The one time I saw Richmond, VA's Eucharist, they blew me a way. An awesome brutal attack of hardcore and noise. Their singer had done my band a favor and booked a show for us in one of those art lofts that seemed to constantly spring up in Richmond. I wasn't really expecting much from these kids I didn't know. As the hometown crowd gathered while they were setting up, I began to think that they knew something I didn't. After their set, I bought the LP right then and there.
I think Jeff from the Mountain Collective probably said it as well as I can. "Eucharist is one of the most underrated bands of the '90's. Pure, skull-crushing hardcore that brings to mind both Econochrist and Rorschach with even more of a straightforward, thrashy assault. Heavy, dark breakdowns (the head bobbing kind not the kick-boxing kind) fill the gaps between blasts of all-out venomous thrash. The lyrics are negative, frustrated, misanthropic diatribes against the misery of other people and everyday life."
As far as I know they only released this LP and a few tracks on Nothing's Quiet on the Eastern Front, a great compilation of East Coast hardcore circa mid-1990's.
Track List:
Plague
Born In A Mess
Exit
Promised Splintered
Spoon Fed
Fangs
Praying For Failure
Body And Blood
Frozen Minds
You've Been Had
Sensory Deprivation
Invincible
Fooled Again
7 comments:
This blog is great!!
Please post the others records of Assfactor 4.
Thanks.
Ricardo///Argentina
Links to their two 7-inches are in the comments of this post. Maybe I'll post Sports later...
There's a bunch of comp tracks too... Including some songs on Nothing's Quiet on the Eastern Front mentioned (and linked) above.
Sweet. Thanks! I've always liked their track on the Eastern Front comp, but couldn't ever find this lp.
No problem... I always liked this record and thought it deserved more attention.
thanx, for the blog...and the Eucharist LP
saludos from chile,
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Criminally overlooked! This record made me really think that Mountain had found its sea-legs. The Coleman/Three Studies record and the first Ire 12" as well.
I think one of the Eucharist guys went on to play in the first iteration of Limpwrist, no?
Marty
http://abovethesubtext.blogspot.com/2009/08/putting-90s-to-rest.html
awesome post. thank you so much. i got this record from relapse records a long while ago and always liked it. could never find anything else from them.
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