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CATALYST, THE  Freak Out The Squares  CASSETTE   (Robotic Empire)   5.98
Freak Out The Squares IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

I thought the first CD these guys released, A Hospital Visit, was the shit,a rippin' assault of catchy, rocking, and mildly art-

damaged hardcore, with crazy Greg Ginn style guitar parts and terrific ripped vocals. The whole disc felt like it connected SST hardcore and early 90's Sub

Pop sludginess, like Black Flag and Karp and Bleach era Nirvana fused together into an unstoppable DIY hardcore wrecking ball. Really rad stuff that

I could not get enough of. Amazingly, in the couple of years since they released that CD, The Catalyst have gotten even fiercer and weirder, and recently put

out this cassette tape on Robotic Empire that just fuckin' KILLS. All of the gnarly, noisey hardcore heaviosity of their previous stuff is here, even heavier

than ever as a matter of fact, but now The Catalyst have seen fit to splatter their songs with TONS of fucked up delay FX and extended psychedelic jams and

tweaked riffage, and their tunes are even catchier than before, every song has a fucking crucial hook that'll stick in my head for days after

listening to this tape. This tape is highly recommended, a righteous dose of psychedelic hardcore, at times reminding me of Screaming Trees, Jimi Hendrix,

Karp, Nirvana, and Black Flag, but never sounding derivitive. Seriously awesome. Just wish they had listed song titles on this! The tape has eight songs,

consisting of old songs that have been re-recorded, new demo songs, and one song completely exclusive to this cassette. Limited edition of 200 pro-made

tapes, hand numbered.