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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Your patience and continued enthusiasm is life giving.

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

GUDANG GARAM // ZABØGART

 

Blistering fastcore and DIY crust/grind from two Indonesian masters. GUDAN GARAM drop five tracks in three minutes while TE veterans ZABØGART offer six tracks in just two. Please tell me what the fuck else you could actually want.........I'm waiting.

HARDCORE KOPI SACHET

SEVEN LIES ABOUT GIRLS

 

Listening to The Process Of Weeding Out makes you feel like you missed out on something. Like there's another world of sound and reality - a dark, disturbing, murky, churning, terrifying world of sound and mystery. SEVEN LIES ABOUT GIRLS walk a very strange tightrope connecting dark improvisational ambient and harsh noise wall...they are not either but they clearly owe a debt to both and that makes for a really interesting listening experience. 

THE PROCESS OF WEEDING OUT