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BRUTAL TRUTH  Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses  2 x LP   (Earache)   21.00
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The latest in Earache's reissue campaign is the still-stunning 1992 debut album from legendary grinders Brutal Truth, Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses, considered by most to be one of the most important and influential American grind albums. Much more experimental than most of their peers back in the late 80's/early 90's, BT played with the parameters of constituted �grindcore� by incorporating more left field sounds (noise, industrial, breakbeats) into their music while playing at a level of ferocity that was unparalleled. Scathing politically charged lyrics are roared over fifteen tracks of crushing grind loaded with technical, death metal influenced riffing, brutal d-beat driven tempos and blastbeats, gnarled noise rock riffs and devastatingly crushing dirges, adding in a heavy American thrash metal element along with the death metal and Japanese thrash punk and noise influences to create a violent, ultra-heavy sound that was distinctly different from what was coming out of the UK at the time.

Brutal Truth's love of noise is apparent from the first track �P.S.P.I.", a brief intro of industrial drones and power drill drones and samples that tears right into the machine-flecked blastage of "Birth Of Ignorance", a classic BT track with bestial low/high vokills trading off with one another, a monstrously catchy chorus, and a brutally fast percussive assault. "Time� is another noise damaged track, fusing harsh industrial noise to a punishing slow motion dirge that reverses the album's blasting speed into a skull-crushing six minute grind.. But then there�s plenty of pure blast on here, too: the four second song "Collateral Damage" ranked as one of the shortest grindcore blasts ever, and "Stench Of Profit" is a furious, hyperspeed anti-capitalist screed that is one of the album�s harshest tracks. It helps that singer Kevin Sharpe is one of the best grind vocalists ever; his throat belches out some of the most fucked up and demonic vocalizations ever heard, such as on "Regression-Progression", where the distorted snarls sound like a pack of starving wolves rather than anything human. Totally crucial.

Along with Extreme Conditions, this reissue also features a bunch of killer bonus material. A couple of tracks from the Perpetual Conversion 7" from 1992 are included; the title track's punky deathgrind is followed by a gnarled, lurching death metal cover of Black Sabbath's "Lord Of This World" complete with sampled bongslurping, and the noise-trance beatscape of "Bed Sheet", a nearly ten minute industrial breakbeat jam with swirling psychedelic noise, distorted screams and chopped up beats, sounding a lot like early Techno Animal crossed with Merzbow style noise experimentation.

There's also the four tracks from Brutal Truth's ill-fated split Ep with Japanese grinders S.O.B., which are all covers of S.O.B. tracks such as "Repeat At Length", "Let�s Go Summer Beach " and " Not Me" done up BT-deathgrind style. The last couple of tracks are from 1992's Ill-Neglect 7", and includes Brutal Truth's INSANE mach 10 grindnoise cover of the BUtthole Surfers classic "The Shah Sleeps In Lee Harvey�s Grave", another S.O.B. cover ("Hear Nothing For You"), another booming, murky industrial noize/breakbeat jam a la Techno Animal/Ice ("Pre-Natal Homeland (Funky Budda Dub)") and a forty-nine second eruption of psychedelic noisegrind ("AC/BT").

The disc also contains three Quicktime videos that are playable on your computer, including their video for the five second song "Collateral Damage" which was listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the shorted music video ever, and the booklet has new liner notes which include a new interview with vocalist Kevin Sharp.

An essential grindcore album that�s required listening for anyone into extreme, boundary-torching metal.


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