Challenger

Artist: Knut
Label: Hydrahead Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 790168106224
EAN: 0790168106224
ASIN: B000062Y2J

Release Date: 2002-03-19

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the true best of "(insertfirstwordhere)core" part one
music?art?
What i've been getting upto in June/July 2004
Thinking man's metal
real noise for those that crave-true ire!
The best of new-school Hardcore!

Tracks:

Whacked Out
Repressed
Niño
Bite the Bullet
Neon Guide
H/Armless
58.788
Ice Will
March

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Customer Reviews:

An experiment in chaos and monomania.......2004-07-19

The more traditional math-core songs on this album are devestating-- incredibly heavy, with complex riffs and some strange chords a la Voivod. If they stuck to these kinds of songs, these guys would be unstoppable, maybe the best hardcore band in the world. But a large portion of the album is devoted to highly repetitive, plodding songs that don't seem to have much of a point. Whereas their math-core songs are schizophrenic, moving from one disparate element to the next without ever really settling on anything, these slower songs operate like the mind of a psychotic, endlessly obsessing over one thing. They are pretty daring in their single-mindedness, I guess, but I can't say I understand what they're trying to achieve. The last track is one of the most repetitive I have heard-- it's about 13 minutes long (not counting the hidden track at the end, which may or may not be a continuation of the same song), and progresses through a total of 5 or 6 riffs, one after the other, many of which are played for 3 or 4 minutes at a stretch. I think this song would have been more effective if it had been about half, or even a third, as long. And I would not call the sixth track a song-- it's simply a riff, played over and over. The end result is that I view this album as an EP, since I love half of it, and find the other half excrutiatingly dull.

a definite challenge.......2003-05-02

i got a killer deal on this 2002 LP by knut, a hardcore/noisecore/chaos band from switzerland.
rumor has it there are tons of similar bands popping up in switzerland every day, but let me tell you, accept no substitutes. knut are the real deal. they have blurred the dividing lines of what we think extreme music should be, so this deserves at least one spin from everyone who is reading this.
some of the most engaging, complex hardcore riffing of 2002. also one of my top 5 albums of 2002. they have progressed with the hardcore idea much like converge did in 2001 with 'jane doe', and much like botch did in early 1999 with 'we are the romans'. in my opinion, these 3 albums will be extremely important to the future of noisecore. very experimental, while at the same time extremely solid. just my cup of tea. every track is strong here, with #6 being the pinnacle. its simply the most brutal track of 2002, period.
for fans of converge, coalesce, and botch, challenger would be a very wise investment. highly recommended.

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