MACHINE GUN ETIQUETTE / EX-CATHEDRA / NUTCASE - 3-WAY SPLIT LP [1996/97 :: TRAPDOOR RECS.] .:. 320kB/s
A blatant steal this, but this was a life-changing record for me. Well, taste-changing at least. I've no idea where I got this from originally, but I guess this could've been a review copy, or perhaps I picked it up when I was playing in ABUSIVE ANTEATERS and we were sharing the stage with EX-CATHEDRA at the 1 in 12 Club in '97, although I have faint memories of meeting one of the lads from NUTCASE at some gig somewhere in Germany (could this have been EX-CATHEDRA + SUBHUMANS at Rote Flora/Hamburg?) where he could've given me the LP.
Anyway, this LP gave me a life-long "earworm": Work To Die is the one song that keeps popping up in my head whenever there is some room. Almost pathologically.
As you know already, MACHINE GUN ETIQUETTE and EX-CATHEDRA also morphed into SCUNNERED, but both bands are great in their own right, with MGE being my favourite of the two. Of course they shared members even back then, what would you expect?
I've always said (even before I knew better) that MGE had a certain PETER AND THE TEST TUBE BABIES sound to them, albeit without the stupid lyrics. At the time of this split LP, this could probably be said to be true. Great punk rock, dirty melodies.
EX-CATHEDRA play a more intricate brand of ska punk (ah, the horror), but you'll have heard everything about them already.
NUTCASE? Dunno much to say about them, apart from that they're from Northern Germany, play decent melodic punk rock and have ceased to exist. Flo does tours these days if I'm not mistaken.
Anyway: Enjoy!

















