Happy Birthday (2017), by HEY COLOSSUS

Happy Birthday (2017)

by HEY COLOSSUS

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Levrikon Absolute sludgy massacre. Possibly one of the best doom albums I've ever heard. It will beat you into submission and keep beating you until you're just a pile of jelly. Favorite track: Are Coming To Kill You All.

eldudowski this is what i expected of hc by reputation when i first listened to em, circa cuckoo, which is great but they moved on from such bare arsed savagery by then. so hurray for records then. this is a chundering pileup of a record, pummeling and hypnotic and utterly unforgiving. head in a bassbin unrepentant. EDIT the baleful lurching bass on PV is new (low) high. Favorite track: Permanent Vacation Part 1.

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Vinyl LP (Black)
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Limited black vinyl LP housed in a reverse board printed colour sleeve with black inner bag.

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	1.	War Crows 05:06
	2.	Tight Collar 05:28
	3.	Are Nice Men 07:02
	4.	Fire Up The Tambourine 04:55
	5.	Are Coming To Kill You All 06:35
	6.	Permanent Vacation Part 1 02:06
	7.	Permanent Vacation Part 2 02:20
	8.	Overlord Rapture In Vines Part 9 12:48

about

In Their Own Words ...

‘Happy Birthday’ was Hey Colossus’s 4th album, and it was originally released by Riot Season back in 2008 on CD only.

The album marked the beginning of chapter two for the band, it was the first for Riot Season, the first where the wings were spread and the band took flight. Total noise rock, 100% out there sounds. The band was a 5 piece at the time and had just completed a tour of Spain that was riddled with ups and downs but mainly full of future talk.

Having done three albums on their own label the main topic was what next? 'You gotta keep moving' is the bands mantra, still is to this day - check the three recent records on Rocket Recordings and compare them to the first records.

It was time to move away from conventional song writing and screw with the heads.

‘Happy Birthday’ was recorded in Dropout, South London. The only label they sent it too was Riot Season as Mainliner, Shit And Shine and Circle were doing stuff with them at that time. Riot Season said YES so the CD was released. It was the beginning of the NOISE ROCK TRILOGY (HA-HA!) all on Riot Season, ‘Happy Birthday’, ‘Eurogrumble Vol 1’ and ‘RRR’.

Now, nine years later it’s finally time for the vinyl version.

No tweaks.

No new mastering bullshit.

Nothing different.

Same songs on a slab of classic black vinyl.

credits

released September 1, 2017

Hey Colossus at this time were

Duncan Brown
James Parker
Rhys Llewellyn
Robert Davis
Joe Thompson

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Riot Season is a UK independent record label based in the Black Country region of England.

More here: www.riotseason.com

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