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TRACKLIST
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THE LYRICS
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LINE-UP:
Giulio the Bastard – vocals,
lyrics
Alberto The Crippler – Guitar
Eduardo "o" Brazil – bass
Michele Hoffman – drums
YOUR LIES IN CHECK
(introductive statement)
Blood on a draughtboard, your king about to collapse under my
furious fist... Too many years left as food for indifference, children
grown with humilations and brutalization therapies, already men
destined to vent reactions on themseves. Structures and structures...
burn eyes - bar hopes. Waste products... they self-destruct, as
if to avenge for the emptiness inside. Yesterday I was a surrogate,
not a man. A surrogate lost in the labyrinth of too many institutions.
An absorbed echo, not a voice. I've learnt to watch you, to go through
compulsions. I've learnt to eat your shit... to calculate your moves.
I've learnt to sit on the other side of the table, to exhaust your
resources. Yesterday I was a pawn... I was a pawn in a game, a slave
in a factory, a cross in a cemetery, a fix in a vein, a minor role
in your play. Yesterday a pawn in a game. Today a butcher, and a
winner... finally pleased - eyes on my blade disfiguring your smile
wiping out corruption, injustices, oppressive hierarchies. Scanning
your lies I found insecurities. Scanning your lies I recognized
my condition. Scanning your lies I attacked your weak spots. Scanning
your lies I got your defeat.
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NOTES:
>> LP on Ecocentric Rec., E.R. # 141, released in 1996, 1500
copies made //
CD on E.U.'91 Produzioni (E.U.015), 3500 copies made // MC on Dwie Strony
Medalu, no cat. # mentioned, released in 1999, 500 (?) copies //
>> the LP came in a gatefold cover
and had a A3 band-poster enclosed, the CD had 16 page booklet, the MC
had a huge printed cover with lyrics both in English and Polish...
>> recorded in 1995 at Acqualcue Studios,
Alpignano/Torino,
sound engineer: Marco Milanesio
ADDITIONAL
QUOTES:
with no shadow of doubt a milestone in italian Grind/Hardcore
and an important release also if seen from an international view. Over
5000 copies sold if you sum up the LP + CD + MC versions around, and more
to come in the future. A proof of this album's notoriety in the scene
is the many successful shows all around Europe and tracks like "Italia
di merda", "Prospettive limitate" + "Stimmung"
becoming hymns, expecially in countries like Czech Republic. And 90% of
the songs covered on "Falafel Grind" (tribute to CB) are taken
from this. "Your lies in check" was the perfect link between
CB's extreme Grindcore experience and the strong influence coming from
'80s italian Punk/Hardcore. 69 tracks that left a trace in the scene.
This was a sort of "dream to come true" for GTB and Alberto
the Crippler... and it was backed by an enormous strain. The drummer Michele
Hoffman was about to leave the band so it wasn't that easy to get him
for rehearsing. The bass-player Eduardo (from Mina Gerais, Brasil) was
working non-stop in Torino and had no time for coming to Asti. The 5 months
prior the beginning of the recordings saw GTB and ATC sharing their free
time between Torino - teaching the songs to Eduardo (which didn't know
any of them yet), and Asti - revising the drum parts with Michele. It
would take too much to explain how this worked out but it looked like
a Rocky getting trained for an impossible match story, sometimes we were
about to give up since it looked almost impossible to keep all parts together.
Michele and Eduardo met themselves 3-4 times in life, just to let you
understand how this worked. By the way, E.U.'91 did the CD version - coming
with a 16 page booklet. The CD sold over 3000 copies and it's going to
be re-released by CAH Records/USA. The gatefold LP version came out on
Ecocentric Records, while the MC was done by a Polish label. A must, backed
by passion and faith.
CHECK
THE EU'91's SITE FOR ADDITIONAL GRAPHIX/DETAILS
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