I want to dedicate this review to my good friends from both bands Skunk and Restricted Rights. This split is full of dirty noises, good swing rhythms and filled with serious social life themes... At the very first look this split seems to be super deep and cruel, the innocent victim topic is very close to me... War, suffering, death, dead children, hunger... The artist did a great job. This picture looks very detailed and the longer you look at it the more you can see. First three songs are from Restricted Rights. It`s a pretty dirty and angry crust punk featuring the member of Dehumanized Earth (if I remember it right). Guys attack with 2 songs of their own and one cover on Malignant Tumour. As I’ve already said they play muddy sound with good power. Their first song is about animals, terrible experiments on them, and their rights. The second one is a cover on "Commands From The Oval Throne". And the third song is about War... It sounds like this raw record was made in someone's basement but somehow these songs are so alive. Powerful bass sound, nice drum work and smeared guitar with a drop of screams and roars. This pile of raw noise sounds very cheerful… The next attack is coming from Skunk. So, our stinky trio released 3 songs for this vinyl as well. Despite the fact that their grind d-beat is rather cheerful, the songs are very serious, almost all of them are dedicated to war. These 3 songs are like powerful bombs that are falling on your heads... energy from that noise will charge you and brings you back to life after horrible hangover. The guitar riffs swing you and then smash you against the wall... with distorted roaring and painful drumbeats, this nuclear noise will crush you down. Skunk have some members from Flash Out and Archagathus and this is enough, I mean you can feel the influence of those bands in Skunk noise (but it`s definitely okay).
Rating: RR 7.5/10 Skunk: 8.5/10
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Still need 1 label from europe for releasing split between Restricted Rights & Skunk. If you interested or you can help please contact with Danny!
Restricted Rights born from the ashes of Nature Offense, a crust-grind band from St-Hyacinthe, nearby Montreal in 2009. At that time it was Fred on guitar and vocals and Dan on drums (ex-Nature Offense) Kev on bass and Felix on Vocals.
We kept that line-up only the time to make 5 songs that we play on Christmass punx party from 2009, after that Kev and Felix left the band, that as no name yet at that time, and we let the project sleep on ice for a few months, when Terry join us. Then we were Terry on guit and vocals, Dan on drum and Fred take the bass and lead vocal.
Till then to now we kept the same line-up. We did a bunch of shows the next few years and we release a firs demo cd call ''Mediatik Lobotomy''in 2012.
