Labels: self released
Review by: Dana Scully
In my mind I associate Florida with retirement homes, shuffle board, yachting. Even Jersey Shore in Miami was tame by comparison to NJ”¦ imagine a nightclub where the most risqué people in the room were the sectionable, flabby five-footers dancing wae their skirts hitched up. The reality is that I sit atop my suburban throne and cast tv-informed judgements over places I’ll probably never have money enough to see first hand. Truth is I feel like I should be able to account for the amount of radge music coming out of Florida somehow. In my pre-pubescent death metal phase, Florida was my spiritual [HEALING] home. Over the last few years, as I’ve became less and less interested in hardcore (and heavy music in general), Florida has been one of the few places that’s struck me as making the kind of heavy music I’d still be interested in listening to. First that comes to my mind is the Divisions EP from a year or two (or three!) ago.
Honestly, the Vicious Bricks demo isn’t all that. It’s a hardcore demo tape and you know what you sign up for when you pop it in. That said, there are no unpleasant surprises and as far as dropping a buzz-word before a genre name can count as reviewing, this is an ANGRY hardcore demo. If I lived in Florida I’d go watch them play.