Live CBGB's NYC 1998

by Alec Empire & Merzbow

Live CBGB's NYC 1998 cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 15 July 2003
  • Label: Digital Hardcore
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 56:03
  • Community rating: 3.69/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A notoriously ear-splitting confrontation between the founder of Atari Teenage Riot and the Japanese god of harsh noise, recorded at the legendary New York punk club. The performance violently clashes hyper-speed, distorted digital hardcore breakbeats with unyielding, static walls of apocalyptic analog noise.

Genres

Descriptors: noisy, instrumental, abrasive, distorted, deconstructed

Tracklist

  1. The Alliance (3:17)
  2. The Destroyer And Merzbow (2:24)
  3. A Fire Will Burn (0:48)
  4. Nightmare Vision (2:08)
  5. The Full Destroyer / Merzbow Meltdown (4:26)
  6. The White Man Destroys His Own Race (2:28)
  7. Curse Of The Golden Angel (3:26)
  8. The Predator (1:49)
  9. Brooklyn Connection (2:11)
  10. Dawn (1:48)
  11. The Slayer Calls At Night (5:08)
  12. Blow This Thing (2:13)
  13. 606: The Number Of The Beast (1:00)
  14. 202 Lightyears From Home
  15. Shock Treatment For Corporate Control (2:18)
  16. Enter The Forbidden Space (5:31)
  17. A Degenerated Nation Reacting To Fear (8:26)
  18. A Degenerated Nation Reacting To Fear Pt.II (8:26)
  19. Some Might Even Die… (4:08)

Credits

  • Merzbow - primary artist
  • Nic Endo - artwork [screenshots]
  • Philipp Virus - filmed by [original video by]
  • Masami Akita - written-by, performer
  • Alec Empire - Primary Artist

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