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Baker's Dozen

Metal Machine Music: A Persher Baker's Dozen
Patrick Clarke , February 28th, 2024 10:45

Electronic producers but longtime punk, hardcore and metal heads, Blawan and Pariah take Patrick Clarke through the thirteen records that shaped their swerve into heavy music as Persher, from Meshuggah and Napalm Death to Converge and The Dillinger Escape Plan

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Shit And Shine – Doing Drugs, Selling Drugs

AC + JR: This is a good example of a more traditional band record that sounds like it’s been recorded in a fairly strange way – there’s loads of interesting production techniques being used that you might not normally expect to hear in a record that sounds like this. For example, the crazy time-stretching of the guitar in the amazingly titled “Cooking Steaks In The Pocket’ – it’s like sludge metal made by a dial up modem. This came out a few months before we started seriously talking about doing the Persher project and it was definitely one of the records that influenced us in the initial stages of writing the first tracks.