Finally, 061502 is a live album that was recorded at their last show (take a wild guess at the date). The reissue features the same songs, plus all their material put out on splits, as well as some unreleased stuff. The original featured all the songs on their two released EP's. Unifying Themes Redux is a reissue of a compilation they put out in 1997, The Unifying Themes Of Sex, Death and Religion. The EP An Anthology Of Dead Ends was their final recorded material, released just after the band broke up in 2002. The same goes for We Came The Romans, which was also remastered in 2007 and included a bonus disc of demos. The version below is a remastered version from 2007 that includes demos and such. The first is their debut LP, American Nervoso in 1998. There's a few things to note about the releases down below. Of course I can't let the remainder of their discography go unnoticed, since it's solid all around. We Are The Romans is an absolute classic, and an essential listen within the realms of hardcore and metalcore. The vocals bellow with ferocity churning out very interpretative lyrics that can be taken as either a personal catharsis or a social commentary. This isn't all that shocking, considering this group of fantastic musicians all would go on to be a part of other incredible and well-known bands such as Minus The Bear, These Arms Are Snakes, and Russian Circles. The band is fully equip to devastate, displaying some incredible musicianship and tightness within the group. The performances here are clearly far from rehearsal. The riffs are very intricate but still definitive, they're heavy as hell, and the instrumentation is tied so tightly together that even the most technically complex passages seem to flow smoothly, while still hitting hard. Very few albums capture the level of intensity that Botch brought on this. This was their second and final full-length, and it's the type of album to knock you on your ass. A lot of their influence can be credited to their magnum opus, 1999's We Are The Romans. They are considered to be one of the most important and influential bands in "mathcore", which is basically a really technical form of hardcore with a lot of odd time signatures and other progressive shit. Botch were a four-piece hardcore/metalcore band from Tacoma, Washington that formed in 1993 and broke up in 2002.
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