rare INTEGRITY Palm Sunday Live LP / Isis Dwid Neurosis
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super rare, controversial INTEGRITY Palm Sunday Live LP
AURORA BOREALIS RECORDS ABX003 Summer 2005 edition of 500 copies
the record is in very good condition, vinyl matrix reads "this aint no warm leatherette" & "cleveland eats its own"
In this day and age of instant gratification and internet based impatience, it's strange to imagine that underground music used to flourish without the aid of chatrooms, downloads and blogspots. Thanks to a network of tape traders, fanzines and mailorder, word used to travel and fame was spread a little slower. But, sometimes, through the aid of chinese whispers, anti-heros were established before a lick of music was ever heard.
INTEGRITY came into existence in the second wave of American Hardcore in the late Eighties. Eshewing the crewcuts, sportswear, and youthcrew positivity of their peers, The Cleveland combo set out on an altogether different path. Combining the anger of hardcore with imagery and demon-conjuring of Slayer and Black Sabbath, INTEGRITY were altogether a more evil beast, inspiring love and hatred in equal degree amongst an increasingly narrow minded scene and their conservative musical tastes. And boy, could they kick up controversy. Not a week would go by without some scandalous behaviour (some myth, some truth) doing the gossip rounds.
The particular show documented here in limited edition blood red vinyl, is just one such example. Yes, this is the stuff of true infamy - the one where the "kid got stabbed" (allegedly) and the one where "Dwid shot someone" (allegedly). As live albums go, you could compare this to Hardcore's own "Metallic KO" - a true classic dripping with violence, menace and wrongdoing.
As an archive recording, you are not gonna get studio trickery, overdubs or pristine performances mimicking the studio album's sounds perfectly. What you are gonna get is the definitive lineup of one of the greatest hardcore bands of all time showing you exactly why, some 13 years on, INTEGRITY still live on. And how they inspired the legions of "metalcore" bands that came thereafter.
The Dawn Of A New Apocalypse indeed.
SALIENT POINTS:
- 500 copies only on blood red vinyl. You snooze, you lose.
- Stunning packaging featuring suitably controversial artwork by Jo Ratcliffe (SUNN0))), CAPRICORNS etc.)
- This is the first ever officially sanctioned INTEGRITY live album.
- The definitive band line-up playing everyone's favourite songs from the early days.
- Hilarious and foreboding in-between song banter.
FOR FANS OF: RINGWORM, CONFRONT, SLAYER, violence and evil in general.
I will ship worldwide.
Europe: €8,-
Overseas: €10,-
Austria: €6,-
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