Aftermath

about this album

Sometime in the middle of 1998, Ryan 'Embolism' Leeman and Fritz 'Guyver' Cardozo began writing tracks together under the name Aftermath. They used to meet up on regular occasion, bringing sample sources they had collected and then chip away at tracks together on FT2. Sample sources included Australian prison TV documentaries, numerous records and many B-Grade VHS tapes which were routinely hired from the local VideoEzy and closely scoured for appropriate monologues. These sessions sporadically took place over the period of a few months into 1999, during which they produced enough material for two stylistically separate 12" releases on Bloody Fist. The first of these concentrated on very dark hardcore, occasionally venturing into speedcore territory. The sleeve for the 12" was slapped together in typical nonchalant fashion by Fritz and includes a treated photo of Newcastle's Sandgate Cemetery on the front. Fritz and Ryan only spent a short amount of time writing music together, but were very prolific and their records are proper classics in the BF catalogue. 4 years after the release of the first Aftermath 12", New York's Rockstar Games would come knocking with an interest in using 30 seconds of the track 'Foetus Of Hell' for their worldwide TV ad campaign coinciding with the release of the extremely violent Playstation 2/Xbox game 'Manhunt' (which was eventually banned in several countries including Australia). Someone at Rockstar had apparently downloaded the track from Wi

tracks

more from Aftermath

Moho

SAD

JED

Eyes of Tomorrow

Look at Me Again

Godzilla