i stumbled a few times upon the 'forced to kill' 7" on ebay. the first press was done by xseventh daggerx records in 2009 as some sort of warm-up release before or shortly after 'to the death' dropped. i actually don't see the point why xseventh daggerx only took these two songs from the 1993 demo and not re-release the whole eight song thing, anyway the label pressed three colour-ways - clear red, clear blue and white vinyl.
they pop up on the bay quite regularly but i never was really down to get one. i made a few half-assed attempts but nothing real serious. i didn't look overly attractive to me and two songs are just that, two songs. it'd almost take more time to flip sides than to listen to one song. but then accidentally i came across this new pressing. i was checking the earth crisis facebook page for some info on a possible new record and saw that 'forced to kill' just got re-pressed.
holy mountain printing company handled the job and they came up with a re-vised artwork, a screen printed cover, a sticker, a woven patch and a new vinyl colour. a light purple which, i think, is best described as lavender coloured. i ordered from the states and so it was twenty dollars for a damn seven inch but it looked too seductive to deny it. a real cool detail was the screen printed cardboard mailer. i cut out the printed piece and will keep it together with the 7". musically, this is average earth crisis stuff. it is more of a collector's item to me. holy mountain priniting. 2016.
