American Nervoso

Botch | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 20, 1999)
• Original Release Date: March 16, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hydrahead Records
• ASIN: B00000IKAC
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #386,246 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hutton's Great Heat Engine

2. John Woo

3. Dali's Praying Mantis

4. Dead For A Minute

5. Oma

6. Thank For Worker Bees

7. Rejection Spoken Softly

8. Spitting Black

9. Hives

Editorial Reviews

Originally recorded in 1998, this is Botch's debut full-length and first Hydra Head release. It features white-hot guitar action, scathing vocals, sweet bass moves, and torrential drums, smashing existing precepts of hardcore and redefining both the word and the music for a generation of matinee kids and grizzled vets alike. Here it is, a decade later, remixed, re-mastered, and reissued with five bonus tracks. "One of the most revered hardcore bands of the last decade, Botch pioneered the math-metal school of rock with song structures so complex and musicianship so virtuosic the Seattle quartet might as well have played classical music" - Revolver. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this last guy is an idiot, March 26, 2005

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J. Doe "J. Doe" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: American Nervoso (Audio CD)

whoever wrote the last review and gave this cd one star is a complete retard and needs to go be trendy, wear tight pants and eyeliner. for starters, it is not possible to be a real norma jean fan without liking botch, considering they cite botch as one of their biggest influences. so do converge and a mess of other bands. in addition to this, comparing the agony scene to botch is like comparing the killers to depeche mode...there is no comparison, and the agony scene is the most generic metalcore band on the face of the earth. so kill yourself, whoever you are. and those of you who are looking for good music to listen to, check out The Power And The Glory, BOTCH, Isis, Cave-In, Converge, Norma Jean and Old Man Gloom

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars back in the day..., December 16, 2005

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A. E. Pietzsch III (Pasadena, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: American Nervoso (Audio CD)

Botch always seemed to generate mixed reviews, for some reason, and by looking at other people's reviews on here, it seems that nothing much has changed. Let me start out by saying that this album is one of the best of the incredibly inventive mid to late 90's hardcore scene. Before this album came out, I was familiar with Botch through various 7" releases and compilations, but it wasn't until this album came out that they started taking their chaotic structures to new heights. This is when they started to come into their own, definately. At this point, they started to mix more experimental elements into their already great, noisy and chaotic style. I remember seeing them live back in '98 with Jesuit and being blown away by both Jesuit and Botch. I wound up seeing Botch 3 or 4 more times before they called it a day, and they were great every single time. Their sets were very chaotic, filled with lots of guitar pedals and strobe lights hooked up to various drums that were sure to send an epileptic into a seizure. Every time I hear this album, I'm reminded of the good ol' days before hardcore meant MTV2 tours, eyeliner, and bands that are essentially clones of Drowningman.
If anybody out there likes their hardcore unpredictable, angry, chaotic, and noisy, be sure to pick this album up, 'cause it still remains one of my favorites from an era when there were alot of great hardcore bands, not just a couple good ones in a sea of clones.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars blasting hard-math rock, October 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: American Nervoso (Audio CD)

american nervoso is an amazing album. all tracks shine with urgency, focused precision and painful attack. botch has the control and the power to play this complex music. the songwriting is great, the vocals are sung/screamed like he means it, the guitar is impossible. this is stunning.