Child – Shitegeist (Suicide Records)
Over the years Sweden has spat out some of the heaviest, fastest and downright gnarliest punk, hardcore and grind that the scene has to offer. From the likes of Nasum and Regurgitate to Wolfbrigade and…
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Feral State – S/T (Mef House)
It’s taken this Leicester band a while since their first demo back in 2016 to pull together a debut album, and this still includes some of the songs that appeared back then, but it’s been…
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Destroyed In Seconds – Divide and Devour (D.I.S. Records)
It’s a common misconception, perpetuated by an endlessly grinding entertainment industry that regularly devours the slowest and weakest members of its horde, that the streets of Los Angeles are paved with gold and where dreams…
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Spider Kitten – Concise & Sinister (Spider Kitten)
Sometimes music takes you to the bad places; the malign, dark corridors and long sealed rooms that exist in the deepest recesses of your mind. It lets you explore their contents without fear, allows you…
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Endorphins Lost / Osk – Split 7” (Rotten to the Core Records / Delusion of Terror Records/ Agromosh Records / You All Die Records/ New Age Pyrate Punks Records)
Today boys and girls, thanks to Endorphins Lost and Osk, is all about grind, power violence and late eighties UKHC influenced D-Beat Hardcore. Endorphins Lost and Osk subscribe to the faster is better and heaviest…
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Hardware – Burning in the Sun (Atomic Action)
Have you ever wondered what anger would sound like if science ever managed to strip it down it it’s rawest, most basic components and converted the biological chemistry that creates and fuels it into something…
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Wolfbrigade – Run With the Hunted (Southern Lord)
There may be an alternative universe somewhere where Wolfbrigade don’t release brilliant albums but I doubt it. Twenty two years in, the Swedish quintet still release as vital and angry a brand of crust engrained…
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Warwound / War//Plague – Forlorn Split 7” (Dr. Strange Records)
If, as the folks with a taste for tinfoil hats would have us believe, we really are living in the final days and the end times are fast approaching, then I honestly couldn’t think of…
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Vardagshat – Glesbygdan Blues (Self Release)
Continuing a long heritage of top quality Scandinavian D-Beat, Vargadshat from Falun, Sweden bring you eight tracks of filthy crust caked punk rock. Drawing on the (non) sensibilities of the stenchcore masters like Sanctum and…
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Endorphins Lost – Choose Your Way (Six Weeks)
Buckle up buttercup and get ready for your world to come crashing down around you in a glorious tsunami of whirling Hardcore mayhem and destruction. Endorphins Lost strike hard and strike fast, subsuming all in…
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Victims – Sirens (Tankcrimes)
Not sure how, but the latest offering from Stockholm’s Victims, managed to slip past me. Released back in April via Tankcrimes Sirens is the band’s sixth album and it’s a beauty. The fact that it’s…
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Lies – Abuse / Plague (Southern Lord)
Is it a crime to be pummelled to a state of near unconsciousness by vicious, uncompromising D-Beat style Hardcore? If it is, then someone had better slap the cuffs on Lies, throw them in the…
