Add to that the raw production and perfect arrangement of songs from the start of Break the Chains to the end of Fetch the Pliers. Everything from Matt's guitar sounds, to Joe's rabid vocals, to that thick bass sound that just cuts through everything. As amazing as the 2nd 7" and the No Man's Slave LP are, there's just something missing that made Slave so great to me. The Slave LP still stands as my favorite Infest release. There might be a second press of the 12" of 500 on multi-colored vinyl, but we are not sure yet. Our 12" on Off the Disk is: 100 amber, 100 pink, 800 black. What are the pressings of both the 7" and 12"? Later on, they offered to do a 12", so we put 10 of the songs on our 7" as a US pressing and all 18 on their 12" as a European press. So we recorded 18 songs, 10 for our 7" and eight for them to press up. They really liked us and offered to do a 7" for us. We were planning to do a 14 song 7", but I ended up trading our demo to Erich and Thomas of Mega-Wimp fanzine in Switzerland. How did you get everything together so fast, like the 7" and 12"? How did you hook up with a Swiss label? Matt Domino on the releasing of the Slave LP: Sound quality is fantastic, but unfortunately it's missing the sample at the opening of Sick-O. The tracks in this collection were taken from the 2002 re-release. The LP was finally officially re-issued again in 2002 by Deep Six/Draw Blank.
DIRTY HEADS DISCOGRAPHY KAT FULL
Slave was bootlegged on LP in 1993 on Sand Im Getriebe Records (out of Germany of course) and also included the band's 2nd 7" (1991), 11 unreleased rehearsal tracks, and the sleeve was a 20 page booklet full of political propaganda. The LP was re-issued in 1991 by Draw Blank/Deep Six Records, and the artwork changed to the more well known black and white image of a slave being led through the grass on a leash. Awesome cover art by Seelenlos and graphics by Erich. It was recorded at Spot Recording by David Kory in June, 1988. There were 1,000 made of the original press, which came with a lyric sheet, poster, 2 stickers and 1 flyer.
DIRTY HEADS DISCOGRAPHY KAT PLUS
The Slave LP contained the 10 tracks from the band's previous self-released, self-titled 7" (known as the Machismo 7"), plus 8 new tracks. Originally released on Off the Disk Records (out of Switzerland)/ Draw Blank Records (Infest's own label) in 1988. Thanks to Dan Hashthrash for the Slave and KXLU rips, Andy (Mortville Records) for the Apocalyptic Convulsions rip, and Gen (Ruido) for the 1987 demo rip. 110 tracks taken from a dozen recordings. but that's a whole other long-winded story. Thanks Marty! I never thought a band would ever have that much of an impact on me again, until the day i heard Neanderthal. It was almost a full year later that i finally got a dub of the entire Slave album from a friend in art school. I taped Pat's show every Thursday night and would catch an Infest song every now and then, which to me was like hitting the lottery. This was the band i'd been waiting to hear. It was just monstrous hardcore, like Youth of Today on steroids and speed. But Infest was a different kind of fast, and a different kind of heavy. Up to that point i had heard a decent amount of the faster and heavier bands like DRI, Siege, and even Napalm Death. Everything about it just clicked with me immediately. The songs were Mindless and Where's the Unity?, and the second i heard those tracks it changed my perception of how powerful music could be. My first time hearing them was on Pat Duncan's radio show in 1988, during the time the Slave LP was released. I'd say Infest was the band that had the single greatest impact on me as far as hardcore/punk music goes. If any band needs to be properly documented, this is it. I'm glad the fucking thing's finally done. I've wanted to put this together for a long time, and it was a labor of love to be sure. This is pretty much everything the band has ever recorded, aside from one demo track (Machismo), which i couldn't get a decent version of to work with, and a few samples before certain tracks. With that in mind, i tried my best to make this collection as close to CD quality as possible. I think this is going on year 10 that Deep Six Records has had the Infest discography on it's "coming soon" list, so i'm going to take a wild guess and say it's never going to happen. All surface noise and pops removed, and all levels adjusted so every track is the same volume. 110 tracks of Infest, and by "remastered" i just mean nicely cleaned up. So here's what i've been working on for pretty much the past month. 5, 2012 for better sound quality on the Mankid ep and comp tracks.
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