Leper

Leper is hailing from Umea, Sweden, which is famous in the small world of punk for being the hardcore punk capital of northern Europe.

If you guys know a bit your history I won't need to go through all the great punk and hardcore bands the cold shores of Sweden have seen during the past 3 decades...

And if you dig Fukushima and the amazing U.X Vileheads you will be happy to know that some ex-members are actually rocking in Leper!

With this 4-track demo released in 2017, the swedes deliver a classic but good hardcore punk introduction to what their future release will sound like. Fast and brutal with heavy vocals à la Negative Approach, Leper does not bring anything to new to the world but manages to not make any bad taste mistake (keep metal out of hardcore guys).

Sounds like a less "trashy" version of Agent Attitude with a skinhead behind the mic.

Two years and a half later, Frail Life (out on Kink Records) is bringing the demo recipe to its best, everything is just faster, angrier, meaner and heavier... But also better written and played... while keeping a real classic formula the band adds small pinches of the ingredients which made U.X Vileheads so great. I am thinking of the short melodic guitar parts, the breaks etc... and that is good but overall it remains really classic, falling more and more on the tough guys hardcore punk side like Buggy, Boston Strangler or more generally the Boston hardcore scene.

It's a real good hardcore punk album for fans of Negative Approach and the Boston Scene but it misses the extra touch of genius that put so many swedish bands above the masses to really make me wanna start a mosh pit in my bedroom.

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You can listen to Leper in Rien à Faire #12.

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