Essential live document of what might arguably be the greatest grindcore band ever. Even if you don't subscribe to the idea of Discordance Axis reigning over all of grindcore, this massively influential and hypercreative trio are one of the most revered grind bands of all time, a dizzyingly complex and intricate grind killing machine, fusing abstract lyrics unlike anything else in the grind canon with singer Jon Chang's killer graphic design aesthetic. And yet they never toured, and played what really amounted to just a handful of shows throughout their existence. For all of us (like myself) that never had a chance to witness the frenetic power of Discordance Axis live, Hydra Head issued this killer DVD in 2003 that we just picked up a few copies of for any blastfreaks that haven't gotten this yet.

Pikadourei has a bunch of features that Discordance Axis fans will love, beginning with the 'Tokyo 2001' film that captures a full set from their final Japanese tour with footage that is intensely distressed, the multi-angle shots edited together with distorted film, spastic glitches, frames freezing up, a frantically epileptic video-art vision of a DxAx performance. Could be one of the best vid documents of a live grind set ever. In addition, there is the '7.62 MM (Live 1996)' video that utilizes a similiar abstract video art approach, but this one is way more raw and wrecked, as it was created by damaging the video masters of the performance and fucking around with the vcrs and the tape itself while editing the video together. The result is something akin to a tenth generation concert videocassette mutated into a surrealistic grind haze. There's also a discography section, a photo gallery, artwork, a music video for the track "Ikaruga", and tablature. NTSC format, region 1 only.