Back in stock! We blew through a bunch of these a few months ago, it went out of print temporarily, and is now repressed!

You wanna talk about a Holy Grail? A proper re-issue of the Deep Wound jams is something that I've been impatiently waiting for since the dawn of my descent into weirdo tuneage. The terminally shady German label Lost & Found had issued some Deep Wound material back in the mid-90's, but that import-only release became just as fkkn obscure, barely making it into the catalogs of US hardcore distros at the time. So years pass and in the midst of the revival of all things Dinosaur Jr we are finally treated to a complete..ahem...Almost Complete collection of Deep Wound's hardcore microblasts. The band was/is first and foremost legendary as the pre-Dino Jr gig of J Mascis and Lou Barlow from when the dudes were in high school, the band lasting from 1982-1984, and which led Mascis and Barlow to form the greatest heavy indie rock band ever. Released via Mascis' own Baked Goods imprint, Almost Complete is 27 songs long, capturing the band's self-titled 7" single on Radiobeat from 1983, the two tracks from the 1984 compilation LP Bands That Could Be God, 12 songs off their self-released American Style cassette from 1982, and three songs from an early practice tape featuring a different singer. But Deep Wound is also legendary for essentially laying down the core template for what would become grindcore...essentially an attempt to ape Discharge, the band managed to cut the brakelines and play at brutal, hypersonic speeds, not only becoming one of New England's first hardcore bands, but totally dusting the X-Claim bands like SSD, FU's, Jerry's Kids, etc., that made up the Boston HC scene, pre-dating Siege's Drop Dead by a good year or two, turning what were otherwise 1-2-3-4 hardcore rants into blasting chunks of reckless, 60 second, anti-social end-of-your-rope fury. And check out 'Let's Go To The Mall', a seven minute free-noise-punk jam that wouldn't sound outta place nowadays next to the drooling out punk of Violent Students and Pissed Jeans. Fuck man, Napalm Death themselves cite this as a key influence on the formation of their sound. Can't recommend this one enough, an essential document of primal US hardcore genius. Comes in a great-looking digipack designed by Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O)))/Khanate) using original band flyers and photos from Deep Wound's brief but explosive reign. Devestating !!!