AS influential as Fear Of God has been to the entire field of grindcore/noise/extreme hardcore/death metal, it's a fucking crime that it's been so hard to get your hands on their music; total legends in the grind/noise community, the Swiss band Fear Of God formed in 1987, drawing inspiration from the ultrafast HC of Siege and Larm, the pummeling urban industrial grind of early Swans, the apocalyptic death of Repulsion, and the proto-death metal of Master, added a megaton of distortion and ultra-gruff monstrous vocals, and jacked up the tempo via insane blastbeat drumming to about 1,000 miles per hour detonations of face-shredding ultragrind that borders on pure fucking noise when it's moving at top speed, with bone crushing bulldozer sludge riffs and ripping mid-tempo breakdowns expertly placed to make each song a vicious act of revolutionary violence. Fucking crucial stuff, I remember how insanely brutal and negative Fear Of God sounded the first time that I actually got to hear them. This shit sounds genuinely insane, and established the aesthetic of "noisecore" that bands like Anal Cunt, 7 Minutes Of Nausea, etc., would explore further on. Released on the label run by Giulio from Cripple Bastards, First EP is an official re-issue of Fear Of God's 1st EP that was originally released in 1988 on Temple Of Love Records, with all 21 songs remastered for total obliterating impact, and with a brief radio interview from the same timeperiod tacked on as an added bonus. The disc comes in a cool black and white trifold digipack, with lyrics, liner notes, and new notes written by Fear Of God historian/crust critic extraordinaire Sean Hogan. A crucial document of one of the most influential, groundbreaking bands in extreme music history, no joke.