The Drin - Tigers Cage

Fulmine - Randagio

Randa­gio re­leas­es April 26th via La Vi­da Es Un Mus Dis­cos.

Snow Trail - The Vice

Aban­doned Cap­sule re­leas­es April 26th via It's Eleven Records.

Jesse - Indestructable

Com­plete Discog­ra­phy re­leas­es April 30th via Sounds Of Sub­ter­ra­nia, Rad Girl­friend Records & Wa­ter­slide Records.

Negatives - Whole Lotta Shakin'

Whole Lot­ta Shakin' re­leas­es April 26th via Iron Lung Records.

Verspannungskassette #72 (C-60)

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

Klint - Somebody Cut Out My Brain

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!

Molbo - Rettferdighetens Ridder /​/​ Kerozine - Living In A Nightmare

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.

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Unicorn Fart Sugar - Snack of Plates

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.

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Chaos OK - Demo /​/​ Valtatyhjiö - Kuristusleikki

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.

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