Labels: Suburban Mayhem
Review by: Kunal Nandi
Here are the two great cases for proving that we (as in the losers this side of the pond) actually can find our dicks with two hands and make interesting, inventive hardcore that pays tribute to the past masters while forging a way forward towards a new rock Valhalla.
Mob Rules are from Leeds and sound like it, born as they are from a grimy industrial setting. They smartly append the powerviolence rulebook with enough addictive rocking sections to keep you hooked whilst threatening to snap your neck at any moment with their obscenely clever twists.
Crowd Control from Dublin sound more run-of-the-mill in comparison but they still kick major arse with their borderline guilty-pleasure negative hardcore crunch mixing in with massive hammer-blow chord progressions and some of that aforementioned powerviolent stuff.
This record is set on KILL.
Mob Rules
Crowd Control
Suburban Mayhem