Drop Dead is an album originally released in 1984 by Weymouth

Weymouth, Massachusetts

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 hardcore

Hardcore punk

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 band Siege

Siege (band)

Siege was an American punk/Thrashcore band from Weymouth, Massachusetts. They were active in the 1980s Boston hardcore scene from 1983 to 1985, and reunited briefly in the early 1990s....

. It is the only album the band ever released. The original "album" was a self-released demo cassette with six songs recorded at Radiobeat studios in Boston and produced by Lou Giordano

Lou Giordano

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. There were also three songs recorded for Pushead

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's Cleanse the Bacteria

Cleanse the Bacteria

Cleanse the Bacteria is a hardcore punk compilation LP released in 1985 by Pushead on Pusmort Records. It is an international compilation of early hardcore music, and represents grindcore pioneers Siege's only original official release...

hardcore compilation. When the album was finally given a proper (i.e., non-bootleg) release on CD by Relapse Records

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 in 1994, the three Cleanse the Bacteria tracks were added to the original six demo tape songs.

Deep Six Records then re-released the album on 12" vinyl in 2004, with the identical tracklist to the Relapse reissue, being the original six songs with the same three compilation tracks added.

These nine tracks were the only things recorded by Siege until they reformed in 1991 with Seth Putnam

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 of Anal Cunt

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 on lead vocals and recorded a demo tape from which one song, "Cameras", was released in 2004 on the 13 Bands Who Think You're Gay compilation album. It is unknown how many songs were recorded with Seth on vocals. This demo tape has never been released in its entirety and seems to be otherwise unavailable.

However, two separate additional reissues of the original Siege material done on lp in 2006 and 2009 by the Deep Six record label mysteriously contained an additional three tracks, "Two-Faced," "Trained To Kill," and "Questions Behind The Wall". According to the sticker on the cover of the 2006 record, it states that these tracks are "unreleased tracks from original sessions," but it is unclear if the songs were recorded in 1984 and remained unreleased until now, or if only the music is from the original sessions with vocals added later (by either the original vocalist or by Seth Putnam).

Track listings

All songs written by Siege.

Session for the 6 song demo, recorded at Radiobeat in Boston, February 6, 1984.

1. "Drop Dead" - 1:08
2. "Conform" - 2:33
3. "Life Of Hate" - 0:28
4. "Starvation" - 0:47
5. "Armageddon" - 0:26
6. "Grim Reaper" - 7:23

Additional session for the "Cleanse The Bacteria" tracks, recorded at Radiobeat in Boston, October 26, 1984.

1. "Walls" - 1:20
2. "Sad But True" - 1:17
3. "Cold War" - 1:36

This tracklist is accurate for the 1994 Relapse re-issue, as well as the 2004 Deep Six reissue.

1. "Drop Dead" - 1:08
2. "Conform" - 2:33
3. "Life Of Hate" - 0:28
4. "Starvation" - 0:47
5. "Armageddon" - 0:26
6. "Walls" - 1:20
7. "Sad But True" - 1:17
8. "Cold War" - 1:36
9. "Grim Reaper" - 7:23
   • Tracks 1 - 5 & 9 are from the original Drop Dead demo cassette.
   • Tracks 6 - 8 are originally from the Cleanse the Bacteria
     Cleanse the Bacteria
     Cleanse the Bacteria is a hardcore punk compilation LP released in 1985 by Pushead on Pusmort Records. It is an international compilation of early hardcore music, and represents grindcore pioneers Siege's only original official release...
     
     compilation album.

This is the 2006 Deep Six reissue.

1. "Drop Dead" - 1:08
2. "Conform" - 2:33
3. "Life Of Hate" - 0:28
4. "Starvation" - 0:47
5. "Armageddon" - 0:26
6. "Walls" - 1:20
7. "Sad But True" - 1:17
8. "Cold War" - 1:36
9. "Two-Faced"
10. "Trained To Kill"
11. "Grim Reaper" - 7:23
    • Tracks 1 - 5 & 11 are from the original Drop Dead demo cassette.
    • Tracks 6 - 8 are originally from the Cleanse the Bacteria
      Cleanse the Bacteria
      Cleanse the Bacteria is a hardcore punk compilation LP released in 1985 by Pushead on Pusmort Records. It is an international compilation of early hardcore music, and represents grindcore pioneers Siege's only original official release...
      
      compilation album.
    • Track 9 & 10, said to be previously unreleased from original 1984 studio session, but this is not known for certain.

This is the 2009 Deep Six reissue.

1. "Drop Dead" - 1:08
2. "Conform" - 2:33
3. "Life Of Hate" - 0:28
4. "Starvation" - 0:47
5. "Armageddon" - 0:26
6. "Walls" - 1:20
7. "Sad But True" - 1:17
8. "Cold War" - 1:36
9. "Questions Behind The Wall"
10. "Grim Reaper" - 7:23
    • Tracks 1 - 5 & 10 are from the original Drop Dead demo cassette.
    • Tracks 6 - 8 are originally from the Cleanse the Bacteria
      Cleanse the Bacteria
      Cleanse the Bacteria is a hardcore punk compilation LP released in 1985 by Pushead on Pusmort Records. It is an international compilation of early hardcore music, and represents grindcore pioneers Siege's only original official release...
      
      compilation album.
    • Track 9 said to be previously unreleased from original 1984 studio session, but this is not known for certain.

External links

• Band profile. http://www.killfromtheheart.com/bands.php?id=699
• 1984 Intereview by Al Quint from fanzine Suburban Punk #6. http://homepages.nyu.edu/~cch223/usa/info/siege_SVinter.html