Super Static Fever - Silent Dynamic Torture [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: NUM209CD
Barcode: 0825764120951
Release Date: 01 May 2026
Genre: Rock

A band that played so loud their entire fan base went deaf and never spoke of them again. Formed in 1993 in the go-nowhere exurb of San Jose, California, Super Static Fever played only a handful of gigs in their brief two year existence, punishing spectators with a tinnitus-inducing wah-wah wall of Marshall-stacked distortion. Their sound was a mix of Melvins-esque sludge, Swervedriver’s melodic crunch, and latter-day Black Flag’s penchant for volume, as heard from the stock stereo of a hot-boxed 1985 Ford Econoline. Unfinished tapes from two ear-bleeding sessions are all that survived the ensuing 25 years since their indifferent break-up, mixed by the exacting Steve Albini as the band’s one condition for reissue. The package reeks of the ’90s computer-crippled D.I.Y. aesthetic, with VHS blur and opaque white screened on chipboard. A record that just barely does, and probably should not, exist.

TRACKLISTING
SIDE A
1. Acid Sweet Happening
2. Awareness For Fun
3. Scent Sample Feed
SIDE B
4. Sonic Seller Song
5. Fake Calm Existing
6. Lovely Kill Smile
7. Happy Frown Styles