ガーゼ* – 面を洗って出直して来い

I have a copy for sale in case anyone's looking

Here my review on my "Hits From The Past" blog: https://hitsfromthepast.blogspot.com/2023/03/gauze-label-xxx-records-year-1997.html

It's quite possible this record wasn't played by human beings. Gauze set a new standard in tightness here, leaving their (not to sneeze at) peers in the dust. This sounds like a sped up version of Nightmare, Bastard, Death Side and themselves. I know it's hard to write without laughing at the ridiculousness of that proposition, but it never looses coherence or skips a beat. At only 15 minutes long, there's enough riffs crammed in here for an hour easy. Listening to this is like an endurance test, and you will either burn some calories or your eardrums. This is an end station, in the same way From Enslavement To Obliteration or John Cage's 4′33″ were. I really don't think there is an after.

You don't have to know Japanese to know it is great hardcore. And if you don't know Gauze, you have a lot of homework to do. Listen to this record and get floored. I am willing to bet you have never even heard it yet you casually click disagree. That's not very fair.

I'm gonna come right out and call this the best hardcore record of the 1990s. Ten perfect songs that flow so well and are so perfectly ordered that is like one long super awesome song. Immaculate production and playing skills through the roof. Too bad this record is so hard to come by. It would be really aweseome if someone reissued this as it came and went in the blink of an eye and potentially thousands of fans just plain old missed the boat.