Siege
Drop Dead

Fragments of shrapnel piercing through the flesh. Frenzy and violence. Urgency. The need to escape, now. Why escape, from what to escape, where to escape from.

9 tracks on Lost & found, released in 1993, after 10 years of existence. The American band Siege, in these 17 minutes, wrings out hardcore to extract its essence, letting it go rancid properly before mixing it with shards of glass, nails, hatred, and napalm. Drop dead. A seminal hateful fracture that lays the foundation for all the upcoming ultracore/powerviolence. Numerous bands cite Siege among their primary influences (Napalm Death covered them on "Leaders not followers" with the track "Conform", and Heresy also covered the same song, just to name two), and the legacy to the already mentioned powerviolence scene was enormous.

This disk overflows with urgency and reeks of burning. Piles of tires, wire, fires, soldiers stuffed with benzadrine, human carcasses, mechanical carcasses...

...the apprentice monkey, the self-taught monkey, the all-purpose monkey has a low IQ...