RAT CAGE – ‘SAVAGE VISIONS’

Rat Cage follow up their incendiary 2020 full length ‘Screams From The Cage’ with rancor and vim, ascending their Hardcore Punk to a plateau of powerfully potent, anthemic riff soaked perfection. An utterly head kicking, tory lumping, chainsawing cut of catchy as fukk Kang mayhem, UK 82 knuckle-up bounce and brusque, teeth rattling Mangel, D-Beat & Anarcho Punk, and Punk Rock &Roll each represented within the face smashing mace strike of desperate, furious Hardcore, a barnstorming hosanna to the dispossessed and downtrodden inmates of brexit Britain, terrified drunken rats with callous smirks in the fukking pit of despair. Darkly anthemic throttling chords and soaring, brazen, blazing 4 note blues crusted leads slammed out with murderous intent, wallowing in thuggish harrying melody, a torrent of saturated drums leaping from fast to fucking fast to doomed plod to stomping mid-paced tumble enmangled with total bulldozer mid bloody Bass, and full throated super pissed violent vocal outcry, a voice of wounded despondence and outrage amidst the fire sale capitalist meltdown of england’s post tory social abattoir. ‘Savage Visions’ careens from fist banging Punk Rock chorus consonance to blank eyed Hardcore chord wall with the verve and swagger of champions, an indispensable masterwork of modern Hardcore Punk. This is England ’23.

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RAW WAR SELF TITLED

Bleeding raw noize Crust Hardcore Punk from Canada, now almost a decade old and not in the least bit diminished. Echo disrupted shockwave noise punk Crust, warlike rattling and bloody minded, armed to the teeth with primitive weaponry, raiding the wastelands of the post-modern in search of resources. Noisy overdriven sound pile, Dis worshipping battery of archaisms, Anarcho overtones and Finnish Punk influences, too. Despairing, furious Crust mayhem and unfiltereed Punk rage, devotional D-Beat sermons with well pitched, strangulated grinding Bass in downcast melody, wailing Guitars and melted bellow kommander vokill. Raw, violent Dis rocking mayhem. Hardcore as fukk!

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GAS RAG DISCOGRAPHY CASSETTE

Gas Rag’s complete discography (I think), released on cassette by the excellent Pissed Off! Records in Malaysia. Volatile, unstoppable Hardcore bulldozer shit, scummy and fucking crummy. Gas Rag’s aplomb for fist-smashing, wild rocking chords and burning simple lead lines makes their particularly filthy brand of Punk totally pissed up on cheap alcohol substitutes, leather-gloved and morally decrepit – Fuzz encrusted Swedish D Beat and mangled US Hardcore hate, stomping rager anti-art school irreverence, vicious, cruel and fukken mindless. Lickin’ slashin’ white hot Guitar sounds, mid-range Bass strangle rumble with foot-down-fast and hard drumming, storming rounding toms and nihilist aggression sleaze grunt and yell vocal. A prurient delight of minimalist Hardcore nihilism and 2 chord Rock N Roll hubris. Score.

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