witching hour records. whr 16 / 6 tracks / 1999

#1 - 800 on black vinyl with regular cover, with either two one-sided or one two-sided lyric sheet(s). #2 - 200 on orange-yellow/white swirl vinyl with the two lyric sheets glued to the inner sleeve, same cover like #1. #3 - 300 black copies in an even nicer 3-color tour sleeve. #4 - Very limited hand-screened (tour?) sleeve, black paper with copper printing. #5 - Around 20 copies made with flimsy xerox sleeve (“tour series”), completely different sleeve design.

Extreme and experimental hardcore by two of the scene’s most interesting bands. Complex screamo by IFPS with spacy ambient sections and clever keyboard use. US dissolve the grind/emo pattern even further - free-jazz complexity, still with lots of power and anger. A must have if you’re fed up with simple NY mosh core. [9]

Extremer und experimenteller Hardcore von zwei der interessantesten Bands, die die Screamo-Szene zu bieten hatte. IFPS spielen komplexen Screamo mit spacigen Ambientpassagen und wirklich cleverem Keyboardeinsatz. US lösen das Emo/Grind-Muster noch weiter auf, manchmal ist das fast schon Free Jazz - aber eben immer noch mit Power und viel Wut. Pflichtplatte.

Tracks: Index for Potential Suicide - a bag of mustard and water / number 4 // Usurp Synapse - i’m a fufucking vavavampire / what would you say if i said i love you / i was born with a hard-on / upenya