Metallic and vaguely "tough" HC of the variety that seemed to be omnipresent at various small town VFW shows between about 1994-1999 but seemed to die out completely as soon as the year 2000 hit... I actually saw this band a bunch of times when I was younger, but I hadn't thought about them in ages before this video popped up in my youtube recommendations this morning.
YMMV, but this was a welcome hit of nostalgia.
Woke up with this song stuck in my head this morning which is sort of weird 'cos I don't think I've listened to the album in well over a decade. Great riff and surprisingly on-point lyrics.
The comic nerd in me wonders if that's an Alex Ross painting on the cover, but, as is often the case, I'm way too fucking lazy to google it.
Aw man, I missed the news when it happened but I guess the singer of Knut passed away last month. Sad to hear it, they were one of my favorite bands of all time. RIP.
Ok, I'm "officially" better... So fuck it, I'm back.
Let's start things off weird with six tracks of heavy industrial from members of Axioma (who are one of my favorite bands going right now), Exorcisme. and Ancient VVisdom.
If you can imagine a cross between Skinny Puppy, Youth Code, Hide, and Corrections House with an added splash of blackened evil you've got a pretty good idea of what's happening here... It's definitely a pretty strange combo, but it's also pretty fucking rad.
Side note: Is it just me or does the weird little vocal melody on "Destroy Forever" (you'll know the one I'm talking about) make anyone else feel like these guys are about to bust into the heaviest cover of Prince's "7" the world has ever heard?
Uptempo (bordering on grindy in places) metallic hardcore from NV that kinda reminds me of a cross between heavy southwestern stuff like Gehenna and Unruh and a significantly burlier take on what some of the screechy/ spazzy 90's CA bands like The Locust and Jenny Piccolo were doing.
Pulled this album out on a whim for the first time in almost 20 years a couple weeks ago, then it came up in conversation with a friend yesterday which reminded me that I should rip it and throw it on my iPod so I don't forget about it for another two decades.
These guys released a bunch of other stuff, including two or three full lengths and a couple of EPs on Revelation Records that should be fairly easy to track down, but this album is far and away my favorite thing they ever did.
"We're turning into robots and no one seems to care."
Since I just mentioned them in that Clockwork post here's some Overdose to hopefully help you limp your tired ass across that Friday-afternoon finish line and home to whatever couch/ TV/ internet configuration you plan to cancel plans from this weekend... I have been singing the praises of this band in general, and this album in particular for the past 25 years, but no one ever seems to give a fuck.
Oh well, your loss.
Seriously though, this is an absolutely killer and sorely fucking underrated slab of mid 90's tribal thrash with an edge of punch-press industrial groove and a whole lot of energy and style.
Equal parts Coroner, Clockwork, and later era Cyclone Temple. Hard to fucking argue with that. And yeah, I guess you could even sorta compare this to Sepultura "Roots"... Well, except for the fact that "Progress of Decadence" came out almost three full years earlier.
