if i should tell you how i came to know die young (tx), i could only reply with a shrug. i have no fucking idea. only thing i know is that this record was on my list for quite some time. per koro had it for that long in stock as i decided to get it. suddenly it disappeared from the distro. fortunately i knew of an other distro called xsentientx, where i ordered a verse record some months ago. due to some delivery problems which i will say more about in an upcoming post, the order was never executed. another option was discogs.
i found a seller from germany who offered it for a very fair price plus agreeable shipping costs. as i looked closer i found out that the seller was christian unsinn from take it back records of which i ordered records recently (scroll down two posts). it was too late to add 'graven images' to the other stuff. annoying! and more annoying because i couldn't blame anyone else but me ;-)
the music however is pretty good. not one songs that clocks in over two and a half minutes. all solid metallic hardcore. what is more interesting and definitely outstanding are the lyrics. a lot of socio-politically subjects get addressed. all referenced with quotes of some pretty smart people like upton sinclair, sigmund freud, greg graffin or friedrich nietzsche. what is even more cool is an explanation referring to the lyrics, where they say that the stuff they sing about are not all their own ideas. rather borrowed or adapted. they didn't want to impress with it but encourage people to communicate and educate themselves. cool thing. they had me anyway as they are calling their stuff punk music!
cd on eulogy recordings. pressed on lovely white with blue splatter vinyl. printed dust sleeve. 700 made (another 300 on clear blue with white splatter vinyl). teenage disco bloodbath records. 2007.
