Don Austin - Rust Belt Blues - 7

Labels: Gloom
Review by: Andy Malcolm

Hardcore, you know the score! Ha ha. I bought this because I thought it was a record by Florida emo band, Don Martin 3. No, just kidding.

This is just total hardcore – nothing more, nothing less. No fakery, no posing, no bullshit. Don Austin blaze through 9 hardcore songs of hardcore with song titles like “Naked and Drunk” and “I Fix Everything With A Hammer”. They have a singer dude who growls and have a cyberman who hits tin pots for a drummer, and guitarists capable of playing the same chords very fast over and over. This is probably like Gordon Solie Mother Fuckers or United Super Villains or some other hardcore record I bought last year. My copy gets stuck on one song but I listened to it for 10 minutes before I realised. No, just kidding again. Almost. Anyways, it’s all good fun. Worth picking up if you haven’t bought any HARDCORE in a while. Plus it’s on some kind of coloured vinyl or something. This record made me strangle a dog.