Born Against - The Rebel Sound of Shit and Failure

This was the 2003 re-issue which the original was released in 1996 under Kill Rock Stars Record. "The Rebel Sound Of Shit And Failure" was a compilation contains 22 songs in 50 minutes, collects all remaining 7", 8" and compilation tracks from Born Against's 1989 - 1993 history. Born Against are on of the few bands who truly live the punk ideal (along with Crass, Conflict etc). Their aesthetic embodied the revolutionary ideal that punk stood for. It also adheres to the toungue in cheek sarcasm that punk has also idealised for so long. And this is an album containing possibly the most vicious hardcore punk ever put to disc. The music is fast and powerful. It's blistering, raw, in your face, intelligent and dripping with cynicism. While they had some of the slowness / heaviness that characterized 90s hc (and in some senses, soured it and turned it into slow, bland mosh metal ala Pantera) - they also maintained the great 80's-styled creative guitar work ala Black Flag or Articles of Faith.
If this world were everything that it claims to be, Born Against would have stuck around longer and gone down in history as one of those classic hardcore bands like Agnostic Front and the Circle Jerks. I think they deserve to be called as Legend.

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