Weekend Nachos - Two Things At Once

The band with the silliest name yet the harshest music.

WN play a mix of fast hardcore and crawlingly slow doom/sludge. They quickly became a favourite when i heard them earlier in the year. What has become evident as I pick up more of their records is the jet-black humorous streak they've got going on. Displayed by album covers of pleasant waterfalls and LP inserts showing band members sniffing flowers aswell as .... well, we can get to that. 

This release came out a few weeks ago just after their latest LP and is a re-issue/combining of two of their out of print EP's.

The cover art isn't exactly spectacular, showing the covers from the two EP's in boxes, on a silver background.

Put out on Cowabunga Records. I grabbed this on red, limited to 100. There's also a black pressing available on a run of 900.

The Bleed side has the 2 track EP which was originally released on Relapse last year. Both tracks are around 6 minutes long and as a one off, they ditch the speed completely and come out with 2 long, continuous sludge beat-downs. In a good way. 

The real treat though is the other side, Torture. Originally released in 2005 on Tooth Decay and long out of print, it's been remastered and sounds even more chaotic and insane than before. Easily worth it just for that. Also worth it for the picture inside of one of the band trussed up in full bondage gear, alongside the others dressed in jeans and t-shirts.

Short straw maybe? I've covered him up with a Burning Love badge. This here is a family blog.

Weekend Nachos - Punish and Destroy

It can be quite good to get into a band relatively late on in. From hearing that first song that grabs you, you can have a huge back catalogue to get into instantly. It can also be a bit of a mixed blessing with the record collecting game, as you then get that indescribable urge to buy vinyl increase by 4 or 5 more records in varying degrees of rarity. Such is the case with this Saturday's delivery - powerviolence/sludge animals Weekend Nachos.

I only heard these a few months back, a song off their new EP 'Black Earth' released on A389. I was blown away and went straight on to their (brilliant) webstore and picked it up. I might aswell show you a picture of it, seeing as it's so nice.

A short visit to Discogs later and I was on the hunt for their earlier stuff. It seemed easy to purchase re-presses of the 2 albums they had released so far in brand new condition from various web-stores, but I wanted to attempt some first press collecting. eBay soon hooked me up with the first press on Cowabunga Records from 2007 of their debut LP 'Punish and Destroy'. You can tell it's a first press because of the red font, fact fans. Second press had blue.

The packaging and record suit the tone of this album perfectly. If you haven't heard them, WN mix the speed and ferocity of bands like Infest with crushing moments of sludge-doom riffing. It's break neck fast one second, then slow and pounding the next. It works real good. They're the heaviest I've heard in a long time.

I'm not sure who the photo on the B-side label is of, but he looks like a wrong-un.

Nice, clear insert with lyrics. Lyrical themes range from hatred of people, to hatred of other people, back to general hatred of everyone. It's cheery stuff. But shot through with a knowing sense of black humour. The insert also reveals that the album was recorded while the band were a 2 piece, with the guitarist doubling up on bass, and the vocalist also doing the drums. That's 4 jobs done by 2 people! What other blog gives you that kind of maths? No other blog, that's who.