Where bought?: Given to me by my friend Florian in Metz. It is his band from his youth.
A single-sided 12" and reissued in 2015 is the band's only 'album' though there is a cassette of the Vitry-sur-Orne band's entire discography (30 songs) out there somewhere. At a certain point of abrasive hardcore I don't really know which bands to compare it to: sure they're named after a Botch song but I feel that this is drawing more from more obscure stuff on Gravity and ThreeOneG.
It is a really impressive recording and if you like the idea of post-hardcore that sounds laced with nitric acid, then I recommend Dead for a Minute to you. They sound ready to break the moorings of song form at any moment, which for me was one of the shortcomings of this general soundword/social culture: that it never quite transgressed, was only interested in musical difference or becoming something inward.
But yeah I mean this is as good if not better than a lot of the US contemporaries. There's a sense of purpose and cruelty in their playing that I don't get from some of the jocks with Mesa Boogies that characterised rock in late 90s DIY spaces.
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