Cost: 99¢
This CD is available for trade.
Very old find I'm just getting around to. This came from a store that gave metal/punk/HC its own separate clearance section, so it may have been a totally blind purchase, but I think I may have seen an ad/review in Pit or similar. I certainly did not know at the time that it was Erik Moggridge's post-Epidemic band.
Weird stuff for sure...to summarize the music, I think it's easiest to break it down into two general parts--there are noisier punk/HC/grind/speedcore elements, and then there are Sabbath-influenced groovy/stoner/sludge elements. These parts are arranged and mixed in various ways, but aside from the mellow final track, there's nothing that really deviates from those elements musically. Vocals are all over the place--I'd say the most used are distorted punkish vox, but there are also various kinds of clean vocals, very Seth Putnam sounding vocals on the opening track, and even some guttural death metal vocals.
The humorous attitude and somewhat schizophrenic fusion of various styles reminds me of a more musically extreme version of what many of the so-called "alternative metal" bands were trying to do when mixing genres, though thankfully there's no funk crap here. There are also some minor similarities to some of the more avant-garde grindcore and sludge bands which came later, although this seems more spontaneously silly and less consciously artsy.
Interesting CD as a listening experience, although the only tracks I came away liking to any extent were the last two--"Daly City Crackhouse" is spastic hardcore (those vocals at 2:15 crack me up), and aforementioned closer "Zero Sky" is kinda doomy and surprisingly contemplative.
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