Realistically, I could have shared this one eons ago, but I just kept putting it off. If someone else out there in blogland got to
Souleater before me, I didn't mean to step on you.
Surgery ended just as the internet was about to go mainstream, so details on this New York by-way-of Syracuse foursome aren't exactly plentiful. Most of their tenure was spent on the noise-mongering Amphetamine Reptile label, which suited the band, who had their collective tentacles steeped in a combustible grunge/punk aesthetic, with trace elements of the soon to be burgeoning stoner rock movement. Unruly salvos "Dance" and "Brazier" pack a sumptuous degree of sway alongside righteous heaviness, and alone make
Souleater veritable required listening. Not much in the way of pop sensibilities here, but five years in from this ep
, Atlantic Records scooped these fellows up, and by then they had an incorporated an often infectious groove-rock slant, outdoing their more renown, albeit lame-o contemporaries the Chili Peppers...however the mainstream was regrettably oblivious. Surgery called it a day in early '95 upon the sudden illness and passing of frontman
Sean McDonnell.
01. Dance
02. Brazier
03. Goodtime
04. Stupid Chile'
05. Slap
06. Souleater
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