Heresy – Never Healed E.P. - 1986 UK PUNK 7" Flexi 33 - Classic Hardcore Limited

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Heresy – Never Healed E.P. 1986 UK PUNK 7" Flexi 33 Classic Limited
Label: Earache – ear 1 Format: Flexi-disc, 7", EP, 33 ⅓ RPM Country: UK Released: 1986 Genre: Rock Style: Hardcore, Punk
A1 Never Healed 2:03 A2 Despair 1:13 A3 Deathbiter 3:08 B1 Anguish Of War 0:57 B2 More Blood Is Shed 4:45 B3 Dead 0:56
Recorded and mixed on 8-track in 4½ hours @ Pavilion Studios, West Brigford, Nottingham at the total cost of £40. Printed lyric insert included. Some copies also included a sticker. 3,000 copies pressed at the total cost of £800.
Flexi-discs are notoriously flimsy, and depending on the pressing, can be unable to withstand repeated play.
This example has been played many times, but does not show excessive visible wear or damage. Listen to the sound samples below, which are of the actual record in the listing.
The original white sleeve from when it was sold at one time [possibly 2001] in Los Angeles is included, with the hand-made in-store hype sign.
Overall condition, VG+/Fine or better
Picture Sleeve:  YES Promo Copy:  NO Sticker:  NO Lyric Sheet:  YES

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Heresy were a hardcore punk band from Nottingham, England, formed in 1985 and active until late 1989. They released three albums and recorded three sessions for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show.

History:

The band was formed by Reevsy (guitar, vocals), Kalvin "Kalv" Piper (bass), and Steve Charlesworth (drums), the first two having previously been in the Stoke-on-Trent band Plasmid.

Their first release was the 1986 6-track flexi-disc Never Healed - the first release on Earache Records, which was followed by a split LP with Concrete Sox. 

They then added a singer, who was soon replaced by Concrete Sox drummer John March. 

Reevsy left the band to be replaced by Mitch Dickinson from Unseen Terror on guitar. 

The band toured through Europe with this line-up.

In 1988, Mitch left the band, to be replaced by Baz from Ripcord, the new line-up recording the Face Up to It LP. The band's final album, 1989's 13 Rocking Anthems, was compiled from their last two Peel Sessions. The band split up in late 1988. Members Steve and Kalv formed Meatfly, and now play in UK hardcore band Geriatric Unit.

Musical style:

Heresy's early material merged influences from English hardcore punk groups like Discharge and American extreme metal bands like Metallica and Slayer. A fusion which led to them being categorised as crust punk. 

By the time their founding vocalist Malcolm Reeves was replaced by Kalvin Piper, they had stripped away the metal influence, for a thrashcore sound influenced by Boston hardcore, early-Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and Siege. 

An article for Alternative Press described how "no band before them, harnessed the hormonal force of American hardcore and spiked it with metal-tipped UK82 punk". 

Simon Czerwinskyj, in an article for Bandcamp Daily, described the band as "proto-grind crust maniacs".

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Further Deep Heresy History:

Hailing from a tiny village outside Stoke-on-Trent, UK - Plasmid - as they were originally called - started as a three piece politically-themed fast hardcore punk formed by Reevsy (guitar/vocals) and his 15 year old cousin Steve, on drums.

After one Plasmid demo, they joined up with newly recruited bassist Kalv from Nottingham, playing some local shows under their newly chosen, more "metallic" moniker, Heresy. Many of the early shows were booked by local HC promoter, and later Earache founder, Dig. Influenced by Discharge and the fastest US HC bands like MDC (2), Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and especially Siege (2), Heresy were lucky to have the formidable talents of Steve on drums, though young, he put himself through a punishing daily rehearsal schedule, such that he was arguably the fastest drummer in the world when they entered the local Nottingham no-budget Pavilion Studios just before Xmas 1985 to record the "Never Healed" flexi.

With Reevsy on guitar and vocal duties, and Kalv on bass, the band laid down 6 tracks in barely a day. The flexi was released by Kalv and Dig's DIY jointly funded label (the name "Earache" was added to the label at the last minute) and all 3000 copies sold out right away. The six tracks included were blisteringly fast thrash with non-existent production, but the proto-metalcore riffs in the songs attracted metal fans to the band as well as the usual hardcore punk crowd. At this time, Heresy would often play in the The Mermaid pub in Birmingham (usually sharing the bill with the still unsigned Napalm Death), and it was noticeable that both bands' drummers were engaged in a kind of friendly rivalry to see who could play fastest on the night.

Music was accelerated to superhuman speeds, and grindcore had its birthplace in early 1986 on that stage.