YDI A Place In The Sun / Black Dust 2LP mutant hardcore punk kilslug void NEW

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YDI A Place In The Sun / Black Dust 2 x LP

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(Southern Lord)
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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
     Hands down my most eagerly anticipated release from Southern Lord this year, this double Lp reissues the complete discography of mutant Philly punks YDI (pronounced "why die"). In the mid 1980s, these maniacs cranked out a handful of releases that featured their particularly frenzied brand of hardcore punk, starting out as a feral thrash outfit but then evolving into something much heavier and much more fucked-up towards the end of their career.
     It's that early stuff that makes up the first LP in this set, which collects the demo, the A Place In The Sun 7", and the tracks from the Get Off My Back compilation (all released in 1983). This stuff fucking shreds, a vicious, stumbling hardcore assault with sludgy guitars and screaming solos, jarring tempo changes, and a blown-out, bass-heavy sound, with a singer named Jackal belting out the pissed-off, negatory lyrics in a slurred, burly snarl. In fact, the vocals sound like their being belted out by that gruesome ogre depicted on the cover of Dust, making for one of the more fearsome and fucked-up vocal performances on an 80's hardcore record. Combined with the unhinged, reckless vibe of this stuff, it makes for a savage listening experience, putting this stuff in the same league as other noisy, deranged early 80s hardcore outfits like Void, Mecht Mensch, United Mutation, and Eye For An Eye-era Corrosion Of Conformity. This stuff continues to garner a cult following among fans of raw old-school hardcore, and no wonder - it's goddamn ferocious stuff that just gets more discordant and freaked-out and anxiety ridden the further you get into the demo, with some inspired atonal guitar abuse and crushing sludge-drenched riffs that echo Black Flag at their most deranged, though these guys could belt out something as catchy as their anthemic "Why Die?" amid all of that rampaging, skronky thrash. Awesome.
     But then in 1985, the band seemed to do a complete about-face for their debut full-length album, issuing the notorious Black Dust, which took its name from the street term for a homemade brew of PCP, heroin and formaldehyde and featured a band pic with the members now decked out in leather, spikes and Venom t-shirts. Naturally, many of their fans were pissed, mistakenly calling this out as a sell-out move comparable to other popular hardcore bands "going metal" in a bid for commercial success. But that doesn't seem to be the case here at all. This slab of metallic filth certainly saw the band completely changing their sound and slowing down to a metallic chug, but it's so fucked up and deranged, with sloppy, maniacal guitar solos and an utterly spastic vocal performance, all contributing to a bizarre descent into drug-addled punksludge weirdness. Needless to say, I though this stuff was fucking awesome. Some of the songs sound like a brain-damaged Motorhead, speeding things up to a snarling locomotive boogie; others are a sludgy, almost doom-laden crawl, or have trippy tape noise and effects garbling the beginning of a pummeling power-chug like "Haunted House". It's all supremely hideous and noise-damaged, with a gruesome metallic edge that puts the album in a similar creepzone as bands like Kilslug, Flipper, early Drunks With Guns and In My Head-era Black Flag. I can't blame true-blue hardcore fans for hating this, but Black Dust definitely struck a nerve with more demented fans who dug the album's fucked-up, violent vibe.
     This killer piece of American hardcore weirdness comes with an oversized booklet loaded with photos, artwork and info, making this the definitive vinyl document of one of ther weirder hardcore punk bands to ooze out of the East Coast punk scene of the 1980s. Highly recommended.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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