RORSCHACH Remain Sedate LP Vermiform Rare Hardcore
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Rorschach's first LP, original pressing put out in 1990 on Vermiform, vmfm 2, way out of print. Record is in great condition, I've played it maybe 5 times over the last 10 years, sleeve has minimal wear in the corners. Heavy record, great cover art, impress your friends with this one!
Side 1: Pavlov's Dogs, In The Year Of Our Lord, Someone, Impressions, Clenching, So It Goes
Side 2: Lightning Strikes Twice, No One Dies Alone, My Mind's In A Vice, Checkmate, Exist, Oppress
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The debut 12-song LP from New Jersey's Rorschach is a pummeling assault that has the ability to leave listeners feeling nearly brutalized after just a few minutes of listening. Chugging guitars straddle the line of metal and hardcore as they grind underneath each track on the record and the expected sinister bass lines and crushing drums push things toward an angry resolution. Occasionally, the band ups the ante and bursts into rapid speed metal segues but, even on the slower numbers, Rorschach is a truly torrential-sounding musical force. The group's real muscle is the monstrously evil-sounding screams of singer Charles Maggio. Maggio sounds as if he is shredding his vocal chords on nearly every track, and his explosive screamed rants on genocide, oppression, insecurity, and all of the other staple hardcore topics are frightfully convincing. Granted, this is pretty much a one-trick pony and, if thunderous hardcore tracks are not your thing, then there isn't really that much to get out of Rorschach. On the other hand, if you consider yourself an aficionado of the genre, then this is well worth hearing. Remain Sedate is unrelenting from start to finish and, for a record made during what are slowly becoming the early days of hardcore, it really is an amazingly heavy creation. - Peter J. D'Angelo, All Music Guide
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