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Red Red Red "Mind Destoyer" LP/CD
And here we have the full-length, ten songs at just over twenty minutes. Literally bursting off the turntable at first with "Disconnected" from the single (and not including the other track from the 7", so you need that too), it’s a fury of white-hot guitar driven punk that barely stops for breath in its race to the finish line. Recorded over the course of a year and a half, you get a few different recording styles, some with a bigger drum sound than others, but all with amped-out guitar squeal and hoarse static-laden vox. Take the first Piranhas 7" and imagine if they worked backwards from there into a more primal punk-rock band. "Crash" and "Send Help" are middle-of-the record-favorites, but this thing reaches it’s peak with the closing three-song salvo of "Head On", "Meltdown" and "Mind Destroyer", a trio of angry and chaotic explosions that are total physical and musical destruction. Loud, fast and in your face and containing some interesting arrangements, I wouldn’t suggest operating heavy machinery or driving while listening to this, it’s the aural equivalent of a high-speed chase that ends in a heap of twisted metal and bloody asphalt. Get out the way if you see this record barrelling down on you. Or buy a copy and strap yourself in. (Note: LP has a quieter mix as the original master used for the CD was too fucking loud to cut a plate from. Wow.)(RK)
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Red Red Red Mind Destroyer (Big Neck, 2006)
Ryan Sabatis, former drummer of the much-missed punk outfit The Piranhas, grabbed himself a guitar and fucking cranked up the amps with his new group, the Detroit-based, Red Red Red. Easily the loudest CD I got (except maybe for an unlistenably loud vinyl-rip of a GBV boot that I tried to make my Junior year at Ohio State), and I wouldn’t want it any other way. Loud and fast, a lot like pre-Rollins Black Flag, but some songs remind me of the middle, more hardcore areas of Zen Arcade- I think you can get the picture. While the territory has been beaten to shit by a million bands.. Mind Destroyer is one of the few that actually stand out, crammed with unexpected hooks and packed with about as much bite as a White Castle ’Slider.’ If you’re gonna make an album like this it’s gotta be as nasty as you can make it, and Red Red Red really got it right from the start, and didn’t try to fiddle it to death. If this would’ve been released last year, we’d have a street-fight with The Feelers’ Learn to Hate..., that would rival this year’s OSU/Michigan game, but it wasn’t, and therefore Mind Destroyer gets the punk revival title by a longshot.
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Red Red Red- Mind Destroyer CD
-First of all this is by and far one of THEE best punk records I’ve heard in a long time. Ryan from the Parnhas has totally outdone himself this time. If you’re keeping up with the current wave of garagey modern punk this record is a must have for the sheer freshness to the genre, and just for coming up with some sounds/chord progresions that haven’t been aped a million times. I don’t say it very often, but this record is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL!!
