Face of Collapse

"Most of the great progressive underground bands of the '90s would not exist if it weren't for them."- Ben Weinman, lead guitarist & primary songwriter of The Dillinger Escape Plan. Was DAZZLING KILLMEN a hardcore band? A metal band? The world's gnarliest progressive-rock quartet?"Yes" is the easy answer, but only because it's easy to rewind through two decades of genre fragmentation to hear Dazzling Killmen's influence on any number of "math-metal," "prog-core" and similarly classified bands. At the time, however, this St. Louis quartet occupied a genre of one. When SKiN GRAFT released the Killmen's 1994 sophomore album, "Face of Collapse", that genre had it's touchstone."- Excerpt from Aaron Burgess' liner notes"One of the best post-metal records ever made". - Fact Magazine"The band formed in the St. Louis, MO area, and forged it's singular sound with almost no music scene support for such a fringy concept - technically impeccable playing enabling whiplash stop-starts that recalled John Zorn's Naked City more readily than any rock group one could name, cathartic and discordant guitar stabs, a jaw-dropping rhythm section, arrangements of baroque complexity, and a harrowing, overbearing, inescapable sense of pure dread". - Dangerous MindsLoud Life at Alternative Press magazine declared it the top album of the 90's based on the following criteria: 1) Avoidance of formula or cliché. 2) Dexterity of rhythm section, 3) Quality of album's production values, 4) Lack of predictable lyrical subjects - Satan, Straightedge, Viking folklore, etc. "Sounds like Dave Bruebeck's Time Out played through Carcass' PA system."Remastered from the original analog tapes and packaged in a deluxe six panel Digipack with a 16 page booklet of liner notes, interviews and comics. Includes three non-LP bonus tracks. Collects every studio track recorded by the quartet version of the band.01. Staring Contest (remastered) 03:1802. Bone Fragments (remastered) 05:4603. My Lacerations (remastered) 01:2904. Blown (Face Down) (remastered) 05:5105. Windshear (remastered) 02:0806. Painless One (remastered) 04:4807. In The Face Of Collapse (remastered) 13:5708. Agitator (remastered) 04:5209. Medicine Me (Bonus Track: remastered) 02:3910. Poptones (Bonus Track: remastered) 04:0111. My Lacerations (Alternate Version / Bonus Track: remastered) 01:25