#82: FALL TIME./MAR - “a two band/four song seven inch”
this record is another highlight of the viennese releases. i just wrote in the last review how i discovered FALL TIME. now it's time for my MAR-discovery-story, i guess. at least i think that's the story to MAR.
on the day i moved to vienna (late august 1997) i got off the train in wien meidling and got onto the u6. and there i met hannes woschner (later in AENIMOTION) who told me about a STALINGRAD-show at the tüwi the next day or two days later. this was one of those situations that were quite important for my future, because on this show i met some people who helped me with my start in vienna and got close friends. the STALINGRAD-show was one of the best hardcore-shows i've ever seen (with the singer running through the audience like crazy and knocking his head on the ground. he was bleeding, but finished the show anyway.). and if i remember correctly MAR were supporting them.
this split-7" was release by firewalk with me and came in black/transparent vinyl. the paper of the cover is kind of cheap, so the cover doesn't look as great, as it would be on better paper. the lyric sheets are printed on overhead transparencies, which looks great as well.
the two FALL TIME.-songs are very good again, but i think their 7" on windmill records was a little better. the guitars sound a little weird at some point and the voice doesn't come out that good, but beside that it's really great brutal and noisy tech-hardcore.
i wasn't listening to MAR in a long time and i totally forgot about the metal-singing on the second song ("dirge and vaunt 1.8"). the two MAR-songs are actually metal with hardcore-/screamo-influences - fast, melodic and for the hardcore-scene technical outstanding (FALL TIME. was that too).
