This band was everywhere in the 1990s. Not "this band" as in BRAINSICK, but "this band" as in "bands that sounded like this." You can blame Fat Wreck Chords if you like - and you'd easily be able to make a strong case - but this brand of ripping snotty catchy punk with crunchy melodic/metallic guitars was actually everywhere, and BRAINSICK is a damn decent example of the right way to do it. Make no mistake; I'm not suggesting that anyone do this ever again (I saw a band in Reno back in July who perfectly demonstrated why no one should). But I am suggesting that popping in BRAINSICK's 1997 demo was a sub-six minute nostalgic blast, because driving west on I-40 with MULTIPLE CHOICE in that shitty brown Ford in 1994....? We would have blasted the shit out of this.
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