The Apostles were an experimental post-punk band from the 1980s anarcho-punk scene in the UK. (This album is embossed with the anti-commercial notice "Pay No More Than $7.00.")
The group had much respect from notable members of the original anarcho-punk movement such as Crass with whom the band co-operated during the squatting of the Zig-Zag Club and running of the (Wapping) Anarchy Centre and (Westbourne Park) Centro Iberico venues, and Conflict who released a single and album by The Apostles on their Mortarhate label.
Side A has a runout grove sentiment that is a Lovecraftian echo of the pagan title: "cthulhu r'lyeh hail discordia"
Side B: "Jess Hopkins Told Us Do It"
Side B includes The Iron Brotherhood Trio with a three-song medley.
Basically Jess Hopkins is Iron Brotherhood. He provides the lyrics, rhythms and the vocals, although various other musicians are involved in his demos and in the backing tapes for his live 'displays'. Musically he aims for a sparse black and white sound, to form a basic framework for his lyrics. These, like the written work which he also produces, concentrate largely on fetishism, violence, insanity, death, degradation and the DHSS. Disjointed, hysterical and very, very strange.
(The Cut, 1987)
