Swamp Terrorists
Grow-Speed-Injection

For a decade-long time span, concluding with the advent of the new millennium [1989/1999], the name Swamp Terrorists stood out in Europe as one of the most intriguing and delightful for enthusiasts of the now almost indigestible fusion between rough-industrial rock and scorned electronics.

Reviewing the not particularly extensive discography that highlighted the vices and virtues of the formidable Swiss Duo [Ane H. and Str], among the four works [without considering the multiple and lengthy EPs - the most striking case being "Get'O E.P." from '94, unfolded over a double circular format lasting nearly seventy minutes - and the semi-posthumous collection "Rare & Unreleased" published as a conclusive seal] overall released within their artistic trajectory, I would lean towards indicating the recently mentioned second work, published with the help of Machinery/Noise in 1992, as the summit and completed qualitative peak of their belligerent musical intentions.

An enveloping and sometimes uncompromising layer of grumpy liquid-metal steaming chopped through synthesizer is what ultimately determines the fourteen musical-fragments deposited here: from the semi-imperceptible Kraftwerkian samples literally buried under an aberrant layer of crumpled-sound sheets and vitriolic guitars obstinately repeated in the enormous "Drop The Dig" or the electro-poisonous "S.S.M.", to the disruptive and hammering evolutions incorporated into the E.B.M.-disguises (almost reminiscent of Pankow, I dare say) forged in "Braintrash" or the frenetic "Skizzo Pierce", passing through more digestible (and predictable) electro-fractals ("Rebuf") of evident Front 242 school and similar.

Given the current musical-disarrays to which we are now audibly accustomed and moreover considering the evolutions that the genre recently nebulously represented has undergone over the last decade, it is not unlikely that to a virgin ears of today these relatively speaking "techno-vintage" restrained ferocities may appear in some ways innocent & naive: to avoid misunderstandings, some fifteen years ago, I would dare say they shattered the surrounding audience to an authentic beauty!