Electric Bath is a two piece grindcore band from Rochester, NY featuring members from Bloat, Fentanyl Tapwater, Hallucination Realized, poorly wrote suicide note, and more. Formed in 2021, the duo has toured with ROTWLCFTSCBMH and Putrid Liquid, played Barely Breathing II in 2023, and been a part of countless other shows in the western NY area.
Electric Bath is:
Ash - vocals, guitar, bass
Mitch - vocals, drums
electricbath.bandcamp.com
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Hailing from Buffalo, NY, Torture Agenda is a grind / crust trio that describes itself as "rust belt wrath." Also a regular member of the upstate NY punk and grind circuits, they have been quite active in recent years, playing shows all over the region with bands like Fed Ash, Hallucination Realized, and HIRS. A follow-up to their 2023 tape "Catalyst for the New Homo Sapien" released on Swimming Faith Records, their side of this split features more of their signature sound: unrelenting drumming, agonized vocals, and guitars that could easily be mistaken for chainsaws.
Torture Agenda is:
V - vocals
Bryan - guitar
Adria - drums
tortureagenda.bandcamp.com
Use Yer Imagination:
Take comfort in fugue fatal idols
Fags can starve same as the rest, the Natural
My presence an inherent point of contention
Force is the single spectacle worth mention
Pacification/categorization
Pacification/frail foundation
Boundless beautiful battered creations
You cannot contain what can’t be understood
Synthetic limits internalized as moral law
I don’t speak of mass or some common good
Assimilation write your own eulogy
For all the stories they spin, I aim to be worse
Pressure Cooker:
Caustic continuum
Collateral fears cognizance
Mistakes fill steps that could take lifetimes
At home in fields crows circling
Overcast autumn breeze
Pieces of me still left in the leaves
I wish the beauty you fought tooth and nail to embrace could glisten further than this
Reduce to base/fascistic failsafe
Effigy to a rock and hard place
Destiny of man or what archaeologists will debate a millennia from now?
Don’t get it twisted: you got the face of a methhead and the stride of a drunk, but you’re walking straighter than most
No culture no community no catalyst
I’m collateral and I’m terrified
With duct tape and shame past present future converge
Like some ever present judge
Irises like supernovas
Won’t even be a footnote
Gone in an instant, but leave behind some sorta grand wreckage
No guarantees in healing, but to defy oblivion in pursuit of the absurd notion of something beyond the circumstances that arbitrate
Headlights rapidly approach on unnamed dirt roads, illuminate ends i must face
If not for myself, then for you and I to grasp a warmth untainted one last time
If it means anything at all
With duct tape and shame doomed youth press on
Gorilla Accident:
I’ll make a meal outta you
Little style less substance
Escapist Mad Max fantasy
Working class plight in the suburban meatheads light
Revolving door of apologies and apologists
Burden of emotional incompetence
I’ll make a meal outta you
Little style less substance
Half assed political values
Can’t help boring music
Entombed nowhere to go/nowhere to grow
Persecution and god complex duking it out in some rotting basement
Terminal loser’s mythology
You’re not a threat
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Artwork by Paul van Trigt
Layout by Dave Petersen
OT_186
Orb Tapes 2024
released February 12, 2024