These sounds so permeated the '90s that a millennial punk would be excused for not delving into the nuances that distinguish the first FACE TO FACE record from SCREECHING WEASEL and GRIMPLE's Up Your Ass. Of course the three are worlds apart, but...I'm just saying. FUCKFACE played a really weird show in Nogales in 1996 - massive stage so tall that attendees had to stand thirty feet back just to see the bands. One four channel vocal PA to power guitars, vocals and a wholly unnecessary snare drum mic. Don't remember who played (hell, it might have been LA MERMA), but I traded one of our shirts with a neighborhood dude on the street for the shirt off his back - a weird skull and the name of the town twisted into a crude Metallica logo that read NOGALES - Where Shit Happens. We didn't get into any shit that night, but I wore that shirt for fukkn years. Anyway...file LA MERMA alongside aggressive and melodic late '90s hardcore and punk bands, not entirely unlike the ones I mentioned earlier, and know that they came from a place where shit happened.
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