Visual Learner Bulletproof The Dogs Khazi Lysol Padded Cell Delta 8 Stay Down The Celebrities Crackin Under Pressure Dadgad Rok Demo 2 Goblin Daycare Boss Man Awful Composite Shrudd Skin Elmos Fish Bowl Groind Cecilia
Bozone Burner Killer No Brains Toxic Boogers Fen Fen Kill Your Parents Headcleaner Maybe It’s Rabies D.Sablu Scandalous Z-Pak Benchwarmer Cicada Self Purification Gloat Raise The Living Youth In Asia Slave Family Ruined Virtue Caterpillar Valtatyhjiö Viilto Kerrallaan
Why Bother? Never the Machine Electric Prawns 2 I’m Hooked Smirk Bad Behavior A Place To Bury Strangers Chasing Colors Kerozine Living In A Nightmare VR Sex Real Doll Time
Marbled Eye All The Pieces Molbo Gullgåsa X-Nipples Disappear Chaos OK Flowering The Scaners R.O.B.O.T. Unicorn Fart Sugar Noodles
As thrilling and energizing as ever, this new digital two-track single by Schleswig, Germany viking synth punk wizard Klint. Lots of catchy treasure to be found in there if you can make it alive to the bottom of this filthy, rat-infested spike pit. And yeah, thats no exaggeration here as especially the title track takes his one-of-a-kind oddball aesthetics to a whole new level of noisy and abrasive depths while never failing to derive plenty of joyful delight out of the process!
Two notable, more or less dungeon punk-adjacent releases have landed this week. First off, there’s the debut cassette of Oslo group Molbo who, on the surface, primarily seem to draw influences from that genre complex of eighties goth, death rock and post punk that’s been so en vogue once again for the last decade or so. What sets them apart in that particular niche though is a certain whimsical eggpunk aesthetic, a sense of joy and fun not often found in an otherwise often overky self-serious genre, though admittedly this can at times have an unintentionally comical effect as well.
Ipswich, UK duo Kerozine then approach a vaguely dungeon-esque aesthetic from a more straightforward yet delightfully noisy synth-/electro punk angle that’s every bit as driving and hard-hitting as it’s catchy, the best reasonably recent comparisons i can come up with right now being the likes of Spyroids, O-D-EX, Drýsildjöfull, Channel 83, C57BL/6, Expose and Beef.
Another marvel of covid lockdown-bred noise by a multi-generational british trio is arriving here with a roughly three-year delay. A breakneck-speed mixture of brass-enhanced garage punk, hard- and postcore, this stuff is combining the traits of more recent phenomena like, say, Cement Shoes, Crisis Man and Mystic Inane with some equally noisy gruff á la early-to-mid-eighties X, the australian group that is. Making the fun complete though is the infectious joy in the vocals of lead singer Eliza who, if my crummy math and the sparse bits of available information don’t fail me, must’ve been around seven years old at the time of recording.
Raleigh, North Carolina hard-/postcore powerhouse Sorry State Records has two new treats in store for us. First there’s the demo cassette by Atlanta group Chaos OK. Their name suggesting some connection to oldschool british punk already, i’d indeed say the EP starts out with a somewhat UK82-ish vibe in particular, which then later morphs into a shape vaguely similar to more recent, slightly garage-infused hardcore acts á la early Electric Chair and Kaleidoscope, only to end things in the guise of timeless proto noise, postcore and -punk somewhere inbetween the worlds of, say, Crass, Flipper and Drive Like Jehu. Exciting shit!
Another oldschool-ish, although a lot more simple and primitive force of nature is the newest 7″ by Finland’s Valtatyhjiö who convince by sheer force on this one, having both some traits of ’80s continental european hardcore to them as well as – to come full circle as far as british influence is concerned – some flourishes of clearly NWOBHM-inspired (speed-)metal.
