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A Life Once Lost
Open Your Mouth for
the Speechless
CD / (2004) / Robotic Empire
In stock
Price: $10.00
The long out-of-print debut full-length CD from Philadelphia's A Life Once Lost is finally available once again, all remastered with bonus tracks and new artwork. Open Your Mouth For The Speechless... was A Life Once Lost's groundbreaking first step towards becoming one of the most respected names in the metallic hardcore community. This album has been reissued as an excellent way to document the band's evolution, debuting here with a dominating speed/grind and mosh oriented approach to their infectious and intimidating blend of metal and hardcore. |
This original lineup (including Vadim of This Day Forward on guitar) showcases an innovative young band, and it's highly impressive that this album was created by a bunch of kids fresh out of high-school. To add icing to the cake, two sick demos of classic tracks from The Fourth Plague: Flies EP have been added to the disc, along with a recently recorded live track in the band's hometown of Philly, PA. With a slick new mastering job by Pig Destroyer's Scott Hull at Visceral Sound (Nile, Crowpath, Dying Fetus) and all new artwork by Adam Wentworth (The Black Dahlia Murder, The Red Chord, etc.), this reissue finally does the early incarnation of A Life Once Lost some justice and allows the world to hear how these pioneers of technical metallic hardcore started.
Track Listing:
Disc 1
01. Joan Said Please (4:17)
02. This Is What She Calls Home (3:27)
03. Introduction (1:29)
04. Almost Perfect But I Failed (2:43)
05. Gentle & Elegant (5:00)
06. Falls River Farewell (3:20)
07. Everything Becomes Still (4:18)
08. Just Before His Crucifixion(2:43)
09. Why Do You Make Me Bleed (3:58)
10. Prepare Yourself for What Is About to Come(3:05)
11. Tide (2:56)
12. Dead Sea [Live] (2:37)
Disc 2
01. Blonde Prostitue [Pig Destroyer] (0:58)
02. As The Palaces Burn [Lamb of God] (2:27)
03. Black Hearts Will Reign *demo version [Unearth] (3:25)
04. I Don't Give A Shit About Wood I'm Not A Chemist [Daughters] (1:18)
05. Flesh Engine Breakdown [Beyond The Embrace] (4:53)
06. Crow Quill [Circle Takes The Square] (2:37)
07. Funeral Thrist [The Black Dahlia Murder] (4:45)
08. The Challenge of Caring [From A Second Story Window] (3:52)
09. Twenty Years Delayed Abortion [Crowpath] (2:39)
10. Nihilist [The Red Chord] (3:33)
11. Caliber Defibrillator, A Prototype of Sorts [Found Dead Hanging] (1:26)
12. The White Light [Psyopus] (3:24)
13. My Fist Your Face [Deadwater Drowning] (3:50)
14. Prepare Yourself for What Is About to Come *demo version [A Life Once Lost] (3:05)
15. Fear My Hatred [Fragments of Unbecoming] (3:38)
16. The Devouring [Employee Employer] (2:21)
17. Problem Solving Techniques of an Asshole [Backstabbers Inc.] (1:24)
18. Hessian Bodyfarm [Agoraphobic Nosebleed] (1:05)
19. Forver [As I Lay Dying] (4:47)
20. Decency Defied [Cannibal Corpse] (3:04)
21. Beautiful Corpses [Ed Gein] (2:54)
22. Patterns in the Ivy II [Opeth] (4:12)
23. Not a Word *live [Premonitions of War] (1:26)
24. Punk Rock in the Wrong Hands [Pg. 99] (2:21)
25. No So in Tune With Shells [Hassan I Sabbah] (1:19)
26. Bringer of Blood [Six Feet Under] (2:54)
27. Outside The Circle [The Heavils] (2:37)
28. Paint it Black [The Black Dahlia Murder] (2:34)
