Status Noll - Self Titled

'Status Noll'
Status Noll
2014

(Band Submission)

Review by Brayden Bagnall

Genre/s: Hardcore, Blackened Punk
For Fans Of: Church Whip, Sewer Drainer, Hoax, Divisions, Vile Gash

Hailing from Norrköping, Sweden - Status Noll play raw negative music that draws influence from the likes of hardcore, blackened punk and Swedish D-Beat.
Embracing a decidedly lo-fi (albeit coherent) live sound, Status Noll plow through their songs at either breakneck speeds or glacial, stompy pace - combined the two make for a suitably aggressive and nasty couple. The lyrics are delivered as a hoarse, menacing bark - in both English and Swedish - and are as mean and downtrodden as the music they're accompanying.
In summary: awesome, straight-up, no frills hardcore oozing with malice and dark energy. It's free, it's on bandcamp and it's totally worth your time.

 TRACKLISTING:
1. I Want to Suffer
2. Nej
3. A Knife
4. Pointless
5. NEET Punk

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Euthanizer - Permanent Damage

'Permanent Damage'
Euthanizer
2010

Review by Brayden Bagnall

Genre/s: Blackened Hardcore, Grindcore
For Fans Of: Horrid Cross, Church Whip, Nak'kay, Ancestors

SWEET MOTHER OF BLOWN OUT HARDCORE
Prepare to resign about five and a half minutes of your life to this ugly fucking tape from Euthanizer. Fuzzed out guitars, washed out drums, feedback and garbled, strained vocals are on the menu here, all presented in cassette quality, low-bias, for your listening displeasure. I'm conflicted as to whether to really label this as 'grindcore', but this thing comes at you just as hard as any grind band could, albeit in a much more straightforward, primitive manner. If they ever managed to convert rabies to an audible form, I'm sure it'd sound a heckuva lot like this.
I am a little bummed that this, and a self titled tape are all we've heard from this band since 2010, and all we're likely to hear given it's a Youth Attack release, and it's now coming up on 2015 buuuuut on the other hand this is REALLY GOOD so it balances out. Sort of.

TRACKLISTING:
1. Dying Awake
2. You're Here
3. Self-Deception
4. Conflict
5.Meaning
6. Close
7. Useless
8. Know Why
9. Tied

10. Head Control

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