Silent Dynamic Torture: Vinyl LP

Pre-Order Item. Release Date Subject to Change.
Label: Numero Group
Release Date: 15th August

Notoriously loud, short-lived San Jose sludgegaze noise rock band existed for a few concerts, blew the speakers and ears out of everyone they played to, recorded some mythological tapes that never got finished and would only let Numero release them if Albini did the mix. Of course Steve was the only man for the job and so here's one of the best heavy drone rock shoegaze album never released. 

A band that played so loud their entire fan base went deaf and never spoke of them again. Formed in 1993 in the go-nowhere exurb of San Jose, California, Super StaticFever played only a handful of gigs in their brief two year existence, punishing spectators with a tinnitus-inducing wah-wah wall of Marshall-stacked distortion. Their sound was a mix of Melvins-esque sludge, Swervedriver’s melodic crunch, and latter-day Black Flag’s penchant for volume, as heard from the stock stereo of a hot-boxed 1985 Ford Econoline. Unfinished tapes from two ear-bleeding sessions are all that survived the ensuing 25 years since their indifferent break-up, mixed by the exacting Steve Albini as the band’s one condition for reissue. The package reeks of the ’90s computer-crippled D.I.Y. aesthetic, with VHS blur and opaque white screened on chipboard. A record that just barely does, and probably should not, exist.

Tracklisting: