BLACK KRONSTADT "The Free Spirit"
Year: 1996
Genre: Crust/Hardcore, Blackened Crust
Country: Canada
Label: Mind Control
Track List:
- Lament For The Makers Of Song (On A Poem By Kenneth Patchen)
- Generation Useless
- Spoken Interlude 1
- Spoken Interlude 2
- I.M.F. (International Murder Fund)
- News To You
- N.A.F.T.A. (North American Slave Trade Agreement)
- Everything Is Political War
- Atom Nuclei
- Arms Change Hands
- Scenes From Gustafsen Lake
- Paranoid Delusions
- Outro
This LP is the latest release by Black Kronstadt. The band broke up in 1997, and one of their former members formed Iskra in 2002. Obviously their music was way too experimental for the mid-90's crust/hardcore scene, but now we can see them as a founders of a whole "blackened crust" subgenre.
"The Free Spirit" remains highly underrated even for today. Not only it's far from typical 90's crust - it has some industrial overtones due to extensive use of sampling, and song structures which remind me of early industrial rock bands like Godflesh. The lyrical content on this album remains overtly political, of course. This is certainly an underrated album, and not everyone will like it even in our days... but I like it.
Fantastic stuff. Any chance you could scan the lyrics/inserts?
ReplyDeleteCould you re-up this one please? That would be great...
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