This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
I know next to nothing about this impressive New Jersey emo-punk foursome, but it’s not solely my fault — they broke up more than three years ago but just got around to issuing this retrospective.
Please Excuse All The Blood makes me wish I’d known about them back when; thanks to singer Tracy Wilson’s shriekingly powerful yet emotionally fragile voice and the band’s churning, moody punk-metal, Dahlia Seed put me in mind of a less sordid version of Thalia Zedek and Come. Not to mention that they’re the only band I can think of who cover Voivod’s Missing Sequences. Just think of them as one of those cases where you don’t know what you got till it’s gone.
