VIBRATORS

 Companion post for a batch of killer and essential live recordings from THE VIBRATORS. Sometimes starter bands and standards are what they are for a goos reason....and that is absolutely the case with this LP, captured on the backside of a blank some live tracks and BBC session on the flip. Punk fukkn rules, and there ain't no reason for the most seasoned degenerate to not do a mental pogo to "Sweet Sweet Heart." Also "Whips & Furs" is a stone classic. Don't resist. 

PURE MANIA

THE SABOTAGE

 

These Indonesian street punks have made several appearances on these pages so frequent visitors should know what they're in store for today (as if the cover wasn't enough of a tell). THE SABOTAGE have evolved considerably from the ramshackle UK82 assault that defined many of their early releases - 2021's Generation Is Lost owes to THE CASUALTIES much like Give Us A Freedom did fifteen years earlier, but the sound is so much more realized now and incorporates Japanese hardcore influences (check the leads on "Down & Dirty" and the title track). Just as you'd expect from a crew of DIY street punk veterans.

GENERATION IS LOST

PRESSURE DROP

 

Sometimes you want gruff, hard-hitting, in your face street hardcore. Sometimes when the world is in turmoil, you want to listen to a band called PRESSURE DROP deliver a song called "World In Turmoil" and feel like you still have a fighting chance....or at least that someone else is as desperate as you are. Blast "Streets Running Red" and know that someone else is. 

PAST // PRESENT

APRAXIC

 

Face melting old school death metal infused with bombastic crust. In other words: Exactly what you need. 

GUN EYE IMPLANT
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PAWNS

 

The sole full length from New York's PAWNS is a master class in modern death rock. Persistent, driving bass lines and sharp staccato vocals barking missives owe liberally to the early UK pioneers while the meandering guitars in "Aberrations" fall in line with the various goth punk resurgences that continue to pop up every few years. "The Pyre" is the choice cut - a smart and intentional union of all of the sounds and influences PAWNS draw from, creating something akin to SPECTRES by way of UK DECAY built for a new generation. Don't skip the handful of EPs and splits this group left us.....but you'd do yourself a favor by starting here. 

THE GALLOWS

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~OTRON

 

It was ten years ago when I last posted ~OTRON, and my adulations today are no less intense and/or relevant. Outsider electronica sprinkled with '80s hi-NRG dance floor beats reimagined for the new generation....what else could you possibly want to validate your Tuesday existence?

DRIFT

HARSH RESPONSE

 

If you pay even casual attention to these pages, then you'll know that there's a crew in Vienna who are terrifyingly capable of recreating and/or inventing chosen subgenres of sound. There was BACKYARD (West Bay Coalition), DISCLONE (self explanatory), TONAL SHIFT (DC/HC), OPIOID CRISIS (misanthropic DYSTOPIA crust) and now there is HARSH RESPONSE. This time the sound is rooted in mid-'80s UK anarcho along the lines of CIVILISED SOCIETY? with a little touch of ANT-SECT but you'd be a fool if you didn't acknowledge the RUDIMENTARY PENI flourishes and then I'll be fucked if it doesn't sound like S.H.I.T. and SPITBOY covering INSTIGATORS. My only complaint is that it's impossible to talk about this band without talking about other bands - also this is one of the best things I have hgeard in 2026.

HARSH RESPONSE