DYSTOPIA S/T Full Length Album (2008) CD

There are records that make you feel bad in the best possible way, and then there's DYSTOPIA's self-titled, which makes you feel bad in the way that feels uncomfortably close to the truth.

Oakland's DYSTOPIA were one of the most uncompromising bands to ever drag themselves out of the American crust punk and sludge metal underground, and this 2008 full-length is the document that proves it. The music moves like it's carrying real weight, slow, corrosive, and laced with a social rage that never tips into posturing. It sits in the same tradition as Amebix and Neurosis but with a street-level despair that's entirely its own. If you care about the lineage of dark punk and heavy underground music, this record is essential. No argument.

CD format, full length album, USA. Genre: Sludge Metal / Crust Punk, original release 2008.

Fans of: Neurosis, Amebix, His Hero Is Gone, Disembodied, Corrupted