Cold Meat

After The Debbie Downers, I had to write a little something about Cold Meat, probably one of the leading band from the Perth (and Australian) punk scene.

With members from Helta Skelta (great band!) and Ashley from The Debbie Downers and Plastic Bags as singer, these guys already had a solid experience in the punk business before getting together and were of course hanging around the Helta Skelta Records label. 

With Sweet Treats, their demo released late 2015, the band shows the teeth,

 ready to bite. A good preview of what would come later...

With their first EP Jimmy's Lipstick, released in september 2016 and which name comes

 from the drummer's dog penis, Cold Meat jumps to the next step and delivers 4 great tracks of angry, snotty and snarky feminist punk.

Early 2018, Cold Meat releases Pork Sword Fever their second EP with finally the good recording quality sound the band deserves.
Even better than the first EP, these 5 tracks are a serious feminist punk attack with great energy which won't leave you unmoved.
Released once again on Helta Skelta but also on Statick Shock this time in Europe.

  In May 2018 the band releases their latest record to date, a split EP with Ubik, Cold Meat counterpart in Melbourne, which has a fantastic EP and a good but slightly disappointing recent LP.
Two new songs and a cover of Siouxsie for Cold Meat, one new song and a cover of X for Ubik, this is not their best material and looks more like the easy split EP to get rid of the B sides of the previous recording session than something really new (even if Nausea will always be a great song).
 The covers are not really interesting and the songs are ok but not as good as what both
 bands have accustomed us to produce.

So it's been a while now since the last Cold Meat release and
 I hope to see something new in 2020!

You can listen to Cold Meat and other australian bands on Rien à Faire #3.

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