.:: How does one measure the influence and impact of a band on music? Sure, you could look at album sales, which in the case of The Beatles is a corollary that works, but then you could see how many albums a band like Godsmack or someone like Kenny Chesney has sold and just throw that idea out the window.
Truly, the best way to gauge a band's importance in music is to take a look at the world of music before and after their existence? There are artists like Black Sabbath, The Ramones, and Black Flag, among others, that completely flipped the music world upside-down when they unleashed their sound on the unsuspecting masses. Then again, the first guy to “create” electronica music did the same. Nevertheless, this is how we should find Botch's place in music, something that would have been a hell of a lot harder to do so while the band was still alive and breathing.
Though, I'm sure someone was listening to the first Ramones recording and screaming, “This is going to change everything,” Oh, and before someone flips out and thinks I'm comparing the impact of The Ramones and Botch, I'm not. I am, however, putting into perspective how Botch changed music, the micro-niche that they called home - hardcore. Botch wasn't the first group to mess with song structures, but they were one of the first bands within hardcore to infuse these circus-like maneuvers on their instruments - fellow cohorts included Coalesce, Deadguy, and Converge.
Over the years, as the band matured and it's members became more experimental with their instruments, the band's sound began to reach beyond reasonable logic and became something that was awe-inspiring.
An Anthology of Dead End is a departure from previous work, featuring subdued vocals, piano and overdubbed spoken word segments. Released on Hydra Head Records in October 2002, it was the band's final studio recording, and was released after they disbanded.
download: botch - an anthology of dead ends [EP]
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