Critical Exploder

Exclaim | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 16, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sound Pollution
• ASIN: B00005O7UX
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #708,958 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Weight

2. We're Never Gonna Vote Against Them

3. Untitled

4. Keep On Pushin'

5. D.I.Y. 2

6. Dedicated To All Records

7. Untitled

8. Get Everythin'

9. Wild Youth

10. Pressure

11. Exclaim

12. Throw Into Disorder

13. Corporate State Till Death

14. Sypathized

15. Seen Bored

16. Mr Twist/Coca Cola

17. Bonus Track 1

18. Bonus Track 2

19. Bonus Track 3

20. Bonus Track 4

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Mondo-distorto-thrash!, February 6, 2003

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Ryan (california) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Critical Exploder (Audio CD)

"Critcal Exploder" is NOT for the weak-eared. Japanese thrashers Exclaim tear through track after track of fast, chaotic, and most of all, distorted hardcore punk, similar to bands like Charm and Idol Punch.
Exclaim's recording style is more blown out and fuzzy than noise punk gods Confuse or Gai, and that's saying something. Most songs sound like a blur of feedback, near blast-beat drums and screaming coming through a blown out speaker... but that's the point. This will scare away the most die-hard thrashers within a few tracks, and indeed, this is tough to listen to all the way through. But if your ears can take the beating, Exclaim uses an interesting way to get one to actively listen to their disc. This isn't background music -- it grabs you by the throat and makes you say uncle!
The tracks from the "Out of Suit" 7" tacked onto the end are more listenable, less fuzzed out, but with the same spastic thrash style. "No Skate No Thrash" is a classic in the making.
Good stuff.