that had already launched dozens of successful acts before them -- and eventually landed Cryptic Slaughter a contract with fast-rising independent Metal Blade Records.

Issued in 1986, the band's debut album Convicted introduced new bassist Rob Nicholson (freeing Crooks to focus on his rabid vocal delivery) and somehow crammed fourteen tracks into a violently giddy, adrenalin-charged half hour, every single cut spewing a torrent of anti-establishment bile and fury. Follow-up efforts like 1987's Money Talks and 1988's Stream Of Consciousness added only the smallest of sonic refinements, and kept the group's ever-expanding legion of fans happy by staying true to their original, raw and frenetic style.

DISCOGRAPHY
Life in Grave (Demo, 1985)
Convicted (Full-length, 1986)
Money Talks (Full-length, 1987)
Stream of Consciousness (Full-length, 1988)
Speak Your Peace (Full-length, 1990)
Band in S.M (EP.2003)

Myspace page: www.myspace.com/officialcrypticslaughter

Cryptic Slaughter: KXLU Interview (1985)

Recorded on KXLU radio show "Final Countdown", hosted by Californian's legendary Adam Bomb. On this show the Cryptic Slaughter guys are presenting their first demo "Life in grave"

Tracklisting :
- Necessity supreme
- Life in grave
- War to the knife
- Minor Threat
- Nation of hate
- Reich of torture

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Cryptic Slaughter: Live @ Berkley 12/20/1985 (Soundboard Recording)

Taken from The SB Tapes Blog






















Tracklisting :
- Rage to kill
- My Hell
- war to the knife
- Nation of hate
- Hypocrite
- Rest in pain
- Sudden death
- Necessity supreme
- Low life
- Reich of torture
- State control
- Minor Threat
- Flesh of the wench

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Cryptic Slaughter-M.A.D/Little World

This video was filmed while playing a friend's birthday party in Brentwood, CA. 6/21/86