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1983: grasshoppers reigned over the drying crust of Wanniassa. Meanwhile, at Plaza Music in the infinitesimal suburb of Woden, Mick Sarantos and Damian McDonald met over the poster rack and instantly hated each other. Vowing to curse each other’s bones to Beelzebub, they formed a band. BATTLEAXE broke new ground with its searing concrete stage props and lightning fast piss breaks. A move to Sydney saw scotch opened and a new band. WARSPITE tunnelled to more new ground and a new sound, but the singer’s breath of putridity let them down. With the help of the Greek mafia, DETRIMENT was formed, and they became the tightest drinkers in the Sydney thrash scene. As with all the late 80s, early 90s thrashers of Sydney, the boys woke up hungover (some still drunk) in a park in Kings Cross on a blearing Sunday morning and decided they were sick of paying for their drummer’s religious icon collecting habit. Sarantos and McDonald, not satisfied with packing tampons into boxes at the local