As you may know I already wrote a few words about the Negative Approach influenced hardcore of Heavy Discipline when they released their demo one year ago.
Well the four angry guys from Pittsburgh are back with a LP on
Pain Killer Records
(which also released the demo) and believe me, the mood has not changed
over the past year!
First of all I really like the artwork, inspired by the 80s/90s classic
hardcore drawings ahah these guys are really making ugly faces!
To be honest it took me a few listens to really get into this LP.
These guys know what they are doing and master every second of their
record to make it fit perfectly in the "hardcore codex".
Yes we are somewhere between Negative Approach and the Boston
scene, think
Boston Strangler, the british guys of
Violent Reaction,
Mad Existence
and many others...
So nothing new under the basement ceiling (and I tend to like bands
taking risks) but in the end I think I am quite convinced. It's reeeeally
well played, the songs are diverse enough to not feel like the same track
going on over and over, the energy is pfffiuu crazy... well this what I
expect from a good hardcore band after all!
But what really blew me away in this record is the drumming!
Tom Moran has played in many great Pennsylvania based bands in
the past years, including
Blood Pressure
and
No Time
but also more recently
Loose Nukes
(in which he plays bass) and
Machine Gun. I had the opportunity to see him behind the drums the two times I saw
Machine Gun last year and damn I have never seen anyone wearing
tight blue jeans playing soooo fast, absolutely
unbelievable.
It's just so fast, so neat with perfectly mastered snare and toms bursts,
like a proper machine gun...this guy is taking us to a war zone and, in my
opinion, brings this record to another level...
A good but not surprising album, just go for it with your eyes closed if you are into this kind of hardcore!
You can listen to Heavy Discipline in Rien à Faire #14.
N,J'Oi!
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