picture by Sabrina Loong
Histamine is a hardcore punk band hailing from Sydney, Australia, which has been
around since February 2018.
Featuring members of
Skin Prison,
Sports Bra
and probably other hardcore acts that internet history is not aware of,
Histamine has made the choice of making heavy in-your-face Boston
style hardcore... and I love it!
Like many good stories it starts with a 2018 demo. A 4-track demo tape in this case.
The 4 Aussies deliver cream of the top hardcore punk with a heavy and
stomping sound. Boston style ? Yes sure! They have been compared to
Boston Stranglers but I feel less brutality in
Histamine... maybe a bit of
Vacant State, Drux,
Lubricant
or
Jarada
would be more accurate?
Well anyway who cares ? This demo kicks ass and that's all!
One year later Histamine releases another 4-track tape (on Black Wire Records) which brings their sound to a heavier and darker side of hardcore. I had some doubts but I think it's now safe to say that bringing peace and love to the audience was not part of the plan.
It really sounds like some of these guys have a foot in the
metallish world and even if they refrain themselves from showing
it too much in the music itself (thanks god!), I can feel the gloomy
heaviness dripping on my eardrums...
It's good, really, but to be honest I was more excited by the more
in-your-fucking-face-asshole approach of the demo...
Histamine is back in this late 2020 and honestly nothing which happened in the past months has managed to cheer them up...
and the near future doesn't look too bright either...
Darker, heavier and more aggressive than ever, this new EP released on
Last Right Records is just a highly dosed version of what the
band has delivered in the past...
Yes we're all angry down here and thank you guys for expressing it so
well!
You can listen to Histamine on Rien à Faire #16 among many other nursery rhymes.
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