DeadHeroes rec will be handling the European pressing of the ACxDC/Goolagoon split EP. ACxDC’s farewell material and Goolagoon’s first vinyl appearance! There will be 400 hell-black copies + 100 transparent yellow / purple splatters w/a farewell ACxDC poster.
Sometimes I am surprised how such a small and short splits can contain so much anger... From one side we got a pretty famous American Antichrist Demon core and from other strong and craziest French guys Chiens, both bands will show to you different sides of extreme underground music. So let's start with 2 songs from California with pals that is called ACxDC. Their songs are short, aggressive and performed in a modern hardcore way (with the addition of some other ingredients). Here you will hear many of characteristic swinging rhythms which are so lovely to use in nowadays hardcore (but personally I not a fan of such things), but I must notice that here it skips short but fast (like a gunshot) lovely blasting moments. The sound is corresponding it and has not the pleasant dirt... it’s spiny and sharp, but I can not say that it’s disgusting for hearing.
The inhabitants of the Nancy town relished for my taste better. Their grind core/hardcore makes the blood boil and it is very cool. Speed, density, aggression of everything that is in its place and it's very good to listen. Yep, it’s not kind of grind core which is so loved by the old-school fans but it is worth your attention. The sound is not very clear, also here there is a perfect harmony between all musicians, one word beauty. Beauty... but alas, it is too short, only 1.5 minutes of sound ((
Rating: ACxDC - 7/10 Chiens - 8/10
You can buy this release at RSRec!
You probably can't find any disadvantages of this split's artwork. The artist had made fun of anything as much as possible. He threw some shit on massons, christianity, also the faith in Velzevul, this is a rare funny shit. And behind this funny cover two good bands from two enormous continents are hiding.
Americans Antichrist Demoncore are becoming very popular, though I have tried to understand why, I couldn't. Guys play excelent fast and agressive hardcore (and on this record we can feel some powerviolence). There is a lot of various tempo pieces. Slow, rocking, also ultra-fast moments (somehow with a grindcore flavour). 2 furious vocals and of course a glimpse to a hardcore punk. The guys managed to insert very different sound mixture into these 5 tracks.
Disparo! I haven't had a chance to hear this band earlier. This turned to be very solid hardcore/fastcore/punk. Peppy and funny. I don't want to dissapoint the guys but this leading vocal is very ridiculous. It's very squeeky, when female back vocals are very cool, and when the harsh scream is going - it's cool too, but not these squeeky screams. The sonorous bass sound cheers me up too, it's like in best traditions of punk.
Rating: 7.5/10 ACxDC Disparo! You can buy this split here!
This split will be out soon on Here And Now Records
