Agoni (Early Demo)

Agoni - Early Demo (Stockholm's Mangel Tracks)

Agoni, later Agony, started out as a dyed-in-wool Swedish hardcore band. However, a few years down the line they started to crossover. Eventually becoming a full-fledged thrash metal band with 1988s The First Defiance

While the metal stuff is pretty decent, Agoni were an absolutely ripping Swedecore/Kang-punk/D-Beat band.

The seven tracks here eventually showed up on the great Stockholm's Mangel comp many years after they were recorded. This is some raw, mean sounding punk. The bass is filthy and distorted, the guitars rage in the typical Discharge worship of kang punk, the drums D-Beat their way to hell, and
the vocals are bellowed and powerful.

Apparently Agoni toured the UK in 1986 with Anti-Cimex. Although by 1986 they were a proper thrash metal band. Check out the poster at the top of the page. Anti-Cimex, Varukers, Agoni, Heresy, Napalm Death. Sounds like a hella gig, right? By that point in time, the only 'metal' band there would have been Agoni, who must have stood out like a sore thumb among the hardcore stalwarts.

There is even a review of a gig in Leeds, UK that calls Agoni 'average thrash metal' and 'nowt special'. I'll put it on the next Agoni post.

A neat bit of info: Brit crust legends Doom covered En Rost For Fred on their Hail to Sweden EP which also features songs by Discard, Anti-Cimex, Crudity, Rojers, and Mob 47!

Linky, Link:
Direct: http://www.mediafire.com/?drklurk8wpwfyjn
The awesome Under the Surface blog: http://utsurface.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/hail-to-sweden.html