Death Trip

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Pain Is Pain
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Friday, May 3, 2013
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If you can imagine a space punk band, all of whose members were suffering from schizophrenia, then that is something like what Death Trip sound like on the demented Pain Is Pain, which collects 3 singles from the period 1988-1994 and some demo material.

Pain Is Pain  is a curious item, not really something that one would call a great classic, but nevertheless a reissue that is worth listening even years after its releases, slightly noisy at first, but within a couple of tracks everything starts to fall in place. The general tone is amateurish yet fairly compelling and authentic, and based on these The Stooges meets Birthday Party meets Rocket From The Tombs meets Spacemen 3 tunes it is obvious that the amount of thought put into this fucked up material was well below average, but that’s the charm of it.

If you like your rock with a spastic edge, check these cats out. Btw Death Trip is known to have been an influence on the Finnish Underground being one of the factors that contributed to the formation Circle, for example.

80/100