Sial - Tari Pemusnah Kuasa

Absolutely savage hardcore punk/d-beat from Malaysia with an awesome female screamer. Southeast Asian hardcore punk are guaranteed butchery, so you should know. 2020 LP on La Vida En Us Mus.

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Ohyda - Koszmar

Rarely do I care about new hardcore punk releases, although until the age of 24 it was my favorite music genre. It's not only that I have grown up, I really think that music standards in this scene have dropped so much that most things are completely unoriginal. But here comes this great Polish band playing a mix of d-beat, post punk and psychedelic sounds, like a mix between legendary Polish band Abaddon, the legendary Siekera bits, Killing Joke, and huge Hawkwind and Voivod influences, with tons of delay in the vocals and chorus/reverb/delay in the guitar, and even blast-beats, making an explosive mix of apocalyptic post-nuclear explosion hardcore. Amazing. 2019 Lp on La Vida En Us Mus.

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Reign Of Bombs / Bombstrike Split LP

 

Reign Of Bombs: classic gnarly Swedish d-beat ala Totalitar and Skitkids. Bombstrike: Swedish rabid d-beat but heavier and more technical, with members of honorable bands of the Scandinavian filth underground such as Massgrav, Scurvy, Repugnant, General Surgery and a guy who also played in the (godawful in my opinion) Ghost. 2005 LP on Cage Match Federation, Wasted Sounds, and Yellow Dog Records.

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Katastrofialue ‎– Taivaasta Roskiin '94 7"

Ultra-noisy classic Finnish d-beat/hardcore punk by Katastrofialue in the vein of the legends Bastards, Riistetyt and Terveet Kadet. 2004 7" on Power It Up. Get more greatness on their Tuskatakuu 94-98 cd comp that you can find on the long-running this is kawaii not hawaii blog.

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Arnaut Pavle - Arnaut Pavle

What better way to spend your Saturday afternoon by moshing around your apartment on some awesome black thrash punk? Finnish band Arnaut Pavle (the name of a Serb vampire from the 1500s - nice story on wikipedia) on their debut LP (after a demo six years earlier) punch out a headbanging-crazy mix of Darkthrone's Under A Funeral Moon, old Aura Noir, and Craft, with loads of German-thrash-inspired hammer-on riffs filled and punishing d-beats, and with amusing song titles to boot ("Unholy Black Balsam," "Carpet Bombing Nazareth"). As a comment said on bandcamp, "Radio Fenriz material." You can download this for free on their bandcamp, (along with their ultra-raw demo). 2019 LP on Mystískaos.

Mönster ‎– Arms cd

On their second lp Mönster eased up a little bit their more hardcore edges for a punkier and more rocking approach and a kind of lighter/less dirty production. If real DIY punk was played in big arenas, Mönster would have been headliners. 2006 cd on Sabotage.

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Mönster ‎– Death Before Disorder LP

 Mönster were a German-Canadian-Polish hardcore powerhouse with members of Highscore, Costa's Cake House, Insuiciety, The Black Hand and legendary Born Dead Icons. They played a raging mix of dbeat punk with Motorheadesque rock 'n' roll. After they released this lp I saw them live at a squat in my hometown and I even grabbed the mic to sing one verse from the anthemic "Failed." Guaranteed room destruction music. 2005 LP on Sabotage.

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Mönster / Chainbreaker split 7"

Two tracks of hymnal hardcore punk 'n' roll by Canadian-Polish-German conglomeration Mönster and two more tracks of filthy, screaming rock 'n' roll hardcore punk Germans Chainbreaker. The guy on the cover reminds of a little bit of Papa Smurf, doesn't he? 2006 7" on Vendetta Records.

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Noituus / Praia De Vomito / Melanocetus Murrayi - split cdr

Noituus were from Finland and played lo-fi d-beat crust with...well a very Finnish vibe, that is with heavy distorted bass and loud vocals. Praia De Vomito played basement noisecore with deep growls/ harsh screams, almost inaudible guitar and fun sloppy drumming. The half-hour Melanocetus Murrayi track is a harsh noise madness raised on Masonna. 2008 cdr on Prai De Vomit.

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Dödsdömd ‎– De Sju Dödssynderna 7"

Dödsdömd's second work, this 7" three years after their first cd, is a masterpiece of Swedish käng, with amazing riffs (the chorus of fourth track "Lattja" is just anthemic), mad vocals and a sinister, black-metal-like atmosphere, which is also evident in the lyrics dealing with the seven sins, and in the band pic, where we can see them sporting corpse-paint. Must have. 2006 7" on Havoc Records.

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Dödsdömd ‎– Samhällets Fiender Nummer Ett cd

Dödsdömd were a Swedish käng band, käng being the particularly Swedish form of savage d-beat/crust punk with multiple vocalists and crazy riffs/solos. They made a run of four years, during which they released one full-length cd and three 7"s. This is their debut full-length cd, filled with fast drums, punk/metal riffs and three vocalists shouting stuff in Swedish. 2003 cd on Putrid Filth Conspiracy.

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Martyrdöd & Adrestia - In Solidarity With Rojava 7"

For some years now a great part of the Left and the anarchist milieu has been enchanted by the "Rojava Revolution," the autonomous Kurdish region of Northern Syria that was created after the government Syrian Army withdrew from there to fight Jihadist rebel groups and was taken over by the YPG (People's Protetion Units), a Kurdish militia related to PKK. The administration of Rojava has been lauded by various anticapitalist groups for its rejection of the creation of a top-down state in favor of a more autonomous confederate organization, its alleged self-organization of its army units, and its elevation of the status of women, who have been very visible in the battles against ISIS. Looks can be deceiving, though, as not only have the YPG and the Rojava region been consistently proven to be America's proxy in the Middle East fighting to destabilize Syria, Turkey, Iran and every other non-American-aligned state (that doesn't mean that the regimes of these countries should be supported against America, just that the US is trying to destroy them), and it's no coincidence that Rojava is being praised by Israel, but also they're not exactly fighting against ISIS, as this recent report by BBC has highlighted. Furthermore, the YPG have been accused of conducting ethnic cleansing against Arabs in the regions they have taken over by ISIS. Unfortunately, the downfall of the Left, in a general sense of the idea, has created such needs to believe in something, that many people end up supporting anyone professing to be libertarian or revolutionary, or even going for a reformist social-democratic government change, like SYRIZA in Greece who turned out to be exactly the same as neoliberal right-wing bastards. It's interesting that all these people don't quite show their solidarity in the same way for the Palestinian cause, which is the beacon of resistance to imperialism and racism for decades now, or for communist armed struggle movements waging guerrilla wars in Southeast Asia, like the Naxalites in India, the New People's Army in Philippines, or some years ago the Maoists in Nepal. I'd also say that the repeated promotion of the beautiful Kurdish woman carrying guns is also a repetition of the Western sexist male gaze on women.

What's all this got to do here? The German La Familia Releases label released a split 7" between Swedish punk bands Martyrdöd and Adrestia, the money from the sales of which is to go to the Rojavan cause. Well, whether one agrees or disagrees with the so-called Rojava "Revolution," the music here is quite good. Martyrdöd has been for years now the leading light of Swedish crust, mixing d-beat punk with amazing black-and-death-metal-influenced melodies and raspy vocals, while Adrestia is a new band, playing a rawer and heavier crust style with more tremolo riffing close to old Swedish death metal legends like Entombed and Dismember. 2017 7" on La Familia Releases.

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