VIVISEKTIO – 1985 – LP (Finnish Hardcore Records)

VIVISEKTIO are Hardcore, Punk band from Äkäslompolo, Finland. Formed in late 1983 (as VENDETTA) and split up in May 1986. VIVISEKTIO was one of the first Finnish Punk bands with female members. Original members Pekka and Pena reformed VIVISEKTIO in early 2008 with two new members. Their debut album “1984” was released in 2011, here on this 12″ LP called “1985” you can listen to eight old rehearsal songs (out of the year 1985, oh what wonder) carefully restored from the original tapes and remastered to achieve the best result. What a nice piece of finnish Punk history. Standard version on Black vinyl housed in a coloured LP pocket cover and with a twelve pages A 4 illustrated booklet.

“Back in February, I had the privilege of reviewing VIVISEKTIO’s most recent album. It’s a great record and the band has a really fascinating backstory, which I won’t recount here but is worth checking into if you are even marginally interested in the intersection of Finnish punk and Trivial Pursuit. Listening to this material from the band’s formative period is like hopping into the most radical time machine back to 1985. The recording quality is all tattered edges, but the gold is in the grooves. Raw, raging, rowdy hardcore punk will always transcend fidelity as far as I’m concerned. Here, VIVISEKTIO sounds like a severely damaged KOHU-63 practice tape with any element of harmony extracted and fed to rabid dogs. Noisy, angry, and glorious. The record comes packaged with a full-color booklet that I presume enumerates the band’s historical significance, though I can’t say for sure since it’s mostly in Finnish (except for a reprinted MRR interview from 2015). A hidden gem of gnarly ’80s Scandinavian hardcore!” (MRR)