Great EP by a to me more or less unknown Swedish band. How on earth did this escape my attention? No clue, but it's hardcore at it's best. It kinda reminds me of spanish hardcore beasts Glam, well... Except the vocals. They are more in some Umeå'ish direction. Yet there's so much more to it check it out...
From Sorry State : Debut 12" from this band out of Malmö. Playing straight-on d-beat, Glorious? actually have a pretty interesting sound that combines a few different elements of the Discharge template, kind of melding different elements from throughout Discharge's discography. The double-tracked vocals sound almost exactly like Realities of War, but the music is both heavier a la Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing and riff-ier and more metallic a la Why? or even early Broken Bones. It's almost kind of a shame that Glorious? sound so much like Discharge in places, because they strike me as much more than a simple d-beat band... these songs are dense, complex, and dynamic, far more than just Discharge riffs copied and slightly rearranged. Though the overall vibe is a bit different, they have a Totalitär-esque way of making fairly straightforward riffs seem weighty and important. A year or so ago I would have told you that d-beta was the deadest of horses, but between bands like Glorious? and Paranoid the genre feels totally revivified. Definitely recommended!
After many delays, the long awaited YOUTH AVOIDERS new record is finally out. "Spare Parts" contains 4 new songs recorded in december 2015, the is the first release since their acclaimed 2013 debut full lenght.
Fans of Northern-France outfit Traitre will sure get
their kicks this month with the release of not one, but two brand new
seven inch records! The first of the two to come out is the two-track 45
“Humain En Vue” b/w “Un Pays À Détruire” on French hardcore-punk label
Build Me A Bomb Records, who you might (but probably don’t) know of
releases by Thrashington D.C., Youth Avoiders and Short Days.
Anyways, besides the usual suspects we all love,
Traitre is quickly becoming one of my favorites out of the country where
pain still means bread. Although their sound is not unique or anything,
know it all’s can probably name-drop ten alike-sounding bands, their
style has a certain flair and unconstrained feel to it, as if the superb
melodies just fly out of their amps automatically. Just listen to the
A-side of this single, “Humain En Vue”, and see if you understand what I
mean, definitely one of their best songs to date!
Same can be said about the B-side. Despite it being a
cover, “Un Pays À Défendre” by L’Infanterie Sauvage, the original
version never passed the demo phase and Traitre’s take, with a subtle
title change to “Un Pays À Détruire”, is sublime! Magnifique from front
to back, this slab of wax is an absolute must-hear for fans of French
Oi!-punk!
After debuting with Short Days back in 2013, followed
up earlier this year with a Traitre 7”, Syndrome 81’s latest 45 is now
the third installment in Build Me A Bomb Records’ “Single Round”-series.
The idea of this series is plain, simple, minimalistic and so far, pure
gold! And with Syndrome 81 up next I don’t see a downgrade to silver,
bronze, or worse, any time soon!
Because if something as a ‘band-crush’ would exist,
I’d have this crush on Syndrome 81! It almost seems impossible for the
boys from Brest (yup, even during this review that is still in France)
to record, or at least release, something that doesn’t kick you in the
teeth with pure brilliance! You might have guessed by my tone of writing
already, but this ‘45 tours de punk-rock Français’ is no exception!
The recipe is similar as their demo, the “Désert
Urbain” EP or their split 7” with Litovsk, but just as you thought that
they were on top of their game... Syndrome 81 crushes their previous
efforts with cleverly inventive guitar work, producing sublime melodies.
Perhaps a simple task for someone who can actually hold and play the
guitar, but for someone who led an instrumental-free life, like me, the
second half of “La Rouille Du Quotidien” is just pure punkrock heaven!
Despite all of the above, “Pulsions Électriques” is
quite a shocker (pun intended) though! Experimental to say the least,
the electric pulsations of the track stand in complete contrast with the
flipside, delivering a song completely in a new / dark / cold
(whatever it is called) wave style. Odd, brave and definitely not bad,
post-punk depression always lured through Syndrome 81’s sound, they just
took the Joy Division influences to the next level for this side of the
45.
A couple of idiots playing music drunk for no reason. Two tracks leaked last year (to be released soon on 'Oi! the Tape' on Crowd Control Media) that set the hype machine in motion.
This tape includes four new tracks that riff less on the Templars and Boot Party vein of the earlier songs and veers more towards the style of Chiswick punk, Condemned 84, and Ultima Thule. Oi! music of the future must certainly be the Oi! music of the past.
BRICK ASSASSIN 12"
Chicago's Midway neighborhood hosts an airport and hundred's of locked cells for the working-class communities doing time on Chicago's south side. Brick Assassin come from Midway, a band of resilient goons growing up big and ugly, raised on a diet of industrial slime nuclear-green hot dog relish in a dense smog of dying industries. After a well-received debut 7" and a split 7" with Minneapolis's Victory, Brick Assassin have weathered various storms but have come back stronger than before, surviving line-up changes and label shifts. Their new LP is a series of complaints about union bosses, Nazi skins, and trying to feed a family in while the atmosphere smothers your lungs. Midway Mutant Crew.
ROGUE TROOPER - Boots on the Ground 7"
Massachusetts has a rich history of bad decisions, from witch trials to the recent influx of opioid addiction. It's easy to think that kids probably don't have to try too hard to find trouble, but I guess dumbing yourself down with religion or drugs doesn't work for everyone and some kids need a different cult to join. It's this gap where Amherst's Rogue Trooper found their home, running hard in the other direction of their peers but still staunchly staking their claim as Bay Staters; they're the younger brother that'll never live up to the potential you see in them.
Their music flexes an American muscle hard and you can hear the influence from the early Bruisers singles, Uprise comp-tracks, and the more garage-y cuts from the Wretched Ones records, but there's still a bit of that English influence from the Hammer Records catalog and that lends the band a little more melody than the founding fathers of American Oi. Their demo last year was the best new Oi recording I'd heard in quite some time and this 7" blows it away.
The second EP from the queer hardcore punk band G.L.O.S.S. conveys a violent and severe world, one in which the only reasonable and intelligent responses are anger and aggression.
VAASKA - Futuro Primitivo
Rejoice, VAASKA have returned with more hard punk pounders for the masses! Originally pressed in a limited amount by VOX POPULI for the band's Japanese tour in the winter of 2016, Beach Impediment is delighted to make the latest release from Austin's finest available domestically for the hardcore punk fanatics that know the real deal and for those that would like to become more educated in the field. "FUTURO PRIMITIVO" features five tracks of the top notch D-Beat punk with blazing guitar leads and ferociously belted out lyrics in Spanish that you have come to expect from these guys over the years. Each record comes in a felt based glue pocket sleeve adorned with the stark black and white art of the great Brian Miller that has been the band's visual trademark since the beginning.
ARM RACE - New Wave Of British Hardcore LP
ARMS RACE unleash their debut album after a well-received 6-track demo in 2013 and a 6-track 7" EP in 2014 on Quality Control HQ and Painkiller. Arms Race arrived on the scene fully formed with their powerful and gnarly UK-meets-USA hardcore: their signature sound of a vocalist chewing on glass is backed by one of the most solid rhythm sections in HC these days, and the guitar work adds a metallic element making the whole sound gigantic while keeping the ugliness and aggression to the max. NWOBHC is a statement of no-frills hardcore that is not scared to reach out to different corners of the punk and metal world.
New Wave Of British Hardcore was recorded by James Atkinson at Mutiny Studios and sounds bright and powerful. It comes housed in a sleeve designed by Andrew Fletcher with extra artwork by Nicky Rat who doubles as bass player. There is a download code, and a poster insert.
SEPTIC DEATH - Need So Much Attention
Limited green-marbled vinyl! The first Septic Death release (1984) is also the very first Pusmort release and showcased a great collection of art. The front cover by Pushead, the back cover by Chet 'XNO' Darmstaedter. Septic Death (Boise, Idaho) was a hardcore punk band fronted by artist Brian "Pushead" Schroeder on vocals. Septic Death's music became a major influence on bands like Integrity, Citizens Arrest, Infest, and many other bands tied to the hardcore punk, thrashcore, crust punk etc. scenes. The band played only a few shows during its active years (1981 to 1986), mostly in Boise, Idaho. Tracklist: Sweat Of A Nightmare Core Of Reality Quit Child Mental Cancer Gore Story Control Advantage Never Trust Fear Hardware Negative Threat
S.S.DECONTROL - The Kids Will Have Their Say
SS Decontrol (a.k.a. SSD) were "one of the first Boston hardcore bands and the core of the infamous "Boston Crew and the "narrow minds who think the narrow way"(mentioned in the liner notes to This is Boston Not LA of Modern Method Records). Their hardcore testament were The Kids Will Have Their Say 12"(1982, XClaim!/Dischord Rec.s), and Get it away LP (1983, XClaim!), then the change of their name to SSD brought some changes to the straight edge beliefs of band members and music wise they walked a new music direction. 2015 press on Suicida Records
