LIVE LP ON ECSTATIC YOD RECORDS NOW AVAILABLE
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They may not look like it but these were a lot of work and took us fucking forever. Thanks for your patience Ecstatic Yod!
-= REVIEW =-
"..this album crackles and hisses with overloaded intent and crazed heavy-noise-punk-metal-jazz. Total Shutdown are well-known in their home town for excessive...well, everything." -Mason Jones, DUSTED MAGAZINE
"hot" - Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)
TOTAL SHUTDOWN / XBXRX split double 5" available now on
ROCK IS HELL RECORDS
TOTAL SHUTDOWN / XBXRX Split 2x5" released on ROCK IS HELL RECORDS from Austria/Europe (www.rockishell.com). the TOTAL SHUTDOWN 5" is pressed on blue wax, the XBXRX 5" is pressed on red wax. the pressing is limited to 612 copies. the 6"x30" stencil printed 3-times fold-out cover has been made by DENNIS TYFUS from belgium. Available now only through the label itself. Soon, some will be here in the US at a slightly lower shipping cost.
"Total Shutdown blows us in the bronchi. Groucho Marx made of the punk-rock'n'roll." -FRENCH GUY, perte et fracas
Total Shutdown - The Album
Purchase CD on Tigerbeat6
Purchase LP on Load Records
-= REVIEWS OF THE ALBUM =-
"Total Shutdowns latest release? Godliness? Perfection? These words seem to ring hollow, as if the greatness of Total Shutdown has surpassed the limits of the English language." -STAN OKLOBDZIJIA, California Aggie
"The Album is the year's most brutal cultural dragnet: smart, sassy, punk and modern." -A.A. Davidson, DUSTED MAGAZINE
" I have no idea what the fuck Linders talking about, but Im stalwartly convinced that its the purest form of something." -Bill Heehan BAY AREA BUZZ
"Total Shutdown's self-titled debut sounds like the Boredoms, Naked City, and Brutal Truth all in a mad race for the finish line." -David Jeffries ALL MUSIC GUIDE
Discography
LP's
7"s - 5"
Comps
Quotes about Total Shutdown
"they combine this perceptive ugh with a brand of destructo power nearly worthy of The Germs or early Boredoms. It's really a pretty ripe combination. "
- Byron Coley (The Wire)
"Maybe the way I feel about this is the way people felt when they first stumbled into the Cabaret Voltaire and heard a dadaistic sound poem; confusion, dread, anger, disinterest. Maybe I lack the artistic sensibilities that would help me to enjoy this kind of racket. Maybe, like so many people with Dada almost a century ago, I just don't get it. It's all just really badly recorded, discordant noise, which - in my opinion --- is neither worth my time, nor my money, nor my interest. It's very obvious that I don't get the joke. Actually, I'm glad I don't. But maybe these bands are just ahead of their times: I certainly do "get" Dada now, so maybe a century from now, I'd be able to "get" Total Shutdown."
- Marianne Hofstetter / Heartattack
"somebody described them as Anal Cunt with saxophones, which says it all if you ask me. Is there any other band worth being compared to besides Anal Cunt? Hell no, Anal Cunt rules."
-Mike McGuirk (SF Bay Guardian)
"Is it ok to say that TOTAL SHUTDOWN... ....floored me."
Tom Hopkins, Maximum Rock and Roll
"As if Albert Ayler was jamming with Napalm Death with a punk rhythm section. Go to tracks like the funny and fantastic "Fighting Witches!" No John Zorn could ever come up to such a song where noise, velocity and smiles all come along with a witty death metal recreation."
-Jose Marmeleira (Perfect Sound Forever)
"Every group has a vision or visionary leading them, this band doesn't seem to have one"
-Bernard Stollman CEO/ESP-Disk' Records