INTEGRITY Systems Overload LP

INTEGRITY Systems Overload LP

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*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
     Back in stock on colored vinyl in gatefold packaging, with a big fold-out poster and digital download code.
     Back in the 90's, I was obsessed with the loose-knit circle of bands that were attached to the term "Holy Terror". Combining esoteric/occult concepts with a sound that took the most violent aspects of American hardcore punk and the searing Satanic thrash of Slayer and early death metal, the rather vague "Holy Terror" aesthetic started with Cleveland band Integrity, who reigned in the early 90s as masters of evil metallic hardcore. Signed to Victory Records in 1995, the band would release their second album Systems Overload to underground acclaim, even as the band's sound became even more confrontational and abrasive. The songs drew from a ferocious mixture of influenced, from noisy Japanese hardcore and Septic Death worship, to sinister post-punk and even extreme electronic elements, as well as the thrash metal, arcane religious visions, eschatological prophecy, and ongoing infatuation with Charles Manson and apocalypse cults that had fueled Integrity's music virtually from the start. Systems Overload is still one of the defining albums within the "Holy Terror' aesthetic, and its violently raw sound was totally unlike anything else the label had put out. It also became known almost universally as one of the best metallic hardcore albums of the 1990s.
     Now as part of a recent spate of Integrity reissues, multiple versions of Systems Overload have surfaced, including both an alternate, band-approved mix of the album, and this, the original Victory release, now available on vinyl for the first time in years. As killer as the alternate "Orr+" mix of Systems Overload is, I still have a soft spot for the original album, and it certainly sounds vicious as hell here. Underneath the strange, evil vibe that coursed through Integrity's music, beneath the blown-out production and noisy edge, we're reminded of just how good this band was at writing memorable heavy songs. Later Integrity albums would veer into artier, more impenetrable directions, but at the time, Integrity wrote some of the catchiest, most powerful metallic hardcore songs, which sound just as relevant and powerful now, more than twenty years later.
     The original twelve songs on Systems were tied together with Aaron Melnick's weird bluesy guitar solos and Dwid's inimitable, gravel-throated howl, the album opening with the massive doom-laden crush and apocalyptic sample-collage of "Incarnate 365", one of the band's most recognizable riffs/intros, filled with squealing divebomb solos and monstrous metallic crush. From there the album tears through short blasts of blown-out thrash and crushing mid-paced metallic riffage, stomping hardcore fused to super-heavy guitars, songs like "No One" and "Armenian Persecution" a perfect fusion of sorrowful doom-laden heaviness and speed-fueled malevolent hardcore. It's one blast of memorable, malevolent aggression after another, laced with acoustic guitars and electronic noise, coming together as an essential album of dark, metallic hardcore.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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