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A couple of Swedish sellers are dropping some top shelf platters from the motherland, though strangely, neither has anything else for sale.

So here are two of the top ep’s ever released from the country, with Anti-Cimex’s Raped Ass coming in tops on my list, and Absurd’s Bloodig Stad (Bloody City) rounding out the top 5*.

Raped Ass, in my (largely worthless) opinion, is the greatest example of taking the Discharge/d-beat style and cranking it up to 11, whereas other top-tier d-beaters like the Shitlickers Cracked Cop Skulls or Agent Orange Your Mother Sucks Cocks In Hell 7″s kind of dumb things down to negative 11. All five songs here are unrelenting, brutal steamrollers with absolutely perfect production, with the larynx-shredding vocals and one note guitar solos sending everything that much more over the top. Several variations of this record exist, with the copy at hand — card cardboard sleeve with printed labels — being the most common (but still difficult to obtain). I believe there are 1,000 of these pressed, but for an exhaustive archive of Anti-Cimex pressing variations and related ephemera, go here.

Next up is Absurd’s one and only release, the extremely rare Blodig Stad ep. While not quite as over the top as Raped Ass or as brutally stupid as Cracked Cop Skulls, this record still d-beats with the best of them. Various rumors abound about the band and this record… it’s believed that only 300 were pressed, and many copies were rumored to be lost/trashed/thrown out by mom/something to that effect. Also the singer is now a priest in Sweden, and supposedly he was liberated of his remaining copies a few years back. Regardless, this record is extremely difficult to track down, with original copies selling for as much as $700 in the past (though more recently they top out around $400), so that $99 opening bid is pretty appealing. Beware of recent American-made bootlegs, the original should have a machine stamped matrix number and a thin, slightly glossy, pocket sleeve cover.

* My top 5 Swedish hardcore 7″s:
1. Anti Cimex – Raped Ass
2. Shitlickers – Cracked Cop Skulls
3. Headcleaners – Disinfection
4. Bombanfall – Asiksfrihet
5. Absurd – Blodig Stad

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