Without even hearing this one, the cover makes it an instant buy. An oversize envelope sleeve with a crude silk screen job has always been a tempting combination for picking up a record that you've never heard. It can also backfire and turn out to be a bad Emo/Screamo record as the 90's were known for churning out. During that period of the 90's, the whole DIY/Emo/Ebulition records thing was kicked into full gear. I'm not necessarily saying that that was a bad thing. There were just a lot of records being pumped out with numerous micro scenes trying to stake their claim in that scene as well. In short, an over abundance of mediocre to shitty records were floating around. Fortunately, this record was far from that. The Unabombers were a short lived (About 7 months) Washington band that did one U.S. tour and one record. 500 were pressed, but only 200 came with a booklet and all were on red vinyl. The record itself is a relentless 6 song noisy, hateful,rager that never lets up. Pick your King era, Poison Idea comes to mind when describing their sound. When the Unabombers called it a day, guitarist Nate Manning and guitarist Gabe, resurfaced in the Murder City Devils where they have gone on to find fame and fortune.
Side A
1. Prepare The Transmitter
2. Pistol Whip
3. 45th and 8th
Side B
1. Van-Eating Suicide Pack
2. Windstorm 95
3. More Gold
great cover
ReplyDeleteI saw them in Tulsa at a club called the Ikon on that tour and they were off the rails. I got a tshirt from them that said “here comes trouble” that had a picture of a monkey riding a tricycle. This record and the Beatnik zine/lyric sheet hold a special place in my record collection... and my heart! 10/10 would definitely shell out for a reunion show. Fingers crossed for some live footage to surface some day.
ReplyDeletethey played here in Corpus Christi on Aug 18th 1996, I was in a band called The Malones, we opened the show, they were AMAZING!!!
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