Ultimatum

by Nightstick

Ultimatum cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 1998
  • Label: Relapse Records
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:09:28
  • Community rating: 3.5/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Featuring former members of Siege, the Massachusetts underground provocateurs revel in auditory ugliness and psychedelic surrealism on their third LP. 'Ultimatum' is a suffocating collision of agonizingly slow sludge metal, chaotic noise-rock feedback, and bizarre, politically charged spoken-word samples designed for maximum disorientation.

Genres

Descriptors: political, noisy, sludge, sludgy, protest

Tracklist

  1. Ultimatum: 'Cut It off, Then Kill It (11:24)
  2. United Snakes (4:34)
  3. The Pentagon (4:31)
  4. Pig in Shit (5:48)
  5. 4 More Years (12:04)
  6. August 6, 1945: A. Flight B. Fright (7:31)
  7. Dream of the Witches' Sabbath / Massacre of Innocence (Air Attack) (7:12)
  8. Ultimatum: 'He... Is... Dead... Wrong' - 4 Track Version (7:08)
  9. Ultimatum: - Live at Mama Kin's (9:11)

Credits

  • Nightstick - primary artist
  • Jim Hobbs - musician [with], alto saxophone [alto sax], alto saxophone [alto sax by]
  • Tony Rossi - musician [with], bass
  • Bob Clark - musician [with], guitar
  • Alex Smith - performer [nightstick are], bass, vocals, violin, bass, violin, written-by
  • Robert Williams - performer [nightstick are], drums, backing vocals, tape [tapes], written-by
  • Cotie Cowgill - performer [nightstick are], guitar [guitars]
  • Padoinka The Clown - performer [nightstick are], performer [interpretive dance]

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