Apartment 213 “‘93 - ‘97” CD

Hell yeah, I've been waiting literally years to see something like this come about, and I've been bugging the band about it straight out since the late-90's as well. And when they recently reunited earlier this year, the mighty Apartment 213 finally got the opportunity to collect all of their vinyl output, plus their original demo, onto one handy discography CD thanks to 625 Thrashcore. "'93—'97" contains 40 tracks and an hour of inimitable grindcore/power violence fury—which is among the finest and most dedicated underground material out there focusing solely on serial killers, murder, violence, hatred, plus murder, violence, hatred, more murder, more violence, and more hatred—making this Cleveland act totally legendary in my book.

As one might expect when it comes to material that was always so raw and unpolished, this is not a band that keeps archived master tapes hanging around in pristine condition on a closet shelf somewhere, so I actually digitized all this shit for the CD straight from the old vinyl/cassette myself, and whoever mastered it did a pretty nice job of cleaning it up, so all things considered the end result sounds pretty satisfying to these ears. Included, of course, are the classic "Vacancy" and "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" 7"s, split EP's with Gehenna, Thug, Benumb, Dahmer, and Forced Expression, and "The Power of Tools" demo. I definitely would've preferred to see the booklet do more than just indicate where the tracks originally came from (there are no lyrics, no original artwork, no liner notes, etc.), but I'll take what I can get at this point! Here are a handful of tracks from some of the various releases collected on the disc:

Apartment 213 "Mutilation"
Apartment 213 "Severed"
Apartment 213 "Endless Killing (Arm the Insane)"
Apartment 213 "Blue Collar Guy/'Til the Cows Come Home"

You know you need a little more slicin' and dicin' in your life, so pick this shit up. It's pretty hot off the press, so it hasn't yet made the rounds at all of my normal distro stops, but it's out there:

@ RevHQ

And look out for loads of new Apartment 213 material in 2006, including a split 7" with Agoraphobic Nosebleed and a brand new full-length!