![]() The trio formed in 1998 and were from Takamatsu, on the Shikoku island. It may sound trivial, but it matters nonetheless. And let's face it, the name "Effigy" sounds super cool. I absolutely love it as it can mean a lot of different things in terms of representation and metatextuality (were Effigy an effigy of crust?) and it works all the better for Japanese bands, since they are really keen on referentiality and band-worship, sometimes excessively (remember that SDS were supposedly "the ghosts of Antisect"). Yes, I am a man on a mission.įirst things first: they picked a cracking name. ![]() I had never found a decent rip of this record so far so I figured it was high time someone did it properly. Let's start with a band that was all the rage in the first half of the 2000's: Effigy. In that sense, they are both transitional works and can be seen as bridges between the two eras, a perspective that makes them even more interesting. ![]() The last two records I am going to rave about were recorded at the very end of the 90's, in 1999 to be specific, so while they technically belonged to that decade, they also heralded things to come crust-wise in the 2000's.
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