{"id":495,"date":"2012-01-24T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=495"},"modified":"2025-04-08T22:58:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T22:58:45","slug":"baltimore-grab-bag-immortal-paradigm-12-mission-when-thunder-comes-lp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/baltimore-grab-bag-immortal-paradigm-12-mission-when-thunder-comes-lp\/","title":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE GRAB BAG: Immortal- Paradigm 12” & Mission- When Thunder Comes LP"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been hearing some rumblings about Mediafire as well, and though various articles claim that Mediafire won’t be changing its service plan, I’ve heard some contradictory reports and have seen some accounts deleted over the past few days. So with that in mind, I’m going to post a few things over the next few days to get them off my chest just in case something goes down between now and then. Call me paranoid, but why hoard this stuff!<\/p>\n

Here we have two post-punk records from Baltimore, Maryland.<\/p>\n

First up, we have an immaculate rip of Immortal’s Paradigm<\/em> 12” from 1988, previously featured on the always excellent Return to the East<\/a> blog. Very Danse Society\/Killing Joke-esque tribal post-punk here, with plenty of ghosty hooks that make it an essential listen. Not to be confused with the Dutch band<\/a> of the same name.<\/p>\n

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Immortal- Paradigm<\/em> 12” (1988)
\n1. Scale
\n2. Solvent
\n3. Print
\n4. Morning<\/p>\n

Secondly, here’s an LP that’s flown under the radar over the years, and is still rather affordable for those interested in acquiring a copy. I recently included the title track from this LP on Systems of Romance vol. 5<\/a>, plucked from the 8 Essential Attitudes<\/em> compilation, but I’ve since tracked down the LP of the same name, and it’s more impressive than I expected. Almost a more new wave\/pop take on Bauhaus, or if that analogy doesn’t work for you, a harder-hitting version of the VHF<\/a> album. You can get their first LP here<\/a>, if the link is still up and running. Not to be confused with the post-Sisters of Mercy band of the same name! Apparently, the band changed its name to When Thunder Comes to avoid confusion with those guys, and are still active to date, with a more heavy sound. You can read more about that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Mission- When Thunder Comes<\/em> LP (1986)
\n1. When Thunder Comes
\n2. Broken Promises
\n3. Underground
\n4. River
\n5. Long Way Back
\n6. Lost Religion
\n7. The Bell Tolls
\n8. We Were There
\n9. This Train
\n10. Make The Man<\/p>\n

*download BOTH records here<\/a>*<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for more over the next few days!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been hearing some rumblings about Mediafire as well, and though various articles claim that Mediafire won’t be changing its service plan, I’ve heard some contradictory reports and have seen some accounts deleted over the past few days. So with that in mind, I’m going to post a few things over the next few days […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,144,163,703,648,110,183,19,3,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-144","category-163","category-baltimore","category-goth","category-goth-rock","category-new-wave","category-post-punk","category-synth","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6253,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/6253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}