Labels: Rodel
Review by: Andy Malcolm
Japan’s Melt Banana. If you haven’t heard them, this is a band you have to hear. Personally, I’ve only heard two of their songs, and have already come to this conclusion. Their song here, “Wrest The Fist (Just for Reflection)” is utterly nutty noisecore punk which doesn’t descend the path into oblivion by being too noisy or just an utter mess. Structured insanity more like. There’s lots of electronic sounding noises going on, some crazy fast guitar playing, pounding drumming, and a high pitched, squeaky voiced woman shouting stuff. Cool sample of an aeroplane stewardess announcing the arrival of a plane in Chicago at the end.
The other band is a German band called “Killout Trash”, doing a cover of Minor Threat’s “I’ve Got Straight Edge”. Sort of. The bass sound at the start that is coming through the headphones is giving me a headache. This is just crazed industrial noise or something. Very mechanical, the drums crash and burn and a mad German breathlessly shouts the words. This is funny, although I doubt I could listen to it more than twice.
One very fucked up 7″ piece of black plastic. Ohboyohboyohboy. Bwahahaha.