Super rad Motorhead, Tank, and Discharge worship from Canada. This band sounds as if they were frozen in a time capsule in 1985 and let out in the mid-2000s. As far as retro worship bands go, this is about as good as it gets. If you dig Midnight, punk, metal, studded jackets, not working, and Escape From New York I'm sure you'll be all about this.
Plasmatics- "Coup D'Etat"
The Plastmatics' one and only major label release with Capitol, 1982's Coup d'Etat was the band's finest hour and truly captured their unique and underrated blend of rock, metal, shock, and punk. Underneath all the chainsaws, exploding TVs, nudity, and general absurdity there are some really great and memorable songs on this. Wendy O Williams will always be an underrated and genuinely diverse vocalist to me. There could never be another band like this again. Worship.
Scorn- "Colossus"
1993's "Colossus" was Scorn's second release on Earache and if you aren't familiar with this you need to change that. Nick Bullen and Mick Harris, formerly of Napalm Death, let their dark ambient and electronic roots pour out on this one and what you get is the kind of Killing Joke, Throbbing Gristle, Swans style that genuinely tries to make you as uncomfortable as humanly possible...and succeeds.
Lazerhawk - "Redline"
This is, for my money, the best of the current wave (no pun intended) of retro-synthwave music. Lazerhawk is a synth artist from Austin, TX whose music is a perfect throwback to 80s synth. If you like 80s action / horror / exploitation films like Miami Connection, Cobra, Deadbeat at Dawn, classic "beat em up" games like Street Fighter, Final Fight, Streets of Rage, and the music of John Carpenter, you'll probably love this.
- Joe