DYSTOPIA S/T Full Length Album (2008) Cassette

Fourteen years after Human = Garbage announced their arrival, Dystopia finally delivered their self-titled full length, and it was worth every year of the wait. This is the record that closed the book, a seventy-plus minute descent into sludge metal and crust punk that sounded like the world ending slowly and on purpose.

The 2008 self-titled is where everything Dystopia had been building, the political fury, the glacial riffs, the absolute refusal to make anything easy on the listener, gets consolidated into one uncompromising document. Opener Now and Forever runs nearly eight minutes and sets the tone immediately: this is not background music, this is confrontational, immersive, heavy in the way that only bands who actually mean it manage to be. If you own the vinyl you already know. If you don't, this cassette is your entry point.

Format: full length album on cassette. US origin, original release 2008.

Fans of: Grief, Thou, Noothgrush, Neurosis, His Hero Is Gone