Dazzling Killmen - Face Of Collapse (DELUXE EDITION) [CD]

"Most of the great progressive underground bands of the '90s would not exist if it weren't for them."
- Ben Weinman, lead guitarist & primary songwriter of The Dillinger Escape Plan.

Was DAZZLING KILLMEN a hardcore band? A metal band? The worlds gnarliest progressive-rock quartet?

"Yes" is the easy answer, but only because it's easy to rewind through two decades of genre fragmentation to hear Dazzling Killmen's influence on any number of "math-metal," "prog-core" and similarly classified bands. At the time, however, this St. Louis quartet occupied a genre of one. When SKiN GRAFT released the Killmen's 1994 sophomore album, "Face of Collapse", that genre had its touchstone."
- Excerpt from Aaron Burgess' liner notes

"One of the best post-metal records ever made". - Fact Magazine

"The band formed in the St. Louis, MO area, and forged its singular sound with almost no music scene support for such a fringy concept - technically impeccable playing enabling whiplash stop-starts that recalled John Zorns Naked City more readily than any rock group one could name, cathartic and discordant guitar stabs, a jaw-dropping rhythm section, arrangements of baroque complexity, and a harrowing, overbearing, inescapable sense of pure dread". - Dangerous Minds

Loud Life at Alternative Press magazine declared it the top album of the 90's based on the following criteria: 1) Avoidance of formula or clichÈ. 2) Dexterity of rhythm section, 3) Quality of album's production values, 4) Lack of predictable lyrical subjects - Satan, Straightedge, Viking folklore, etc. "Sounds like Dave Bruebeck's Time Out played through Carcass' PA system."

Remastered from the original analog tapes and packaged in a deluxe six panel Digipack with a 16 page booklet of liner notes, interviews and comics. Includes three non-LP bonus tracks. Collects every studio track recorded by the quartet version of the band.

01. Staring Contest (remastered) 03:18 02. Bone Fragments (remastered) 05:46 03. My Lacerations (remastered) 01:29 04. Blown (Face Down) (remastered) 05:51 05. Windshear (remastered) 02:08 06. Painless One (remastered) 04:48 07. In The Face Of Collapse (remastered) 13:57 08. Agitator (remastered) 04:52 09. Medicine Me (Bonus Track: remastered) 02:39 10. Poptones (Bonus Track: remastered) 04:01 11. My Lacerations (Alternate Version / Bonus Track: remastered) 01:25

• Format Detail: CD Six panel Digipak + 16 pg book w/ liner notes, interviews, comics + stickered for retail display
• Format: CD
• Genre: Metal