Two missing coloured Good Life Recordings LP’s found in Germany recently. I don’t know that much about them so I feature them together in one post. My Good Life label and sub-labels collection is becoming quite vast it seems. Should count about sixty twelve inches at least, haven’t listed them, so I can’t know exact numbers. Seems like I got some work to do.
I was very pleasantly surprised when I took a deeper look into them. So I will share my findings in this post.
xDisciplex “No Blood, No Altar Now”
Somewhere between New York and Cleveland lays Erie, it’s where this band comes from. They are also known as Disciple A.D. According to Discogs .com they should have produced records in a timespan of eight years. Which is I think surprisingly long. Especially when I still never heard a part of their work.
But to my pleasant surprise I can dig this 1999 record of xDisciplex musically. Real solid thundering riffs for a metalcore mood. Reminds me of Skycamefalling and Poison The Well.
Regarding the content, they are a Christian band which is pretty obviously seen at the artwork and when reading the lyrics. The song texts are almost like prayers.
Spread The Disease “The Sheer Force Of Inertia”
This record is hard to classify. It has experimental electronic parts interchanged with melodic and rolling Metal riffs. Truly divers pieces of Metal. The band is based in Ontario, Canada. And this is the vinyl version of a release also on Eulogy Recordings. Has got a niece fold open booklet, printed in full colour.
Eulogy Recordings: compact disc version
The vocals are not understandable and very filthy and evil sounding. The lyrics have a very abstract character. It’s like a try to make a scientific or mechanistic approach to feelings and views. A weird mechanization of words or language. Don’t totally comprehend.
There’s also a piece of evolutionary philosophy of author Nicols Fox who wrote books like “Against The Machine”. Making considerations of the mechanization of our surroundings and way of handling, and the critics upon it but also the consequences of this evolution and chances upon our health and well being. An apocalyptic vision enpicturing mankind’s demise. As we underestimate the collateral growth and enforcement of the miniature microbial world that spreads and creates human diseases.
I think the entire album evolves around that more or less. It’s a very original and philosophical take that isn’t widely spread in Hardcore. Although songs of Morning Again “America Online” also kind of deal with this phenomena. But this album kind of specializes and totally focuses upon the matter. And totally drifts away from the usual concrete topics in metalcore like unity, straight-edge, social situations, emotions, etc…
