dysrhythmia - pretest

released: 2003
label: relapse records

hello there,person in the don caballero t-shirt.
yeah.
you.
right there.
i'd like to tell you the story about the time i saw this here band live....

picture it. ybor city,fl. the year is 2003 and i'm standing near the stage in an establishment called the orpheum. i've actually seen a few bands here before this. hmmmmm. let's see. i'd seen cky. i'd seen atom and his package. i'd seen jucifer. and now i stand here ready to witness the RELAPSE RECORDS CONTAMINATION TOUR roster which was made up on these guys and uphill battle and cephalic carnage and mastodon. i was there alone but the original plan was that i was going to take one of the waitresses that worked at the denny's i was working at at the time but she was a no show. sure. i was a little bummed but what could i do? invite my then girlfriend that wasn't even into this kind of music to come along? that would've been fun.

so dysrhythmia opened the show. all that i'd heard from them was a song called "bastard" that was on a relapse sampler. they weren't on stage for all that long but i was impressed enough with what i'd heard that i went looking for a copy of their album the next day (i would've gotten one directly from them after the show but they were fresh out.).

as for the rest of the show....

uphill battle were pretty solid.
i was almost decapitated by cephalic carnage's guitar player during the song "pseudo".
while mastodon was playing i was just stoked to see 2/3 of IN THE EYES OF GOD era today is the day doing what they do right in front of me.

yeah.
it was a good show.

so yeah.
if you like some don caballero and some early dillinger escape plan and some of the fucking champs and some behold...the arctopus (whose bass player is also in this band) and some postman syndrome and some brain tentacles....

i could just keep naming off bands all day or you could just take the initiative and give this a go.
damn.
kids nowadays.
sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh.

DL