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SF035
Army Of Flying Robots
Discography CD
1. People With Faces
2. Clipped Wings, Bleeding Wings
3. The Goths Brought Revels And I Felt Cheated
4. Eyes
5. Pedestal
6. Karoshi
7. The Great Silver Jumpsuit Fiasco
8. Do The Electric Boogaloo
9. Nik Nak Combat
10. Shades Of Tyrell
11. Dan
12. In The Shadow Of Swine
13. Embodiment
A compilation of the various vinyl releases up until that point. #1-4 are from the s/t 7". #5-11 are from the split 10" with Jinn. #12-13 are from the split 7" with Taint.
Released 01/09/07.
Ltd. to 500 CDs.
Army Of Flying Robots | Andy, Craig, Henry, Luke, Simon | Myspace
Collective-Zine
UK hardcore perennials AOFR have been shredding faces for a good few years now and this neat little slice of plastic somehow manages to contain the material they've spat into the public domain between the years 2001-2005, namely their debut 7" on the Audacious Art Experiment, split 10" with Jinn and last year's split 7" with fellow sluggers Taint. If you've somehow failed to miss them in the last five years, these Notts lads kick up a raucous din somewhere between Acme and Left For Dead - a breed of hardcore that's metallic in nature but keeps its straight-up intensity intact rather than bogging itself down with pointlessly frilly showmanship. The riffing is fast-paced, the drumming frantic and Henry's vocals a demoniac shriek conjured up from the seven chambers of hell, the combination of which serves to create the kind of non-stop wall of bastard sound that's less a listening experience than a full-on physical assault. Brutal, exhausting and about as good as you're gonna get in terms of UK noisemongering - buy or die!
Aversionline
Also from SuperFi Records is this self-titled early discography CD from Army of Flying Robots. Included are 13 tracks in just 23 minutes, taken from their self-titled 7" (2002), the split 10" with Jinn (2004), and the "Champion Boar Service" split 7" with Taint (2005) - all of which have been remastered, of course. The band unloads a rather explosive, grinding form of discordant, metallic hardcore/punk with a loose bit of a "screamo" sort of edge (but think the better aspects of the caustic, intense, socio-political "screamo" of the good ol' days, nothing related to the horseshit often associated with the term in 2007) in short, focused bursts (only one track tops three minutes). In a way it's sort of like the chuggingly frenetic style of Catharsis mixed with the slightly more metal-based riffs of some of those wild 'n' crazy old German bands like Acme, and the "screamo" element comes into play thanks to plenty of looser, noisier guitar textures and a pretty wicked form of scathing screams in the vocal department. The two tracks from the split 7" with Taint were all I had heard prior, and my minor complaints about the recording on said EP are the only such issues present here. The remastering has helped those two cuts out a little, but they still sound just a bit "flatter" in some way, whereas the rest of the tracks play through so seamlessly they might as well have come from the same recording session. The disc is packaged inside a thick 16-page booklet with all of the lyrics, song explanations, some photos, and a center spread of past show flyers and all that jazz. But despite a few silly song titles like "Do the Electric Boogaloo", these cats actually have plenty to say: You try to tell us that image is nothing, but sell it to us for the right price the clown's toy balloons are getting no laughs, cut loose your demons on paper and ink smashing that glass and slicing your arm, is this ironic to turn on yourself wrinkled paper mutants scare them away, something's not right here, nothing's okay they'd sell the blue from the sky, they'd sell the light from your eyes. I believe there are only two more recent tracks from the band that this CD doesn't contain, so hopefully they'll continue on long enough to gather enough material for a second collection - or perhaps an eventually more complete/robust reissue of this one! Good stuff.
Mashnote
Ah, Superfi Records never fails to amaze me with their choices: Melt Banana, Narcosis, Snowblood, Swarrrm, The Endless Blockade, Trencher etc. Superfi is on top of their game right now and so it is only an obvious choice for them to release the discography from their fellow country men Army of Flying Robots. Having seen the band a few times and even set up a show for them once I was pretty excited to get this CD in my hands. The band rips through 13 brutal songs from 3 past vinyl releases who are now sold out. All their songs are bursts of high energy grinding hc/power violence songs at a manic speed with raw vocals. The first songs come from their one-sided 7" which is in fact my favourite release together with the songs from the split 10" with Jinn. The blast beat factor is high, the metallic guitars are shredding at full speed. Oh yeah. On the last of the three releases featured on this CD, Army of Flying Robots chose to incorporate more variation in their songs which results in only two songs on their side of the split 7" with Taint. An obvious decision, since AOFR's songs on past releases DID sound a bit one-sided, but I've been a sucker for blast beats in 2006. I must admit that there's more emotion to be found in "in the shadow of the swine", the first song on the split with Taint, while I wasn't such a fan of the other song and the split 7" with Kamikazee (not featured on this CD). In the end I can only support the variation they want to bring. This CD marks an end to the first years of Army of Flying Robots and I am waiting on the future sounds of this band. There is some awesome live footage on this CD as well together with lyrics and lenghty song explanations.
STNT
Alors que sort durant l'année 2007 le premier album de l'armée des robots volants, il est grand temps de revenir par l'intermédiaire de ce cd discographique sur les premiers efforts de ces petits gars de Nottingham qui en veulent. Army Of Flying Robots joue un hardcore violent et irrévérencieux qui doit autant au trash, au power violence, qu'au grind core. si je veux faire aussi court que les morceaux souvent envoyés en moins d'une minute ! D'une noirceur sans nom, d'une brutalité jubilatoire, d'une puissance athlétique épuisante, Army Of Flying Robots a marqué son monde depuis ses débuts en 2001. Ce cd regroupe leurs prods de leurs premiers pas jusqu'en 2005 (split 7'' avec Taint, split 10'' avec Jinn, et le premier 7'' sorti en 2003). Sachez que ça beau être de la réédition (les vinyles étant bien sûr en partie épuisés) c'est de la grosse came en barre. On a même droit à des vidéos en bonus si on veut se faire un petite idée des concerts. Et si l'album déjà sorti à l'heure où vous lisez ses lignes, allume autant, vous voyez ce qu'il vous reste à faire. Favori les amis !!!
UK hardcore perennials AOFR have been shredding faces for a good few years now and this neat little slice of plastic somehow manages to contain the material they've spat into the public domain between the years 2001-2005, namely their debut 7" on the Audacious Art Experiment, split 10" with Jinn and last year's split 7" with fellow sluggers Taint. If you've somehow failed to miss them in the last five years, these Notts lads kick up a raucous din somewhere between Acme and Left For Dead - a breed of hardcore that's metallic in nature but keeps its straight-up intensity intact rather than bogging itself down with pointlessly frilly showmanship. The riffing is fast-paced, the drumming frantic and Henry's vocals a demoniac shriek conjured up from the seven chambers of hell, the combination of which serves to create the kind of non-stop wall of bastard sound that's less a listening experience than a full-on physical assault. Brutal, exhausting and about as good as you're gonna get in terms of UK noisemongering - buy or die!
Aversionline
Also from SuperFi Records is this self-titled early discography CD from Army of Flying Robots. Included are 13 tracks in just 23 minutes, taken from their self-titled 7" (2002), the split 10" with Jinn (2004), and the "Champion Boar Service" split 7" with Taint (2005) - all of which have been remastered, of course. The band unloads a rather explosive, grinding form of discordant, metallic hardcore/punk with a loose bit of a "screamo" sort of edge (but think the better aspects of the caustic, intense, socio-political "screamo" of the good ol' days, nothing related to the horseshit often associated with the term in 2007) in short, focused bursts (only one track tops three minutes). In a way it's sort of like the chuggingly frenetic style of Catharsis mixed with the slightly more metal-based riffs of some of those wild 'n' crazy old German bands like Acme, and the "screamo" element comes into play thanks to plenty of looser, noisier guitar textures and a pretty wicked form of scathing screams in the vocal department. The two tracks from the split 7" with Taint were all I had heard prior, and my minor complaints about the recording on said EP are the only such issues present here. The remastering has helped those two cuts out a little, but they still sound just a bit "flatter" in some way, whereas the rest of the tracks play through so seamlessly they might as well have come from the same recording session. The disc is packaged inside a thick 16-page booklet with all of the lyrics, song explanations, some photos, and a center spread of past show flyers and all that jazz. But despite a few silly song titles like "Do the Electric Boogaloo", these cats actually have plenty to say: You try to tell us that image is nothing, but sell it to us for the right price the clown's toy balloons are getting no laughs, cut loose your demons on paper and ink smashing that glass and slicing your arm, is this ironic to turn on yourself wrinkled paper mutants scare them away, something's not right here, nothing's okay they'd sell the blue from the sky, they'd sell the light from your eyes. I believe there are only two more recent tracks from the band that this CD doesn't contain, so hopefully they'll continue on long enough to gather enough material for a second collection - or perhaps an eventually more complete/robust reissue of this one! Good stuff.
Mashnote
Ah, Superfi Records never fails to amaze me with their choices: Melt Banana, Narcosis, Snowblood, Swarrrm, The Endless Blockade, Trencher etc. Superfi is on top of their game right now and so it is only an obvious choice for them to release the discography from their fellow country men Army of Flying Robots. Having seen the band a few times and even set up a show for them once I was pretty excited to get this CD in my hands. The band rips through 13 brutal songs from 3 past vinyl releases who are now sold out. All their songs are bursts of high energy grinding hc/power violence songs at a manic speed with raw vocals. The first songs come from their one-sided 7" which is in fact my favourite release together with the songs from the split 10" with Jinn. The blast beat factor is high, the metallic guitars are shredding at full speed. Oh yeah. On the last of the three releases featured on this CD, Army of Flying Robots chose to incorporate more variation in their songs which results in only two songs on their side of the split 7" with Taint. An obvious decision, since AOFR's songs on past releases DID sound a bit one-sided, but I've been a sucker for blast beats in 2006. I must admit that there's more emotion to be found in "in the shadow of the swine", the first song on the split with Taint, while I wasn't such a fan of the other song and the split 7" with Kamikazee (not featured on this CD). In the end I can only support the variation they want to bring. This CD marks an end to the first years of Army of Flying Robots and I am waiting on the future sounds of this band. There is some awesome live footage on this CD as well together with lyrics and lenghty song explanations.
STNT
Alors que sort durant l'année 2007 le premier album de l'armée des robots volants, il est grand temps de revenir par l'intermédiaire de ce cd discographique sur les premiers efforts de ces petits gars de Nottingham qui en veulent. Army Of Flying Robots joue un hardcore violent et irrévérencieux qui doit autant au trash, au power violence, qu'au grind core. si je veux faire aussi court que les morceaux souvent envoyés en moins d'une minute ! D'une noirceur sans nom, d'une brutalité jubilatoire, d'une puissance athlétique épuisante, Army Of Flying Robots a marqué son monde depuis ses débuts en 2001. Ce cd regroupe leurs prods de leurs premiers pas jusqu'en 2005 (split 7'' avec Taint, split 10'' avec Jinn, et le premier 7'' sorti en 2003). Sachez que ça beau être de la réédition (les vinyles étant bien sûr en partie épuisés) c'est de la grosse came en barre. On a même droit à des vidéos en bonus si on veut se faire un petite idée des concerts. Et si l'album déjà sorti à l'heure où vous lisez ses lignes, allume autant, vous voyez ce qu'il vous reste à faire. Favori les amis !!!