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 to sound easy, the occasional melodic passages, and devastating anthemic movements that managed to inspire hordes while simultaneously escaping the redundant simplicity of the conventional hardcore sing-a-long. An Anthology of Dead Ends is a testament to their will and intent, cementing their legacy as one of the untouchable greats, destined to influence generations to come.