Botch - We Are The Romans (1999)

Botch was an American mathcore band that formed in 1993 in Tacoma, Washington. The band, featuring Brian Cook, Dave Knudson, Tim Latona and Dave Verellen, spent four years as a garage band and released several demos and EPs before signing to Hydra Head Records. Through the label, Botch released two studio albums: American Nervoso (1998) and We Are the Romans (1999). The group toured extensively and internationally in support of their albums with liked-minded bands such as The Blood Brothers, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Ink & Dagger and Jesuit. Botch struggled to write a third studio album, and in 2002 the group broke up due to tensions among the band members and creative differences. Hydra Head posthumously released an EP of songs the group had been working on before they split titled An Anthology of Dead Ends, and a live album documenting their final show titled 061502 in 2006.

We Are the Romans is the second and final studio album by the American band Botch. It was originally released in November 1999 through Hydra Head Records, and a remastered two disc edition was later released on September 11, 2007. A Hydra Head repressing of the vinyl was released on October 25, 2011. The repress sold out on pre-order in under 20 minutes.

"C. Thomas Howell as the 'Soul Man'" has been described by the band as satirizing Racetraitor and "other bands with these very lofty political ideals that seemed like more a marketing tool for the genre of political hardcore rather than a sincere agenda" (Brian Cook). Bassist Brian Cook, who determined many of the song titles, credits J. G. Ballard's book The Atrocity Exhibition as inspiring themes of "the human body as a landscape, and the way that culture and environment sort of dictates the human body and vice versa."

1. "To Our Friends in the Great White North" – 5:10
2. "Mondrian Was a Liar" – 2:41
3. "Transitions from Persona to Object" – 6:04
4. "Swimming the Channel Vs. Driving the Chunnel" – 4:30
5. "C. Thomas Howell as the 'Soul Man'" – 4:44
6. "Saint Matthew Returns to the Womb" – 3:04
7. "Frequency Ass Bandit" – 4:26
8. "I Wanna Be a Sex Symbol on My Own Terms" – 3:35
9. "Man the Ramparts" – 10:50
10. "Thank God For Worker Bees (Remix)" (hidden track) – 7:27 [listed as Untitled in file]

Botch - We Are The Romans (1999)

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