Earache Records
2008
Discography 1998 - 2007 Best Served Cold
About This Album
Ah, convenience...something most anyone can appreciate, and something that Best Served Cold delivers in spades, by compiling Narcosis' entire career output between 1998 and 2007 onto a single, absolutely, positively, astoundingly convenient disc. How ironic for an extreme grindcore band whose mission statement -- had they been the sorts of chaps to have a mission statement -- would surely propose making music so vile, so raw, so savage, that all those exposed to it would feel most inconvenienced. Oh yeah, was it mentioned that said body of work consists of 51 tracks, all of them assembled here in just 78 minutes? Obviously, Narcosis were U.K. grind purists who restricted their explosive songs into sub-minute hyper-blasts, but the fact that they would then scatter them, a few at a time, across numerous split releases (often kept to limited vinyl pressings) naturally led to endless confusion and frustration among their fans. This is where Best Served Cold comes in handy, and since the band also deigned to record two "full-length" albums in 2007 and 2003 named Romance and Heart Slows Down, respectively, it is with their tracks that Earache chose to lead off this collection -- probably because the more consistent recording standards they share help to ease listeners (if such a thing is possible) into the disorienting brutality of Narcosis' onslaught.
Track List (try tracks 1,7,8,11,15,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,32,39,44,48 and 49)

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