Geschichte wiederholt sich. Geschichte wiederholt sich und Scheiße schwimmt immer oben, sagt man. Fische schwimmen ja auch oben sobald sie hinüber sind. Fische sind zwar nicht Scheiße aber ziemlich dumme, schwächliche Arschlöcher. Erst in der wirklichen Tiefe, dort wo Lichtstrahlen verblassen und die Dunkelheit herrscht werden Fische zu toughen Viechern - und das ist Faktum - ändert ganz schön die Perspektive, nicht?
dasselbe in grün picture 7" (boris karloff noise 2: 525 pressed, release date: 23.5.2007, rerelease des 1999 demos "in wirklichkeit sind wir doch alle old-school" plus zwei bisher unveröffentlichte songs, designed by super-fi.)
Österreich 6,5 € (inkl. Porto & Paypal)
Europe 9,- € (incl. postage & paypal)
USA 10,- € (incl. postage & paypal)
REVIEWS:
"[...] But every once in a while, we come across something that's been sitting forever, for ages, we finally listen to it and are blown the fuck away! In cases such as those we do our best to get in touch with the band or label and order a bunch for the store. Often they don't even remember sending them, but are psyched that we're finally ordering some. As much as we're psyched to be listing it, and probably kicking ourselves for waiting so long to discover it.
But in some cases, it's been so long, that maybe the piece of paper or the note that came with the records has disappeared or gotten lost, and then we end up digging around on the internet trying to track them down so we can get them for you all to check out. Lucky for us, the guys in Kobayashi took it upon themselves to send us a whole stack of their 7"s (not recommended generally by the way), however that was months and months ago and it was only a few days ago that we finally checked it out, and whattayaknow, it's pretty goddamn great. So if you're in the band, drop us a line! If you're not, by all means pick up one of these killer chunks of obtuse metallic grind.
The sound is tough to describe, it's definitely grindcore, classic sounding for sure, but with lots of slow dirgey bits, chunks of doom, weird angular riffing, spastic rhythms, jagged guitars, dual shrieking vocals, short and sharp, but not always fast and furious, sometimes just gnarled and chunky, but laced with bursts of furious buzz, chunks of churning low end, lurching tempos, and occasional blast beats. There's a bit of powerviolence, a bit of grind, some crustiness for sure, and a whole lot of metal, all tangled up into a pretty serious slab of grinding atonal, freaked out brutality. The packaging is amazing too. It's a picture disc, housed in a thick red vinyl sleeve, one side is the song titles over little black blocks, the other side a man's head, but pull the disc out, and the blocks turn into letters, the lyrics to the songs, and the man's head removed from the sleeve suddenly reveals the skeleton beneath the skin. A sort of 3-D style red and blue disappearing ink thing. Plus the band members have names like Tommyknocker and Ziggy Starfuck, and are credited with instruments like sticks of fatality, screams of brainstrain, frantic rhythms and immortal throat. What's not to love? Pretty cool stuff." (Aquarius Records)
"Fast and furious hardcore/grind madness from Vienna, Austria, ca. 1999. Then usually labelled as "emo violence" (In/Humanity, anyone?), but somehow this sounds too weak compared to actual product... thic picture 7" contains 7 tracks, 5 of which were originally released on the "In Wirklichkeit sind wir doch alle Old School" demo with the 2 other being unreleased until now. Impressive packaging, without which this record would have been out 3 years earlier - I kid you not." (capeet records)
"[...] And now this nice picture disc seven inch from out of nowhere, from the orcus that Kobayashi and all the other bands, projects, ideas and energy have faded into. Seven years after the songs have been recorded, four years after the songs had been mixed down. Was it really the production of the cover that took so long? (The cover plays with the wonders of colour addition physics and coloured foil. Nice work!) ... As expected all the songs are fast trashers, some of them with some riffage for fingerpointing before the mosh takes up again. The guitar sounds is a little washy, the vocals are nothing but screams and the recording sound is pure noise. Probably because it is mainly demo material. The two "new" songs are crisper but still distorted verging on noise. I do remember it being that way and yes, it is quite close on their other releases as well. So it is probably on purpose. That is said from the viewpoint of somebody who has been listening to electronic experimentalism for too long. Because there is still a lot of screaming, punching and kicking in these recordings. There is a residue of the energy that used to draw me to the hardcore shows back then in the late Nineties." (cracked-reviews)
blutbad 7" (invertebrata records, 1000 pressed, release date: 06/2000)
Österreich 4,5 € (inkl. Porto & Paypal)
Europe 7,- € (incl. postage & paypal)
USA 8,- € (incl. postage & paypal)
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"in wirklichkeit sind wir doch alle old-school" mcd (boris karloff noise 1.5, 66 stk., '99-tour edition)
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"in wirklichkeit sind wir doch alle old-school" demotape (boris karloff noise 1.)
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kobayashi/programm c - split 7" (capeet records 01, 600 pressed, release date: 03/1999, sold out.)
REVIEWS (auszugsweise):
"Angst and aggression from Austria's KOBAYASHI. This band comes equpped with tommy guns and bazookas shooting everyone down that doesn't comply with their intensity. Dual vocals reaching polarity confidently. There is a lot of potential for this band... Be on the lookout for Kobayashi..." (Steve Aoki in Heartattack 22)
"...Auf PROGRAMM C war ich sehr gespannt auf Grund deren lässiger Live-Konzerte und wurde nicht enttäuscht und KOBAYASHI runden das gute Teil ab und bolzen hier, daß es dir den gewaltigsten Arschtritt aller Zeiten gibt..." (Ex Digest 25)
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aber ich bräucht noch diese in wirklichkeit sind wir doch alle old school dingsbums mcd. wegen sammlung komplettieren warads...dann hab ich alles von iron maiden, metallica, megadeth, judas priest und kobayashi. geil, oder?
We have been in the BLANK DISC STUDIO with sound engineer Tobias Anderko for 15 hours, in which we recorded and mixed two songs. You can listen to some unmastered extracts on our profile. Thanks a lot!
