Botch - We Are The Romans

Botch - We Are The RomansDouble vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Includes digital download. Legendary Tacoma, Washington mathcore hardcore metal band Botch's second and final full length album We Are the Romans was originally released in 1999 to critical acclaim, eventually becoming one of the most ground breaking and influential albums during a pivotal shift in heavy music. The special re issue of their seminal album includes new song "One Twenty Two", the first new

Ounsworth decrys state-sponsored pollution and the ubiquity of advertising

Both records are fleshed out with rare

Much like their previous releases on underground stalwart labels like Mind Cure and 12XU

including 'Sing Your Own Song' where sings of reading about his own death in Rolling Stone

the whirring sound of the Ferris wheel at Coney Island

neo-noir prism

Al Haig on piano

They are all mystified by it

" This pressing commemorates the album's 20th anniversary

with "Hit and Run" standing as the very essence of exactly what Dokken would end up being to millions of ears for years to come

influence and importance

original copies change hands for three-figure sums