DAZZLING KILLMEN
FACE OF COLLAPSE (W/BOOK) - CD
UPC: 647216612025
Label: SKIN GRAFT RECORDS
Format: CD
Release Date: July 1, 2022
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"Most of the great progressive underground bands of the '90s would not exist if it weren't for them."
- Ben Weinman, lead guitarist & primary songwriter of The Dillinger Escape Plan.
Was DAZZLING KILLMEN a hardcore band? A metal band? The world’s gnarliest progressive-rock quartet?
"Yes" is the easy answer, but only because it's easy to rewind through two decades of genre fragmentation to hear Dazzling Killmen's influence on any number of "math-metal," "prog-core" and similarly classified bands. At the time, however, this St. Louis quartet occupied a genre of one. When SKiN GRAFT released the Killmen's 1994 sophomore album, "Face of Collapse", that genre had its touchstone."
- Excerpt from Aaron Burgess' liner notes
"One of the best post-metal records ever made". - Fact Magazine
"The band formed in the St. Louis, MO area, and forged its singular sound with almost no music scene support for such a fringy concept - technically impeccable playing enabling whiplash stop-starts that recalled John Zorn’s Naked City more readily than any rock group one could name, cathartic and discordant guitar stabs, a jaw-dropping rhythm section, arrangements of baroque complexity, and a harrowing, overbearing, inescapable sense of pure dread". - Dangerous Minds
Loud Life at Alternative Press magazine declared it the top album of the 90's based on the following criteria: 1) Avoidance of formula or cliché. 2) Dexterity of rhythm section, 3) Quality of album's production values, 4) Lack of predictable lyrical subjects - Satan, Straightedge, Viking folklore, etc. "Sounds like Dave Bruebeck's Time Out played through Carcass' PA system."
Remastered from the original analog tapes and packaged in a deluxe six panel Digipack with a 16 page booklet of liner notes, interviews and comics. Includes three non-LP bonus tracks. Collects every studio track recorded by the quartet version of the band.
