Where Were You When: 1989-1995

Where Were You When: 1989-1995 Artist: Human Remains
Label: Relapse
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 781676648924
EAN: 0781676648924
ASIN: B000062Y7T


Release Date: 2002-03-19

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Listmania:

  1. best underground death, gore, and thrash metal!
  2. Hardcore & Grindcore Albums for Metal fans (no order)
  3. my current favorite in extreme music
  4. Grind your mind!!!
  5. masterful metal: by genre
  6. Best Of: Metalcore and its related subgenres
  7. My favorite drum cds.
  8. AWESOME DRUMSET TERRORISTS
  9. WOT I'VE BEEN GETTING UPTO IN DEC 2002
  10. Guitar-Driven Brutality

Tracks:

  1. Patterns In The Grass
  2. Forked Tongue
  3. When Forever Becomes Until
  4. Weeding Out The Thorns
  5. Waste Of Time
  6. Rote
  7. Chewed Up & Spit Out
  8. Swollen
  9. Human
  10. Beyond Human Perception
  11. Spoiling Of Beauty
  12. Intro/Mechanical
  13. Fragrance Of Souls
  14. Symptoms Of The New Society
  15. Pretty Build-UP

Tracks:

  1. Symptoms Of The New Society
  2. Blessed Paradise
  3. The Malignance
  4. Human
  5. Imagine
  6. Chemical Life
  7. Fictitiously Vivid
  8. Of The Same Flesh
  9. Sight Beyond Sickness
  10. Human
  11. Rote
  12. Swollen
  13. Mechanical
  14. Chewed Up & Spit Out
  15. Rote
  16. Weeding Out The Thorns
  17. Swollen
  18. Human

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars OO yeahh!!!!.......2004-07-23

Human remains's music is like a brick hitting you while some one else cuts your feet very slowly.Like how that sound ?Good!Brutal andin your face! Own this !

5 out of 5 stars Volume Swells.......2003-06-27

Amazing band. Seen 'em live a few times. Friends with Dave Witte through a mutual friend, Brann Dailor. Awesome drummers. Awesome. But, to the reviewer below, the guitars are actually doing volume swells when you hear that off/on stuff going on. Which makes it even more amazing. Incredible. Even their old bassist Will (closer friend of mine than Witte. Will and I are on a hug-greeting basis. Love the guy) could do lightning fast multi-noted volume swells on his bass!! Those freakin guys kicked booty!!

4 out of 5 stars Ah, the perfume of detritus........2002-06-01

For all you late-coming grind and "metalcore" fans, it's finally here, a catalogue of your godfathers' works. This release includes a handful of the Human Remains's tracks spanning 1990(?)-1995. Records included are:

1)Happy Days 7"
2)Relapse CDEP ("Using Sickness as a Hero")
3)a track from the "With Your Teeth" comp
4)Admirations Most Deep and Foul 7"
5)the 1990 demo
6)the 1992 demo
7)the "Metal Blade" demo
8)the original "Using Sickness as a Hero" recording. (It was later rerecorded because the band wasn't happy with it.)
And one short, unnecessary unreleased electronic preview track from post-band The Skies Denied.

It's a good release and makes available dozens of out-of-print songs you'd pay too much for on ebay, but has a few shortcomings. One being the lack of information on the releases, (i.e. years, labels) of which I'm not sure are even completely represented. The original "Using Sickness..." recording, for instance, only has five tracks whereas the later recording that Relapse released in '95 had seven. The liners are pretty weak, also. There is virtually no information on the band, only who the members were and when their first and last shows were played. One can only guess, I suppose...

Additionally, several of the tracks are EXTREMELY lo-fi. The 1990 demo, for instance, sounds like it was ripped from an old audio cassette. The "Metal Blade Demo" clips at every grind part and even has a skip at the beginning of the first track where it sounds like some one accidentally hit record when trying to play a cassette. This is to be expected of 10 year old demos, however, so no hard feelings.

On the positive side, we see a nice collective perspective on the band that forsees their development from gritty, indistinguishable grind to fast, technical grind/metalcore. Of course, a number of OOP releases are included as well as the demos that you most likely would never see in actual form.

If you still haven't heard HR, you're missing out. They feature the blistering Dave Witte on drums, (Exit 13, Discordance Axis, Black Army Jacket, Burnt by the Sun...) which should be enough to convince you. The music contains the speed and brutality of Discordance Axis, but with the technique and complexity close to the Dillinger Escape Plan (ok, maybe not THAT complex) or Burnt by the Sun. They do a lot of on/off tremolo (that stuff Rage Against the Machine used to always do where the guitars mute on and off in patterns) and are extremely based around odd time signatures and beat patterns. If you like the stuff Relapse releases these days, you'll love this CD.

Music CD:

  1. Answer to the Master ~ Impellitteri
  2. Big House ~ Big House
  3. Plugged in Permanent ~ Anvil
  4. Black Halo ~ Kamelot
  5. One Vice at a Time ~ Krokus
  6. Day of the Saxons ~ Witchkiller
  7. Starkers in Tokyo ~ Whitesnake
  8. The Alien Inside ~ Empty Tremor
  9. Obscure Master Plan ~ New Eden
  10. Behold the Beginning ~ Diamond Head

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

An American Concerto for 5-String Banjo and Orchestra ~ Tim Lake

Friends & Family ~ Suicidal Tendencies

Last Tango in Moscow ~ Angelic Upstarts

Vol. 2 Omerta, Onuri E Sangu ~ La Musica Della Mafia

Mareas ~ Juan Jose Carranza

Hitoha Dodoikirumono ~ Yuriko Futaba

Leave No Ashes ~ Burning Brides

Blues Power ~ Duffy Power

Alternative 3 ~ Anne Shenton , Barry 7 , and Steve Claydon

Sex Bomb ~ Rob Bones