"In the early 1980s YDI ('Why Die') put Philadelphia on the map with their ferocious brand of hardcore punk. In 1983 they unleashed their debut 7” EP 'A Place In The Sun', a blistering 9 track blast of american hardcore fury. In 1985 the band changed musical directions to a metal-influenced style. The resulting 'Black Dust' (a cocktail of PCP, heroin, and formaldehyde) 12” LP was YDIs’ final recording, and a criminally underrated slab of disgusting metallized mayhem." --Edited from Southern Lord
