I genuinely believe His Hero is Gone is one of the best bands ever. This is pure art painting a society based on crimes against humanity and the infuriated on fire spirit who fights back. This and 15 counts of arson are perfect albums.
Of all these bands, I got to know Neil Perry first, and for me they are the #1. But, and it's a big one, HHIG, Pg99, City of caterpillar, ... they all are in a shared 2nd position. Perth Express, oh my god, the longer I think about these bands from back in the day...
@@strontkakpis City of Caterpillar are amazing, along with Page Ninety-Nine & Orchid. I do catch those Screamo vibes in HHIG for sure, which is always welcome.
Every time I come back to this... I can be transported to 16 year old me buying this record from Headline Records and taking a bus for 2 hours to get to Rosemead and running to my room to see what is sounded like and just MELTED. Like... floored.
Memphis is an isolated city. There’s no Mardi Gras, Spring Break or any other damn party. Time stands still in an isolated city where Progress is a dead end street in Orange Mound. Memphis style is everything we do.
Correct song times because the ones in the description are the song lengths, not the song times: 1. Like Weeds 00:00 2. Monuments to Thieves 02:21 3. Paranoia Secured 04:14 4. Carry on 04:34 5. Automation 06:18 6. Cavities 07:09 7. Chain of Command 08:42 8. Headless/Heartless 12:16 9. Hinges 14:22 10. Sin and Vice 15:23 11. The Mess 16:55 12. Disease of Ease 18:04 13. Under Watchful Eyes 19:40 14. Stacks 21:08 15. Unwanted Child 22:41 קטגוריה
I used to work with Todd and Paul at the Arcade Restaurant in Memphis back in the day. I was a dishwasher while they made pizzas by day, and slayed at night with HHIG and Deathreat.
I grew up with Todd and Paul in Tullahoma, TN. In High School, we used to skate everyday. People change and we moved on, in different ways. I've always been proud of what they accomplished.
I grew up in Memphis, as well. I enjoyed seeing H.H.I.G and all that stuff. I just recently went back to Memphis to visit and I'm sooo glad I left for Oaktown, ca. Jesus, what a shit hole And god forbid yr one if the ones that got out and made it work. People HATE seeing that. They can all suck my penis.
I can't believe how good this album is. 25 years later and it's still absolutely legendary. Grind for the punx. I'll say it. This is one of the greatest albums ever made.
Well, fuck -- now we have a whole lotta terrible "Blackened Crust" bands on our hands. Black Metal is just Hardcore Punk with corpse paint, let's be real; everything Black Metal's doing with Punk is really just multiple styles of already-Punk including: Screamo, Hardcore &/or Post-Punk.
@@Aaaaaaaa-ix4rp I can't say, because I don't listen to it -- but it sure as hell sounds pretentious & corny. What's spiritual is based on the BAND, not the genre. Get a clue.
Best show i ever seen, hands down was His Hero is Gone with Man is the Bastard and Assuck. The hairs stood up on my flesh as i heard H.H.is Gone for the 1st time, hooked for life. Along with Neurosis and Napalm Death they set the standard for heaviness and abrasive sound therapy for me.
SUPPORT FROM BRASIL I Like Weeds 00:00 II Monuments to Thieves 02:21 III Paranoia Secured 04:14 IV Carry on 04:34 V Automation 06:16 VI Cavities 07:07 VII Chain of Command 08:42 VIII Headless/Heartless 12:12 IX Hinges 14:21 X Sin and Vice 15:24 XI The Mess 16:55 XII Disease of Ease 18:04 XIII Under Watchful Eyes 19:40 XIV Stacks 21:08 XV Unwanted Child 22:40
This is probably the greatest punk album of all time. I tell this story all the time, so I might as well share it here: I was 15 in 1997, and one of my favorite pastimes was getting my dad to drop me off at the mall and then walking across the street to the record store and hanging out there for four hours annoying the shit out of the poor guys who worked there. I had spent all of ninth grade obsessed with Econochrist, Filth, and Born Against, but my favorite record at the end of 1997 was probably At The Gates' "Slaughter of the Soul." I was chatting up the record store clerk about ATG when he says to me -- I'll never forget this -- "so, do you wanna hear some shit that'll curdle your milk?" and proceeds to put on "Like Weeds" at full blast on the store stereo. I bought it on the spot. Obviously the tunes are fucking flawless but this record really put into words a lot of the nascent disgust I was feeling living in a town absolutely COVERED in talismans of white supremacy (Richmond VA) that my teenage brain couldn't yet verbalize.
These guys were like a metal band here in Memphis called Epoch of Unlight. Fatally impressive, but their biggest supporters lived outside Memphis, no other supporters within a 200 mile radius
I worked at 924 Gilman as the trash kid (“cleanup coordinator”) in 1997 when I was a fourteen year old squatter kid. The highest honor in my entire life was getting to draw the poster for their show there on the support tour of this record. Never seen a better heavy show since. Fucking legends.
Todd used to throw his arms in the air during Like Weeds, like an inverted 'A' from that YMCA song. It was fucking magic live. The energy of late 90s Memphis hardcore was fucking magic.
I genuinely think this might be the greatest record ever created. Just complete pure human creative output. A blistering expression of rage, frustration, fear , despair. Absolutely nothing lost in translation, 100% pure human emotion expressed as music.
@@indiopeltier9758From what I understand, the Living Room was at least 2 or 3 different venues. I don't know which one I was at, but Goleta Fest '98 was there and it definitely was a cool venue too.
In My Humble Opinion, HHIG,DYSTOPIA & NEUROSIS (early) Defines What ‘Dark Hardcore/Neo Crust’ Sounds Like Nowdays...Crossover Between Crust Punk/Sludge Metal. 🙌🙏
Statues built for bastards Monuments to thieves Who carved the name of the white man on the backs of the trees that hung black bodies? Like ornaments Like ornaments Monuments to thieves Monuments to thieves Erections for your heroes: The liars and the thieves Who hung the name of the white man on the signs of our streets? Like ornaments Like ornaments Monuments to thieves Monuments to thieves
25 years later 15 year old middle class white kids waving their BLM banners and wearing clothes made by lives who don't matter to them (young cambodian children in sweatshops) think they are the ones discovering this shit....
How ironic too, Pat, there o.g. Guitarist from the first ep and LP became a trump supporting Q anon shell. He used to be our friend and had his mind in a better place than with his earlier addiction issues. I hope my friend comes back around one day. Maybe this is his latest attempt to run from his addictions, which I understand. I gotta think real Pat is still in there.
Why am I just now discovering crust punk? I've been into hardcore punk since the 90s and it seems I missed an entire subgenre. This is chaos in a grand form
@Jeff Beck the change started when Blink 182 got famous, then all the normies wanted to start powerpop bands and call it "pop punk". But you're right about the 90s, that's the golden age of punk. Luckily a lot of bands from that period still make excellent music, I saw Strung Out 3 months ago and they fucking killed it
DS13 - Killed by the Kids Formaldehyde Junkies - Are a Total Wreck Iron Lung - Life. Iron Lung. Death. Career Suicide Should change your mind about the 2000s. DS13 is a contender for best hardcore album.
Does anyone know why this particular album was removed off of spotify? The rest of this band's catalog is still on there. This is their best album in my opinion!
I was the doctor that delivered Todd and I’ve known his parents for years. While I removed him from the birth canal, he wasn’t crying, he was screaming HHIG lyrics and gave me a high five after I cut the umbilical cord.
So glad this got re-pressed. Never picked it up for some stupid reason back in the day, and then couldn't find a copy for under $50. Glad to have this on my shelf now.
way too cool🔥🔥🔥 I think it's a monumental album that doesn't feel like it's from 1997 It has chaotic and grindcore elements, but it's also beautiful✨ Thank you from the bottom of my heart🙏
What’s not to like when Korn is regarded as the day’s heavy music making millions and I have this great band right in my backyard. And the city still didn’t give them the support they needed. I grabbed it at the rec store probably from Todd himself and brought it up to the old library where I showed it off and only one friend knew about them and was stoked.
I gravitate towards the slower the heavier but HHIG were one of the few to pull off the faster the heavier. They were and continue to be innovators in a sea of so called "extreme" bands.
probably their best record. idk. I think they're all pretty good. Haha. I found 15 counts of arson (think that's the name?) in five buck record box in Portland like years ago and been a fan since.
Really neat band & very hard to define. I got into them on the grounds that they had this sludgy/doomy aspect to them....but they've got fast parts as well. Great band. If ya' like fast down tuned shit like this look into FaceDownInShit as well.
Pretty accurate. Apparently that's common among crust bands...these days anyway. Comin' up I always thought of Crust punk as Crass & shit like that. But what crust is NOW is not necesarrily what it used to be. Facedowninshit,Dystopia,Stormcrow,Skaven & others have those slow sludgy parts as well & all are pretty crusty.
+rightwingthug crass was NEVER considered crust. No one thinks that. Amebix and nausea started it and the only thing that has changed is now it incorporates more melody.
I owned this on first pressing vinyl over 20 yrs ago. Whatever happened in my life that possessed me to get rid of this album is a monument to my fucking stupidity.
I hear they were tearing down a bunch of monuments in 2020, because some say they are monuments to thieves. Those disgruntled youths are growing like weeds Everything by HHIG and Tragedy are unique and amazing, and have connected with me deeply. Surprised I've never encountered anybody who talked about them in real life. Glad I discovered them, written long ago but as relevant as if HHIG possessed a time machine, musically powerful, and ahead of its time. Lyrics are prophetic incantations, no harder rock ever written
Memphis bois. Todd worked at the record store down on Cooper st. I was like 13-14 and would ask him or Billy from Deathreat/Tragedy what was good and they’d pull out Crossed Out, Slight Slappers from Japan, Negative Approach, and so on and so forth. HHIG and o.g. Three 6 Mafia were the hottest thing in town back then.
Unknown User tell me you already knew that Memphis is regarded for our fresh drinking water lol that’s funny. Guess it was important in to stay hydrated and creative.
Drove up to philly and was about to buy a sworn enemy cd, the first ep. Kid i think named sharky worked behind the counter and threw this on. I was so ready to ditch swirn enemy and queens style tough guy posturing for pure brutally. But i think my original choice turned the kud off and ge said it wasnt for sale. I respect that
Jesse Yes the first grindcore and soon after that bands experimented with incorperating every genre known to man in grindcore... So a lot of grindcore has sludge/doom/crust/whatever you want to put into it. Does it have to be an amalgamation of those things? No. I understand your comment but that was the start of gind in the 80's, nowadays grind is mostly hardcore/crust/sludge...here in Belgium anyways. Happy newyear btw. ;)
I remember buying this from my local record store, running home to slap on my cheap ass record player as loud as possible and was absolutely fucking floored. Never had felt anything like when Weeds hit me like a meteor. My mom must've shit her drawers.
I genuinely believe His Hero is Gone is one of the best bands ever. This is pure art painting a society based on crimes against humanity and the infuriated on fire spirit who fights back. This and 15 counts of arson are perfect albums.
I agree, and Tragedy is great too. can we call this life? Vengeance both as good as any HHIG album
Of all these bands, I got to know Neil Perry first, and for me they are the #1. But, and it's a big one, HHIG, Pg99, City of caterpillar, ... they all are in a shared 2nd position. Perth Express, oh my god, the longer I think about these bands from back in the day...
@@strontkakpis City of Caterpillar are amazing, along with Page Ninety-Nine & Orchid. I do catch those Screamo vibes in HHIG for sure, which is always welcome.
Dead of Night EP also tits
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Every time I come back to this... I can be transported to 16 year old me buying this record from Headline Records and taking a bus for 2 hours to get to Rosemead and running to my room to see what is sounded like and just MELTED. Like... floored.
This album came out 25 yrs ago and it’s still ahead of its time.
Memphis is an isolated city. There’s no Mardi Gras, Spring Break or any other damn party. Time stands still in an isolated city where Progress is a dead end street in Orange Mound. Memphis style is everything we do.
26 years now and still influencing bands. Like mine.
@@jombiejussEven the rap scene from Memphis is fucking spooky
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Correct song times because the ones in the description are the song lengths, not the song times:
1. Like Weeds 00:00
2. Monuments to Thieves 02:21
3. Paranoia Secured 04:14
4. Carry on 04:34
5. Automation 06:18
6. Cavities 07:09
7. Chain of Command 08:42
8. Headless/Heartless 12:16
9. Hinges 14:22
10. Sin and Vice 15:23
11. The Mess 16:55
12. Disease of Ease 18:04
13. Under Watchful Eyes 19:40
14. Stacks 21:08
15. Unwanted Child 22:41
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thank you for saving our life !
Thank you
His hero is gone has such an amazing sound and flawless discography they definitely quit while they were ahead. Not a bad release in their discog
Thank you for this
Kick ass man!
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I used to work with Todd and Paul at the Arcade Restaurant in Memphis back in the day. I was a dishwasher while they made pizzas by day, and slayed at night with HHIG and Deathreat.
I grew up with Todd and Paul in Tullahoma, TN. In High School, we used to skate everyday. People change and we moved on, in different ways. I've always been proud of what they accomplished.
todd is a jerk
@@I_Erroneous It’s cool to voice your opinion. Todd was nothing but cool and sincere when I knew him.
I grew up in Memphis, as well. I enjoyed seeing H.H.I.G and all that stuff. I just recently went back to Memphis to visit and I'm sooo glad I left for Oaktown, ca.
Jesus, what a shit hole
And god forbid yr one if the ones that got out and made it work. People HATE seeing that. They can all suck my penis.
@@danieldowns4253 I lived there in 98 before moving to New Orleans. Yeah, in hindsight, that place was a hole lol
I can't believe how good this album is. 25 years later and it's still absolutely legendary. Grind for the punx.
I'll say it. This is one of the greatest albums ever made.
Love the sludgy bass on this, cool band, reminds me of Dystopia
Although I prefer Dystopia. This is very good music
I prefer His hero is gone.
Great bands both anyway
@@CannibalWHORE22i prefer his hero is gone but dystopia is also fucking great
dystopia and hhig is like as unique and interesting as crust can get PROBABLY because i dont know every single band ever
I remember Fenriz from Darkthrone once said this album shattered the lines between black metal and crust punk
Well, fuck -- now we have a whole lotta terrible "Blackened Crust" bands on our hands. Black Metal is just Hardcore Punk with corpse paint, let's be real; everything Black Metal's doing with Punk is really just multiple styles of already-Punk including: Screamo, Hardcore &/or Post-Punk.
@Anti Human Anti Life Prove me wrong, kid -- I'll be waiting.
@@Truth_Hurts_Bad black metal is much more spiritual and political than any of those genres.
@@Aaaaaaaa-ix4rp I can't say, because I don't listen to it -- but it sure as hell sounds pretentious & corny. What's spiritual is based on the BAND, not the genre. Get a clue.
@@Truth_Hurts_Bad if you don’t listen to it why are you arguing about it in comments. Sad to believe people like you exist in 2020 aka posers.
Best show i ever seen, hands down was His Hero is Gone with Man is the Bastard and Assuck. The hairs stood up on my flesh as i heard H.H.is Gone for the 1st time, hooked for life. Along with Neurosis and Napalm Death they set the standard for heaviness and abrasive sound therapy for me.
Dude I'm so fucking jealous. I would've killed to see hhig back in the day...
SUPPORT FROM BRASIL
I Like Weeds 00:00
II Monuments to Thieves 02:21
III Paranoia Secured 04:14
IV Carry on 04:34
V Automation 06:16
VI Cavities 07:07
VII Chain of Command 08:42
VIII Headless/Heartless 12:12
IX Hinges 14:21
X Sin and Vice 15:24
XI The Mess 16:55
XII Disease of Ease 18:04
XIII Under Watchful Eyes 19:40
XIV Stacks 21:08
XV Unwanted Child 22:40
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HHIG is so contemporary sounding, I'm always stunned when I remember they disbanded nearly 20 years ago
i said 'nearly' 20 years ago. and yeah man, it's crazy how time can fly
I know, these guys really blew me away first time i heard them.
Stuff sounded like this in the 80s
Name one band King
Joshua Holton That’s crazy - I didn’t know that. You can definitely hear this in Cult Leader and other similar new bands.
This album opens like a goddamn plane crashing into a mountain.
So damn bass heavy, the thickness of the sound is luscious to the ears to hear, the production is on point. Kick foot is a kick in the head.
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This is probably the greatest punk album of all time. I tell this story all the time, so I might as well share it here: I was 15 in 1997, and one of my favorite pastimes was getting my dad to drop me off at the mall and then walking across the street to the record store and hanging out there for four hours annoying the shit out of the poor guys who worked there. I had spent all of ninth grade obsessed with Econochrist, Filth, and Born Against, but my favorite record at the end of 1997 was probably At The Gates' "Slaughter of the Soul." I was chatting up the record store clerk about ATG when he says to me -- I'll never forget this -- "so, do you wanna hear some shit that'll curdle your milk?" and proceeds to put on "Like Weeds" at full blast on the store stereo. I bought it on the spot. Obviously the tunes are fucking flawless but this record really put into words a lot of the nascent disgust I was feeling living in a town absolutely COVERED in talismans of white supremacy (Richmond VA) that my teenage brain couldn't yet verbalize.
thanks for this... giving context to music that's blown my head thousands of miles away from its birthplace.
These guys were like a metal band here in Memphis called Epoch of Unlight. Fatally impressive, but their biggest supporters lived outside Memphis, no other supporters within a 200 mile radius
Dude slaughter of the souls is an amazing album!
I still have it in C.D. and it barely plays cause it's so scratched up lol
Still jam that shit!
Peaches across from Cloverleaf Mall?
@@paulballard7752 So close! Soundhole across from Chesterfield Town Center
I worked at 924 Gilman as the trash kid (“cleanup coordinator”) in 1997 when I was a fourteen year old squatter kid. The highest honor in my entire life was getting to draw the poster for their show there on the support tour of this record. Never seen a better heavy show since. Fucking legends.
is there a picture of the poster you drew?
Most of the better memories of my "youth" came from there. The finest shitstomp in the area. Long live the gilman, Rest in Pugnacious to the BRS
Mani get this so much more now at 39 than when I was 25.
I feel ya.
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Todd used to throw his arms in the air during Like Weeds, like an inverted 'A' from that YMCA song. It was fucking magic live. The energy of late 90s Memphis hardcore was fucking magic.
One of the best records I've ever heard. An absolute masterpiece.
i love yer music
@@nohopenofuture7316 Hey thanks! This is Kit
This really has stood the test of time too. These guys and Groundwork.
I discovered this awesome band around 2004 when I found this LP at the local thrift store. I still own it and I still rock this shit!
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1. Like Weeds 00:00
2. Monuments to Thieves 02:21
3. Paranoia Secured 04:13
4. Carry on 04:33
5. Automation 06:15
6. Cavities 07:06
7. Chain of Command 08:38
8. Headless/Heartless 12:11
9. Hinges 14:17
10. Sin and Vice 15:18
11. The Mess 16:49
12. Disease of Ease 17:57
13. Under Watchful Eyes 19:33
14. Stacks 21:00
15. Unwanted Child 22:32
+tenson95 Thank you, kind gentleman.
+The Scumbag ¿Qué pedo pinche The Scumbag?
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Siwa LOL
Jajajajajajaja, donde vengo a toparte we. xD
My soundtrack to mental illness.
Few things could resonate this deeply with me.
Based profile pic
@@janparadowski4894 based and anarchopilled
Dude. 💯💯💯
if you're into mental illness, you can't do much better than cacophony by rudimentary peni
I genuinely think this might be the greatest record ever created. Just complete pure human creative output. A blistering expression of rage, frustration, fear , despair. Absolutely nothing lost in translation, 100% pure human emotion expressed as music.
GREATEST album ever.
This band is diligent. They are proper. They are fucking out-standing. This is genre gold. This is why I still give a fuck.
Decibel magazine brought me here. Really glad that I wandered here- this sound is pretty ahead of its time.
Pinnacle of the genre right here.
and what genre?
jfeuiebf hardcore
Good for you
Sounds pretty hardcore to me. Wanna argue over the smell of my nutsack?
this isn't hardcore, this is sludgecrust. a much more intuitive title.
We've played with them in Badalona (Spain) it was 1997 or 1998.
Darkside of Soul + His Hero is Gone.
Best Hardcore live ever.
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I was able to see this band play when I was I high school at a place called the pickle patch in goleta Ca .It ruled hard
The living room of Steve Aoki's apartment in Goleta? That was a fun little venue.
@@alvinpietzsch1534 yes hell yeah,the living room also ruled
@@indiopeltier9758From what I understand, the Living Room was at least 2 or 3 different venues. I don't know which one I was at, but Goleta Fest '98 was there and it definitely was a cool venue too.
This isn't an album, it's a battle cry. Take notice.
steve golembiewski more than ever
relevant comment 5 years later
No u
HHIG is massive, thick, consistent - forward
The intrinsic disorganized complex noise chaos
In My Humble Opinion, HHIG,DYSTOPIA & NEUROSIS (early) Defines What ‘Dark Hardcore/Neo Crust’ Sounds Like Nowdays...Crossover Between Crust Punk/Sludge Metal. 🙌🙏
Agreed.
Nowdays?
Second that and all of my other personalities and voices in my head seal that notion...
yes
Dustin Delima thx,cheers 😉🙏🤜🤛
Statues built for bastards
Monuments to thieves
Who carved the name of the white man on the backs of the trees that hung black bodies?
Like ornaments
Like ornaments
Monuments to thieves
Monuments to thieves
Erections for your heroes: The liars and the thieves
Who hung the name of the white man on the signs of our streets?
Like ornaments
Like ornaments
Monuments to thieves
Monuments to thieves
25 years later 15 year old middle class white kids waving their BLM banners and wearing clothes made by lives who don't matter to them (young cambodian children in sweatshops) think they are the ones discovering this shit....
How ironic too, Pat, there o.g. Guitarist from the first ep and LP became a trump supporting Q anon shell. He used to be our friend and had his mind in a better place than with his earlier addiction issues. I hope my friend comes back around one day. Maybe this is his latest attempt to run from his addictions, which I understand. I gotta think real Pat is still in there.
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@@jombiejuss Maybe your friend Pat finally realized he is a white person and got sick of demonizing white people like a cuck.
Played the fuck out of this album in high school. Still probably my favorite band from that era, but Assuck and many others killed too.
dont forget dystopia and disrupt
Or Doom or Antischism
Or Initial state (speaking of Antischism) Garmonbozia and Oroku!
This record is still one of my all time favorites. Gives me chills every time I listen.
to me, HHIG alwayes had this old Neurosis vibe, awesome stuff. still sounds crushing, even after so many years.
well said
They're both heavily influenced by sludge metal. Check out Asbestos Death also.
hell yes
Why am I just now discovering crust punk? I've been into hardcore punk since the 90s and it seems I missed an entire subgenre. This is chaos in a grand form
@Jeff Beck sure i did, i just got back into metal once punk started to decline in the 2000s.
Imo it's better i found this late than never
@Jeff Beck the change started when Blink 182 got famous, then all the normies wanted to start powerpop bands and call it "pop punk". But you're right about the 90s, that's the golden age of punk. Luckily a lot of bands from that period still make excellent music, I saw Strung Out 3 months ago and they fucking killed it
@Jeff Beck thanks for the suggestion, never heard of them. Guess I'll check it out now
DS13 - Killed by the Kids
Formaldehyde Junkies - Are a Total Wreck
Iron Lung - Life. Iron Lung. Death.
Career Suicide
Should change your mind about the 2000s. DS13 is a contender for best hardcore album.
@@scotiabushcraft9570 i know im late to this party, but this list made me so happy i just have to say youre great. Formaldehyde junkies were the shit
Incredible album.
Does anyone know why this particular album was removed off of spotify? The rest of this band's catalog is still on there. This is their best album in my opinion!
Because it's Prophetic
Wow....very late to the party. What an album🤘
I was the doctor that delivered Todd and I’ve known his parents for years. While I removed him from the birth canal, he wasn’t crying, he was screaming HHIG lyrics and gave me a high five after I cut the umbilical cord.
So glad this got re-pressed. Never picked it up for some stupid reason back in the day, and then couldn't find a copy for under $50. Glad to have this on my shelf now.
This is some of the most brutal and heaviest shit I've ever heard.
And I don't say that about a lot of records.
If u usually said that about a lot of records , it'd be a oxymoron. Hello I'm a pedantic smart arse.
This is a shame of this freakin music industry that you hardly can find such amazing bands like His Hero Is Gone.
Forgot about hhig gone,haven't heard this album in years heavy as fuck and still stands up today
I've really come around to appreciating crust metal lately
Great album! Great band! I miss them.
way too cool🔥🔥🔥
I think it's a monumental album
that doesn't feel like it's from 1997 It has chaotic and grindcore elements, but it's also beautiful✨
Thank you from the bottom of my heart🙏
I love this very much.Thanks for posting it up!!!!
Masterpiece. No other word needed
2023,still the best !
This is a band you find and not really like at first and then listen 8 years later and understand why its so good. crushing crushing crushing.
found em a couple months ago and i fw em heavy
What’s not to like when Korn is regarded as the day’s heavy music making millions and I have this great band right in my backyard. And the city still didn’t give them the support they needed. I grabbed it at the rec store probably from Todd himself and brought it up to the old library where I showed it off and only one friend knew about them and was stoked.
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so glad I got to see these guys live a few times
baddest crust band best album#!
I just love the album art
I gravitate towards the slower the heavier but HHIG were one of the few to pull off the faster the heavier. They were and continue to be innovators in a sea of so called "extreme" bands.
They will be forever missed. Very influential band.
Best music ever.....so powerful.
quality of the highest order, hats off
FUCK YES!!! THANX!! One of my all time favorite bands.
No song will ever grip me the way Headless/Heartless does
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Julien Baker of all artists just reminded me of this album and how much I absolutely love it.
lol i still have that shirt rip she sold somewhere
Blew my mind and got me touring the planet for a minute
I remember picking up this record when it came out in the late 90s. Damn, has it really been almost 25 years? 2021 and this still kills it.
probably their best record. idk. I think they're all pretty good. Haha. I found 15 counts of arson (think that's the name?) in five buck record box in Portland like years ago and been a fan since.
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Found this cd 1 week ago, its price was 1 euro
Really neat band & very hard to define. I got into them on the grounds that they had this sludgy/doomy aspect to them....but they've got fast parts as well. Great band. If ya' like fast down tuned shit like this look into FaceDownInShit as well.
I'd say they're more crust punk than doom metal or sludge
Pretty accurate. Apparently that's common among crust bands...these days anyway. Comin' up I always thought of Crust punk as Crass & shit like that. But what crust is NOW is not necesarrily what it used to be. Facedowninshit,Dystopia,Stormcrow,Skaven & others have those slow sludgy parts as well & all are pretty crusty.
+rightwingthug crass was NEVER considered crust. No one thinks that. Amebix and nausea started it and the only thing that has changed is now it incorporates more melody.
***** Maybe Anarcho-Punk would be a better term to define a band like Crass.
This is a complete work of art. Magical
HHIG > Tragedy, though almost the same members.
farbercasteel i miss that carl sound on tragedy... i guess dimalia and drain the sky are good
I love Tragedy so much, but I just had the realization upon revisiting this on repeat that even Vengeance can't compare to this album.
@fabercasteel They're pretty different bands, though. Tough to compare.
Both are excellent
This is Great.
It's like I told my Friend.
It's like having a whole new Tragedy album to listen to. LoL
Screaming is my favorite past time
I owned this on first pressing vinyl over 20 yrs ago. Whatever happened in my life that possessed me to get rid of this album is a monument to my fucking stupidity.
When those fucking drums kick in.............
I hear they were tearing down a bunch of monuments in 2020, because some say they are monuments to thieves. Those disgruntled youths are growing like weeds
Everything by HHIG and Tragedy are unique and amazing, and have connected with me deeply. Surprised I've never encountered anybody who talked about them in real life. Glad I discovered them, written long ago but as relevant as if HHIG possessed a time machine, musically powerful, and ahead of its time. Lyrics are prophetic incantations, no harder rock ever written
Memphis bois. Todd worked at the record store down on Cooper st. I was like 13-14 and would ask him or Billy from Deathreat/Tragedy what was good and they’d pull out Crossed Out, Slight Slappers from Japan, Negative Approach, and so on and so forth. HHIG and o.g. Three 6 Mafia were the hottest thing in town back then.
Something was in the water up there.
Unknown User tell me you already knew that Memphis is regarded for our fresh drinking water lol that’s funny. Guess it was important in to stay hydrated and creative.
Drove up to philly and was about to buy a sworn enemy cd, the first ep. Kid i think named sharky worked behind the counter and threw this on. I was so ready to ditch swirn enemy and queens style tough guy posturing for pure brutally. But i think my original choice turned the kud off and ge said it wasnt for sale. I respect that
Crust is: ENT, Amebix and HHIG.
still heavy af in 2021
What a cool mix.
:) cuando se te acaba que escuchar, y luego vuelves a algo bueno..es cuando regreso a comentar aca..
Wish I could hear a remastered version or just redone with todays tech. Such a great album!
BURN THE SYSTEM DOWN!
congratulations exelent album
fuck i wish this was on spotify this is heavenly
my fave, put this puppy on evil spotify y'all
this is so good
Holy fucking shit dude.
Cavities 7:07 is a banger
omg who cares crust, sludge, grindcore...whatever they killed it....punk fuckin rock
+Sylvia Fitten punk but not rock
Since grind is an amalgamation of sludge and crust...it's grind dear.
Jesse Yes the first grindcore and soon after that bands experimented with incorperating every genre known to man in grindcore...
So a lot of grindcore has sludge/doom/crust/whatever you want to put into it. Does it have to be an amalgamation of those things? No. I understand your comment but that was the start of gind in the 80's, nowadays grind is mostly hardcore/crust/sludge...here in Belgium anyways.
Happy newyear btw. ;)
I hate that Spotify doesn't have your whole disco on it...
his gyro is gone
Haha
Brutalidad sonora en directo.
Carry on just the same.
I remember buying this from my local record store, running home to slap on my cheap ass record player as loud as possible and was absolutely fucking floored. Never had felt anything like when Weeds hit me like a meteor. My mom must've shit her drawers.
Brann dailor said this was a big influence on him for mastodon, you can hear those classic snare fills all over their albums stolen from this
good gawd this is good
The mp3’s are impossible to find. Would anybody care to share?
Saw them at Gilman St, I think in 97ish So f×cking great
Probably the same show I was at and drew the poster for!!!!
sick bro
Wow C: very good! I like it. \„/.
Progress-Dead End.
They eventually turned that street into an open street because the cruel disheartening irony of it was too much.
fuck. yes. reminds me of rockin out in the 90s. classic
thanks.
If produced by Kurt Ballou these were basically modern converge songs