Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses

Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses is the debut full-length album by American grindcore band Brutal Truth, released in September 1992 via Earache Records.[1]

Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses
Studio album by Brutal Truth
Released	September 1992[1]
Studio	Baby Monster Studios, New York City
Genre	Grindcore, deathgrind
Length	45:04
Label	Relativity/Earache
Producer	Colin Richardson
Brutal Truth chronology
Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses (1992) Need to Control (1994)

Release

Music videos were made for "Collateral Damage" (which once held the Guinness World Record for the shortest music video)[2] and "Ill Neglect".

In 2010, Earache issued a limited edition redux version on CD, containing the original album along with 11 bonus tracks from the single Ill Neglect and the Perpetual Conversion EP as well as S.O.B. cover songs and music videos.[3]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Exclaim!	Favourable[5]

In March 2009, Terrorizer named the album the number one American grindcore release.[6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Brutal Truth.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"P.S.P.I."	0:35
2.	"Birth of Ignorance"	3:29
3.	"Stench of Profit"	1:22
4.	"Ill-Neglect"	2:24
5.	"Denial of Existence"	4:25
6.	"Regression/Progression"	2:34
7.	"Collateral Damage"	0:04
8.	"Time"	5:58
9.	"Walking Corpse"	1:40
10.	"Monetary Gain"	3:26
11.	"Wilt"	2:54
12.	"H.O.P.E."	2:03
13.	"Blockhead"	0:07
14.	"Anti-Homophobe"	3:10
15.	"Unjust Compromise" (hidden track starts at 10:40)	10:52

Redux edition bonus tracks

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Perpetual Conversion"
2.	"Lord of this World" (Black Sabbath cover)
3.	"Bed Sheet"
4.	"Repeat at Length" (S.O.B. cover)
5.	"Let's Go Summer Beach" (S.O.B. cover)
6.	"Not Me" (S.O.B. cover)
7.	"Spare Change" (S.O.B. cover)
8.	"The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave" (Butthole Surfers cover)
9.	"Hear Nothing for You" (S.O.B. cover)
10.	"Pre-Natal Homeland (Funky Budda Dub)"
11.	"AC/BT"

Personnel

• Kevin Sharp – vocals, power tools
• Brent McCarthy – guitars
• Dan Lilker – bass, vocals, sampling
• Scott Lewis – drums
• Bill Yurkiewicz – guest vocals, noise, animal sounds

Production

• Colin Richardson – production
• Jim Welch – production
• Digby Pearson – executive production
• Garris Shipon – engineering
• Howie Weinberg – mastering

References

1. "Brutal Truth 'Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses'". Earache.com. Earache. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
2. "World's Shortest Album attempt by Earache rejected by Guinness World Records". Uber Rock. June 2, 2012. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
3. "Brutal Truth's Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses reissued in Europe". Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles. Barrie. April 6, 2010. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
4. Birchmeier, Jason. Brutal Truth: 'Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses' > Overview at AllMusic. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
5. Pratt, Greg (June 8, 2010). "Brutal Truth: Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses". Exclaim!. Toronto: Ian Danzig. ISSN 1207-6600. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
6. Meacham, Anna (March 2009). "Criminal Records". Terrorizer. Leigh-on-Sea, England: Dark Arts (181): 45.