This is BIG news for Godspeed fans, the band's 1994 debut 'All Lights F---ed on the Hairy Amp Drooling' was limited to 33 cassette copies, and aside from 2 tracks that leaked on reddit in 2013 before the owner of that copy disappeared, we've heard nothing from it since

Until now: the other day, a member of a GY!BE discord posted the whole thing on 4chan, and it looks like the real deal, with Efrim's unmistakable singing voice and the narrator of The Dead Flag Blues appearing on one of the tracks, it looks like the search is over

The true Holy Grail of post-rock has finally been found, we're talking about something that there are only 33 copies of in the entire world, amazing day for music

Update: It's 100% real and the band have officially released it on Bandcamp for $6, with proceeds going to Gaza, check it out here:
godspeedyoublackemperor.bandcamp.com/music

Album title is kinda gross

It sounds like they played that Exquisite Corpse game where you add a word to a sentence but you only know the previous word

Either way, it's a GREAT day to be Fries
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I'm skimming through the songs just to get a feeling of what this album is like and my ears are bleeding

Congrats to you tho enjoy

Appreciate it man

It's gotta be said that the music isn't amazing, it's basically 3 guys messing around with guitars and a tape machine before they knew what the band was gonna be like, even the members themselves have said they didn't want to re-release it because it wasn't up to their standards, but it's a really fascinating look at the early stages of the biggest band in an entire genre

This is dope

4chan?

no way

im not a big listener of these guys but this is a crazy discovery. one of the most famous lost tapes

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Bumping this so more people can see this historic moment

Just gonna bump one final time since this is gonna blow some users' minds, not a crazy amount of people but still

lets goooooo

WOW! BIG STUFF!

Noise nerds! Let’s roll!

By this time, the band had reached an unwieldy 15 members. In preparation of the album, they trimmed their numbers to ten.

GY!BE really were the millennials' Brockhampton bro

this is such a crazy find that it took me a minute to recall what its about

Wild

WHAT??????

holy f***ing s*** thought this day was decades away

The full details of the album coming out have been revealed, I don't think anyone could have predicted it happening this way, I've copied and pasted this from an explainer:

'This rip was indeed made in 2010 like the metadata suggests, by one of the members of the band (I don't know which one it was). This precedes the casketjack rip.

Casketjack (the 2013 reddit guy) was actually contacted by Constellation Records asking him not to leak the rest of the album, that's why he dipped.

In the Summer of 2021 the files from this rip were given to Louis Rastelli (aka DJ LRX80), the director for Arcmtl Archive Montréal.

'Arcmtl is about Archive Montreal, preserving the local “underground” or independent arts milieu— cultural artifacts that are by nature very ephemeral and which aren’t normally on the radar of institutional archives or libraries.'

Louis Rastelli also hosts Montreal Soundb Ark, a radio show dedicated to old local music from the Montreal underground scene on CKUT, a local radio.

On August 20 Rastelli played 'When All The Furnaces Exploded', 'Beep', 'Hush' and 'Daddymomdaddy' on his show. You can tell they're from the same exact rip as the leak.

That's the only relationship between the radio broadcast and the leak, that the band member decided to share the album with more than one person outside the close group of friends who previously had acess to it.

In September, GY!BE Discord mod Nico, who is indeed sometimes in contact with a member of the band, was also given the files by him as a goodwill gesture for all the work put into archiving GY!BE stuff and being a passionate fan. Nico was NOT supposed to share the music with anyone else.

Of course, they ended up sharing it with other people in the discord server who promised not to tell anyone they were in possession of the holy grail.

Drama ensues, one of the people Nico shared the record with leaked it on 4chan to get back at Nico.

And that's how we got one of the most sought after records of all time. Someone getting back at some other person because of discord drama.'

Half-Life 3, Deftones' Eros, and Detox next

Plus Masochism and the new GoT book

Wow

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Godspeed was one of the best shows I’ve ever witnessed

Update: The band has officially released it, 100% confirming that it's real. You can now buy it for $6 on their Bandcamp, with all proceeds going to Gaza, check it out here:

godspeedyoublackemperor.bandcamp.com/music