Hardcore innovators Botch has released their new live album 061524 via Sargent House. Recorded at Seattle’s Showbox on June 15, 2024—22 years to the day after their original farewell show at the same venue—the album captures a band reawakened, sharper and heavier than ever. Accompanying the album will be a full-length concert film of the June 15th, 2024, Showbox show. Watch a song from it for “To Our Friends in the Great White North (Live).”
The album is a blistering document of a vital force reconnecting with the music, with each other, and with a new generation of fans. From sweaty rehearsal rooms in Seattle to tear-jerking fan interactions, 061524 is the sound of a band reclaiming their legacy with performances that are more polished, chaotic and immediate than ever before. Fan favourites like “To Our Friends in the Great White North” and “Transitions from Persona to Object” hit with new urgency, while tracks the band never imagined playing live, like “Afghamistam” and “Oma,” are pulled off with surgical precision and raw energy.
Botch’s chaotic, math-laced sound helped shape a generation of heavy music before their abrupt 2002 breakup. A surprise 2022 collaboration between guitarist David Knudson and vocalist Dave Verellen led to the band’s first new song in over 20 years, “One Twenty Two,” and quickly snowballed into a full reunion with bassist Brian Cook and drummer Tim Latona. Secret shows and a sold-out tour followed, culminating in their return to the Showbox—captured in front of a packed, exhilarated hometown crowd.
061524 Track Listing:
1. Intro
2. To Our Friends in the Great White North
3. Mondrian Was a Liar
4. John Woo
5. Spaim
6. Japam
7. Framce
8. Oma
9. Thank God for Worker Bees
10. One Twenty Two
11. Vietmam
12. Transitions from Persona to Object
13. Hutton’s Great Heat Engine
14. Afghamistam
15. C. Thomas Howell as the “Soul Man”
16. St. Matthew / Hives