No Sanctuary (album)

No Sanctuary
Studio album by Amebix
Released	November 1983 (1983-11)
Genre	Crust punk post-punk
Length	26:35
Label	Spiderleg Records
Amebix chronology
Who's the Enemy (1982) No Sanctuary (1983) Arise! (1985)

No Sanctuary is the first album by the British crust punk band Amebix. ^[1] It was released in November 1983 through Spiderleg Records. It entered the Independent Albums Chart at No. 12 on 26 November 1983. ^[2]

The music is one of the earliest examples of crust punk, and combines it with post-punk. ^{[3] [4]} The album artwork is a photograph by Dmitri Baltermants (titled "Grief") that depicts a 1942 Nazi massacre of Jews in the Crimean city of Kerch.

The album was re-released as part of the compilation No Sanctuary: The Spiderleg Recordings in 2008 on Alternative Tentacles.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Battery Humans"	4:05
2.	"Control"	4:02
3.	"Progress?"	3:35
4.	"Sanctuary"	3:56
5.	"The Church Is for Sinners"	3:16
6.	"Sunshine Ward"	5:48
7.	"Moscow Madness" (instrumental)	1:53

Personnel

• The Baron Rockin von Aphid (Rob Miller) — bass, vocals
• Stig Da Pig (Chris Miller) — guitar
• Virus (Neil Worthington) — drums
• Norman — keyboard

References

1. Miller, Rob (February 2008). No Sanctuary - The Spiderleg Recordings (booklet). San Francisco: Alternative Tentacles. p. 7. VIRUS 382.
2. Burbeck, Rodney, ed. (26 November 1983). "Top Albums" (PDF). Music Week . London: Morgan-Grampian plc. p. 41. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
3. Von Havoc, Felix (1 January 1984). "Rise of Crust". Profane Existence. Archived from the original on 15 June 2008. Retrieved 16 June 2008.
4. Chenu, Claire; Pérès, Sophie; Munier, Thomas; Emeraud, Yannick; Cherel, Benoit; Boudaud, Sebastien (March 2013). "The War". Altaride Chronicles (10): 16. We will throw ourselves to the ground under the noise of the gusts of automatic with the post-punk crust of Amebix: No Sanctuary