''The Locust'' is the third release by

The Locust The Locust was an American hardcore punk band from San Diego, California, known for their mix of grindcore aggression and new wave experimentation. The band has been noted for their use of insect costumes when performing live. History Prio ...

. It was released on

Gold Standard Laboratories Gold Standard Laboratories or GSL was an independent record label which was founded in 1993 in Boulder, Colorado by Sonny Kay. In 2000, it was relocated to San Diego, California, United States, and two years later, to Los Angeles. It was headqu ...

in March 1997. ''The Locust'' is The Locust's first recording that relies heavily on keyboards and synthesizers, combined with their

powerviolence Powerviolence (sometimes written as power violence) is an extremely dissonant and fast subgenre of hardcore punk which is closely related to thrashcore and grindcore. In contrast with grindcore, which is a "crossover" idiom containing musical ...

style, influenced mainly by

Crossed Out Crossed Out was a powerviolence band from Encinitas, California. The band was active from early 1990 until late 1993. The group is considered to be a very important band that helped define powerviolence with a style that incorporated political lyr ...

. This is the sound for which The Locust has since become known. In 2004, the EP was remastered and re-issued on 3" CD and 7" vinyl, and included two bonus tracks.

Track listing

Side A

# "Halfway to a Worthless Ideal Arrangement (An Interlude to a Discontinued Sarcastic Harmony... Yea Whatever)" – 0:44 # "Prepare to Qualify" – 0:31 # "Kill Roger Hedgecock" – 0:46 # "Pain Reliever" – 0:27 # "Off by a Long Shot" – 0:42

Side B

# "Cattle Mutilation" – 0:27 # "#99" – 1:19 # "Head Hits Concrete" – 0:27 # "Hairspray Suppository" – 0:43 # "Ass Gravity" – 0:47 # "Keep Off the Tracks" – 0:33

Personnel

*David Astor *Robert Bray * James LaValle *

Justin Pearson Justin Pearson (born August 20, 1975) is a vocalist and bassist known for his music career, playing in a number of San Diego-based noise rock, punk and grindcore bands, as well as his record label Three One G Records. Starting off in the punk ...

References

1997 EPs The Locust albums Gold Standard Laboratories EPs {{ep-stub