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Fear in the squats of the dead |
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LINE-UP: Giulio the Bastard - vocals Schintu the Wretched - bass Der Kommissar - guitar Al Mazzotti - drums |
TRACKLIST
NOTES:
>> released in 2003. CD version on
Necropolis DeathVomit, DVR 023, 2000 (?) made for the US marketing, 1200-1500
(?) printed in Europe by Century Media for the EU marketing. The european
edition has the label's logo a bit larger (on the back of the inlay-card
close to the tracklist) and few more slight variations.
LP edition on Deep 6 Records, DeepSix # 53, 2000 (?) copies pressed.
>> CD comes in a wonderful packaging
that consists of a huge poster bent in many parts, including all lyrics.
>> LP has a full-color gatefold cover
and a huge poster inside including band members' pics and "2 eyes
for 1 eye" art.
>> recorded in April 2002 @ "Nadir"
studios, Genova.
Sound engineer : Tommy Talamanca
CREDITS:
Nik SStnz - artwork / graphics
Lorenzo Arioni - tortured grannie photoset
ADDITIONAL QUOTES:
CB at their 3rd ful-lenght album, the first with the final (current) line-up
- which has been together from summer 2000 to now - gaining the status
of most "stable" CB line-up ever. This is also the first studio
effort with Der Kommissar on guitar, bringing a radical revolution to
the peculiar CB sound, changing from the extreme pedal distortion of Alberto
the Crippler to a ways cleaner solution, mainly focused on power and definition.
Here's how Necropolis Records introduced the album: "CRIPPLE
BASTARDS are known throughout the grinding underground as “Italy’s
Purest Manifestation of Hate” and one listen to any of their incendiary
releases from any point in their over-decade-long career bears this out
beyond a shadow of a doubt. With the release of “Desperately Insensitive”,
the band have truly coalesced their influences as well as their experience
into a seamlessly ferocious, utterly overpowering experience. Showcasing
their propensity for progressing the Grindcore medium while never slackening
their attack, CRIPPLE BASTARDS have pushed themselves far beyond their
own precedents. Unceasingly up-tempo, “Desperately Insensitive”
processes post-hardcore, brutal Death Metal, fast-core, noise/math-core
and of course, the essential ingredient of Grindcore through their own
barbaric, trademark sound. Featuring elements of dissonance and angularity
that would have sounded out of place on some of their previous recordings,
“Desperately Insensitive” stands clearly above not only the
band’s previous work, but above the work of the vast majority of
their peers. Recorded by at Nadir Studios Tommy Talamanca of Italian Metal
act SADIST, “Desperately Insensitive” is only made more powerful
and aggressive by the clean and crisp sound. Each of the 19 tracks is
in-your-face, rude, and undeniable. The savagely ferocious drums provoke
the massive wall of spiteful guitars and vicious bass to dizzying heights
and depths of extremity and Giulio the Bastard’s manic screams assault
the listener from all directions, from frantic Japcore screams, to subsonic
Death grunts and pissed-off Hardcore bursts. The power and vision of CRIPPLE
BASTARDS is irrefutable. The band’s anti-politically-correct political
lyrics attack everyone, and especially the hypocrisy of the punk/HC scene,
no holds barred, brutal spite, made even more vitriolic by Giulio’s
relentless vocal delivery. In short this album is delivers on all counts,
with its stylistically sadistic artwork, caustic lyrics, and of course,
its monolithic Grindcore attack". With no doubt, this record
traces a brand new chapter in CB's musical career. The production style
is completely different than the analogic line we have been following
for ages at Acqualuce Studios, abandoning the wall-of-noise guitar that
characterized many earlier works + the hyper-frantic drum approach that
was fast-to-the-bone but miles away from the tightness Al Mazzotti brought
in. "Desperately insensitive" stands as CB's first attempt to
combine the peculiar Grindcore extremism with a kind of intensity/definition
we never reached before. Besides the musical analysis, the lyrics are
a follow-up to the mood expressed thru "Misantropo a senso unico"
getting even more direct, obsessive and psychotic. The basic difference
here is the language's choice, which gets back to a majority of tracks
in English and just a couple in Italian + Serbian. The artwork consists
on the re-elaboration of details from a huge photoset an horror-artist
made exclusively for us. A grannie chained into a desolated wharehouse
(creating a feel of snuff background), forced to self-infliction of cigarette
burns, once more bringing to light that concept of human annihilation
and existential decay CB have always played on. A step forward in CB's
evolution, creating the roots for a new dimension of uncompromised extremism.