1. The Blue
2. Tranquilized
3. Cheap Vodka
4. Finger Paintings of the Insane
5. Jezebel
6. Scream of the Butterfly
7. Dr. Seuss is Dead
8. Dope Fiend
9. Toubabo Koomi
10. God Machine
11. The Morticians Flame
12. What Color is Death
13. The Bones of Baby Dolls
14. Cassie Eats Cockroaches
SECOND PRESSING – MYSTERY COLOR VINYL – LIMITED EDITION OF 1000
1. The Uninvited Guest
2. The Sacrifice of Miss Rose Covington
3. Silent Film
4. Sweet Insanity
5. Desert Grave
6. Moonlight City Drive
7. Private Eye
8. The Darkest Days
9. Dead Virgins Don’t Sing
10. The Hitchiker
11. 100 Suicides
12. Adultery
13. Mature Audiences Only
Combine elements of the most disturbing film-noir, metal, hardcore, jazz and ska. Whatever you may call it, Baltimore’s Dog Fashion Disco call it “Movie Metal” and have not only outdone themselves, but have created a concept record to fold, spindle and mutilate all of the aural senses. Adultery delves into the life of an ordinary suburban family man and walks you through his folding to his own dark demons. Lock Quentin Tarantino, Charles Bukowski and Humphrey Bogart in a room with guitars, drums and a few bottles of Absinthe and what you would find closely resembles the genius of Adultery.
1. Welcome Wagon
2. Irrational
3. Ritual Submission
4. Powerslam
5. Sin Eater
6. Penetration Point
7. Puzzled
8. Horizertical
9. Family Circus
1. At Odds With The World
2. Chasing Kerouac’s Ghost
3. Bury Me in South Amherst
4. Dead Eagles, Dead Legends
5. Disconnect Yourself
6. For The Mothers and Fathers of the American Revolution
7. Hopelessly, I Hope
8. There is an Answer to Every Problem
9. Know My Tragedy
10. Kick Ass, Die Young
11. The Greatest of Men are The Most Alone
12. New Living Dead
13. Kids These Days
14. Social Casualties: Refuse to Rot Away
Wreak Havoc means to inflict disorder or chaos, which may be a perfect description for one of the most exciting bands to come onto the scene. Hailing from Cleveland, Ohio, the band has accomplished a ridiculous amount in just two years. Wreak Havoc formed in the spring of 2008 from the remnants of past Cleveland Hardcore band with a common purpose to play fast, honest and intense hardcore. WREAK HAVOC’s sound consists of a unique blend of early down trodden hardcore and fast paced hopeless punk rock.
Following the success of their 2006 album Adultery, Baltimore’s strata-phonic-stage-pounders Dog Fashion Disco kick in your front door to deliver Sweet Nothings. Per the norm, this record challenges the laws of rock physics leaving one to reach for adjectives smart enough to describe it. Calling it experimental would be an insult. Calling it metal would be to do so out of ignorance. To call it a manifestation of a much larger, unresolved condition is about as close as you’ll get to applying syntax to the ineffable and deliciously tantalizing high-watt gravy that inevitably stains your favorite shirt.
Vocalist Todd Smith’s voice effortlessly yawns from frail fourteen year-old girl to agonizing 500-pound fat man gargling broken glass—with the clever lyrics Smith is known for. Lest you forget there are others coming to dinner; Jasan Stepp’s soaring buzz-saw guitars smear a 12-layer juxtaposition across the pork fried freight-train and machine gun-rhythm section of bassist Brian White and drummer John Ensminger. Tenured keyboardist Tim Swanson weaves an audio tapestry of rich sonic delicacies fit for a Hi-Top wearing King. Matt Rippetoe’s saxophone asks for a second helping before the others are even seated. With unwavering energy, Rippetoe parlays himself up to a gush of entrancing melody.
DFD’s illustrious career hearkens back to 1995— a time when some of their peers were still crapping in their Pampers. A much leaner, more fuel-efficient Smith, Ensminger and former guitarist Greg Combs began playing the storied local and regional shows they became known for. It was this tenacity that primed the band for a trio of self-released albums—Erotic Massage and 1998’s Experiments in Alchemy and The Embryo’s in Bloom.
Catapulted in quest of something to amuse, DFD embraced a touring schedule so relentless and unforgiving that bands like Motorhead looked more like a Girl Scout troop on a weekend outing. Saddled with an unscrupulous contempt for remaining static and travel days with the resounding echo of a slow ticking clock, DFD prepared for what would become their major label debut, 2001’s Anarchists Of Good Taste. To much praise ‘Anarchists’ took the band on their first overseas tour. With the release of 2003’s Committed To A Bright Future, life for DFD began to flow with their newly accustomed stream of personnel changes. They subsequently recorded the Day Of The Dead EP as well as The City Is Alive Tonight and DFDVD— their live audio and visual offerings. As with all things wholly organic and naturally aspirated, DFD took a much needed break— lasting only a mere six months.
In 2005 DFD signed with powerhouse indie label Rotten Records and in 2006 released the critically acclaimed album Adultery. With both band and label working overtime, DFD created what is arguably a new standard in the art of touring. To the degree that a former Rotten Records executive surreptitiously contacted the Department of Transportation about having at least a small stretch of highway aptly named after the band— considering the likelihood they were responsible for its changing topography.
In late 2006, Smith announced that Dog Fashion Disco was marching down to posterity and calling it quits. In its wake, the various members involved themselves in different projects. But it was only a matter of time before the power of intellectual metamorphosis prevailed and in 2013 the band regrouped and wrote what would become their seventh studio album, Sweet Nothings. With this album, what was once only suspicion becomes abundantly clear, that Dog Fashion Disco is a band educated far beyond its own capacity. Educated in the verbose and rhetorical phrasings, musings by instrument and larger than life presence that comprise Dog Fashion Disco. Nonetheless Sweet Nothings, like DFD themselves, is a sum much greater than its parts—and what blatant disregard to convention looks like. In the tradition of self-nurturing, spoil yourself and bask in their latest audio spa treatment. Because it’s likely they’ll be darkening the doorways of your town at dinner time soon enough.
1. The Blue
2. Tranquilized
3. Cheap Vodka
4. Finger Paintings of the Insane
5. Jezebel
6. Scream of the Butterfly
7. Dr. Seuss is Dead
8. Dope Fiend
9. Toubabo Koomi
10. God Machine
11. The Morticians Flame
12. What Color is Death
13. The Bones of Baby Dolls
14. Cassie Eats Cockroaches
Acid Bath:
Dax Riggs (vocals)
Mike Sanchez (guitar, tambourine)
Sammy Duet (guitar, background vocals)
Audie Pitre (bass, background vocals)
Jimmy Kyle (drums)
Recording information: Side One, Metairie, LA.
Acid Bath’s debut is a malicious and sometimes downright disturbing album that defies easy categorization. They stitch together elements of death metal, ’70s hard rock, thrashing hardcore punk and Black Sabbath-esque sludge into multi-sectioned songs that are both intricate and often surprisingly melodic. The production, especially the compressed drums and often-processed vocals, adds an industrial feel that increases the album’s menacing vibe. “The Blue” kicks things off with a bluesy swamp metal riff before smoothly winding its way through a maze of tempo and riff change-ups, while the closer, “Cassie Eats Cockroaches,” weaves spoken word samples and screaming vocals in and out of complex, Southern-flavored death metal riffing and precision double-bass drumming. Elsewhere, the songs range from full-on assaults (“Cheap Vodka” and “Toubabo Koomi”) to creepy ballads, namely the goth-tinged “Scream of the Butterfly” and the largely acoustic “The Bones of Baby Dolls.” Vocalist Dax Riggs handles this diverse material well, switching between distorted screams and a melodic croon reminiscent of Jim Morrison or Glen Danzig. His not-for-the-squeamish lyrics address such topics as drug abuse, rape, abortion, death, and self-loathing, but for the most part do so in an artful, vividly poetic manner. While it would have been stronger if a few of the weaker songs had been left off, When the Kite String Pops is still an excellent, diverse metal album that remains unlike much else, even years after it release. ~ William York
Editorial reviews:
The lyrics would turn even Trent Reznor’s stomach. In fact, the make Nine Inch Nails immature dabbling in the darker side of human nature seem like a 9-year-old sneaking a peak at daddy’s “Victoria’s Secret” catalog.
SUBJECTS: Death, keeping warm with burning bodies, death, cockroaches, death, necrophilia, death. Not recommended for dinner table conversations. It’s not like you haven’t been warned: two John Wayne “them’s my spurs, little buddy” Gacy paintings grace the CD cover.
GUITARS: (applicable to most of the vocals too) table saws chewing through nail-studded 12-by-12s; magnified electric razors; the rotors of a Jolly Green Giant helicopter slapping into seagulls. Then again, there’s some very accomplished acoustic-flavored picking during the demonic lullabies.
DRUMS: 100 car crashes in a minute.
VOCALS: Medieval, heavy metal canticles floating like angels over a battlefield; choked-out screams(see Guitars above).
The Louisiana bayou fiver brands disturbing, sinister metal into your chest so hard your heart might turn black. If hardcore is the sound of anger, this is the sound of evil.
CATEGORY: Death Metal Gumbo (fins and intestinal casings included).
(09/29/1994)
1. Paegan Love Song
2. Bleed Me an Ocean
3. Graveflower
4. Diab Soule
5. Locust Spawning
6. Old Skin
7. New Death Sensation
8. Venus Blue
9. 13 Fingers
10. New Corpse
11. Dead girl
The AGENTS OF OBLIVION
Featuring Dax Riggs and Mike Sanchez of ACID BATH.
LIMITED EDITION of 1,000 units 180 gram GREEN COLOR Double VINYL.
1. Endsmouth
2. Slave Riot
3. A Song That Crawls
4. Dead Girl
5. Phantom Green
6. The Hangman’s Daughter
7. Ladybug
8. Ash of the Mind
9. Wither
10. Paroled in ’54
11. Anthem (for this haunted city)
12. Cosmic Dancer
13. Big Black Backwards
1. Nocturnal Holocaust
2. Liar of Nastrond
3. Desolate Path to Apocalyptic Ruin
4. The Beauty in Suffering
5. As the Reflection Slowly Fades
6. All the Sins
7. Satan’s Millennium
8. Upon This Deathbed of Cold Fire
9. Gravedom
10. Invert the Virgin
11. Perversions of the Ancient Goat
12. Into a Darker Sun
13. Under a Dark God
14. Commanding the Legions of Hell
15. Graveyards and Dead Angels
Album Notes
Goatwhore: Sammy Duet (vocals, guitar); Ben Stout (guitar); Patrick B. (bass); Zak N. (drums).Additional personnel: Mike Beams (background vocals).Recorded between June & September 1999.Personnel: Ben Stout (guitar); Mike Beams (background vocals).Audio Mixers: Goatwhore; Keith Falgout.Recording information: Festival Studios (06/1999-08/1999).Goatwhore’s lineup includes folks who have played with noted Louisiana metal bands Crowbar (Sammy Duet), Soilent Green (Ben Falgoust, Ben Stout), and Acid Bath (Duet again). However, The Eclipse of Ages Into Black is pretty far removed from any of those bands; this is Goatwhore’s version of the sort of stripped-down black metal usually associated with European acts like Bathory, Celtic Frost, or Darkthrone. The lyrics dwell on darkness, Satan, etc., while the production has a raw, under-produced quality (i.e., little bass or treble, near-ambient guitar distortion) that seems intent on emphasizing atmosphere over sheer heaviness. Falgoust and Duet’s vocals are mainly done in a sickly, mewling rasp very much in keeping with the genre, with the former also adding some somber, half-spoken passages here and there. The band spends most of its time dodging in and out of stop-start grindcore blasts, evil hardcore punk riffs, and the occasional slower melodic breakdown, but occasionally shifts gears into a mid-tempo shuffle that shows Goatwhore’s Southern roots (however European the band’s inspirations may be). One exception to the overall norm is “Invert the Virgin,” which comes across more like a fist-pumping hard rock tune, albeit one dressed up in spiked armbands and a bullet belt. As for the songwriting, there are a few less-than-memorable moments on the album but, on the whole, The Eclipse is a convincing take on the black metal genre, done from a perspective that’s certainly different from the norm. ~ William York
The AGENTS OF OBLIVION
Featuring Dax Riggs and Mike Sanchez of ACID BATH.
2nd Pressing.
LIMITED EDITION of 1,000 units CLEAR GREEN COLOR Double VINYL.
1. Endsmouth
2. Slave Riot
3. A Song That Crawls
4. Dead Girl
5. Phantom Green
6. The Hangman’s Daughter
7. Ladybug
8. Ash of the Mind
9. Wither
10. Paroled in ’54
11. Anthem (for this haunted city)
12. Cosmic Dancer
13. Big Black Backwards
1. Nocturnal Holocaust
2. Liar of Nastrond
3. Desolate Path to Apocalyptic Ruin
4. The Beauty in Suffering
5. As the Reflection Slowly Fades
6. All the Sins
7. Satan’s Millennium
8. Upon This Deathbed of Cold Fire
9. Gravedom
10. Invert the Virgin
11. Perversions of the Ancient Goat
12. Into a Darker Sun
13. Under a Dark God
14. Commanding the Legions of Hell
15. Graveyards and Dead Angels
Album Notes
Goatwhore: Sammy Duet (vocals, guitar); Ben Stout (guitar); Patrick B. (bass); Zak N. (drums).Additional personnel: Mike Beams (background vocals).Recorded between June & September 1999.Personnel: Ben Stout (guitar); Mike Beams (background vocals).Audio Mixers: Goatwhore; Keith Falgout.Recording information: Festival Studios (06/1999-08/1999).Goatwhore’s lineup includes folks who have played with noted Louisiana metal bands Crowbar (Sammy Duet), Soilent Green (Ben Falgoust, Ben Stout), and Acid Bath (Duet again). However, The Eclipse of Ages Into Black is pretty far removed from any of those bands; this is Goatwhore’s version of the sort of stripped-down black metal usually associated with European acts like Bathory, Celtic Frost, or Darkthrone. The lyrics dwell on darkness, Satan, etc., while the production has a raw, under-produced quality (i.e., little bass or treble, near-ambient guitar distortion) that seems intent on emphasizing atmosphere over sheer heaviness. Falgoust and Duet’s vocals are mainly done in a sickly, mewling rasp very much in keeping with the genre, with the former also adding some somber, half-spoken passages here and there. The band spends most of its time dodging in and out of stop-start grindcore blasts, evil hardcore punk riffs, and the occasional slower melodic breakdown, but occasionally shifts gears into a mid-tempo shuffle that shows Goatwhore’s Southern roots (however European the band’s inspirations may be). One exception to the overall norm is “Invert the Virgin,” which comes across more like a fist-pumping hard rock tune, albeit one dressed up in spiked armbands and a bullet belt. As for the songwriting, there are a few less-than-memorable moments on the album but, on the whole, The Eclipse is a convincing take on the black metal genre, done from a perspective that’s certainly different from the norm. ~ William York
The AGENTS OF OBLIVION
Featuring Dax Riggs and Mike Sanchez of ACID BATH.
3rd Pressing.
Black 180 gram Double VINYL.
1. Endsmouth
2. Slave Riot
3. A Song That Crawls
4. Dead Girl
5. Phantom Green
6. The Hangman’s Daughter
7. Ladybug
8. Ash of the Mind
9. Wither
10. Paroled in ’54
11. Anthem (for this haunted city)
12. Cosmic Dancer
13. Big Black Backwards
1. The Blue
2. Tranquilized
3. Cheap Vodka
4. Finger Paintings of the Insane
5. Jezebel
6. Scream of the Butterfly
7. Dr. Seuss is Dead
8. Dope Fiend
9. Toubabo Koomi
10. God Machine
11. The Morticians Flame
12. What Color is Death
13. The Bones of Baby Dolls
14. Cassie Eats Cockroaches
Acid Bath:
Dax Riggs (vocals)
Mike Sanchez (guitar, tambourine)
Sammy Duet (guitar, background vocals)
Audie Pitre (bass, background vocals)
Jimmy Kyle (drums)
Recording information: Side One, Metairie, LA.
Acid Bath’s debut is a malicious and sometimes downright disturbing album that defies easy categorization. They stitch together elements of death metal, ’70s hard rock, thrashing hardcore punk and Black Sabbath-esque sludge into multi-sectioned songs that are both intricate and often surprisingly melodic. The production, especially the compressed drums and often-processed vocals, adds an industrial feel that increases the album’s menacing vibe. “The Blue” kicks things off with a bluesy swamp metal riff before smoothly winding its way through a maze of tempo and riff change-ups, while the closer, “Cassie Eats Cockroaches,” weaves spoken word samples and screaming vocals in and out of complex, Southern-flavored death metal riffing and precision double-bass drumming. Elsewhere, the songs range from full-on assaults (“Cheap Vodka” and “Toubabo Koomi”) to creepy ballads, namely the goth-tinged “Scream of the Butterfly” and the largely acoustic “The Bones of Baby Dolls.” Vocalist Dax Riggs handles this diverse material well, switching between distorted screams and a melodic croon reminiscent of Jim Morrison or Glen Danzig. His not-for-the-squeamish lyrics address such topics as drug abuse, rape, abortion, death, and self-loathing, but for the most part do so in an artful, vividly poetic manner. While it would have been stronger if a few of the weaker songs had been left off, When the Kite String Pops is still an excellent, diverse metal album that remains unlike much else, even years after it release. ~ William York
Editorial reviews:
The lyrics would turn even Trent Reznor’s stomach. In fact, the make Nine Inch Nails immature dabbling in the darker side of human nature seem like a 9-year-old sneaking a peak at daddy’s “Victoria’s Secret” catalog.
SUBJECTS: Death, keeping warm with burning bodies, death, cockroaches, death, necrophilia, death. Not recommended for dinner table conversations. It’s not like you haven’t been warned: two John Wayne “them’s my spurs, little buddy” Gacy paintings grace the CD cover.
GUITARS: (applicable to most of the vocals too) table saws chewing through nail-studded 12-by-12s; magnified electric razors; the rotors of a Jolly Green Giant helicopter slapping into seagulls. Then again, there’s some very accomplished acoustic-flavored picking during the demonic lullabies.
DRUMS: 100 car crashes in a minute.
VOCALS: Medieval, heavy metal canticles floating like angels over a battlefield; choked-out screams(see Guitars above).
The Louisiana bayou fiver brands disturbing, sinister metal into your chest so hard your heart might turn black. If hardcore is the sound of anger, this is the sound of evil.
CATEGORY: Death Metal Gumbo (fins and intestinal casings included).
(09/29/1994)
Acid Bath – Paegan Terrorism Tactics Limited Edition Mystery Color Vinyl Double Album
1. Paegan Love Song
2. Bleed Me an Ocean
3. Graveflower
4. Diab Soule
5. Locust Spawning
6. Old Skin
7. New Death Sensation
8. Venus Blue
9. 13 Fingers
10. New Corpse
11. Dead girl
STREET DATE APRIL 28, 2023
Born out of the last vestiges of the noxious decaying Seattle punk rock scene hatched a rotten smelly little egg and inside lurked a band louder than Thor’s hammer dropped into the pits of hell and hungry for the rotting carcasses of its vanquish enemies. With a foul smell and an evil disposition, former members of some of the more notorious bands in town developed a sound like Motorhead stuck in a tar pit burning for eternity. New record. What a weird hill to die on, out on Rotten Records Come and get it.
1. Long Haired Country Boy
2. Lies
3. Path of the Dead
4. Coughing on the House of Cards
5. Paleozoic/Corpse Shoveler
6. Hammer Coming Down
7. The Reckoning
STREET DATE APRIL 28, 2023
Born out of the last vestiges of the noxious decaying Seattle punk rock scene hatched a rotten smelly little egg and inside lurked a band louder than Thor’s hammer dropped into the pits of hell and hungry for the rotting carcasses of its vanquish enemies. With a foul smell and an evil disposition, former members of some of the more notorious bands in town developed a sound like Motorhead stuck in a tar pit burning for eternity. New record. What a weird hill to die on, out on Rotten Records Come and get it.
1. Long Haired Country Boy
2. Lies
3. Path of the Dead
4. Coughing on the House of Cards
5. Paleozoic/Corpse Shoveler
6. Hammer Coming Down
7. The Reckoning
Black vinyl 140 gram double LP, Gatefold sleeve
Side One
King Biscuit Theme
Baby How Can You Do It
Mop Mop
Hot Roddin Daddy
Side 2
Too Much Trouble Blues
Don’t Get Crazy On Me
Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Side 3
Long Skirt Baby Blues
Big Legged Mama
Lightning’s Boogie
The Hideaway
Side 4
The Mule
Do The Boogie
The Hucklebuck
Mystery Color vinyl 140 gram double LP, Gatefold sleeve. Several random colors, clear, swirls, LIMITED EDITION of 300.
Side One
King Biscuit Theme
Baby How Can You Do It
Mop Mop
Hot Roddin Daddy
Side 2
Too Much Trouble Blues
Don’t Get Crazy On Me
Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Side 3
Long Skirt Baby Blues
Big Legged Mama
Lightning’s Boogie
The Hideaway
Side 4
The Mule
Do The Boogie
The Hucklebuck
PITCH BLACK FORECAST – As The World Burns-VINYL LP NEW Sealed – MUSHROOMHEAD GENE HOGLAN JMANN
Side One:
Open Letter To God
Landmine
Season In Hell
As The World Burns
Hearts Of Darkness
Side Two:
Dialtone
So Low
Atonement
Wrapped In Plastic
Ornament
Lighthouse
Ferocious Records Pressing. Now on Rotten Records, Rotten pressing coming in the future
PITCH BLACK FORECAST – As The World Burns- LIMITED EDITION of 100 RED COLOR VINYL LP NEW Sealed – MUSHROOMHEAD GENE HOGLAN JMANN
Side One:
Open Letter To God
Landmine
Season In Hell
As The World Burns
Hearts Of Darkness
Side Two:
Dialtone
So Low
Atonement
Wrapped In Plastic
Ornament
Lighthouse
Ferocious Records Pressing. Now on Rotten Records, Rotten pressing coming in the future