(12”) lengua armada. 13 / 20 tracks / 1997

(10”) NL: coalition. / aug 1999

First press: 1000 made on black vinyl; + lyric poster, 333 on clear vinyl in metal sleeve, numbered on the labels. Second press: 600 made - please supply info. Third press: 1400 made - please supply info. Fourth press: Dutch 10” version; 100 made on white vinyl in silk screened 12” sleeve (“Metal Fest Edition”), unknown number on black with poster and sticker.

Their first and only LP. Easily their best release, it’s got everything that made them famous - ultra fast hardcore with a screechy singer, absurd prank calls at Tower Records and of course Charles Bronson samples. It still amazes me how they manage to smuggle in cool little melody fragments even into their wildest songs. Also, the song structures is a bit more complex than on their previous releases. A classic. [9]

Erste und einzige LP der Midwest-Chaos-Thrasher. Für mich ihre beste Platte, weil alles drauf ist, was sie berühmt gemacht hat - ultraschnelles Gehacke am Rande des Wahnsinns, absurde Prank Calls bei der lokalen Tower Records Filiale und natürlich Charles Bronson Samples. Faszinierend ist für mich immer wieder, wie die Band es immer wieder schafft, ein bißchen Melodie in die Songs einzuschmuggeln; hier ist auch die Songstruktur etwas komplexer als bei den älteren Sachen. Klassiker.

Tracks: marriage can suck it / youth attack! / the painful, yet unavoidable, death star comparison / xdumbfucksx / too much of a good thing / standing in front of bulldog records / stock footage / pre(im)mature retirement plan / the only time i think about romance is when i wonder why i don’t think about it / deaf and dumb // fuck technology, i’ll keep my pocket change / red and green make yellow / let’s start another war so i can sing about stopping it / i just can’t avoid the VOID in avoid / wastoid on the celluloid / shrinkage / close encounters of the nerd kind / IQ32 / punch drunk / the tears of a clone.