Comments on: Acme "…To Reduce the Choir to One Soloist" CD

By: Bossman Edison

Bossman Edison — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:43:51 +0000

hey dudes, i just stumbled upon this while googling the Acme record – which i proudly put out. Gregor, if you are there, hit me up – i'm outta the music biz these days but am still proud of the bands I did get in people's ears about. I will be glad to release this record for absolutely free if the band is cool with it. And to the dude who mentioned Systral and Morser – you have good taste. I posted the Systral album for free a few years ago because in my honest opinion – it was the most underrated record I put out… but was happy to see Decibel Mag put it as one of the records you missed out on, 11 years after i released it. And the dude who mentioned Per Koro records, you are absolutely right – Marcus was absolutely ahead of his time as well as the Bremen scene. My influences going into the label was Earache circa Dig days – i.e the best label in 1990-1991, Relapse, and Per Koro because I realized "man, these dudes got some awesome shit going on in Germany."

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:33:45 +0000

Stumbled upon a video of them on youtube the other day. This cd quickly went back into my rotation shortly after… Easily one of the most intense bands ever

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:56:58 +0000

Pulled this record out the other day and as soon as the lead sample started "If You Ladies Leave My Island, If you Survive Recruit Training…" I was blasted back to the first time I put this record on. Mind blowing then, Mind blowing still. Many, many imitators and contemporaries but this stands alone as the best in an intense period of hardcore metal.

I fear playing this record too much since I doubt I'll ever find another copy.

By: joseph

joseph — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:00:34 +0000

ACME are the best band HC band from Europe – EVER.
So many years ahead of the time ….
I've seen them live several times and they were killing!!!

By: ancient astronaut

ancient astronaut — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:09:09 +0000

I'm willing to let this one go if anyone is interested.i'll take offers. Its the Lp vinyl version & f.y.i. i'm in the u.s. e-mail: harum-scarum@juno.com

By: michael

michael — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:31:40 +0000

still AWESOME!!!!
sooooooooooooooo hard. so intense!!!
KABOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!

By: oli

oli — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:52:50 +0000

I can remember, that this first Acme 7" blew me away. The first song on it was so intense. So i went to the Au in Frankfurt to see them live. What a disappointment.
They couldn't transport the 7"-Feeling live. Maybe they had a bad day, who knows…

By: Yoast

Yoast — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:11:10 +0000

That live part of the album…..was it the show in Dordrecht? during the DIY fest?
Acme has always been one of my favourites.

By: mcgillroy

mcgillroy — Sat, 23 May 2009 09:56:40 +0000

acme, mörser, systral – yes man! intense and fearless music made by dudes that where all laid back, so un-hipster, so anti-anti, so just doing it, it was unbelievable.

only thing I always found a great pity is that none of these bands did go to record with some better producer. andy classen used to be a pretty big fan of mörser and afaik even got in touch with them, but they never pulled it together from their side.

maybe in a next live!

;)

By: jon

jon — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:15:12 +0000

it's something like: "the german populance became strong again. strong within its mind, strong within it's ..., strong within it's insistance." Then some senctences to God and finished by somehting like "Bless us in our fight for our freedom". it's pretty wicked that they used that Hitler - stuff cause germans are sooo serious about all that Nazi-stuff. They wouldn't use it for any fun or entertainment. Even today you won't see much regular german-flags in the streets cause they're educated totally anti-patriotic.