Labels: D-Takt & RÃ¥punk
Review by: Alex Deller
I think, probably, that d-beat best exemplifies just how easy it is to get burned out on any type of punk music. It’s a subgenre with some well defined, rather strict parameters that its players choose to revel in rather than attempt to bust free of. This means that by the time you’ve been listening to this kind of shit for 10+ years or however fucking long you’re either looking for (a) great bloody songs and/or (b) that numinous, unbottleable quality which some animal part of your brain can detect within seconds of the needle hitting wax even if you can’t quite describe it. Despite some excitable chatter on the subject, I don’t really think Infernöh make the grade, at least on the basis of this. ‘War Tjard’ charges, it hurtles, the vocals are agreeably rough, the sound enjoyably blustery, the solos nicely rampant but at the end of the day it just kind of is. You can’t much fault it as a textbook example and the blank-eyed, repetitious persistence of ‘De Galna Och De Blinda’ is certainly admirable, but at the end of the day you would have to argue long and hard to convince me why I might choose to listen to this again over ‘Why’, the Disclose/Totalitär split, the Herätys LP or whatever other example I might randomly pull out of my posh top hat. Apologies, people, especially since some of you were previously in bands that actually did reach the high bar I pompously set for such things.