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Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
JR: I could tell that the guys making this thing knew what they were doing. They just know how to invoke this wave of fucking emptiness. I love that. That they can get their message across really well; within the first five seconds you’re like, ‘here we go’. All their records are really great, and this is one of the first tracks I heard from them. The production’s amazing, the songwriting is really good. Everything is just spot on.
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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