Swedish crust punks Kronofogden are the ones who start up this frantic party. I was looking at what is shown on their side of the cover - it looked very familiar to me. After some time I realized that, it reminds me of the drawings on the albums of Broken Bones!) Unfortunately the side of these comrades is very short, only three tracks, for me personally it was not enough. Because they play great, groovy crust punk with a variety of vocals and wonderful d-beat. In the end, guys put the rest of the energy and aggression into «Flokad», the last, but very good track! I could not figure out anything at all by looking at their lyrics, damn that Swedish, ahah!
But with those beer warriors from Massgrav I have been familiar for quite some time now. I always liked that powerful aggression which they push into their songs. Now can you imagine my surprise when I heard these tracks. Guys diluted their speed with a good portion of punk. Especially this is heard in the song «Du fattar ingenting», the energy of 80's punk, back vocals and solos on one string, ahah! It was very cool! But the next song takes us back to the roots, to the excellent fastcore (its explosive energy perfectly suits their cover art).
I can just add the fact that this split gives some great positive emotions. I wish there would be more of that kind of shit out there.
Rating: 8/10 Kronofogden Massgrav Blindead prod
