Cali Smile

I recently scored a gorgeous first pressing of one of my favorite grindcore releases ever, hell, one of my favorite records period. In Disgust - "Reality Choke" 10", which is a modern fucking classic, and if you haven't heard this yet, shame on you and do it immediately. 

I've talked about this record endlessly, I never run out of good things to say about it. It's just perfect in every way; the recording is devastatingly heavy, the guitars are absolutely pummeling, the vocals are scary deep, and the groovy breakdowns will flatten your skull into a pancake. Particularly the track "Cali Smile", when that song breaks down, shit gets destroyed.

This is obviously the clear vinyl version of the first press, of which there are 566 copies. The label decided to make the black vinyl variant the rare one, since there are only 100 black first press copies. Pretty curious move. 

Comes with a little insert. No lyrics, as usual.

Here's the first and 2nd press together. Obvious differences with the packaging, which is nice.

Worship.

~VII

On Edge

Always good when I can kill 2 birds with one stone; in this case checking off one more thing from both my growing In Disgust and Sidetracked collections. Absolutely killer split from 2 stupidly good bands, and I managed to snag the last copy from Feral Kid Records. So much win right there. Transparent yellow/orange vinyl, 33 RPM. Btw, I'm trying out a new camera, I guess it's an improvement.

I don't think I should have to explain why both of these bands rule, you should already know. Standard In Disgust on their side, always brutal, always heavy, just great. The Sidetracked side is some of the best stuff, production wise that I've heard from Jay and the gang. Clear, heavy recording, killer fastcore.

Nice, clean, black and white packaging. Typical In Disgust insert, I guess they hate giving out info. At least the Sidetracked lyrics are there.

If you manage to find a copy of this, definitely pick it up. Unfortunately I haven't seen many copies around in any distros, so good luck!!

~VII