Schnauzer / Punching Moses - Split 7"

Since my first Schnauzer post on here a short while ago I have realized that I don't own anything else by the band and I have gone about picking up some more of their stuff. This here is their split with Punching Moses, which I got off the guy from Last Days of Humanity's distro stall on the Cemetery Rapist UK tour last year (I forget his name - D'oh!). This split is a collaboration effort between Rescued From Life Records, Shifty Records, Give Praise Records and Haunted Hotel.

 

Punching Moses are quite punky in their approach to metal; the sound is warm and well put together and the tunes are pretty awesome. They have this whole "we are physco" thing going on with the very colourful sleeve art and the inners which are written on psychiatric report papers. Schnauzer are fucking livid as usual, the first track "Facts of Life" is typical Schnauzer hilarity, although track 2 is with a different vocalist and sounds a lot thrashier. I don't really understand the concept with their third track but it's just some audio of some guy arguing with his girlfriend. On the sleeve art it reads: "An attempt to record a third track was made, but was subsequently cut short by a nagging girlfriend", so there's obviously a running joke here.

 

Both the purple and regular black versions are still available dirt cheap - the black is currently selling for under £2 on the Discogs website. Although, I will say this is definitely for enthusiastic fans only.

No links on Youtube for this one sorry guys, so enjoy this live vid of Punching Moses instead.

Schnauzer / Crossface - Split 7"

Crossface aren't particularly bad for your average hardcore band. I don't understand hardcore at all so I'll skirt over this before I say something to embarrass myself and bring down a sea of X-marked fists upon my head. Schnauzer on the other hand is one of my favourite things ever. Why is it then, that it has taken me so long to finally write a post for this, one of my all time favourite 7"s? Why is it then, I have never bothered to check out Schnauzer, ever? Why is it that I have only, since hearing this, bought one other Schnauzer split 7" to date? I suspect the answer is because I am a fucking idiot, but nevertheless things like this really bug me. How can I be so stupid as to constantly forget this bands existence?

 

Schnauzer hold the perfect blend between musical quality and comedy. The songs here are tight, heavy and loosely centered around grindcore and metal, yet at the same time they are riotously funny as fuck. "Total Lunatic" is one of the best songs ever recorded in the history of the entire universe, ever, and closer "Blasted Beyond Belief" really is the icing on the cake. I won't waffle any longer, but I'll just link you some Schnauzer shit and be done with it. Pressed on a combination of black and orange records by Rescued from Life and Shifty Records.

 

PS if that's not J Mann from Mushroomhead at the end of "Blasted..." then my name is Colonel Cuntsandwich. 

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