Monday, January 5, 2026

Optimum Wound Profile - Lowest Common Dominator (1992)


UK industrial metal/hardcore. Thrash-y punk riffs, gated drums, distorted vocals, sample-heavy industrial atmosphere.

Track listing:
1. Drain
2. Tranqhead
3. Ego Crotch
4. Downmouth
5. You're Weak
6. Blindfold
7. Incision
8. Responsibility
9. Skin
10. Melt
11. Damage
12. Crave
13. Core Melt


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6 comments:

  1. Thanks! Only ever heard their 2nd LP.

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  2. Many thanks. This is the perfect NY gift for 16 yr old me.

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    1. Here's something 'actual' 16 yr old me would have listened to. 'In Dust', a band from Northern Ireland, made a proper good racket as a recall. https://indust.bandcamp.com/album/peel-session-1993-2022-remaster

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  3. Ex-Deviated Instinct, me thinks

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  4. Quite, quite good! We had a few gems back in '92 and I'm not referring to tier 1, wannabe industrial bands, far from it.

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  5. Great find as well as the Counterblast shoutout at the end. Ambush - Lach! (1994) is my personal recommendation here. I don't know very much about them besides Thom Rusnak of Rorschach + Kiss It Goodbye being in it at some point, but it bears a lot of the same traits as these picks. Noisy, sludgy, hardcore and industrial adjacent.

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