Final Exit / Napalmed – Split Tape (1996)

March 24, 2022

Wow. There’s something humbling about listening back to old noisecore stuff. There always seems to be an element of fun involved with just getting into a room, or switching on your board setup, and giving everyone’s ears hell. When I listen to raw rehearsal recordings, which is the case here with the Final Exit stuff, I feel like I’m given an unique window, a fly-on-the-wall look into a rehearsal room full of friends messing about and causing chaos. Maybe I project my own feelings of missing those kinds of days onto sessions like this. But I think anyone who’s ever been involved in noisecore in some way should understand what I’m trying to say.

Napalmed round off this split with some good ol’ analogue noise terror. Bleeping, blooping, shrieking, crawling, buzzing noise. This split is well worth a listen if your into the noisy shit. Be warned the Final Exit stuff is mixed super low so when Napalmed comes in it blows your head off.