wardance. war 006 / 12 tracks / 1993

RI: wardance/gern blandsten records. gern 006 / 1994

RI: gern blandsten records. gern 006 / 2002

Original has printed inner sleeve with lyrics. 2002 reissue is remixed and sounds much better; limited to 550 copies, beautiful silk-screened Pushead artwork. Two cover variations: #1 - Cover has orange/dayglow red/grey background. #2 - Cover has grey/dayglow red/dark red background. Both versions include numbered lyric sheet and an additional print with the original b&w artwork, signed and hand numbered by Pushead. There are two vinyl colors, one is greyish marbled, the other one is purple marbled. They are seemingly not strictly distributed with specific sleeves, I got one of each color in two consecutively numbered copies with the orange cover directly from the label. Test pressing for the reissue: 12 made in sleeve #2, black vinyl, with generic pressing plant labels.

Pitch black, hateful, desperate HC in the style of the Needlepack EP; again with an experimental edge. Fast & brutal and slow & grinding tracks, but always powerful and intense. The reissue is remixed and sounds even better. [9]  

Pechschwarzer und bitterböser Haßcore; vielseitiger und etwas schräger als die Debut-LP (also eher im Stil der Needlepack-EP), trotzdem tonnenschwer und enorm druckvoll. Schnelle Knüppelpassagen wechseln sich mit langsameren Schleif-Passagen ab, intensiv und stockduster ist die Musik aber immer. Hervorragend, für Suizidgefährdete allerdings nicht gerade empfehlenswert.

Tracks: mandible / in ruins / traditional / drawn and quartered / shanks / recurring nightmare #105 / blinders / hemlock / raw nerve / skin culture / cut the wheel / ornaments