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Released
  
1996

Artist
  
Sheer Terror

Producer
  
Sheer Terror

Genre
  
Hardcore punk

Length
  
73:15

Release date
  
1996

Label
  
Blackout Records (Europe)

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Recorded
  
1985 – 1988 New York City, USA

Love Songs for the Unloved (1995)
  
No Grounds For Pity demo compilation (1996)

No Grounds For Pity demo compilation (1996)
  
Bulldog Edition compilation (2001)

Similar
  
Sheer Terror albums, Hardcore punk albums

Sheer terror no grounds for pity demo 1986


No Grounds For Pity was a compilation album of early demo material (including a 1986 demo of the same name) by the New York hardcore band, Sheer Terror. The tracks were recorded between 1985 and 1988 and released in Europe on Blackout Records in 1996 – a year after the band made their first major label release, Love Songs For the Unloved, on MCA Records.

Contents

The album demonstrates the heavy metal influenced hardcore punk style of the band and the production is suitably raw – nearly every track initiates with a brief blast of feedback leading to heavily distorted guitar riffs.

Sheer terror no grounds for pity full album


Track listing

  • All songs written by Sheer Terror
  • 1985 demo

    1. "Obsoletion" – 2:04
    2. "Smile For a Price" – 2:53
    3. "Howard Unruh" – 2:29
    4. "Not Giving Up" – 3:02
    5. "Burning Time" – 3:51
    6. "Owe You Nothing" – 2:31
    7. "Into My Life" – 4:31
    8. "Fashion Fighter" – 2:37
    9. "Ready to Halt" – 2:15

    No Grounds For Pity demo

    10. "Owe You Nothing" – 2:30
    11. "Burning Time" – 3:46
    12. "Into My Life" – 4:32
    13. "Not Giving Up" – 2:50
    14. "Only 13" – 2:01
    15. "Obsoletion" – 1:57
    16. "Howard Unruh" – 2:19
    17. "Rome Song" – 1:45

    Fall From Grace demo

    18. "Ashes, Ashes" – 2:29
    19. "Walls" – 2:33
    20. "Ready to Halt" – 2:20
    21. "Only 13" – 2:02
    22. "Into My Life" – 4:28
    23. "Burning Time" – 3:43

    Live 1986

    24. "Smile For a Price" – 3:02
    25. "Everything and Nothing" – 1:51

    1988 demo

    26. "Twisting and Turning" – 2:48

    Credits

  • Paul Bearer – vocals, all tracks
  • Alan Blake – guitar, all tracks
  • Baron "Barry" Misuraca – bass, tracks 1 – 17
  • Mark Neuman – bass, tracks 18 – 26
  • Sam "Reid" Lohman – drums, tracks 1 – 17
  • Jason Martin – drums, tracks 18 – 26
  • Recorded between 1985 – 1988 in New York City, USA
  • Produced by Sheer Terror
  • Miscellanea

  • The back cover contains a misprint in that it lists a 27th track, another version of "Burning Time" which does not actually appear on the album
  • Howard Unruh is a World War II veteran who embarked on a killing spree in 1949
  • References

    No Grounds for Pity Wikipedia