Extreme Noise Terror

"'ENT [Extreme Noise Terror] were amazing. So were their fans. Any track more than 20 seconds long was greeted with derisive cries of 'too long, too slow' or 'fucking prog-rockers' from the faithful, most of whom looked as though they had but recently risen from shallow graves alongside the A12, the arterial road that runs from London to Ipswich. The only disappointment for Sheila, William and me was that the band weren't loud enough. We wanted to leave the show with blood trickling from our ears.' (Loud And Proud, Guardian Unlimited, December 12, 2004.)"

Extreme Noise Terror were formed in Ipswich in 1985, and as a band local to the area were vigorously supported by John. Along with William and Sheila, he was a regular attendee of the gigs they played with Napalm Death at the Caribbean Centre in Ipswich, following a recommendation from the Stupids. They are often credited with turning crust punk into grindcore, but guitarist Pete Hurley disliked the term and stated that they were a hardcore punk band first and foremost. Their songs are brief, ear-splitting, played at a desperately fast pace and characterised by the use of two vocalists.

During the second Peel Session, they recruited former Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris, although he left soon afterwards and was replaced by Tony "Stick" Dickens from Doom. On their return from Japan in 1990, they were invited to record a third Peel session, and vocalist Dean Jones gave Peel a clutch of records he had purchased there. Dean also visited Peel Acres and later sang with Raw Noise.

The original second vocalist Phil Vane died in his sleep in 2011.

Festive Fifty Entries

 * Simultaneously the only chart entry for ENT, the KLF and extreme music as a whole, this single had a limited release through the KLF's own label, and was memorably performed at the 1992 Brit Awards after the KLF had boycotted Top Of The Pops (the BBC had refused to play it on daytime radio).
 * 3 A.M. Eternal (with the KLF) 1992 Festive Fifty #44

Sessions

 * The band recorded four sessions for Peel's show, the last two being separated by a considerable gap (11 years). All except #4 available on Grind Madness At The BBC (Earache).

1. Recorded: 1987-11-10. First broadcast: 17 November 1987. Repeated: 02 December 1987, 29 December 1987. 2. Recorded: 1988-05-01. First broadcast: 11 May 1988. Repeated: 06 June 1988, 15 August 1988. 3. Recorded: 1990-02-06. First broadcast: 08 March 1990. Repeated: 03 May 1990. 4. Recorded: 2001-02-28. First broadcast: 27 March 2001. No repeats. No known commercial release.
 * False Profit / Another Nail In the Coffin / Use Your Mind / Carry On Screaming / Human Error / Conned Through Life / Only In It For The Music Part 2
 * Murder / Take The Strain / No Threat / Show Us You Care / Propaganda / System Enslavement / Only In It For The Music Part 3
 * Work For Never / Subliminal Music (Mind Control) / People Not Profit / Punk Fact Or Fiction / I Am A Bloody Fool, In It For Life / Deceived / Shock Treatment
 * When Gods Burn / Awakening / Screaming Bloody Murder / Being And Nothing / One Truth One Hate / No Longer As Slaves

Other Shows Played

 * 18 May 1988 (Rockradio): 'Only In It For The Music (split LP with Chaos U.K.-Radioactive)' (Manic Ears)
 * 30 May 1988: 'False Profit (LP-Peel Sessions)' (Strange Fruit)
 * 01 June 1988 (Rockradio): 'Another Nail In the Coffin (12" EP-The Peel Session)' (Strange Fruit)
 * 21 June 1988: 'Subliminal Music (Mind Control) (split LP with Filthkick-In It For Life)' (Sink Below)
 * 23 October 1989: 'Subliminal Music (Mind Control) (split LP with Filthkick-In It For Life)' (Sink Below)
 * 26 October 1989 (BBC World Service): 'Subliminal Music (Mind Control) (split LP with Filthkick-In It For Life)' (Sink Below)
 * 14 December 1989 (Rockradio): 'Punk, Fact Or Faction (split LP with Filthkick-In It For Life)' (Sink Below)
 * 23 August 1990: 'Work For Never (LP-Peel Sessions)' (Strange Fruit)
 * 07 December 1991: 'Knee Deep In Shit (LP-Phonophobia)' (Vinyl Japan)
 * (JP: 'Ipswich should be proud of them. We should be proud to have them live amongst us, as a matter of fact. That’s Extreme Noise Terror, and nobody does it better, they really don’t.')


 * 08 December 1991: 'Lame Brain (LP-Phonophobia)' (Vinyl Japan)
 * 21 December 1991: 'Knee Deep In Shit (LP-Phonophobia)' (Vinyl Japan)
 * 26 December 1991 (Radio Mafia): 'Knee Deep In Shit (LP-Phonophobia)' (Vinyl Japan)
 * 04 January 1992: '3 A.M. Eternal' (private cassette)
 * (JP: 'It seems about 3 or 4 weeks ago Bill Drummond was listening to this programme, in his bath it was the way it was told to me, and he heard me playing a track by Extreme Noise Terror, and he had the idea of getting them to work with him and the KLF, to rerecord 3AM Eternal for the Christmas Top Of The Pops. Now if you watched the Christmas Top Of The Pops, you'll know that this actually never got shown, but I was sent an acetate of it, which disappeared into the internal Radio 1 Christmas post, and has not as yet resurfaced. So this afternoon before the match at Portman Road I met up with Dean from Extreme Noise Terror and he gave me his tape of it.')


 * 11 January 1992: '3 A.M. Eternal' (acetate)
 * 19 January 1992: '3 A.M. Eternal' (acetate) (Peel wanted to reveal the winners of a singles competition to win this, but he hasn't physically got his hands on the prizes yet)
 * 15 February 1992: 'Lame Brain (LP-Phonophobia)' (Vinyl Japan)
 * 20 February 1992 (Radio Mafia): 'Self Decay (12" EP-Phonophobia)' (Discipline)
 * 24 August 1992 (BFBS): 'You Take Part In Creating This System (7"-Discharged: From Home Front To War Front)' (Allied)
 * 06 January 1997 (John Peel's Classic Sessions): 'Shock Treatment' (from session #3)
 * 18 September 1997 (BFBS): 'Damage 381 (CD-Damage 381)' (Earache)
 * 10 June 1999: 'False Profit (LP-Peel Sessions)' (Strange Fruit)
 * 02 January 2001: 'Through Mayhem (LP-Being And Nothing)' (Candlelight)
 * 16 January 2001: 'When Gods Burn (LP-Being And Nothing)' (Candlelight)
 * 07 February 2001: 'One Truth, One Hate (LP-Being And Nothing)' (Candlelight)
 * Best Of Peel Vol 40: 'Lame Brain (LP-Phonophobia)' (Vinyl Japan)
 * Best Of 1991 Vol 1: 'Knee Deep In Shit (LP-Phonophobia)' (Vinyl Japan)
 * Best Of 1992 Vol 1: '3 A.M Eternal (7")' (KLF Communications)