Double Me / Lifes (Here And Now!)

What's up guys, here we've got a small portion of pretty nice material. This Italian-American split doesn't pretend to achieve the main prizes in extreme music competitions, but trust me you should listen to this. Both bands play hardcore/powerviolence and both do it good. The cover art of this release is quite strange, I couldn't understand what the artist wanted to say depicting these creepy rotten legs (with injection dots on it) but it doesn't matter, the cover art isn't a main thing. Double Me is not some one year old band and with each new release they're becoming better and better. On this split you can hear 5 vigorous and angry tracks. That's very nice that the guys have packed maximum energy in their recording and that can be felt by your ears. Their sound doesn't have that basement rawness, everything here is excellently mixed, all instruments sound apart of each other and don't run into one piece of filth which is very important in such kind of music. Especially I love the bass sound here, its crunchy tone nicely underlines the total image.
Hm, when the Lifes side is playing, you can hear a big difference between Italians and them. The sound here is not that solid but the material itself is more chaotic. I enjoyed the background sound made of different "space noises" (it reminds me the sound from the "Mars Attacks!" movie, hehe) On the side of guys from Wisconsin there is enough rawness (but they come up with the balance, that's good)... As common, fast pieces alternate with slow ones (classical formula for pv) and there is enough aggression to blow up your ass and drop it into the mosh pit.

Rating: Double Me – 7.5/10 Lifes – 7/10

You can buy this record thru Here and Now!