Face of Collapse

Artist: Dazzling Killmen
Label: Skin Graft Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio Cassette

UPC: 036172601240
EAN: 0036172601240
ASIN: B0000019EX

Release Date: 1994-03-14

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Tracks:

Staring Contest
Bone Fragments
My Lacerations
Blown (Face Down)
Windshear
Painless One
In the Face of Collapse
Agitator

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Customer Reviews:

If a record tears your head off in the woods and no one is there to hear it..........2005-09-29

...Does it still get classified as important? In the case of Face of Collapse, which it seems hardly anyone heard at the time and now, over 10 years on, scant few are able to find for various reasons (distribution issues, right place/wrong time syndrome), the answer is yes 1,000 times over. Dazzling Killmen leader Nick Sakes, asked to comment on the next great "math-metal" band in the pantheon (a.k.a. the Dillinger Escape Plan), once remarked that hearing math-metal bands of that ilk had the same effect on him as watching a ballet performance: The technical aspect was impressive, but there was no soul. Dazzling Killmen had soul -- granted, a very dark, twisted and wounded sense of the term, but soul nonetheless. Put aside their blinding bass runs and brain-scrambling meter changes, and you've got a hardcore band that, on this album especially, was actually hardcore in spirit: This music doesn't just sound angry; it feels that way. It spits and sweats, bites its nails and punches the walls; it bleeds and thrashes about the room, transcending the stuff coming out of the speakers to overtake the entire room with its mood. From the sounds of it, these were deeply troubled young men, and in the brief spell they were together making music, they found a way to organize their internal chaos into something that's timeless in its sheer intensity, and almost genre-less in its sense of identity (is it jazz? metal? hardcore? noise? and who inspired Sakes and Tim Garrigan's raking guitar figures first, Blind Idiot God or PiL?). For my money, this is one of the most important albums released in the '90s.

this album will kill you.......2005-09-25

it's hard to believe that this record is over 10 years old! and what's even more amazing is that it still stands head and shoulders above all these technical mathy rock bands that seem to crop up every thirty seconds these days.

the songs on this record are relentless and savage, yet with all the raw crazed energy, these guys can play. the music is intense and frighteningly tight. it's like the technical aspects of prog rock bands like King Crimson or Yes have been anally violated and have become bitter and very very mean. but with all the time changes and stop on a dime pauses, Dazzling Killmen never really veer into a cold unfeeling territory inhabited by bands like Dillenger Escape Plan or Don Cabellero. the vocals on this record are sung from a very disturbing perspective on life. you can almost feel the sweat and spit and bile being flung around the studio as the vocals were laid down.

Face Of Collapse is an unstoppable juggernaut of an album that grabs you by the throat and refuses to let go until it has drained every drop of blood from your worthless body.

it's beyond math rock, beyond metal, beyond technical...beyond sanity.

All else pales in comparison.......2004-09-23

There has been a lot of hype lately about hard core "math rock" bands. I won't list them (you can look them up) but Dazzling Killmen make these prog rock, nu metal, math rockers sound like beginner garage bands. It is really too bad that this band isn't around anymore. I saw them in St. Louis shortly after Face of Collapse came out. It was amazing to hear them perform these songs on stage. I bought the CD from the band immediately after the show. So before you spend another dime on any new "hardcore" record, do yourself a favor and get this CD.
They also have a compilation CD of their earlier recorded material. It isn't as good as Face but it does have some good music and an amusing radio promo spot, grade schoolers at the radio station shouting "Dazzling Killmen! they Kill!"

the effect is disorienting..........2000-01-28

Have you ever been surfing/bodyboarding on the beach, when there were some really large waves coming in... and it gets to the point where the wave comes crashing over your head... and you just tumble and fall and tumble and fall over and over again, and the concussions come all over your body from every side... and just when you think it's over, and there is calm, it comes back and hits you again? Imagine that, set to music. absolutely f-ing amazing.

heart-stopping noise, aggression and amazing musicianship.......1998-09-14

the killmen will challenge, confuse and scare the hell out of you with their finest and last release! be prepared as you collapse into the dark, abrasive world of this now defunct metal/punk quartet. stop-on-a-dime rhythms and interspersed head bobbing grooves combined with jazz sensibilities make this one of the most interesting listens from the '90's! - check out Collosomite and You! Fantastic to see where these madmen are heading.

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