(tour CD) escape artist. ear 3.1 / 4 tracks / 1999

(CD5, 12”) escape artist. ear 3.3 / 4 tracks / 1999

JAP (2xCD5): ?.? / 13 tracks / ?

Originally released as a tour CD-R, 100 numbered copies made with transparent sleeve and metal mesh cover; 100 numbered CD-Rs with regular sleeve. Reissue is a regular CD5, 3000 made (first press). Third and subsequent pressings of the CD are remixed. 12” pressings: #1 -  Clear (100), white (100), grey (100) and black vinyl (200). #2 - 250 each on dark red with black veins and dark green. #3 - 600 on dark grey. #4 - 500 on clear red, remixed/remastered. 12” versions have a lyric sheet. Japanese double CD edition with alternate sleeve, adds the 7 tracks from Red Sea CD and one unreleased track from 1998 demo (“Hand of Doom”, a Black Sabbath cover).

These songs are among the band’s best. Four long tracks, slow, gloomy, depressive and yet extremely tough, powerful and compact. Still, this is no generic sludgecore noise, there’s a lot of variety within the tracks and even some melodies. Unique style; definitely one of the best records of 1999. [9]

Ursprünglich eine auf 100 limitierte Tour-CD-R, inzwischen aber regulär wiederveröffentlicht. Zum Glück, denn hier finden sich mit die besten Tracks der Band. Vier lange Songs, sehr düster und depressiv, aber kein reines Sludge-Gelärme, sondern sehr differenzierte Musik mit viel Wiedererkennungswert. Ein ziemlich einzigartiger Stil, trotzdem sehr kompakt und kraftvoll.

Tracks: poison eggs / life under the swatter // hive destruction / relocation swarm