Ladies and gentlemen I bring the you the first ever BTST split between RMAI & PANDA STRIKE!
The split contains RMAI’s EP named SLOTH, but this EP is anything but slow.
Panda Strikes side is their whole discography!
Though not originally intended to be a split, I reached out to both bands around the same time and once i told RMAI that I was pressing Panda Strike they said they played with them a ton of times and are still good buddies to this day and we all come up with doing the split CD. Since both bands don’t have much material and clock in around 12 min each, figured it would also beef up the release !
So, an introduction to RMAI doesn’t seem necessary but incase you guys are new to them, or have been sleeping since 2007 they are a deathcore/grind band(deathgrind I guess makes sense here) with brutal vocals(think The Partisan Turbine or Diskreet),nasty guitar work, head banging breakdowns and one hell of a drum machine that’ll spin your head spin !!
As for Panda Strike, these guys weren’t as big, but if you dug deep into the bowels of MySpace or LastFm’s “similar artists” section, you’d find them! Their early stuff is very “scene” and heavy on the bree’s until they brought in their new vocalist. Panda Strike definitely has a more grindcore sound but busted out some great breakdowns. If you’re into grind inspired deathcore(short songs with deathcore elements) then you’ll dig these guys! Not much on the Web about them but a few songs on YouTube! Not familiar ?? Check them out!
The artwork incorporates Panda Strikes name(hence the panda) and RMAI’s EP named “sloth”(hence the sloth). Figured a battle scene between them both would be appropriate with being covered in the most MySpace looking splatter and squiggles !
With these CD’s we’re busting out a split shirt as well that’s completely opposite of the albums art with just black and white old school goodness accompanied with sloth and panda skulls! If this release doesn’t hit every “scene” checklist then I’m doing something wrong haha