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NEW LP
Southern Lord
Earlier this year BLAST! guitarist, Mike Neider contacted Southern Lord with news that he had found some mysterious old BLAST! master tapes in a abandoned storage locker. Greg Anderson, fanatical about BLAST!, wasted no time in sending the tapes to a studio to be baked. Needless to say, after 25 years gathering dust, the quality had deteriorated. Even when the tapes had been baked, nobody could have anticipated what would follow. With the tapes baked and audio digitised, Southern Lord contacted long time BLAST! fiend, Dave Grohl about mixing this recording, his response was an enthusiastic FUCK YEAH!, LETS DO THIS!
Whilst inside Grohls famous 606 Studios (and with the Neve console as featured in the recent Grohl produced documentary Sound City) a remarkable discovery was made a completely unheard, unreleased BLAST! recording session from the mid80s. The lineup of the band at the time of the recording included second guitarist William Duvall (from Neon Christ & interestingly now the vocalist for Alice In Chains) who had moved from his hometown of Atlanta out to Santa Cruz on a tip from mutual friends, Corrosion of Conformity to join the band. Unfortunately his tenure with BLAST! was shortlived and no recordings from that lineup were ever released.
From the thunderous bass intro of Only Time Will Tell to the apocalyptic warnings of Its In My Blood the album completely rips and rages from start to finish. All parties involved were completely amazed at how vibrant, unique and new the material sounded. All things considered, it is miraculous that this record survived its journey and that everyone who was involved in bringing this recording to life, could be. Everything fell into place, when it could have easily crumbled along the way. This record is a time capsule that is meant to be heard!
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