TRUST: Repression LP (1980 English version contains “Antisocial” + “Sects” later covered by Anthrax ) Check VIDEOS. NICKO McBRAIN (Iron Maiden) on Drums

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Tracklist
1. Antisocial TRUST
2. Mister Comedy
3. In the Name of the Race
4. Death Instinct TRUST
5. Walk Alone TRUST
6. Paris Is Still Burning
7. Pick Me Up, Put Me Down TRUST
8. Get Out Your Claws
9. Sects TRUST
10. Le Mitard (French Version)

Not only was Trust one of the few French bands able to cross their country frontiers, but they also made it without having to drop their native language or their half-punk, half-heavy metal ethics along the way. And that saying something. Formed in 1977 the band came up up a mix of influences, the most obvious of which might be AC/DC (with whom they toured a bit) and early Iron Maiden. But if Trust was musically a shiny killing machine (thanks, mainly, to Nono guitar playing abilities and firepower), a large part of their appeal came from Bernie energy and socially concerned lyrics, which earned them occasional censorship. If their most famous hit remains “”Antisocial”” (covered in 1988 by New York thrashers Anthrax on their State of Euphoria LP), the early days Trust actually came up with a whole bunch of molotov cocktails. It was all about fingerpointing the greedy boss, the abusive policeman, the broadcasted lesson-giver, the hypocrisy-driven religious man, and singing for the weak, the poor, the abused. That may have been the key to their success, but it was sincere. They reached their popularity heights with 1980 LP Repression.

5.0 out of 5 stars ANTISOCIAL
The confirmation! TRUST pushes further the limits already established with their first LP, and nobody is laughing any-more
Now we have to take into account these young people who don’t hesitate to provoke and to give their opinions with noise.
And they will take advantage of this position to cross the borders and to share their music with the world in releasing an English version of this LP.
Radio and TV show more and more interest in them and these ones will make a popular hymn of “”Antisocial””.
It right that the ones who discredited TRUST in 1979 now flatter them. What a great step made in only one year. The sound is more elaborated, the songs are still engaged and the band shoot at all the issues, in particular with “”M.Comedy””, “”Pick Me Up, Put Me Down””, “”Sects””
And they also use an extract of Jacques MESRINE book, in order to write “”Le Mitard”” ( Jacques MESRINE was the French public enemy no1 at this moment ).
They begin to be censorship victims because they disturb during President GISCARD years.
From this LP, the following tracks will remain in the fans memory : “”M.Comedy””, “”Paris Is Still Burning””, “”Le Mitard””, “”Death Instinct”” and of course “”Antisocial””.

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb! Magnifique! Brilliant album. Great music. Snarling guitars that ooze sleaze, anger and hope. Performed with energy and belief, this album was, and still is, ahead of its time. Politics haven’t sounded so exciting!

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic early eighties’ Heavy Metal This album is in my humble opinion, a classic of its time. Heavy Metal belted out with all the aggression and power of seventies’ Punk. I’m convinced that had this band been British they would have been huge all over the world. Repression should be an essential addition to anyone collection along with “Iron Maiden”,”Wheels of Steel”,”Ace of Spades” and all those other classic NWOBHM albums of that time. This album includes the brilliant “Antisocial”,the English version being covered by Anthrax.