?Seattle, WA's Botch is at the forefront of a near revolution in sound in heavy music. A virulent strain of progressive, underground, and sometimes violent heavy metal-infused guitar histrionics steeped deeply in hardcore punk scene aesthetics and the much touted D.I.Y. ethic, with many that community's lowest common denominator, tough-guy minded inflections thankfully absent. It's a subgenre that is most often labeled noisecore. Much like their noisecore peers in bands like Converge and Isis, Botch's soun   [ read more ]

MP3 $6.30

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Botch is perhaps the greatest "heavy" band of the last ten years. As with all Botch recordings this six-song MCD is a monstrous concoction of metal, noise, indie rock guitar trickery, full of depth and minute secrets which slowly secrete themselves with successive listens. There is no question that part of what made Botch so great is their ability as players, but more important, and even more impressive perhaps, was the way they fit the pieces together - odd time signatures, seemingly impossible riffs made    [ read more ]

CDep $12.99

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This is a re-issue of the band's long out of print collection of early 7-inch material, compilation cuts, and other rarities, providing an incisive look at the germination of Seattle's legendary ass-kickers. Originally released by Excursion Records in 2002, it features sixteen ferocious tracks that only Botch could deliver, complete with weird samples, postmodern anxiety, and unstoppable riffs.

MP3 $10.49

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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    [ read more ]

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Initially released in 2000, Botch's final full-length was a devastating metallic hardcore explosion. Re-released here in a double disc edition, featuring the original recording plus bonus live tracks and the entire album in its hi-fi demo version, We Are The Romans is bigger and better than ever. 'One of the most revered hardcore bands of the last decade, Botch pioneered the mathmetal school of rock with song structures so complex and musicianship so virtuosic, the Seattle quartet might as well have    [ read more ]

MP3 $10.49

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This is a re-issue of the band's long out of print collection of early 7-inch material, compilation cuts, and other rarities, providing an incisive look at the germination of Seattle's legendary ass-kickers. Originally released by Excursion Records in 2002, it features sixteen ferocious tracks that only Botch could deliver, complete with weird samples, postmodern anxiety, and unstoppable riffs.

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Initially released in 2000, Botch's final full-length was a devastating metallic hardcore explosion. Re-released here in a double disc edition, featuring the original recording plus bonus live tracks and the entire album in its hi-fi demo version, We Are The Romans is bigger and better than ever. "One of the most revered hardcore bands of the last decade, Botch pioneered the mathmetal school of rock with song structures so complex and musicianship so virtuosic, the Seattle quartet might as well have    [ read more ]

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Seattle, WA: The Showbox, June 15, 2002. Botch's final live performance. Possibly the tightest, hottest, sweetest show ever. See it for the first time all over again, under the white-hot blaze of the work lights, complete with bonus commentary, all your favorite jams (fourteen in all); all those unstoppable riffs, a full-length live CD, and a pile of bonus DVD material.

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