Silent Dynamic Torture

Description

A band that played so loud their entire fanbase went deaf, to the point where no one ever heard from them again. Formed in 1993 in the forgotten suburbs of San Jose, California, Super Static Fever only gave a handful of concerts during their two-year existence, inflicting on their audience a wall of wah-wah distortion stacked on Marshall amps, enough to deafen anyone forever. Their sound? A mix of Melvins-style sludge, the melodic power of Swervedriver, and the late-period Black Flag taste for volume — all heard through the car radio of a smoke-filled 1985 Ford Econoline van. Only a few unfinished cassettes remain from two devastating recording sessions, which the band agreed to reissue on one condition: that Steve Albini mix them. The object itself oozes 1990s D.I.Y. aesthetics: VHS blur, opaque white silkscreen on raw cardboard. A record that barely exists — and that, frankly, might never have existed at all.