SPILTH

 

Rescued this bad boy out of a cardboard box in an attic closet a few months back. You're welcome. 
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Tough to describe SPLITH, even more so with two decades of hindsight. On their face, they could have been a heavy alt proto metal (read: pre Nü Metal) juggernaut, but they came from and existed in the DIY punk realm...where they also didn't quite fit. I feel like I saw them several times and they seemed (at the time) not quite realized (whatever that means). That was with my ears then. I'm listening with today ears today though, and this SPILTH shit is (was...and also is) something special. You're gonna hear things that you are familiar with, from WHITE ZOMBIE to NEUROSIS, but the way these kids took would-be sludge and/or groove metal riffs and made them something completely unique? And made it feel like they belonged at crust and metal shows at the Covered Wagon in 1996? That was something I couldn't appreciate at the time. They were always a force live, and while I listen tonight in a cold apartment with a cat purring contentedly by my side...I am grateful that I was able to see a band that was this ahead of their time while they were still in their time. Three of these tracks were on the 1995 SPILTH *!% EP, and two of them I can't find anywhere else, so naturally I wonder what else was in that box in that closet in that attic....but I can't go back.  

SPILTH