Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses

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Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses
Studio album by Brutal Truth

Publication
(s)

September 7, 1992

Label (s) Earache Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Grindcore

Title (number)

15th

running time

45:04

occupation
  • Guitar: Brent "Gurn" McCarty
  • Drums: Scott Lewis
  • Background vocals: With-Bill Yurkiewicz

production

Colin Richardson , Jim Welch

chronology
- Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses Need to Control
(1994)

Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses ( English for "extreme conditions require extreme responses") is the debut album of American grindcore band Brutal Truth . It was released on Earache Records in September 1992 . It is considered to be one of the most important American grindcore albums.

useful information

Brutal Truth, which was founded in 1990 as a side project by Dan Lilker ( Anthrax , Nuclear Assault , SOD ), strengthened itself in August 1991 with Kevin Sharp as a regular singer. On their debut album they play grindcore with death metal and light industrial metal influences. The latter, however, only shows in the use of some industrial sounds. Dan Lilker called the music "Violent Thrash ". Kevin Sharp said:

"Everyone has a different opinion on how to call it - but everyone said it was extreme."

- Kevin Sharp 1992

Some tracks are quite long with four to five minutes for Grindcore, on the other hand, Collateral Damage with four seconds (just over two seconds of music) is only a little longer than Napalm Deaths You Suffer . For this purpose, a music video was shot that consists of 48 individual recordings and made it into the Guinness Book of Records in 2001 as the shortest music video . There was also a music video for Ill Neglect . The last piece, Unjust Compromise, contains a hidden track after several minutes of idle time , where Sweet Home Alabama is played for a few seconds .

Lyrically, the band also expressed itself politically:

"There's a lot of political stuff ... I'd feel like an idiot if I had to sing about ... zombies. But they are not exclusively political. Because we're not depressed freaks. Music should be fun. The listeners should interpret my texts. Brain activity does not harm. "

- Kevin Sharp 1992

reception

In Rock Hard , Michael Rensen called the music “pleasantly old-school noise / grind / hardcore crackling with a contemporary power sound”. He awarded seven out of ten points. Jason Birchmeier wrote on allmusic.com that Brutal Truth played “more than just Grindcore”. He called the sequel Need to Control better, but spoke of one of the best Grindcore albums of the 1990s and awarded four out of five stars.

Track list

  1. PSPI - 0:35
  2. Birth of Ignorance - 3:29
  3. Stench of Prophet - 1:22
  4. Ill-Neglect - 2:24
  5. Denial of Existence - 4:25
  6. Regression Progression - 2:34
  7. Collateral Damage - 0:04
  8. Time - 5:58
  9. Walking Corpse - 1:40
  10. Monetary Gain - 3:26
  11. Wilt - 2:54
  12. HOPE - 2:03
  13. Blockhead - 0:07
  14. Anti-homophobes - 3:10
  15. Unjust Compromise - 10:52

All songs were written by Brutal Truth.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna Meacham: Criminal Records , in: Terrorizer , No. 181, p. 45.
  2. ↑ a b c Markus Müller: Blast Beat , in: Rock Hard, No. 66, November 1992, p. 38.
  3. ↑ www.rockhard.de: Review Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses by Michael Rensen
  4. ↑ www.allmusic.com: Review Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses by Jason Birchmeier