Rancid Hell Spawn

Rancid Hell Spawn are a punk rock band, originally active between 1988 and 1995, making a return in 2011.^[1][2]

Based in London, the band released five albums and six extended plays. Rancid Hell Spawn also provided two songs for the soundtrack of Dennis Worden's Stickboy music video in 1993. Their music is characterized by a distinctive noisy and distorted sound, featuring a Casio organ and large amounts of feedback. The majority of Rancid Hell Spawn songs are short, high-speed punk burnouts with melodies hidden beneath the feedback. Steven Wells of New Musical Express described it as "listening to Eddie Cochran while wearing a chemical warfare suit full of angry wasps."

The band was fronted by Charlie Chainsaw, former editor of Chainsaw which started in 1977 and continued until 1984. Charlie Chainsaw remains active in the London punk scene, running the Wrench Records record label and mailorder company.

Rancid Hell Spawn reformed in 2011, releasing an EP Abolition of the Orgasm in December 2011 and Eat My Cigarette in 2016.

Discography

• "Festering Pus" single, Wrench Records, 1988
• Jumpin Jack Flesh LP, Wrench Records, 1989
• Gas Mask Love mini-LP, Wrench Records, 1990
• Chainsaw Masochist LP, Wrench Records, 1990
• Split EP with The Fells, Toxic Shock Records, 1991
• "Gastro Boy" EP, Wrench Records, 1992
• Axe Hero CD, Wrench Records, 1993
• Teenage Lard EP, Wrench Records, 1995
• Scalpel Party Retrospective CD, Wrench Records, 2000
• Abolition Of The Orgasm EP, Wrench Records, 2011
• Eat My Cigarette EP, Wrench Records, 2016

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