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Death by Salt is SLUG Magazine's 7th bastard child compilation showcasing underground acts from the City of Salt. Apathetic to any precedent or standard set before it, this 3-disc box set, complete with a full-color 64-page booklet of band photos and profiles, and an artfully crafted, screenprinted box, is intended to kick a nice-sized dent in the ignorance of those tragically unaware of the talent hidden behind the Zion Curtain. Come discover what living in the most socially oppressive and politically suffocating state in the nation does for that state's counterculture. Salt Lake musicians don't make music for scenester points, marketing plots, fame or fortune. They do it in order to create an alternate world, lurking just underneath the city's surface-a world where they can actually belong. Why else is there such kick-ass music in Utah? Isolation from surrounding states has helped in spawning Utah's introverted, original creativity. Our being constantly stigmatized and neglected by the national music scene has given us healthy perspective and outright mistrust of the music industry. Many of us grew up in LDS families, where learning and playing music was often akin to breathing. One final theory is that Utah has the biggest open-pit copper mine in the world, and one of the very few inland lakes of salt on the globe. Salt and copper make batteries, kids. We have so much damn energy that our instruments bleed with punishment. Last March, SLUG put out a call for submissions in our pages. Over the course of four months, SLUG received over 200 tracks from 200 different musicians and bands. A "secret panel" composed of seven of the worst-reputed, most nefarious criminal elements within the stinking bowels of SLUG's underbelly took up the somewhat unlovely task of objectively listening to 17 hours of solid music of all different genres, shapes and sizes, not to mention production levels. The Seven listened and voted on the songs blind, not knowing who they were hearing. It took three months of weekly meetings to listen to every last speck of music, and the panel listened to all the songs from beginning to end. The next four months were spent designing the artwork for the compilation, box and booklet, going undercover to secretly take pictures of bands and writing up their bios without them knowing what it was for. SLUG photographers and writers went to great lengths to lie and deceive local bands as much as humanly possible, photographing and interviewing them under the pretext of students doing photo collages for college art projects, editors beginning new zines and features in SLUG on "Why local stoner metal bands should rule Utah." Bands didn't know they were on the compilation, or about the existence of the booklet, until the Death by Salt release party and SLUG's 15th Anniversary Party, held on Feb. 19-21, 2004 at the Urban Lounge and Kilby Court in downtown Salt Lake. Death by Salt is the most extensive compilation of Salt Lake bands ever released. It will not be our last. Check out the artist's website: http://www.slugmag.com Track List: 1. Red Bennies, Walk Right In 2. Starmy, It's Easy 3. Thunderfist, Rock n' Roll 4. Chinese Stars, Your Electrocution 5. Silvox, Your Taste 6. The New Transit Direction, City Line 7. Redd Tape, Anchors Away 8. Purr Bats, Bird Shit Bombs 9. The New Evils, The Way 10. The Blue Collar Line, Hearship Through the Stars 11. The Numbs, Dedication 12. T-Bone, Drink Yourself to Sleep 13. The Killpatricks, Ted Nugent 14. Le Force, We May Belong to You, but Our Souls Belong to Satan 15. Never Never, Ritalin 16. Day of Less, Apnea Test Failed 17. COSM, Uneasy 18. Bob Moss, Movie Man 19. The Vexations, Space-Themed Song 20. One Way Nowheres, Day After Day 21. Get Stakerized, Get Stakerized 22. JW Blackout, Whisky, Weed, & Wild, Wild Women 23. Books About UFO's, Espionage (DPful remix) 24. Stiletto, Blue Eyes Black 25. The Cronies, Has Been Neutralized 26. Erosion, The Monster That Remained in the Mind of the Orphaned B 27. Debi Graham, Cravings 28. The Downers, No Safe Place 29. The Corleones, Damned Anyway 30. Hello Amsterdam, Cold to Come 31. The Coyote Hoods, The Hate Seed 32. Rope or Bullets, I Love Personality 33. 12th Street Staggers, Show No Mercy 34. Salt City Bandits, Swimmin' in Booze 35. Then Blood The Teeth Must Be Destroyed at All Costs 36. Dead in the Womb, The Feeling 37. Fantazmic 4, Mommy 38. Deep Six Holiday, Lower 39. Dan Morley, Stealing Claire's Prescription 40. Hudson River School, Straitjacket 41. Mooseknuckle, The Woman Song 42. Form of Rocket, Keep Smilin' Ed Smart 43. Nimh, Port of Morrow 44. Fifi Murmur, You Got the Eyes 45. Sherlock, Slow Burn 46. The Switch, I Don't Know 47. Brownham, Winter Blackbirds 48. Stacey Boards, The Stone 49. Tolchock Trio, Square Candies 50. The Debonairs, Train Song 51. Iodina, Does Your Momma Make Gravy? 52. Gerald Music, Low Tide 53. The Mental Midgets, ADHD 54. Parker Sisters, Shotgun Colorman 55. Nurse Sherri, Let it Go 56. Facts, Walks of Life 57. Dulcesky, Lands 58. SLAJO, Vultures 59. Buddha Bros, Why? Other Genres:
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