Face Of Collapse

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"Most of the great underground progressive bands of the 90s wouldn't exist without them." - Ben Weinman, lead guitarist and main songwriter of The Dillinger Escape Plan. Was DAZZLING KILLMEN a hardcore band? A metal band? The toughest progressive rock quartet in the world? "Yes" is the easy answer, but only because it's easy to look back through two decades of genre fragmentation to hear the influence of Dazzling Killmen on many so-called "math-metal," "prog-core," and similar classified bands. At the time, however, this St. Louis quartet occupied a genre of its own. When SKiN GRAFT released the Killmen's second album in 1994, "Face of Collapse," that genre had its reference point." - Excerpt from the liner notes by Aaron Burgess "One of the best post-metal records ever made." - Fact Magazine "The band formed in the St. Louis, MO area and forged its unique sound with almost no support from the music scene for such a marginal concept – technically impeccable playing allowing for whips and lashes that recalled John Zorn's Naked City more easily than any rock band one could name, cathartic and discordant guitar riffs, a stunning rhythm section, baroque complexity in arrangements, and a harrowing, oppressive, and inevitable sense of pure anguish." - Dangerous Minds Loud Life in Alternative Press magazine named it the best album of the 90s based on the following criteria: 1) Avoidance of formula or cliché. 2) Dexterity of the rhythm section, 3) Quality of the album's production values, 4) Lack of predictable lyrical subjects - Satan, Straightedge, Viking folklore, etc. "It sounds like Dave Brubeck's Time Out passing through Carcass's sound system." Remastered from the original analog tapes and packaged in a luxurious six-panel Digipack with a 16-page booklet of notes, interviews, and comics. Includes three non-LP bonus tracks. Collects all the studio tracks recorded by the quartet version of the band.