Search - Agoraphobic Nosebleed :: Pcp Torpedo

One of the most perfect slabs of mechanized grind metal EVER

Aquarius Records | San Francisco | 04/30/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

""All records should be six minutes long!! I just listened to this whole record, and it was awesome!"



- Me ranting when I threw this on the first time.



By now, it takes a whole lot for me to give a sh-t about a 'remix' record. Pretty strange that one of the first remix records in ages to totally kick my a-- would come from grindlords Agoraphobic Nosebleed and avant post metal label Hydra Head.



But remixes aside for the moment, metalheads and grindfreaks should be thanking their lucky stars that AnB's legendary PCP Torpedo 6" has finally been released on cd. All SIX minutes of it. One of the most perfect slabs of mechanized grind metal EVER. Dense, convoluted, heavy, ridiculous, scary, blazing fast, buzzing and snarling, short and sweet. PERFECT GRIND! So it would almost be worth it for PCP on cd alone (okay, maybe $15 for 6 minutes is a bit steep, but it's soooo good!).



Thankfully, PCP's 6 minutes gets rounded out by an hour long bonus disc of remixes from folks like Justin Broadrick (Jesu, Godflesh, etc.), James Plotkin (Khanate, Phantomsmasher), DJ Speedranch, Merzbow, Jansky Noise, Vinda Obmana, and a bunch more. From Plotkin's timestretched, ultradistorted industrial freakout mix, to the Godfleshy sludge and pummel of Broadrick's mix, to the skittery acid fried IDM Dev/Null mix, to Vinda Obmana's bleak wasted industrial soundscape mix, it's all totally weird and wonderful, most of it very very noisy. But what would you expect when the source material is the violent and vitriolic hate-fueled fury of Agoraphobic Nosebleed?!



And then there's the packaging! HOLY SH-T. Totally deluxe double disc digipak, all in vivid yellows and reds and oranges, the front some sort of factory, with multicolored flames licking the sky as pills rain from the heavens. The inside is a dizzying blur of pills and capsules, each disc covered in tiny little flames, the six minute PCP disc a little black 3" cd embedded in a 5" plastic disc, all flickering little blue flames, the remix a 5" black disc with red flames, so completely and overwhelmingly gorgeous. Includes a black and white insert with all the liner notes and lyrics confusingly tucked amidst and within a litany of pharmecutical jargon, suggestions for dosages, various health warnings and lists of side effects. Awesome!"

AWSOME!

3V0L1NT3NT | Cali | 06/13/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I love this album its a must get if your a fan of ANb. For the 2nd disc if you put it in and play it once when the 1st track starts to play rewind it until it wont go anymore it will go into the negatives and its a secret hidden bonus track!"