Knut- Challenger + DIY EPLabel: Hummus Reissued 7 5 2024, Originally released 2002 Didier Sverin's sudden departure from Earth in March 2022 left a gaping hole. But he left us a considerable legacy, including Challenger, released in March 2002 on Hydra Head Records (USA). A cathartic album, the point of combustion in an upward trajectory which began eight years earlier when Didier Severin (vocals), Philippe Hess (guitar), Roderic Mounir (drums) and Thierry van Osselt (bass)

“First of all

MacAulay Culkin

Hallo Excentrico

the album became the first metal album to be added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress

brooding numbers with thrashing guitar workouts

Brighton 75 Vier

which was recorded for an independent Catalonian local TV channel

The Shire is Burning08

a genetic disorder of the connective tissue that gives him abnormally long and spindly limbs

Arabic American Radio - Song 8

a lysergic Pink Floyd freakout

drummer Nick Buxton