Mysterious Japan is the land with really weird and unique stuff. But we all love this country not only for Godzilla we also love it for its music. This land is reach with sick talents, which torn up side down usual to us things. Split LP Self Deconstruction / Speed!! Noise!! Hell!! Is one of these interesting, bright and fresh experiments in music.
I want to start with Self Deconstruction. Their free style of grindcore is freaking harsh! The riffs are crazy chaotic and fast, same with song structures. The drumming is mind-blowing, the guitar grind and blaze with massive precision and the vocals are crazy as hell. Throw out the melody, and these elements combine to form a landscape that is fast and ultra-brutal. Just the way how grindcore should be. I caught few moments of free jazz here, that was strange but fits perfectly into this sound massacre. The end of this side was unexpected and positive for me... these freaks played a weird Motorhead cover (Iron Fist song) and ended with remarcable riffs from Iron Maiden, ha!
Speed!! Noise!! Hell!! starts with slow, dirty and atmospheric intro which is good introduction into their fast and jaw-dropping punk! God damn, here is so much furious tunes and rhythms… each song sounds so aggressive and savage. This hardcore punk make headbang me a lot, hahaha! The string instruments sounds a bit messy, I mostly hear bass, drums and frantic screams, but that not a bad thing. Speed!! Noise!! Hell!! take your soul with it powerful energy!
In most respects, this is a not standard, albeit solid piece of new wave grindcore and punknoise split.
Rating: 8.5/10 Self Deconstruction fb Speed!! Noise!! Hell! bc
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I did not even know about the existence of this release. I was sure that Joe Caper ended his music activity after Righteous Pigs death. So this small release became a good surprise for me. As I understand this is a solo project of Joe's. Hmm... what a strange choice, designer put a photo with a cop cars on the front (I think that it symbolizes "Government " and power) plus he put a photo with a burning snack-bar on the back (I guess its for "Punks" and anarchy).
This vinyl opens with a nice groovy riff (R.I.C.O. is full of these jumping swing rhythms and energy) that builds up into a strong metal hardcore (but there is not only hardcore, believe me there is still a small drip of punk/ grind)... Main song "Punks Vs. Government" is the best one (in my opinion). This one is full with simply rotten and noisy riffs and tempos... This song is real old hardcore punk (with grind soul). Next is "My World" and "The Klan", both are groovy (again haha). Do you feel these vibrations and the powerful noise wall? It's a flashback into the 90's (with low sound, honest emotion in the songs, etc). I guess this EP will not be liked by fans of modern hardcore and grind. But if you`re in nostalgia for old time’s sake then this is what you really need.
Rating: 7.5 You can buy this EP at RSRec
Did you miss the good ol' powerviolence? Were you looking for something solid that will crush your skull? Well then, I can recommend this humble but very angry split. German label RSR released two debut material from two bands on one record. Let's take a closer look on what we have here.
OK, side A, here we have a demo record of Concussive from California. 15 songs in almost 4 minutes full of anger. Songs are short, fast, rough, full of violent vibe, they did a very good job on this record. Great and memorable guitar riffs are backed up with very raw sound, which is very important for powerviolence, if you ask me.
Scum Human (Canada) was one hell of a discovery for me last year. Powerful, "balls of steel"-like, fast and very angry, their music is able to fucking kill you, haha! Their material reminded me of an old school powerviolence. There's a lot of distinctive change of tempo which crush your bones and then slowly grind it to the concrete. Это смертоносный шум мне напомнил нечно среднее между старыми работами Apartment 213 и Spazz. This deadly joyful noise reminded me of something like old Apartment 213 and Spazz.
Rating: 8/10 Concussive Scum Human
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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
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Sometimes it happens that I want to listen to something slow but evil. Something that would slowly tear me apart and swallow pieces of my body... Holy Money is exactly what one would need in such cases. I quite accidentally ran into this band, fucking loved it, and then I suddenly found its vynil in the pack with promos for review (thank you Sandro!)
Traditionally we begin with a brief overview. I was looking at the cover of this edition for damn long time. By looking into every detail of this picture you will fall into some kind of hypnotic dream))) Yes, and the whole design is very beautiful and atmospheric. Holy Money comes from Texas, and this band has Alex Hughes (50/50, Hatred Surge, Insect Warfare) on board. Despite the fact that there is almost no swamps in Texas, the music of this ensemble feels to me like stinky green swamp. At least the first thing that pops up in my imagination is a terrible monster in the kingdom of rotting plants, moss-covered trees and perpetual darkness. Oh, this work of Holy Money is a real gift for fans of sludge. This seven-inch is, in fact, a reissue of 2 most powerful tracks from previous tape "Zygote". Slowness and aggression are boiling in some powerful and terrible chemical reaction here. These two songs just drown in fat heavy riffs... it is like a 100 ton hammer hitting right into the head. But I'll be a liar if I say that I don't hear any influence of good old hardcore school. The only disadvantage of this vinyl is its length. Its atmosphere just starts to get deep into your brain and then, suddenly, it ends... that's disappointing, folks.
Rating: 8.5 / 10 Holy Money You can buy this EP here!
Succumb is a band from Massachusetts (this is in the USA, if someone
forgot) and it consists of people from Orchid, Vaccine, Bucket Full of
Teeth, Ampere, Death Evocation, The Cancer Kids, No Faith, and many
others... Unfortunately, I could not find more information about them,
apparently it was a temporary project, but I would prefer to be wrong
here. But I can say with full confidence that the boss of RSRec liked
these American pizza eaters very much, since he published these 4 short
tracks on one-side vinyl (which is not common)
... 4 short but
very powerful tracks! All of them are imbued with painful social issues.
For normal, unprepared listener of country music, listening to this
band can cause inflammation in the ear, hahaha! This noisy hell can be
described by many genre tags, but I think I will focus on
"grindviolence". Out of this, knowing people should immediately
understand that is a very aggressive and fast noise punch.
I
think that there is no sense in detailed and boring disassembly of the
musical part of the seven-inch. I would note that there is very good
combination of different vocals... and of course changes of speed. Short
fast piece followed by a slowdown, which gives time to recover, and
then again a short and aggressive outbursts.
You think that this
is it? Well, no! The cover art of Punishment is one of the best pieces
on the social theme that I have ever seen. It is very detailed
combination of all nasty things that a man does to himself. I highly
recommend to get acquainted with this artistic and musical creation.
Rating: 8/10 You can buy this vinyl here
