The second track off of metalcore band Botch’s seminal second studio album We Are The Romans, released in 1999. The lyrics, written from the point of view of a coal miner, criticize upper-class intellectuals for failing to understand the problems faced by the working class. The title could be a reference to Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, one of the pioneers of 20th-century abstract art. His style involved reducing objects to simple geometric shapes, with only subtle variations that were intentionally hard for viewers to make out. Mondrian could be an example of the type of intellectua… read more
The second track off of metalcore band Botch’s seminal second studio album We Are The Romans, released in 1999. The lyrics, written from the point of… read more
The second track off of metalcore band Botch’s seminal second studio album We Are The Romans, released in 1999. The lyrics, written from the point of view of a coal miner, criticize uppe… read more
With polyrhythmic guitar stylings, raw vocals, progressive song structures, and a unique sound, Botch were a driving force in the metalcore scene from 1993 until their break-up in 2002, particularly influential to the creation and rise of the mathcore subgenre. In May 1998, the four-piece from Tacoma, USA released their first album, American Nervoso. On November 30, 1999, Hydra Head released Botch's We Are The Romans. Since its initial release, bands have been influenced by its style, creating, to many, what is now called mathcore. Recently, Hydra Head Records has released Un…read more
With polyrhythmic guitar stylings, raw vocals, progressive song structures, and a unique sound, Botch were a driving force in the metalcore scene from 1993 until their break-up in 2002, pa… read more
With polyrhythmic guitar stylings, raw vocals, progressive song structures, and a unique sound, Botch were a driving force in the metalcore scene from 1993 until their break-up in 2002, particularly influential to the creation and ris… read more
