|
|
|
|
A cheekily titled and charming follow-up from the Demolish demo entrepot, Live: Wish We Were in Japan sees Vancouver non-luminaries Ancient Obliteration recording mostly poor songs mostly poorly, hats out for tossed pennies and that’s about it. The sound is a particularly grimy confluence of nostalgia and ineptitude, hearkening back to when thrash met death metal and shook hands uneasily before heading off to respective camps and circling their wagons accordingly. Therefore, this is so 1986 it hurts, sounding like Repulsion and pre-Relapse Deceased, all slobbering and drooling vocals and riffs. No clue what it wants to be, nor do we want it to. A handful of noble qualities distinguish this release from the slimline cased, pressing of thirty copies afterthought it seems destined to be. Firstly, even though it feels and sounds like just another shitty, humor-laden basement gig, it is ostensibly dedicated to fallen Vancouver musician Ian Tellier (he of Funeral Circle/Shores of Tundra fame/obscurity), the band going so far as to cover one of his compositions here. Fittingly, it’s the worst song. Thankfully, Ancient Obliteration also debuts two new songs of its own and they’re as good ‘n’ awful as anything else released up to this point. So, here be a retrospective, stopgap and forward-looking live EP that captures the awesomeness, awfulness and mediocrity of a hopeless underground entity that probably cancels more gigs than it actually plays. Not sure what that means, not sure if it’s an insult. Oh yeah, and the lyrics are uniformly quite a hoot.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Janine Daniels Is Fucking Psychotic |
| 2. Shogun |
| 3. Godzilla vs Biollante |
| 4. Pagan Rape |
| 5. Defiler |
| 6. Ancient Obliteration |
: 22:19
| Buy other Ancient Obliteration albums |
