Suppression (USA) - Spiritual Sepsis (2024)
The bass guitar is the black sheep of the standard rock band configuration. It’s a well-worn saw among rock musicians that the bass exists simply to fill in the audible frequencies not covered by the rest of the band. Bass is considered simple enough that anyone with a shred of musical acumen can pick it up in a pinch. However, some musicians take its black sheep status as a challenge. Groups like Primus invert the usual bass/electric guitar dynamic, with Les Claypool’s lead bass augmented by Larry LaLonde’s adventurous guitar work. In extre…
Fuck on the Beach (Japan) / Endless Swarm (Scotland) - Split 7" (2020)
This split was originally planned as a physical release to be sold at the cancelled Zesta Grande II grindcore & powerviolence festival in July 2020. Like that festival, which was conceived as a throwback to Spazz vocalist/bassist Chris Dodge's Fiesta Grande festival in the '90s, this release is a modern throwback to a classic era of extreme music. Japanese fastcore/powerviolence legends Fuck on the Beach have been releasing music for 25 years, and besides an improvement in recording quality, not much has changed. They're stil…
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