Spanning the past thirty years and counting, the Agathocles discography is one of the most extensive in all of grindcore and, more broadly, the entire extreme music underground.  With fourteen full-length albums and several hundred EPs, split releases, and live albums, the band is rivaled by few others in terms of the sheer volume of its output.  Such a prolific catalog can prove daunting to those interested in an initial sampling of an artist’s work, since there is not always an obvious point of departure from which to begin the process of familiarization.  Then again, one could always argue that the only logical launching pad would be from where the band itself started.  In this spirit, Nuclear War Now! is proud to release “If This Is Gore, What’s Meat Then?,” a compilation of Agathocles’s first two proper studio demos from 1988, as well its tracks from the 1990 split LP with Drudge.  These recordings provide the most direct window into the birth of “mincecore,” a term coined and adopted by the band to describe its raw and minimalistic form of grindcore, which stands in stark contrast to some of the more modern, polished, and technical varieties that have since arisen and to some extent drawn the genre away from its roots. 

1.Mutilated Regurgitator

2.The Accident

3.Threshold to Senility

4.Forced Pollutions

5.Consuming Endoderme Pus

6.Playing With Lifes

7.Splattered Brains

8.Big One

9.The Accident

10.Splattered Brains

11.Mutilated Regurgitator

12.The Fog

13.Teachers

14.Introtyl

15.Squeeze Anton

16.Christianity Means Tyranny

17.Deceiver (Napalm Death)

18.Enemy Alliance (Majesty)

19.Big One

20.Teachers

21.Christianity Means Tyranny

22.Squeeze Anton

23.Introtyl

24.Majesty of Fools

25.The Fog

26.Lay Off Me

27.Purified by Death

28.Deceased

29.Use the Mincer

30.Fake Friend

31.Gorgonised Dorks

 

Tracks 1-7: "If This Is Gore, What Is Meat Then?" demo 

Tracks 8-16: "Cabbalic Gnosticism" demo/7" EP 

Tracks 17-18: "Cabbalic Gnosticism" sessions outtakes 

Tracks 19-31: Agathocles/Drudge split LP