Cripple Bastards / Psychotic Noise 7″
release date:
1995
LINE-UP:
Giulio the Bastard – vocals
Alberto the Crippler – guitar
Michele Hoffman – drums
X-man – occasional backing vocals
Label: Grinding Madness
> recorded in 1994
> released in 1995, GM 009, around 1000 copies pressed, all on black wax
> a couple years later we got 50-60 extra copies with no cover/insert and sent them around in a special ultra-ltd xeroxed version, hand-numbered
> includes a huge CB insert and an A4 sheet for Psychotic Noise
With no doubt one of the most hateful, hysterical works in the whole CB discography. Every track is a deadly stab of antimusical, hyperfast Grind/Thrash running at frantic speed. This is also one of GTB’s fave singles ever. Recorded in Michele’s practice room using the typical DIY formula tested and improved through different previous records. ATC’s guitar reaches unbelievable levels of compression and harshness.
This EP has been written in one of the darkest periods of the Bastards’ private lives and fully reflects an asphyxiating sense of anguish + desperate negativity, both musically and lyricswise. The last song is taken from an old rehearsal out of a very short period when CB tried to introduce a drum-machine. More war in Bosnia footage on the front-cover art, an all-time obsession for GTB.
As written on the insert:
– Addicted to hatred –
The word “love” can’t keep its meaning. No, not here.
You can’t enucleate my hate.
It’s like a tumor during its progressive stages of evolution
and actually you can’t find a cell in my body spared by this furious disease.