jeudi 4 février 2021

Thought Control

 

Thought Control started mid 2020 as the solo project of a punk / hardcore enthusiast from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, named John K who played in Bearings, plays in Dirt Queen and runs the new records label Electric Flesh with some of his bandmates. 
The project quickly turned into a proper band with members from the straight edge hardcore act The Diving Line and from the Revolution Summer-inspired melodic hardcore band Sunstroke (an exciting line-up which suggests the possibility of upcoming live shows). 
 
Shock to the System's ten tracks took shape in the physical world, late 2020, as a cassette out on Government Check Music and New Morality Zine.
All right, the boring introductions having been made, what do we have here finally?
 
 
Five tracks of fast, ripping, straight forward, super pissed-off hardcore punk! That's what we got here!
John didn't try to play it subtle or innovative, no no! pure ripping hardcore is purely and simply threw right in our faces: fast stomping drums, simple in-your-face guitar parts but most of all, super angry snarling vocals à la Ray Cappo! Yes indeed Youth Of Today, and many bands inspired by it (True Colors etc...), were the first things which came to my mind during the very first seconds of severe punching delivered by Thought Control. You know how important vocals are in punk and hardcore and John's managed to put soooo much intensity in it here, it's simply breathtaking! You remember the very first time you listened to Urban Waste's Police Brutality? I hope you do! Well there is a bit of that here! (wow that's a nice compliment ahah).
 
 
  Talking of classics maybe Antidote's Thou Shalt Not Kill EP is the best comparison for Thought Control, there is the same raw intensity, the same kind of rushed super-pissed off bursts of energy, the very same impression of witnessing a deluge of desperate violence from a man on the verge of sanity!
 
I really hope that the band that has come to life around this project will be able to keep ensuring such a deluge of unleashed savagery, actually I'm confident they will!
 
 A fantastic release!
 
 
And it looks like my wish is coming true, Not For The Weak Records has announced a 7" coming this spring! 
 
 
 
 
You can listen to Thought Control on Rien à Faire #19.
 
 

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