Music Album: Anthony And The Boulevard / 2 Minutes For Crosschecking
Album Release Date: November 1996
Music Genre: Electronic Jazz Rock Noise Experimental Grindcore Post Rock Ambient Dark Ambient Avant-garde Jazz Avantgarde
Record Label: Cascade Records (4)
Album Release Country: United States
Music Record Type: 2 Tracks Vinyl 7"
Grind pranksters congregate until they're much too loud
Comedy grind band 7000 Dying Rats made short work of Venom, Thin Lizzy, and the theme from Beverly Hills: 90210 on their last couple of records, frequent tour partners Anal Cunt got a taste of their own medicine on "Anal Cunt Is Gay," and a triumphant opening performance for Dio nearly got the band run out of their own hometown. These guys take acting infantile as seriously as Neil Hamburger takes his non-sequitur punch lines. No sacred cow is too tender to gore—or, in the case of the group's infamous backyard party "tribute to black metal," get butchered and nailed to a homemade cross.
Black Sabbath (via a banjo arrangement of "Paranoid") and KISS (the stadium-sized parody "Rock n Roll Weapon") get the typical derisive 7KDR treatment on Season in Hell. As usual, half of the fun comes from parsing the song titles, identifying the parody targets, and listening to hear how far the Chicago-Detroit collective is willing to carry a one-note joke. Tracks like "Grind Fluffer" and "Jesus Farted" require no further explanation, but "We Had 'Dying' in Our Name Before All Those Metalcore Cocksuckers Came Along"—which reduces the whole genre into one 20-second song-snippet—is unquestionably the band's finest hour. "We are totally bothered by our genius," explains vocalist Josh Diebel, the band's only remaining original member. " (...)
| A | Anthony And The Boulevard | 6:46 |
| 2 Minutes For Cross Checking | 5:56 |
1000 copies pressed, issued with two inserts and a hockey trading card.
Chelsea's Gone Under improvised and recorded in one take during a full moon August twenty eighth nineteen-ninetysix at Woodshed.
The Chelsea's Gone Under song runs at 6:46 but then enters a deliberate endless loop of 2 seconds, repeating an ambient sound.
Catalog numbers derived from matrix.
Vinyl mastering studio uncredited, identified by run-out etchings.
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