Various Artists A Butcher’s Waltz Vol.2 (Color) vinyl arrives from Learning Curve Records as a noise rock compilation with genuine teeth, featuring vinyl exclusives from STNNNG, Blacklisters, Blackthorne, and Hey Colossus. These four acts collectively represent some of the most abrasive and interesting work in the noise rock underground, and the vinyl exclusive tracks mean this compilation is not a sampler for material you can find elsewhere.
Various Artists A Butcher’s Waltz Vol.2 (Color) vinyl
STNNNG are the veterans in this lineup, a St. Paul band with more than fifteen years of throttling audiences with their particular brand of abrasive noise rock. They are a reference point for anyone who follows the genre seriously. Blacklisters bring their UK perspective to the record, a band whose approach to heavy, angular rock draws comparisons to the AmRep roster in the way they build tension and refuse easy resolution. Hey Colossus have built a catalog on the margins between noise rock, post-metal, and various forms of heavy underground music across multiple releases and lineup configurations. Each act contributes tracks exclusive to this pressing, which raises the stakes for collectors considerably.
What Makes This Release Worth Owning
Learning Curve releases tend to be pressed in small runs aimed at buyers who track the label’s output specifically. The colored vinyl pressing of Vol.2 is a proper limited release built for an audience that understands what it is. Vinyl exclusives on compilations of this type can be the only place certain recordings ever exist in physical form, which matters to collectors who think about completeness and permanence.
For the Noise Rock Collector
If you follow noise rock seriously enough to know any of these four bands, the vinyl exclusive content on A Butcher’s Waltz Vol.2 makes this a straightforward decision. Colored vinyl on LP from Learning Curve, with material you cannot get anywhere else. This is the format and the release.
Compilations with vinyl exclusive content are the kind of release that collectors return to when building a complete picture of a label’s history. A Butcher’s Waltz Vol.2 captures four bands at specific moments in their development and puts them together in a format that treats the material with real seriousness. Learning Curve’s track record makes this a trustworthy object for collectors who follow noise rock with genuine attention and who value exclusive recorded content over convenient access.
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