16 January 2014

HOMO ERADICUS


It would be easy for me to overanalyze this tape and try to put it in the context of powerviolence, the late '90s collision between screamo and heavy introspective (but often overindulgent) hardcore and the bubbling cesspool of fastcore mania....but when I heard this tape I just thought it was awesome. Perhaps in retrospect I loved it because I listened to BORN AGAINST and CAVE IN, but I loved it nonetheless. Seattle's HOMO ERADICUS added a stellar EP to my collection before moving on to other bands that you probably already like....but I'll still take these six minutes of magic.


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

You happen to know where this band was from ? Pretty cool stuff !

the wizard said...

Seattle

Anonymous said...

same art as the misery/toxic narcotic split

Anonymous said...

i was in this band. i have the rest of the songs from this sesh if you want them. this blog rules.

Anonymous said...

The tape was released by the band as an edition of 25 copies with handmade covers to sell on their West Coast tour with Cold Sweat in 2002. The art pictured here was commissioned by Josh Hunt (Auto Fact records) for the LP that never came out (the tape was the first half of the record, but Auto Fact was revealed to be an elaborate scam and the record remained incomplete). The band was dismayed by this art... the version that the band put out also had three extra songs. Thank you for posting this.