MAN IS THE BASTARD / LOCUST Our Earth's Blood Pt 2 / Locust 10" VINYL

MAN IS THE BASTARD / LOCUST Our Earth's Blood Pt 2 / Locust 10" VINYL

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

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
     Guess I never realized it back when they first started out, but man, The Locust were really influenced by Man Is The Bastard early on. And never moreso than when they actually shared vinyl with MITB. From what I can tell, this split between Man Is The Bastard and The Locust was the first official release from the latter; I remember it stirred up a bit of buzz when it originally came out, with The Locust channeling the pummeling aggression of Neanderthal / MITB / Infest style powerviolence into a skronky, No Wave-damaged style. Originally released way back in 1995, that record has been out of print for years, but amazingly we came across a small stash of the 10" through one of our distributors; quantities are extremely limited as you would guess, and you should also note that the copies we received have some very minor (in some cases barely perceptible) shelf wear, but otherwise these are new, unplayed copies.
     In hindsight, it seems kinda nuts that The Locust became this weirdly popular thing outside of hardcore circles back in the late 90s. I mean, their side of this record is total Infest/Man Is The Bastard worship. Brutal, mega-pissed bellowing vocals and hysterically bratty screams backed by a mix of ultrafast blastcore and lurching, discordant riffs, and injected with MITB-esque blurts of psychedelic electronic noise. I don't know what it was about this that attracted the indie rockers, 'cuz it's pretty punishing. To be honest, I generally avoided their stuff because of all of the hype, but this early Locust stuff is a pretty enjoyable, delivering brute-force hardcore spliced with a handful of nightmarish industrial noisescapes.
     Man Is The Bastard's side, titled Our Earth's Blood Pt 2, however, is where it gets scary. Made up of twelve songs, some only a mere few seconds long, this starts off as a descent into a nightmarish, almost Lynchian industrial noisescape that sprawls out across opener "Margin For Disintegration" before unleashing a hellstorm of monstrous mechanical drones, sputtering electronics, and shrieking vocal hatred. This material comprises some of Man Is The Bastard's most savage noise material from this time period, crafting a deeply unsettling atmosphere across ten minutes of technologic horror, invoking various apocalyptic scenarios ranging from the American "war On Drugs" to ecological distress to extreme civil conflict in South Africa. All set to a flesh-scraping, bowl-rumbling mutation of power electronics turned into something so much more monstrous and spiteful.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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