SPK, formed in 1978 in Sydney, Australia, was a 1980s and early 1990s industrial music and noise music act featuring Graeme Revell, who would later go on to become a successful Hollywood movie composer. The group was formed when Revell (aka Operator) met up with Neil Hill (aka Ne/H/il). They were both working at a psychiatric hospital when they became inspired by the manifesto of the German radical Marxist group known as the Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv (SPK). The following words, taken from the SPK manifesto, are used on one of the band's first recordings, Slogun (1979): "Kill, Kill, Kill for inner peace/ Bomb, Bomb, Bomb for mental health/ Therapy through violence!". Dominik Guerin (aka Tone Generator) joined in 1980, and was later to concentrate on the band's notorious visual content. Guerin and Revell recorded the first album, Information Overload Unit (1981), in a Vauxhall squat (during the Brixton riots in London) with the help of Revell's brother Ash (aka Mr.Clean) and...
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Track listing: OceaniaThe Doctrine of Eternal IceBreathlessMouth to MouthKambujaCrack!SeductionDies Irae
Track listing: Off the Deep End (extended remix)Kambuja
Track listing: BreathlessMouth to MouthSheer Naked AggressionCrack!InvocationWhite IslandPalms Crossed In SorrowAlocasia MetallicaThe Garden of Earthly DelightsThe Doctrine of Eternal Ice
Track listing: Breathless (radio version)Breathless (extended remix)Wired for Sound (RRR mix)
Track listing: In Flagrante DelictoInvocation
Track listing: Invocation (To Secular Heresies)Palms Crossed In SorrowRomanz in Moll (Romance in a Minor Key)In the Dying MomentsIn Flagrante DelictoAlocasia MetallicaNecropolisThe Garden of Earthly Delights
Track listing: Flesh and Steel (long)Flesh and Steel
Track listing: Junk FunkHigh TensionMetal DanceMachine Age Voodoo
Track listing: Junk FunkWith Love From ChinaHigh TensionOne WorldFlesh and SteelMetropolisMetal DanceThin IceCrime of Passion
Track listing: KontaktGermanikMekanoRetardSlogunMetall FieldWalking on Dead StepsA Heart That Breaks in No Time or Place
Track listing: Metal DanceWill to Power
Track listing: Another Dark AgeTwilight of the IdolsCulturcide
Track listing: Genetic TransmissionPost-mortemDesolationNapalm (Terminal Patient)Cry From the SanatoriumBaby Blue EyesIsraelInternal BleedingChamber MusicDespairThe Agony of the PlasmaDay of the PigsWars of IslamMaladia Europa (The European Sickness)
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Track listing: Emanation Machine R. Gie 1916Suture ObsessionMacht SchreckenBeruftverbötGround Zero: Infinity DoseStammheim TorturkammerRetardEpilept: ConvulseKaltbruchig Acideath
Track listing: See-SawChamber Music
Track listing: BerufsverbotEmanation Machine R. Gie 1916Stammheim TorturkammerGround Zero: Infinity DoseSerenace"John"Victim
Track listing: MekanoSlogun
Track listing: FactoryRetardSlogun
Track listing: MekanoContactSlogun
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