Artist: SICKNESS Title: "I Have Become the Disease that Made Me" Catalog #: GF020 Series: III Total Time: 62'47" Release Date: May, 2002

Sorry, this title is now OUT OF STOCK.

The first 50 copies of "I Have Become the Disease that Made Me" came packaged with a bonus 3" CDr by Sickness's alter ego; Omei. I'm sorry to report that they are already gone.

Track 1 - Kuranke - Ttamashii ............. 4'33"
Track 2 - I Have Become the Disease that Made Me ...................5'47"
Track 3 - Ring Around a Rosey ............. 7'33"
Track 4 - Fever in the Skin ............... 4'17"
Track 5 - Point of Infection .............. 4'58"
Track 6 - Fukikumo (Like Holding your Breath) ..................... 4'33"
Track 7 - Bloodletting (Bloodhunger* remix) ..................... 5'20"
Track 8 - Confessions of a Parasite ..................... 7'16"
Track 9 - Psychopathia .............. 5'56"
Track 10 - The Abuse We Do - Part 4 ................. 8'31"
Track 11 - Fracture Line (CD Loop Panic) .................. 4'00"

* Bloodhunger originally appears on the compilation Reconstruct the Caos #2” from Audio Intruder Pain Records, 11/00

reviews

"This is one of the most brutal CDs I've heard in a long time. Sickness has been around for about 10 years and I never really took notice until I got a copy of "Reconstruct the Caos #2" from a trade I did with Kenny Sanderson of Facialmess (also on "Reconstruct the Caos #2'). I was driving along in the desert near Palm Springs when track number 8 came on and blew me away. I scrambled for the liner notes to see who it was....I was surprised to see it was by Sickness. At the time, I was looking for other Series III artists that were not from Japan for potential release on Ground Fault. I knew that I had to put out a CD by Sickness if he could come up with more tracks like this one. Chis has done that and more. The sounds on this CD tear through your speaker cones and then drill into you brain. These sounds are constantly moving, panning, jumping and changing at a rapid pace. There is very little "down time" for the duration of the hour long CD. If you thought the Government Alpha CD on Ground Fault was harsh, just wait til you hear "I Have Become the Disease that Made Me". Fans of harsh noise will not be disapointed." Erik Hoffman

SICKNESS IS ALWAYS CHRIS GOUDREAU

It was 3 years ago when I first heard about this project. I was visiting Tim Oliveira of Stimbox on my way back to Japan. It was there in his apartment where I asked him about any new American noise artists that were worth a listen. Without much hesitation the name SICKNESS came out of his mouth. He told me how it was the only new artist, at the time, he thought was any good and dubbed a few tracks for me to take back to Japan. (A tape I still own and enjoy). Now, while I was in Japan and before I came to visit the States, I had heard of this project before; but being in rural Japan and without the internet access I once had, I originally just thought that contacting Sickness might be more troublesome than it was worth. Little did I know what I was in for on the plane ride back to the boondocks of Japan. The tracks that Tim recorded for me were on the same cassette as some of his own work that was going to be released fairly soon. So when the tape flipped over to the b side, the noise was really crunchy, full of loops and high pitched feedback accompanied with some what I thought were vocals. This was the new noise that I was hoping the USA would start exporting... brutal shit! So you can imagine, when I was asked to do this review I was pretty stoked!

About I week ago received the disk and I to be honest... Harsh Noise, or any type of noise for that matter, is all to often good or even great only for what it is and not for the aspect of how it relates to the artist. I mean, it rarely impacts you after you are finished listing to it. It somehow moves you the moments you listen to it, and leaves little impression once the stereo is turned off. I all too often feel that the current noise releases have little or no connection to the artist at all. This collection of tracks is like a butter knife gouging out your left temple without much success... just plain painful, poignant and mind boggling to understand the sick, twisted mind behind such a deed. There are very few noise artists who can reflex their effort, inspiration, passion, knowledge of sound as well as personality and message into the sounds that they put into a releases.

Christopher L. Goudreau is Sickness and he can!

Harsh noise is often misunderstood as nothing but a collection of distortion and rumbles which are layered, piled, spliced and smelted together in a wall of obnoxious sound for the masochistic listener. People give it five minutes or less on their stereos and then file into the ANOTHER NOISE release. I think this release draws the listener in a bit closer and gives more explicit impact to what one of the many different meanings to HARSH NOISE is and can be, while expressing how most noise should be. It in most aspects represents what I think many people would expect a new standard for people releasing noise should think about accomplishing and help redefine what critics of noise think about it. Most importantly, lead people to look into noise more in depth rather than brushing it off as an other HARSH NOISE RELEASE.

He has been one of those not-so-new-comers who has consistently proved to the countless critics and skeptics that there is a real desire to experience through his harsh audio communication... the chaos and control of what is truly Sickness. Chris himself, will tell you like it is, the noise speaks for itself.

Now, tracks 2 and 4 are my personal favorites. They are the most haunting harsh noise I have ever heard, bleeding high pitched frequencies with crushing grumbles and well orchestrated loops that loom though you like the fog at the old abandoned graveyard on the hill... Spooky shit! Still each piece of the entire CD uses a complex mix of sound, silence, repetition, chaos and tranquility. Be sure to listen to the last track at maxim volume to experience this fully.

Sickness's new full length CD on Ground Fault is for those wanting to experience the mind set of what the true artist breaths. To see what can be done with Harsh noise, and what a release from this genre should really be: Feeling it through the manipulation of harsh sound, along with the listeners eception... one can and will only imagine their own mind trip as they listen to what I sincerely think this is Christopher's most passionate and searing work to date. This clearly conveys to the audience the complexity that is true harsh noise, and above all, Sickness.-- Joe Lombardo

Sickness Discography

1986-2002

SICKNESS: Bullet in the Brainpan Tape - Ninth Circle Music
SICKNESS: Noise Infinite Noise Tape Limited: 33 - Ninth Circle Music
SICKNESS: Retiscence Comp. "The Sound of Some Body Burning"
SICKNESS: Underneath it All, it's Rotting Tape Limited: 25 - Ninth Circle Music
SICKNESS: RRR 500 Lock-Grooves LP - RRR Records
SICKNESS: Live at RRRecords Tape - Ninth Circle Music
SICKNESS: Recycled Tape - RRR Records
SICKNESS: No One Cries for the Death of a Disease CDR - Ninth Circle Music
SICKNESS/M.N.S.: "Six String Samurai" CDR - Ninth Circle Music
SICKNESS Voyeurism CD - Ninth Circle Music/Mp3.com
NOISE TODAY COMPILATION - "Obsess over me Part 2" Noise Today
ANTS ON A LOG COMPILATION - "Siamese Tongue Kiss" Hospital Productions
NOISE CONGLOMORATE VOL. 3 - "Blood on my Hands"
SICKNESS "Sought for Slaying" Special Edition Box CDR Lim.: 25- Ninth Circle Music
SICKNESS/ GASOLINEMAN "Split" CDR - Out Records
V.D. "Venereal Lust" (SICKNESS/TAINT collaboration) CDR - Ninth Circle Music
SICKNESS/PRURIENT "Mundane" CDR - Hospital Productins
SICKNESS/NEVERPRESCENCEFOREVER "SPLIT" C20 - Troniks
SICKNESS "Summer of 85" 3" CDR - Ninth Circle Music
SICKNESS/PHROQ "Dedicated to Romain Slocombe" CDR Aka Yuki Records
ANALOGOUS INDIRECT Compilation LP "She's Laughing at Me" Public Eyesore
SICKNESS/GRUNT: "Symptoms of the Disease" CDR - Ninth Circle Music
SICKNESS "Another Lamb for the Slaughter" CDR - Solipsism / Self Abuse
"RECONSTRUCT THE CAOS #2" Compilation - "BloodHunger"
SICKNESS/TAINT/SKIN CRIME "Behind the Smile" CDR - Self Abuse
SICKNESS/FACIALMESS "Abomination" CDR - Audio Intruder Pain
OMEI "Black Eyed Angels" CDR - Solipsism / Self Abuse
"BEAST "- STEGM, PRURIENT, SKIN CRIME, SICKNESS- CD -Hospital Records
PORN HURTS Compilation - "One for the Girls" CDR - Biteworks

Finished and awaiting release:

SICKNESS/ CORNUCOPIA "Final Noise Music: Dedicated to MB" CDR
SICKNESS "Intolerence and Inquisition" CDR Troniks
OMEI "Bearing a Mark" CD - Ecodiscos
SICKNESS "This Plague is mine" CD on HARSHNOISE/NOISEMP3.com
CLOAMA/OMEI/VALENCE " " CD

REVIEWS

• "Another release from Chris and another release from Ground Fault, both of whom one can reasonably expect to turn out decent material with every release. If you're aware of SICKNESS' previous material, you've got a good idea of what to expect here; high-pitched tones that sound like straining, cracking metal, pulled out and twisted like taffy, with good low- and medium-end chaotic backing. SICKNESS is above all loud, loud, and loud, and this stuff is intended to hurt you. Preferably badly.
  All that said, this may be the quietest material SICKNESS has released to date. Not that it's quiet all around, mind you, but every once in a while things stop for a bit, with maybe a repeated heart-monitor style blip in the middle or a crackling noise (think paper burning close to your ear) to let you know the assault isn't quite over yet. These pieces go one for ten seconds or more, completely alien to the earlier stuff of his I've heard. This one's going to beat you about the head and neck region, but not quite so constantly as, say, Government Alpha's similarly wonderful Sporadic Spectra release.
  As a side note, there is what seems to be a NON influence in here; at times, floating quietly through, it sounds almost as if some NON was used as source here. Fans of both acts will have a fun time playing spot-the-sample (if any truly exist here).
  It's loud. It's ugly. It will make your head hurt. What more do you need to know? Buy it." - Robert Beveridge