Spike In Vain - Death Drives A Cadillac LP xx2008 brass and strings

brass and strings

With guest appearances from heavyweights in the New Zealand music scene (Straitjacket Fits’ Shayne Carter

and dark melodic noise

leaving giant 10 feet tall red letters that said "DIE"

Spike In Vain - Death Drives A Cadillac LP xx2008 brass and stringsI had no idea what Cleveland's Spike In Vain sounded like before last week, but had enough positive information (peers wearing bootleg t shirts, they're from Cleveland) to gather that they'd be in my wheelhouse.'Death Drives a Cadillac' is their second LP, recorded in 1985, unreleased until 2021. It's an album that's kind of in an "anti Hardcore" mode (Flipper, No Trend etc), while also being reminiscent of groups from around the initial USA HC period