Goon

Goon is a four-piece hardcore punk band from Denver, Colorado.

These guys play some furious and crazy hardcore punk with brillant weird parts

and I love it.

 It all started with a low-fi 6-tracks demo in 2015.

Despite the quality of the recording each song is bursting to 

your face with frustration and anger. The drums are pounding it while the singer 

tries to tear off the wall of noisy guitar riffs with his vocals.

The following year, in 2016, the band released another tape 
featuring 2 songs of the demo and 2 new songs, 
all recorded during rehearsal sessions. 
The recording is still super rough and not so pleasant to listen to.
But Torture is a killer! 

But let's skip 3 years of touring and furious shows to come to 2019 and what
is of interest for me right now.
First the live tape Alive .​.​. In the Cellar of Your Mind, 16 minutes of 
an intense basement show recorded in summer 2019. The quality is not bad 
for a live recording and man this version of Torture (at around 6:00)
is just fucking great!

 But the real deal is the release of Natural Evil on Convulse Records in November 2019. 
Finally a quality recording, Goon can fully express on vinyl 
all the energy and madness of their live performances. 
7 songs of furious hardcore punk, yes everybody was expecting it mean and nasti
 and there is no disappointment here, none at all.
But man listen to the break of Spit and the 8 minutes long Pig II  
(yes 8 minutes on a hardcore punk album!) to really understand the capacity,
the wideness of the mutant hardcore sound of Goon (man there is
some saxophone on this track!)

And that's what makes the difference between a good and a great band...

Damn I would love to see them live...


N,J'Oi!


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