1-800 MELTDOWN
Season to Risk
Experimental noise rock, heavy, loud, sometimes harsh
Rare, unreleased, covers, experiments. Obliterate the goal, make the journey the process and the end all. Continue the continuum. The eternal return. We hope you enjoy this peek into the process.
18 tracks recorded at Trainwreck Sound Studio, WestEnd Studio and others,
including covers of Bauhaus, Killdozer, Die Kreuzen, and The GoGos.
Demos and bonus tracks from 'Men Are Monkeys. Robots Win.' Experimental pieces, demos, songs composed at various levels of completion written with bass players Josh Newton (Shiner) or Billy Smith (Dirtnap).
Also thanks to Chris Metcalf (drums, “Sick With It”), Jason Gerken (drums, “End All”, “Pink
Room”), Paul Malinowski (bass “End All”, “Pink Room”), drum programming on “Melt” and “Cotton Bolls” by Duane Trower, lead co-vocal on “Double Dare” by Josh. Chad “Spiv” Sabin - drums on Undone, (from the 1999 film "Strange Days” / Glazed Baby split 7”)
Guitar by Steve on In the Face, Gothateria.
Keys on 1-2-800 by David. Phone by Josh.
Josh Newton - bass, synth: In the Face, Monkeysmoke, Gothateria, Beestings, 1-800, One Month X
Sick With It (Dandercroft comp - Anodyne Records), End All (KC Misery comp - Red Decibel Records), Glass Parade (Decline of Western Civilization comp - Ant Records), Beestings (Starkweather split 7” - Supermodel Records).