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The Locust
Released 1999

Skin Graft at Seventy-Five Miles Per Hour
00:00
854 plays

High-Maintenance Libido, Bring the Whole Family
00:00
846 plays

Halfway to a Worthless Ideal Arrangement (An Interlude to a ...)
00:00
837 plays

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- 1
- Moth-Eaten Deer Head
- 01:33
- 2,423 plays

- 2
- Brand New Set of Teeth
- 01:12
- 2,045 plays

- 3
- How to Build a Pessimistic Lie Detector
- 00:00
- 1,252 plays

- 4
- Nice Tranquil Thumb in Mouth
- 00:00
- 1,554 plays

- 5
- Dog Without a Collar (Run over Red Rover)
- 00:00
- 1,021 plays

- 6
- The Perils of Believing in Round Squares
- 00:00
- 1,149 plays

- 7
- Normal Run of the Muck (Compensation for Conversation)
- 00:00
- 1,001 plays

- 8
- Stucco Obelisks Labeled as Trees
- 00:00
- 1,166 plays

- 9
- Straight from the Horses Mouth
- 00:00
- 1,211 plays

- 10
- An Extra Piece of Dead Meat
- 01:12
- 1,108 plays

- 11
- Twenty-Three Full-Time Cowboys
- 00:00
- 1,120 plays

- 12
- Backbones of Jack Asses
- 01:06
- 1,186 plays

- 13
- Fixed Companionship, Ghost Town Irrationality
- 01:22
- 804 plays

- 14
- Skin Graft at Seventy-Five Miles Per Hour
- 00:00
- 854 plays

- 15
- High-Maintenance Libido, Bring the Whole Family
- 00:00
- 846 plays

- 16
- Well I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle
- 00:00
- 1,192 plays

- 17
- Halfway to a Worthless Ideal Arrangement (An Interlude to a ...)
- 00:00
- 837 plays

- 18
- Kill Roger Hedgecock
- 00:00
- 1,084 plays

- 19
- Hairspray Suppository
- 00:00
- 1,218 plays

- 20
- Cattle Mutilation
- 00:00
- 1,148 plays

- 21
- [Untitled Track]
- 00:00
- 6 plays

album review

Take the more insanely violent elements of hardcore and death metal, throw in a few Moogs, put them into a blender, speed up the rmps as high as they'll go, and out comes the Locust. Granted, that's an oversimplification, but it works. The Atari Teenage Riot for the arty hardcore set, the Locust display all of their trademark characteristics on their first self-titled, full-length release on GSL: short, spastic blurts of overblown nervous energy held together by massive blast beats and an impeccable sense of split-second timing that never lets up, cryptic song titles (examples: "How to Build a Pessimistic Lie Detector," "Fixed Companionship, Ghost Town Irrationality") and equally cryptic lyrics, and a penchant for the paramilitary in terms of design. Following in the footsteps of such noisecore merchants as Angel Hair and Heroin, the Locust take Gravity-style hardcore and blow it to smithereens. In the end, though, this record is not that unique or groundbreaking in many respects, and the songs start to resemble each other more and more the more they are listened to; there is also somewhat of a shock value element to the record that diminishes with each subsequent listening. But few of their contemporaries come close to matching their incinerating intensity and sheer firepower. The manic energy and flagrant masochism of the Locust is very primal and infectious, and can keep the listener coming back again and again. ~ Josh Eppert, All Music Guide