Correct song times because the ones in the description are the song lengths, not the song times: 1. Like Weeds 00:00 2. Monuments to Thieves 02:21 3. Paranoia Secured 04:14 4. Carry on 04:34 5. Automation 06:18 6. Cavities 07:09 7. Chain of Command 08:42 8. Headless/Heartless 12:16 9. Hinges 14:22 10. Sin and Vice 15:23 11. The Mess 16:55 12. Disease of Ease 18:04 13. Under Watchful Eyes 19:40 14. Stacks 21:08 15. Unwanted Child 22:41 קטגוריה
I genuinely believe His Hero is Gone is one of the best bands ever. This is pure art painting a society based on crimes against humanity and the infuriated on fire spirit who fights back. This and 15 counts of arson are perfect albums.
Of all these bands, I got to know Neil Perry first, and for me they are the #1. But, and it's a big one, HHIG, Pg99, City of caterpillar, ... they all are in a shared 2nd position. Perth Express, oh my god, the longer I think about these bands from back in the day...
@@strontkakpis City of Caterpillar are amazing, along with Page Ninety-Nine & Orchid. I do catch those Screamo vibes in HHIG for sure, which is always welcome.
Well, fuck -- now we have a whole lotta terrible "Blackened Crust" bands on our hands. Black Metal is just Hardcore Punk with corpse paint, let's be real; everything Black Metal's doing with Punk is really just multiple styles of already-Punk including: Screamo, Hardcore &/or Post-Punk.
@@Aaaaaaaa-ix4rp I can't say, because I don't listen to it -- but it sure as hell sounds pretentious & corny. What's spiritual is based on the BAND, not the genre. Get a clue.
I used to work with Todd and Paul at the Arcade Restaurant in Memphis back in the day. I was a dishwasher while they made pizzas by day, and slayed at night with HHIG and Deathreat.
I grew up with Todd and Paul in Tullahoma, TN. In High School, we used to skate everyday. People change and we moved on, in different ways. I've always been proud of what they accomplished.
I grew up in Memphis, as well. I enjoyed seeing H.H.I.G and all that stuff. I just recently went back to Memphis to visit and I'm sooo glad I left for Oaktown, ca. Jesus, what a shit hole And god forbid yr one if the ones that got out and made it work. People HATE seeing that. They can all suck my penis.
Memphis is an isolated city. There’s no Mardi Gras, Spring Break or any other damn party. Time stands still in an isolated city where Progress is a dead end street in Orange Mound. Memphis style is everything we do.
This is probably the greatest punk album of all time. I tell this story all the time, so I might as well share it here: I was 15 in 1997, and one of my favorite pastimes was getting my dad to drop me off at the mall and then walking across the street to the record store and hanging out there for four hours annoying the shit out of the poor guys who worked there. I had spent all of ninth grade obsessed with Econochrist, Filth, and Born Against, but my favorite record at the end of 1997 was probably At The Gates' "Slaughter of the Soul." I was chatting up the record store clerk about ATG when he says to me -- I'll never forget this -- "so, do you wanna hear some shit that'll curdle your milk?" and proceeds to put on "Like Weeds" at full blast on the store stereo. I bought it on the spot. Obviously the tunes are fucking flawless but this record really put into words a lot of the nascent disgust I was feeling living in a town absolutely COVERED in talismans of white supremacy (Richmond VA) that my teenage brain couldn't yet verbalize.
These guys were like a metal band here in Memphis called Epoch of Unlight. Fatally impressive, but their biggest supporters lived outside Memphis, no other supporters within a 200 mile radius
SUPPORT FROM BRASIL I Like Weeds 00:00 II Monuments to Thieves 02:21 III Paranoia Secured 04:14 IV Carry on 04:34 V Automation 06:16 VI Cavities 07:07 VII Chain of Command 08:42 VIII Headless/Heartless 12:12 IX Hinges 14:21 X Sin and Vice 15:24 XI The Mess 16:55 XII Disease of Ease 18:04 XIII Under Watchful Eyes 19:40 XIV Stacks 21:08 XV Unwanted Child 22:40
I can't believe how good this album is. 25 years later and it's still absolutely legendary. Grind for the punx. I'll say it. This is one of the greatest albums ever made.
Todd used to throw his arms in the air during Like Weeds, like an inverted 'A' from that YMCA song. It was fucking magic live. The energy of late 90s Memphis hardcore was fucking magic.
Best show i ever seen, hands down was His Hero is Gone with Man is the Bastard and Assuck. The hairs stood up on my flesh as i heard H.H.is Gone for the 1st time, hooked for life. Along with Neurosis and Napalm Death they set the standard for heaviness and abrasive sound therapy for me.
Every time I come back to this... I can be transported to 16 year old me buying this record from Headline Records and taking a bus for 2 hours to get to Rosemead and running to my room to see what is sounded like and just MELTED. Like... floored.
In My Humble Opinion, HHIG,DYSTOPIA & NEUROSIS (early) Defines What ‘Dark Hardcore/Neo Crust’ Sounds Like Nowdays...Crossover Between Crust Punk/Sludge Metal. 🙌🙏
I genuinely think this might be the greatest record ever created. Just complete pure human creative output. A blistering expression of rage, frustration, fear , despair. Absolutely nothing lost in translation, 100% pure human emotion expressed as music.
I was the doctor that delivered Todd and I’ve known his parents for years. While I removed him from the birth canal, he wasn’t crying, he was screaming HHIG lyrics and gave me a high five after I cut the umbilical cord.
@@indiopeltier9758From what I understand, the Living Room was at least 2 or 3 different venues. I don't know which one I was at, but Goleta Fest '98 was there and it definitely was a cool venue too.
Statues built for bastards Monuments to thieves Who carved the name of the white man on the backs of the trees that hung black bodies? Like ornaments Like ornaments Monuments to thieves Monuments to thieves Erections for your heroes: The liars and the thieves Who hung the name of the white man on the signs of our streets? Like ornaments Like ornaments Monuments to thieves Monuments to thieves
25 years later 15 year old middle class white kids waving their BLM banners and wearing clothes made by lives who don't matter to them (young cambodian children in sweatshops) think they are the ones discovering this shit....
How ironic too, Pat, there o.g. Guitarist from the first ep and LP became a trump supporting Q anon shell. He used to be our friend and had his mind in a better place than with his earlier addiction issues. I hope my friend comes back around one day. Maybe this is his latest attempt to run from his addictions, which I understand. I gotta think real Pat is still in there.
I worked at 924 Gilman as the trash kid (“cleanup coordinator”) in 1997 when I was a fourteen year old squatter kid. The highest honor in my entire life was getting to draw the poster for their show there on the support tour of this record. Never seen a better heavy show since. Fucking legends.
Why am I just now discovering crust punk? I've been into hardcore punk since the 90s and it seems I missed an entire subgenre. This is chaos in a grand form
@Jeff Beck the change started when Blink 182 got famous, then all the normies wanted to start powerpop bands and call it "pop punk". But you're right about the 90s, that's the golden age of punk. Luckily a lot of bands from that period still make excellent music, I saw Strung Out 3 months ago and they fucking killed it
DS13 - Killed by the Kids Formaldehyde Junkies - Are a Total Wreck Iron Lung - Life. Iron Lung. Death. Career Suicide Should change your mind about the 2000s. DS13 is a contender for best hardcore album.
Does anyone know why this particular album was removed off of spotify? The rest of this band's catalog is still on there. This is their best album in my opinion!
What’s not to like when Korn is regarded as the day’s heavy music making millions and I have this great band right in my backyard. And the city still didn’t give them the support they needed. I grabbed it at the rec store probably from Todd himself and brought it up to the old library where I showed it off and only one friend knew about them and was stoked.
way too cool🔥🔥🔥 I think it's a monumental album that doesn't feel like it's from 1997 It has chaotic and grindcore elements, but it's also beautiful✨ Thank you from the bottom of my heart🙏
I gravitate towards the slower the heavier but HHIG were one of the few to pull off the faster the heavier. They were and continue to be innovators in a sea of so called "extreme" bands.
Memphis bois. Todd worked at the record store down on Cooper st. I was like 13-14 and would ask him or Billy from Deathreat/Tragedy what was good and they’d pull out Crossed Out, Slight Slappers from Japan, Negative Approach, and so on and so forth. HHIG and o.g. Three 6 Mafia were the hottest thing in town back then.
Unknown User tell me you already knew that Memphis is regarded for our fresh drinking water lol that’s funny. Guess it was important in to stay hydrated and creative.
So glad this got re-pressed. Never picked it up for some stupid reason back in the day, and then couldn't find a copy for under $50. Glad to have this on my shelf now.
Drove up to philly and was about to buy a sworn enemy cd, the first ep. Kid i think named sharky worked behind the counter and threw this on. I was so ready to ditch swirn enemy and queens style tough guy posturing for pure brutally. But i think my original choice turned the kud off and ge said it wasnt for sale. I respect that
Jesse Yes the first grindcore and soon after that bands experimented with incorperating every genre known to man in grindcore... So a lot of grindcore has sludge/doom/crust/whatever you want to put into it. Does it have to be an amalgamation of those things? No. I understand your comment but that was the start of gind in the 80's, nowadays grind is mostly hardcore/crust/sludge...here in Belgium anyways. Happy newyear btw. ;)
I owned this on first pressing vinyl over 20 yrs ago. Whatever happened in my life that possessed me to get rid of this album is a monument to my fucking stupidity.
Finally grabbed this on vinyl, lost the cds decades ago. Crushing . I was buying a sworn enemy cd when I heard them playing hhig on the store stereo. I was obsessed . They said they had no more copies, i bet its cause of the sworn enemy cd...
I hear they were tearing down a bunch of monuments in 2020, because some say they are monuments to thieves. Those disgruntled youths are growing like weeds Everything by HHIG and Tragedy are unique and amazing, and have connected with me deeply. Surprised I've never encountered anybody who talked about them in real life. Glad I discovered them, written long ago but as relevant as if HHIG possessed a time machine, musically powerful, and ahead of its time. Lyrics are prophetic incantations, no harder rock ever written
probably their best record. idk. I think they're all pretty good. Haha. I found 15 counts of arson (think that's the name?) in five buck record box in Portland like years ago and been a fan since.
Really neat band & very hard to define. I got into them on the grounds that they had this sludgy/doomy aspect to them....but they've got fast parts as well. Great band. If ya' like fast down tuned shit like this look into FaceDownInShit as well.
Pretty accurate. Apparently that's common among crust bands...these days anyway. Comin' up I always thought of Crust punk as Crass & shit like that. But what crust is NOW is not necesarrily what it used to be. Facedowninshit,Dystopia,Stormcrow,Skaven & others have those slow sludgy parts as well & all are pretty crusty.
+rightwingthug crass was NEVER considered crust. No one thinks that. Amebix and nausea started it and the only thing that has changed is now it incorporates more melody.
