Browse by Artist: FLESH EATERS, THE

Artist:	FLESH EATERS, THE
Title:	Miss Muerte
Label:	ATAVISTIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ALP 142CD

"By my count, Miss Muerte, is the thirteenth record by the Flesh Eaters. And it is probably performed by what is the thirteenth (at least) version of this legendary group. Initially formed in the dawn of the Los Angeles punk boom by writer/film-maker/producer, Chris Desjardins, the Flesh Eaters have been an on-again-off-again venue for his brain-devouring words and music since 1977. Several of the tunes on Miss Muerte are used in the new film that Chris wrote and directed, I Pass for Human. And the use of the title song as both intro and outro suggests that the album has a narrative trajectory. But that's a red fucking herring. The songs here may be in part related to the film, but they are really just great extensions of the music that the Flesheaters began laying down in the in mid '80s, when they started allowing influences like the UA-era Flamin' Groovies and Exile-period Stones to mix with their own glorious street raunch." --Byron Coley

Artist:	FLESH EATERS, THE
Title:	No Questions Asked
Label:	ATAVISTIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ALP 143CD

A complete reissue of the long out-of-print debut release by '70's L.A. punk icons, The Flesh Eaters. Featuring performances by members of X (John Doe, Exene Cervenka & DJ Bonebrake), our No Questions Asked reissue also includes 10 bonus tracks & deluxe artwork. "Of all the great bands that the Los Angeles underground produced in the latter half of the 1970s, none were more corrosively poetic, more explosively visionary than the Germs and The Flesh Eaters. The Germs' story has been well-documented previously, and their back catalogue has been easily graspable. But due to the vagaries of history and taste and fate, the major early recordings of the Flesh Eaters have been largely unavailable for many years; a cultural wrong that is finally being righted by this excellent package. The lyrics are wonderful bleeding collages of B-movie dementia, street crime, Mexican Catholicism and Dionysian punk spurt poetics. The vocals are powerful cat-scratched patterns of night-ripping fear, huge bursts of post-glottal raunch-vomit and cascades of pure and toxic love. The music is amazing. Just as The Fall (and somewhat later, The Birthday Party) took basic punk dynamics into whole new corridors of rhythmic/dynamic gloom, so do the Flesh Eaters. This is a potent combination. ...here is the meat that lies at the beginning of the Flesh Eaters' trail." --Byron Coley

Artist:	FLESH EATERS, THE
Title:	A Hard Road to Follow
Label:	ATAVISTIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	ALP 144CD

"A complete reissue of the long out-of-print masterpiece, and 4th release by '70's L.A. punk icons, The Flesh Eaters. Atavistic's Hard Road To Follow reissue (original release: 1983) also includes 5 bonus tracks & deluxe artwork in an oversize lyric booklet.. The band's fourth corrosive masterpiece in as many years, Hard Road is the best evidence of a band that had achieved a still unequalled massiveness of sound. For my money, this particular version of the Flesh Eaters represents the greatest rock band ever. They were it. Their live shows (of which I missed only two or three) were uniformly mind-melting, and while the records they left cannot convey everything that the Flesh Eaters were, they remain amongst the best albums ever." -- Byron Coley.

Artist:	FLESH EATERS, THE
Title:	Ashes Of Time
Label:	UPSETTER RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	UPCD 001

Re-released in association with Atatistic's recent reissue program. "Unearthed from 1999 -- and properly presented for mass consumption debut... The Flesh Eaters: Ashes Of Time. Ashes of Time delivers fifteen songs running the gauntlet and gamut of the aggressive, anthemic feel of previous classic Flesh Eaters' endeavors, to the more melodic hard rock of Chris D.'s mid-'80s combo, Divine Horsemen. Ashes Of Time is scintillating from the first track on; even after two decades, The Flesh Eaters deliver on an uncompromising vision of life as THEY know it: unrelenting blood, sweat, tears and mud... aimed at the dark side of your soul."

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